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Dutch cyclist Fabio Jakobsen crowned his comeback from a horrific crash in the 2020 Tour of Poland by winning the Elite Men\u2019s European Road Race Championships on Sunday with a powerful sprint. He finished a bike length ahead of France\u2019s Arnaud D\u00e9mare<\/a>, with Tim Merlier of Belgium coming in third.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The race always seemed destined to finish in a mass sprint as the 209.4-km course from Murnau am Staffelsee to the Odeonsplatz in Munich featured only two modest climbs, the ascent of the Kesselberg (5.1 km at 4.9%) and a 1-km speed bump with an average slope of 10% 115 km from the finish line. A two-rider escape was hauled in with 28 km to go by a peloton dominated by teams with strong sprinters, including Ireland\u2019s Sam Bennett who finished 5th, and Italy\u2019s Elia Viviani, the 2019 race winner, who came in 7th. The final sprint was a three-rider contest, with Merlier hitting the front early but he was overtaken by both D\u00e9mare and, finally, Jakobsen, who left his rivals no chance.<\/p>\n

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The pack in action. \u00a9 Profimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The winner was quick to credit his Dutch teammates, especially lead-out Danny van Poppel who was riding so fast that he crossed the line in fourth place. \u201cDanny shows that he is a real lead-out,\u201d Jakobsen told journalists<\/a> after the race. \u201cHe really puts me in the wheel of Tim [Merlier] and I [could] get over it. [My teammates] are all professionals, and motivated. I can win, they know that. So I’m extremely grateful. Now we are going to have a party.”<\/p>\n

Jakobsen has a lot to celebrate. In the 2020 Tour of Poland, he crashed into the roadside barriers at full speed after fellow sprinter Dylan Groenewegen<\/a>\u00a0deviated from his line. The race doctor initially reported that Jakobsen had suffered several major injuries, including serious brain trauma and damage to the upper respiratory tract, a broken palate, and heavy blood loss, and was in a life-threatening condition. This victory follows a successful 2022 campaign that saw him win three points classification titles in the spring and finish an excellent fifth in the green jersey competition in his first Tour de France.<\/p>\n

Merlier, the 2022 Belgian national champion, left the race with regrets, as his Belgian teammates put him in a great position for the sprint. \u201cI think I [started] a little too early,” he said. “It is painful. It was already running through my head that I would win and something like that doesn’t happen to me much. If there’s a fast rider [on] your wheel and you have to start a little too early, it’s usually fatal. And it was Jakobsen too, hey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Past winners of the Elite Men\u2019s European Road Race Championships include Slovakia\u2019s Peter Sagan in 2016, Italy\u2019s Matteo Trentin in 2018 and, another Italian last year, Sonny Colbrelli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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