Frank van den Broek gained stage 6 of the Tour of Turkey on the 14km Spil Dağı climb, giving Dsm-firmenich PostNL their fourth stage win of the race and van den Broek the race lead.
The 23-year-old Dutch rider sat behind Paul Double (Polti Kometa) because the British rider led within the ultimate two kilometres and closed down later attacker Merhawi Kudus (Terengganu Biking Staff). Double then pale in sight of the end line and van den Broek surged to the road to carry off Kudus.
Due to time bonuses, van den Broek additionally took the general race lead, 4 seconds forward of Kudus and 9 seconds forward of Double, with simply two flat phases to race till the end in Istanbul on Saturday.
5 riders fashioned the early break of the 160.1km stage, with Negasi Haylu Abreha (Q36.5) the final to be caught as his teammate Filippo Conca attacked and joined him with ten kilometres to climb.
Conca was then joined by Samuele Zoccarato (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè) however Harold Lopez (Astana Qazaqstan) quickly jumped throughout and surged then surged away.
Merhawi Kudus (Terengganu Biking Staff) attacked from the diminished entrance group to catch and move Lopez on the steepest part of the climb. Britain’s Paul Double (Polti Kometa) led the chase throughout with Frank van den Broek (Dsm-firmenich PostNL) however generously rode on the entrance, permitting van den Broek to have his effort for the end.
Van den Broek is a WorldTour neo-pro however earned his place in Dsm-firmenich PostNL’s squad by successful a stage on the 2023 Tour of Qinghai Lake and spectacular rides in different races, together with victory within the Ronde de l’Oise stage race in France.
“We’ve already gained three phases and now a fourth, it’s wonderful,” van den Broek mentioned.
“I didn’t anticipate to win however the workforce put plenty of belief in me, they did plenty of work at first of the stage and Julius van den Berg did plenty of work on the entrance of the peloton, in order that gave me plenty of confidence. I’m very glad to win.”
He was assured of his probabilities after surviving the ten% part of the climb and staying with Double as he chased down Kudus.
I knew I had an opportunity to win once we went over the steepest a part of the climb. It was a form of flat-run-in and I knew I had an OK dash,” Van den Broek mentioned.
“The following two days are once more an enormous likelihood for us with Fabio Jakobsen and our dash practice.
“It ought to hopefully be fairly simple for me to carry onto the chief’s jersey. I simply want to complete in the primary bunch. I additionally suppose I may even assist with the leadouts. We’ll see.”
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