2024-02-12 09:49:00
Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Monday February 12, 2024 at 10:49 a.m.
Winner of his first professional race at the end of last month in Spain, Paul Magnier did it again this Monday by winning in a sprint the 3rd stage of the Tour of Oman, run between Naseem Park and Al Bustan and shortened due to the conditions climatic. The young 19-year-old French nugget from the Soudal Quick-Step team beat her American teammate Luke Lamperti.
Seven races among the pros and already two victories for Paul Magnier. At only 19 years old, the new nugget of French cycling makes a sensational entry into the big leagues. Barely arriving in the peloton, the French rider born in Texas (in Laredo) and having spent his first three years on American soil continues to wreak havoc. At the end of last month, for his baptism of fire, Magnier immediately had the pleasure of raising his arms and letting his joy explode by winning the Trophée des Salines, in Spain, in Majorca. The little prodigy of the Soudal Quick-Step team, a formidable sprinter but not only that, could not have launched his career better. Count on him, however, not to stop there. The bronze medalist in the road race at the last European U21 Road Championships has indeed done it again. And no later than this Monday.
Magnier took advantage of the windfall
Three weeks after winning on the occasion of his debut in the professional peloton, the young teammate of Julian Alaphilippe within the Belgian team dear to Patrick Lefevere added a second victory to his very recent tally. As in Mallorca on January 25, Magnier showed his power and speed on the finish line of Al Bustan during the 3rd stage of the Tour of Oman to win this stage reduced to only 76 kilometers due to the conditions climatic. A godsend for the winner of the Trophée des Salines, who did not miss the opportunity to prove that he would soon have nothing to envy of the best specialists on the planet. And while Soudal-Quick Step had announced on the morning of this 3rd stage that the team’s number 1 option in the event of a sprint finish would be the American Luke Lamperti, Magnier, nevertheless authorized to play his card, is shown to be faster than his teammate, like Bryan Coquard (Cofidis), who came 3rd in this massive sprint not planned in the program. The name of Paul Magnier will soon no longer hold any secrets for anyone. If you haven’t already.
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