2022 Tour de Suisse – Stage Five – Highlights

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In yet again high temperatures, the riders set off on the 190 km long route between Ambri and Novazzano. The final 75 km presented some short but steep climbs before the final uphill to the finish. Early on, the peloton let a five-man breakaway go and the lead soon stretched to over seven minutes.

After the last of the escapees was caught about 15km from the line, there were several attacks on the final round of the Pedrinate climb and the peloton was reduced to about 15 riders, including Bora-Hansgrohe’s Aleks Vlasov, Maximilian Schachmann, Felix Großschartner and Sergio Higuita. Max and Aleks were particularly active and tried to counter the attacks from this group. In the end, the duo managed to make it into a reduced leading group, which ultimately decided the victory among themselves.

About 500m before the finish Max launched his sprint, but wasn’t able to get away and so then rode the lead-out for Aleks. Managing to sprint past Fuglsang and win the stage in Novazano, he also took the yellow jersey of the race leader.

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