With fourth place on the sixth and final stage over 135.7 kilometers from Éibar to Arrate on Saturday (April 9th, 2022), Martinez ousted the Belgian young star Remco Evenepoel from first place. Second overall was the Spaniard Ion Izagirre, who also won the final stage, followed by the Russian Alexander Wlassow from the German Bora-hansgrohe team.
The best German was veteran Simon Geschke from Team Cofidis in 20th place (+3:41 minutes) and 27th in the overall rankings. Former Tour fourth-placed Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-hansgrohe), who mostly worked on the final stages Wlassows dropped out on Saturday, as did teammate Lennard Kämna.
After a fall – Vader in an artificial coma
However, there are concerns about the Dutchman Milan Vader. The teammate of Olympic champion Primoz Roglic is still in an artificial coma after his serious fall on Friday. This was reported by Spanish media, citing the team and a hospital spokesman on Saturday. Vader had fallen on a descent on stage five and been thrown over the crash barrier.
Since the carotid arteries, among other things, were affected in the accident, Vader was operated on immediately in the hospital in Barakaldo near Bilbao, media in Spain and the Netherlands reported. The athlete broke his collarbone, shoulder blade and several vertebrae, among other things, the hospital said. His condition is very serious.
Jumbo-Visma did not want to officially announce any details for the time being, but announced that Vader’s condition is stable.
Source: dpa