Jakub Mareczko (Southeast) broke Yuriy Metlushenko’s record of five stage wins at the Tour of Taihu Lake when he took his the sixth victory in Yanguan Old Town in Zhejiang province.
On a wet day, Tomas Vaitkus, a former teammate of Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador, claimed second place while Turkish rider Ahmet Örken crossed the line in third place once again.
“Because of the rainy conditions right from the start today, we remained at the front of the peloton in order to not taking any risk and ensuring there was a sprint like the other days”, Mareczko explained. “We kind of misunderstood the time gap to the breakaway. It hasn’t been easy to bridge the five minutes.”
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Martin Laas (Marseille 13-KTM), Vojtech Hacecky and Nicolas Pietrula (Dukla Praha), Wu Lok Chun (Hong Kong) and Martijn Verschoor (Novo Nordisk) combined their efforts to form the dangerous break.
Laas -the Estonian recruit of the French team upgraded to the Professional Continental ranks for next year, forged on after the last intermediate sprint with 37km to go. He was eventually rejoined by Merijn Korevaar (Rabobank) and Francisco Mancebo (Skydive Dubai). The latter showed his fighting spirit once again despite serious pain in his left shoulder after he crashed during the conclusive stage of the Tour of Hainan that cost him the fourth place overall.
Laas, Mancebo and Korevaar were caught with four kilometers to go, just after Ma Guangtong had a flat tyre. Four of his teammates from Hengxiang waited for him but he didn’t make it back to the peloton so the red jersey of best placed rider from Greater China went to his companion Zhao Jingbiao who had won stage 4 but got relegated and penalized for taking a hand sling with Wang Meiyin.
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