Pelayo Sánchez gives Movistar Team its first victory in 2024 at the Trofeo Pollença!

Victory of Pelayo Sánchez Mayo in the Trofeo Pollença to give the first victory to Movistar Team in 2024. Tremendous. He finished ahead of Marius Mayrhofer and Alexandr Vlasov.

First great exhibition of the race of the young Spanish talent Igor Arrieta, brand new rider of UAE Team Emirates, who was escaped in the final part of the race reaching a half-minute lead for several kilometers.

On the final climb, which had the summit 11 kilometers from the finish, the winner of the previous day in the Challenge Mallorca, the Belgian Lennert van Eetvelt, escaped and caught Arrieta with 13 kilometers to go. Impressive Lotto-Dstny rider.

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Behind, tremendous fight between the favorites (missing Alex Aranburu, out for a fall) with Aleksandr Vlasov pulling the group in which there were also riders like Brandon McNulty, Marc Soler or Ilan van Wilder. Gregor Mühlberger entered the fight for Movistar Team.

Shortly before the summit, van Eetvelt went solo. He had 11 kilometers to the finish line. Arrieta was 10 seconds behind and the group of favorites 15 seconds behind. A very brave Arrieta caught the Belgian at the end of the descent and tried to get away. He risked so much that he ended up crashing in a curve. Bad luck, but chapeau for him.

Thus, van Eetvelt was the only one in the lead with a very small advantage over the chasing group. With 3 km to go the gap was around 10 seconds. He was chased 2 km from the finish line and Marc Soler tried an attack that cut the group. In the end the smartest was Pelayo Sanchez, who gave the victory to Movistar Team.