April 7, 2023, 12:57 PM
April 7, 2023, 12:57 PM
The Colombian Sergio Higuita won this Friday the fifth and penultimate stage of the Cycling Tour of the Basque Countrywith beginning and end in Amorebieta, prevailing in a sprint of a group of twenty riders in which was the Dane Jonas Vingegaard, who is still the leader of the general classification.
On the eve of the last stage on Saturday, with a mountainous profile and designed to be the judge of the race (six ascents on the programme, three of them in the first category), Vingegaard’s rivals for the general chose to save strength.
The Dane from Jumbo-Visma thus remains the leader of the general classification ahead of the Spanish Mikel Landa (13 seconds) and the French David Gaudu (31 seconds).
The entertainers of the stage on Friday were the French Quick Step Rémi Cavagna (the “Clermont-Ferrand TGV (high-speed train)”) and his Italian teammate Mattia Cattaneo.
Both escaped from the peloton on the first climb of the day, in the first kilometersand traveled almost 130 kilometers in the lead, before being caught with about 25 kilometers from the finish line.
