Carlos Alberto Gomez wins the fifth stage of the Tour of Belgium 2012
Carlos Alberto Gomez of Team Acqua & Sapone wins the fifth stage of the Tour of Belgium 2012.
The cyclist rode brilliantly during the 208.5 kilometre race and restricted the race favourites during the Belgian race.
Kevin Pauwels of Team Sunweb-Revor finished 2 seconds behind at the second spot while Sergey Firsanov of Team RusVelo and Philippe Gilbert of Team BMC occupied the third and the fourth positions in the respective order.
Lieuwe Westra of Team Vacansoleil-DCM, Bert De Waele of Team Landbouwkrediet-Euphony and Tony Martin of Team Omega Pharma-Quickstep achieved the fifth, the sixth and the seventh positions in the respective order.
Carlos Barredo Llamazales of Team Rabobank and Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez of Team Acqua & Sapone wins the first and the second sprints of the race.
While commenting on the stage victory, Gomez told Sporza.be, “I knew the day would be tough with all those hills”.
“The team worked hard but when Barredo was gone and I was along, I was lucky enough to get a little help from my friend Griepel. That's what friends are for”.
Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez of Team Acqua & Sapone, Pieter Serry of Team Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator and Egidijus Juodvalkis of Team Landbouwkrediet-Euphony were the top three young riders on the day.
Tony Martin jumps to the top overall position after the stage 5 classifications after his seven place finish at the race.
"The whole stage was pretty hard, like expected,” Martin mentioned.
“The profile, I think it was 16 climbs, really hard climbs from the Ardennes Classics, so we knew it would be a hard stage. But we really had a strong team here”.
The German is now leading the category with a healthy lead of 43 seconds over the second place finish Lieuwe Westra of Team Vacansoleil-DCM.
Carlos Barredo of Team Rabobank, Sergey Firsanov of Team RusVelo and Andriy Grivko of Team Astana finished at the third, the fourth and the fifth positions in the respective order.
Team Rusvelo, Team Katusha, Team BMC, Team Vacansoleil-DCM and Team Landbouwkrediet achieved the first, the second, the third, the fourth and the fifth positions in the respective order.
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