“It was a very difficult stage, but with a few guys we wanted to try to get a good result here”, Teunissen said. “In the end, Koen Bouwman and myself survived the climbs in the final. In the sprint, I didn’t have much energy left and I also didn’t get through the last few corners in a proper way. As a result, I couldn’t really sprint for the first places. But this fifth place isn’t bad after all.”