Now the professional cyclists of the Hrinkow Advarics Cycleang Team are the favorites in the Upper Austria Tour, which runs from Thursday to Sunday: The Steyr team celebrated success at the Tour of Malopolska (note: “Lesser Poland”, a region around Kraków in southern Poland). down the line. In the final queen stage, Jonas Rapp won two seconds ahead of his teammate Rainer Kepplinger and 27 seconds ahead of the Czech Jakub Otruba. In the overall standings, Rapp replaced the previously leading Italian Walter Calzoni and moved up from second to first place. Kepplinger managed to jump from fifth to second place. Third overall was Otruba from the Elkov-Kasper team.
His thanks go to his teammates and supervisors, Rapp said after his triumph: “The hard work paid off. We presented ourselves really well. I’m glad that I was able to reward our performance with victory in the end.” To top it off, Rapp also won the mountain jersey of this Continental Tour, and the team ranking also went to the Steyrer Hrinkow team. In the 60-year history of this tour, no Austrian team had ever managed to do this before.
With this success, the Steyrers are currently the strongest team in Austria in terms of UCI points.
Source: Nachrichten
