Good end to the ten-day tour of Poyang Lake

Bike Aids Yemane wins final stage and mountain jersey

By Christoph Adamietz

Dawit Yemane (Bike Aid) won the final stage and the mountain jersey of the Tour of Poyang Lake. | Photo: Bike Aid

12.09.2024 | (rsn) - Team Bike Aid completed the ten-day Tour of Poyan Lake (2.2) in China in the best possible way. Captain Dawit Yemane secured the final stage as a soloist and also took over the mountain jersey from his teammate Yoel Habteab, who came second in the special classification.

"We are really happy. It was a great result. Overall, we are very satisfied with how everything went here. It's just a shame that we missed third place in the overall team ranking by one second," said team rider Pirmin Eisenbarth to RSN.

"A very good day for the team. My teammates put me in a very good position at the foot of the final climb and I was then able to go solo," Yemane told RSN.

Yemane won the 119-kilometer 10th stage around Anyun by two seconds over a chasing group of eleven, which was led to the finish by the Russian overall winner Petr Rikunov (Chengdu). Habteab crossed the finish line in seventh place, while Lennard Sternsdorf, who also rides for Bike Aid, finished 18th, 16 seconds behind. In 14th place, the German was also the best Bike Aid rider in the overall classification, while Yemane was ultimately ranked 17th.

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The picture shows the award ceremony at the final stop of the 12th Tour of Poyang. This year's Tour of Poyang champion Rikunov (first from left), the final winner of the orange jersey of the sprint king Martin Lass (second from left), the final winner of the polka dot jersey of the mountaineering king Yemane (second from right), and the final winner of the pink jersey representing the best athlete of Greater China and the white jersey of the best young athlete Gao Yongbing (first from right) jointly opened champagne to celebrate. Photo by Liu Lixin, a reporter of China News Service