After a number of BORA – hansgrohe riders were forced to forego participation in their national championships this week, partly due to injury, and partly by virtue of the intensive racing schedule this year, the team from Raubling was only able to come away with one national title, that of Juraj Sagan in Slovakia.
Results
Thursday
Road Race Estonia – Martin Laas, 12th place
Friday
Individual Time Trial Poland – Maciej Bodnar, silver
Saturday
Individual Time Trial Austria – Patrick Gamper, silver
Road Race Slovakia – Juraj Sagan, gold; Erik Baska, silver
Sunday
Road Race Germany – Pascal Ackermann, silver
Italy – Daniel Oss, TBA
Luxembourg – Jempy Drucker, bronze
“The German road race was held over 160 km, featuring 48 laps of the Sachsenring. We actually wanted to control the race for Lennard Kämna, Andreas Schillinger, or Marcus Burghardt and hoped that there would be enough attacks in the second half of the race to make the going difficult. Unfortunately, events were pretty calm and several of the other riders were looking to us. We controlled the race and Pascal was able to save energy throughout the day. Ultimately the team ended up concentrating its efforts on him and supported him well over the final few laps. In the end, he finished second, to be honest, not quite what we had hoped to achieve, but unfortunately that was all he had today. Even though he pulled out a good sprint, it wasn’t enough to get him the win this year.” – Enrico Poitschke, Sports Director
