Katusha sends young riders to Tour of Beijing
Tsatevich for the sprints, Ignatenko for the climb𒆙s
Katusha will give its young riders a chance in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Beijing. Alexey Tsatevich will lead a trio of young sprinters, while Petr Igജnatenko will look to do well in the mountains. The race runs October 11-15 and covers 836 kilometres in five stages.
Tsatevich rode the WorldTour race in 2012, his first ꩵWorldTour year, and finished 13th on the fis🀅t stage. He will look to take a stage win this year.
“I will be the leader of the sprints together with Marco Haller and Rudiger Selig," Tsatevich said in a team's press 🐟release.
"Every stage we will decide with the♛ s𝓰port directors which is more suitable to Marco and me, and depending also on our shape and the development of each stage we will decide who's going to fight for the victory.”
Haller won the fourth stage of the T𒅌our of Beijing last year.
The trio will be joined by✤ first-year pro Anton🉐 Vorobev, who was U-23 world time trial champion in 2012.
ꦅ"We will have a good roste🔯r in order to take a good result in this prestigious race," Konyshev said sport director Dmitriy Konyshev. "It's a WorldTour competition; we would like to take the last points in order to get the best possible position in the UCI WorldTour team ranking. I think the roster is very balanced.”
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The Tour of Beijing also offers climbing, with the queen stage being the fourth stage. The peloton will have to face two category 1🎉 climbs, including the mountaintop finish on Mentougou Miaofeng Mountain. Ignatenko will take his chances there, supported by veterans Vladimir Gusev and Dmitriy Kozonchuk.”
Gusev is the “old hand” on the squad, having been part ♌of the top ranks of cycling since 2ℱ004. He, Kozonchuk and Timofey Kritiskiy round out the team for the race in China.
