Irish international Matt Teggart is still well in contention at Tour d'Eure-et-Loir (2.2) in France despite suffering crashes over the past two days.
The 25-year-old, riding for French elite team Velo Club Villefranche Beaujolais, proved to be one of the strongest riders yesterday on stage 2 over 186km from Courville-sur-Eure to Dreux.
With two finishing circuits at the end of the stage, featuring a short sharp climb, the race blew apart and less than 35 riders remained in the peloton.
Teggart did not get to compete for stage victory as he came down in a crash close to the finish when a rub of wheels in the group took out a small number of riders.
However, Teggart was uninjured and was able to get back on his bike and finish the stage. He was also credited with the same time as the front group as his crash was inside the last 3km.
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The stage was won by Luke Lamperti; the US rider with Trinity Racing proving fastest in the sprint to the line. He claimed victory from Timo Kielich (Alpecin-Fenix Development Team) and Hugo Page (Equipe Continentale Groupama-FDJ).
The opening stage on Friday - 120km from Illiers Combray to Brou - was won by Kim Heiduk (Team Lotto-Kern Haus) in a bunch sprint.
Teggart was 29th going into today's stage and one among 22 riders all equal on time 10 seconds down on overall leader Heiduk. The only other Irish rider in the race is national road race champion Ben Healy, a Trinity Racing team mate of yesterday's stage winner.
Healy, who has suffered a delay to the start of his season due to pandemic-related race cancellations, was 21st, and in the peloton, on stage 1.
On yesterday's stage 2 he was active off the front but lost 15 seconds after helping to position Laperti for the stage victory. Healy was 33rd overall going into the final stage, just 25 seconds off yellow.
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