Ryder Hesjedal to lead Team Garmin-Sharp at the last World Tour race of the season, the Tour of Beijing 2013
After having an outstanding Giro d’Italia 2012, Ryder Hesjedal is all set to lead Team Garmin-Sharp at the last World Tour race of the season, the Tour of Beijing 2012.
He will be accompanied by Dan Martin and the duo will focus the overall victories at the race while Heinrich Haussler will target the stages victories at the race.
"Some of the riders that are here, that shows they are hoping that there is some selection in the GC on some days and that will shape the race for the overall," Hesjedal said.
"We have Dan Martin and myself who can be there on the hilly selective days so we’ll see if we can be part of that”.
"On the days for the sprinters we’ll be looking to set up Heinrich, so I definitely think the team is suited to whatever the race has for us."
The Canadian rode brilliantly in the current season and the biggest victory of his 2012 season came during the Giro d’ Italia 2012.
He was superb throughout the three-week race and succeeded during the team’s time trial stage 4 of the Giro.
Hesjedal finished second during the stage 19 and third during the 17th stage of the Giro along with an overall victory at the first Grand Tour race of the season.
He became the first Canadian in the history of the sport to bag an overall victory at any of the three Grand Tour races of the season.
Ryder took a total time of 91 hours, 39 minutes and 2 seconds to secure the biggest win of his professional career and restricted Joaquim Rodriguez and Thomas De Gendt at the second and the third positions.
Tour of Beijing is of high importance for all the cycling teams interested in improving their UCI World Tour rankings as it gives the cyclists and the team’s one last opportunity to enhance their UCI rankings.
Winner of the race is awarded with a 100 UCI points while the second and the third positions receive 80 and 70 points respectively.
Final Team Garmin-Sharp squad for the Tour of Beijing includes: Ryder Hesjedal (Can), Thomas Dekker (Ned), Alex Howes (USA), Christophe LeMevel (Fra), Johan Vansummeren (Bel) and Fabian Wegmann (Ger).
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