First stage of the CRO Race has finished with sprint finish and the victory of Adria Mobil’s Marko Kump.
The Slovenian beat Yevgeniy Gidich (Astana) and Eduard Grosu (Delko Marseille Provence) in a photo finish and now leads the race over Gidich by four seconds.
“The team did a great job for me,” Kump said. “Especially Rogina who put me in the ideal position.
“I may have started 50 metres too early but I believed I could win.”
CRO Race 2019 – stage 1 results (Osijek – Lipik):
| 1 | Marko Kump (Adria Mobil) | 4:27:29 |
| 2 | Yevgeniy Gidich (Astana) | ,, |
| 3 | Eduard Grosu (Delko Marseille Provence) | ,, |
| 4 | John Mandrysch (P&S Metalltechnik) | ,, |
| 5 | Alex Edmondson (Mitchelton-Scott) | ,, |
| 6 | Arvid De Kleijn (Metec – TKH) | ,, |
| 7 | Cyril Gautier (Vital Concept-B&B Hotels) | ,, |
| 8 | Rok Korošec (Ljubljana Gusto Santic) | ,, |
| 9 | Josip Rumac (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) | ,, |
| 10 | Matej Mohoric (Bahrain-Merida) | ,, |
