Jhonatan Restrepo won the sixth and final stage of the Tour Colombia 2024, held between Sopó and Bogotá, 138 kilometers long, with two mountain passes after which Rodrigo Contreras, the Villapinzón beetle, was titled as the great champion of the race.
The battle of the seconds was important in a busy fraction, which from the beginning began to be played like a chess game, since the differences between the first five, the lot that Egan Bernal closed, was only 50 seconds.
The most interested were the runners from Education EsayPost, who with Richard Carapaz won Saturday’s stage at Alto del Vino and with the Ecuadorian they were only 17 seconds behind the cyclist in the NU group.
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Carapaz gained three bonus seconds in the special sprint and one by passing third in the Sisga mountain prize, on the return to the country’s capital.
Already with this background, the fight for seconds was important, which made the competition have a different element, as expected, since there was ground to try to ambush a leader who had the support of his teammates.
Bernal tried and launched his attack. He was accompanied by Javier Jamaica (Team Medellín), who had 59 seconds, which left him as the leader of the partial.
Behind, not only those interested in chasing were those from the NU team, but also EF and Petrolike, who had Rigoberto Urán in fourth overall and Jhonatan Caicedo in third place, so it was also of interest that they help cut time .
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