Guillaume Martin (Groupama-FDJ) gained the one-day Tour du Jura Cycliste after outsprinting compatriot and rival Clément Berthet (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) on the high of Mont Poupet.
In a late-race assault with two kilometres to go on the ultimate climb, the pair of Frenchmen caught the last-standing breakaway rider Odd Christian Eiking (Unibet Tietema Rockets), earlier than sprinting for the end line.
Martin launched his dash from 200 metres out and proved the quickest of the pair, leaving Berthet to accept second. The lowered group crossed the road 18 seconds later with José Manuel Díaz (Burgos Burpellet BH) claiming third place.
On the one-day Tour du Jura Cycliste, the peloton tackled a 176km route from Fraisans to the summit of Mont Poupet (Salin-les-Bains).
The course was primarily flat for the primary two-thirds of the race, however that each one modified within the ultimate 60km because the roads turned more and more more difficult with three categorised ascents; Côte de Chamoz, Côte de Thésy, and Côte de Bracon, and several other extra unclassified climbs resulting in the mountaintop finale atop Mont Poupet.
A 3-rider early breakaway shaped that included Tim Rex (Visma-Lease a Bike Improvement), Eiking, and Jaakko Hänninen (Good Métropole Côte d’Azur).
Nonetheless, nearing the midway level of the race, Rex and Eiking pushed onward forward of a distanced Hänninen. They held a two-minute lead on Hänninen as the primary area sat three and a half minutes again inside 40km to go.
The peloton, led by French groups Groupama-FDJ, Cofidis, TotalEnergies and St Michel-Desire Dwelling-Auber93, reeled in Hänninen, however the two-man breakaway remained out entrance, nonetheless with greater than two minutes in hand as they reached the Côte de Bracon.
Eiking attacked excessive, constructing a slim 15 seconds on Rex as they reached the uncategorised Saint-Thiébaud, which was the final climb earlier than the ultimate summit.
Rex was swallowed up by the quick tempo of the peloton as they barreled into the bottom of the ultimate summit. Eiking desperately held on to a 50-second lead on the decrease slopes of Mont Poupet, 4.1km that averaged 8.1%, however with sections as steep as 13%.
A decisive assault from Frenchman Martin and compatriot Berthet break up aside the lowered group, they usually caught and handed Eiking with two kilometres to the highest.
The pair gained a handful of seconds on the following group, but it surely was on a regular basis they wanted earlier than contesting the two-up dash with 200 metres to the end line, gained by Martin.
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