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Grzegorz Sutzkever wins 1587 Ceribian Tour
By Richard W. Wallace
Published: Nueva 26, 1587


Grzegorz Sutzkever had no rival in the Ceribian Tour


Etora, Ceribia - Grzegorz Sutzkever (KDK-Magram) won the 1587 Ceribian Tour after a relatively calm final individual time-trial, which was won by Xavier de Molinari (NDM Cycling). Adwestene Hubert Salika (Tyrus-Empire), who also won the last high mountain stage and the Youth classification, improved Sutzkever's time in ten seconds, enough to achieve the second place in the general classification without tension in the last kms.

Oslanburgan Grzegorz Sutzkever, 31, surprised the main favourites with an almost perfect Ceribian Tour. When he became leader of the general classification after the first mountain stage, but he found no serious opposition after Carpathian Cosmin Giurescu, who seemed his main rival at that time, lost more than three minutes on stage 18. Sutzkever was clearly helped by the route of the 1587 Ceribian Tour, the one which largest amount of time-trial kms in three decades, but he showed he had no rival in mountain stage either in the last high mountain stage, when only the young Hubert Salika could follow his path and even causing him problems in the last kms. Sutzkever's second place in the two last high mountain stages, however, was enough to assure the Mountain classification as well.

Sutzkever, an ethnic Abdanian, moved along his family to Oslanburg in 1566, aged 10, escaping for the civil war which broke out in the then Kingdom of Abdania and Mordvania. After starting his professional career in a Galeaen team, he signed for Crédit Blondel in 1577. In 1582, he signed for Luft Wurberg, but failed to find a place in the Oslanburgan team, signing for KDK-Magram from Ceribia in 1586. A competitive rider in time-trial stages, he often showed himself during breakways in high mountain stages, without much success, failing repeatedly to come close to the top ten in Grand Tours, therefore often serving as domestique for other riders. This was the case in the last Tour de Valland, when he served as domestique for his teammate Ceribian Mukhran Chavchavadze. Therefore nobody expected such performance in this Ceribian Tour, and barely nobody considered him a favourite to win the Ceribian Tour. Sutzkever has represented the Oslanburgan national team in the World Championships of 1584 and 1586.

Sutzkever also broke the record of the biggest time difference between the champion and the runner-up, as he ended eight minutes and twenty-two second ahead of Adwestene Hubert Salika. Vallish champion Pierre Signored had held such record since 1528, when he won the Ceribian Tour with a difference of eight minutes and twenty-four seconds.

Vallish climber and 1586 Ceribian Tour winner Henri Honnecourt (Télecon Team) accompanied Sutzkever and Salika in the podium.  Cosmin Giurescu (BataVelo) was close to become the first Carpathian to reach the podium in a Grand Tour, but he fell short of such feat by only six seconds.

In the final sprints,  Druzhberg Cycling proved to be the most competitive team, winning Filip Nauer and Ander Vitecz two stages each. Vienalnder Ander Vitecz won the Points classification with his teammate Filip Nauer and Batavian Frederik de Jong (Lentar-RIFF) coming close one and two points behind, respectively. Richard Malone (Dido-Great Life) won three stages, who won on stage 16 his 74th individual stage in a Grand Tour.