Jasper Philipsen wins opening stage of BinckBank Tour

Jasper Philipsen beat Mads Pedersen and Pascal Ackermann in a sprint finish to claim stage 1 of the BinckBank Tour

Jasper Philipsen wins opening stage of BinckBank Tour

Mathieu van der Poel, Mike Teunissen and Yves Lampaert all took three bonus seconds as they each won an intermediate sprint.

With 4.5km to go a big crash in the peloton led to a huge pile-up. A number of riders were knocked off their bikes and several were left nursing injuries after a touch of wheels.

Pascal Ackermann launched his sprint too early and Philipsen fired from a long way back to weave his way past to take his fourth career victory.

“It was quite easy, a two guy break so it was quite relaxed,” Philipsen said. “Everybody knew it would be a bunch sprint today. A lot of team had interest in that, then it was quite hectic in the end while everybody was still fresh.

“I’m happy I could stay out of trouble and that I could finish it off in the first stage.”

VIDEO: 2020 Binck Bank Tour Stage 1 Highlights

2020 Binck Bank Tour Stage 1 Top 10

1 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) UAE Team Emirates 2:59:26
2 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo
3 Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
4 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Circus-Wanty Gobert
5 Stefan Bissegger (Swi) EF Pro Cycling
6 Alberto Dainese (Ita) Team Sunweb
7 Nils Eekhoff (Ned) Team Sunweb
8 Lorrenzo Manzin (Fra) Total Direct Energie
9  Mathieu Van der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Fenix
10 Tim Merlier (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix

 
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