Betonexpressz GP - Result of the season!

The first race in April was one of the four most important races for our team!
We put this race as a goal Top 10.

After a disappointing finish in Eritrea, it was time to take a breath and go on a race just 95km from the Slovenian border to Hungary.
This time it was the start of the race just next to the biggest lake in Hungary Balaton lake in the town of Keszthely or in Slovenian Blatenski Kostel.

Soon after the start of the race, it came to attack and the group of four riders went to a breakaway.

Our riders were in the first part of their race all hidden in a peloton waiting for a good opportunity to go into attack or just waiting for the last few kilometers for a sprint.

66km to the finish of the race Barbin was leading the peloton which had around a 2min gap to the breakaway.

22km to go was caught the last escaper!

5km to go! Our rider Ignatiev went on an attack with Quispe!

A couple of hundred meters laters others from the peloton went into chacing for escapers.

2.7km to go Ignatiev group had 37'' lead to peloton where we made a mistake and our rider Luka Pibernik started chasing the breakaway for our leader sprinter Salleh.

After all six riders came together in a breakaway Ignatiev JUMPED (attacked) again with a mind on the best result of the first third of the season!

In the last 200m Ignatiev wasn't in the best position in a front of Naesen from Bralirwa - Stevens Bikes.

After the last corner, Naesen went around Ignatiev at a bigger speed.

The winner of the race is Naesen Oliver!

Our Mikhail Ignatiev on amazing 2nd place which is our teams best result of the first third part of the season!!!!!!!!

Salleh managed to ad 9th place in a sprint!

It's time for a short celebration after we successfully finished our first goal of the season two riders in TOP 10!!!

Result:

1	Oliver Naesen	Bralirwa - Stevens Bikes	5h19'15
2	Mikhail Ignatiev	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
3	Suleiman Kangangi	Gjensidige Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
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9	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
23	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
45	Rok Korosec	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
54	Sascha Modolo	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
84	Geraint Thomas	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
141	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+4'00
154	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	+7'24

The next most important race for us will be in Izola which is our Win goal.
All results that will be in Top10 will be successfully finished for us but this doesn't mean surrender!

See you soon on the coast of Slovenia in Izola!

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GP Izola - did we got our win goal of the season?

GP Izola is our home race which we were waiting on the most compare to all other races. It was even our winning goal which after the first third of the season wasn't the best win goal for us.

Soon after the start went a small group of three riders into a breakaway on a climb from Izola to Baredi village.

In the last 10km it came to split in peloton luckily we had Barbin in a from with a big group of leaders and potentially most dangerous fro win Kelderman.

In the last 6km, Kelderman went into an attack and Eiking joined him in a front.
Our Barbin wasn't strong enough to go on an attack.

In the last km Kelderman and Eiking were still in front with a small gap of a few meters.

In a finish, Kelderman attacked again and won the first GP Izola or GP Slovenian Istria!

Our Barbin managed to finish in 10th place which was the result as we expected after a first few months of racing.

Results:

1	Wilco Kelderman	Philips	3h58'02
2	Odd Christian Eiking	Gjensidige Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
3	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	s.t.
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10	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
17	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
29	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
44	Sascha Modolo	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
46	Rok Korosec	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
69	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
74	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
115	Geraint Thomas	Trans Cycling Team	+ 12'20

Coppa Palacci - Catastrofic race!

Our main candidates were Barbin and Venter for this race special Barbin band we really hope that it won't happen the same as it happened with the first race in the season.

After the start, It came fast to the smaller breakaway where we didn't have any rider.

Around 70km to the finish Barbin and Venter were dropped from the peloton and this was the first red alarm from our team.

In the next few kilometers, there wasn't any different. Both were quickly behind the peloton and it looks like to be the same scenario from GP Yekaterinburg.

From our team wasn't any special move last kilometers as all were suffering this day.

Congrats to Gianni Moscon from Centovalli - Fiat.

Results:

1	Gianni Moscon	Centovalli - Fiat	4h23'39
2	Xavier Quevedo	Carrefour - ESPN	s.t.
3	Wilco Kelderman	Philips	s.t.
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74	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	+4'33
93	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
120	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+8'44
122	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
142	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	+11'26
149	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
155	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	+ 15'26
165	Geraint Thomas	Trans Cycling Team	+18'18

Lincoln GP- Wrong race for Thomas Geraint

Our young rider Sotber (his last season in this team joined a breakaway soon after the start.

