Deutschland Tour

Stage 2: Heilbronn - Schwäbisch Gmünd

DE Germany Friday 23 August 2024 175 km

Gelders continues to impress at the Deutschland Tour

Gelders continues to impress at the Deutschland Tour

Gil Gelders is having a solid week in Germany, and the 21-year-old doesn’t lose any opportunity to show it. As the race heads into the weekend and the terrain gets rougher, the best young rider of the Okolo Slovenska is showing his potential and guts by attacking and getting involved in the main moves that are shaping the race in its crucial moments.

This was the case on Friday, when a strong group went clear in the last 25 kilometers. Sensing the opportunity, Gelders got out of the saddle and bridged across to the leaders thanks to a valiant effort. The Belgian was one of the strongest riders there and didn’t spare any energy when it came to helping the group extend their gap to almost twenty seconds with two hills left on the course.

Things looked good for the attackers, but the bunch somehow managed to bring them back with two kilometers to go only for another group, this time comprising just four riders, to zip away. From that quartet, Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) sprinted to victory, while Soudal Quick-Step’s Luke Lamperti finished in 11th place from the small peloton that arrived six seconds later. Gelders was also there and gained two positions in the standings, where he is now eighth.

 

Photo credit: ©Luc Claessen / Getty Images

Race details

1 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
4:25:50
2 Tobias Halland Johannessen
Uno-X Mobility
0:00
3 Archie Ryan
EF Education - EasyPost
0:00
4 Danny van Poppel
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:06
5 Emilien Jeannière
TotalEnergies
0:06
6 Orluis Aular Sanabria
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
0:06
7 Jonas Rutsch
EF Education - EasyPost
0:06
8 Ethan Hayter
INEOS Grenadiers
0:06
9 Tobias Müller
Germany
0:06
10 Sean Flynn
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:06
11 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
0:06
12 Gil Gelders
Soudal Quick-Step
0:06
45 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
0:29
72 Antoine Huby
Soudal Quick-Step
2:22
82 Jordi Warlop
Soudal Quick-Step
4:47
100 Pieter Serry
Soudal Quick-Step
9:58
1 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
8:45:11
2 Tobias Halland Johannessen
Uno-X Mobility
0:12
3 Ethan Hayter
INEOS Grenadiers
0:21
4 Archie Ryan
EF Education - EasyPost
0:21
5 Stefan Bissegger
EF Education - EasyPost
0:21
6 Danny van Poppel
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:22
7 Fabio Christen
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:24
8 Gil Gelders
Soudal Quick-Step
0:24
9 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
0:24
10 Orluis Aular Sanabria
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
0:26
46 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
0:58
64 Antoine Huby
Soudal Quick-Step
2:47
82 Jordi Warlop
Soudal Quick-Step
7:11
90 Pieter Serry
Soudal Quick-Step
10:25
1 Jonathan Milan
Lidl - Trek
30 pt
2 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
30 pt
3 Jordi Meeus
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
14 pt
4 Tobias Halland Johannessen
Uno-X Mobility
12 pt
5 Danny van Poppel
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
12 pt
6 Emilien Jeannière
TotalEnergies
11 pt
7 Ethan Hayter
INEOS Grenadiers
10 pt
8 Archie Ryan
EF Education - EasyPost
9 pt
9 Max Kanter
Astana Qazaqstan Team
9 pt
10 Maikel Zijlaard
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
9 pt
1 Dawit Yemane
BIKE AID
4 pt
2 Miguel Heidemann
Germany
4 pt
3 Dario Igor Belletta
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
4 pt
4 Jørgen Nordhagen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
3 pt
5 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
3 pt
6 Anton Lennemann
BIKE AID
3 pt
7 Archie Ryan
EF Education - EasyPost
3 pt
8 Kevin Vermaerke
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
2 pt
9 Nick Bangert
Team Lotto Kern-Haus PSD Bank
2 pt
10 Toms Skujiņš
Lidl - Trek
1 pt
1 Tobias Halland Johannessen
Uno-X Mobility
8:45:23
2 Archie Ryan
EF Education - EasyPost
0:09
3 Fabio Christen
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:12
4 Gil Gelders
Soudal Quick-Step
0:12
5 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
0:12
6 Sean Flynn
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:15
7 Jørgen Nordhagen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:17
8 Henri Uhlig
Alpecin - Deceuninck
0:17
9 Javier Romo
Movistar Team
0:17
10 Marco Brenner
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:18
28 Antoine Huby
Soudal Quick-Step
2:35
1 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 26:16:41
2 EF Education - EasyPost 0:09
3 Movistar Team 0:19
4 Germany 0:20
5 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 0:22
6 Alpecin - Deceuninck 0:22
7 Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 0:23
8 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 0:24
9 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 0:30
10 Soudal Quick-Step 0:33

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