Jordan Sarrou (Workforce BMC) claimed a hard-fought victory within the males’s move nation in Snowshoe, out-sprinting Nino Schurter (Scott-SRAM) after a brutally rapid ultimate lap.
Marcel Guerrini (BIXS Efficiency) took 3rd forward of Mathias Flückiger (Thomus Maxon) and Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers).
Flat tyres punctuated the lads’s move nation race in Snowshoe, with Tom Pidcock struggling a entrance puncture no longer lengthy after he bridged as much as the leaders on lap 4.
On lap 5, Luca Schwarzbauer (Canyon CLLCTV), after main for just about all of the race, was once off the entrance with Sarrou when he suffered a rear puncture that took a very long time for the mechanics to switch.
In the meantime, Pidcock stopped once more on the tech zone to get a unique entrance wheel and got down to make his manner throughout to the chasing team in the back of the German.
With two laps to race, Pidcock made it as much as Schwarzbauer and began powering his manner towards the main teams because the chase closed in on Sarrou.
On the bell, Pidcock had 17 seconds to make up. He sailed previous Martins Blums (KMC) into 5th as Marcel Guerrini (BIXS Efficiency) was once within the lead with Sarrou and Schurter.
The arena champion handiest had Mathias Flückiger (Thömus Maxon) in between him and the 3 leaders however ran out in fact.
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