It is not so often, Jakob Fuglsang ends at the top of the podium in the race, but on Sunday he could let himself shelf as the overall winner of the etapeløbet Andalusia Around.

5. and the last stage provided the team and the Astana team in order to keep any competitors back, so it ended in a sprint, where Fuglsang be able to glide with the check as the overall winner.

This is the first Danish cykeltriumf at home.

– of course, I am super happy with, says Jakob Fuglsang to Eurosport.

– We would not let this victory slip away from us, so we worked hard from the start and caused a small outbreak get away.

It ended as expected in a sprint, but it was still hard because of the wind, he says.

the Italian Matteo Trentin from Mitchell-Scott was absolutely superior in the sprint, which he won with more cykellængder down to the next rider.

Fuglsang won the overall by 7 seconds down to teammate Ion Izagirre and 11 seconds down to the dutchman Steven Kruijswijk.

Astana occupied three of the four first seats, as Pello Bilbao finished as number four.

Fuglsang took the leader’s jersey from Tim Wellens on Saturday’s mountain stage, where the belgian could not keep up with the rest of the people at the top of the standings.

Sunday’s stage was hilly and tough to begin with but they last a good 20 miles to the short målbakke was completely flat.

Astana kept a high pace in front of the field, although only a simple and harmless littering was alone in front with a quite small head start.

– It was again a good performance by the team. Movistar also came and helped, so it was good, says the Danish conqueror.

at the same time, there was a part headwind on the last part of the stage, and it drained the angrebslyst, as some riders could otherwise sit with.

As expected, it ended in a massespurt on the small hill up towards the goal. Here opened Trentin early, and no one was able to follow with the spurtstærke Italian.

It failed to win a stage for Fuglsang, but the dane ended up in second place on two of the five stages.

the 33-year-old Jacob Fuglsangs greatest triumph came in 2017, where he won the World Tour-etapeløbet the Critérium du Dauphiné in front of prominent names such as Chris Federer and Richie Porte. Andalusia Around rank lower.

Additionally won Fuglsang in the 2016 OLYMPICS-silver in linjeløbet in Rio de Janeiro.

Sports and Games are Nothing but Danish victories: See Saturday’s boksebrag here