{"id":198789,"date":"2025-10-08T22:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198789\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:03:07","slug":"to-be-honest-i-didnt-expect-that-new-danish-talent-albert-philipsen-takes-notable-step-up-in-tre-valli-varesine-with-second-behind-tadej-pogacar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198789\/","title":{"rendered":"‘To be honest, I didn’t expect that’ \u2013 New Danish talent Albert Philipsen takes notable step up in Tre Valli Varesine with second behind Tadej Poga\u010dar"},"content":{"rendered":"

To be described by Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> as “an amazing rider” is a compliment anybody in the current peloton would be more than happy to accept, but for a rising talent like Denmark’s Albert Philipsen<\/a> it surely mattered even more.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old Lidl-Trek racer received that particular praise from Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) after taking second in Tre Valli Varesine<\/a> on Tuesday behind the victorious Slovenian star, when the Dane outsprinted Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor Pro Cycling) for the runner’s up spot at the front of the chasing peloton.<\/p>\n

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Coming hard on the heels of an already notable tenth place in the Giro dell’Emilia<\/a>, the Varesine podium is Philipsen’s biggest result to date in a one-day Classic. <\/p>\n

As the Dane told CyclingProNet<\/a> afterwards, he hadn’t expected to be able to play such an important role in the tough Italian event, but he had no complaints about that, either.<\/p>\n

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“It was a super-hard race, I didn’t feel too good in the first part, with a little bit of fatigue from yesterday [Coppa Bernocchi],” he said later.<\/p>\n

“But after a couple of hours the legs started getting a bit better, and I could slowly get into the race. The team did really well at keeping us in front and we rode really well together, so it was just a super-nice experience.”<\/p>\n

Phlipsen’s podium came after his teammate Quinn Simmons<\/a> had turned in several attacks, on a day when Lidl-Trek clearly wanted to try and make the running as best they could.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to race aggressively when we got closer to the end. Quinn was really strong today, and unfortunately it didn’t hold to the finish line, but then me and Toms [Skuji\u0146\u0161] tried to keep it going when we got back up to the group.<\/p>\n

“To be honest, I didn’t really expect it, so I’m super happy with my performance.”<\/p>\n

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Even before his latest top ride, Philipsen had already shone brightly in 2025, with one major highlight a victory in Paris-Roubaix Espoirs, when riding as part of the Lidl-Trek Future Racing team in April.<\/p>\n

In a promising sign of year-round consistency, the former junior Mountain Bike World Champion also claimed the best young riders classification in his WorldTour debut in the Santos Tour Down Under<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n

Italy is a country which seems to smile on Philipsen, too: he was already in the thick of the action in the same country’s Classics earlier this year, taking part in a long breakaway in Strade Bianche<\/a> in March \u2013 prior to Poga\u010dar once again laying down the law.<\/p>\n

Following his breakout result in the Tre Valli Varesine, Philipsen now heads north for the final race of his 2025 season at Paris-Tours<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To be described by Tadej Poga\u010dar as “an amazing rider” is a compliment anybody in the current peloton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-198789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}