{"id":19703,"date":"2015-07-07T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/07\/07\/tour-of-austria-4-kristian-sbaragli-nets-4th-place-in-sprint-r2947\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:24:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:24:33","slug":"tour-of-austria-4-kristian-sbaragli-nets-4th-place-in-sprint-r2947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/tour-of-austria-4-kristian-sbaragli-nets-4th-place-in-sprint-r2947\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Austria #4: Kristian Sbaragli nets 4th place in sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 3rd stage of the Tour of Austria saw another bunch sprint for the 3rd day in a row. Today’s victor was Rick Zabel (BMC Racing), he crossed the line just ahead of Angel Vicioso (Katusha) and Jan Tratnik (Amplatz-BMC).<\/p>\n

Team MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung were once again part of the finale as Kristian Sbaragli finished 1 step off the podium in 4th during the big bunch sprint. The sprinters almost missed their chance today as 7 riders escaped very late in the stage and had the chance to make it to the finish together. A lack of cooperation put an end to their hopes though.<\/p>\n

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The early racing saw 3 riders jump clear of the peloton with our African team taking responsibility behind the escapees to protect our race leader, Gerald Ciolek. The gap grew to a maximum of 6 minutes but our African team would not let them get away in the end.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately Gerald lost his yellow jersey by a matter of seconds to Vicioso today but the result could be a blessing in disguise ahead of tomorrow\u2019s first real GC stage. Riders will take on 210km before finishing atop the cat 1 climb to Drobatsch.<\/p>\n

\nIt was a really warm stage and the final was pretty hard which made it a tough day. We controlled the race all stage for the yellow jersey and in the sprint Gerald and I were both up there to compete for the victory. I was in a good position and got another okay result but the victory just doesn’t want to come. I am a bit disappointed.
\nKristian Sbaragli – Rider<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 3rd stage of the Tour of Austria saw another bunch sprint for the 3rd day in a row. Today’s victor was Rick Zabel (BMC Racing), he crossed the line just ahead of Angel Vicioso (Katusha) and Jan Tratnik (Amplatz-BMC). Team MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung were once again part of the finale as Kristian Sbaragli finished […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2758,3285,3820],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-19703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-kristian-sbaragli","tag-team-mtn-qhubeka-p-b-samsung","tag-tour-of-austria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19703"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=19703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}