{"id":649566,"date":"2026-06-20T21:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649566\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:27:12","slug":"lipowitz-takes-first-win-in-two-years-at-key-pre-tour-test-despite-nervous-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649566\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipowitz takes first win in two years at key pre-Tour test \u2013\u00a0despite nervous descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/corvos-tour-of-slovenia-stage-4-lipowitz-pellizzari.jpg\" alt=\"Lipowitz takes first win in two years at key pre-Tour test \u2013\u00a0despite nervous descent\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__sub-title\">Two weeks out from the Tour de France where he&#8217;ll co-lead his team with Remco Evenepoel, Florian Lipowitz won stage 4 of the Tour of Slovenia, and took over the race lead.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kit Nicholson\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/profile-pic-KN-150x150.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cor Vos<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks before the start of the Tour de France in Barcelona, and as many years since he last took an individual win, Florian Lipowitz has ticked an important box: victory on the Queen Stage of the Tour of Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to the team, who did an exceptional job, and that put a bit of extra pressure on me to repay them with a victory,\u201d Lipowitz told TV Slovenija. \u201cI am really happy with this one, it is my first win in more than two years, and I am proud of the way we raced here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The young German has been the headline act at this week\u2019s pre-Tour stage race where his team Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe is one of just two WorldTeams in the peloton. The German squad is by far the strongest in the race, with Lipowitz as its figurehead alongside two others that feature on the Tour team shortlist \u2013\u00a0Jan Tratnik and Mattia Cattaneo \u2013\u00a0and talented climber Giulio Pellizzari in the young Italian\u2019s first race since a disappointing Giro d\u2019Italia. With Laurance Pithie and fellow fast-finisher Arne Marit also at his disposal, along with the punchy Ben Zwiehoff, the Tour of Slovenia was Lipowitz\u2019s race to lose from day one.<\/p>\n<p>                This post is for subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#FF6F42\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reactions\" data-post-id=\"6a36b89fc1a32902e588b5b1\">\n                    \ud83d\udc4dYep<br \/>\n                    \ud83d\udc4eNope\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" title=\"News &amp; Racing\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f293b3 news-and-racing\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/florian-lipowitz\/\" title=\"Florian Lipowitz\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f291be florian-lipowitz\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florian Lipowitz<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/red-bull-bora-hansgrohe\/\" title=\"Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f29465 red-bull-bora-hansgrohe\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News &amp; Racing Two weeks out from the Tour de France where he&#8217;ll co-lead his team with Remco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-649566","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\/649566","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=649566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}