Tim Wellens Wins Eneco Tour

Last updated : 17 August 2014 By Covsupport News Service

Lotto Belisol's Tim Wellens has won the Eneco Tour.

The final stage was a 183.4km stage from Riemst to Sittard/Geleen and Wellens went into the stage with a fifty second lead.

Guillaume van Keirsbulck took the first sprint as part of a breakway group which featured Trentin, Leezer, Dillier, Oss, Sergent, Moser, Koren, Van Baarle, Hepburn, Smukulis, Lastras, Vermote, Petrov, Sanz Bagdonas, Richeze, Nizzolo, De Vreese and Lampaert.

They took a 2.43 lead after thirty kilometres and extended that to 4.03 after 56kms.

It was still 4.51 with 78kms left of a stage which had eighteen named climbs with 23 descents in total.

Van Keirsbulck had enough of the group he was in and went away with 34kms to go

Attacks started to come from the peloton and Nicky Terpstra of Omega Pharma Quick Step and Maarten Wyants of Belkin started elbowing each other https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zBIV5vdRSg 

Terpstra was later given a 200 Swiss Franc fine and disqualified and Wyants was fined the same amount and and given a one 1 minute time penalty in the overall time classification for reacting to the agression of a rider.

The Omega Pharma Quick Step rider was able to steal a a lead of 2.39 and was 1.32 ahead with nine kilometres to go.

Guillaume van Keirsbulck was not to be stopped and he won the stage in 4.25.47, some forty six seconds ahead of Matteo Trentin and Topsport's Yves Lampaert.

Tim Wellens finished in 24th place, 1.01 down and that was enough to give the Lotto rider the overall win by seven seconds from Boom, thirteen seconds from Tom Dumoulin, 33 seconds from Grivko, 33 seconds from Van Avermaet and thirty eight seconds from Geraint Thomas of Team Sky.