The future is now: 19-year-old Evenepoel solos to win Clásica San Sebastián
First-year professional Remco Evenepoel won the Clásica San Sebastián Saturday with a solo escape on the final climb to take his first WorldTour victory at just 19 years old.
The Belgian becomes the youngest-ever winner of a WorldTour race at 19 years and 190 days of age, and added to his Tour of Belgium win in June and last week’s victory in Aalst.
The Deceuninck-Quick Step rider followed an attack by Toms Skujins (Trek-Segafredo) in the final 20km and then dropped the Lithuanian to solo to the line 38 seconds ahead of the chasing pack.
Belgian Greg van Avermaet (CCC) won the bunch sprint for second, while 20-year-old Swiss rider Marc Hirschi (Sunweb) finished third, to make two riders on the podium under 21 years old.
Youngest ever winner (19 years and 190 days) of a World Tour race. Memorable day for @EvenepoelRemco at #Klasikoa! pic.twitter.com/p8VvWVqxK2
— Deceuninck-QuickStep (@deceuninck_qst) August 3, 2019
Evenepoel’s teammate Julian Alaphilippe, the 2018 winner of San Sebastián who held the yellow jersey at the Tour de France for 14 stages before being overhauled by eventual winner Egan Bernal, was forced to abandon the Basque Country race 90km into the 227km race citing fatigue. Bernal also abandoned the race with around 55km to go.
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