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Eden Grace Weatherhead wins 1594 Ceribian Tour
By Richard W. Wallace
Published: Nueva 25, 1594


Weatherhead successfully defended the title, despite his disappointment in the recent Tour de Valland


Etora, Ceribia - Eden Grace Weatherhead won his second Ceribian Tour, two months after failing to win his fifth Tour de Valland.

Weatherhead (Tyrus-Empire), 31, who had won the Ceribian Tour the previous season, in which he won the Grand Double (that is, winning both the Tour de Valland and Ceribian Tour the same season), consolidated his victory in the long individual time-trial on stage 13. Although he lost the golden jersey on stage 15, after which Batavian Jaap Frisch (BataVelo) took the leadership, he recovered it in the second-to-last high mountain stage, in which Frisch lost all options to the podium after losing more than five minutes, and he was able to defend his leadership from Almas Cingur to win his sixth Grand Tour since 1590.

Kyrzbekistani climber Almas Cingur (KyrzAir), the winner of the last Tour de Valland, was second at one minute and one second, in his seventh podium in a Grand Tour, winning as well the Mountain classification again. Nentsian Viktar Husevich (Nenergo) was third at five minutes and thirty-four, after outplacing Kazemuran Ryouichi Takenaka (Le Cycle Super) by only a second. The Ceribian rider in the general classification was Mukhran Chavchavadze (Magram) who was fifth at five minutes and forty-one seconds, while Jaap Frisch ended sixth at six minutes and seventeen seconds. Mordvanian Maksymilian Zakrzewsky (Iskra), who ended eighth, won the Youth classification.

Sven-Ole Wieth (Scholden-Gulcron) won the last stage in Etora, which was decided in a mass sprint without incidences. It was the fourth individual stage for Wieth, who seems living a second youth at age 39. However, the Points classification was won by Batavian Frederik de Jong (Anzcell), who also won four stages. Both seemed without a serious rival in the sprint for the coming 1594 World Championship Road Race in Slovograd, Mordvania.