Tour de Romandie Stage 3: Strong Reguigui sprints to 6th place pubblicato il 28/04/2017

Tour de Romandie #3: Strong Reguigui sprints to 6th place

Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka was once gain in the mix on stage 3 of Tour de Romandie. The team helped control the early breakaway and at the end, Youcef Reguigui paid back his teammates when he finished 6th in the bunch sprint.

Early in the stage, a strong group of seven riders got away. However, the peloton never let the break get too much of a gap after narrowly missing out yesterday. Bahrain-Merida worked hard at the front of the pack to make sure the gap never exceeded three minutes. Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka helped out with Jay Thomson and with 35 km left to go, the seven riders were back in the peloton again.

A few riders tried their luck on the last kilometers but ultimately, it all ended with the expected bunch sprint. Jaco Venter did a great job to put Reguigui in a good position and the fast Algerian did not disappoint as he gave the team its second Top10 place in three days. Elia Viviani (Team Sky) took the win, while Fabio Felline (Trek-Segafredo) kept the leader’s jersey.

Tomorrow awaits the queen stage of Tour de Romandie with an uphill finish in Leysin. The last 4 km have an average gradient of 7.2 % with parts of 12 % towards the top. Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka brings several strong climbers to the race. Both Natnael Berhane and Merhawi Kudus have shown great shape lately and now, the two Eritreans aim to shine in the mountains.

Alex Sans Vega – sports director:
“As we approached the finish, we focused 100 % on Youcef [Reguigui]. We don’t have a team here to do a leadout so we had Jaco [Venter] deliver Youcef in the best possible position on the final kilometers. It worked out very well. Tomorrow’s stage is super hard. It’s one for the big GC favorites. We hope that our Eritrean climbers will put on a great show. The weather forecast looks good so hopefully, they can deliver a strong performance”.

Team Dimension Data For Qhubeka

Founded in 2007, Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka became the first ever African cycling team to gain a WorldTour license, in 2016. In the team’s palmares you can find a Milan-Sanremo victory, numerous stage wins at the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana, two Tour of Britain GC victories, and 36 National Championships. The team has bases in South Africa, the Netherlands and Italy. It’s also known as Africa’s Team due to its focus on helping African talents to the world stage of cycling. The team races to raise funds for the Qhubeka Charity to change lives with bicycles in Africa. #DoYourPart and gift a bicycle or part of a bicycle, by clicking here.

Qhubeka is an Nguni word that means “to progress”“to move forward”. Qhubeka (qhubeka.org) partners with communities, public sector, private sector, and non-profit organisations to provide people with bicycles in return for working to improve their community, environment or school attendance. 

Dimension Data (dimensiondata.com) uses the power of technology to help organisations achieve great things in the digital era. As a member of the NTT Group, we accelerate our clients’ ambitions through digital infrastructure, hybrid cloud, workspaces for tomorrow, and cybersecurity. With a turnover of USD 7.5 billion, offices in 58 countries, and 31,000 employees, we deliver wherever our clients are, at every stage of their technology journey. We’re proud to be the Official Technology Partner of Amaury Sport Organisation, organiser of the Tour de France, and the title partner of the cycling team, Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka.

Learn more about the team at www.africasteam.com

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