Welcome to the Pro Hallstatt Classic, we have got a nice blue sky and little wind this morning in the beautiful Hallstatter see area, surrounded by the Alps.

The setting as also mentioned in the preview is this:
From Bad Goisern we start with a circuit route, moving south following Hallstatter See, then around the 1975 meter mountain Hoher Sarstein, through Pötschenhöhe mountain pass, the last 3.7 km at 5.8%, but going up quite a bit longer. This lap first 5 times over the mountain pass, before we have the summit finish climb up to Predigtstuhl, 6.6 km at 7.6%.




De Plus opens the stage with Logar, also Jones and Van Niekerk on the move.




After more acceleration in front of the peloton, the pace is increased resulting in Jones and Van Niekerk being reeled in.

As the pace settles down again, Padun seize the moment to slip away from the peloton. After a while he joins the first group just as they are about to start the first round of climbing.




This turns out the be the breakaway of the day. It max out at a little more than 7 minutes in the valley between the 2nd and 3rd climb.

In the peloton work have been shared by Danacik, Prado, Karnulin, Konrad, Iturria, Tarvis, Fumeaux, Kangert and Kratochvila.

Might say many showing will to work, but at this point not very hard, often rider sitting in the pace line but actually not doing any work at all.




The pace now going up in the peloton and from now on it is Padun working all the time in the breakaway as soon as it is uphill. Padun is clearly the better climber in the group and likely to have the best shot on a surprise win.

Logar on the other hand, though still in the group seem to be struggling at the hard part of the climbs.

On the third climb Prado doing all the work in the peloton.

In the valley between the 3rd and 4th climb, the distance is down to 3’33�, 70 km left.




The 4th climb, first Prado working at the first ½ of the climb, Badilatti at the hard last part. Kratochvila setting a hard pace on the downhill.

Distance cut to 1’33� in the valley between the 4th and fifth climb, 35 km to go.

We start the 5th climb through Pötschenhöhe mountain pass, again Prado at the beginning and again Badilatti takes over.

As the breakaway hit the hard section Padun attack, at first dropping Logar and with another hard acceleration also De Plus.

18 km to the finish, distance 1’21�





The peloton is fast on the downhill, leaving only Padun in front.

This is the positioning in front of the peloton when the slope hit 4%, 6.3 km to the finish.

In the pace line it is Novak, Cink, Prado, Kratochvila, Jaramillo, Polanc,

Spilak first of the favorites in 7th position, Danacik for Sagan 9th, Terasaki for Flügel , Konrad for Ginanni, Ramos Ticona for Trofimov all close inside top 15.

Beltran right behind Ginanni, Karnulin by his side.

Dzhus for Pluchkin to the left. German National Champion Klemme to his right, behind Klemme De Bod for Martin, Madrazo and Kwiatkowski.

The last line of the photo is Pernsteiner, Hosek, Bratashcuk and Barguil




With 5.7 km to the finish it is over for Padun.

Let’s take a look at some of the stronger riders, caught by the camera sitting too low in case we get a split, ordered by worst position first.
Shikai, Henao Montoya, Vosekalns, Scarponi, Nibali, Penasa, Preidler, Guldhammer and Choi.

Could look like the pure climbers do not sit very well positioned when entering the climb.


Up front we still see no attacks, still the Isostar Slovenija’s domestics leading the race. But it could look like the very huge peloton is stretched now and could break.

This is the positioning with 4.8 km left:
Novak, Kratochvila, Prado, Cink, Sagan, Polanc, Spilak, Trofimov, Beltran, Flügel, Pernsteiner, Padun, Barguil, Madrazo, Karnulin, Klemme, Martin, Formolo, Ginanni, Vysna, Bibby, Jaramillo, Kwiatkowski.

The only top rider right behind those is Pluchkin so if a split would happen now, to could be in this region.
the photo is from 5.1 km so may be small differences in the ordre




3 km left, we still have a huge peloton of 135 riders, but now Spilak have moved to the front, definitely not the time to lose contact with the rider in front, unless you can overtake him.

Unofficially could look like we are about to get a group of about 40 rider, opening a small gap. This is the order:
Spilak, Novak, Barguil, Kratochvila, Sagan, Martin, Prado, Kwiatkowski, Trofimov, Beltran, Pluchkin, Madrazo, Pernsteiner, Flügel, Formolo, Klemme, Hosek, Guldhammer, Vysna, Polanc, Bibby, Karnulin, Saggiorato, Ginanni, Paulus, Ricco, Olivier, Konrad, Dekker, Dyball, Reichenbach, Kangert, Kolar, Rogli�, Iturria, Tratnik, Ciccone, Danacik, Cink, Preidler and Morton




2.5 km to the top.
Without actually acceleration, just pushing hard Spilak with teammate Kratochvila at wheel opens a gap.

