Juan Ayuso c🎃elebrates at finish line as race winner ahead of Romain Gregoire during the 4th Faun-Ardeche Classic 2024(Image credit: Getty Images)
Faun-Ardeche Classics breakaway Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates), Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Romain Gréꦗgoire (Groupama-FDJ) and Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team).(Image credit: Getty Images)
Faun-Ardeche Classics breakaway Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates), Mat꧋tias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Romain Grégoire꧃ (Groupama-FDJ) and Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team).(Image credit: Getty Images)
Faun🎃-Ardeche Classics breakaway Juan Ayuཧso (UAE Team Emirates), Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) and Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team).(Image credit: Getty Images)
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) won the four-man sprint to the l𒆙ine to take th𒈔e victory at the Faun-Ardèche Classic on Saturday.
The Spaniard was part of a late-race breakaway that emerged over the penultimate ascent, Saint-Romain-de-Lerps, and held a slim lead on the chasing field on the run-in🍬 to the finish in Guilherand-Granges.
Romain Gré♏goire (Groupama-FDJ) was the first to launch his sprint, but Ayuso passed him at the finish line to take the win. Grégoire hung on for second while Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) was third and Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) fourth.
The Faun-Ardèche Classic was 16ꦦ8.6km starting at Guilherand-Granges with several large circuits and the finish back at Guilherand-Granges. The challenging route tha🐲t included eight categorised ascents.
An early breakaway included Fredrik Dversnes (Uno-X Mobility), Melvin Crommelin🦩ck (Nice Métropole Côte d'Azur), and Antoine Hue (CIC U N🦹antes Atlantique), who held a two-minute lead at the halfway point of the race.
The breakaway spl♋it apart with 57km to go as Hue was distanced from the leaders, and Dversnes and Crommelinck tried desperately to maintain a slim lead that had been slashed to just 10 seconds after the late-race Val d'Enfer ascent.
Over the ascent of the Saint-Romain-de-Lerps (6.3km a⛦t 7.6%), a new breakaway emerged that included Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates), Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) and Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondi🥂ale Team).
The quartet gained over a minute on the chasing field into the final 7km and with one last climb over the shღort but steep Val d'Enfer (1.5km at 10.6%).
Gall struggled to stay with the leaderꦫs over the last ascent but caught back on along the descent an🍌d run-in to the finish, the four riders still holding a lead of about a minute.
As the quartet raced onto the final stretch, the field h💛ad slashed the gap to just seconds, but it was enough for the four riders to sprint for the win with Ayuso taking the victory.
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