Germany Tour: Stuyven saves overall victory with three seconds ahead

Belgian cyclist Jasper Stuyven from Team Trek-Segafredo has won the second edition of the new Germany Tour. The 27-year-old claimed a narrow margin of three seconds over the Italian Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain-Merida) on the fourth and final stage over 159.5 kilometers from Eisenach to Erfurt, who won the final section at the Erfurt fair in the sprint ,

The balance of the German professional cyclists was mixed. Although won the Sprinter Pascal Ackermann, who struck the final section by the Thuringian Forest struck prematurely, the first leg to Halberstadt. In the overall standings, Tour de France discovery Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-hansgrohe) and Simon Geschke (CCC Team) ranked as best German ranks just outside the top ten.

For a better overall result Buchmann and Geschke lacked the sprint speed to seconds out against classic specialists like Stuyven. Geschke was the tenth best German of the final stage.