Jordan Sarrou (Workforce BMC) claimed a hard-fought victory within the males’s cross nation in Snowshoe, out-sprinting Nino Schurter (Scott-SRAM) after a brutally quick final lap.
Marcel Guerrini (BIXS Efficiency) took third forward of Mathias Flückiger (Thomus Maxon) and Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers).
Flat tyres punctuated the boys’s cross nation race in Snowshoe, with Tom Pidcock struggling a entrance puncture not lengthy after he bridged as much as the leaders on lap 4.
On lap 5, Luca Schwarzbauer (Canyon CLLCTV), after main for nearly your entire race, was off the entrance with Sarrou when he suffered a rear puncture that took a very long time for the mechanics to vary.
In the meantime, Pidcock stopped once more on the tech zone to get a special entrance wheel and got down to make his approach throughout to the chasing group behind the German.
With two laps to race, Pidcock made it as much as Schwarzbauer and began powering his approach towards the main teams because the chase closed in on Sarrou.
On the bell, Pidcock had 17 seconds to make up. He sailed previous Martins Blums (KMC) into fifth as Marcel Guerrini (BIXS Efficiency) was within the lead with Sarrou and Schurter.
The world champion solely had Mathias Flückiger (Thömus Maxon) in between him and the three leaders however ran out in fact.
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