Tour of Guangxi results & GC: SA’s Janse van Rensburg sixth on opening stage

South Africa’s Reinardt Janse van Rensburg, of Dimension Data, placed sixth on stage one of the Tour of Guangxi in Beihai today.

The 107.4km stage was won by LottoNL-Jumbo’s Dylan Groenewegen in a time of 2:21:45.

He was followed home by Team Sunweb’s Maximilian Walscheid and Quick-Step Floors’ Fabio Jakobsen.

Bora-Hansgrohe’s Pascal Ackermann finished in fourth.

Groenewegen also leads overall, with AG2R La Mondiale’s Silvan Dillier two seconds behind him and Walscheid in third.

Quick-Step Floors’ Fabio Jakobsen is in fourth place overall, while Astana Pro Team’s Andrey Grivko is in fifth.

Janse van Rensburg’s teammate Jay Thomson is the highest placed South African after finishing seventh on the general classification.

View more results below.

Stage one

1. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 2:21:45
2. Maximilian Walscheid (Ger) Team Sunweb
3. Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Quick-Step Floors
4. Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
5. Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott
6. Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data
7. Arnaud Demare (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
8. Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
9. Enzo Wouters (Bel) Lotto Soudal
10. Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale

*Selected

79. Jay Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data
81. Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Dimension Data
102. Nicolas Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data

General classification

1. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 2:21:35
2. Silvan Dillier (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale +0:00:02
3. Maximilian Walscheid (Ger) Team Sunweb +0:00:04
4. Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Quick-Step Floors +0:00:06
5. Andrey Grivko (Ukr) Astana Pro Team
6. Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha-Alpecin +0:00:07
7. Jay Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data +0:00:09
8. Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe +0:00:10
9. Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott
10. Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data

*Selected

82. Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Dimension Data
102. Nicolas Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data