Jhonatan Restrepo, new leader of the Tour of Rwanda

Jonathan Restrepo and the Italian De Marchi, on stage 11.

The rider from Caldense stayed with the second stage. See the video of his final sprint.

Colombian cyclist Jhonatan Restrepo won the final sprint of the third stage of the Tour of Rwanda. With his victory, the man from the Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli climbed to first place in the general classification. It is his sixth stage victory in the history of the Tour.

Stage win and leadership

For Restrepo, the third time was the charm. In the prologue he took second place and was third in the first stage. This time he raised his arms as he was the fastest of the seven runners who competed for glory by speed, with a time of 3h 54min 10s, at an average of 39.9 km / h on the day’s mountainous route. .

The day’s breakaway was successful and 7 were chosen to dispute the victory and the yellow jersey, since the former leader, the Frenchman Geniez, did not get involved in the adventure. Ángel Madrazo did, who started with Restrepo, the Frenchman Laurance, the Eritreans Tesfazion and Mulueberhan, the Irishman Ewart and the Ukrainian Budiak.

The septet opened a gap and made the pursuit of a first group useless, which showed up in the border city of Rubavu, a step away from the Congo, 1.17 minutes from the head of the race.

The beetle will defend the lead this Wednesday in the third stage that will be played between Kigali and Gicumbiof 124.3 km, a mountain day with 5 ports, the last of them a third that leads to the finish line after an ascent of 5.4 km at 4.4 percent.

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