Speed and strength are key components to winning a professional bike race. Staying upright might be nearly as important.

On a day when crashes, flat tires and heavy rains took out several competitors, Sandy Dujardin, a French rider for Team TotalEnergies, weathered those pitfalls and all of his peers to capture the 2025 Maryland Cycling Classic on Saturday afternoon in Baltimore.

Dujardin completed the six-lap, 107.4-mile loop through the city in 3 hours, 48 minutes, 25 seconds. He finished on Pratt Street just ahead of Norway’s Jonas Abrahamsen of Uno-X Mobility, Germany’s Marius Mayrhofer of Tudor Pro Cycling, the United States’ Brandon McNulty of Team USA, Switzerland’s Mauro Schmid of Jayco AlUla, and Norway’s Anders Halland Johannessen of Uno-X Mobility — all of whom finished with t

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