MADRID, 10 Apr. (SportsFinding) –
The Polish cyclist Michal Kwiatkowski (INEOS Grenadiers) took victory this Sunday, for the second time in his career, in the Amstel Gold Race, in a test that had to be resolved with the ‘photo-finish’ after the winner and Frenchman Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën) entered the finish line paired.
As happened in last year’s edition, the Dutch race, 254.1 kilometers between Maastricht and Valkenburg, was decided by reviewing the images and after Cosnefroy even celebrated the victory. Thus, Kwiatkowski joins this success to that achieved at the event in 2015 in the first classic of the Triptych of the Ardennes.
Both jumped out of the final group of favorites with 14 kilometers to go, culminating a previous attack by the British Thomas Pidcock (INEOS Grenadiers), and it was the Pole who managed to be crowned in a last kidney blow.
With this, he takes over as champion of the ‘beer classic’ of Belgian Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), absent due to coronavirus and who in 2021 already celebrated victory thanks also to a ‘photo-finish’ that resolved his tight final sprint against, precisely, Pidcock.