After the participant, who lives in Austria, had not arrived at the finish at 5 p.m., the joint search teams from the fire department and mountain rescue service immediately began the search. They found him in the area of the Zillertaler Höhenstrasse exit Kaltenbach below the toll station. He was rescued about 50 meters below the road. The rescuers could only determine that he had died. His bicycle was lying 20 meters below the road. Nothing is known about the exact circumstances of the accident.

The second stage was subsequently ridden without a classification. Participants and organizers commemorated the accident victim in a minute's silence before the start. The riders of the Centurion-Vaude team gathered at the highest point of today's stage, the Übergangsjoch, for a commemoration. The leader in the "King of the Mountain" category, Markus Kaufmann (GER), said: "I immediately liked the organizer's decision to have a neutral start today without timekeeping, because every rider reacts differently. My head wasn't fully in the race today either. That's why I was happy that the organizer made this decision."www.zillertal-bikechallenge.com