Ho Chi Minh City Television Cycling Cup: 4 'huge' foreign players swept away the efforts of the large team

The class of the foreign players was shown in stage 20 of the Ho Chi Minh City Television Cycling Cup - Ton Dong A 2025, making the whole group unable to catch up.

Today (April 25), the 20th stage of the Ho Chi Minh City Television Cycling Cup from Vung Tau City to Dong Nai City, 118 km long, took place with a display of superior strength from strong foreign players.

Three riders, Samuel Jenner (Australia, team 620 Chau Thoi Vinh Long), Loic Desriac (France, Domesco Pharmaceutical Dong Thap), Mikhail Fokin (Russia, Loc Troi An Giang Group) took the initiative to attack and separate from the large group. Then Savva Novikov (Russia, Binh Minh Plastics Binh Duong) escaped alone from the large group and joined the leading group.

Loic Desriac worked hard in the group of 4 foreign riders at the front, making it difficult for the large group behind to catch up.

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The 4 riders with the highest rankings on the yellow jersey individual rankings are also the 4 most comprehensively evaluated faces in the 2025 Ho Chi Minh City Television Cycling Cup, taking turns leading the "tractor", creating high speed. At the back, the large group with the combined efforts of nearly 20 riders from the teams Le Fruit Maxxis Dong Nai, Pelio Kenda Dong Nai, Ho Chi Minh City Vinama, Ho Chi Minh City New Group still could not catch up, and even the 4 foreign players in the top group widened the gap further and further.

The race for both individual and team titles was mixed, so Samuel Jenner and Mikhail Fokin lost their footing in the last 30km, allowing the larger group to gradually narrow the gap, but they were still nearly 2 minutes behind at the finish line.

Nguyen Hoang Sang successfully defended the orange jersey title for the Vietnamese racer with the best performance.

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Racer Samuel Jenner brought home the first victory for the 620 Chau Thoi Vinh Long Club when he crossed the finish line first in Bien Hoa City. This was also a successful race for Loic Desriac when he finished 3rd, thereby rising to 3rd place in the green jersey ranking - sprint king, taking the position of racer Nguyen Tan Hoai (Loc Troi An Giang Group).

Samuel Jenner celebrates winning stage 20 of the Ho Chi Minh City Television Cycling Cup 2025 in Bien Hoa City

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The titles after 20 stages remain unchanged. Mikhail Fokin (Loc Troi An Giang Group) maintains the yellow jersey title for the racer with the least racing time. Nguyen Hoang Sang (Le Fruit Maxxis Dong Nai) successfully defends the orange jersey title for the Vietnamese racer with the best results. Pham Le Xuan Loc (Military Zone 7) maintains the white jersey title for the best young racer. The green jersey title - king of sprints is still in the hands of Nick Kergozou (620 Vinh Long Agriculture) and the red dot jersey title - king of mountains remains unchanged as it is still held by Savva Novikov (Binh Minh Binh Duong Plastics).

Tomorrow (April 26), the racers will compete in stage 21 of the 2025 Ho Chi Minh City Television Cycling Cup from Bien Hoa (Dong Nai) to My Tho (Tien Giang) with a distance of 133 km.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/cup-xe-dap-truyen-hinh-tphcm-4-ngoai-binh-khung-cuon-phang-no-luc-cua-doan-dong-185250425132616397.htm