Kooij sprints to fourth place among elite in UAE Tour
Olav Kooij has finished fourth in the second stage of the UAE Tour. The 20-year-old sprinter of Team Jumbo-Visma mixed with the world's top riders at the end of the flat stage and secured his second top ten classification of this UAE Tour.
Three riders formed the escape of the day. The trio was kept within reach all day by a controlling peloton. At thirty kilometres from the finish, the escapees got reeled in and the sprinters prepared for a bunch sprint. In the final metres, Kooij rushed forward from the second row and secured a respectable fourth place.
He looked back on his performance with satisfaction. "My teammates surrounded me excellently all day. The stage was all about the last few kilometres and the final stages of the race were hectic again. In the end I was able to move up a long way with Timo Roosen. I developed a high speed, but unfortunately I had to start my sprint from too far away. I can definitely live with this result."
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UAE Tour
Stage 2
Result
1
Mark Cavendish
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
04:20:45
2
Jasper Philipsen
Alpecin-Fenix
+00:00:00
3
Pascal Ackermann
UAE Team Emirates
+00:00:00
4
Olav Kooij
Jumbo-Visma
+00:00:00
47
Chris Harper
Jumbo-Visma
+00:00:00
53
Tom Dumoulin
Jumbo-Visma
+00:00:00
64
Timo Roosen
Jumbo-Visma
+00:00:00
99
Koen Bouwman
Jumbo-Visma
+00:00:00
111
Jos van Emden
Jumbo-Visma
+00:00:00
Rankings
1
Jasper Philipsen
Alpecin-Fenix
09:03:03
2
Dmitry Strakhov
Gazprom - RusVelo
+00:00:04
3
Mark Cavendish
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
+00:00:06
11
Olav Kooij
Jumbo-Visma
+00:00:16
44
Timo Roosen
Jumbo-Visma
+00:00:16
50
Chris Harper
Jumbo-Visma
+00:00:16
59
Tom Dumoulin
Jumbo-Visma
+00:00:16
100
Koen Bouwman
Jumbo-Visma
+00:00:16
105
Jos van Emden
Jumbo-Visma
+00:00:16
