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Burkina Faso-Cycling-Tour:The Eritrean Meron wins the day's stage, the Burkinabe Ilboudo always yellow jersey
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The Eritrean Abraham Meron has emerged Thursday in the finish of the 7th stage between Bobo-Dioulasso and Banfora (84.5 km), however, does not prevent the Burkinabe Harouna Ilboudo to retain the yellow jersey.
Two hot spots were on this stage, the smallest of the Tour, Peni (31.1 km) and Toussiana (52.8 km). The Eritrean has prepared his victory by removing all intermediate sprints respectively before the Algerian Mehdi Hamza and the Ivorian Issiaka Cissé.
The pace of this step was particularly strong despite the poor condition of the road. The Eritrean runner covered the distance in 2 hours 00 minutes 10 seconds at an average speed of 42.191 km / h before the Algerian Mehdi Hamza and the Ivorian Issiaka Cissé.
The Burkinabe Harouna Ilboudo which remained marking his challenger, the French Graczyk, was able to keep her 2 seconds. It also has 24 seconds ahead of the 3rd, the Eritrean Kibrom.
The Moroccan Nassim Saidi dethrones Solomon Zemenfes the green jersey for the points with 128 points against 126 for the Eritreans.
-Here Are the top 5 overall after the step 7:
-1st: Harouna Ilboudo (Burkina Faso): 22h 31 min 56 sec
-2nd: Vincent Graczyk (France): standard: 2 seconds
-3rd: Mehari Kibrom (Eritrea): standard: 24 seconds
-4th: Solomon Zemenfes ( Eritrea): gap: 1 min 09 seconds
-5th: Seydou Bamogo (Eritrea): standard: 1 minute 28 seconds
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Tour du Faso - Meron wins the stage, Ilboudo still leads
After the victory of Dawit Haile and the takeover of Harouna Ilboudo Wednesday, the riders of the 29th edition of the Tour du Faso Used to connect Bobo Banfora on 84.5 kilometers under the 7th stage. As before, this is an Eritrean who won in the person of Meron Abraham , who disposed of his two breakaway companions, Algerian Abderrahmane Mehdi Hamza , who had distinguished himself on the 3rd stage of Tour of Senegal , and the Ivory Coast Isiaka Cisse , stage winner this year on the Grand Prix Chantal Biya and the Tower of Ivory Coast . Abraham , who came close to victory on the 2nd stage of the Tour of Eritrea and finished 3rd of the 2nd stage Saturday and finally raises his arms this season. Overall, Ilboudo , who finished in the first peloton at 34 seconds, retains its 2 small seconds ahead of the French Vincent Graczyk and 24 seconds on the Eritrean Kibrom Mehari .
Posted 11.03.2016 at 14:29
Ranking Step 7: Tour du Faso
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