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Gut lachen hatte Phil Bauhaus als Sieger der ersten Etappe der Tour de Hongrie
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Siófok – Kaposvár – 173 Km

1 BAUHAUS Phil GER BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 03:54:22 44,29
2 MARECZKO Jakub ITA VINI ZABU‘ 00:00
3 MEEUS Jordi BEL BORA – HANSGROHE 00:00
4 BARBIER Rudy FRA ISRAEL START-UP NATION 00:00
5 DUPONT Timothy BEL BINGOAL PAUWELS SAUCES WB 00:00
6 GROVES Kaden AUS TEAM BIKEEXCHANGE 00:00
7 KOOIJ Olav NED JUMBO-VISMA 00:00
8 LARSEN Niklas DEN UNO – X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:00
9 BLIKRA Erlend NOR UNO – X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:00
10 DAINESE Alberto ITA TEAM DSM 00:00

1 BAUHAUS Phil GER BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 03:54:12
2 MARECZKO Jakub ITA VINI ZABU‘ 00:04
3 STOSZ Patryk POL VOSTER ATS TEAM 00:04
4 MEEUS Jordi BEL BORA – HANSGROHE 00:06
5 SEVILLA LOPEZ Diego Pablo ESP EOLO-KOMETA CYCLING TEAM 00:06
6 THEUNS Edward BEL TREK – SEGAFREDO 00:07
7 VAN DEN BOSSCHE Fabio BEL SPORT VLAANDEREN – BALOISE 00:08
8 JONES Taj AUS ISRAEL CYCLING ACADEMY 00:08
9 BANASZEK Alan POL MAZOWSZE SERCE POLSKI 00:09
10 BARBIER Rudy FRA ISRAEL START-UP NATION 00:10

Tour de Hongrie: Jordi Meeus sprintet auf’s Podium

Die erste Etappe der Tour de Hongrie 2021 führte über 173 Kilometer von Siófok nach Kaposvár ohne nennenswerte Anstiege. Kurz nach dem Start konnte sich eine Gruppe mit drei Fahrern vom Feld lösen, welche aber durch das Hauptfeld kontrolliert wurde und nur einen geringen Vorsprung herausfahren konnte. Als es auf die letzten Kilometer des Tages ging zeigten sich die BORA-hansgrohe Fahrer im vordersten Teil des Pelotons, um den Sprint vorzubereiten. Durch einen guten Leadout gelang es Jordi Meeus auf den dritten Platz zu sprinten.

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„Unser Ziel war es heute eine kleine Gruppe fahren zu lassen und für Jordi den Sprint vorzubereiten. Als sich drei Fahrer am Anfang des Rennens gelöst haben, konnten die Jungs im Hauptfeld ihre Kräfte für das Finale schonen. Auf den letzten Kilometern haben wir einen guten Job gemacht und Rudi ist einen super Leadout gefahren. Leider war Jordi etwas früh dran und wurde so noch von zwei Fahrern übersprintet. Mit dem dritten Platz können wir für den Anfang zufrieden sein und hatten einen guten Start in die Rundfahrt. Dennoch wollen wir morgen unsere Chance für den Etappensieg nutzen.“ – Steffen Radochla, Sportlicher Leiter

„Heute hatten wir eine typische Sprintetappe mit einem sehr schnellen Start und einer kleinen Ausreißergruppe, die vom Peloton kontrolliert wurde. Für uns war es ein Wartespiel bis auf die letzten Kilometer. Das Team hat großartige Arbeit geleistet, um mich in Position zu bringen. Wir sind einen starken Sprint gefahren, auch wenn vielleicht das Timing etwas früh war. Ich bin super zufrieden mit der Leistung des Teams, aber ich glaube, es wäre mehr als ein dritter Platz drin gewesen. Wir sind motiviert und ich möchte es morgen erneut versuchen um den Sieg mitzufahren.“ – Jordi Meeus

