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Pharnavaz Undiladze wins 1598 Tour de Valland
By Pia Chamberlain
Published: Zechyr, 1598


The Ceribian climber won his second Grand Tour.


Lauren, Valland - Ceribian Pharnavaz Undiladze (Bagdati) won the 1598 Tour de Valland.

The 25-year old Ceribian climber took the red jersey on stage 17, and increasing his lead on the general classification in the two final high mountain stages.

Undiladze becomes the second Ceribian rider to win the Tour de Valland, after Malkhaz Alasania, who had won in 1555.

Undiladze also won Youth classification for second time, as he had already won it in 1596, when he finished runner-up. Undiladze had won the Ceribian Tour last year.

Soyabarian climber Ulrick Vandenhof (Télecon), who finished second as well in the last Tour of West Brigidna, was second at three minutes and nineteen seconds.

Nerysian Jarik Nytar (BataVelo) was third at three minutes and thirty-three seconds. For first time in ten years, Adwestene champion Eden Grace Weatherhead (Scholden-Gulcron) won't be in the final podium in Lauren, as he finished fourth at three minutes and fifty-three seconds.

Nerysian Godomor Guur (MTS-Biassoni), who finished ninth, won the Mountain classification.

Vallish sprinter Antoine Duchesnay (NDM) was again the rider with most individual stages wins this Tour de Valland, with three stages, but the Points classification went to Nylander Michael Ahlgren (Anzcell).