Schweinfurt, Wednesday, August 21st 2024
Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) won the prologue of the Lidl Deutschland Tour 2024. The Italian needed 3:16 minutes for the 2.9 kilometres and was thus less than a second faster than his teammate Mads Pedersen in second place. Maikel Zijlaard (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) comes in third with two seconds behind. With his first victory at the Lidl Deutschland Tour Milan took over the Blue Jersey oft he overall leader. He also won the Green Jersey and the White one. Tomorrow’s stage will start in Schweinfurt and leads over 176.3 kilometres to Heilbronn.
“It was really important to start well at the Lidl Deutschland Tour for us, I really gave everything. Mads was really close, less than a second. For all of us it was important.
It was something different to usual. I think we have a really fast bike and we showed it. We were confident in this.
The season has been really good, we’ve achieved all the goals we had. Now, in this second part of the season, I feel really good. We have to all keep going like this.
It was important for the whole team to bring home the win. I would have been happy if it was Mads that finished first. We’re both feeling super good, we’ll try our best.”
Stage 1
- Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) 3’16’’
- Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) +01’’
- Maikel Zijlaard (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) +02’’
GC
- Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) 3’16’’
- Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) +01’’
- Maikel Zijlaard (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) +02’’
