Cycling: Greatest career success: Zimmermann wins Dauphiné stage

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Greatest career success: Zimmermann wins Dauphiné stage

Georg Zimmermann won the sixth stage of the Dauphiné Tour. photo

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The German professional cyclist Georg Zimmermann celebrated his greatest career success to date at the 75th edition of the long-distance Critérium du Dauphiné. The man from Augsburg won the sixth stage of the Tour of France over the 170.2 kilometers from Nantua to Crest-Voland and thus clinched his first win of the season.

The German professional cyclist Georg Zimmermann celebrated his greatest career success to date at the 75th edition of the long-distance Critérium du Dauphiné. The man from Augsburg won the sixth stage of the Tour of France over the 170.2 kilometers from Nantua to Crest-Voland and thus clinched his first win of the season.

Due to the respectable success, the climbing specialist of the Belgian Intermarché team also did some self-promotion three weeks before the Tour de France. Tour champion Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark remains overall leader in the yellow jersey.

“I still can’t really believe it”

The 25-year-old Zimmermann pulled away slightly from a group of three about a kilometer from the finish and won in an exhausting final act ahead of Frenchman Mathieu Burgaudeau. Third was the Spaniard Jonathan Castroviejo. “I still can’t really believe it, I just did my best,” said Zimmermann on Eurosport. He is the 19th German in the history of the stage race to win a day.

On Saturday, two mountains of the highest category await the pros on the 147.9 kilometer section between Porte-de-Savoie and Col de la Croix de Fer. The tour ends on Sunday in the southeastern city of Grenoble.

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