BRUSSELS: Gregor Muehlberger won the sixth and penultimate stage of the BinckBank Tour on Saturday in Sittard-Geleen in the Netherlands.

Slovenian Matej Mohoric (Bahrain-Merida) kept the overall lead, 30 seconds ahead of Australian Michael Matthews (Sunweb).

It was Muehlberger’s first stage victory in a World Tour event.

The 24-year-old Austrian, who rides for the Bora team, stole a march on Belgian Tim Wellens (Lotto Soudal) and Czech Zdenek Stybar (Quick-Step) by attacking with a kilometre still to go.

“It was not planned in advance,” he said. “The circumstances of the race allowed me to try my luck, and it worked.”

Published in Dawn, August 19th, 2018