The Saudi Tour that takes place this week on the roads of Saudi Arabia has become the territory of sprinters in these first three stages. If on the first day the victory went to Dylan Groenewegen, in the second stage the promising ITALIAN Jonathan Milan prevailed and on this third day the victory went to another cyclist who comes stomping on the mass arrivals and time trials: the Norwegian Soren Waerensjkold.
At 22 years old, Waerenskjold thus achieved his first victory as a professional and the first victory of Uno-X in this 2023 so special for the Norwegian squad, which will start for the first time in a big one in the next Tour de France.
with this victory Waerenskjold shows the potential that he has been showing since his youth, when he won the overall in the Niedersachen-Rundfahrt, won a stage and was fourth overall in the Grand Prix Rüebliland and achieved the overall in the Saarland Trophywith a stage win included, in addition to being second in the Ghent-Wevelgem Junior in 2018, in addition to two stages and the general of the Tour of Rhodes in 2020.
Some victories that made Uno-X made his signing in the 2021 season, which allowed him to continue growing and standing out in events such as the Tour of the Future that year, where he won two stages and wore the leader’s jersey in another two days before leaving. Although his big leap took place in 2022 with the conquest of the U-23 national title en route in Norway and another stage and two more days of leadership in the Tour of the Future before shining in the World Championships in Wollongong, where he was proclaimed world champion under-23 time trial and where he was third in the long-distance event after winning the group sprint after escapees Yevgeniy Fedorov and Mathias Vacek. Now Waerenskjold has shown that he too can compete with ‘the biggest’ in the peloton and he hopes to continue showing it in the big events on the calendar.