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Elton Isaksson wins his second Ceribian Tour
By Richard W. Wallace
Published: Nueva 26, 1582


Isaksson became the first Nylander rider to win three Grand Tours.


Etova, Ceribia - Nyland Elton Isaksson won his second Ceribian Tour and becomes the sixth reader to win both Tour de Valland and Ceribian Tour in the same season. The last stage, which ended in the capital city Etova after four years, was won by Saratovian Bohdan Staryk, winning his third stage this Ceribian Tour.

Isaksson, who had an apparently comfortably lead of nearby three minutes after stage 16, a 22-km individual time trial, suffered in the last two high mountain stages in Western Ceribia, and ended keeping the general classification jersey by merely 11 seconds over Stavros Michelakakis (MTS Team), in an agonic final km. 1581 Ceribian Tour winner, Sainamese Asai Satoshi (Nitenryu Cycling) climbed comfortably to the third place in the same stage, his third podium in a Grand Tour in a row.

It was a complicated Tour for Isaksson, as his team ZMG-Nissen is facing serious accusations of doping following his victory in the Tour de Valland early this year. Isaksson, 32, has claimed that such accusations are baseless. The Nylander all-rounder, who also won the Mountain classification, has not confirmed if he will participate in the Ceribian Tour the next season. No rider has ever won both Grand Tours twice.

Florinthian sprinter Richard Malone (Dido-Dreher) won the Points classification easily and for third time in a row, after winning six individual stages, a record which was only achieved once before this season. He has also become the third rider with most individual stage wins, 22, in the history of the Ceribian Tour.