Van Avermaet has won this season’s Tour de Yorkshire as Stephane Rossetto grabs final stage victory in Leeds.
The last seconds of Tour de Yorkshire’s final stage saw BMC’s Van Avermaet cracking Astana’s Magnus Cort to take the overall classification.
Today’s 189km stage included several steep climbs with Rossetto giving his best and leading the break most of the time while headed towards the final kilometers in an impressive solo ride while the Tour de Yorkshire winner Van Avermaet sprinted to take second place, 34 seconds behind Rossetto.
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Brief final stage Results
Stephane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 4:53:22
Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:00:34
Ian Bibby (GBr) JLT Condor
Edward Dunbar (Irl) Aqua Blue Sport
Eduard Prades Reverter (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
Anthony Perez (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Direct Energie
Serge Pauwels (Bel) Dimension Data
Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Katusha-Alpecin
Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb
A message to the fans who have lined the race over the last four days:
You make the Tour de Yorkshire. Thank you.
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