Felix Engelhardt (Jayco-AlUla) chased back onto a five-rider breakaway inside of three kilometres to claim his first elite men’s road race title at the German Road Championships on Sunday.
Part of an elite five-rider lead group, which included Nico Denz (Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe), Lennart Jasch (Tudor), Nils Politt (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), and defending champion Georg Zimmermann (Lotto-Intermarché), Engelhardt dangled a few times off the back before losing touch with 10 kilometres to go. But the 25-year-old kept on chasing, reconnecting with less than three kilometres to go as the quintet raced towards the finish line in Bad Liebenstein.