Hamburg: British rider Ben Swift will lead UAE Team Emirates at the one-day 220km EuroEyes Cyclassics race in Hamburg on Sunday.
Swift will lead Italian teammates: Simone Consonni, Roberto Ferrari, Filippo Ganna, Marco Marcato, Oliviero Troia, Diego Ulissi and Slovenian Marko Kump. This is the 22nd edition of the race, which attracts over 750,000 spectators. Riders will be faced with one large lap followed by three shorter laps, which include the Waseberg incline — the largest incline of the race — before a 15km uphill finish.
Swift said: “The EuroEyes Cyclassics Hamburg is usually a wide open race, with various chances to attack, although a final sprint is still the most probable outcome. I will try to seize the moment and the right situation to try to get into a tight group in which I can make my move during the sprint to the finish line.”
Manager Orlando Maini said: “Usually this race is the perfect battleground for sprinters; this is why we would like to give Ferrari the chance to go up against the best sprinters of the pack. Roberto is always impeccable in the role of last man in the leading-train for our other speedsters, but he has always been ready when he’s been assigned a captain’s rank as well. The Waseberg is the only part of the route that could weed out the group; Ulissi, Swift and Marcato are going to have to be ready for it.”
This weekend also marks the start of the Vuelta a España, the final Grand Tour of this season’s UCI World Tour.
