Keung Wins Volta Limburg

Last updated : 04 April 2015 By Covsupport News Service

BMC's Stefan Keung has won the Volta Limburg race in the Netherlands.

This 1.1 UCI European Tour race changed its format for its 42nd edition and had three laps of a sixty kilometre circuit around Eijsden, followed by two nine kilometre laps, ensuring that four nasty climbs in the final twenty kilometres would really test what was a reasonably strong field.

Ike Groen of the De Rike team was the first to attack and took a fifteen second lead ahead of seven chasers and then six chasers who joined him to take a lead of 1.50.

Brusselmans and Pardini attacked out of this front group and were leading Danilo Wyss, Zhura Jacobs, Tonelli and Van Summeren with the peloton a further 2.40 down the road.

The peloton closed the gap and they were only forty seconds behind with sixty kilometres left.

Forty kilometres later and the break was all over. New attacks started to occur and in one of those attacks was Stefan Keung of BMC.

The Swiss rider, who joined BMC in 2013, was too powerful for the rest of the peloton and he rode off to take victory in 5.01.01 ahead of Maciej Paterski of CCC Sprandl and Dylan Teuns of BMC, followed by Enrico Battaglin, Rasmas Guldhammer, Soren Kragh Andersen, Amael Moinard, Wilco Kelderman, Damiano Cunego and Francesco Gavazzi.