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Tour of Oman 2018: Miguel Lopez wins fifth stage on Green Mountain

tour of oman stage 5 2018

 

Astana team with the help of Miguel Lopez and Alexey Lutsenko were able to take Green Mountain’s victory at this season’s Tour of Oman event. Colombian climber Lopez took the stage victory while his teammate Lutsenko finished second and took the overall lead of the competition.

 

Since in the beginning of the today’s race, a six-men group was immediately created and continued to stay apart from the rest until the final climb of the route.

 

Even though Vincenzo Nibali was one of the favorites of the stage which clearly favorited climbers, he ended up finishing 1:32 down while Katusha-Alecin Nathan Haas kept his overall spot by finishing in the fifth position at 22 seconds.

 

 

Stage 5 results:

 

Miguel Moreno (COL/Astana) 3hrs, 43min, 58sec

Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ/Astana) same time

Jesus Lopez (ESP/Cofidis) at 12sec

Gorka Insausti (ESP/Bahrain-Merida) 15

Nathan Haas (AUS/Katusha) 22

Peter Stetina (USA/Trek-Segafredo) 25

Daniel Pearson (GBR/Aqua Blue) 33

Dries Devenyns (BEL/Quick-Step) 43

Nicolas Roche (IRL/BMC) 47

Rui Costa (POR/Emirates) 49

 

 

Overall classification:

 

Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ/Astana) 19hrs, 38min, 21sec

Miguel Moreno (COL/Astana) at 11sec

Gorka Insausti (ESP/Bahrain-Merida) 28

Jesus Lopez (ESP/Cofidis) 30

Nathan Haas (AUS/Katusha) 32

Dries Devenyns (BEL/Quick-Step) 1:05

Daniel Garcia (ESP/Cofidis) 1:14

Odd Eiking (NOR/Wanty) 1:24

Merhawi Ghebremedhin (ERI/Dimension Data) 1:29

Rui Costa (POR/Emirates) 1:37

 


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