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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 12-01-2026 08:24
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 [C2] Tour de Luxembourg
Report by kandesbunzler26
| | | | | | | | | | | Stage 1 |  | Luxembourg > Luxembourg | 3,5 KM | | | | | | | | Stage 2 |  | Mondorf-les-Bains > Mamer | 183,1 KM | | | | | | | | Stage 3 |  | Mersch > Luxembourg | 189,6 KM | | | | | | | | Stage 4 | | Mertert > Vianden | 172,1 KM | | | | | | |
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Third | | | | | | | | 2024 | KOROSEC Rok | KORETZKY Clement | GOVEKAR Matevz | | | | | | | | 2012 | GINANNI Francesco | CLAEYS Dimitri | DI MAGGIO Cesare | | | | | | | | 2011 | EFIMKIN Aleksandr | KIRCHEN Kim | VORGANOV Eduard | | | | | | | | 2010 | SCHUMACHER Stefan | KIRCHEN Kim | GILBERT Philippe | | | | | | | | 2008 | WEGMANN Fabian | CADAMURO Simone | PRIAMO Matteo | | | | | | |
| 1 | Rok Korosec | Trans Looney Tunes | 16h51'51 | | | | | | | | 2 | Clement Koretzky | Gjensidige Pro Cycling Team | 15" | | | | | | | | 3 | Matevz Govekar | Trans Looney Tunes | 19" | | | | | | | | 4 | Odd Christian Eiking | Hilcona Racing Team | 29" | | | | | | | | 5 | Federico Olei | Benetton Bimex Cycling | 50" | | | | | | | | 6 | Sven Erik Bystrom | Ethiopian Airlines | 59" | | | | | | | | 7 | Ruben Guerreiro | Team Würth MODYF | + 1'06 | | | | | | | | 8 | Chris Hamilton | Ethiopian Airlines | + 1'08 | | | | | | | | 9 | Kristian Haugaard Jensen | Genii Hyundai N Cycling | + 1'10 | | | | | | | | 10 | Aaron Grosser | Cervelo Test Team | + 1'13 | | | | | | |
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| Last name | First name | Country | Age | FL | HL | ST | SP | AC | PR |  Korosec | Rok | SLO | 32 | 71 | 75 | 74 | 75 | 78 | 71 |  Turgis | Anthony | FRA | 31 | 73 | 79 | 76 | 70 | 77 | 68 |
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| Last name | First name | Country | Age | FL | HL | ST | SP | AC | PR |  Eriksson | Lucas | SWD | 29 | 72 | 79 | 78 | 65 | 76 | 61 |  Rojas | Henry Antonio | NCA | 26 | 68 | 76 | 76 | 67 | 76 | 66 |  Stocek | Matus | SVK | 26 | 71 | 78 | 75 | 70 | 75 | 61 |  Vincent | Leo | FRA | 30 | 70 | 77 | 79 | 67 | 71 | 69 |  Sagan | Peter | SVK | 35 | 68 | 79 | 72 | 69 | 70 | 64 |
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| Last name | First name | Country | Age | FL | HL | ST | SP | AC | PR |  Velasco | Simone | ITA | 30 | 73 | 76 | 75 | 69 | 76 | 62 | | Watson | Calvin | AUS | 32 | 70 | 78 | 76 | 62 | 72 | 67 |  Pibernik | Luka | SLO | 32 | 72 | 76 | 76 | 68 | 74 | 62 | | Gladysh | Roman | UKR | 30 | 72 | 77 | 73 | 71 | 76 | 66 | | Vendrame | Andrea | ITA | 31 | 72 | 76 | 75 | 71 | 75 | 70 |  Masnada | Fausto | ITA | 32 | 71 | 76 | 76 | 63 | 73 | 70 | | Dyrnes | Kristian | NOR | 33 | 67 | 77 | 72 | 64 | 76 | 65 | | Luchshenko | Sergey | KAZ | 31 | 72 | 75 | 77 | 75 | 75 | 65 |
Other leaders
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | FL | HL | ST | SP | AC | PR |  Piganzoli | Davide | ITA | 23 | 66 | 69 | 71 | 64 | 76 | 59 |  Tarvis | Peeter | EST | 32 | 76 | 74 | 74 | 64 | 72 | 61 |  Olei | Federico | SMR | 29 | 69 | 74 | 73 | 75 | 75 | 69 |  Dunne | Conor | IRL | 33 | 65 | 73 | 69 | 61 | 67 | 68 |  Kanepejs | Deins | LAT | 30 | 70 | 77 | 72 | 62 | 71 | 69 |  Mayer | Alexandre | MRI | 27 | 68 | 77 | 65 | 72 | 77 | 71 |  Montenegro | Santiago | ECU | 27 | 69 | 77 | 71 | 64 | 74 | 64 |  Carr | Simon | GBR | 27 | 68 | 77 | 74 | 59 | 72 | 58 |  Verschaeve | Viktor | BEL | 27 | 67 | 73 | 76 | 62 | 71 | 70 | | Pibernik | Luka | SLO | 32 | 72 | 76 | 76 | 68 | 74 | 62 |  Honore | Mikkel | DEN | 28 | 71 | 76 | 74 | 65 | 73 | 68 |
Sprinters
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | FL | ST | RS | RC | SP | AC | | Van der Lijke | Nick | NED | 34 | 70 | 68 | 66 | 73 | 79 | 74 | | Plowright | Jensen | AUS | 25 | 74 | 70 | 73 | 73 | 78 | 76 | | Frame | Alex | NZL | 32 | 71 | 69 | 74 | 72 | 77 | 76 | | Norbert | Andrew | LCA | 27 | 75 | 75 | 77 | 70 | 77 | 75 | | Ganjkhanlou | Mohammad | IRN | 28 | 73 | 70 | 70 | 76 | 77 | 79 |
Prologue specialists
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | PR | | | | | | | Kopfauf | Markus | AUT | 29 | 81 | | | | | | | Frame | Alex | NZL | 32 | 79 | | | | | | | Sütterlin | Jasha | GER | 33 | 79 | | | | | | | Christodoulos | Michael | CYP | 28 | 79 | | | | | |
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| Heine |
Posted on 12-01-2026 08:54
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Hopeing for some good results here after the failure in Middle East
Kopfauf to win the first stage, and then a good GC fight from Vincent and Luchsenko. Fingers crossed!
