Stage Favourites:
Arroyo, Rodrigues, Raisin, Schwab & Jeannesson.
Four in the break.
Cerny, Fluckinger, Salas & Vosekalns make the break today.
With 112 KM to go they have only 3'00 of an advantage as we hit the first of two huge climbs.
The difficulty of the gradient sees many dropped on this mid stage climb, only around 50 riders are able to stay within the peloton come the top.
90 KM to go: break @ 3'50.
As Salas summits the mountain first we see some valiant attacks from some decent climbers out of the peloton. The attackers are: Orozco, Bakhin, Feillu and Schwab.
This prompts the GC teams into action. For the next 60 kilometres there is a big chase as the GC teams don't want these riders to have any sort of advantage by the final climb.
With 30 KM to go the late attackers are caught, the original break only 1'00 ahead of the bunch.
17 KM to go.
The final climb is almost here. Only Salas is ahead of the peloton @ '29, he would soon be caught.
Team Nordeus light up the race with 11 KM as Martinez puts in a massive attack, catching many unawares. A good move. Time will tell whether it is too much too early though.
Big favourites caught out early on.
Rodrigues and Arroyo seem to miss out the most in the early kilometres on the climb.
A strong group form the second group on the road.
Martinez is showing crazy form as he distances those behind.
The time gaps with under 10 KM to go:
Martinez | -- | | | Jeannesson, Saggiorato, Raisin & De Greef | @ '28 | | | Rodrigues | @ '51 | | | Colex, Wu and Bustamante | @ 1'15 | | | Arroyo, Galedo, Zurita & Masuda | @ 1'28 |
The favourites fight back.
The climb is certainly long enough for the favourites to make amends, that is what we see. The two big names up the pace and catch some of those ahead of them, but can they catch Martinez?
Martinez is putting in one of the climbing displays of the season. With 6 KM to go he has 1'00 over that strong four man group which was '28 seconds behind 4 kilometres ago.
Rodrigues catches and passes the Jeannesson group. Martinez is within his sights on the longer stretches of road.
Arroyo has the Jeannesson group within his sights now.
Unbelievable.
There is just no stopping Martinez today, he is now putting in time to Rodrigues, who is now 1'20 behind on the road.
We are nearing the top as Arroyo catches the Raisin/Jeannesson group. He would soon drop them but the win and 2 nd place are now well out of the question.
Monster Martinez!
Martinez puts in, perhaps the best, climbing display in the continental ranks so far this season as he takes stage 3 and the GC lead. What a climb!
Rodrigues comes home 1'48 down for second, besting Arroyo who finished 3 rd @ 2'10 today.
Jeannesson leads home a combative group home for fourth place, just holding off Saggiorato and Raisin.
De Greef rode most of the final climb with this group but, in the end, was well tailed off come the finish.
All over 5'00 down Colex, Zurita and Bustamante round out the top 10.
1 hr 30 later.....
Two of the stars of this race are the only two to abandon.
Stevenson, who would have led the KOM comp if he had finished, abandons along with, stage 1 winner,
Renang.
By default Masuda moves into the polka dots.
Results:
1 | Yasmani Martinez | Team Nordeus | 5h37'59 | 2 | Vitor Rodrigues | Siam Cement - Lenovo | + 1'48 | 3 | David Arroyo | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 2'10 | 4 | Arnold Jeannesson | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | + 2'53 | 5 | Mirco Saggiorato | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. | 6 | Saul Raisin | Dell - 361° Racing | s.t. | 7 | Francis De Greef | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | + 4'48 | 8 | Bernardo Colex | Team Live Nation | + 5'27 | 9 | Gilber Zurita | Alpina - Avianca | + 8'04 | 10 | Edwin Parra Bustamante | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | s.t. | 11 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Live Nation | + 8'13 | 12 | Nariyuki Masuda | Grupo Nutresa | s.t. | 13 | Peilun Wu | Siam Cement - Lenovo | s.t. | 14 | Mark Galedo | Siam Cement - Lenovo | + 8'28 | 15 | Evgeny Bakhin | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | s.t. | 16 | Hubert Schwab | Maloja Mountain Nomads | s.t. | 17 | VÃctor Hugo Orozco | Alpina - Avianca | + 9'44 | 18 | Juan Ernesto Chamorro | Alpina - Avianca | + 9'52 | 19 | Craig Lewis | Dell - 361° Racing | + 10'07 | 20 | Martin Schoffmann | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 11'12 | 21 | Marco Salas | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 12'09 | 22 | Denis Menchov | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | + 12'20 | 23 | Moises Dueñas | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | s.t. | 24 | César Rojas Villegas | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. | 25 | Vassilis Adamou | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | s.t. | 26 | Jaroslav Kulhavy | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. | 27 | Emanuel Kiserlovski | Team Nordeus | + 12'32 | 28 | Francisco Colorado | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | s.t. | 29 | Hossein Alizadeh | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. | 30 | Esad Hasanovic | Team Nordeus | s.t. | 31 | Brice Feillu | Dell - 361° Racing | s.t. | 32 | Viatcheslav Dyadichkin | Maloja Mountain Nomads | s.t. | 33 | Rafael Infantino | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | s.t. | 34 | Daniele Dall'Oste | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | s.t. | 35 | Dimitri Jiriakov | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. | 36 | Nebojsa Jovanovic | Team Nordeus | s.t. | 37 | Mirsamad Poorseyedi | Siam Cement - Lenovo | + 12'56 | 38 | Heiner Rodrigo Parra Bustamente | Alpina - Avianca | + 13'13 | 39 | Amir Mustafa Rusli | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. | 40 | Ruben Ibanez | Grupo Nutresa | s.t. | 41 | Sergey Firsanov | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | s.t. | 42 | Juan Pablo Valencia | Grupo Nutresa | + 14'06 | 43 | Gökhan Hasta | Team Live Nation | + 14'46 | 44 | Andris Vosekalns | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 16'02 | 45 | Gennadiy Tatarinov | Grupo Nutresa | s.t. | 46 | Mathias Flückiger | Maloja Mountain Nomads | s.t. | 47 | Arthur Vanoverberghe | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | + 16'15 | 48 | Josef Cerny | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | s.t. | 49 | Manuel Fumic | Maloja Mountain Nomads | + 17'40 | 50 | Serafin José Blanco | Team Live Nation | s.t. | 51 | Nikita Umerbekov | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | s.t. | 52 | Manuel Senni | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | s.t. | 53 | Sakari Lehtinen | Team Live Nation | + 18'44 | 54 | Murilo Affonso | Alpina - Avianca | + 19'21 | 55 | Sergey Chernetskiy | Grupo Nutresa | s.t. | 56 | Ajay Pandit Chhetri | Siam Cement - Lenovo | + 19'43 | 57 | Julian Alaphilippe | Team Nordeus | s.t. | 58 | Muhamma Afif Ahmad Zamri | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 24'13 | 59 | Sebastian Henao | Alpina - Avianca | + 25'04 | 60 | Alexander Foliforov | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | s.t. | 61 | Valentin Iglinski | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | + 25'32 | 62 | Marvin Orlando Angarita | Alpina - Avianca | + 26'35 | 63 | Eric Young | Dell - 361° Racing | + 29'33 | 64 | Jesper Hansen | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | s.t. | 65 | Libin Chen | Dell - 361° Racing | s.t. | 66 | Maksym Averin | Grupo Nutresa | s.t. | 67 | Dainius Kairelis | Control Team | s.t. | 68 | Patrick Bercz | Maloja Mountain Nomads | + 30'58 | 69 | Masatoshi Oba | Siam Cement - Lenovo | s.t. | 70 | Yannick Stoltz | Evonik - Signal Iduna | s.t. | 71 | Lasse Norman Hansen | Evonik - Signal Iduna | s.t. | 72 | Jose Luis Cano | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. | 73 | Arnaud Grand | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 31'45 | 74 | Fabio Sabatini | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | s.t. | 75 | Aurélien Passeron | Maloja Mountain Nomads | + 32'01 | 76 | Bojan Djurdjic | Team Nordeus | + 33'32 | 77 | Khayabkhyrvaa Uugunbayar | Siam Cement - Lenovo | s.t. | 78 | Azizulhasni Awang | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. | 79 | Gabriel Chavanne | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. | 80 | Alexander Edmondson | Evonik - Signal Iduna | s.t. | 81 | Timothy Dupont | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 34'19 | 82 | Marco Guillén | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. | 83 | Dario Antonio | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | + 35'36 | 84 | Tigran Korkotyan | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | s.t. | 85 | Cristian Omar Clavero | Dell - 361° Racing | s.t. | 86 | Christian Ranneries | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 36'01 | 87 | Ino Ilesic | Team Nordeus | s.t. | 88 | Steven Caethoven | Grupo Nutresa | + 36'12 | 89 | Linus Dahlberg | Team Live Nation | s.t. | 90 | Ivor Bruin | Control Team | s.t. | 91 | Tomasz Zywer | Control Team | s.t. | 92 | Aleksei Schmidt | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | s.t. | 93 | Max Walsleben | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. | 94 | Kevin Peeters | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | s.t. | 95 | Zhou Guozhang | Dell - 361° Racing | + 36'44 | 96 | Asbjørn Kragh Andersen | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | s.t. | 97 | Artur Gajek | Maloja Mountain Nomads | + 39'54 | 98 | Nikola Aistrup | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 40'19 | 99 | Willi Willwohl | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 42'10 |