The opening stage of the 42ndTour de Hongrie, held today between Siófok and Kaposvár, came down to a bunch sprint in which German rider Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) edged out Italian Jakub Mareczko (Vini Zabù) and Belgian Jordi Meeus (Bora–Hansgrohe) to take his second win of the season and don the first leader’s yellow jersey. 130riders took the start of the 42ndedition of the Tour de Hongrie in Siófok, a spa town on the shores of Lake Balaton, the largest lake in Central Europe. The mechanics‘ decision to inflate the tubular tyres of the bicycles somewhat less than usual in response to the ominous skies proved to be a smart move as the first drops started to fall right before the neutralised start of the 173km inaugural stage. The road was already soaked by the time Spaniard Diego Pablo Sevilla (Eolo–Kometa) and Slovenian Aljaž Omrzel (Adria Mobil) formed the first breakaway of the day.However, the duo was reeled in before the first intermediate sprint, 12.6km into the stage, where Edward Theuns (Trek–Segafredo) claimed the three-second time bonus ahead of Taj Jones (Israel Start-Up Nation), who took two seconds, and Alan Banaszek (Mazowsze–Serce Polski), who got one.A three-man group opened up a gap in the approach to Igal, the only categorised climb on today’s menu. It was Diego Pablo Sevilla rolling the dice again, this time with the 20-year-old Belgian track specialist Fabio Van den Bossche (Sport Vlaanderen–Baloise), who featured in an escape in the Tour of Flanders, and Pole Patryk Stosz (Voster ATS Team), the winner of the mountains classification in the 2018Tour de Hongrie. Now riding on dry roads, Stosz was the first rider over the top of the category3 Igal climb, 47.5km into the stage —good enough for the victor of the 2020Tour of Bulgaria to secure the first best climber’s jersey at the end of the opening stage.The gap peaked at 3′30′′ and, despite the high pace (with an average speed of 43.5km/h after two hours of racing), it had dwindled to just 2′16′′ by km90. The N-shaped course headed back to the shores of Lake Balaton for the second intermediate sprint with 71km to go. A voracious Stosz took first place here too, ahead of Sevilla and Van den Bossche. By this point, the teams of sprinters Jakub Mareczko (Vini Zabù) and Mikhel Räim (Mazowsze–Serce Polski) had cut their margin over the peloton to 1′30′′. The Slovakian national champion, Peter Sagan’s brother Juraj (Bora–Hansgrohe), added more fuel to the fire a bit later.
The gap remained stable until 30kilometres before the line, where the escapees had to screech to a halt due to a closed level crossing and lost half of their advantage in the process.In the first passage of the finish line, 17km before the finish, Stosz again let his raw speed do the talking to claim the third and final intermediate sprint ahead of Sevilla and Van den Bossche. The Belgian upped the stakes with a solo attack with 10km to go, while his two fellow breakaways called it a day, but he too was brought back into the fold 7.2km before the finish. A bunch sprint was now inevitable.Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) came out on top in the mad dash to the line thanks to his ultra-fast sprint and his tactical acumen, biding his time until the final 100metres to protect himself from the slight headwind until the last possible moment. The German, who had already opened his season account in the Tour de la Provence in February, beat Jakub Mareczko (Vini Zabù), the winner of all three flat stages in last year’s Tour de Hongrie, while Belgian Jordi Meeus (Bora–Hansgrohe) took the bottom stepof the podium. Bauhaus also pulled on the first leader’s yellow jersey with four seconds to spare over Mareczko and Stosz, who owes his third place overall to the six bonus seconds gained in the intermediate sprints.

Tour de Hongrie 2021

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THE TOUR DE HONGRIE IN FIGURES

42nd edition
5 stages
22 teams
132 riders
792 km

9 towns and cities
Broadcast in over 150 countries in four continents

HISTORY
The Tour de Hongrie, launched in Budapest in 1925, has risen time and again from the ashes and is close to fulfilling its creators‘ century-old dream of a race worthy of the popular and athletic success of the Tour de France.
Its first hiatus stretched from 1965 to 1993, when the Hungarian Cycling Federation put the show back on the road. The second iteration of the race lasted until 2009. By that time, it had transcended the borders of its home country to become the Central European Tour. However, local fans stubbornly refused to give up, and their hard work bore fruit in 2015, when the Tour de Hongrie was reborn as a category 2.2 race in which the most promising U23 riders in the world rubbed shoulders with several international teams.
Its promotion to a category 2.2 race by UCI in 2018 enabled it to attract more prestigious teams. The field is now more competitive than ever, including eight WorldTour squads that rank among the strongest in the world, such as Jumbo–Visma, Team DSM and Bora–Hansgrohe.

