After a first day that smiled at Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ), the sprinters were able to seize their luck on this 2nd stage of Sveard tourna tour. And, to everyone's surprise, he is a runner from the Luxembourg selection, Mathieu Kokelmannwhich has imposed itself. Recent stage winner on the Tour of the futurethe 21 -year -old was patient in the final sprint and has ahead of Andrea Vendrame (Decathlon AG2R) and Tom Donnenwirth (Groupama-FDJ) to win his first victory among professionals. Romain Grégoire did not compete in the final sprint and retains the head of the general classification.
VIDEO – The summary of the 1st stage and the victory of Grégoire
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The summary
From the first kilometers, a breakaway of 7 stands out with Baptiste Gillet (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), Jonas Geens (Flanders Baloise), Victor Papon (Wagner-Bazin), Pedro Pinto (Efalpel), Loïc Betttends (Hrinkow Advarics), Malte Hellerup (ColoQuick) et Mil Morang (Luxembourg). Behind, the training Groupama-FDJ You lead Romain Grégoire and the EF Education-EasyPost of Marijn van den Berg control. On a relatively easy course, no large -scale offensive is launched. The sprinters teams roll and 5 kilometers from the finish, all the fugitives are taken up.
Training EF Education-EasyPost Take the lead in the last kilometer, then gets overwhelmed by Stefan Bissegger that Andrea Vendrame (Decathlon AG2R). Van den Berg Sprint launches 300 meters from the line. The Dutchman is solid, but it is far away … and he gets overtaken in the last 100 meters. Perfectly placed and patient, it is ultimately Mathieu Kokelmann (Luxembourg) which passes the line first. Andrea Vendrame takes 2nd place and French Tom Donnenwirth (Groupama-FDJ) completes the podium.
