Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) claimed the victory within the 2024 Sparkassen Münsterland Giro, a ProSeries race in Munster, Germany on Thursday.
The Belgian simply beat Jordi Meeus (Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) with Milan Fretin (Cofidis) making a late burst of pace to take third.
A breakaway escaped early within the 202-kilometre race from Haltern Am See, with Jannik Steimle (Q36.5), Adrien Maire (TDT Unibet), Jarno Grixa (P&S Metaltechnik Benotti), Luca Dreßler (Lotto Kern-Haus PSD Financial institution), Sebastian Niehues (REMBE Sauerland), Arno Claeys (Flanders-Baloise) and Tosh van der Sande (Visma-Lease a Bike) gaining a most of three minutes earlier than being introduced again by the sprinters’ groups.
The escape group started to collapse after the 50km to go mark, with the Lodge Weissenburg ascent shedding Grixa and Claeys. Lotto Dstny and Alpecin-Deceuninck pushed the tempo, catching the breakaway with 23km to go, and simply after, an acceleration on an unnamed climb shot Fabio Jakobsen (DSM-Firmenich-PostNL) out the again of the pack.
Alpecin-Deceuninck had been in full management heading into the ultimate two kilometres, however accelerations from Uno-X, Jayco-AlUla and Lidl-Trek put the Dutch group on the again foot. Intermarché-Wanty made an enormous push for Girmay, bringing him to the entrance simply earlier than Meeus launched his acceleration.
The Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe rider had Philipsen on his wheel, nevertheless, and solely proved to be the right lead-out for Philipsen, who stomped away to a decisive stage win.
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