Hansen Awarded Tour Of Alberta Stage Five Win

07 September 2015 09:22

Laisse Norman Hansen of Cannondale-Garmin has been awarded victory on the fifth stage of the Tour Of Alberta.

Bauke Mollema was in the lead for this 206.2km stage from Edson to Spruce Grove which featured some sections on dirt roads, one of which was cancelled.

It was another bitter day which saw a six man break reduced to four of Laisse Norman Hansen (Cannondale-Garmin), Tom Zirbel (Optum Pro Cycling), Derrick St John (Silber Pro Cycling) and Fred Rodriguez (Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis).

With forty kilometres to go away went Hansen whilst the race leader stayed in the pack.

Logan Owen (Axeon) got up to Zirbel and Rodriguez with Ryder Hesjedal (Cannondale-Garmin), Katusha's Sven Erik Bystrøm and Dion Smith (Hincapie Racing) joining them.

As the peloton closed in on this group, Bystrøm chased after Hansen with Andzs Flaksis following. Hansen started on the two closing circuits but Bystrøm missed marshals waving flags to direct him to take a right turn and carried straight on, followed by the peloton.

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The peloton were eventually directed back onto the course and the decision was made to tell Hansen who had by now completed one and a half of the two finishing circuits that he had won the race and the race was neutalised as soon as he crossed the finished line in a time of 4.23.01, 1.58 ahead of Laurent Didier of Trek Factory Racing and 5.39 of Bauke Mollema of Trek Factory Racing.

Mollema leads the race going into the final stage by ten seconds from Adam Yates of Orica GreenEdge.

Source: DSG