Carapaz, who rides for the Ineos cycling team, on Friday finished ahead of Italy’s Diego Ulissi and France’s Rudy Molard in the race's 203.1 km third leg between the southern Polish cities of Wadowice and Bielsko-Biała.
Ecuadorian rider Richard Carapaz celebrates winning the third leg of the 2020 Tour de Pologne between the southern Polish cities of Wadowice and Bielsko-Biała on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. Photo: PAP/Andrzej Grygiel
Meanwhile, Dutch cyclist Fabio Jakobsen, badly injured in a horrific finish-line crash during the first stage of this year’s Tour de Pologne, has been brought out of an induced coma by doctors at a hospital in the southern Polish city of Sosnowiec.
Doctors said on Friday Jakobsen was in “good” condition after undergoing a complicated five-hour operation involving oral surgeons and ear, nose and throat specialists.
The rider had suffered extensive craniofacial injuries and was resuscitated at the scene of the crash in Katowice, southern Poland, earlier this week.
Dr. Paweł Gruenpeter, from the Polish hospital treating Dutch cyclist Fabio Jakobsen, briefs reporters on Friday. Photo: PAP/Hanna Bardo
The 2020 Tour de Pologne started on Wednesday and ends on Sunday amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Source: TVP, PAP