With a underdog-win the tour of Flanders comes to an end. Alberto Bettiol jumps out of the Rest of the field in the decisive Moment of it, and makes for a huge Surprise.
The Italian professional cyclist Alberto Bettiol has the 103. Edition of the tour of Flanders and won in order for one of the biggest Surprises in the long history of the spring classic. The 25-year-old heavy underdogs from the Team EF Education First-Drapac was on the Sunday after 270,1 km between Antwerp and Oudenaarde in 6:19:00 hours, with 14 seconds of advantage on the Danes Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-Quick Step).
“I can’t believe what I’ve done. I’ve just closed their eyes and attacked,” said Bettiol, had attacked 30 km before the finish and his first professional victory at all celebrated. Behind Bettiol and Asgreen the favourites, Alexander Kristoff from Norway (UAE Emirates Team) and the Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel (Corendon-Circus) landed on place three and four.
The best German Nils Politt (Katusha-Alpecin) was on a very strong fifth place. “I’m just happy. In between, I had not believed in it, the legs were totally empty,” said the 25-Year-old. Classics specialist John Degenkolb (Trek-Segafredo) came as a 29. to the finish.
asz/sw (sid)