After the first hill, a big group even extended for two riders on a total of 15 riders who had 1'42 gap over the peloton.

80 km to the finished most of the guys are already in a peloton or behind and our Sotberg too. There was a little time for commercial exposure on tv broadcast and we are happy with the work that Sotberg did at this race.

Just before entering the 9th time on Michaelgate our Abraha who is not the best on hills and sprints tried to do an attack to gain seconds which will allow him to get a better place in the finish of the race.

38km to the finish Abraha was caught from the peloton.

For the finish of the race, we didn't have any strong rider and our best one finished out of the Top 30.

The winner of the race is Alexey Tsatevich from Carrefour - ESPN.

Results:

1	Alexey Tsatevich	Carrefour - ESPN	4h05'28
2	Oliver Naesen	Bralirwa - Stevens Bikes	+ 13
3	Jerome Baugnies	Los Pollos Hermanos	s.t.
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33	Tesfay Abraha	Trans Cycling Team	+ 5'08
44	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	+ 6'22
53	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	+ 7'16
56	Geraint Thomas	Trans Cycling Team	+ 7'34
70	Rok Korosec	Trans Cycling Team	+ 9'08
91	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+13'17
101	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	+ 14'24
147	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	+ 33'12

Lisbon classic our riders in a breakaway!

On a sunny day in Lisbon, our team had a goal to be in top10 but it wasn't one of those big goals of the season.
We knew that it would be hard but we tried to be as best as we can be.

Soon after the finished our Sotber went into the attack and Phodingam and a few seconds later Carr and second our rider Camargo join the breakaway.

Soon another rider joined the breakaway.
65km to the end which was the highest point of the race breakaway had two minutes gap to the peloton but it started closing fast because of attacks from the peloton.

Many riders were left behind and even all from our team ( Barbin, Korošec, and Modolo).

In the last 30km, we had two riders Sotberg and Camargo still in a breakaway but the peloton came to only a 34-second gap to breakaway.

IN a peloton it was only 18 of the best riders and non of our team but three from the Swisslion team which was another Slovenian team on this race.

Soon all riders from breakaway were back in a peloton and we got information that one of our leaders was in the second group.

Around 10km to finish small group from the second group managed to catch the peloton but still non of our three leaders were there which was a bit disappointing for us.

Apparently, our riders started to chat with our sports director about food that bananas are not the best and they are already thinking to switch to another power food for the next races. We will still use this product as is one of the best natural products for sport but we will and some extra gels and other drinks for riders.

When the riders joined the peloton it came to the attack in a front of the peloton by Vanspeybrouck and Meyer.

7km to finish Modolo was in chance with a couple of other riders to catch the peloton who was basically in lost position for the win as they were 1'30'' behind the leader Meyer.

5 km to the finish we still had young Sotberg and Camargo in a peloton which was really positive news for the team!

In front, Travis Meyer came to catch a win in Portugal's capital city Lisbon!

In the end, Sotberg and Camargo were to empty from the breakaway and they finished out of the top 20.

Thanks to Marcovdw for commentating on the race.

Results:

1	Travis Meyer	Eddie Stobart	5h25'19
2	Vyacheslav Kuznetsov	Strava	+ 1'13
3	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Andorra Cycling Project	s.t.
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24	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
30	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
32	Rok Korosec	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
36	Sascha Modolo	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
91	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	+ 4'04
92	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
99	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
120	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	+ 7'24

redordead wrote:
A shame you couldn't get a better result with a very strong lineup in the home race in Izola.

This race will be for us the most important one in May as it's the third goal for this season! The goal is to be at Top5 which will be extremely hard if we look at the results of past races.

The first race of important month May for our team!

Historique city of Dunkirk hosted another battle bat this time much nicer between riders in CT and PCT teams.

On the start list, it was only 10 teams with 75 riders but this didn't mean that the race will be easy.

It started with the attack of our Luka Pibernik, Doull, and Planckaert. A couple of mins later joined him another rider from our team Rok Korošec and Bablidze, Barbier, Kamberaj, and Oss.

A few km later another young rider joins the breakaway where are now 9 riders and three teams Guave's, Carrefour, and our Trans Team are the team with two riders in a front group with 20km in a race!

125km to go breakaway with Pibernik and Korošec from our team is having 2'09 lead on the peloton after the first few climbs and cobbled sections.

