1597 Tour de Valland

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Stage 17 | Mountain stage - 146 km

For first time this Tour, Batavian Jaap Frisch showed weakness in the last high mountain stage. Nevertheless, he did not lose the calm and was able to reduce the loss to his main rival, Svarnan climber Rahul Bhattacharya, to only forty seconds.

The stage was won by Dyrheimer Roman Herzogenrath (Télecon) who left behind Adwestene champion Eden Grace Weatherhead (Scholden-Gulcron), Ceribian Pharnavaz Undiladze (Bagdati), Jose Cardoso (AHN-Bank of Florinthus), Nylander Zacharian Nordfeldt (NDM), and Eskkyan Amaury Servan.

Weatherhead, who finished second in the stage, reduced his distance in the general classification three minutes to the leader, at three minutes and twenty-eight seconds, only four seconds behind Goldecian Jack Marshall (Ogo Cycling) who kept the third place in the podium.

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Stage 18 | Flat stage - 209 km

Goldecian Adi Shulman (Ogo Cycling) won his first stage in a Grand Tour, after defeating Ceribian Sergo Gvarjaladze (Bagdati) and Nylander Chester Stenbeck (Anzcell) in the mass sprint.

There were not changes in the general classification, as the peloton took the stage rather calmly before the final individual time-trial, and despite the increase of the speed by sprinter teams to end the day breakaway, they arrived twenty-six minutes later than scheduled.

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Stage 19 | ITT - 54 km

Before the start of the 1597 Tour de Valland, the long individual time-trial was expected to be decisive. However, Jaap Frisch's victory seemed to have already been decided on Stage 17: Frisch was one minute and eighteen seconds ahead of Rahul Bhattacharya, and the Svarnan had not exactly an impressive record against the clock.

The Svarnan climber was rather more concerned about keeping a place in the final podium, as Goldecian Jack Marshall (Ogo Cycling) and Eden Grace Weatherhead (Scholden-Gulcron) were barely only two minutes behind them in the general classification.

Nylander Jacob Schuyler (BataVelo) won the stage, giving his team their fourth stage this Tour de Valland, after the three mountain stages won by their leader during the Tour.

Weatherhead was the best of the favourites in the ITT, ending third only nine seconds behind Schuyler. It was not a more complicated time-trial for Frisch than expected, as he suffered a puncture at the beginning of the stage and would end losing more than two minutes to Weatherhead. His result in the ITT allowed Weatherhead to end in the Tour de Valland podium for ninth time in a row -five of those as winner-, finishing second at fifty-seven seconds.

Svarnan Rahul Bhattacharya did a better time-trial that most were expecting, and he was able to at least easily secure a third place in the podium, finishing in the general classification two minutes and eighteen seconds behid Frisch.

The loser of the day was Goldecian Jack Marshall (Ogo) as he lost his place in podium, ending fourth at four minutes and forteen seconds.

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Stage 20 | Flat stage - 138 km

In the final stage in Lauren, Antoine Duchesnay (NDM) made history in the Tour de Valland, winning his ninth individual stage in the same season, and breaking also the record of points in the Points classification, after defeating Michael Ahlgren (Anzcell) and Galeaen Melker Rausing (Yetech-Druzhberg) in the mass sprint.

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