Czech Vaszek is the champion of the "Expo 2020 Dubai" tour in the Emirates Tour (photos)

  • Part of the coronation ceremonies in the circumambulation today.

    Photography: Osama Abu Ghanem

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Czech Matias Vasek, the Gazprom rider, won the sixth stage of the "Expo 2020 Dubai" tour of the Emirates Tour, the only global race in the Middle East, on the International Cycling Union's calendar, which spanned a distance of 180 km.

Vashik came in first place with a time of 3:58:10 hours, the youngest cyclist to win the stages of the fourth edition of the Emirates Tour so far, while French Paul Lapera, cyclist of the "AG Citroen" team, came in second place, and Russian Dmitriy Strakhov, cyclist of the Gazprom team, came in second place. In third place.

At the end of the sixth stage, the Slovenian Tade Bogchar (Emirates Team) managed to retain the overall lead and the red shirt sponsored by the International Holding Company for the leader in the circumnavigation in time, four seconds ahead of the Italian Filippo Gana (Inios), and Russian Alexander Vlasov came in third place, 14 seconds behind Bogacher. And fourth, Britain's Adam Yates (Enos), 17 seconds behind, and the American Nelson Paulis, the AF Adduction team rider, in fifth place, and the Portuguese Joao Almeida, the UAE team rider, in sixth place.

Gasper Philipsen retained the green jersey under the auspices of the Italian Trade Agency, for the sixth consecutive stage, to lead the Tour with points, and approached the crown with the jersey after raising his score to 76 points, and Russian Dmitriy Strakhov (Gazprom) ranked second with 69 points, and Tadi Bogachar in third place with 34 points. .


 Tadi Bogachar retained the white shirt, sponsored by Nakheel, with a time of 22:18:02 hours, 30 seconds ahead of his colleague Joao Almeida and 49 seconds from the Norwegian Andreas Liknesund, the DSM team rider.

Russian Dmitriy Strakhov (Gazprom) won the black shirt, sponsored by Abu Dhabi Aviation, with 57 points, 35 points ahead of his colleague Pavel Khushitkov, who finished second, and Italy's Alessandro Tonelli came third with 19 points.

Tomorrow, the tour concludes with the seventh and final stage, the “Mubadala stage” - the national partner, for a distance of 148 km. It is the second most difficult stage of the race and is considered a classic mountain stage, and it witnesses a great challenge among cyclists to climb the summit of Jebel Hafeet, which is located at an altitude of 1025 meters above sea level, and with inclinations during a track The race reaches a rate of 10% and an average gradient of 5.4%. During the last stage, the race passes through the most prominent landmarks of Al Ain, such as the Emirates University, Qasr Al Muwaiji, Zoo, Al Qattara, Al Hili, Green Mubazzarah, all the way to the top of Jebel Hafeet.

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