UAE Team Emirates rider Diego Ulissi obtained his 47th career victory on stage 3 of the Tour of Austria | Partners | Belarus News | Belarusian news | Belarus today | news in Belarus | Minsk news | BELTA
VIENNA, 9 July (BelTA — Emirates News Agency) — Diego Ulissi obtained
his 47th career victory on stage 3 of the Tour of Austria, Schladming-St
Johann Alpendorf (153,1 km).
On the short but pretty steep final
hill (2,5 km at 6,5%), the UAE Team Emirates rider displayed his skills
that allowed him to precede Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) and
teammate Felix Grossschartner (3rd), after a two-rider breakaway had
been neutralized at 2 km to the arrival.
Thanks to the victory,
Ulissi became the new leader of the GC with 1” on Sheffield: he will
wear the leader jersey in stage 4, St. Johann Alpendorf-Kals, 151,7 km
with the HC climb of Fuscher Torl (17,5 km at 8,8%) in in the middle of
the course.
Ulissi said: “I’m very happy with this win. It wasn’t
originally even on my program to be here in Austria but I’ve been
training really well these past weeks and knew my condition was good.
Today was a finish that suited my characteristics and thanks to the help
of my teammates , in particular Felix and Jan we managed to pull of the
win. We’ll aim to take the yellow jersey home in the team over the
remaining stages.”
