Luke Plapp wins queen stage of the Tour of Hellas as Astana's López takes over race lead
CyclingThursday, 03 April 2025 at 16:05
Team Jayco AlUla brought a strong team to the Tour of Hellas packed with quality riders, and today on stage 2 they bring the reward from it. On the queen stage of the race, Australian climber Luke Plapp managed to take the first win of his career outside national championships.
An interesting statistic, as the 24-year old has won both the road race and time-trial events on three different occasions from 2021 to 2025 back in Australia, but never won outside of his home country. This afternoon in Greece, he was the strongest in the summit finish to Arachova.
Plapp attacked in the final ascent and although he was joined by Astana's Harold Martin López, in the final sprint then he was the strongest out of the two. However, López was the one to take over the race lead. Marcin Budzinski sprinted to third out of a large group, of which many remain in GC contention.
| 1 | Plapp Lucas | Team Jayco-AlUla | 04:37:39 |
| 2 | López Martin | XDS Astana Team | + 00 |
| 3 | Budzinski Marcin | ATT Investments | + 09 |
| 4 | Pridal Tomas | Elkov-Kasper | + 09 |
| 5 | Ulissi Diego | XDS Astana Team | + 09 |
| 6 | Maire Adrien | Unibet Tietema Rockets | + 09 |
| 7 | Camprubí Marcel | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | + 09 |
| 8 | Marchand Gianni | Tarteletto-Isorex | + 09 |
| 9 | Zabelinskiy Bogdan | Cyprus | + 09 |
| 10 | Stewart Mark | Solution Tech-Vini Fantini | + 09 |
| 11 | Schiffer Anton | BIKE AID | + 09 |
| 12 | Vanhoucke Harm | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | + 09 |
| 13 | De Keyser Ewout | Tarteletto-Isorex | + 09 |
| 14 | Tagliani Filippo | Monzon-Incolor-Gub | + 09 |
| 15 | Eiking Odd Christian | Unibet Tietema Rockets | + 09 |
| 16 | Kelley Garin | XSpeed United | + 09 |
| 17 | Bax Sjoerd | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | + 09 |
| 18 | Pekala Piotr | ATT Investments | + 09 |
| 19 | Ilias Periklis | Greece | + 09 |
| 20 | Stüssi Colin | Team Vorarlberg | + 09 |
| 21 | Berlin Antoine | BIKE AID | + 09 |
| 22 | Kyffin Zeb | Unibet Tietema Rockets | + 09 |
| 23 | Peter Jannis | Team Vorarlberg | + 09 |
| 24 | Zoidl Riccardo | Hrinkow Advarics | + 09 |
| 25 | Monti Alberto Carlo | ATT Investments | + 17 |
| 26 | Calzoni Walter | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | + 38 |
| 27 | Verza Riccardo | Hrinkow Advarics | + 54 |
| 28 | Geleijn Owen | Unibet Tietema Rockets | + 01:22 |
| 29 | Miltiadis Andreas | Cyprus | + 01:23 |
| 30 | Kaczmarek Jakub | Mazowsze Serce Polski | + 01:23 |
| 31 | Militello Jacopo | Monzon-Incolor-Gub | + 01:23 |
| 32 | Perracchione Alessandro | Team Novo Nordisk | + 01:23 |
| 33 | Bak Simon | BIKE AID | + 01:36 |
| 34 | Samudio Carlos | Solution Tech-Vini Fantini | + 02:11 |
| 35 | Riesen Tim | XSpeed United | + 02:11 |
| 36 | Schlegel Michal | Elkov-Kasper | + 02:11 |
| 37 | Hepburn Michael | Team Jayco-AlUla | + 02:1 |
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