Colombian Rubio is the champion of the “Burjeel Holding” stage

Colombian cyclist Ener Rubio of the “Movie Star” team won yesterday the “Burjeel Holding” stage, which is the third of the “Emirates Tour 2023” in its fifth edition, which is organized by the Abu Dhabi Sports Council, within the agenda of the International Cycling Federation, and continues until the 26th of this month. .

The third stage started from the Emirate of Fujairah, specifically from the beach of umbrellas, to the top of Jebel Jais in Ras Al Khaimah, for a distance of 185 km, where the Colombian covered the distance in a time of 4:51:24 hours, ahead of the riders of the Belgian Quick Step Soudal team, Rimco Evenpol, and the British Adam. Yates from Emirates Team.

The Belgian Remco Evenbol, the rider of the Soudal Quick Step team, won two shirts after the end of the race, as he wore the red shirt sponsored by the “International Holding Company”, which is awarded to the leader in the general standings of the race, and the white shirt sponsored by the “Al Nakhil Company” for the best young cyclist under 23 years old, while he won Australian Lucas Plab won the green jersey sponsored by the “Italian Trade Agency” for the points leader, and was crowned with the black jersey sponsored by “Abu Dhabi Experience” for the middle-speed stage leader, Belgian Edward Planckart, rider of the Alpecin Dekonink team.

The winners were crowned by Aref Al-Awani, Secretary General of the Abu Dhabi Sports Council, Kafeel Abdul-Azim, Director of Events at Burjeel Holding Group, Ahmed Ibrahim, Director of Marketing at IHC, Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, representative of Nakheel, Alyssa Piccolo, representative of Aleah, and Reem Al-Rashdi. Director of the Marketing Department at the Abu Dhabi Sports Council. Rubio said in a press statement, “This is my first professional victory on the day that falls on my birthday, and it comes after I faced many physical problems since the beginning of my professional career, but I am in excellent condition now and receive great attention from my entire team.”