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| Imladrik |
Posted on 12-01-2026 09:36
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Top 5 Goal for us and I think that should be achievable. Hopefully we don't lose too much time in the 4 km of prologue.
Not the best support, with the American clash, but still decent with Dieteren as lieutenant, and the others not too shabby in the hills either.
Maybe Darbinyan can find points in the sprint!
Thanks for the preview, happy to be racing again, and with good enough chances.
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 12-01-2026 09:39
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Completely lost my head for a second seeing I didn't send Chavanne here despite the prologue, but realise now it clashes with Tour of America. Whether that was the smart decision remains to be seen. In any case, we have a lot of cards to play in the hills here, so we need to minimise losses in the prologue and then ideally actually play those cards smartly. Either with Sagan as a more traditional puncheur, or Gladysh as a sort of poor man's Korosec. Good luck everyone and excited for some more good racing!
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 12-01-2026 15:12
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Now, please please please do something good now Eriksson/Dyrnes...
Thank you Laurens for the great preview!  |
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| quadsas |
Posted on 12-01-2026 15:36
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Our first xp race, let's hope for a miracle in getting some points
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 12-01-2026 17:08
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interesting race some hope for both Korosec and Watson here didn't send Moscon due to this being a bit of a lottery at times but just hoping either can get a lucky break |
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 12-01-2026 17:50
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Looking for Masnada and Rumac to be active in the hills and grab a top 10 at least.
Thanks for the preview Laurens.
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| seancoll |
Posted on 12-01-2026 20:28
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2 of the top 7 in the prologue, 2 of the top 5 sprinters, 2 decent puncheurs and a climby option with Barta who can also prologue with the best of the punchy boys... what will that bring us? hopefully more than 20 points!
Can't say we have LOTS of hope for the GC, but I think we could surprise ourselves in a good way here since there's not much room to surprise in the other direction.
Olei did great here last year for Colombini, so let's hope there's opportunities for other underdogs!
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| Heine |
Posted on 13-01-2026 06:39
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Damn, 2nd is not bad even though I hoped for a win from Kopfauf here
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| seancoll |
Posted on 13-01-2026 16:35
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seancoll wrote:
2 of the top 7 in the prologue, 2 of the top 5 sprinters, 2 decent puncheurs and a climby option with Barta who can also prologue with the best of the punchy boys... what will that bring us? hopefully more than 20 points!
20 points secured! No better way we could've started on stage 1, with the GC lead and a fantastic ride from Barta to be the best of the climby boys along with Croes, so far. Olei and Korosec are close behind from last year's successes while Turgis and Masnada also lookin great shape.
Looking forward to some exciting racing on the hills!
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 13-01-2026 20:35
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Good to get the prologue out of the way, now lets see some real racing
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| Imladrik |
Posted on 14-01-2026 09:26
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No harm done, but we clearly dodged a bullet here. Stocek will have to be more attentive now if we want to get something from this race, and even more after a pretty bad opening stage.
Thanks for the reports KB!
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 14-01-2026 10:10
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Ideal stage from Korosec only beaten by a much better sprinter in the end and gaining some seconds is always ideal.
I had worried that the last stage might be too hard for him but he should be okay getting through the next stage and the Yellow should give us good positioning going into that short finishing climb in theory |
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 14-01-2026 20:15
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We're still in a position to do something tomorrow, after Eriksson managed to rejoin the peloton. Really looking forward to the next stages!
Congrats to Glanbia and yet another great report, thank you KB! |
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 15-01-2026 08:27
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Another great ride by the boys two in top 10 now and leading the GC. Based on today I struggle to see Korosec hanging on tomorrows MM stage but if he can somehow cling onto the back of the bunch might be on for a podium finish here |
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 15-01-2026 18:35
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It's been a long time since last stage win, so this was really good to see!
3rd in GC now, if he can keep it up tomorrow, it could be a GC win as well.
Come on Eriksson!! |
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| Heine |
Posted on 15-01-2026 19:18
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Thats not bad from Vincent, we could be lucky on the last stage here with that result and make this a really gret race
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| seancoll |
Posted on 16-01-2026 03:51
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I didn't think Montenegro would ever have it in him for a good result this season, but wow! Huge opportunity going into the final stage! Great stage win for Tafjord today
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 16-01-2026 08:28
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Tour de Luxembourg team classification winners, you'll never sing that!
In all seriousness a bit of an anonymous race for us. A few lower top 10 stage placings, one in GC as well, and nice to see Sagan at least try something on the last stage. Not our most memorable race but we'll happily take whatever points we can get from it and move on.
Thanks for the reports KB, always a pleasure to read them with a coffee while waking up. And congrats also to the turtles on the GC win!
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