Prologue winner Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) led the bunch dash throughout the road in Heilbronn and gained the primary highway stage of the Deutschland Tour. Jordi Meeus (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) secured second forward of Max Kanter (Astana Qazaqstan), in third, and Alexander Kristoff (Uno-X Mobility) in fourth.
Milan prolonged his GC lead with the victory, now 9 seconds forward of Meeus and 11 seconds forward of Lidl-Trek teammate Mads Pedersen. Meeus took the factors classification lead.
The early breakaway didn’t escape till after the primary intermediate dash, the race having entered Bavaria with 100km to go, and the three German riders constructed a lead of over 2 minutes – Anton Lennemann (Bike Aid) and Lotto Kern-Haus PSD Bank teammates Nick Bangert and Ben Felix Jochum
Bangert had a particular curiosity within the end, as he was the one rider within the peloton headed house, Heilbronn being his hometown. He attacked from the breakaway with 29km to go, headed to the final climb of the day, Jägerhaus (1.5km à 8%), however he couldn’t maintain off the WorldTour groups and his journey light with 15km to go.
From there a number of assaults ensued and Lidl-Trek reeled all of them again to arrange the ultimate dash for Milan.
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