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Top day for Synergy Baku in Szeklerland

12 August 2016 14:40 (UTC+04:00)
Top day for Synergy Baku in Szeklerland

The Synergy Baku Cycling Project got the Cycling Tour of Szeklerland off to a good start. On the first stage, Matej Mugerli finished second, with Josip Rumac 10th and Kirill Pozdnyakov in the day’s long break group.

The stage ran 184 km and featured one climb near the end. “Today was a very fast race,” said DS Andrej Hauptman. “Kirill was in the breakaway of 13 riders for 100 km. The group split at the end of the last climb. With 20 km to go, Matej attacked along with 7 other riders. Then he was second in the sprint.”

“It was a hard race ,with many attacks.” Mugerli said. “The team worked very good. We were always present. Today I was so close to the victory, that I must try tomorrow again!”

Mugerli was also impressed with the young Azerbaijani riders, saying they “contributed to this result. This was the first race in a long time that I have raced with them again. And I saw that they have made good progress.”

Pozdnyakov said that he was trying not to repeat the mistake from the Tour of Sibiu, where a break group stayed away on the first stage with a gap large enough to decide the overall title. “So I was active from the start and got away, but the group didn’t co-operate well and in the end it was a tactical race.”

Friday’s stage will be a challenging one, with numerous climbs and a mountain top finish.

Synergy Baku for the Tour of Szeklerland: Elgin Alizada, Enver Asanov, Kanan Gahramanli, Ismail Iliasov, Matej Mugerli and Kirill Pozdnyakov

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