Romania’s Eduard Michael Grosu of Nippo-Vini Fantini became the fifth different stage winner in six days of racing at the Tour of Taihu Lake, following the 2015 edition in which Jakub Mareczko won seven stages out of nine plus the overall classification.
The Willier-Southeast sprinter finished third in the bunch gallop in Haimen behind Grosu and Germany’s Tino Thömel and retained the green jersey, while Cameron Bayly from Attaque Gusto remained in the orange leader’s jersey.
“In theory I was helping out [Nicolas] Marini as I did in the previous days," Grosu reacted. “I didn’t want to take too many risks. Since Marini was going well, I didn’t have to sprint myself. My job was to stick behind him.
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"But today, in the last curve a gap was created and our guys were a bit behind. At 100 metres to go, Marini went. Then I realized his speed was going down so I decided to sprint as well and we managed to win. This is a great satisfaction after all the problems I had in the past two years, including glandular fever. I dedicate this victory to my sport director Stefano Giuliani who kept his faith in me.”
On wide, straight and flat roads, only one right-hand turn 600 metres before the finishing line disturbed the sprinters' plans. Mareczko admitted he made a mistake at that point, although his Willier-Southeast team had done the job to deliver another bunch kick.
The Italian outfit rode behind the breakaway of the day formed of Genki Yamamoto (Nippo-Vini Fantini), Ben Hill (Attaque Gusto), Altanzul Altansukh (Ningxia Sport), Darcy Ellerm-Norton (St-George-Merida), Ondrej Vendolsky (Dukla Praha) and Ma Guangtong (Wisdom-Hengxiang). In the last ten kilometers, Muradjan Halmuratov (Beijing Innova) went for his now daily one-man show until he was reeled in prior to the inevitable bunch sprint finish.
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via Cyclingnews Latest Race Results http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-of-taihu-lake-2016/stage-5/results
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