Peloton had to ride 10 hard seventeen kilometers long rounds and our Petr Benčík finished in the seventh place in sprint.
Raiffeisen Grand Prix in Austria won Croatian Danlucovic, the second man of the Tour of Slovakia. Whilst he had finished in second place in Slovakia race, he gained gold in Austrian one off race of 2 UCI category. Peloton had to ride 10 hard seventeen kilometers long rounds and our Petr Benčík finished in the seventh place in sprint.
Results:1. Tomislav Danculovic (Cro) 4:12:01, 2. Blaz Furdi (Slo), 3. Radoslav Rogina (Cro), 4. Robert Vrecer (Slo) all +0:05, 5. Matej Mugerli (Slo) +0:53, 7. Petr Benčík (Cze), 20. František Paďour (Cze) oba +0:56, 33. Jakub Večeřa (Cze) +4:20, 50. Joshua Prete (Aus) +10:26 – all PSK Whirlpool-Author.
Criterium of Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski went before the stage race Tour of Malopolsko. Home rider Radosz won the evening race in the streets of Tarnów on Tuesday. Our Joshua Prete finished in the thirteenth place after 20 rounds more than 3km long. The race finished just a half of cyclists who started in the race.
Results: 1. Robert Radosz (Pol) BDC Team 26, 2. Sylwester Janiszewski (Pol) 18, 3. Tomasz Smolen (Pol) 11 oba CCC Polsat Polkowice, 4. Dariusz Rudnicki (Pol) BDC Team 9, 5. Sven Beelen (Bel) Sunweb Revor 7, 13. Joshua Prete (Aus) 2, 23. Vojtěch Dlouhý (Cze), 28. Jiří Hudeček (Cze) all PSK Whirlpool-Author.
Two our riders finished in elite ten of prestigious race Tour of Slovakia of 2 UCI category. Stanislav Kozubek is in the seventh overall place, Jiří Hudeček is ninth. Other two of our cyclists had to leave the race during it and they had been in elite ten too. It was the same situation as in the other parts of peloton. Stomachache eliminated Tomáš Bucháček first and then David Dvorský due whom we had reached silver in one stage.
Russian Novikov won in overall standing and he left behind two Croatians Danculovic and Durasek.
Overall standing: 1. Nikita Novikov (Rus) 27:50:29, 2. Tomislav Danculovic (Cro) +1:19, 3. Kristijan Durasek (Cro) +2:08, 4. Andriy Vasyluk (Ukr) +3:46, 5. Sergey Firsanov (Rus) +4:17, 7. Stanislav Kozubek (Cze) +4:34, 9. Jiří Hudeček (Cze) +5:26, 56. František Paďour (Cze) +46:44 – all PSK Whirlpool-Author.
We will go stage race Tour of Malopolsko in Poland from Thursday to Saturday. Criterium of Golden ring of Krakow is on Wednesday. Other racing team is going stage race Oberösterreich Rundfahrt from Friday to Sunday. We won this race last year.