The race marked the peloton return of Archbold's Deceuninck Quickstep team mate Fabio Jakobsen .

It comes eight months after numerous facial reconstruction surgeries following his life-threatening crash on a sprint at the Tour of Poland.

Jakobsen finished in 147th place.

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