GC:
1 | Yasmani Martinez | Team Nordeus | 10h01'50 | 2 | Vitor Rodrigues | Siam Cement - Lenovo | + 2'09 | 3 | David Arroyo | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 2'35 | 4 | Arnold Jeannesson | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | + 3'08 | 5 | Saul Raisin | Dell - 361° Racing | + 3'14 | 6 | Mirco Saggiorato | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 3'20 | 7 | Francis De Greef | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | + 5'04 | 8 | Bernardo Colex | Team Live Nation | + 5'45 | 9 | Edwin Parra Bustamante | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | + 8'22 | 10 | Mark Galedo | Siam Cement - Lenovo | + 8'42 | 11 | Peilun Wu | Siam Cement - Lenovo | + 8'48 | 12 | Gilber Zurita | Alpina - Avianca | + 8'51 | 13 | Nariyuki Masuda | Grupo Nutresa | + 8'53 | 14 | Hubert Schwab | Maloja Mountain Nomads | + 9'02 | 15 | Evgeny Bakhin | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | + 9'04 | 16 | Chris Anker Sørensen | Team Live Nation | s.t. | 17 | Craig Lewis | Dell - 361° Racing | + 10'24 | 18 | Juan Ernesto Chamorro | Alpina - Avianca | + 10'26 | 19 | VÃctor Hugo Orozco | Alpina - Avianca | + 10'32 | 20 | Martin Schoffmann | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 12'07 | 21 | Vassilis Adamou | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | + 12'34 | 22 | Denis Menchov | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | + 12'44 | 23 | Moises Dueñas | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | s.t. | 24 | Marco Salas | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 12'56 | 25 | Emanuel Kiserlovski | Team Nordeus | + 12'59 | 26 | Francisco Colorado | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | s.t. | 27 | Jaroslav Kulhavy | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. | 28 | Esad Hasanovic | Team Nordeus | s.t. | 29 | César Rojas Villegas | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. | 30 | Daniele Dall'Oste | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | + 13'00 | 31 | Nebojsa Jovanovic | Team Nordeus | + 13'02 | 32 | Dimitri Jiriakov | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 13'04 | 33 | Viatcheslav Dyadichkin | Maloja Mountain Nomads | + 13'07 | 34 | Rafael Infantino | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | + 13'08 | 35 | Hossein Alizadeh | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 13'12 | 36 | Brice Feillu | Dell - 361° Racing | + 13'20 | 37 | Ruben Ibanez | Grupo Nutresa | + 13'34 | 38 | Mirsamad Poorseyedi | Siam Cement - Lenovo | s.t. | 39 | Heiner Rodrigo Parra Bustamente | Alpina - Avianca | + 13'43 | 40 | Sergey Firsanov | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | + 13'49 | 41 | Amir Mustafa Rusli | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 13'56 | 42 | Juan Pablo Valencia | Grupo Nutresa | + 14'53 | 43 | Gökhan Hasta | Team Live Nation | + 15'24 | 44 | Andris Vosekalns | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 16'36 | 45 | Gennadiy Tatarinov | Grupo Nutresa | + 16'41 | 46 | Josef Cerny | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | + 16'42 | 47 | Arthur Vanoverberghe | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | s.t. | 48 | Mathias Flückiger | Maloja Mountain Nomads | + 16'50 | 49 | Manuel Senni | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | + 18'15 | 50 | Nikita Umerbekov | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | + 18'21 | 51 | Manuel Fumic | Maloja Mountain Nomads | + 18'27 | 52 | Murilo Affonso | Alpina - Avianca | + 19'47 | 53 | Sergey Chernetskiy | Grupo Nutresa | + 19'50 | 54 | Julian Alaphilippe | Team Nordeus | + 20'17 | 55 | Ajay Pandit Chhetri | Siam Cement - Lenovo | + 20'25 | 56 | Serafin José Blanco | Team Live Nation | + 20'52 | 57 | Sakari Lehtinen | Team Live Nation | + 21'28 | 58 | Muhamma Afif Ahmad Zamri | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 24'48 | 59 | Alexander Foliforov | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | + 25'50 | 60 | Marvin Orlando Angarita | Alpina - Avianca | + 27'14 | 61 | Valentin Iglinski | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | + 28'33 | 62 | Sebastian Henao | Alpina - Avianca | + 29'10 | 63 | Maksym Averin | Grupo Nutresa | + 29'37 | 64 | Libin Chen | Dell - 361° Racing | + 29'53 | 65 | Jesper Hansen | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 29'56 | 66 | Eric Young | Dell - 361° Racing | + 30'22 | 67 | Dainius Kairelis | Control Team | + 