Marco Brenner (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) received the elite males’s highway race on the German Championships in Bad Dürrheim after dropping breakaway companion Florian Lipowtiz (Bora-Hansgrohe) on the ultimate climb with 7km remaining.
The pair had been a part of a five-man transfer that cast clear after simply 20km of racing. Brenner and Lipowitz rid themselves of their fellow escapees with 35km remaining, they usually duelled on the ultimate lap of the course, with the Tudor rider rising victorious.
Lipowitz was using his first race since his promising Grand Tour debut on the Giro d’Italia was reduce quick by sickness. The 23-year-old took the silver medal, 55 seconds down on Brenner, whereas Kim Heiduk (Ineos) claimed bronze at 2:35, simply forward of Ben Zwiehoff (Bora-Hansgrohe). Tim Torn Teutenberg (Lidl-Trek), the remaining member of the decisive early break, took fifth place, with the subsequent chasing group coming in virtually 5 minutes down.
Brenner, Lipowitz, Zwiehoff, Heiduk and Teutenberg shortly established a lead of two minutes within the break. With two riders out in entrance, Bora-Hansgrohe had been content material to regulate affairs within the peloton.
Former champion Nils Politt (UAE Team Emirates) was energetic in attempting to bridge throughout, however he was unable to make a lot leeway with Bora-Hansgrohe marking him tightly, and it was obvious from a good distance out that the break would go the gap.
Brenner seemed the strongman within the early transfer, and he marked Lipowitz’s assault with 35km to go earlier than dropping the Bora man within the run-in. Already a nationwide champion as a junior, the 21-year-old’s victory right here was one other indication of his appreciable potential.
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