Thursday June 6, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Casper van Uden has gained the primary straight trip within the ZLM Tour. The sprinter from DSM-firmenich PostNL stunned the others with a really early begin. Rune Herregodts (Intermarché-Wanty) arrived safely within the peloton and stays the chief.
For the primary stage within the ZLM Tour, riders and consultants knew that there was an excellent likelihood that we might have a bunch dash in Wissenkerke after 193.8 kilometers. Nevertheless, the riders needed to cross the cobblestones of Geersdijk a number of occasions, because it was a part of the native circuit of 16 kilometers that was ready for them twice. After the beginning within the provincial capital Middelburg, the primary attackers didn’t take lengthy to reach.
The Italian Samuele Zoccarato (VF Group-Bardiani CSF) was accompanied by many Belgians and Dutch individuals on his flight. Victor Vercouillie (Flanders-Baloise), Jelte Krijnsen (Parkhotel Valkenburg), Elmar Amba and Max Croonen (VolkerWessels), Bram Dissel (BEAT Biking Membership) and Guillaume Visser (Diftar Continental) coloured the stage with an early breakaway, however by no means actually posed a risk. Vercouillie was the closest rider within the rankings at 57 seconds, so chief Rune Herregodts had nothing to fret about.
Nonetheless a dash
The seven struggled for a very long time and even shifted up a gear in the long run. At seven kilometers from the end they’d one other half a minute to go, however the peloton was nonetheless in a position to overpower them as they entered the final mile and a half.
Within the dash it was Van Uden himself who began from very distant. Nevertheless, this additionally instantly gave him a lead of a number of bike lengths. Rivals equivalent to Gerben Thijssen (Intermarché-Wanty) and Gleb Syritsa (Astana Qazaqstan) appeared stunned and by no means got here shut once more. Syritsa did take some necessary bonus seconds.