In a peloton, Barbin is losing connection with them which is a bit disappointing news for us.

The nine-man breakaway group is still having 3'26'' gap to the peloton with only 70km to the finish line! In a peloton is only 46 the strongest riders.

30km to go Oss is in the lead behind is a five man-group with Rok Korošec.

24km to the finish all riders are in a peloton.

There is a strong group of main favourites for the win in this race.

In last few km Jerome Baugnies was the strongest one and took the win at this race!

Results:

1	Jerome Baugnies	Los Pollos Hermanos	5h07'16
2	Oliver Naesen	Bralirwa - Stevens Bikes	+ 17
3	Bert Van Lerberghe	Philips	s.t.
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23	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+ 6'00
29	Tesfay Abraha	Trans Cycling Team	+ 6'56
33	Rok Korosec	Trans Cycling Team	+ 8'35
41	Geraint Thomas	Trans Cycling Team	+ 11'44
49	Sascha Modolo	Trans Cycling Team	+ 14'41
51	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	+ 18'01
57	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	+ 24'02
66	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	+ 35'47

cunego59 wrote:
I have a Top 5 Goal for Frankfurt Eschborn that I'm not very confident in as well I'll be seeing you at the Tour du Faso and Malopolski Wyscig, too. They should suit Abraha and Thomas much better than 1 Jour de Dunkerque, could be some nice battles!

1. Stage of Tour de Romandie

Another stage C1 race where we sent most of our young riders to get more experiences for next season.
Time trials and the general wasn't our goals this why we knew that we knew we wouldn't be close to others.

Just before the finish ''climb'' our team was battling for 15th place as they were four sec in a front of Sotto team but they lost all and finished on last place 3 sec behind the Sotto team and 1'33'' behind of winning team Duolingo.

Results - 1. stage & team:

1	Duolingo	21'05
2	Azteca - NBCSN	+ 17
3	Polar	+ 19
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16	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'33

Results:

1	Antonio Barbio	Duolingo	21'05
2	Dominique Cornu	Duolingo	s.t.
3	Nikita Razumov	Duolingo	s.t.
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116	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	+1'33
117	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
118	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
119	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
120	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
121	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'36
123	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'38
125	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'40

Young:

1	Nikita Razumov	Duolingo	21'05
2	Rui Oliveira	Duolingo	s.t.
3	Egan Bernal	Polar	+ 19
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23	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'33
24	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
25	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
27	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'40

Nemolito wrote:
No worries about Malopolski, Baugnies won't be there as a certain manager forgot to select that race :

2. Stage of Tour de Romandie - champagnes are opening when the main wish is reached

Second stage and the last one were one of our main goals to be in Top 5 at Tour de Romandie.

Soon after Neuman & Marchewka went to attack and form the breakaway our Sotber went to chase and join them even that he struggled on first climb.

Before the top of the first climb he managed to join the breakaway where were now 5 riders with 1'30 gap on peloton.

60km to go gropu now of four riders with our Sotberg is having 3'30 lead on Peloton at the second cat. climb where Sotberg managed to get 4 KOM points.

At the intermediate sprint Sotberg as the third rider manages to grab two points.
This time peloton was only one minute behind the breakaway where we still had our sprint leader Luka Mezgec.

20km to the finish peloton splits into two parts!

Our Sotber was caught before 5km to finish line as he returned to peloton where was Luka Mezgec.
3km to finish breakaway was caught and in a peloton our Luka Pibernik was leading it for Mezgec.

In last km Luka Pibernik finished with his long leadout for Luka Mezgec where he started his own and long sprint into technical finish!

Maksimov, Guardini, Drapac, Boivin and Novardianto were the only one who could to
threaten Luka Mezgec and take a win on second stage!

500m Luka Mezgec is still strong and it looks like on a first win for Trans Cycling Team!!!!

Hardy managed to add another great result and finished in 9th place!

This is our first win and is even sweeter as it happened on Easter Holidays!

Results of 2. Stage Tour de Romandie

1	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	4h38'43
2	Roman Maksimov	MOL	s.t.
3	Jamalidin Novardianto	Xero Racing	s.t.
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9	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
21	Jonathan Camargo
28	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
59	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
102	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
103	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
118	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.

