85th Volta a Catalunya - PT
Chapeau Charteau!
Article continues belowAfter four years without success, 25 year-old Frenchman Anthony Charteau (Bouygues Telecom) has taken the first win of his professional career in superb fashion, winning the sixth stage of the Volta a Catalunya.
Part of a leading break of 10 riders from 10 different teams, Charteau attacked in the last kilometre of the 198,7 kilometre leg from Llívia to Pallejà to finish four seconds in front of Beat Zberg (Gerolsteiner) and José Luis Arrieta (Illes Balears). American Fred Rodriguez (Davitamon-Lotto) won the bunch sprint for 11th place.
While there was little to no change for the top riders on the overall classification, Christophe Moreau and Santiago Botero, who finished in the group with Zberg, both gained 21 seconds' advantage on their nearest rivals.
Discovery Channel's Yaroslav Popovych maintained his 20 second lead from yesterday's time trial over Italian Leonardo Piepoli (Saunier Duval-Prodir), with David Moncoutie (Cofidis) still in third position overall. Barring disaster, the Ukrainian should go on to win the 85th edition of the race, which concludes in the Spanish capital of Barcelona tomorrow after a 113,1 kilometre road stage.
-
As it happened: Trofeo Alfredo Binda serves up a race of attrition with a three rider group fighting for the win
The peloton tackled five decisive finish circuits and 152.7km for the long-running Italian Classic -
As it happened: Intense final stage of Paris-Nice culminates in two-up sprint
The traditional final day fireworks in Nice bring five major climbs packed into just 145km -
Trofeo Alfredo Binda: Karlijn Swinkels edges Anna van der Breggen to claim first WorldTour victory
Mie Bjørndal Ottestad rounds out the podium as three-rider break makes it to the line -
Paris-Nice: Jonas Vingegaard secures GC title but gets pipped to stage 8 victory by Lenny Martinez in narrow two-up sprint
Dane is second on final stage and Harold Tejada takes third from small chase group in Nice
