Cycling news - Nikias Arndt secures stage 5 win at Tour of Poland, Joao Almeida retains overall lead
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Published 13/08/2021 at 18:23 GMT
A tough uphill finish to Friday's stage 5 at Bielsko-Biala in the 2021 Tour of Polnd saw victory for Team DSM's German rider Nikias Arndt secure the win, his first race victory of the year. The overall lead was retained by a two-second margin by Joao Almeida (Deceuninck-QuickStep), ahead of Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious)
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Nikias Arndt (Team DSM) won Friday’s stage 5 of the Tour of Poland with a dramatic uphill finale.
The German rider took his first win of the campaign in a tight finish. Second place went to Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious) and Stefano Oldani (Lotto Soudal), in second and third respectively.
Fourth place went to Joao Almeida (Deceuninck-QuickStep) who was able to keep hold of the general classification lead despite Mohoric’s showing. The 26-year-old Slovenian was able to further narrow the gap with bonus points, to just two seconds. He was able to move ahead of Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) into second overall.
The uphill finish was an exhausting 4 percent climb at Bielsko-Biala, with a couple of crashes complicating matters as the finish line closed in, with Arndt able to leap forward.
Lukasz Owsian (Poland) retains the lead in the mountains classification.
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