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Richie Porte wins Tour de Suisse 2018, his biggest title yet!

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Richie Porte has just won this season’s Tour de Suisse grabbing what he’s called his ‘biggest victory’ so far!

 

Yesterday’s final stage of the tour was won by Stefan Küng who was able to clock the fastest time of less than 40 minutes, only 19 seconds ahead of Sunweb’s Søren Kragh Andersen who took second place.

 

It seems BMC Racing squad had a pretty great day after their main man won the event while his teammate Stefan Küng won the final 34.1km stage time trial.

 

Final Stage Results

 

1 Stefan Küng (Swi) BMC Racing Team

2 Søren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb

3 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team

4 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora – Hansgrohe

5 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb

6 Pavel Sivakov (Rus) Team Sky

7 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Mitchelton – Scott

8 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team

9 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb

10 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team

 

Overall classification

 

1 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team

2 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team

3 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team

4 Enric Mas Nicolau (Esp) Quick Step Floors

5 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb

6 Simon Špilak (Slo) Team Katusha – Alpecin

7 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb

8 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNL – Jumbo

9 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates

10 Arthur Vichot (Fra) Groupama – FDJ

 


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