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Giro d’Italia: Pascal Ackermann wins stage two to open Grand Tour account

May 12, 2019, 5:19 pm By Coetzee Gouws

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Pascal Ackermann wins stage one of the 2019 Tour of Slovenia. Photo: Vid Ponikvar/Sportida
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Pascal Ackermann after his crash on stage 10 of the 2019 Giro d'Italia. Photo: LaPresse
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Pascal Ackermann wins stage five of the 2019 Giro d'Italia. Photo: LaPresse
Pascal Ackermann won stage five of the 2019 Giro d'Italia
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Pascal Ackermann won stage five of the 2019 Giro d'Italia. Photo: LaPresse
Pascal Ackermann wins stage two of the 2019 Giro d'Italia
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Pascal Ackermann wins stage two of the 2019 Giro d'Italia. Photo: LaPresse - D'Alberto/Ferrari/Paolone/Alpozzi
Bora-Hansgrohe's Pascal Ackermann, pictured winning the second 2018 Criterium du Dauphine stage
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Bora-Hansgrohe's Pascal Ackermann, pictured winning the second 2018 Criterium du Dauphine stage, won stage two of the Giro d'Italia in Fucecchio, Italy, today. Photo: Alex Broadway/A.S.O
Pascal Ackermann wins stage two of the 2019 Giro d'Italia
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Pascal Ackermann wins stage two of the 2019 Giro d'Italia. Photo: LaPresse - D'Alberto/Ferrari/Paolone/Alpozzi
Pascal Ackermann wins stage two of the Giro d'Italia
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Pascal Ackermann won stage two of the Giro d'Italia in Fucecchio, Italy, today. Photo: BettiniPhoto
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Pascal Ackermann claimed the 2019 Eschborn-Frankfurt title. Photo: GFR_FotoRoth
Pascal Ackermann won the 2019 Eschborn-Frankfurt
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Pascal Ackermann won the 2019 Eschborn-Frankfurt. Photo: GFR_FotoRoth

Pascal Ackerman opened his Grand Tour account when he put away the race’s marquee sprinters to win stage two of the Giro d’Italia in Fucecchio today.

The German from Bora-Hansgrohe got the better of Elia Viviani (Deceuninck-QuickStep) and Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) as he burst through the middle to stop the clock on 4:44:43 after 205km of racing on a largely flat course from Bologna.

“I’m just so happy. It was my first chance to win a stage and we did it straight.

“I think the team is now more and more motivated and it is good for the next three weeks.”

Ackermann, who admitted to feeling some pre-race pressure to deliver for the team, said he decided to open up his sprint with 250m to go.

“I decided I have to take my speed and go full gas and luckily it was enough.

“It was pressure, but you also have to know that it is my first Grand Tour and you never know what will happen in your first Grand Tour and I’m just happy to have won my first stage.”

The peloton reeled in a breakaway group of four riders some 7km from the finish.

The quartet – Francois Bidard (AG2R La Mondiale), Lukasz Owsian (CCC Team), Marco Frapporti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) and Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) – were part of an initial group of eight that led the stage for more than 190km and built a maximum advantage of 4:40.

Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) retained the pink jersey ahead of Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) and Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida).

Monday’s third stage will be contested over 220km from Vinci to Orbetello.

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