Russian Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe) earned victory in the fifth round of the Tour of Switzerland by beating German Max Schachmann in a very slow sprint over Novazzano, which also allowed him to head the round with three days left. .
The fifth stage of the Tour of Switzerland, between Ambri and Novazzano, which is 193 km, was marked, initially, by the abandonment en bloc of Jumbo Visma and the British Adam Yates, all affected by the coronavirus, although in case of the Dutch team He did not want to reveal the identity of those affected as positive.
The race started very fast and shortly after starting to shoot, Johan Jacobs (Movistar), Alexander Kamp (Trek-Segafredo), Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix), Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) and Claudio Imhof (Switzerland) left.
That group of five runners had a 7:30 advantage that was reduced over kilometers until, with 70 more, Imhoff and Jacobs were relegated because they could no longer keep up with the others.
The leader, British Stephen Williams (Bahrain-Victorious), suffered from the peloton to maintain speed and, with fifty kilometers to travel, seemed to have exhausted his options to maintain first place in the classification.
El Pedrinate, in the third category, was the main barrier on the stage, with 2.4 kilometers and a gradient of 8.2%. It was also the point where Turgis gave up in the breakaway, leaving Kamp in the lead and Dillier, who was soon left alone.
Dillier struggled to be alone. Remco Evenepoel (Quick Ste) followed until the breakaway ended 14.5 kilometers from the finish line. However, the Belgian cyclist did not hold back the lead before the push shown by several cyclists, including Danish Jakob Fuglsang, who tried to start another breakaway that resulted in a short time.
The final victory was disputed by the British Geraint Thomas (Ineos), the Russian Aleksandr Vlasov, the German Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), the American Neilson Powles and Fulgsang himself. Everyone suspected each other until Schachmann launched an attack 300 meters away that was only resisted by Vlasov, who showed more energy than others to claim victory.
With this victory, Vlasov leads the overall classification with a six -second lead over Fuglsang and a seven -second lead over Geraint Thomas. Colombian Sergio Andrés Higuita was sixth with 16 seconds.
Source: La Verdad

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