General:

1	Antonio Barbio	Duolingo	4h59'48
2	Rui Oliveira	Duolingo	s.t.
3	Zoltan Sipos	Duolingo	s.t.
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93	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'13
108	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'31
109	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'33
111	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
112	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
113	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'36
115	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'38
117	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'40

Points:

1	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	25
2	Roman Maksimov	MOL	20
3	Jamalidin Novardianto	Xero Racing	16
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11	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	7
18	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	2

Mountain:

1	Tom Thill	Adastra N Hell Energy Cycling	14
2	Dominik Neuman	Campari Asahi Procycling	14
3	Andrea Enrico Maccagli	Sotto il sole di Riccione	8
4	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	4
5	Mujtaba Hussein	MOL	2

Young:

1	Rui Oliveira	Duolingo	4h59'48
2	Nikita Razumov	Duolingo	s.t.
3	Egan Bernal	Polar	+ 19
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21	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'31
22	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'33
23	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
25	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'40

Team:

1	Duolingo	14h17'14
2	Azteca - NBCSN	+ 17
3	Polar	+ 19
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16	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'33

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3. Stage, Tour de Romandie

The third stage of Romandie is the second hardest stage where we only hoped to have one of our guys in break and it happened with Hardy who attacked Peloton after the first three riders went to breakaway.

On a frit two climbs, Hardy managed to be first and second which was 10points together.

At the third climb, Hardy was on the third play which was another 6 KOM points. In the middle of the race peloton is 1'30 behind the breakaway with 96 riders.

40km to the finish Hardy was second at the intermediate sprint.
The breakaway was caught just before the start of the next climb.

At the end of the stage, no one from our team was in the peloton.

The winner of the 3rd stage is Yonathan Monsalve from Bakkafrost team.

Results:

1	Yonathan Monsalve	Bakkafrost	4h39'39
2	Tom Jelte Slagter	Campari Asahi Procycling	s.t.
3	Georg Preidler	Adastra N Hell Energy Cycling	s.t.
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57	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	+ 8'37
63	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
68	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	+ 9'07
71	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	+ 9'20
83	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
85	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
107	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	+ 13'20
113	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+ 16'42

General:

1	Yonathan Monsalve	Bakkafrost	9h39'38
2	Pierre Latour	Polar	+ 12
3	Georg Preidler	Adastra N Hell Energy Cycling	+ 20
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74	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	+ 9'59
77	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+ 10'02
82	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	+ 10'27
89	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	+ 10'42
90	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	+ 10'43
91	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	+ 10'49
108	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	+ 14'42
113	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+ 17'44

Points:

1	Yonathan Monsalve	Bakkafrost	34
2	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	25
3	Pierre Latour	Polar	20
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13	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	11
30	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	2

Mountain:

1	Daniele Dall'Oste	Sotto il sole di Riccione	18
2	Yonathan Monsalve	Bakkafrost	16
3	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	16
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15	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	4

Young:

1	Egan Bernal	Polar	9h45'30
2	Daniel Habtemichael	Xero Racing	+ 5
3	Rui Oliveira	Duolingo	+ 2'34
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17	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	+ 4'35
21	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	+ 4'50
22	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	+ 4'57
28	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	+ 8'50

Team:

1	Bakkafrost	28h24'24
2	Mapei	+ 7
3	Nordstrom - CA Technologies	+ 31
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16	Trans Cycling Team	+ 19'41

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4. Stage, Tour of Romandie
Before the start of the first climb, there was already a breakaway with 13 riders and our Hardy between to get some extra kom points.

on a first 1st cat. climb Hardy managed to finish in second place and got extra 12 points.

On the first sprint, Hardy managed to get a few seconds.
The gap from the peloton was already seven minutes.

At the second first cat climb which was in the middle of the stage, Hardy managed to be first and extended his lead in KOM points now with 44 points.

Before starting a new climb a few riders were left and now there are only 8 riders with our Hardy in a breakaway. The chasers are now 2min behind and Peloton 6min 30 sec.

Hardy passed another 2cat. climb on third place with extra points and a climb after he was on 5th place with extra 2 points which is now 52 KOM points together.

44km to go Breakaway lost a small amount of minutes to the peloton but they still have a big lead and behind there are around 4 extra groups.

This time at the last print Hardy wasn't in the first position in a group to get extra points.

28km to finish Hardy was in 5th place and managed to get extra points with which is now the leader with 58 KOM points.

Congrats to Andrea Manfredi from Centovalli - Fiat for a win at queen stage Tour fo Romandie.

