{"id":108870,"date":"2026-06-16T08:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/108870\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:58:24","slug":"the-crash-had-a-big-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/108870\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe crash had a big influence\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDanny van Poppel opened the sprint for Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe, but Philipsen came through to take victory ahead of Tobias Lund Andresen and Sam Welsford. With the Tour de France<\/a> build-up moving closer, it was still a useful WorldTour marker for one of the peloton\u2019s leading sprinters.Crash denies Copenhagen its full sprint test<\/p>\n

Philipsen did not pretend Copenhagen had played out as a normal bunch sprint. The late crash changed the shape of the race, cutting the front group down and removing several riders who had been expected to contest the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe crash had a big influence on how the race developed. It was hectic, just like last year, and there was also a crash in the final kilometre, so it is a shame for those who went down, and I just hope everyone is okay,\u201d Philipsen said in his winner\u2019s interview.<\/p>\n

The crash came just as the race was tightening on the Copenhagen city circuit. Rain arrived late, the roads were wet, and the day\u2019s breakaway still had enough of a gap to keep the reduced peloton under pressure.<\/p>\n

Rune Herregodts, Anders Foldager, Mads Andersen and William Blume carried the escape into the final lap after Frederik Rodenberg had earlier been dropped and caught. For several kilometres, they threatened to turn a chaotic finale into a breakaway upset rather than a sprint finish.<\/p>\n

\"Jasper<\/p>\n

Jasper Philipsen punches the air as he wins Copenhagen Sprint 2026<\/p>\n

Philipsen takes confidence from chaotic win<\/p>\n

The circumstances made the win less of a pure head-to-head sprint test, but Philipsen still left Denmark with exactly the kind of result that sharpens a summer campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gives me a lot of confidence. We did not get the big bunch sprint because of the crash, but I am happy to take victory in a WorldTour race. It is always important, and I am really happy with my form,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

That balance mattered. Philipsen could acknowledge that the crash changed the race while still treating the win as a serious result. He had survived the split, stayed positioned through the wet finale and beaten a front group that still included Lund Andresen, Welsford, Tord Gudmestad, Van Poppel and Max Walscheid.<\/p>\n

He also pointed to the strength of the breakaway, which forced the reduced peloton into a late chase before the sprint could even begin. \u201cAll teams contributed to pulling the breakaway back. The pace was incredibly high, so the breakaway must have been really strong,\u201d said Philipsen.<\/p>\n

Copenhagen did not give Philipsen the full bunch sprint examination against Merlier, Meeus and Groenewegen. It gave him a different kind of test instead: a wet circuit, a split peloton, a late catch and a WorldTour win taken under pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Danny van Poppel opened the sprint for Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe, but Philipsen came through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[18036,108,52822,2813,18032,18679],"class_list":["post-108870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-copenhagen","tag-alpecin-premier-tech","tag-copenhagen","tag-copenhagen-sprint","tag-cycling","tag-jasper-philipsen","tag-tour-de-france"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116758964260761483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}