Muscat Classic: Rick Pluimers sprints to first skilled victory

Rick Pluimers gave Tudor Pro Cycling their third victory of the 2025 early-season, profitable the Muscat Classic one-day race in Oman with a perfectly-timed dash end.

Australians Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Chris Harper (Jayco AlUla) obtained away on the late, steep Al Jissah climb however had been caught in sight of the road by a 30-rider chase group.

Pluimers adopted the wheels on the rising end after which kicked in sight of the road to safe his first skilled win.

Jenthe Biermans (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) was second within the dash, with Henok Mulubrhan and Diego Ulissi third and fourth as XDS-Astana raced to attain as many UCI rating factors as attainable.

Tudor Pro Cycling are hoping to safe wild card invites to the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and different main races and have proven their credentials with three victories even earlier than crew chief Julian Alaphilippe makes his debut of their black and crimson colors.

Their different key rider Marc Hirschi gained the Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana and Florian Stork additionally took his first professional win on the races of the Mallorca Challenge.

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