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Thibau Nys (Lidl-Trek) scored his first win of 2025 on his opening race day of the highway season on the GP Miguel Indurain.
The Belgian attacked 2km from the tip of the 204km race and blasted previous a small group of earlier attackers on the ultimate climb of the Alto Ibarra earlier than going solo into the ultimate kilometre to safe the victory.
Nys beat Alex Molenaar (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) to the road by three seconds, whereas Andrea Bagioli (Lidl-Trek) rounded out the rostrum.
The battle for the win unfolded after the ultimate survivors from the break of the day had been caught 14km from the end line.
Anthon Charmig (Uno-X Mobility), Alan Jousseaume (TotalEnergies), and Jesus Herrada (Cofidis) had been the final males standing, and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than the attacking started once more on the hilly run in the direction of the end line in Estella-Lizarra.
Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe and UAE Staff Emirates-XRG raised the tempo, resulting in an assault from UAE’s Marc Soler and Cofidis rider Alex Aranburu. The pair did not create a serious hole, however a counter-attack did have extra success.
Molenaar, Felix Großschartner (UAE Staff Emirates-XRG), Bauke Mollema (Lidl-Trek), and Matteo Vercher (TotalEnergies) acquired away with 6.5km to go, pulling out a slim lead over the Movistar-led peloton within the course of.
The quartet constructed a lead of 15 seconds on the run to the road, however assaults – and work by varied groups – from behind would ultimately result in the transfer disintegrating on the closing hills of the race.
Vercher and Molenaar launched a transfer simply exterior the 2km mark, whereas additional again, it was Nys who was leaping from the peloton. Vercher took over on the entrance, however solely briefly on the Alto Ibarra.
There, it was Nys who sped previous on the way in which to victory, the Belgian holding a slim lead over the race’s last kilometres to complete three seconds up on eventual second-placed man Molenaar.
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