FAVOURITES
Wearing race number 1, Mike Teunissen (Jumbo–Visma) is billed as one of the major attractions of the Tour de Hongrie. The Dutchman sprinted to victory in the opening stage of the 2019 Tour de France and kept the yellow jersey for two days before surrendering it to future world champion Julian Alaphilippe. Following almost seven months as a result of two back-to-back injuries, the 28-year-old chose the Tour de Hongrie for his return to competition and will be a solid contender for stage wins.
The summit finish on Gyöngyös-Kékestető in stage 4 makes climbers the odds-on favourites to win the final general classification, which places the promising youngster Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious) among the men to watch. The 21-year-old Colombian finished 18th overall in the Volta a Catalunya and will be able to count on riders of the calibre of grizzled veteran Heinrich Haussler, who won stages in the 2009 Tour de France and 2005 Vuelta a España. Team BikeExchange has several cards to play, including Australian Damien Howson (third in last year’s Tour de Hongrie), young Italian Kevin Colleoni (third in the 2020 Baby Giro) and local lad Barnabás Peák, who finished the 2017 edition as runner-up to another whiz kid, Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar, then 18 years old, who would go on to win the Tour de France three years later. The 22-year-old will be flying the flag for his country in a bid to succeed fellow Hungarian Attila Valter, who claimed last year’s edition and has since joined the French Groupama–FDJ outfit, with which he is currently taking part in the Giro d’Italia. Belgian Ben Hermans (Israel Start-Up Nation), fourteenth overall in the 2014 Vuelta a España is also worth keeping an eye on.

Some of the world’s top sprinters will also grace the peloton with their presence. Italian Jakub Mareczko (Vini Zabù) grabbed the three flat stages and the final points classification last year. This time, he will be facing stiff competition from German Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious), who won a stage in the Tour de la Provence last February, as well as Frenchman Rudy Barbier (Israel Start-Up Nation), Belgian Timothy Dupont (Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB), Norwegian Kristoffer Halvorsen (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team), Australian Kaden Groves (Kaden Groves) and Estonian Mihkel Räim (Mazowsze–Serce Polski), the 2016 champion and only former winner on the start list of this year’s Tour de Hongrie, who is in stupendous form after taking the Belgrade–Banja Luka stage race.

Finally, Belgians Edward Theuns (Trek–Segafredo, eighth in the 2017 Paris–Roubaix) and Tom Van Asbroeck (Israel Start-up Nation, nineteenth in the last Tour of Flanders) are capable of pulling out a rabbit out of their hats at any time.

ROUTE
The 42nd Tour de Hongrie will take place from 12 to 16 May 2021. The 132-strong peloton will weave its way around the heart of the Magyar lands in five stages with disparate profiles that will give sprinters, all-rounders and climbers the chance to shine.
It all starts in Siófok, a spa resort wildly popular with tourists. The riders will roll out from the town on the bank of Lake Balaton, the largest body of water in Central Europe, for the 173 km flat opening stage to Kaposvár. Expect pure sprinters to lay down the law here.
Multiple scenarios could unfold in the 183 km long stage 2 —while both categorised climbs lie within 36 km from the start, the course never really flattens out on the road from Balatonfüred to Nagykanizsa, making life extra hard for the peloton if a strong breakaway manages to give it the slip. The sprinters will have their work cut out for them by the jagged terrain of the last 15 km and, especially, the 2% slope of the final 1,000 metres.
A short stage is a hectic stage, and the 142 km course of stage 3 from Veszprém to Tata will keep fans on the edge of their seats. Coming 17 km into the stage, the climb will serve as a great launch pad for breakaways. The wall of Pannonhalma (1.1 km at 9.2%) throws in a nasty kick around the halfway point, but the mostly flat finale could help the peloton to reel in the escapees and set up a bunch sprint.
Stage 4 will be the longest and hardest one of this edition, a 202 km grind to the summit of Gyöngyös-Kékestető, the highest point of Hungary. It will be the eleventh time that the race visits this climber’s paradise. The peloton will first climb the mountain up to Mátraháza at km 124, while the second (and final) ascent will throw in an extra three kilometres at a gradient of over 8%. The Tour de Hongrie is likely to be decided here.
Finally, stage 5 will be held on a circuit in the heart of Budapest, which last hosted the Tour de Hongrie four years ago. There will be eight laps around the streets of the capital, totalling 92 km, before the sprinters fight over the spoils.

