{"id":67005,"date":"2025-08-14T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67005\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:27:11","slug":"czech-tour-luke-lamperti-goes-long-to-win-stage-1-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67005\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech Tour: Luke Lamperti goes long to win stage 1 sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"2081bd6a-d11f-4d2c-afef-d112c2c8dd44\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/features\/watch-out-for-the-american-guy-luke-lamperti-could-be-the-new-peter-sagan\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/features\/watch-out-for-the-american-guy-luke-lamperti-could-be-the-new-peter-sagan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Lamperti<\/a> (Soudal-Quickstep) claimed his first victory of the 2025 season, out-sprinting Davide Donati (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and Gleb Syritsa (XDS Astana Development) to take the stage and race lead on the opening stage of the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/races\/czech-tour-2020\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/races\/czech-tour-2020\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Czech Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lamperti started up his sprint early after being led through the final turn by teammate Dries Van Gestel and then powered away to take the win and the first leader&#8217;s jersey, with a four-second lead on Donati and six over Syritsa due to the time bonuses.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"2081bd6a-d11f-4d2c-afef-d112c2c8dd44-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The day&#8217;s breakaway of six were reeled in with 22 kilometers to go, but Michiel van Vliet (Metec Solarwatt p\/b Mantel) attacked from the escape and stayed away for 11 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p>A counter-attack from I\u00f1igo Elosegui (Kern Pharma) followed Van Vliet&#8217;s capture but he too was caught before the final sprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Lamperti&#8217;s sprint victory came just over a year from his last win in the same race in 2024. His winter was disrupted by a knee injury and he only returned to European racing in late March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;It&#8217;s nice to get the win after all the work the team did today and I&#8217;m happy I could get my first victory of the year here, in a race where I have some nice memories,&#8221; Lamperti said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;It was really warm all day, but we managed to overcome it with a lot of drinks and ice. In the sprint, the guys were just fantastic, and left me in a position from where I couldn&#8217;t miss. It feels good to be on the top step of the podium and on Saturday we&#8217;ll try to go for another sprint, but until then, we will do our best to support Junior [Lecerf].&#8221;<\/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><a id=\"elk-results\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/>Results<\/p>\n<p id=\"c2f5082a-6795-4693-b6e0-07042a86e636\">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<p><a id=\"elk-d72de36e-761a-44dc-86f6-b241e9d5fb6a\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Lamperti (Soudal-Quickstep) claimed his first victory of the 2025 season, out-sprinting Davide Donati (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and Gleb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-67005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67005","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=67005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}