Karl Platt and Stefan Sahm victorious in stage 1 sprint

The sprint finish at the end of stage 1 of the TransAlp race

The sprint finish at the end of stage 1 of the TransAlp race (Image credit: TransAlp)

Karl Platt and Stefan Sahm have - just like in 2008 - won the first stage of the 2010 TransAlp Team Bulls was victorious in a finish sprint after having pedalled 83.76 kilometres and 2,105 metres of altitude from Füssen to Imst. The Germans defeated their mates Thomas Dietsch and Tim Böhme of Team Bulls 2, who were second, just one second behind. The second ranked French-German duo had catched up again in the flat section after Nassereith and was able to finally place in front of third-ranked Swiss title defenders Lukas Buchli and Thomas Stoll of BiXS iXS Pro Team.

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