In the group behind it is Barguil, Sagan, Martin, Pluchkin, Kwiatkowski, Madrazo, Novak, Beltran, Prado and Trofimov as the best 10.




Barguil close the gap, for about 500 meters everything is calmed down again, but then with 1.5 km left, acceleration from Spilak.

The best placed 20 riders behind him at this point:
Barguil, Sagan, Madrazo, Kratochvila, Pluchkin, Kwiatkowski, Beltran, Trofimov, Martin, Guldhammer
Gap to: Formolo, Flügel, Hosek, Klemme, Vysna, Rogli�, Saggiorato, Paulus, Bibby and Pernsteiner




First under the red kite, Spilak

19� down to Barguil with Sagan and Madrazo

Another 8� down to a group of 22 riders, positioned like this: Pluchkin, Beltran, Kratochvila, Kwiatkowski, Trofimov, Guldhammer, Martin, Flügel, Formolo, Hosek, Rogli�, Vysna, Klemme, Saggiorato, Paulus, Bibby, Kangert, Olivier, Pernsteiner, Dekker, Dyball and Ginanni

24� to the next group



500 meters left Spilak is building on his lead, can’t miss this one.

Pluchkin has closed the gap to group Sagan, they got 12“, to the next group which have grown to 32 riders.

Spilak wins the first edition of Pro Hallstatt Classic at Predigtstuhl, having plenty of time to celebrate.




Sagan 2nd in front of Pluchkin 3rd Barguil 4th as 2nd Moser – Sygic riders in top 4, Madrazo 5th, they all lose 47�




Another group of 4 riders comes in at 1’07�
Beltran 6th, Rogli� 7th has really moved forward over the last 2 kilometers. Kwiatkowski 8th and Trofimov 9th




First in the next group of 29 riders in Martin 10th in front of Olivier, Penasa, Hosek, Kangert and Flügel to round of top 15.



Result:

1	Simon Spilak	Isostar - Slovenje	4h43'17
2	Peter Sagan	Moser - Sygic	+ 47
3	Aleksandr Pluchkin	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff	s.t.
4	Warren Barguil	Moser - Sygic	s.t.
5	Angel Madrazo	Gazelle	s.t.
6	Eduard Alexander Beltran	Aker - MOT	+ 1'07
7	Primoz Roglic	Generali - EDF	s.t.
8	Michal Kwiatkowski	Netia - Vonin	s.t.
9	Yuri Trofimov	Team UBS	s.t.
10	Daniel Martin	Grieg - Eftel	+ 1'16
11	Daan Olivier	Aegon - Lavazza	s.t.
12	Pierre Paolo Penasa	Kulczyk - DMTEX	s.t.
13	Josef Hosek	Moser - Sygic	s.t.
14	Tanel Kangert	Gazelle	s.t.
15	Aleksandar Flügel	Kraftwerk Man Machine	s.t.
16	Francesco Ginanni	Gazelle	s.t.
17	Benjamin Dyball	Bennelong - Mitchelton	s.t.
18	Ian Bibby	Gazelle	s.t.
19	Matej Vysna	Moser - Sygic	s.t.
20	Lachlan Morton	Bennelong - Mitchelton	s.t.
21	Rasmus Guldhammer	Aker - MOT	s.t.
22	Nico Keinath	EA Vesuvio	s.t.
23	Georg Preidler	T-Mobile	s.t.
24	Jakub Kratochvila	Isostar - Slovenje	s.t.
25	Davide Formolo	Gazelle	s.t.
26	Mikel Iturria	Grieg - Eftel	s.t.
27	Domenik Klemme	Novatek-Panarmenian.net	s.t.
28	Thomas Dekker	Aegon - Lavazza	s.t.
29	Daniel Paulus	Kraftwerk Man Machine	s.t.
30	Hermann Pernsteiner	Isostar - Slovenje	s.t.
31	Mirco Saggiorato	Team UBS	s.t.
32	Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev	Desigual	+ 1'48
33	Michael Kolar	Moser - Sygic	s.t.
34	Matthias Krizek	Generali - EDF	+ 1'56
35	Sergio Luis Henao Montoya	Philips - Continental	+ 2'09
36	Riccardo Ricco	Isostar - Slovenje	+ 2'13
37	Sebastien Reichenbach	Team UBS	s.t.
38	Ki Ho Choi	Meiji - JR East	s.t.
39	Domen Novak	Isostar - Slovenje	s.t.
40	Ignacio Jesus Prado	Moser - Sygic	s.t.
41	Manuel Senni	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam	+ 2'38
42	Adam De Vos	Podium Ambition	+ 2'47
43	Mike Aaron Egger	Evonik - ELKO	s.t.
44	Zico Waeytens	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam	s.t.
45	Mektel Eyob	Kulczyk - DMTEX	s.t.
46	Simon Yates	Podium Ambition	s.t.
47	Denys Karnulin	Gazelle	s.t.
48	Emanuel Buchmann	T-Mobile	s.t.
49	Andris Vosekalns	Evonik - ELKO	s.t.
50	Florentino Marquez	T-Mobile	s.t.
51	Sam Oomen	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam	s.t.
52	Damiano Caruso	Euskaltel - Elior	s.t.
53	Jan Polanc	Isostar - Slovenje	s.t.
54	Sigurd Nesset	Grieg - Eftel	s.t.
55	Vegard Stake Laengen	Grieg - Eftel	s.t.
56	Jan Tratnik	Gazelle	s.t.
57	Paolo Scarponi	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff	s.t.
58	Artem Topchanyuk	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff	s.t.
59	Cristian Raileanu	Grieg - Eftel	s.t.
60	Pedro Sequera	Team Reddit	s.t.
61	Daniele Dall'Oste	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam	s.t.
62	Daniel Teklehaimanot	Desigual	s.t.
63	Bart De Clercq	Generali - EDF	s.t.
64	Vincenzo Nibali	Desigual	s.t.
65	Delio Fernandez	T-Mobile	s.t.
66	Rob Ruijgh	Philips - Continental	s.t.
67	Matthias Frank	Team UBS	s.t.
68	Olivier Le Gac	Euskaltel - Elior	s.t.
69	Willie Smit	Team Reddit	s.t.
70	Patrick Konrad	Gazelle	s.t.
71	Mykhaylo Kononenko	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff	s.t.
72	Jarlinson Pantano Gómez	Philips - Continental	s.t.
73	Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka	Meiji - JR East	s.t.
74	Chen Shikai	Meiji - JR East	s.t.
75	Giulio Ciccone	Aegon - Lavazza	s.t.
76	Patrick Lane	Bennelong - Mitchelton	s.t.
77	Caio Godoy	EA Vesuvio	s.t.
78	Souheil Khederi	Aker - MOT	s.t.
79	Tomoyuki Iino	Meiji - JR East	s.t.
80	Adrian Nitu	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff	s.t.
81	Kristian Dyrnes	Netia - Vonin	s.t.
82	Ondrej Cink	Moser - Sygic	s.t.
83	Antonio Pedrero	Generali - EDF	s.t.
84	Gianni Moscon	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam	s.t.
85	Borislav Ivanov	Podium Ambition	s.t.
86	Andrei Sakalou	Evonik - ELKO	s.t.
87	Petr Vakoc	Aker - MOT	s.t.
88	Enrico Battaglin	T-Mobile	s.t.
89	Mark Padun	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff	s.t.
90	Cyrile Thiery	Generali - EDF	s.t.
91	Jakub Danacik	Moser - Sygic	s.t.
92	Pawel Cieslik	Kulczyk - DMTEX	s.t.
93	Dion Smith	Bennelong - Mitchelton	s.t.
94	Jelle Vanendert	Kulczyk - DMTEX	s.t.
95	Davide Malacarne	Generali - EDF	s.t.
96	Matteo Badilatti	Team UBS	s.t.
97	Kaspars Sergis	Evonik - ELKO	s.t.
