Even if we get closer and closer to the end of this 2025 season, runners such as Paul Magnier (Soudal Quick-Step) ou Cian Uijtdebroeks (Team Visma | Lease A Bike) met this week to play the Tour of Slovakia (or Okolo Slovenska), the first step of which was held this Wednesday. On a relatively flat step and without an impressive sprinters tray, Paul Magnier was largely favorite to be the first to raise your arms on this 69th edition. With a peloton reduced by the ascent of the Kurov (2 km at 6.9%), it was a sprint that took place in a final paved straight line that made the happiness of Paul Magnierwhich has ahead of power Lukas Kubis (Unibet Tietema Rockets) a Joppe Heremans (Volkerwessels Cycling Team) to take off his 7th success of the season … and surely not the last of the week!
Video – Paul Magnier continues after the GP of Fourmies
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But what power! Paul Magnier won the 1st stage of the Tour de Slovakia?
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VISMA | Lease A Bike already at the offensive
At the top of the race throughout the day in the company of Lukas Owsian (Mazovia's heart of Poland), Michal Schlegel (Elkov – Kasper) a Stijn Daemen (VolkerWessels Cycling Team), Oscar Nilsson-July (Groupama-FDJ continental team) was the last of the fugitives to be picked up by the peloton, and more particularly the teammates of Cian Uijtdebroeks. Indeed, who came to win the general classification, the wasps did not wish to wait for the last steps to make their opponents flank and harassed the Soudal Quick-Step in the final, alternating the attacks of Bart Lemmen, Thomas Gloag or Niklas Behrens. Finally, despite all the Dutch team attempts to avoid a massive sprint, it was the big thighs that had the last word for this first day in Slovakia.
Tour de Slovakia – ranking of the 1st stage
Tour de Slovakia – Provisional general classification after the 1st stage
