Antonio Tiberi shaping up to be Trek-Segafredo's next breakthrough rider

Whilst Trek - Segafredo is having a great run in the Giro d'Italia with Juan Pedro López, under the radar one of the team's young talents Antonio Tiberi has flown to his first professional win, by winning the queen stage at the Tour de Hongrie.

“I am very, very happy with this pro win. I lost a lot of time in the second stage, it was very windy, and for the GC I am sad for this, but very happy for the win," Tiberi said after the stage. The Italian had shown potential to win in the mountains early in the season at Étoile de Bessèges, whilst a fifth place at Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali proved his stage-racing talent.

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Eddie Dunbar wins Tour de Hongrie as Antonio Tiberi wins queen stage

Yesterday at the Tour de Hongrie he wasn't one of the main favourites, and it came as a surprise that he found the legs to contest the stage win in the final climb: “All day I didn’t feel so good. I started well, but after one hour I started to feel not good, and I stayed in the peloton all day with the guys."

"In the start of the climb, I was quite behind and didn’t feel good, but after I started to move up with the guys, and when Dunbar attacked, I was still behind, but also tried to move up and started passing guys and then caught him I think in the last 50 meters," he concluded. Whilst Eddie Dunbar stormed to the overall win, Tiberi paced his way towards the finish, and managed to catch the Irishman in the final hundred meters, sprinting directly towards his first pro win.

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