UAE Team Emirates’ Tadej Pogačar won the 187.4km second stage of the Volta ao Agarve atop Foia, Portugal, yesterday.
The Slovenian completed the mountain top finish stage in 4:58:25, beating Team Sky’s Wout Poels narrowly by a second. Deceuninck-QuickStep’s Enric Mas rounded out the podium.
Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar, pictured here winning the Grand Prix Priessnitz spa last year, won stage two of the Volta ao Agarve yesterday. Photo: Jan Brychta
Pogačar took the race lead with a general classification of 9:51:24, ahead of Poels by a second.
View more results below.
Stage two
1. Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 4:58:25
2. Wout Poels (Ned) Team Sky 0:00:01
3. Enric Mas (Spa) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:03
4. Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:05
5. Amaro Antunes (Por) CCC Team 0:00:07
6. David de la Cruz (Spa) Team Sky 0:00:21
7. João Pedro Lourenço Rodrigues (Por) W52-FC Porto 0:00:24
8. Simone Petilli (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:27
9. Jose Herrada (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
10. Michael Valgren Andersen (Den) Dimension Data 0:00:49
General classification
1. Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 9:51:24
2. Wout Poels (Ned) Team Sky 0:00:01
3. Enric Mas (Spa) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:03
4. Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:05
5. David de la Cruz (Spa) Team Sky 0:00:21
6. Søren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb 0:00:51
7. João Pedro Lourenço Rodrigues (Por) W52-FC Porto 0:01:29
8. Amaro Antunes (Por) CCC Team 0:01:42
9. Neilson Powless (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:01:46
10. Marc Hirschi (Swi) Team Sunweb
