And two for Emilien Jeannière ! The Frenchman of Team TotalEnergies continues to shine in this 2024 season with a 4th success, confirming during the night from Saturday to Sunday its domination on Japanese lands by offering itself the 2nd stage of Tour de Kyushu. Already a winner the day before, the fast puncher of the team of Jean-René Bernaudeau took advantage of the weakness of the field of sprinters to achieve the double during the massive sprint which concluded these 108.4 km without great difficulty between Minamioguni and Minamiaso. After having taken almost everything on the Tour d’Istanbul in September, the Vendée team continues its festival on the exotic stage races on the calendar.
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Emilien Jeannière in pole position to win a first career stage race
The strong men of this 2nd edition of the Japanese event showed themselves again since the Briton Lukas Nerurkar (EF Education-EasyPost) and Danish Anthon Charming (Astana Qazaqstan Team), already on the podium the day before, this time finished 3rd and 4th, ahead of the Russian Ivan Smirnov (Astana Qazaqstan Team), which was 5th on the 1st stage. Wearer of the blue jersey of leader of the general, Emilien Jeannière logically consolidates its lead and now has a 9-second margin over Lukas Nerurkar and 16 on Anthon Charminghis teammate and compatriot Jordan Jegat remaining in ambush at 22 seconds while a 3rd and final decisive stage looms tonight to determine the successor ofAndrey Zeits.
Tour of Kyushu – Classification of the 2nd stage
Tour of Kyushu – Provisional general classification after the 2nd stage
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