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Leuggern - Leuggern, 173.8 km
Thibau Nys wins the 2023 edition.
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The race: Here's the report from winner Thibau Nys' Team Lidl-Trek.
Less than two weeks after claiming his first professional win on the road, Thibau Nys tasted glory again at the GP des Kantons Aargau, a one-day race in Switzerland. The parcours matched Nys’ punchy sprint perfectly with seven laps of a hilly circuit on the menu. Despite this, Trek-Segafredo, perhaps underestimated, was able to save their energies when other teams chased the early breakaway. Instead, the team led by Nys stayed close to the front, avoiding danger but out of the wind.
When Fischer-Black (UAE) attacked on the penultimate lap, Trek-Segafredo used their strength in numbers to reel him in and set up Nys for the sprint. The young Belgian was perfectly delivered to the front of the peloton by Filippo Baroncini, a rider on the up after a difficult spring. With 200 meters to go, Nys launched his sprint, with no one able to match his punch on the drag to the line.
The winner’s words
“It’s unbelievable. If you had told me before the season I wouldn’t have believed you. I’m fully aware that it will go with ups and downs in the future but I can only enjoy from the moments we have right now. I’m really grateful for the opportunities that the Team gave me and I’m happy to finish it off already for the second time this year. It’s like living on a cloud and I hope I can keep it going.
“We had a really strong team with different options in the final. Quinn didn’t have the day he hoped for but on another day he could have done a strong attack in the last lap. Also Baro (Filippo Baroncini) had the opportunity. We came with a plan that could have gone a lot of different ways, but in the end I felt really good and I told the Team I would try to survive over the last climb and that if it came to a sprint and they placed me in a good position then I had a good chance of winning. I felt really confident going into the sprint. I told Baro to go third or fourth into the last corner and then sprint all out, and then I could finish it off. It was like something out of a book, everything went perfectly in the last kilometer. Also, Tony did a perfect job to get us in the best position in the last 500 meters. Baro launched the sprint and with 200 to go I was in the wheel and already felt like I would win. It feels amazing!”
Complete Results:
173.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.343 km/hr
1 | Thibau Nys | Lidl-Trek | 4hr 18min 29sec |
2 | Marc Hirschi | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
3 | Pello Bilbao | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
4 | Marco Haller | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
5 | Alexander Kamp | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
6 | Filippo Baroncini | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
7 | Benoît Cosnefroy | AG2R Citroën Team | s.t. |
8 | Felix Engelhardt | Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
9 | Jesus Herrada | Cofidis | s.t. |
10 | Elie Gesbert | Team Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
11 | Pascal Eenkhoorn | Lotto Dstny | s.t. |
12 | Andrii Ponomar | Team Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
13 | Lorenzo Rota | Intermarché-Circus-Wanty | s.t. |
14 | Damien Howson | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
15 | Lilian Calmejane | Intermarché-Circus-Wanty | @ 4sec |
16 | Sylvain Moniquet | Lotto Dstny | s.t. |
17 | Colin Stüssi | Team Vorarlberg | s.t. |
18 | Gino Mäder | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
19 | George Bennett | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
20 | Max Schachmann | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
21 | Welay Berhe | Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
22 | Sebastien Reichenbach | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | 0:09 |
23 | Victor Lafay | Cofidis | s.t. |
24 | Simon Pellaud | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
25 | Antonio Tiberi | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
26 | Jaakko Hänninen | AG2R Citroën Team | 0:12 |
27 | Lucas Eriksson | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
28 | Lennert Van Eetvelt | Lotto Dstny | s.t. |
29 | Tony Gallopin | Lidl-Trek | 0:25 |
30 | Nico Denz | BORA-hansgrohe | 0:43 |
31 | Matteo Fabbro | BORA-hansgrohe | 1:06 |
32 | Ion Izagirre | Cofidis | 1:23 |
33 | Fabio Christen | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | 2:22 |
34 | Riccardo Zoidl | Felbermayr Simplon Wels | s.t. |
35 | Matteo Badilatti | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
36 | Mathis Le Berre | Team Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
37 | Nikias Arndt | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
38 | Asbjørn Hellemose | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
39 | Luc Wirtgen | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
40 | Dion Smith | Intermarché-Circus-Wanty | s.t. |
41 | Mark Donovan | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
42 | Biniam Girmay | Intermarché-Circus-Wanty | s.t. |
43 | Clément Venturini | AG2R Citroën Team | 2:25 |
44 | Finn Fisher-Black | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
45 | Ide Schelling | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
46 | Valentin Ferron | TotalEnergies | s.t. |
47 | Sergio Higuita | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
48 | Gianluca Brambilla | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
49 | Alessandro Verre | Team Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
50 | Nils Brun | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | 5:08 |
51 | Lukas Meiler | Team Vorarlberg | s.t. |
52 | Michael Vink | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
53 | Jacopo Mosca | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
54 | Daniel Oss | TotalEnergies | s.t. |
55 | Mauro Schmid | Switzerland | 5:22 |
56 | Callum Scotson | Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
57 | Lorenzo Quartucci | Corratec Selle Italia | 6:33 |
58 | Michael Schär | AG2R Citroën Team | s.t. |
59 | Andrea Vendrame | AG2R Citroën Team | 6:34 |
60 | Cian Uijtdebroeks | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
61 | Arnaud Tissieres | Switzerland | 8:08 |
62 | Roberto Gonzalez | MG.K VIS Colors for Peace-VPM | s.t. |
63 | Davide Baldaccini | Corratec Selle Italia | s.t. |
64 | Jan Maas | Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
65 | Sjoerd Bax | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
66 | Jannis Peter | P&S Benotti | s.t. |
67 | Quinn Simmons | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
68 | Filip Maciejuk | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
69 | Julien Bernard | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
70 | Valentin Retailleau | AG2R Citroën Team | s.t. |
71 | Michael Kukrle | Felbermayr Simplon Wels | s.t. |
72 | Rui Costa | Intermarché-Circus-Wanty | s.t. |
73 | Emanuel Zangerle | Felbermayr Simplon Wels | 8:10 |
74 | Johannes Adamietz | Lotto Dstny | 8:15 |
75 | Fabian Lienhard | Switzerland | 12:20 |
76 | Hugo Toumire | Cofidis | s.t. |
77 | Emilien Jeannière | TotalEnergies | s.t. |
78 | Rémy Rochas | Cofidis | s.t. |
79 | Fran Miholjevic | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
80 | Paul Ourselin | TotalEnergies | s.t. |
81 | Paul Lapeira | AG2R Citroën Team | s.t. |
82 | Louis Barré | Team Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
83 | Ewen Costiou | Team Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
84 | Dominik Röber | P&S Benotti | s.t. |
85 | Andreas Kron | Lotto Dstny | s.t. |
86 | Michael Schwarzmann | Lotto Dstny | s.t. |
87 | Manuel Bosch | Felbermayr Simplon Wels | 14:57 |
88 | Marco Murgano | Corratec Selle Italia | s.t. |
89 | Corey Davis | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | 16:26 |
90 | Christoph Janssen | Switzerland | s.t. |
91 | Carlos Samudio | MG.K VIS Colors for Peace-VPM | s.t. |
92 | Nick Bangert | P&S Benotti | 18:06 |
93 | Jakob Schmidt | P&S Benotti | s.t. |
94 | Felix Stehli | Switzerland | s.t. |
95 | Lukas Rüegg | Team Vorarlberg | s.t. |
96 | Oscar Cabedo | Team Vorarlberg | s.t. |
97 | Simone Petilli | Intermarché-Circus-Wanty | s.t. |
98 | Aloïs Charrin | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
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