Tour of Catalonia: Roglic and Evenepoel defeated! Ciccone takes 2nd stage

Click through the 2nd stage of the Tour of Catalonia 2023

In the big showdown between the two cycling stars Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step), the Italian Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) took victory in the first mountain finish of the 2023 Tour of the Catolonia.

Tour of Catalonia 2023: Ciccone defeats Roglic & Evenepoel

The three-time stage winner of the Giro d'Italia won the second stage at an altitude of 2100 metres in Vallter after 165.4 kilometres by a wafer-thin margin ahead of the Slovenian overall winner Roglic and the Belgian road cycling world champion Evenepoel. The tour serves the top stars as a test of form for the Tour of Italy in May.

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Roglic leads the overall standings, who had won the opening stagesix seconds ahead of Evenepoel and Ciccone. The Slovenian had only just completed the difficult stage race a week ago. Tirreno-Adriatico won.

Tour of Catalonia 2023: Stage 2 results

• 1st Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) 4:13:37

• 2nd Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) +0:00

• 3rd Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step) +0:00

• 4th Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious) +0:11

• 5th Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) +0:11

• 6th Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) +0:11

• 7th Esteban Chaves (EF Education EasyPost) +0:15

• 8th Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech) +0:15

• 9th Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:15

• 10th Cian Uijtdebroeks (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:15

Tour of Catalonia: The overall standings

• 1st Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) 8:01:38

• 2nd Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step) +0:06

• 3rd Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) +0:06

• 4th Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious) +0:27

• 5th Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) +0:27

• 6th Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech) +0:31

• 7th Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:31

• 8th Esteban Chaves (EF Education EasyPost) +0:31

• 9th Cian Uijtdebroeks (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:41

• 10th Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates) +0:46

There was another heavy crash on Tuesday. Frenchman Kenny Elissonde (Trek-Segafredo) apparently suffered a serious shoulder injury. The day before, his Italian Trek team-mate Dario Cataldo had also been hit, who had to be hospitalised with a fractured neck of femur, broken hip, broken collarbone, two broken vertebrae, several broken ribs and a collapsed lung.

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