Stans (Austria), 16 April 2024 – La stage 2the longest of Tour of the Alps 2024leads the group from Salorno to Stans After 190.7km: it’s time to celebrate Alessandro De Marchithe escape specialist who reaps the most afterwards 158km in advance and after liquidating Patrick Gamper And Simon Pellaud on the climb of Gnadenwald. All unchanged however in the general ranking, with Tobias Foss still leader: the points ranking instead smiles precisely at theBuja red‘, who returns to victory afterwards 3 years of waiting and the burning mockery of the stage of Naples of the Giro d’Italia 2023. There stage 3the Schwaz-Schwazit will be long 124.8 km and will propose to the caravan 2 GPM second category, to be repeated in the final stretch.
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The group surprisingly leaves without it David Bais (Team Polti Kometa), while there is at the start Atsushi Oka (JCL Team Ukyo), who crossed the finishing line first Laives before Kyrylo Tsarenko (Corratec-Vini Fantini) e Mattia Bais (Team Polti Kometa). Shortly after the transition to Bolzano the good fugue is finally formed: I am the one composing it Patrick Gamper (Bora-Hansgrohe), Atsushi Oka, Yuma Koishi (JCL Team Ukyo), Simon Pellaud (Tudor Pro Cycling Team), Lukas Postlberger (Team Austria) e Alessandro De Marchi (Team Jayco AlUla), behind which another group of counterattackers forms which is instead immediately taken up by the group. The flying finish line of Vipiteno rewards Pellaudthat comes before De Marchi And Koishi: follows the long climb of Brenner (13.4km with average slope of 3.2%), which immediately reaps in Okay a victim before Postlberger you imitate him, while he is the first to go down the hill Gamper. The Austrian sprints and takes advantage and approaches the climb alone Gnadenwald (4.5km with an average slope of 7.3% and maximum of 14%). After a km of climb De Marchi And Pellaud they reach Gamperwho is in difficulty: the blue rider remains alone in the lead and takes off towards a victory expected for 3 yearsin addition to also conquering the top of the points classification, while the general classification remains unchanged, with Gamper And Pellaud to complete the podium.
Order of arrival stage 2 Tour of the Alps 2024
1) Alessandro De Marchi (JAY) in 4h47’37” 2) Patrick Gamper (BOH) +1’20” 3) Simon Pellaud (TUD) +1’24” 4) Gregor Muhlberger (MOV) +1′ 47” 5) Joan Bou Company (EUS) +1’47” 6) Fabio Felline (LTK) +1’47” 7) Antonio Tiberi (TBV) +1’47” 8) Wouter Poels (TBV) +1’47” 9) Tom Donnenwirth (DAT) +1’47” 10) Romain Bardet (DFP) +1’47”
Tour of the Alps 2024 general ranking
1) Tobias Foss (IGD) in 8h06’20” 2) Chris Haper (JAY) +4” 3) Jhoan Esteban Chaves Rubio (EFE) +6” 4) Ben O’Connor (DAT) +10” 5) Antonio Tiberi (TBV) +13” 6) Wouter Poels (TBV) +13” 7) Romain Bardet (DFP) +13” 8) Geraint Thomas (IGD) +13” 9) Amanuel Gebreigzabhier (LTK ) +13” 10) Valentin Paret-Peintre (DAT) +13”
