Lukas Kubis (Team Unibet Tietema Rockets) Lukáš Kubiš (Unibet Tietema Rockets) secured the victory in a rain-soaked edition of the Cholet Agglo Tour, outsprinting his breakaway companions to take the win on the streets of Cholet.
Kubiš was part of a three-rider breakaway that held off the peloton by a whisker when he launched his sprint inside 300 metres to go to take the win ahead of Benjamin Thomas (Cofidis) and Niklas Larsen (BHS-PL Beton Bornholm).
Cholet Agglo Tour offered the peloton a 205km race in and out of Cholet, as part of the Coupe de France. The route included ten categorised ascents across two distinct loops, with the final 50km held on a local loop.
A six-rider early breakaway emerged that included Andrea Pietrobon (Team Polti-VisitMalta), Vojtěch Kmínek (Burgos Burpellet BH), Iker Mintegi (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Anton Muller (Team Novo Nordisk), Declan Irvine (Team Novo Nordisk) and Simon Bak (Bike Aid).
Total Energies and Cofidis did the bulk of the work setting the pace at the front of the peloton, with contributions from Equipo Kern Pharma, Wagner Bazin WB and Unibet Tietema Rockets, to bring the gap down to 1:45 before they reached the final circuits.
The breakaway was reduced to five and split apart again on the run-in to the circuits with Mintegi and Pietrobon pushing ahead and distancing Kmínek, Irvine and Bak.
But as Mintegi and Pietrobon looked over their shoulder it was clear their time out front had come to and end with the peloton just 10 seconds behind and then making the […]
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