{"id":65177,"date":"2025-08-14T00:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/65177\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T00:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:19:10","slug":"tour-of-denmark-stage-2-uno-x-mobility-deliver-soren-waerenskjold-through-hectic-sprint-to-victory-in-gladsaxe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/65177\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Denmark stage 2: Uno-X Mobility deliver S\u00f8ren W\u00e6renskjold through hectic sprint to victory in Gladsaxe"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00f8ren W\u00e6renskjold (Uno-X Mobility) won stage 2 of the Tour of Denmark<\/a> after a hectic sprint into Gladsaxe, timing his sprint perfectly to power to a third victory of the season.<\/p>\n

Young Belgian sprinter Steffen De Schuyteneer (Lotto) took an impressive second place, closely followed by Axel Zingle (Visma-Lease a Bike) in third and Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) in fourth, in the Belgian’s first race since crashing heavily out of the Tour de France.<\/p>\n

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Race leader Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) only managed ninth in the sprint finish, after one of his lead-out men, Ryan Gibbons, crashed in the run-in, and was washed away in the wheels as the speed ramped up for the final charge to the line.<\/p>\n

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Despite gaining no bonus seconds, he nonetheless holds onto the blue jersey, with the stage 3 time trial out and back from Kerteminde on Thursday set to play a big role in deciding the overall GC standings.<\/p>\n

“I had completely different legs today. Both my body and legs worked much better,” said W\u00e6renskjold.<\/p>\n

“It was chaotic in the final. We had Rasmus in the breakaway, but unfortunately, they didn’t get much time. Then I saw my opportunity.<\/p>\n

“We tried to position ourselves well. We were a little further ahead than we had planned, with 700 m left. It was better to be further ahead than too far behind.”<\/p>\n

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Racing headed to Zealand for stage 2 of the Tour of Denmark, with a seven-rider breakaway establishing itself in the first 20km of the stage, heading away from R\u00f8dovre just west of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

It was made up of six Danes: Rasmus B\u00f8gh Wallin (Uno-X Mobility), Sebastian Nielsen (Unibet Tietema Rockets), Boas Lysgaard (BHS-PL Beton Bornholm), Mads Andersen, Matias Malmberg (AIRTOX-Carl Ras) and Magnus Machholdt (Give Steel-2M Cycling Elite), and one French rider \u2013 Anton Muller (Novo Nordisk).<\/p>\n

With an almost completely flat stage on offer, except for two small climbs shorter than 300 metres, the riders in front were only afforded a small lead, with the sprint-focussed teams controlling on the front.<\/p>\n

Muller dropped out of the break due to a crash, leaving only six in front, and they led into the final 16km of the stage and local laps around the finish location of Gladsaxe with a 30-second lead.<\/p>\n

The last remnants of the break, Wallin and Malmberg, led into the final lap with a small lead, but a crash in the peloton disrupted the chasing peloton, with around 10 riders, including green jersey Julius Johansen (Denmark), hitting the deck.<\/p>\n

The break was finally caught with 3km to go, after which several teams took over to try and control the sprint finale. Lotto, Alpecin-Deceuninck and Lidl-Trek all tried to position their leaders, but it was Uno-X Mobility who found themself in the perfect position to take the win.<\/p>\n

A late solo move from Daniel Stampe (BHS-PL Beton Bornholm) was followed by Nils Eekhoff (Picnic PostNL), which opened up the sprint, with W\u00e6renskjold slingshotting out of his slipstream to charge to the victory.<\/p>\n

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