Overview

• Ecuadorian Jhonatan Narváez (UAE Emirates-XRG) won from a three-man move after Riley Sheehan celebrated too early, with Sören Waerenskjold finishing third.
• Waerenskjold claimed the blue jersey overall, unseating Stage 1 leader Danny van Poppel after the hillier run to Arnsberg.
• Florian Lipowitz went off the road in a left-hand bend about 16 kilometers from the finish, hit a utility box, continued after brief treatment, and placed 102nd at over eight minutes.
• German champion Georg Zimmermann crashed in the same corner following an earlier fall, while Marius Mayrhofer was the top German in fourth at eight seconds.
• The stage spanned about 189 hilly kilometers from Herford to Arnsberg with 2,399 meters of climbing, one day after Matthew Brennan’s photo-finish victory over Jonathan Milan on the flat opener.