98	Enrico Barbin	Kulczyk - DMTEX	s.t.
99	Romain Zingle	Euskaltel - Elior	+ 4'13
100	Josef Cerny	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam	s.t.
101	Artur Grigrian	Novatek-Panarmenian.net	+ 4'40
102	Tim Dees	Generali - EDF	s.t.
103	Anatoliy Budyak	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff	s.t.
104	Gilles Heymes	EA Vesuvio	s.t.
105	Nico Denz	Kraftwerk Man Machine	s.t.
106	Rhys Gillett	Grieg - Eftel	s.t.
107	Mattia Pozzo	Kulczyk - DMTEX	s.t.
108	Florian Scheit	Kraftwerk Man Machine	s.t.
109	Fabio Duarte	Novatek-Panarmenian.net	s.t.
110	Daniel Alexander Jaramillo	Isostar - Slovenje	s.t.
111	Peeter Tarvis	EA Vesuvio	s.t.
112	Robert Power	Bennelong - Mitchelton	s.t.
113	Carter Jones	Desigual	s.t.
114	Momchil Robov	Podium Ambition	s.t.
115	Christoph Mai	Philips - Continental	s.t.
116	Carl Fredrik Hagen	Aker - MOT	s.t.
117	Mikayil Krasnoperov	T-Mobile	s.t.
118	Aidan Van Niekerk	Grieg - Eftel	s.t.
119	Artemio Moschella	T-Mobile	s.t.
120	Thomas Koep	Aegon - Lavazza	s.t.
121	Marcello Pavarin	Kulczyk - DMTEX	s.t.
122	Cameron Bayly	Bennelong - Mitchelton	s.t.
123	Alexandre Shushemoin	Kraftwerk Man Machine	s.t.
124	Kashyapa Siriwardena	Desigual	+ 5'46
125	Felix Grossschartner	Novatek-Panarmenian.net	s.t.
126	Basilio Ramos Ticona	Team UBS	+ 5'52
127	Volodymyr Dzhus	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff	s.t.
128	Gennadiy Tatarinov	Kraftwerk Man Machine	s.t.
129	Matteo Rabottini	Netia - Vonin	s.t.
130	Lucas Manuel Gaday	Team Reddit	s.t.
131	Jaoa Costa	Philips - Continental	s.t.
132	Andrea Manfredi	Team Reddit	s.t.
133	Sven Fritsch	EA Vesuvio	s.t.
134	Jonathan Fumeaux	Team UBS	s.t.
135	Adrian Honkisz	Netia - Vonin	s.t.
136	Indulis Bekmanis	Evonik - ELKO	s.t.
137	Hiroshi Tsubaki	Meiji - JR East	s.t.
138	Léo Vincent	Euskaltel - Elior	+ 6'05
139	Takero Terasaki	Kraftwerk Man Machine	s.t.
140	David Gaudu	Euskaltel - Elior	+ 6'43
141	Andrii Bratashcuk	Isostar - Slovenje	s.t.
142	Laurens De Plus	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam	s.t.
143	Adam Stachowiak	Netia - Vonin	+ 7'39
144	Ingus Eislers	Evonik - ELKO	s.t.
145	Stefan De Bod	Grieg - Eftel	+ 8'08
146	Kouhei Uchima	Meiji - JR East	s.t.
147	Trond Hakon Trondsen	Aker - MOT	s.t.
148	Yamato Shirota	Meiji - JR East	+ 8'32
149	Muhammad Suhaimi Ghani	EA Vesuvio	s.t.
150	Takeaki Amezawa	Aker - MOT	s.t.
151	Burr Ho	Aker - MOT	s.t.
152	Tadej Logar	Novatek-Panarmenian.net	s.t.
153	Shaun Nick Bester	Team Reddit	s.t.
154	Dietmar Mehr-Wenige	Kraftwerk Man Machine	s.t.
155	Ignas Konovalovas	Netia - Vonin	s.t.
156	Julian Alaphilippe	Podium Ambition	s.t.
157	Maxim Pokidov	Novatek-Panarmenian.net	s.t.
158	Przemyslaw Kasperkiewicz	Netia - Vonin	+ 8'48
159	Jernej Svab	Desigual	s.t.
160	Wout Poels	Philips - Continental	s.t.
161	Connor McCutcheon	T-Mobile	s.t.
162	Hugo Hofstetter	Aegon - Lavazza	+ 9'23
163	Kristaps Budenieks	Evonik - ELKO	+ 10'04
164	Benoit Cosnefroy	Euskaltel - Elior	s.t.
165	Giovanni Carboni	Aegon - Lavazza	s.t.
166	Hayden McCormick	Bennelong - Mitchelton	+ 11'06
167	Jaime Castrillo	Euskaltel - Elior	s.t.
168	Edgar Stepanyan	Novatek-Panarmenian.net	s.t.
169	Taylor Newton	Desigual	+ 11'53
170	Martin Schäppi	Team UBS	s.t.
171	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Aegon - Lavazza	s.t.
172	Kamil Gradek	Kulczyk - DMTEX	+ 12'54
173	Wout Van Aert	Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam	s.t.
174	Ha Jeon Jung	Philips - Continental	s.t.
175	Fabio Jakobsen	Euskaltel - Elior	s.t.
176	Rei Onodera	Meiji - JR East	+ 14'32
177	Patrick Müller	Philips - Continental	s.t.
178	Calvin Watson	Bennelong - Mitchelton	s.t.
179	Fabian Lienhard	Evonik - ELKO	s.t.
180	Kristian Vanderpool	Podium Ambition	s.t.
181	Jasper Bovenhuis	Aegon - Lavazza	+ 14'43
182	Clément Venturini	Desigual	s.t.
183	Dobrin Lilovski	Podium Ambition	s.t.
184	Christopher Lawless	Podium Ambition	s.t.
185	Fulgencio Bru	EA Vesuvio	+ 15'18
186	Szymon Rekita	Netia - Vonin	+ 16'03
187	Freddy Cruz	Team Reddit	+ 17'26
188	Hersony Canelon	Team Reddit	+ 18'00
189	Morne Van Niekerk	Team Reddit	+ 19'39
190	Varsham Darbinyan	Novatek-Panarmenian.net	s.t.
191	Benjamin Thomas	Generali - EDF	+ 20'03
192	Amadou Bakari	EA Vesuvio	+ 29'11