2024-02-13 11:17:10
Jhonatan Restrepo won the sixth and final stage of the Tour Colombia 2024. It is held between Sopó and Bogotá, and is 138 kilometers long, after which Rodrigo Contreras was titled as the great champion of the race.
The battle of the seconds was important in a busy fraction, which from the beginning began to be played like a chess game. Lot that Egan Bernal closed, was in just 50 seconds.
The most interested were the runners from Education EsayPost, who with Richard Carapaz won Saturday’s stage at Alto del Vino and with the Ecuadorian they were only 17 seconds behind the cyclist in the NU group.
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Carapaz gained three bonus seconds in the special sprint. One by passing third in the Sisga mountain prize, on the return to the country’s capital.
With that background, the fight for seconds was important. Which made the competition have a different item, as expected, since there was ground to try to ambush a leader, like Rodrigo Contreras.
Bernal tried and launched his attack. He was accompanied by Javier Jamaica (Team Medellín), who had 59 seconds.
Behind were not only those interested in pursuing the NU team, but also EF and Petrolike. Who had Rigoberto Urán in fourth overall and Jhonatan Caicedo in third place, so it was also of interest that they help cut time.
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