Colnago rid­ers con­tin­ued their run of vic­to­ries with Sacha Modolo win­ning a high-speed sprint in Turkey, Thomas Voeckler impress­ing in Gabon and Aleksandr Serebryakov win­ning the stage five sprint in the Tour of Korea.

The Colnago-CSF Inox team cel­e­brated Andrea Di Corrado’s first ever pro­fes­sional vic­tory at the Tour of Turkey on Thursday and the cham­pagne corks were pop­ping again on Friday after Sacha Modolo won a high-speed sprint in Kusadasi. Teammate Enrico Battaglin made a late solo attack but when he was swept up, Modolo got the per­fect lead out from Marco Coledan and then charged to the line, dis­tanc­ing Australians Matt Goss and Mark Renshaw.

“This is a spe­cial win for me. I’ve been try­ing to land a win to boost my moral for the Giro d’Italia. I’ve finally done it. It was a hard stage but I stayed with the best rid­ers and I beat some big name rid­ers in the sprint. This win is ded­i­cated to the team who helped me so much and to my child who will be born in September,” Modolo said.

 

Voeckler stars in Gabon, Serebryakov in Korea

Thomas Voeckler of Team Europcar is the star of La Tropical Ammisa Bongo stage race being con­tested in Gabon, cen­tral Africa. He won stage three on Thursday and then fin­ished sec­ond on Friday’s fourth stage as he helped his team­mate Anthony Charteau take the over­all race lead.

In Korea, Aleksandr Serebryakov (Team Type 1 – Sanofi) won a sprint fin­ish with is Colnago M10 bike, to make up for being rel­e­gated in the stage three.

“The pres­sure was off psy­cho­log­i­cally because we feel like we actu­ally won the stage two days ago, before being rel­e­gated, and this was a chance for us to build on our con­fi­dence and win a lit­tle jus­tice for Team Type 1-Sanofi,” Serebryakov said.

All three rid­ers could secure more suc­cess in the remain­ing stages of the Tour or Turkey, La Tropical Ammisa Bongo and the Tour of Korea.

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