Alexey Lutsenko won the Tour of Sicily

Alexey Lutsenko won the Tour of Sicily

Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan Team) won the Giro di Sicilia Crédit Agricole. Louis Meintjes (Intermarché – Circus – Wanty) and Vincenzo Albanese (Eolo-Kometa Cycling Team) completed the general classification podium. Decisive for the Kazakh rider was his success in the final stage, the 216-kilometer Barcelona Pozzo di Gotto-Giarre.

“I am overjoyed for this victory and for the work of my team,” said Lutsenko. “It had been a long time since I had won a race, more than a year, and my team also needed to win. I managed to start on the hardest part of the climb and continued to the finish. It feels good to win The Tour of Sicily before the Ardennes Classics.”