Outclassed by Jakub Mareczko in the first two stages dedicated to the sprinters, Nicolas Marini of Nippo-Vini Fantini took revenge himself by beating his younger Italian rival from Wilier-Southeast at the end of a very long sprint in Wujiang.
Thanks to finishing third Franco-Colombian Leonardo Duque of Delko Marseille-Provence-KTM grabbed four bonus seconds that enabled him to move up into the top in the overall classification. Now third at sixteen seconds, he has become a threat to race leader Cameron Bayly of Attaque Gusto who enjoyed his first day in the orange jersey of the Tour of Taihu Lake.
“Today my team again did a great job but unfortunately my lead out man Riccardo Stacchiotti had a puncture with three kilometres to go”, Marini explained.
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“At that point I put myself on Mareczko’s wheel. I passed him before the line and the good legs I’ve had these days allowed me to stay ahead of him. With this victory, I’ve paid the team back. A stage win was the goal. Now I can look for more but without any pressure.”
This was Marini’s third win of the year, all collected in China, coming after stage 8 of the Tour of Qinghai Lake and stage 5 of the Tour of China I. In his second year as a professional, he has a fully Asian palmares with stage one of the Tour of Japan and the overall classification of the Tour of China II plus four stages last year. The 23-year old Italian is aiming for more in the future as he has already extended his contract with Nippo-Vini Fantini.
It looked like Mareczko was going to win again as he smartly chose the right side of the road for sprinting whereas the wind was blowing from the left, thus forcing Marini to a more difficult task.
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