Tour de Hongrie – Etappe 5

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Miskolc – Gyöngyös-Kékesteto (187,8 km)
1 VALTER Attila (HUN) CCC TEAM 4:35:15
2 SIMMONS Quinn (USA) TREK – SEGAFREDO 0:00:10
3 HOWSON Damien (AUS) MITCHELTON – SCOTT 0:00:12
4 BADILATTI Matteo (SUI) ISRAEL START – UP NATION 0:00:15
5 FOSS Tobias S. (NOR) JUMBO – VISMA 0:00:17
6 BRAJKOVIC Janez (SLO) ADRIA MOBIL 0:00:17
7 HUYS Laurens (BEL) BINGOAL WB 0:00:20
8 GUERIN Alexis (FRA) TEAM VORARLBERG SANTIC 0:00:20
9 RODRIGUEZ MARTIN Cristian (ESP) CAJA RURAL – SEGUROS RGA 0:00:27
10 PICCOLI James (CAN) ISRAEL START – UP NATION 0:00:37
11 DURBRIDGE Luke (AUS) MITCHELTON – SCOTT 0:00:39
12 HNÍK Karel (CZE) ELKOV – KASPER 0:00:47
13 HOELGAARD Markus (NOR) UNO – X PRO CYCLING TEAM 0:00:47
14 BOUWMAN Koen (NED) JUMBO – VISMA 0:00:56
15 TOLHOEK Antwan (NED) JUMBO – VISMA 0:00:56

Endstand Gesamtwertung
1 VALTER Attila (HUN) CCC TEAM 18:45:55
2 SIMMONS Quinn (USA) TREK – SEGAFREDO 0:00:12
3 HOWSON Damien (AUS) MITCHELTON – SCOTT 0:00:16
4 BADILATTI Matteo (SUI) ISRAEL START – UP NATION 0:00:25
5 FOSS Tobias S. (NOR) JUMBO – VISMA 0:00:26
6 BRAJKOVIC Janez (SLO) ADRIA MOBIL 0:00:27
7 GUERIN Alexis (FRA) TEAM VORARLBERG SANTIC 0:00:30
8 HUYS Laurens (BEL) BINGOAL WB 0:00:30
9 RODRIGUEZ MARTIN Cristian (ESP) CAJA RURAL – SEGUROS RGA 0:00:37
10 PICCOLI James (CAN) ISRAEL START – UP NATION 0:00:47

Tour de Hongrie – Etappe 4

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Sárospatak – Kazincbarcika (180,0 km)
1 MARECZKO Jakub (ITA) CCC TEAM 3:55:53
2 LIEPINS Emils (LAT) TREK – SEGAFREDO 0:00:00
3 VAN DER POEL David (NED) ALPECIN – FENIX 0:00:00
4 WEEMAES Sasha (BEL) SPORT VLAANDEREN – BALOISE 0:00:00
5 GUARDINI Andrea (ITA) GIOTTI VICTORIA 0:00:00
6 ABERASTURI IZAGA Jon (ESP) CAJA RURAL – SEGUROS RGA 0:00:00
7 PACIONI Luca (ITA) ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI – SIDERMEC 0:00:00
8 MORTIER Julien (BEL) BINGOAL WB 0:00:00
9 KONYCHEV Alexander (ITA) MITCHELTON – SCOTT 0:00:00
10 KARL Adam (HUN) 0:00:00

