Coming from behind with a tremendous turn of speed, Norwegian Alexander Kristoff stole the win from former world champion Thor Hushovd in Norway today
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Team News – Kristoff’s win caps perfect week in Norway
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Coming from behind with a tremendous turn of speed, Norwegian Alexander Kristoff stole the win from former world champion Thor Hushovd, catching his fellow countryman at the 50m mark and continuing to gain speed all the way through to the finish line. With today’s win, Kristoff becomes the current most winning rider in the world with 13 victories in UCI races, four second-places and 3 third places.
“Thor did a very strong downhill and it was an impressive attack. But I tried to follow him. When I saw that I was catching him, I wasn’t sure if he still had something left to give. I had to dig deep in the last 500 meters to get to him and it wasn’t until 200 meters that I was sure I could”.
“I am happy to win a second stage here in Norway. For me this is my first race since the Tour de France, and I am happy I have this shape for the moment, which is improving every day. I have some ambitions in my next races, for example in Hamburg. Today the team was perfect and I had really great support from my teammates. I want to thank all of the guys because it was a hard race to control it and they did it!- said Alexander Kristoff.
The last day of racing brought a third victory in a row for Katusha Team, with Kristoff taking his second sprint win in three days. Teammate Simon Å pilak took the mountain stage on Saturday, giving the team victories in three of the four stages for the Arctic Race of Norway. Kristoff just missed the overall victory by four seconds to race winner Steven Kruijswijk of Belkin.
“In the last few days we’ve seen that Alexander feels great on the climbs, so today we had only one plan and that was to work for Alex. The entire team worked hard to control the race and to help him. All the guys are in very good condition and we could see it today, when they were really impressive in the race. We passed the climb six times and we saw the downhill, which was quite speedy. We knew Hushovd was a strong specialist of the downhill, so his attack was expected”.
“Alex did not take too many risks on the descent, which is why he came into the final km a little bit behind Hushovd. But he had enough power to pass him at the finish line so it was a very nice victory. We are very happy with our performance here in the Arctic Race. We took 3 victories and a final 2nd place in GC. Katusha did a perfect race” said sports director Dmitry Konyshev.
“With Thor retiring this year, I hope I can be his Norwegian successor” added Kristoff. “He has such good bike handling skills no one could follow him on the downhill. He rode fantastic today”. Kristoff also earned the overall points classification jersey while Å pilak took second in the climbing competition. Team rider Anton Vorobyev received the honor of riding in the Viking jersey after earning the highest fan vote on Saturday for displaying great courage and perseverance on the stage.
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