Well, if this isn’t the best cobbles field you have ever seen then I don’t know.
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Spoiler
Karnulin
Denys
Gazelle
Sosnitskiy
Anatoliy
Gazelle
Zmorka
Marlen
Los Pollos Hermanos
Gladysh
Roman
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Topchanyuk
Artem
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Budyak
Anatoliy
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Golovash
Oleksandr
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Lutsyshyn
Roman
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Orlov
Andriy
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Dzhus
Volodymyr
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Prevar
Oleksandr
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Padun
Mark
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Bratashcuk
Andrii
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
Krasnoperov
Mikayil
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Incredible scenes here - because the pros just aren’t that good on cobbles, a ton of amateurs hold on through the first three cobbles sectors. Will the final one be decisive?
Zmorka pushes the pace and threatens to break away, the pack stretching behind him. Lutsyshyn, Topchanyuk, Karnulin and Sosnitskiy are closest.
Zmorka exits the cobbles with some 20 seconds on exactly those four guys. If they catch him, Lutsyshyn should have this in the bag with his strong sprint, but the man up front is one of the best time trialists in the world …
Lutsyshyn was actually the work horse in this group but couldn’t close the gap, now Sosnitskiy attacks followed by Topchanyuk, while Zmorka starts to sprint already as well.
Lutsyshyn is done and so is Sosnitskiy, it’s Karnulin in Topchanyuk’s slipstream now. 15 seconds for Zmorka …
They come closer …
But it’s too late! Zmorka wins the title!
Result
1
Marlen Zmorka
Los Pollos Hermanos
1h11'13
2
Artem Topchanyuk
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
s.t.
3
Denys Karnulin
Gazelle
s.t.
4
Anatoliy Sosnitskiy
Gazelle
s.t.
5
Roman Lutsyshyn
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
+ 44
6
Anatoliy Budyak
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
+ 1'06
7
Andriy Orlov
Popo4ever 2
s.t.
8
Mark Padun
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
+ 4'01
9
Oleksandr Golovash
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
+ 4'46
10
Volodymyr Dzhus
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
s.t.
11
Oleksandr Prevar
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
+ 7'35
12
Andrii Bratashcuk
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
+ 12'00
Mikayil Krasnoperov
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OTL
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Ukrainian Championships - ITT
We’ve got a really close battle on our hands here ,,, no, let’s not kid ourselves. Zmorka is highly likely to win the double here.
In the fight for bronze, Karnulin beats Krasnoperov.
Golovash is very impressive today, he beats Karnulin by more than 3 minutes and his time of 1h03’34 would have been enough for the title in many countries.
Unfortunately for him, this country still has Zmorka, who bests him by a solid 53 seconds.