{"id":49914,"date":"2025-08-07T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49914\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:32:09","slug":"tour-de-lain-groupama-fdj-goes-one-two-on-stage-1-with-tom-donnenwirth-earning-first-pro-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49914\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de l&#8217;Ain: Groupama-FDJ goes one-two on stage 1 with Tom Donnenwirth earning first pro win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Donnenwirth earned his first pro victory on stage 1 of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tour-de-lain\/stages\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tour-de-lain\/stages\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de l&#8217;Ain<\/a>, charging across the line in Lagnieu just ahead of David Gaudu for a Groupama-FDJ one-two punch. Andrea Vendrame (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) kept the French team from sweeping the podium by taking third place just ahead of Groupama&#8217;s Lorenzo Germani.<\/p>\n<p>After a day of multiple breakaways, a reduced peloton was back together in the final two kilometres, with four riders from Groupama-FDJ commanding the fast pace at the front. R\u00e9my Rochas served as the lead-out for Donnenwirth, who sailed across the finish with both arms raised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The three-day stage race opened Wednesday with 163km from Feillens to Lagnieu. The peloton remained together for the opening third of the flat journey through eastern France, with the single second-category climb at Col de Portes (14.6km at 5.5%) with 25km to go.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">With just under 100km to go, the trio of Kenny Molly (Van Rysel Roubaix), Yoel Habteab (Bike Aid) and Julian Borresch (Team Germany) charged away from the peloton. Visma-Lease a Bike and TotalEnergies were among the teams driving the peloton and holding the breakaway to under two-and-a-half minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Making a first pass under the finish banner in Lagnieu, the breakaway&#8217;s gap began to drop as the peloton increased the pace to begin the long ascent of Col de Portes, and on the ascent the catch was made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The next trio to charge away at the front were Visma-Lease a Bike&#8217;s Ben Tulett and Cian Uijtdebroeks with Nicolas Prodhomme of Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale. They scooped up the KOM points, with Belgian Uijtdebroeks leading the way for the mountain classification lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Once these three leaders were reeled back with 20km to race, Bike Aid&#8217;s Oliver Mattheis took a flyer for 8km. Then the sprint teams formed a path to a bunch finish, Groupama-FDJ leading the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n<p>Results<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Results powered by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">FirstCycling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Donnenwirth earned his first pro victory on stage 1 of Tour de l&#8217;Ain, charging across the line&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-49914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}