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August 16, 2023
Tour du Limousin 2023 🇫🇷 – Stage 2 – Excideuil – Trélissac : 185,6 km
Established in 1968, the Tour du Limousin is a four-day stage race that is held annually in the Limousin region of southwest-central France,
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August 16, 2023
Tour du Limousin 2023 🇫🇷 – Stage 2 – Excideuil – Trélissac : 185,6 km
Established in 1968, the Tour du Limousin is a four-day stage race that is held annually in the Limousin region of southwest-central France, this year taking place from August 15-18. Its varied parcours have suited a wide array of different riders over the years, but typically it favours rouleurs with a fast-finishing kick. The format of the race has remained largely the same since its inaugural edition, with four road stages in and around the Limousin region. None of these stages feature any mountains, but they do traverse some of the rolling hills which characterise this region of France. It’s these hills which routinely dictate the general classification year on year.
Luca Mozzato (Arkéa-Samsic) won stage 2 of the Tour du Limousin-Périgord in a hectic sprint in Trélissac and scored the first professional victory of his career.
Lewis Askey (Groupama-FDJ) pushed across the line in second, ahead of Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën Team), wearing the KOM jersey. Cosnefroy and Askey bumped in the final right-hand corner, with the Frenchman complaining with a raised arm for the disruption in his momentum that left him in third position.
Race leader Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) finished safely in the front group to retain the yellow jersey, now 19 seconds over Cosnefroy and 26 seconds over Michael Storer (Groupama-FDJ) in third.
A breakaway controlled the stage for 150km, but the remaining trio from a five-rider lead group withered away just 4.5km from the finish to set up the bunch sprint.
Wednesday’s flat run from Excideuil to Trélissac included four intermediate sprints and a trio of small third-category climbs where organisers provided KOM points. The distance between the two cities is only 30km, but the route looped through the narrow country roads of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region for 185.6km.
After 30km of racing, the composition of the breakaway was set with Johan Jacobs (Movistar Team), Vinzent Dorn (Bike Aid), Andrea Pietrobon (Eolo-Kometa Cycling Team) and the Van Rysel-Roubaix Lille Métropole pair Tom Mainguenaud and Kenny Molly. Another 10km on, they passed over the first KOM, with a 4:10 advantage over the peloton.
After the second KOM, the quintet grew its lead to 5:25, and with just under 100km to race, a few teams began to take an interest, Intermarché-Circus-Wanty, Arkéa-Samsic Groupama-FDJ beginning to add a higher pace at the front of the peloton.
Across the lumpy, circuitous route the five worked together well until Dorn accelerated with 30km to go and sprinted to claim the Corrèze trophy sprint in Cornille. Pietrobon was then dropped from the front group and rejoined the peloton with 25km to go. Race leader Grégoire remained protected by Groupama-FDJ, riding at the front of the peloton and bringing the margin down to 1:55.
On the clockwise loop across the final 2.4km climb at Côte de Sarliac, the four leaders saw their margin dissolve to under 40 seconds, Intermarché-Circus-Wanty driving the peloton.
With 13km of flat terrain remaining until the final uphill kick in Trélissac, Mainguenaud fell away from the leaders. Eight kilometres later, the peloton had the remaining trio in their sights and made the catch with just under 4.5km to go.
Results :
 won stage 2 of the Tour du Limousin-Périgord in a hectic sprint in Trélissac and scored the first professional victory of his career.
Lewis Askey (Groupama-FDJ) pushed across the line in second, ahead of Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën Team), wearing the KOM jersey. Cosnefroy and Askey bumped in the final right-hand corner, with the Frenchman complaining with a raised arm for the disruption in his momentum that left him in third position.
Race leader Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) finished safely in the front group to retain the yellow jersey, now 19 seconds over Cosnefroy and 26 seconds over Michael Storer (Groupama-FDJ) in third.
A breakaway controlled the stage for 150km, but the remaining trio from a five-rider lead group withered away just 4.5km from the finish to set up the bunch sprint.
Wednesday’s flat run from Excideuil to Trélissac included four intermediate sprints and a trio of small third-category climbs where organisers provided KOM points. The distance between the two cities is only 30km, but the route looped through the narrow country roads of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region for 185.6km.
After 30km of racing, the composition of the breakaway was set with Johan Jacobs (Movistar Team), Vinzent Dorn (Bike Aid), Andrea Pietrobon (Eolo-Kometa Cycling Team) and the Van Rysel-Roubaix Lille Métropole pair Tom Mainguenaud and Kenny Molly. Another 10km on, they passed over the first KOM, with a 4:10 advantage over the peloton.
After the second KOM, the quintet grew its lead to 5:25, and with just under 100km to race, a few teams began to take an interest, Intermarché-Circus-Wanty, Arkéa-Samsic Groupama-FDJ beginning to add a higher pace at the front of the peloton.
Across the lumpy, circuitous route the five worked together well until Dorn accelerated with 30km to go and sprinted to claim the Corrèze trophy sprint in Cornille. Pietrobon was then dropped from the front group and rejoined the peloton with 25km to go. Race leader Grégoire remained protected by Groupama-FDJ, riding at the front of the peloton and bringing the margin down to 1:55.
On the clockwise loop across the final 2.4km climb at Côte de Sarliac, the four leaders saw their margin dissolve to under 40 seconds, Intermarché-Circus-Wanty driving the peloton.
With 13km of flat terrain remaining until the final uphill kick in Trélissac, Mainguenaud fell away from the leaders. Eight kilometres later, the peloton had the remaining trio in their sights and made the catch with just under 4.5km to go.
<strong>Results : </strong>
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