22-year-old Junior Lecerf has taken a second victory in as many days for Soudal-QuickStep in the Czech Tour, cleverly profiting from all the hard work by Cian Uijtdebroeks (Visma-Lease a Bike) on the final category 1 climb of Dlouhé Straně to snatch a summit finish victory from his fellow Belgian.
In a lead group of three, Uijtdebroeks started the sprint close to 300 metres to go, but Lecerf, having followed the Visma racer’s wheel all the way up the Dlouhé Stráně as he shredded the field, was instantly able to counter.
On the lengthy rolling opening segment of the stage, an eight-rider early break never gained more than an advantage of just over five minutes, and the final survivor, Kyrylo Tsarenko (Solution Tech-Vini Fantini), was reeled in by the Visma-Lease a Bike-led peloton with more than half of the Dlouhé Stráně to go.
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