In a massive sprint, Jordi Meeus was the fastest to win the 6th stage of the Tour de Switzerland in front of Davide Ballerini and Lewis Askey. Not worried, Kévin Vauquelin keeps the general leader’s yellow jersey.
Jordi Meeus did not let the opportunity pass.
On a tour of Switzerland in the route unfavorable to sprinters, the runner of the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team was able to be the fastest to seek his second victory of the season in the streets of Neuhausen Am Rheinfall. With the ascent of Wildhaus (9km at 6.8% on average) placed after just over 40 kilometers of racing, the backpackers multiplied attempts to slip into the breakaway.
More The skirmish managed to isolate himself from the peloton was formed by four runners including the former carrier of the yellow jersey of leader Romain Grégoire And his teammate within the Groupama-FDJ team Stefan Küng. If Harry Sweeny and Mauro Schmid took their wheel, Matej Mohoric came out in a second step. However, the former winner of Milan-Sanremo saw his against turning in hunting buttocks completed after eight kilometers.
The Slovenian thus found a peloton led by the Visma-Lease A Bike team.
Lapeira has been shown
Dutch training tried to control the margin of the breakaway for a massive sprint in the last straight line.
Which did not prevent Paul Lapeira from trying to show his jersey of French champion one last timeHe who will put him into play on June 29 at the Herbiers. The runner of the Decathlon-Ag2r La Mondiale team took with one him ten other runners including Quinn Simmons, winner of the 3rd stage this Tuesday, or Alberto Bettiol. But the peloton was not determined to let such a group go. Thomas Glag then tried to rally the head quartet alone, without success.
From there, the scenario of this stage was known with the breakaway which could never take more than three minutes of margin on a peloton in control. At just over 110 kilometers from the goal,
A trio composed of Ewen Costiou, Matej Mohoric and Pello Bilbao tried to fill the hole with the breakaway. An attempt that turned out to be in vain very quickly.
Untouchable meeus
Indeed, this counter group was resumed after about thirty kilometers of effort. Feeling that the blow would not go to the end with the gap approaching the minute at the edge of the last 40 kilometers, Romain Grégoire preferred to let Stefan Küng, Harry Sweeny and Mauro Schmid go. A trio that resisted as long as he was able to facing a peloton led by the sprinters teams, being absorbed just over 2000 meters from the line. From there, the trains have been set up and it is that of the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team which was most effective.
Jordi Meeus launched his sprint 250 meters from the goal to prevail very clearly in front of Davide Ballerini and Lewis Askey. Paul Lapeira takes eighth place when Kévin Vauquelin keeps the leader’s leader jersey before a weekend which promises to be full-bodied with a bumpy final this Saturday in Emmeten then the final time trial, which will be disputed on the side this Sunday.
