Tour de Yorkshire Stage 2: Moreno Hofland takes the sprint for LottoNL-Jumbo

Dutch rider first past the post at finish at York racecourse

Sat, May 02, 2015 16:34

LottoNL-Jumbo sprinter Moreno Hofland has won Stage 2 of the Tour de Yorkshire, winning a bunh sprint on a stage that finished next to York Racecourse. Team Sky's Lars-Petter Nordhaug retains the race lead.

The Dutch rider beat IAM's Matteo Pelucchi into second place, with Giant Alpecin's Ramon Sinkeldam third in the finish on the Knavesmire of the 174km stage from Selby.

Big crowds greeted the race in all the towns it went through, and while the finish was outside the centre of York, the city's medieval streets were thronged as people turned out in their thousands to watch the race go by.

The stage finished with two loops around York of a 20.5 kilometre circuit, with the last survivor of the day's break, Giant-Alpenin's Bert de Backer, swept up just inside the final kilometre.

BMC's Greg van Avermaet then attacked but he too was swept up ahead of the final sprint.

The race concludes with tomorrow's 167km stage from Wakefield to Leeds.

Moreno Hofand

Tour de Yorkshire 2015

Tour de Yorlshire

Simon MacMichael

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Gkam84 | 8 years ago

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With Louise Mahe taking the women's race ahead of Eileen Roe and Katie Curtis

Did I mention I was working for Ikon Mazda at the race.....and we won

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