Gesamtwertung
1 GROVES Kaden (AUS) MITCHELTON – SCOTT 14:10:38
2 ABERASTURI IZAGA Jon (ESP) CAJA RURAL – SEGUROS RGA 0:00:02
3 HOFSTEDE Lennard (NED) JUMBO – VISMA 0:00:03
4 PLANCKAERT Emiel (BEL) SPORT VLAANDEREN – BALOISE 0:00:06
5 VAN DER POEL David (NED) ALPECIN – FENIX 0:00:07
6 SZATMÁRY András (HUN) 0:00:07
7 DE WILDE Gilles (BEL) SPORT VLAANDEREN – BALOISE 0:00:07
8 SEVILLA LOPEZ Diego Pablo (ESP) KOMETA XSTRA CYCLING TEAM 0:00:07
9 ŤOUPALÍK Adam (CZE) ELKOV – KASPER 0:00:08
10 EINHORN Itamar (ISR) ISRAEL START – UP NATION 0:00:09

2019 TOUR DE HONGRIE: STAGE 5: TO WIPPERT THE LAST STAGE. TO NEILANDS, THE OVERALL VICTORY

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Székesfehérvár, Sunday, June 16th 2019 – Wouter Wippert, the Dutchman of the Irish team EvoPro Racing, won the 5th and final stage of the 40th Tour de Hongrie after a massive sprint ahead of Frenchman Hugo Hofstetter and Estonian rider, Mihkel Räim. The great man of the week was the Latvian Krists Neilands of the Israel Cycling Academy team, who won the first stage race of his career at the age of 24 in front of two young Hungarians Marton Dina and Attila Valter.
STAGE RESULT
1. Wouter Wippert (EvoPro Racing) in 3h53‘47‘’
2. Hugo Hofstetter (Cofidis, Solutions Crédits) st
3. Mihkel Raïm (Israel Cycling Academy) st
INDIVIDUAL GENERAL CLASSIFICATION
1. Krists Neilands (Israel Cycling Academy) in 21h13‘00‘’
2. Marton Diná (Kometa Cycling Team) at 1’22’’
3. Attila Valter (CCC Team) at 1’26’’

2019 TOUR DE HONGRIE: STAGE 4: KRISTS NEILANDS, SIMPLY THE BEST

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Foto: Gerhard Plomitzer
Kékestető, Saturday, June 15th 2019 – Krists Neilands was really the strongest man of the Tour de Hongrie. In the 4th stage, considered as the queen stage, this Saturday of the 40th Tour de Hongrie, the Latvian champion with the yellow jersey on his shoulders won his 2nd stage victory and almost ensured the final victory. Two extraordinary promising riders of Hungarian cycling, Marton Dina and Attila Valter are 2nd and 3rd of the stage. They also have the same ranking in the overall classification.

STAGE RESULT
1. Krists Neilands (Israel Cycling Academy) in 3h20‘40‘’
2. Marton Diná (Kometa Cycling Team) st
3. Attila Valter (CCC Team) st
INDIVIDUAL GENERAL CLASSIFICATION
1. Krists Neilands (Israel Cycling Academy) in 17h19‘13‘’
2. Marton Diná (Kometa Cycling Team) at 1’22’’
3. Attila Valter (CCC Team) at 1’26’’

2019 TOUR DE HONGRIE: STAGE 3 A/B: LOVASSY AND KAŇKOVSKÝ, HEROES OF THE DAY

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Tiszafüred and Hajdúszoboszló, Friday, June 14th 2019 – There were 2 winners the same day on the 40th Tour de Hongrie this friday for the stage 3, separated into 2 half-stages: a Hungarian hero who managed to resist the comeback of the peloton in the morning, Krisztián Lovassy and a surprising Czech man, Alois Kaňkovský who won the afternoon stage after a massive sprint. The leader in the general classification, Krists Neilands spent a quiet day and keeps his leader jersey.
STAGE RESULT 3A
1. Krisztián Lovassy (Hungary) in 2h33‘21‘’
2. Stanislaw Aniolkowski (CCC Development Team), st
3. Gašper Katrašnik (Adria Mobil), st
STAGE RESULT 3B
1. Alois Kaňkovský (Elkov – Author) in 1h28‘04‘’
2. Wouter Wippert (EvoPro Racing), st
3. Manuel Belletti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec), st
INDIVIDUAL GENERAL CLASSIFICATION
1. Krists Neilands (Israel Cycling Academy) in 13h58‘43‘’
2. Manuel Belletti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) at 1‘05‘’
3. Louis Bendixen (Team Coop) at

