Soudal Quick-Step has two riders on in the top three ahead of the weekend.

In just his second individual time trial of the season, a flat 15.9km one held around Saint-Quentin, Kasper Asgreen powered to third place, a result that elevated him sixteen places in the general classification of the Quatre Jours de Dunkerque. The multiple Danish Champion of the discipline, Kasper clocked a time of 19:35 – just 14 seconds behind stage winner Benjamin Thomas (Cofidis) – and lies now in second place with three stages to go.

“I felt that I did a good time trial, unfortunately not fast enough, on a nice course. I was expecting it to be a bit faster; I don’t know if it was the wind or the asphalt was a bit rougher than I thought, but you really had to fight out there. We can be content with how things went and we’ll continue fighting for a stage win here”, said Kasper.

It was a good day also for another Soudal Quick-Step rider, Ethan Vernon. The Brit finished fourth in Saint-Quentin and moved to the top of the youth standings, while cementing his place on the overall podium of the competition, just six seconds behind his teammate.

“Taking the white jersey is nice. Now that the time trial is out of the way, we have several cards to play in the next days. The most important stage should be the one of Saturday, most likely the GC will be set in stone then, and we’ll try to go for a good result”, an optimistic Ethan explained.

 

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Race details

1 Benjamin Thomas
Cofidis
19:21
2 Niklas Larsen
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
0:09
3 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal - Quick Step
0:14
4 Ethan Vernon
Soudal - Quick Step
0:26
5 Cees Bol
Astana Qazaqstan Team
0:26
6 Lasse Norman Leth
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
0:26
7 Samuel Watson
Groupama - FDJ
0:29
8 Mick van Dijke
Jumbo-Visma
0:30
9 Brent Van Moer
Lotto Dstny
0:30
10 Romain Grégoire
Groupama - FDJ
0:31
12 Jannik Steimle
Soudal - Quick Step
0:34
21 Stan Van Tricht
Soudal - Quick Step
0:45
51 Tim Merlier
Soudal - Quick Step
1:15
67 Bert Van Lerberghe
Soudal - Quick Step
1:30
77 Lars Craps
Soudal - Quick Step
1:40
1 Benjamin Thomas
Cofidis
8:50:04
2 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal - Quick Step
0:14
3 Ethan Vernon
Soudal - Quick Step
0:20
4 Romain Grégoire
Groupama - FDJ
0:21
5 Cees Bol
Astana Qazaqstan Team
0:26
6 Lasse Norman Leth
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
0:26
7 Samuel Watson
Groupama - FDJ
0:29
8 Brent Van Moer
Lotto Dstny
0:30
9 Olav Kooij
Jumbo-Visma
0:31
10 Peter Sagan
TotalEnergies
0:32
29 Stan Van Tricht
Soudal - Quick Step
1:04
33 Jannik Steimle
Soudal - Quick Step
1:14
34 Tim Merlier
Soudal - Quick Step
1:15
84 Bert Van Lerberghe
Soudal - Quick Step
3:56
87 Lars Craps
Soudal - Quick Step
4:02
1 Benjamin Thomas
Cofidis
20 pt
2 Ethan Vernon
Soudal - Quick Step
19 pt
3 Romain Grégoire
Groupama - FDJ
16 pt
4 Olav Kooij
Jumbo-Visma
16 pt
5 Paul Penhoët
Groupama - FDJ
12 pt
6 Niklas Larsen
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
12 pt
7 Max Walscheid
Cofidis
12 pt
8 Samuel Leroux
Van Rysel - Roubaix Lille Métropole
11 pt
9 Peter Sagan
TotalEnergies
10 pt
10 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal - Quick Step
9 pt
12 Tim Merlier
Soudal - Quick Step
7 pt
31 Jannik Steimle
Soudal - Quick Step
1 pt
1 Tuur Dens
Team Flanders - Baloise
15 pt
2 Alex Colman
Team Flanders - Baloise
11 pt
3 Ceriel Desal
Bingoal WB
11 pt
4 Kenny Molly
Van Rysel - Roubaix Lille Métropole
9 pt
5 Damien Girard
Nice Métropole Côte d'Azur
7 pt
6 Pier-André Coté
Human Powered Health
4 pt
7 Geoffrey Soupe
TotalEnergies
3 pt
8 Logan Currie
Bolton Equities Black Spoke
2 pt
9 Olivier Le Gac
Groupama - FDJ
2 pt
10 Mathis Le Berre
Team Arkéa Samsic
1 pt
1 Ethan Vernon
Soudal - Quick Step
8:50:24
2 Romain Grégoire
Groupama - FDJ
0:01
3 Samuel Watson
Groupama - FDJ
0:09
4 Olav Kooij
Jumbo-Visma
0:11
5 Logan Currie
Bolton Equities Black Spoke
0:13
6 Alexis Renard
Cofidis
0:21
7 Igor Chzhan
Astana Qazaqstan Team
0:24
8 Pau Miquel Delgado
Equipo Kern Pharma
0:28
9 Paul Penhoët
Groupama - FDJ
0:31
10 Per Strand Hagenes
Jumbo-Visma
0:33
13 Stan Van Tricht
Soudal - Quick Step
0:44
34 Lars Craps
Soudal - Quick Step
3:42
1 Soudal - Quick Step 26:31:26
2 Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 0:03
3 Cofidis 0:13
4 Groupama - FDJ 0:32
5 Lotto Dstny 1:10
6 TotalEnergies 1:12
7 Jumbo-Visma 1:14
8 Equipo Kern Pharma 1:18
9 Astana Qazaqstan Team 1:40
10 AG2R Citroën Team 1:47

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