Lachlan Morton Wins Tour Of Utah

Last updated : 08 August 2016 By CNS Sport

Lachlan Morton of Jelly Belly snatched the overall victory in the Larry H Miller Tour Of Utah with victory on the final stage.

Cannondale's Andrew Talansky had a 22 second lead over Lachlan Morton going into this 125km stage which started and finished in Park City, where it was raining.

Five riders attacked as soon as the flag dropped which soon dropped to two and then one in Hayden McCormick of ONE Pro Cycling who was caught.

The peloton was altogether as they headed towards the climb at Kamas which was taken by Travis McCabe of Holowesko.

The break did form and in it was Britain's Tao Geoghagen-Hart, Carpenter, Warbasse, Angus Morton, Acevedo, Busche, Huffman, Mosca, Lewis and Handley and they were 3.05 ahead with fifty kilometres gone.

On the Wolf Creek Ranch climb and Atapuma and TJ Eisenhart of BMC attacked but it was Jacopo Mosca who took the six points on the climb.

Morton dropped out of the lead group as Joe Rosskopf, Adrien Costa and the race leader got up towards the leaders which dropped to four riders in Warbasse, Carpenter, Geohagen-Hart and Lewis.

The leaders which were now without Lewis started Empire Pass with a 1.20 lead whilst down the road, Lachlan Morton was trying to make up 22 seconds on Talansky by going away.

Morton put in a great effort and went passed everyone to take over in the lead with a twenty second lead to eight chasers including Talansky and 45 seconds to the peloton.

Darwin Atampuma and Adrien Costa, the KOM leader were chasing Morton who was powering up the climb annd putting more time into Talansky who was with Britten and Dombrowsky

Morton, who has not been approached by any World Tour teams, took the KOM points and was 1.03 ahead of Atapuma over Empire Pass ahead of Costa who confirmed his KOM jersey and got past Atapuma on the descent.

Under the flam rouge and through downtown Park City amid big crowds and Lachlan Morton of Jelly Belly rode up Main Street and took the win in 3.08.06 and the overall title with Adrien Costa in second, Atapuma in third with Talansky 1.50 down in fourth ahead of Joe Dombrowsky.

Morton won the overall title beating Costa, Talansky & Atapuma.