DGerman top sprinter Pascal Ackermann (Kandel) achieved the first victory after the long Corona break. In the mass sprint on the second stage of the Sibiu Tour in Romania, the favored 26-year-old from the Bora-hansgrohe team gave the competition no chance and sat in front of the Frenchman Rudy Barbier (Israel start-up) after 181.2 kilometers with start and finish in Sibiu Nation) by.
“I feel really good and I’m really happy,” said Ackermann: “However, a downer is that my driver Rudi Selig fell shortly before the finish. We had some bad luck today and can be happy that we won. ”
For the German champion of 2018, it was the second win of the season after the Clasica de Almeria and the start of the UAE Tour in February. The cycling season was interrupted on March 12 during the Paris-Nice long-distance trip, in which Ackermann also participated. The Sibiu Tour around the city of the same name in Transylvania, which bears the German name Hermannstadt, is the first major professional race after the restart.
The German Bora team, alongside Israel Start-Up Nation), one of two WorldTour teams in the field, claimed their second stage win in Romania after the Austrian Gregor Mühlberger in front of his teammate and compatriot Patrick Konrad on Friday at the mountain arrival on Lake Bale had triumphed. Konrad leads the tour after the day before last. German semi-professional Nikodemus Holler (Mühlacker) surprisingly won the prologue on Thursday.
On Sunday, Ackermann has another chance to win around Sibiu at the end of the second half-stage, before stage 3b is a short individual time trial.
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