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Caja Rural-Seguros rider Jon Aberasturi made history on Saturday, his compatriot David Lozano took the red jersey, the best Hungarian was last year’s second Dina Márton.
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| Jon Aberasturi’s first Spanish stage success in the history of the Hungarian circuit (Photo: TDH / Vanik Zoltán) |
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Last year a huge crowd and loud applause greeted the Tour de Hongrie field in the picturesque setting of the Esztergom finish line at the foot of the Basilica, but now we live in different times: security measures due to the epidemic of coronavirus have declared the area immediately closed to fans. it gave a strange taste and no small sense of lack to the field hair on Saturday. (This was somewhat offset by the fact that there were still plenty of spectators gathered at the finish line – the overall picture was very good in the already spectacular location.)
Because in the end, the sprint runner-up decided on the initial stage of the 41st Hungarian circuit, but the exciting battle at the finish line was unfortunately somewhat obscured by the series of events a few meters from the fighters for the success of the stage.
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“I had difficulties on the last lap, I had to change bikes twice, but fortunately the finish went well anyway. My teammates worked hard to catch up with the fugitives, and although I was not in the best position in the final kilometers, I managed to get ahead in the last corner, from there I went to the finish line with flat gas! ”. He said Jon Aberasturi, the winner of the first stage. |
The group of 119 people had to do three laps on the designated circuit around Esztergom, the 118-kilometer route included three mountains (all three in Két-Bükkfa-Nyereg) and two speedboats, meaning the start promised excitement. The first attack did not last long, and immediately after the abrupt departure, there was a nine-man escape without a Hungarian pilot.
The field allowed the runaways to develop a bit, at first the competitors became more in the “familiarization phase”, the ninth group advantage peaked in just over four minutes, after that he kept the fluff under control all the time, without leaving them for more than two minutes.
Seeing the brutal relaunch failures, long forced racing runs, think of the accident of poor Fabio Jakobsen, Remco Evenepoel or even Tour de France favorite Primoz Roglic, everyone here is praying now that we should somehow swim. without a serious fall. It has failed…
First, Team Novák, a resident of Miercurea Ciuc – Károly Novák, a Paralympic cycling team, world and European champion – one of their Hungarian cyclists, Zsombor Wermeser, fell into a seemingly innocuous situation and was forced to surrender before the race. sense.
Because, however, a roll to repeat last year’s composite podium Valter Atila took his third and final mountain hair, but the barn from the Polish world tour ended the initial stage with a sour taste. After all the fugitives were caught on the field, the scene of the crowd at the finish line could come, and during this one of his runners, Kamil Malecki, fell very ugly after the last corner. It later turned out that it escaped without breaking.
Kaden Grovest, who started the stage with an advantage in the last meters, Jon Aberasturi he won, thus writing the story: as incredible as it is, there has never been a Spanish stage winner in the almost one hundred year history of the Hungarian circuit, until now!
The third place was won by the current Czech champion Adam Toupalik, Aberasturi also had the green jersey in addition to the yellow, the compatriot with the red mountain cool jersey and Péter Kusztor’s teammate, David Lozano, while the best Hungarian of the last year Dina Martin will be able to stretch in the second stage between Sunday, Debrecen and Hajdúszoboszló.
41. HUNGARIAN CIRCUIT
Section 1 (Esztergom – Esztergom, 118 km): 1. Jon Aberasturi (Spanish, Caja Rural-Seguros) 2:48:04, 2. Groves (Australian, Mitchelton-Scott) at the same time, 3. Adam Toupalik (Czech, Elkov-Kasper) ai, … 18. Dina Márton (Hungarian, Kometa-Xstra cycling team) ai
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