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Stephen Newgreaves wins 1584 Ceribian Tour
By Richard W. Wallace
Published: Nueva 25, 1584


Stephen Newgreaves, winner of the 51th Ceribian Tour.


Etora, Ceribia - Richard Malone (Dido-Dreher) continued his dictatorship in the flat stages, winning his 6th stage this Ceribian Tour. He also won the Points classification for fifth time, becoming in the first rider to win the Points classification of a Grand Tour a ninth time in a row.

It was a calm day for the leader of the General classification, Stephen Newgreaves (New Galeae), who becomes in the first Florinthian cyclist to win a Grand Tour. Although he had won the Ceribian Tour's Youth classification in 1580, his late seasons were rather disappointed. However, he proved to have matured this year in the high mountain stages, and was able to resist the attacks of his main rivals in the last high mountain stages, only losing barely more than twenty seconds to Dominique Ruyssen.

Ruyssen (Télecon Team) was second, fourty-four seconds behind Newgreaves, being runner-up of the Ceribian Tour again. The Vallish all-rounder showed his best version one year more in Ceribia, after a disappointing Tour de Valland, but it was unable to defeat his Florinthian rival.

Third was the 1584 Tour de Valland champion Strathaen Kelly R. McCullain, who kept his options to the last day, but the 33-year climber clearly paid the efforts of the Tour barely two months ago. The best Ceribian was again Tamaz Chkheidze, who won a mountain stage but could only be 10th, winning for second and last time the Youth classification by merely a few seconds over Hippolyte La Chappelle (who was 4th in the last Tour de Valland, but served as a domestique for Ruyssen in Ceribia) and Soren Syndergaard (Scholden-Gulcron).

The Mountain classification was won by Oslanburgan climber Jonathan Geissler (ZMG-Nissen), who won a Grand Tour individual stage for first time in his career as well.