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The in-form Maxim Van Gils (Lotto-Dstny) sped to his second win of the season at Eschborn-Frankfurt, sprinting to the win on the finish of the 210km race from a enormously lowered peloton.
The Belgian popped up late within the dash end, hitting the wind on the final second to edge out Alex Aranburu (Movistar) and Riley Sheehan (Israel-Premier Tech) to take the victory.
Van Gils was the one Lotto-Dstny man among the many 28-man lead group which reached Frankfurt, browsing wheels within the remaining kilometre earlier than working his strategy to the entrance on the closing straight within the slipstream of Kevin Vermaerke (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) after which Aranburu.
In the closing 100 metres of the race, he rounded fourth-placed neo-pro Lukas Nerurkar (EF Education-EasyPost) and one other neo-pro in Sheehan earlier than edging out Aranburu, on paper the quickest finisher among the many high contenders.
The outcome marks Van Gils’ fourth skilled victory and his first at WorldTour stage. He’s loved a really constant spring marketing campaign thus far, ending third at Strade Bianche and La Flèche Wallonne, plus fourth at Liège-Bastogne-Liège and seventh at Milan-San Remo.
“It’s my final race of an already unimaginable spring. To end with a WorldTour victory is an absolute dream,” Van Gils mentioned after the end.
“My feeling was not tremendous good in the present day, however the group made the race exhausting to drop the sprinters. This gave me confidence after which I simply needed to survive the final steep climb of Mammolshain after which simply keep within the wheels and attempt to recuperate and deal with my dash. Just earlier than the road it opened, and I completed it off.
“It’s actually loopy, all the things went excellent this season, I’m driving on a very excessive stage so I actually take pleasure in it.
“Today I win a dash and some days again I used to be good within the Ardennes in climbing races and I already gained a time trial this yr. It’s loopy.”
Van Gils, who additionally gained the lowered one-day model of the Vuelta a Andalucía in late March, concluded by saying that he’ll now flip his consideration to the summer season and the Tour de France, which he’ll put together for with an look on the Tour de Suisse subsequent month.
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