Paul Double (Jayco-AIUla) resisted a dangerous late attack by Victor Lafay (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) to win the overall classification of the Tour of Guangxi on Sunday, with Paul Magnier (Soudal-QuickStep) scorching to a remarkable full house of five bunch sprint wins out of a possible five on the 2025 WorldTour’s final day of racing.
Timing his move perfectly with a late blast up the right-hand side of the barriers, Magnier crossed the line just ahead of Stanislaw Aniolkowski (Cofidis) and Paul Penhoet (Groupama-FDJ)
Second on GC in the final WorldTour race of the season was Lafay, 15 seconds back. Showing notable season-long consistency, Jhonatan Narváez (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) – the winner of the first event of the series, the Santos Tour Down Under back in January – came home in third, 16 seconds behind.
How it unfolded
Multiple attacks early on created a lively opening half of the stage, raced over five long laps round the southern city of Nanning and even briefly a split in the peloton with 75 kilometres to go, although race leader Double was not caught out and remained safely in the front group. A five-rider group did carve its way clear, though, containing New Zealand’s Reuben Thompson (Lotto), Arkéa-B&B Hotels duo Ewen Costiou, Léandre Lozouet, Nans Peter (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) – set to retire after the race – and fellow-Frenchman Clément Davy (Groupama-FDJ). Thompson at 1:16 overall was the most dangerous threat to Double, but the gap never really rose over 80 seconds, meaning the Briton’s lead was not really challenged.
EF Education-Easy Post were the most keen of the major squads to keep the five ahead under control, squeezing the gap to 45 seconds on the third last of…
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