Aleksandr Vlasov puts in a commanding display to take the Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge 2020

The second addition of the one-day race saw a series of big attacks before the man from Astana took control

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Aleksandr Vlasov (Astana) took victory in dominant fashion up on the lunar landscape of Mont Ventoux with a very impressive ride from Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo) in second place and Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) in third, at the 2020 edition of the Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge 2020.

After an excellent display in the Route d'Occitanie a week before this race, where he finished only behind two Ineos riders of Egan Bernal and Pavel Sivakov, he was one of the big favourites to take the day and he did just that.

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