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Young Luxembourger escapes solo on tough finishing circuit in Luxembourg to claim his second win as a professional while Martens finishes second to take overall win away from Hivert

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BOB JUNGELS

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16.06.2013 @ 15:52 Posted by Malte Philbert Jessen

Bob Jungels (Radioshack) proved his immense talent by attacking on the tough finishing circuit in the final stage of the Tour of Luxembourg and just keeping his rivals at bay to take a big win on home soil. Paul Martens (Blanco) finished second while race leader Jonathan Hivert (Sojasun) finished 4th 7 seconds behind, thus losing his overall lead to the German.

 

The final stage of the Tour of Luxembourg ended up as a dramatic affair with a big win for the nation's most promising talent and a change in the overall lead at the very last minute. Bob Jungels proved that the Radioshack team had made a wise decision by picking up the greatest talent of their home country as he made a beautiful solo attack on the final finishing circuit to take a fantastic win in the Luxemburg capital.

 

Behind the young rider, drama unfolded as Paul Martens and race leader went head to head in a battle for the overall win. The German had started the race in 3rd place, just 3 seconds behind the leader but as the finish line was located on the top of a tough 800m climb with an average gradient of 9,1%, there was certainly a chance that it could all change at the last moment.

 

That was exactly what happened as Martens and Jan Bakelants (Radioshack) opened a gap on Hivert on the steep slopes, putting 7 seconds into Hivert. They caught Jungels on the line but were unable to pass the young Luxembourger, thus finishing 2nd and 3rd. The result was, however, enough for Martens to take the overall win ahead of Hivert and Bakelants, thus making it a splendid day for Blanco who also won the Ster ZLM Toer with Lars Boom and had Bauke Mollema in 2nd in the Tour de Suisse.

 

The 143,6km final stage finished with 5 laps on a finishing circuit in the Luxembourg capital with that tough climb up to the finish line. As it has been case throughout the entire race, the hammer was put down from the gun with many riders trying to go clear.

 

The first dangerous attack was launched by Julien Fouchard (Cofidis), Juan Jose Lobato (Euskaltel) and Stefano Borchi (Vini Fantini) but the trio was brought back a few moments later. The fast pace saw many riders drop off on the day's first categorized climb whose top was crested with Björn Thurau (Europcar) in first positioning, the German thus locking up his win in the mountains classification.

 

No less than 46,5km were covered in the first hour of racing before a group finally managed to go clear while the peloton took a short breather. Moreno Hofland (Blanco), Perrig Quemeneur (Europcar), Christian Helmig (Differdange) and Marco Corti (Colombia ) started to build up a gap and with 80km to go, they were 5.10 ahead of the peloton.

 

With 50km to go, the group still had 5 minutes in hand and so started to believe in their chances. The home team Radioshack - winner of the previous two stages - and Katusha - with Alexey Tsatevich in their ranks - started to chase though, thus bringing the gap down.

 

On the day's final categorized climb, riders started to drop off from the peloton, prologue winner Jimmy Engoulvent (Sojasun) and KOM leader Thurau some of those to lose contact. At the first passage of the finish line with 27,5km to go, the gap was only 1.10, and the breakaway was now unlikely to succeed in their mission.

 

With three laps to go, Quemeneur dropped his companions who were all caught by the peloton, and the Frenchman was chased by last year's winner of the queen stage Wout Poels (Vacansoleil) who had attacked from the peloton. At the same time, the main group blew to pieces, points leader Giacomo Nizzolo (Radioshack) being one of the riders to lose contact and thus losing all chances of making it three in a row.

 

Quemeneur was caught while Poels launched another attack and this time he had more succes. Pier Paolo De Negri (Vini Fantini) joined him and at one point, the duo was 18 seconds ahead.

 

Radioshack chased hard and when they started the final 5,5km lap, the front duo was only 10 seconds ahead. Moments later they were caught and instead Jungels launched his decisive attack while Bakelants, Hivert and Martens battled it out for the overall win.

 

Jungels had actually taken the white jersey as best young rider and 2nd overall in the process but an irregular hand sling cost him a 10-second time penalty, thus allowing Matthias Brändle (IAM) to defend his lead in the youth competition and relegating him into 5th overall.

 

Result:

1. Bob Jungels 3.24.39

2. Paul Martens

3. Jan Bakelants

4. Jonathan Hivert +0.07

5. Matthias Brändle

6. Jonathan Fumeaux +0.10

7. Björn Leukemans +0.12

8. Vincent Jerome9

9. Julien El Fares

10. Nico Sijmens

 

General classification:

1. Paul Martens 16.45.38

2. Jonathan Hivert +0.04

3. Jan Bakelants +0.06

4. Matthias Brändle

5. Bob Jungels +0.13

6. Marco Marcato +0.15

7. Julien El Fares +0.20

8. Jonathan Fumeaux +0.21

9. Robert Gesink

10. Nico Sijmens +0.22

 

Points classification:

1. Giacomo Nizzolo 40

2. Paul Martens 40

3. Bob Jungels 20

4. Alexander Porsev 20

5. Marco Marcato 20

 

Mountains classification:

1. Björn Thurau 42

2. Karsten Kroon 22

3. Duber Quintero 21

4. Mikhail Ignatiev 21

5. Jay Thomson 18

 

Youth classification:

1. Matthias Brändle 16.45.44

2. Bob Jungels +0.07

3. Jonathan Fumeaux +0.15

4. Alexey Tsatevich +0.18

5. Giacomo Nizzolo +4.50

 

Teams classification:

1. Blanco 50.17.35

2. Vacansoleil +0.19

3. Radioshack +0.35

4. Europcar +1.11

5. IAM +2.35

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