Our Hardy managed to finish in amazing third place!!!!!

Results:

1	Andrea Manfredi	Centovalli - Fiat	4h41'42
2	George Alexandru Stancu	MOL	+ 40
3	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1'25
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60	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	+ 10'09
83	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+ 15'31
84	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
89	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	+ 19'37
92	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	+ 20'50
95	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
97	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+ 21'07

General:

1	Yonathan Monsalve	Bakkafrost	14h25'38
2	Pierre Latour	Polar	+ 12
3	Georg Preidler	Adastra N Hell Energy Cycling	+ 20
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35	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	+ 7'40
66	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	+ 15'50
81	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+ 21'15
84	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	+ 22'02
89	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	+ 26'01
90	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	+ 26'59
95	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	+ 31'14
103	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+ 34'33

Points:

1	Yonathan Monsalve	Bakkafrost	42
2	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	29
3	Pierre Latour	Polar	27
4	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	25
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37	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	2

Mountain:

1	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	58
2	Daniele Dall'Oste	Sotto il sole di Riccione	46
3	Idan Shapira	Fablok - Chocolate Jacques	36
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22	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	4

Young:

1	Egan Bernal	Polar	14h33'41
2	Jordan Schleck	Xero Racing	+ 1'29
3	Daniel Habtemichael	Xero Racing	+ 5'45
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17	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	+ 13'59
20	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	+ 17'58
21	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	+ 18'56
25	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	+ 23'11

Team:

1	Bakkafrost	42h42'24
2	Nordstrom - CA Technologies	+ 31
3	Mapei	+ 43
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15	Trans Cycling Team	+ 33'52

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5. stage, Tour de Romandie
First ITT and the second TT stage where we didn't expect anything special as we didn't send any TT specialist on this race.

Our best rider on this stage was Jonathan Camargoon 42. place with + 2'06 gap to winner Ryan Eastman.

6. stage, Tour de Romandie - Celebration
The last stage was important for Hardy to keep the first place at the KOM competition and the stage competition for Luka Mezgec as it was the flat stage.

Neuman was first to attack from the start line and Goldstein Maccagli and Thill joined him in a breakaway.

Hardy was in a front of the peloton from the start if Dall'Oste would attack and go for extra KOM points.

We didn't have any rider in a breakaway as Mezgec was our biggest candidate for this stage and he was safely hidden in a peloton for a finish.

At the start of the last km, he was a bit locked and behind the best sprinters.

Luka managed to come closer to the leader sprinters around 300m to finish.

In the end, he was a bit short for a win and top 5 but still, he finished in 7 places!

The winner of the last or 6th stage is Damion Drapac. Luka Mezgec was at the end in 7th place!

Results:

1	Damion Drapac	Adastra N Hell Energy Cycling	4h43'20
2	Theo Reinhardt	Centovalli - Fiat	s.t.
3	Roman Maksimov	MOL	s.t.
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7	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
54	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
79	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
93	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
100	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
102	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
112	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
127	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.

General:

1	Yonathan Monsalve	Bakkafrost	19h38'12
2	George Bennett	Xero Racing	+ 40
3	Pierre Latour	Polar	+ 1'15
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39	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	+ 10'26
61	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	+ 17'46
83	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	+ 25'57
84	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+ 26'20
89	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	+ 30'14
92	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	+ 32'35
94	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	+ 34'52
104	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+ 41'34

Points:

1	Yonathan Monsalve	Bakkafrost	58
2	Roman Maksimov	MOL	36
3	Damion Drapac	Adastra N Hell Energy Cycling	35
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5	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	34
10	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	29
49	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	2

KOM:

1	Romain Hardy	Trans Cycling Team	58
2	Daniele Dall'Oste	Sotto il sole di Riccione	46
3	Idan Shapira	Fablok - Chocolate Jacques	36
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27	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	4

Young:

1	Egan Bernal	Polar	19h48'03
2	Jordan Schleck	Xero Racing	+ 1'42
3	Daniel Habtemichael	Xero Racing	+ 5'48
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17	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	+ 16'06
20	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	+ 20'23
23	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	+ 22'44
24	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	+ 25'01

Team:

1	Bakkafrost	58h22'59
2	Nordstrom - CA Technologies	+ 1'06
3	Mapei	+ 2'38
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15	Trans Cycling Team	+ 39'19

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