Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) completed his domination of sprints at the UAE Tour, speeding to stage victory number three in the race’s concluding stage at Abu Dhabi Breakwater.
The Italian was unmatched in the final dash to the line of the 149km stage, which saw the breakaway caught just 2km from the finish. He held off Erlend Blikra (Uno-X Mobility) and Sam Welsford (Ineos Grenadiers) to secure victory in a stage run at a race-record 50.566kph.
“It’s really nice to end this UAE Tour with this victory. Last year was pretty close to this – Merlier anticipated a huge sprint and I wanted to do more or less the same, so I took a bit of experience from last year,” Milan said after his win.
How it unfolded
The seventh and final stage of the 2026 UAE Tour would revert back to a sprint finish after four years of the race concluding atop Jebel Hafeet.
This time around, the peloton would tackle 149km of flat ground between the Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi Breakwater, with two intermediate sprints along the way.
Attacks flew from the start of the stage, including a surprise move by Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) at kilometre zero.
The Belgian’s attack drew out several others, including the fourth-place man on GC, Harold Tejada (XDS-Astana), but race leader Isaac del Toro and his UAE Team Emirates-XRG squad quickly sprang into action to chase the attack down.
Soon afterwards, after 9km of…
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