Jurgen Roelandts wins the final stage of the Skoda-Tour De Luxembourg 2012
Jurgen Roelandts of Team Lotto Belisol wins the final stage of the Skoda-Tour De Luxembourg 2012 after his tremendous performance during the event.
He crossed the finish line in a quickest time of 2 hours, 39 minutes and 58 seconds and occupied the top podium spot.
Ben Swift and Davide Appollonio of Team Sky Procycling, Kristof Goddaert of Team AG2R La Mondiale, Wouter Poels of Team Vacansoleil-DCM and Lauren De Vreese of Team Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator occupied the next four positions.
Jurgen Roelandts of Team Lotto Belisol, Ben Swift of Team Sky Procycling, Kristof Goddaert of Team AG2R La Mondiale and Wouter Poels of Team Vacansoleil-DCM achieved the top four positions with 20,16,13, 11 and 9 points in the respective order.
Jurgen Roelandts of Team Lotto Belisol succeeded during the first, the second and the third mountain of the race.
Roelandts started his professional career with Team Silence-Lotto in 2008 after representing the amateur sides, Team Jong Vlaanderen (2004) and Team Bodysol-Win for Life-Jong Vlaanderen (2005-07).
The Belgian has helped the team with numerous victories over the past five years.
He struggled during the early part of 2012 season but his tremendous victory at the 153.3 kilometre race.
Jakob Fuglsang of Team RadioShack-Nissan managed to continue his overall dominance and occupied the first overall spot after the final general classifications.
“Especially after the difficult spring I had with bad luck and injuries. It’s nice to make a comeback like this,” Fuglsang cited.
“It was the right decision for me to not start the Giro d’Italia and give my knee more time to heal. Now I have this victory and I am very, very happy”.
“The team was riding very strong and I have to thank them”.
Wouter Poels finished 2 seconds behind at the second position with Frank Schleck, Jonathan Hivert and Tom Dumoulin finishing at the third, the fourth and the fifth positions respectively.
Top ten cyclists after the final stage are as under,
1
Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Lotto Belisol Team
2:39:58
2
Ben Swift (GBr) Sky Procycling
0:00:25
3
Davide Appollonio (Ita) Sky Procycling
4
Kristof Goddaert (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale
5
Wouter Poels (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
6
Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator
7
Koen De Kort (Ned) Argos-Shimano
8
Eliot Lietaer (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator
9
Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet-Euphony
10
Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Radioshack-Nissan
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