UAE Tour: Plapp takes overall lead - Soudal - Quick Step wins team time trial

Click through: The best 10 teams of the stage

The Belgian team Soudal Quick-Step led by superstar Remco Evenepoel, won the team time trial on the second day of the UAE Tour 2023. The team finished one second behind EF Education EasyPost in second place. Third place went to the team Ineos Grenadiersfor which the new overall leader Luke Plapp rides. Fourth place went to Bahrain-Victorious. The German Nikias Arndt, who rides for Bahrain-Victorious, has improved to third place overall. The 31-year-old had previously finished a creditable fifth in the first stage of the tour.

Bora-Hansgrohe finishes in seventh place

On the approximately 17-kilometre route with the finish line at Khalifa Port, the German team finished Bora-Hansgrohe - including Emanuel Buchmann - seventh place, 15 seconds behind.

Australian Plapp took the lead in the overall standings of the seven-day tour through the United Arab Emirates. He replaced Tim Merlier, who had won the opening stage of the tour.

UAE Tour 2023: Stage 2 result

1st Soudal - Quick Step 18:17

2nd EF Education EasyPost +0:01

3rd Ineos Grenadiers +0:03

4th Bahrain-Victorious +0:04

5th Team Jayco AlUla +0:05

6th Team DSM +0:10

7th Bora-Hansgrohe +0:15

8th UAE Team Emirates +0:16

9th Astana Qazaqstan Team +0:17

10th Trek-Segafredo +0:19

The current standings in the overall standings

1st Luke Plapp (Ineos Grenadiers) 3:35:50

2nd Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step) +0:00

3rd Nikias Arndt (Bahrain-Victorious) +0:03

4th Pello Bilbao (Bahrain-Victorious) +0:04

5th Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan Team) +0:15

6th Cees Bol (Astana Qazaqstan Team) +0:21

7th Olav Kooij (Jumbo-Visma) +0:23

8th Bert van Lerberghe (Soudal - Quick Step) +0:29

9th Tim Merlier (Soudal - Quick Step) +0:30

10th Jarrad Drizners (Lotto-Dstny) +0:50

UAE Tour 2023: All stages at a glance

The UAE Tour continues on Wednesday with stage 3. This leads over 185 kilometres from Umbrella Beach Al Fujairah to Jebel Jais.

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