2019 TOUR DE HONGRIE: STAGE 2: NEILANDS SCORES DOUBLE

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Miskolc, Thursday, June 13th 2019 – 2018 Latvian champion of the Isreal Cycling Academy team, Krists Neilands wins the 2nd stage of the 40th Tour de Hongrie. And he killed two birds with one stone: he also will wear the yellow jersey tomorrow for the 3rd stage. Louis Bendixen (Team Coop) et Marco Frapporti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) are respectively second and third of the stage.

STAGE RESULT
1. Krists Neilands (Israel Cycling Academy) in 5h10‘14‘’
2. Louis Bendixen (Team Coop) at 01’00’’
3. Marco Frapporti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) at 01’05’’

INDIVIDUAL GENERAL CLASSIFICATION
1. Krists Neilands (Israel Cycling Academy) in 9h53’14’’
2. Manuel Belletti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) at 1’07’’
3. Louis Bendixen (Team Coop) at

Tour de Hongrie: Stage 1: Manuel Belletti, the stage and the lead

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Esztergom, Wednesday, June 12th 2019 – On this first stage between Velence and Esztergom, the sun was once again with the riders on this 40th Tour de Hongrie. On a superbe race course and in front of a big enthusiastic crowd, it’s the winner of the 2018 edition Manuel Belletti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) who came out on top. Hugo Hofstetter (Cofidis, Solutions Crédits) is second and the Croatian Dušan Rajović (Adria Mobil) completes the podium. Belletti also took the first place of the general classification and therefore the leaders jersey.
Tageswertung:
1. Manuel Belletti (Androni Giocattoli)
2. Hugo Hofstetter (Cofidis)
3. Dusan Rajovic (Adria Mobil)

8. Aaron Grosser (Bike Aid)
GC:
1. Manuel Belletti (Androni Giocattoli)

2019 TOUR DE HONGRIE: Stage 1

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TOUR DE HONGRIE IN NUMBERS:

40th edition
6 days
19 teams
132 riders
865 km
10 cities
2 hours a day tv broadcast in 19o countries in the 5 continents

HISTORY
Like the phoenix, the Tour de Hongrie has been reborn from the ashes.
First created in 1925 in Budapest, the Tour de Hongrie was very popular and incredibly successful until it was stopped in 1965.
It was not until 1993 that the event was re-launched by the Hungarian Cycling Federation. This lasted until 2009, when it was replaced by the larger Central European Tour.
However thanks to the passion and the work of locals, the Tour de Hongrie started once again in 2015. It then became a category 2.2, attracting some of the best young riders in the world.
The event grew from strength to strength, and last year was awarded a category 2.1 by the UCI. This included more prestigious teams, this year for example, Cofidis Solutions Credit, Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec, Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia and Israel Cycling Academy. They all are Continental Pro teams who are competing year in year out on the Grand Tours (Tour de France, Giro and Vuelta).

