Miguel Ángel López of Astana Pro took the honours in stage five of the Tour of Oman in Jebel Akhdar today.
The Columbian beat teammate Alexey Lutsenko of Kazakhstan and Cofidis’s Jesus Herrada of Spain in the 152km queen stage from Samail. López’s winning time was 3:43:58.
Riders in action on stage five of the Tour of Oman, which was won by Colombian Miguel Ángel López today. Photo: twitter.com/tourofoman
Lutsenko now leads the overall standings with a time of 19:38:21, followed 11 seconds later by Lopez. Spain’s Gorka Izagirre (Bahrain-Merida) is a further 28 seconds back.
Dimension Data’s Merhawi Kudus, of Eritrea, finished 12th in the stage and now lies ninth overall in 19:39:50.
Results were as follows.
Stage five
1. Miguel Ángel López (Astana Pro, Columbia) 3:43:58
2. Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Pro, Kazakhstan)
3. Jesus Herrada (Cofidis-Solutions Credits, Spain) +12″
4. Gorka Izagirre (Bahrain-Merida, Spain) +15″
5. Nathan Haas (Katusha-Alpecin, Australia) +22″
6. Peter Stetina (Trek-Segafredo, United States of America) +25″
7. Daniel Pearson (Aqua Blue Sport, Great Britain) +33″
8. Dries Devenyns (Quick-Step Floors, Belgium) +43″
9. Nicolas Roche (BMC Racing, France) +47″
10. Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates, Portugal) +49″
General classification
1. Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Pro, Kazakhstan) 19:38:21
2. Miguel Ángel López (Astana Pro, Columbia) +11″
3. Gorka Izagirre (Bahrain-Merida, Spain) +28″
4. Jesus Herrada (Cofidis-Solutions Credits, Spain) +30″
5. Nathan Haas (Katu-Alpecin, Australia) +32″
6. Dries Devenyns (Quick-Step Floors, Belgium) +1’05”
7. Daniel Navarro Garcia (Cofidis-Solutions Credits, Spain) +1’14”
8. Odd Christian Eiking (Wanty-Groupe Gobert, Norway) +1’24”
9. Merhawi Kudus (Dimension Data, Eritrea) +1’29”
10. Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates, Portugal) +1’37”
