What a finale!🤯 @TobiasLund_ sent it early from 200m to go and almost held on for the win, just getting passed in the finale and taking 5th place.👊🏻 A top 5 in your first Grand Tour, congrats Tobi! 👏🏻 #KeepChallenging #GirodItalia🇮🇹
"I felt like it could have been even more today" - Tobias Lund Andresen flies to fifth place in his sprinting Grand tour debut
CyclingTuesday, 07 May 2024 at 04:00
Despite the threat of Tadej Pogacar's attack up in the air, stage three seemed to be lined up for the sprinters. Team dsm-firmenich PostNL was hoping their leader Fabio Jakobsen would prove his worth, but at the end it was the young winner of three Tour of Turkey stages Tobias Lund Andresen who had a good shot at winning a Giro d'Italia stage on his Grand tour debut.
"I felt good today. It was pretty easy in the beginning in the bunch when there was no breakaway. We just had to stay in front for the intermediate sprint as we thought a group might go there, and it did. It was good that Kevin and I were there so we could be in front of the action and not on the back foot," he explained in press release.
"Once we were brought back we then got together around Fabio to prepare for the sprint. In the end, Fabio didn’t quite have the legs on the climb so we decided to go for me in the finish."
In the end fifth was a maximum for Lund Andresen. "Fifth is a nice result in my first Grand Tour but I felt like it could have been even more today. I think we have shown that we are riding well together and are one of the teams that are sticking together in the finals, so I think we can get even more good results in the days to come."
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