The bunch in the Tour of Turkey today; looks like a hot one over there….
Some of Ireland’s professional riders continued with their international stage race commitments today, with Matt Brammeier and Dan Martin in the Tour de Romandie, Philip Deignan in the Tour of Turkey and David McCann and Martyn Irvine in the Tour of Korea.
Tour of Korea
David McCann remains third on GC at the Tour of Korea after he and his RTS Racing team mate Martyn Irvine both finished in the bunch on today’s 147km run into Gumi.
McCann is nine seconds off the lead of Korean rider Chan Jae Chang (Terengganu). The Korean was in the winning breakaway with McCann on stage 2 and won Tuesday’s third stage. In second on GC is American and stage 1 winner Alexander Candelario (Team Optum).
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Irvine, who is making his road return after his long Olympic qualification track campaign, is back in 110th place.
There are three stages remaining. Tomorrow’s 164km leg to Yeoungju has one KOM just after the midway point.
Tour de Romandie
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On today’s second road stage of the Tour de Romandie – a 149km run into Moutier with three climbs; a third cat and two second cats – Dan Martin (Garmin Barracuda) kept himself out of trouble ahead of Saturday’s stage in the mountains.
He finished in the 99-rider bunch that arrived at the uphill finish in tact, with Jonathan Hivert (Saur-Sojasun) taking the stage and Sky’s Bradley Wiggins maintaining his GC lead.
Irish champion Matt Brammeier – who is returning to racing after being sidelined with bronchitis – found today more challenging, coming home in a group seven minutes down.
Martin is now 38th on GC, 23 seconds down on Wiggins. Brammeier is 140th, 14:59 down. Tomorrow’s 157km stage into Charmey looks pretty testing; with two third cat climbs and one second cat thrown into a very lumpy route.
Presidential Tour of Turkey
Philip Deignan (Unitedhealthcare) is the sole Irish participant at the Tour of Turkey. He finished in the main bunch today, in 60th place, after the main escape of the day made it all the way to the finish.
Andrea Di Corrado (Colnago-CSF) took the stage after attacking his breakaway companions.
Deignan is now 24th overall, 5:08 down on GC leader Ivailo Gabrovski (Konya Torku). The race finishes in Istanbul on Sunday with tomorrow’s stage a 179km run into tourist hotspot Kusadasi; with just one second cat climb along the way after 53km.
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