photo credits @ Tour of Croatia
Mark Cavendish (Team Dimension Data) claimed the second stage on Tour of Croatia today, in another sprint finale, which saw the British rider beat Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek-Segafredo), following a perfect lead-out by his teammate Mark Renshaw.
Race Highlights
After 30 kilometers of racing, a six-rider breakaway group containing Lukasz Bodnar (Verva Active Jet Pro Cycling), Nicola Boem (Bardiani CSF), Kevin De Mesmaeker (Team Novo Nordisk), Joshua Hunt (One Pro Cycling), Aviv Yechezkel (Cycling Academy Team) and Johannes Shinnagel (Team Felbermayr Simplon Wels), got underway.
From there, the escapees went on to establish a maximum advantage of around 5 minutes over the peloton.
However, heavy winds continued to plague the breakaway group, wearing them down to where they were eventually reeled in during the final 30 kilometers.
Boem made a subsequent attempt to ride clear again, but the Bardiani CSF rider was quickly reeled back in by the peloton.
Matej Mugerli (Synergy Baku Cycling Project) was the next rider to animate things, with a solo attack 3 kilometers from the finish. But, just as his predecessor, he too was quickly reclaimed by the peloton.
Heading into the final 2 roundabouts, Renshaw did a superb job of delivery Cavendish into position. And, despite some last aggressions from Nizzolo, the Manx Missile succeeded in nixing his rival on the line, to seize the stage honors.
Top 20 Finishers
1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data 5:32:56 2 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 3 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data 4 Michal Kolár (Svk) Tinkoff Team 5 Andrea Guardini (Ita) Astana Pro Team 6 Roman Maikin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 7 Nicola Ruffoni (Ita) Bardiani CSF 8 Ivan Savitskiy (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 9 Timothy Dupont (Bel) Veranda’s Willems Cycling Team 10 Karol Domagalski (Pol) ONE Pro Cycling 11 Ioannis Tamouridis (Gre) Synergy Baku Cycling Project 12 Artur Ershov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 13 Matteo Pelucchi (Ita) IAM Cycling 14 Maciej Paterski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 15 Pawel Franczak (Pol) Verva ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team 16 Jure Miskulin (Slo) Radenska – Ljubljana 17 Marco Benfatto (Ita) Androni Giocattoli – Sidermec 18 Elia Favilli (Ita) Meridiana Kamen Team 19 Gasper Katrasnik (Slo) Adria Mobil 20 Rok Korosec (Slo) Radenska – Ljubljana
General classification after stage 2
1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data 11:00:27 2 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 3 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data 0:00:10 4 Timothy Dupont (Bel) Veranda’s Willems Cycling Team 0:00:12 5 Nicola Ruffoni (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:00:13 6 Alexey Kurbatov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:00:15 7 Andrea Guardini (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:00:16 8 Ioannis Tamouridis (Gre) Synergy Baku Cycling Project 9 Pawel Franczak (Pol) Verva ActiveJet Pro Cycling Team 10 Matteo Pelucchi (Ita) IAM Cycling 11 Jure Miskulin (Slo) Radenska – Ljubljana 12 Coen Vermeltfoort (Ned) Continental Team Join-S de Rijke 13 Roman Maikin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 14 Maciej Paterski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 15 Elia Favilli (Ita) Meridiana Kamen Team 16 Rok Korosec (Slo) Radenska – Ljubljana 17 Michele Viola (Ita) Meridiana Kamen Team 18 Marco Benfatto (Ita) Androni Giocattoli – Sidermec 19 Maksym Averin (Aze) Synergy Baku Cycling Project 20 Artur Ershov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
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