FAVORITES
The title holder, Manuel Belletti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) will be present this year to defend his title. Last year, he took the leader’s jersey after winning the 2nd stage and kept it until the end, winning his first stage race ever.
Belletti looks in great shape to defend his title this year. He just finished the Tour of Italy where he finished within the Top 10 four times in sprint stages.
Another famous rider travelling to Hungary is the Italian veteran of 36 years, Giovanni Visconti (Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia). Three times Italian champion (2007, 2010, 2011) and two time winner of stages on the Giro (in 2013), the legend from Turin, is coming to Hungary with one goal and one goal only; his final victory.
Another sprinter who is coming to win at least one stage is the Frenchman Hugo Hosfstetter from team Cofidis, Credits Solutions. At just 25 years old, he is a very promising rider, who is good either in the massive sprints or in the Spring Classics. His past races include a 5th place at the GP of Frankfurt a few weeks ago, 2nd of the GP of Denain last year, and he managed an impressive 19th place at the Paris-Roubaix last spring.
In this same team, a very regular all-rounder, the Spaniard Luis Angel Maté, who is riding his 12th season at the highest level. The 35-year-old Andalusian comes to Hungary to try to win his first stage race of his career; he has participated in 13 Grand Tours and has already finished 19th on the Vuelta.
But the Hungarian fans will have eyes only for their star, a future idol of the world of cycling, the one on which rests all the hopes of the fans of cycling in Hungary : Attila Valter (CCC Development Team), best young rider last year in the Tour de Hongrie. With a first name that can make his opponents shake on their pedals, the young Magyar climber participate in 7 stage races this year: he finished six times in the top 10 (including 4 podiums). The 2019 Tour de Hongrie is his main goal. This is a way to reinforce his leadership on cycling in his country but also a perfect way to continue his progression and to be part of a WorldTour team next year. Valter will be helped by his teammate, the Polish Kamil Malecki, who finished second here last year.
We can also note the presence of the tireless Czech cyclist Jan Bárta (Elkov-Author) who went back to his home country to help his young compatriots. But no retirement for the eternal striker, 6-time national champion and winner of the prestigious Settimana Coppi e Bartali; he won the Tour du Loir-et-Cher this year. With Bárta, one thing is sure: there will be a show … and lots of breakaways!

ROUTE
The 40th Tour de Hongrie will take place from the 11th to the16th of June 2019.
The 132 riders will visit the heart of the Magyar country for six stages, with a diversity of profiles including: flat, and mountainous terrains. All the sprinters, the punchers and climbers will have the opportunity to show off all their skills and qualities.
To inaugurate this Tour de Hongrie: A flat 4km-prologue in the seaside resort of Siófok, along the Lake Balaton. This is the largest lake in Central Europe and a time-trial specialist should be wearing the leaders jersey of this 40th Tour de Hongrie.
Despite two uphill climbs in the last 50 kilometers, we are expecting a massive sprint at the end of the first stage (194km) between Velence (Venice in Hungarian) and the former capital of the country, Esztergom.
The second stage between Balassagyarmat and Miskolc is made for the attackers thanks to two hard climbs. A breakaway can have hopes. and only strong climbers will be able to face the altitude differences over the length of this 201km stage.
In an interesting twist to this year’s Tour, stage three on the 4th day of the Tour will have two half-stages, one of 115km in the morning and another of 65km in the afternoon. And it’s gonna be a day for all the sprinter’s!
The day before the finish, the 4th stage, it’s time for the queen stage, between Karcag (the city of the national dish: the goulash!) and Gyöngyös-Kékestető with a very hard final, a real wall to climb. The climb that takes you to the highest point of the country (1,014 meters). The overall winner, which will advantage the pure climbers, will probably be decided at the top of this mountain.
Finally, the 5th and final stage 169km long, between Kecskemét and Székesfehérvár will be once again dedicated by the sprinters. But only the riders who managed to digest the climb from the day before
will be in with a chance of winning this final sprint. It won’t necessarily be the best sprinters who will win, but the freshest.

Siófok, Tuesday, June 11th 2019 – Barta smiles. Neilands cries. The czech rider wins the prologue for only 34 hundredth on the Latvian champion. On a flat and technical 4km-prologue, Jan Barta (Elkov-Author Cycling Team) was the fastest man today during the opening prologue of the 40th edition of the Tour de Hongrie, in Siófok, along the Balaton lake. Krists Neilands (Isreal Cycling Academy) finished 2nd even if he thought about the victory until the end of the race. The third man is the Polish guy Piotr Brozyna riding for CCC Development Team.
1. Jan Barta (Elkov)
2. Krists Neilands (Israel Cycling Academy) s.t.
3. Piotr Brozyna (CCC Development) +0:02
4. August Jensen (Israel Cycling Academy) s.t.
5. Dusan Rajovic (Adria Mobil) s.t.