30'32 | 68 | Masatoshi Oba | Siam Cement - Lenovo | + 31'12 | 69 | Lasse Norman Hansen | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 31'15 | 70 | Jose Luis Cano | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 31'29 | 71 | Aurélien Passeron | Maloja Mountain Nomads | + 32'30 | 72 | Gabriel Chavanne | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 33'41 | 73 | Khayabkhyrvaa Uugunbayar | Siam Cement - Lenovo | + 33'53 | 74 | Bojan Djurdjic | Team Nordeus | + 33'54 | 75 | Azizulhasni Awang | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 34'01 | 76 | Yannick Stoltz | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 34'08 | 77 | Patrick Bercz | Maloja Mountain Nomads | + 34'09 | 78 | Arnaud Grand | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 34'10 | 79 | Fabio Sabatini | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 34'19 | 80 | Marco Guillén | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 35'06 | 81 | Timothy Dupont | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 35'07 | 82 | Alexander Edmondson | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 35'48 | 83 | Cristian Omar Clavero | Dell - 361° Racing | + 35'56 | 84 | Linus Dahlberg | Team Live Nation | + 36'33 | 85 | Kevin Peeters | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | + 36'55 | 86 | Steven Caethoven | Grupo Nutresa | + 37'12 | 87 | Christian Ranneries | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 38'43 | 88 | Dario Antonio | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | + 38'46 | 89 | Ino Ilesic | Team Nordeus | + 38'50 | 90 | Tigran Korkotyan | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | + 39'02 | 91 | Asbjørn Kragh Andersen | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 39'10 | 92 | Aleksei Schmidt | Team Ameriabank-Novatek | + 39'14 | 93 | Max Walsleben | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 39'34 | 94 | Tomasz Zywer | Control Team | + 39'48 | 95 | Zhou Guozhang | Dell - 361° Racing | + 39'51 | 96 | Ivor Bruin | Control Team | + 40'20 | 97 | Nikola Aistrup | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 41'02 | 98 | Artur Gajek | Maloja Mountain Nomads | + 43'10 | 99 | Willi Willwohl | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 44'55 |
Points:
1 | Arnold Jeannesson | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | 39 | 2 | Yasmani Martinez | Team Nordeus | 36 | 3 | Maksym Averin | Grupo Nutresa | 30 | 4 | Gabriel Chavanne | Sauber Petronas Racing | 20 | 5 | Vitor Rodrigues | Siam Cement - Lenovo | 20 | 6 | Francis De Greef | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | 17 | 7 | Mark Galedo | Siam Cement - Lenovo | 16 | 8 | Masatoshi Oba | Siam Cement - Lenovo | 16 | 9 | David Arroyo | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | 16 | 10 | Nikola Aistrup | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | 16 |
KOM:
1 | Nariyuki Masuda | Grupo Nutresa | 18 | 2 | Yasmani Martinez | Team Nordeus | 16 | 3 | Marco Salas | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | 16 | 4 | David Arroyo | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | 14 | 5 | Vitor Rodrigues | Siam Cement - Lenovo | 12 | 6 | Mathias Flückiger | Maloja Mountain Nomads | 12 | 7 | Sakari Lehtinen | Team Live Nation | 12 | 8 | Andris Vosekalns | Evonik - Signal Iduna | 10 | 9 | Yannick Stoltz | Evonik - Signal Iduna | 10 | 10 | Arnold Jeannesson | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | 8 |
Youth:
1 | Peilun Wu | Siam Cement - Lenovo | 10h10'38 (1) | 2 | Juan Ernesto Chamorro | Alpina - Avianca | + 1'38 (2) | 3 | Vassilis Adamou | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | + 3'46 (3) | 4 | Daniele Dall'Oste | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | + 4'12 (4) | 5 | Heiner Rodrigo Parra Bustamente | Alpina - Avianca | + 4'55 (5) | 6 | Gökhan Hasta | Team Live Nation | + 6'36 (6) | 7 | Andris Vosekalns | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 7'48 (7) | 8 | Gennadiy Tatarinov | Grupo Nutresa | + 7'53 (8) | 9 | Arthur Vanoverberghe | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | + 7'54 (10) | 10 | Josef Cerny | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | + 7'54 (9) |
Team:
1 | Siam Cement - Lenovo | 30h24'48 (1) | 2 | Euskaltel-Bavaria Continental Team | + 4'55 (2) | 3 | Team Nordeus | + 6'55 (3) | 4 | Dell - 361° Racing | + 7'11 (4) | 5 | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 9'04 (5) | 6 | Alpina - Avianca | + 9'52 (8) | 7 | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 9'46 (6) | 8 | Team Live Nation | + 9'51 (7) | 9 | Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team | + 15'32 (9) | 10 | Grupo Nutresa | + 17'20 (10) |
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