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06-21-2019, 01:49 PM
Stage 5 - Sephoraville to Leroux | Flat stage - 177 km
The peloton found some calm the next day. The breakways were not successful this time, and the stage ended in a mass sprint.
Nylander sprinter Chester Stenbeck (Anzcell Cycling) defeated Mordvanian Rein Warma (Iskra) and Vallish Antoine Duchesnay (NDM Cycling) to win the stage and take the point classification jersey as well.
Svarnan Hira Sabanis (Baagh Cycling) continued as leader of the general classification without incidences.
Stage 6 - Leroux to Voclaîn | Flat stage - 206 km
The next stage followed a very similar script, one day before the first mountain stage in this Tour de Valland.
The young Vallish sprinter Christophe Villiers gave the first local stage win, and the second for Anzcell Cycling, after defeating Sequoian Martin de Gasparette (Le Cycle Super) in a close sprint. Keszarian Kárdas Nyíregyházi (NDM Cycling) and Ceribian Sergo Gvarjaladze (Bagdati) were third and fourth, respectively.
Stage 7 - Leroy to Mount Barre | Mountain stage - 195 km
Baagh Cycling did show much interest -or confidence- to keep the red jersey. Instead, several of their riders tried to join the early breakaway. In any case, Hira Sabanis, who had led the general classification for three days -becoming the first Svarnan rider to officially do so- lost any chances to keep it a fourth day as he lost contact of the main group before the last climb.
United Strathae and Mordvelo, with eventual cooperation from Télecon team, worked hard to end the changes of a successful breakaway. However, at the first kilometres at Mount Barre, the last climb of the day, Nylander Zachariah Nordfeldt (Vançotte) surprised with a solitary attack. He did not find much opposition.
Several kilometres, later Dyrheimer climber Roman Herzogenrath (Télecon) attacked the main group, which was then reduced to eleven riders, with the champion and runner-up of the previous seasons -Adwestene Eden Weatherhead and Kyrzbekistani Almas Cingur- surprisingly struggling to keep the pace imposed by Mordvanian Walentyn Lauterpacht (Mordvelo).
Herzogenrath successfully reached Nordfeldt, and easily win the stage against the visibly fatigated Nylander rider. As a consequence, he took the mountain jersey as well.
Thirty seconds later, Batavian rider Jaap Frisch (BataVelo) came third, followed by Mordvanian Zeljko Bratansek (Mordvelo). Mordvanians Marcus Gucevicius (Iskra) and Walentyn Lauterpacht (Mordvelo), Strathaen Sechnall MacCeallaig (United Strathae) and Ceribian Pharnavaz Undiladze (Bagdati) arrived ten seconds later.
Gehennan Max Pappenheim (Dido-GDC) arrived fifty-six seconds after Herzogenrath, enough to become the new leader of the general classification. Herzogenrath climbed to the second position, only thirty-four seconds behind Pappenheim. Zachariah Nordfeldt was third, at one minute and thirty-four seconds, wtih Mordvanian Zeljko Bratansek at one minute and thirty-seven seconds. Batavian Jaap Frisch completed the top-5, at nearby two minutes behind Herzogenrath.
Stage 8 - Chevrolet to La Pointe | Mountain stage - 169 km
Max Pappenheim, the new red jersey, found himself along in the next stage. At first, Télecon took the responsability to avoid any breakaway during the first 80 kms, but it was later Mordvelo team, along some cooperation from Magram Team, who took the lead of the main group.
Roman Herzogenroth certainly paid the effort of the exhibition of the previous day, and he was unable to follow the main group. Soon, at the beginning of the last climb, the main group was reduced to eight riders: Nylander Blaise Brunschvicq (Télecon), Ceribian Pharnavaz Undiladze (Bagdati), Keszarian Adam Sandor (Magram), Strathaen Tuathal Seoras (United Strathae), Mordvanians Zeljko Bratansek, Walentyn Lauterpacht, and Maksymilian Zakrzewsky (Mordvelo), and Nentsian Viktar Husevich (Nenergo).
Shortly before the last riders from the breakaway were about to be caught, Bratansek attacked, eight kilometres before the finish, without finding opposition. The last kilometres proved fatal for Pappenheim, who would have lost six minutes and therefore much of his chances for the Tour.
Bratansek won the stage to take both the mountain and the general classification jersey. Ceribian Pharnavaz Undiladze (Bagdati), who arrived almost a minute behind Bratansek, was second in the general classification, at two minutes and twenty-eight seconds. Undiladze, in his second Tour de Valland, also had now a comfortable lead on the Young classification.