Winner of the early season Tour of the Med in 2014, Stephen Cummings showed he has good form in 2015 beating Valverde to win the second race in the Challenge Mallorca
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News – win for Stephen Cummings in Mallorca
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Stephen Cummings (Qhubeka) beat race favorite Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) to the victory on a mountain top finish.
Nine riders took off from the get-go of today’s 149 kilometre long and mountainous second race of the Mallorca Challenge called Trofeo Andratx-Mirador d’Es Colomer. As the terrain started to rise, three riders including the 2014 Tour of Britain winner Van Baarle jumped on the pedals and quickly distanced the rest of the group. The others were Johann van Zyl (Team MTN-Qhubeka), and Jose Goncalves (Caja-Rural).
Reaching the upper slopes of the climb to Puig Major with 30 kilometres to go, the lead of the front trio was under a minute to the chasing peloton but they fought relentlessly to stay clear. At the foot of the three kilometre long uphill finish, the front trio were swept up by the sharp end of what was left of the peloton fighting for that valuable first victory of 2015.
Under the one kilometre banner, a group of 20 riders were fighting it out but as the climb went on, gaps were opening between riders and Steve Cummings got clear of Valverde and held a slender lead all the way to the line for another victory for the rider from the Wirral.
“I’m really happy with today’s victory. I knew I had done a lot of good work over the winter so I’d like to thank the team for the amazing work they did and chance they gave me to focus on today’s race. I was able to come back to the front right near the end and snatch the victory, so I’m really happy with the result.â€
VIDEO
Triunfo de Steve Cummings en el Trofeo Andratx-Mirador d’es Colomer (2015) from Ciclismo en Mallorca on Vimeo.
1. CUMMINGS, Stephen GBR MTN – Qhubeka 3:56:30
2. Valverde, Alejandro ESP MOVISTAR TEAM
3. Davide ITA CANNONDALE – GARMIN
4. Mollema, Bauke NED TREK FACTORY
5. KONIG Leopold CZE TEAM SKY
6. INTXAUSTI, Benat ESP MOVISTAR TEAM
7. Siutsou, Kanstantsin BLR TEAM SKY
8. VISCONTI, Giovanni ITA MOVISTAR TEAM
9. BOSWELL, Ian USA TEAM SKY
10. WELLENS Tim BEL LOTTO-SOUDAL
19. Deignan, Philip IRL TEAM SKY1
24. SWIFT, Ben GBR TEAM SKY @ 1:14
30. GREIPEL 38th, André GER LOTTO-SOUDAL @ 3:54
97. MARTIN, Daniel IRL CANNONDALE – GARMIN @ 13:41
110. CANCELLARA, Fabian SUI TREK FACTORY @ 14:02
129. DOULL, Owain GBR @ 17:14
142. BURTON, Germain GBR @ 25:29
143. DIBBEN, Jonathan GBR @ 25:29
144. STEWART, Mark GBR @ 25:29
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