Marius Mayrhofer sprints to victory at Cadel Evans Nice Ocean Highway Race

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Marius Mayrhofer (Staff DSM) has received the Cadel Evans Nice Ocean Highway Race, taking his first professional victory by outsprinting Hugo Web page (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) and Simon Clarke (Israel-Premier Tech) within the dash of a lowered peloton that caught late attackers Sven-Erik Bystrøm (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) and Mauro Schmid (Soudal Fast Step) on the ultimate kilometre.

The 4 ascents of Challambra Crescent broke up the race a number of instances, however not one of the assaults might achieve a big hole, and issues got here again collectively on the ending circuit. On the ultimate lap, a peloton of about 75 riders entered the climb collectively, however Bystrøm received a spot on the steepest half and was chased by Schmid on the descent. The 2 joined forces on Melville Avenue, however the peloton reeled them in 350 metres from the road. Luke Plapp (Ineos Grenadiers) led out the dash, and Mayrhofer sped previous with 100 metres to go to win.

“I’ve been dreaming of this victory for thus lengthy, I nonetheless can’t consider what occurred. This implies every part to me. The final race I received was within the juniors, and I turned a bicycle owner as a result of I wished to win races. In the entire U23 I wasn’t capable of win, and now I lastly take my first win, it means every part to me, every part,” Mayrhofer was in disbelief at his personal success.

“My workforce did an superior job the entire day, they protected me, I used to be within the entrance each time on Challambra, so I saved numerous power. They lined the strikes so I might keep within the bunch and simply save power the entire day. There’s this little downhill earlier than the end the place I simply constructed up pace, and with 400 metres to go, I believed ‘now it’s victory or nothing’ and simply went,” the 22-year-old German thanked his teammates.

“That is such an amazing victory for us, we had been using so exhausting within the Tour Down Beneath however didn’t get the end result we wished. This complete Australia journey was such an amazing expertise for me, such a pleasant nation, to complete it off with a win right now is unbelievable. Because of my complete workforce, the employees and everybody did an amazing job, they actually deserved to have a win now,” Mayrhofer completed.

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