Race: Tour of Croatia Start/Finish: Osijek/Varazdin, Croatia Distance: 230.4 kilometers Osijek, Croatia —Team Novo Nordisk’s Andrea Peron set the stage for the six-day Tour of Croatia when he took 15th place against some of the best sprinters in the world on Tuesday’s opener.  Stage 1 was a 230.4-kilometer run from Osijek to Varazdin. The race…

Race: Tour of Croatia, Stage 2 Start/Finish: NP Plitvice/Split, Croatia Distance: 240 kilometers  Split, Croatia —Team Novo Nordisk’s Kevin de Mesmaeker (BEL) ensured a good showing for the Changing Diabetes® jersey on stage 2 of the Tour of Croatia, featuring in the day’s six-man breakaway. The escapees pulled away soon after the start in picturesque Plitvička Jezera and gained a gap of…

Race: Tour of Croatia, Stage 3 Start/Finish: Makarska/Sibenik Distance: 190.8 kilometers  Sibenik, Croatia – Thursday’s stage 3 kicked off in the coastal city of Makarska, and saw six riders pull away soon after the race’s first climb. Dimension Data, looking to protect race leader Mark Cavendish, worked to control the peloton. The six leaders eventually reached a maximum gap of…

Race: Tour of Croatia, Stage 4 Start/Finish: Crikvenica/Ucka Distance: 122.1 kilometers  Ucka, Croatia – Friday’s stage 4 of the Tour of Croatia began with teams on the offensive and attacking early on. Comparatively short at just 121.1km, the race’s queen stage earned its title with several demanding climbs and a formidable mountaintop finish with gradients up to 18%. A group of 6 riders managed pulled away at the race’s…

Race: Tour of Croatia, Stage 5 (TTT) Start/Finish: Porec/Umag Distance: 40.3 kilometers  Umag, Croatia – Team Novo Nordisk took to their Colnago K-zero time trial bikes for Saturday’s Tour of Croatia Team Time Trial. The race took place under a torrential downpour, which made the 40.3-km course, with its multiple sharp turns and roundabouts, all the more challenging. “Today was only the second…

Race: Tour of Croatia, Stage 6 Start/Finish: Sveti Martin/Zagreb Distance: 158.5 kilometers  Zagreb, Croatia – The course for Sunday’s final stage of the Tour of Croatia was a mostly flat one, so with no riders in competing for the GC, Team Novo Nordisk looked to put sprinters Andrea Peron (ITA) and Martijn Verschoor (NED) in position for the final…