1600 Tour de Valland

[Hadash]

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Stage 9 | Flat stage - 178 km

The ninth stage was expected to be a transition stage, expectedly ending in a mass sprint. The stage included a small hill, forty kilometres before the finish, although officially the stage was considered a flat stage. Bagdati and BataVelo teams surprised with a quick move after the descend of the hill, which caused the peloton to be divided in several groups.

In the last two kilometre metres, Ceribian Irakli Kapanadze (BataVelo), who was already at that point the virtual new leader of the general classification, surprising other riders in the group and winning the stage.

Mordvanian Rein Warma (Iskra) arrived seven seconds later, as the first of a group of other six riders, which included 1598 Tour de Valland winner Pharnavaz Undiladze (Bagdati), Kyrzbekistani Almas Cingur (KyrzAir), and Max Pappenheim (Scholden-Gulcron).

It was precisely the Gehenna rider who climbed to the second place in the general classification, at one minute and one second behind Kapanadze. The previous leader, Enver Dushku fell to the third place at one minute and thirty-two seconds. Malkhaz Lomidze (Bagdati) was fourth at one minute and thirty-seven seconds, becoming the new leader of the Youth classification, while Sylvestre Richelieu (Télecon), was seven seconds behind the young Ceribian rider.

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Stage 10 | Flat stage - 204 km

There were no surprices on the next stage, which was decided in mass sprint.

Antoine Duchesnay (Télecon) defeated Florinthian Quentin Symonds (Dido-GDC) and Ostlander Johannes Rapp (Scholden-Gulcron) to win the stage and becoming the new leader of the Points classification as well.

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Stage 11 | Mountain stage - 215 km

High mountain returned on the eleventh stage. As he did on stage 8, Keszarian climber Adam Sandor (Velomax) surprised with a far away attack. Although he arrived twenty seconds after the winner of the stage, Mandivine rider Max Rémy (Abbott Cycling), he took the red jersey to become the new leader of the general classification.

The main group, reduced to five riders (Mordvanian Marcus Gucevicius, Soyabarian Ulrick Vandenhof, Nerysian Jarik Nytar, and Ceribians Malkhaz Lomidze and Irakli Maisuradze) arrived more one minute and twenty-seconds after Sandor.

Ceribian Malkhaz Lomidze (Bagdati) was second in the general classification at thirty-two seconds, while Soyabarian Ulrick Vandenhof (Télecon) was third fifty-three minutes.

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Stage 12 | Mountain stage - 101 km

Another mountain stage expected the peloton the next day, the shortest in this Tour.

Roman Herzogenrath (Télecon) surprised with an attack from afar. The 1599 Tour de Valland winner, who was at more than six minutes in the general classification, found no opposition and won the stage.

Forty seconds later arrived the main group, reduced to six riders. Soyabarian Ulrick Vandenhof (Télecon), who arrived in the selected main group along Weatherhead, Undiladze, Kalnins, Zachariah Nordfeldt, and Godomar Guur, was the new leader of the general classification.

Svarnan climber Amrit Amrit Mallaya (Abbott Cycling), who lost almost two minutes, was second at one minute and thirty-one seconds.

Adam Sandor (Velomax) lost the red jersey after losing more than three minutes that day, and he was third at two minutes and forty-seven seconds. Nylander Zachariah Nordfeldt (Luft Wurberg) was fourth at three minutes and seventeen seconds, and Nerysian Jarik Nytar was fifth at three minutes and fifty-six seconds.

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