Tadej Pogacar and Marlen Reusser secured the Tour de Suisse titles as each won the final stage of their respective races on Sunday.<\/p>\n
World champion Pogacar was competing in the men’s race for the first time and led Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz by more than four minutes heading into the fifth and final stage. <\/p>\n
The Slovenian battled it out with Lenny Martinez at the end of a brutal 151km mountainous route and caught the French climber 800 metres from the line to claim his third stage win of the week.<\/p>\n
“We tried but he was just too strong in the end,” said Martinez. “Tadej wins a lot of races and he keeps wanting to keep winning, so it’s difficult. I knew he wasn’t going to let me win.”<\/p>\n
Pogacar, 27, has now won six of the seven most historic week-long stage races having triumphed on his Tour de Romandie bow this year.<\/p>\n
He has 13 wins from just 16 race days this year, adding the Milan-San Remo to his palmares in March, and will aim for a record-equalling fifth Tour de France victory next month.<\/p>\n
Swiss rider Reusser won the women’s race for the second consecutive year – and third time in four years – by claiming her second straight stage win.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old won Saturday’s individual time trial to gain the overall lead and was 10 seconds ahead of Elisa Longo Borghini going into the 100km mountain stage on day five.<\/p>\n
The Italian tested Reusser during the early stages but she broke clear before dropping Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney and Cedrine Kerbaol in the final 800 metres to clinch victory, while Longo Borghini crossed the line nearly 10 minutes later to finish ninth overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar and Marlen Reusser secured the Tour de Suisse titles as each won the final stage of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651164","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\/651164","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=651164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}