{"id":719581,"date":"2026-07-30T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719581\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:56:09","slug":"tour-of-denmark-wout-van-aert-deemed-stage-2-winner-after-reversal-of-fortunes-for-jensen-plowright-in-sprint-photo-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719581\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Denmark: Wout van Aert deemed stage 2 winner after reversal of fortunes for Jensen Plowright in sprint photo finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"elk-3e04bf7e-8c19-11f1-b815-0f4e08413c13\">Jensen Plowright (Alpecin-Premier Tech) appeared to have edged race leader Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) in a narrow victory on stage 2 of the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tour-of-denmark\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tour-of-denmark\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tour-of-denmark\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour of Denmark<\/a>, but after a closer look at the photo finish, the Belgian rider was confirmed to have crossed the line by a sliver of time versus the Australian.<\/p>\n<p>Third place went to Toon Aerts (Lotto-Intermarch\u00e9) no matter the outcome of the winner.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-3e04bf7e-8c19-11f1-b815-0f4e08413c13-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">The stage seemed to be a success for Alpecin-Premier Tech, who worked to control the stage finale after the peloton reeled in the day&#8217;s early breakaway with 7.5km to go and then swatted down several late attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Latest Videos FromCyclingnews<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">After Van Aert opened the sprint but couldn&#8217;t get separation, Plowright came in late on his left and appeared to snatch the stage win. However, a closer look at the bike throws by both riders showed Van Aert first to cross the line, holding off Plowright, and giving the race leader back-to-back stage wins.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">The time bonus extended Van Aert&#8217;s lead in the overall classification to 14 seconds over Unibet&#8217;s Luk\u00e1\u0161 Kubi\u0161, with Henrik Pedersen (Uno-X Mobility) third at 16 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>            You may like<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">&#8220;It was actually super crazy and super fast. Lovely circuit, but super hectic on the way down. I got a really nice run to the finish in the last 200 [metres],&#8221; Plowright said after the finish, but before the review of the photo finish moved him to second.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">The reversal by race officials confirmed what Van Aert saw after the finish in a timing photo.<\/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 aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">\u201cThis is a first for me,\u201d Van Aert told VTM Nieuws and Sporza at the finish. \u201cThe feeling was that Jensen was going to pass me, but he was so sure of himself that I thought it had already been checked. Only when I saw the photo did I start to have doubts. In the end, the coin landed in my favor. A very special experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">Friday&#8217;s stage 3 is the queen stage of the five-day race, with four categorised climbs across 202.9km from Fredericia to Vejle.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-results\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\"\/>Results<\/p>\n<p>Swipe to scroll horizontally<\/p>\n<p>Stage 2 top 10<\/p>\n<p>Place<\/p>\n<p>Full Name (Team)<\/p>\n<p>Diff<\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>Wout van Aert (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)<\/p>\n<p>3:59:41<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Jensen Plowright (Alpecin-Premier Tech)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:00<\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>Toon Aerts (Lotto-Intermarch\u00e9)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:00<\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>Giovanni Lonardi (Team Polti VisitMalta)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:00<\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>Carl-Frederik B\u00e9vort (Uno-X Mobility)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:00<\/p>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<p>Enrico Zanoncello (Bardiani-CSF 7 Saber)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:00<\/p>\n<p>7<\/p>\n<p>Max Walscheid (Lidl-Trek)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:00<\/p>\n<p>8<\/p>\n<p>Ben Oliver (Modern Adventure Pro Cycling)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:00<\/p>\n<p>9<\/p>\n<p>Matys Grisel (Lotto-Intermarch\u00e9)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:00<\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>Luk\u00e1\u0161 Kubi\u0161 (Unibet Rose Rockets)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:00<\/p>\n<p>Swipe to scroll horizontally<\/p>\n<p>GC top 10 after stage 2<\/p>\n<p>Place<\/p>\n<p>Full Name (Team)<\/p>\n<p>Diff<\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>Wout van Aert (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)<\/p>\n<p>8:10:10<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Luk\u00e1\u0161 Kubi\u0161 (Unibet Rose Rockets)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:14<\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>Henrik Pedersen (Uno-X Mobility)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:16<\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>Pier-Andr\u00e9 C\u00f4t\u00e9 (NSN Cycling Team)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:20<\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>Tim Torn Teutenberg (Lidl-Trek)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:20<\/p>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<p>Tom\u00e1\u0161 Kopeck\u00fd (Unibet Rose Rockets)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:20<\/p>\n<p>7<\/p>\n<p>Christophe Laporte (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:20<\/p>\n<p>8<\/p>\n<p>S\u00f8ren Kragh Andersen (Lidl-Trek)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:20<\/p>\n<p>9<\/p>\n<p>Gustav Wang (Denmark)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:29<\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>Jensen Plowright (Alpecin-Premier Tech)<\/p>\n<p>+0:00:31<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jensen Plowright (Alpecin-Premier Tech) appeared to have edged race leader Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-719581","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\/719581","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=719581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}