Jasper Philipsen fastest in sprint to win Sparkassen Munsterland Giro

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Jordi Meeus second, Milan Fretin third Munster

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MUNSTER GERMANY OCTOBER 03 LR Race winner Jasper Philipsen of Belgium and Team Alpecin Deceuninck Jordi Meeus of Belgium and Team Red Bull BORA hansgrohe Milan Fretin of Belgium and Team Cofidis and Biniam Girmay of Eritrea and Team Intermarche Wanty sprint at finish line during the 18th Sparkassen Mnsterland Giro 2024 a 202km one day race from Haltern Am See to Munster on October 03 2024 in Munster Germany Photo by Christian KasparBartkeGetty Images
Jasper Philipsen wins Sparkassen Munsterland Giro(Image credit: Getty Images)

Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) claimed the victory in the 2024 Sparkassen Münsterland Giro, a ProSeries race in Munster, Germany on Thursday.

A breakaway escaped early in the 202-kilometre race from Haltern Am See, with Jannik Steimle (Q36.5), Adrien Maire (TDT Unibet), Jarno Grixa (P&S Metaltechnik Benotti), Luca Dreßler (Lotto Kern-Haus PSD Bank), Sebastian Niehues (REMBE Sauerland), Arno Claeys (Flanders-Baloise) and Tosh van der Sande (Visma-Lease a Bike) gaining a maximum of three minutes before being brought back by the sprinters' teams.

The escape group began to fall apart after the 50km to go mark, with the Hotel Weissenburg ascent shedding Grixa and Claeys. Lotto Dstny and Alpecin-Deceuninck pushed the pace, catching the breakaway with 23km to go, and just after, an acceleration on an unnamed climb shot Fabio Jakobsen (DSM-Firmenich-PostNL) out the back of the pack.

Alpecin-Deceuninck were in full control heading into the final two kilometres, but accelerations from Uno-X, Jayco-AlUla and Lidl-Trek put the Dutch team on the back foot. Intermarché-Wanty made a big push for Girmay, bringing him to the front just before Meeus launched his acceleration.

The Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe rider had Philipsen on his wheel, however, and only proved to be the perfect lead-out for Philipsen, who stomped away to a decisive stage win.

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