Muscat (Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex) – Qurayyat – 174 Km

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1 HERRADA Jesus ESP COFIDIS 04:21:07
2 VAN GILS Maxim BEL LOTTO DSTNY 00:00
3 ULISSI Diego ITA UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:00
4 JORGENSON Matteo USA MOVISTAR TEAM 00:00
5 VANSEVENANT Mauri BEL SOUDAL QUICK-STEP 00:00
6 LUTSENKO Alexey KAZ ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 00:03
7 ROCHAS Rémy FRA COFIDIS 00:05
8 RODRIGUEZ Cristian ESP TEAM ARKÉA-SAMSIC 00:05
9 DEWULF Stan BEL AG2R CITROËN TEAM 00:05
10 FORMOLO Davide ITA UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:05
11 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA-HANSGROHE 00:05
12 LANGELLOTTI Victor MON BURGOS-BH 00:05
13 TAARAMÄE Rein EST INTERMARCHÉ-CIRCUS-WANTY 00:05
14 EG Niklas DEN UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:05
15 VERONA Carlos ESP MOVISTAR TEAM 00:05

Gesamt:

1 HERRADA Jesus ESP COFIDIS 07:51:57
2 VAN GILS Maxim BEL LOTTO DSTNY 00:04
3 ULISSI Diego ITA UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:06
4 VANSEVENANT Mauri BEL SOUDAL QUICK-STEP 00:10
5 JORGENSON Matteo USA MOVISTAR TEAM 00:10
6 LUTSENKO Alexey KAZ ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 00:13
7 FORMOLO Davide ITA UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:15
8 TEUGELS Lennert BEL BINGOAL WB 00:15
9 EG Niklas DEN UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:15
10 TEJADA Harold COL ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 00:15
11 ROCHAS Rémy FRA COFIDIS 00:15
12 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA-HANSGROHE 00:15
13 MEINTJES Louis RSA INTERMARCHÉ-CIRCUS-WANTY 00:15
14 DE TIER Floris BEL BINGOAL WB 00:15
15 TAARAMÄE Rein EST INTERMARCHÉ-CIRCUS-WANTY 00:15

BORA – hansgrohe verpasst knapp die Top-10 auf zweiter Etappe der Tour of Oman

Der zweite Renntag der Tour of Oman wurde über lange Zeit von einer frühen Spitzengruppe geprägt, deren Bemühungen jedoch nach 150 km an der Spitze unbelohnt blieben. Der 3 km lange Schlussanstieg mit rund 6,5 Prozent Steigung sorgte dann für eine Selektion im Feld. Immer wieder gab es Attacken und auch Emanuel Buchmann, Giovanni Aleotti, Ben Zwiehoff und Cian Uijtdebroeks zeigten sich aktiv im letzten Anstieg, konnten jedoch im Bergaufsprint letztlich nicht in den Kampf um den Sieg eingreifen. Diesen holte sich J. Herrada während Emanuel Buchmann auf Platz 11, fünf Sekunden hinter dem Tagessieger, bester Fahrer des Rennstalls aus Raubling war.

A ferocious attack in the final metres up the ascent of Qurayyat got Jesus Herrada (Cofidis) the prizes he was aiming for: the win in stage 2 of the Tour of Oman 2023 and the overall lead. The Spanish puncheur made the most of his skills and his knowledge of this specific terrain to pounce at the perfect moment and get the best of Maxim Van Gils (Lotto Dstny) and Diego Ulissi (UAE Team Emirates). Already a podium finisher in the Tour of Oman (3rd in 2019, a year that saw him finish 2nd in Qurayyat), Herrada says he wants to keep the red jersey all the way to Jabal Al Akhdhar (Green Mountain), the final summit of this 12th edition, on Wednesday.

As soon as the peloton leave the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, they head to the infamous climb of Al Jabal Street (3.5km at 9.2%), where riders unleash a flurry of attacks. Ivan Cobo (Equipo Kern Pharma) is the fiercest on the uphill but the peloton don’t give him much room to operate. Alone at the front, he’s caught at the bottom of the downhill.

UAE and Astana control the day

Attacks keep flying on the flat. Fredrik Dversnes (Uno-X) jumps ahead of the bunch at km 15. He’s quickly joined at the front by Luca Van Boven (Bingoal WB) but Dvernes dominates the intermediate sprint of Al Amrat (km 20.1).
The two leaders are joined by four more attackers after 25km: Ivan Cobo, back on the move, Angel Fuentes (Burgos-BH), Kosuke Takeyama (JCL Team Ukyo) and the leader of the most aggressive rider classification, Jeroen Meijers (Terengganu Polygon), wearing the golden jersey after his breakaway on day 1.
The gap is up to 4’ but UAE Team Emirates and Astana Qazaqstan react at the front of the bunch. Mark Cavendish participates in the chase for the kazakh team and the gap sits between 2 and 3 minutes for most of the stage.

Cobo shows again his climbing skills as the attackers face the climb of Qurayyat (2.6km at 7%) for the first time, 52km before the uphill finish. Meijers can’t keep up, he drops back to the bunch.

Herrada’s day
The peloton up the ante after the summit. As the gap drops down to 1 minute, Cobo, Dvernes and Takeyama also drop back to the bunch. Van Boven and Fuentes remain at the front inside the last 30km.
Soudal Quick-Step move to the front of the bunch and put the hammer down with 15km to go. The two attackers remaining at the front are brought in 7km away from the finish, just ahead of the final ascent.
UAE Team Emirates, Bora-Hansgrohe and Arkéa-Samsic set a strong pace for their leaders. But nobody can contain Jesus Herrada’s acceleration in the final 200m. Maxim Van Gils and Diego Ulissi are the closest to the Spaniard.