Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) opened up his home stage race at the Tour of Denmark perfectly, winning stage 1 from a reduced-group sprint after a tactically well played finale alongside teammate Mattias Skjelmose into Rønne.
A nine-rider group fought out the stage victory, made up of four men from the early breakaway and five who got away in the final 35km after Pedersen lit up the action on the third lap up Helligpeder (0.7 km at 7.4%) climb.
