Evenepoel lights up Paris-Nice stage one

Evenepoel lights up Paris-Nice stage one

Remco Evenepoel wasted no time in making his presence felt at the first big stage race of the season, Paris-Nice, which got underway with an undulating stage around Les Mureaux, a small town lying not far from the country’s capital.

Victorious in dominant fashion at the Figueira Champions Classic and the Volta ao Algarve last month, the 24-year-old moved into the spotlight inside the final twenty kilometers, when he responded to an acceleration of another rider and kept powering on a small unclassified climb, taking four bonus seconds at the intermediate sprint in Montainville. A quick glance over his shoulder convinced Evenepoel to continue, as a small group joined him, until the foot of the final climb, where the peloton eventually bridged across.

The Belgian Champion was prominent again there, responding to an attack just 500 meters from the top before his Soudal Quick-Step teammates came back on the descent and made sure of keeping things together. The stage came down to a reduced bunch sprint won by Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease a Bike), while Remco concluded in the main group and now sits in fifth place overall, thanks to the bonifications he scored Sunday afternoon.

 

Photo credit: ©Alex Broadway / Getty Images

Race details

1 Olav Kooij
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
3:36:28
2 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
0:00
3 Laurence Pithie
Groupama - FDJ
0:00
4 Nils Eekhoff
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:00
5 Madis Mihkels
Intermarché - Wanty
0:00
6 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
0:00
7 Matteo Trentin
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:00
8 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
0:00
9 Sandy Dujardin
TotalEnergies
0:00
10 Kaden Groves
Alpecin - Deceuninck
0:00
12 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
26 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
28 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
50 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
55 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
74 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
0:54
123 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
5:16
1 Olav Kooij
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
3:36:18
2 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
0:04
3 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:04
4 Laurence Pithie
Groupama - FDJ
0:06
5 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:06
6 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
0:08
7 Nils Eekhoff
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:10
8 Madis Mihkels
Intermarché - Wanty
0:10
9 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
0:10
10 Matteo Trentin
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:10
15 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
0:10
28 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:10
50 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
0:10
55 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
0:10
74 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
1:04
123 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
5:26
1 Olav Kooij
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
25 pt
2 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
22 pt
3 Laurence Pithie
Groupama - FDJ
20 pt
4 Nils Eekhoff
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
18 pt
5 Madis Mihkels
Intermarché - Wanty
16 pt
6 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
14 pt
7 Matteo Trentin
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
12 pt
8 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
10 pt
9 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
10 pt
10 Sandy Dujardin
TotalEnergies
8 pt
11 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
6 pt
1 Jonas Rutsch
EF Education - EasyPost
8 pt
2 Mathieu Burgaudeau
TotalEnergies
7 pt
3 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
6 pt
4 Primož Roglič
BORA - hansgrohe
4 pt
5 Finn Fisher-Black
UAE Team Emirates
2 pt
6 Stefan Bissegger
EF Education - EasyPost
2 pt
7 Nils Politt
UAE Team Emirates
1 pt
1 Olav Kooij
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
3:36:18
2 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:04
3 Laurence Pithie
Groupama - FDJ
0:06
4 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:06
5 Madis Mihkels
Intermarché - Wanty
0:10
6 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
0:10
7 Jon Barrenetxea Golzarri
Movistar Team
0:10
8 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:10
9 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
0:10
10 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
0:10
1 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 10:49:24
2 BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
3 Groupama - FDJ 0:00
4 Soudal Quick-Step 0:00
5 Lidl - Trek 0:00
6 Movistar Team 0:00
7 Bahrain - Victorious 0:00
8 INEOS Grenadiers 0:00
9 Cofidis 0:00
10 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 0:00

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