We enter the month of March and the CT are here with their best Northern Classics riders who try to write their names into the history of this historic race. It's a cloudy day at the start, with any rain expected to add to the challenge of the profile. Let's get started with the action to see who comes out on top.
Favourites
FL
MO
HI
ST
RS
CB
SP
AC
Gaday
71
67
75
75
72
78
71
73
Owen
73
65
69
73
71
78
64
71
Breen
76
61
69
70
70
77
72
70
Trentin
71
57
71
71
66
78
72
71
Tediashvili
73
66
69
74
76
74
69
71
Chatarunga
72
56
67
79
72
77
70
68
Paprstka
75
62
69
74
70
75
70
72
Havik
73
56
64
74
68
76
79
76
Kulppi
73
59
67
73
69
77
65
70
Schäppi
72
64
67
74
72
76
66
68
Kaislavuo
73
65
70
73
73
73
67
72
Gayral makes the first move on the flat after the first cobbles.
He is joined by 10 others at the end of the third cobbles section:
There are a couple of riders already dropped from the pack.
Drouin and Gayral are caught with 140 km to go.
Bakke Christopherson and Yzeiraj are caught with 95 km to go.
Bovenhuis has been dropped from the pack, which is down to 52 riders. He would make it back.
Stussi us caught with 78 km to go.
Lehtinen and Murillo are caught with 58 km to go. The pack has 49 riders.
Yechezkel is caught with 48 km to go.
Schappi, Skala and Gayral (again) attack with 45 km to go.
Kelly is cuaght with 42 km to go.
Taubel and Askey are caught 3 km later.
Paprstka has been dropped from the pack, which has 45 riders.
Taubel is dropped from the pack with 36 km to go. Skala and Gayral are caught.
Paprtska makes it back with 31 km remaining. All of the break is caught now.
Owen and Breen are dropped with 11 km left! I'm sure that's not what their teams were expecting.
The peloton still has 37 riders with 5 km to go. Multiple riders tried to get away in the meantime but they were all chased down.
Breen and Owen are more than a minute down.
The peloton has shed 10 more riders in the interim as we reach the last 2 kilometers.
Gaday has moved to the front with a kilometer to go. Kaislavuo is nearest to him.
Gaday has a gap and just 500 meters left to ride. Chaturanga, Trentin and Van der Hoorn are next.
Gaday is extending his lead inside the last 200 meters!
Gaday takes an untroubled win in the end!
Chaturanga continues his good and consistent season with 2nd.
Tediashvili comes out of nowhere in the closing stages to take 3rd!. Van der Hoorn is 4th. Eriksson ensures that it isn't that bad a day for his team after his leader was dropped with a surprising 5th.
Lampaert edges out Livyns and Paprstka for 6th.
Matthews, Hennis and Richardson make it three Podium Ambition riders in a row from 9th to 11th!
Kaislavuo is 12th with Goosens in 13th.
Havik is 14th, Allegaert is 15th and Bovenhuis is 16th. Then its Schlechter.
Campbell is 18h, followed by Trentin, who imploded at the end.
Verschaeve completes the Top 20.
Today's winner - Lucas Manuel Gaday.
Gaday lives up to his billing and takes the win in this race. Chaturanga and Tediashvili complete the podium.
