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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 12-11-2026 10:47
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 [PTHC] Vuelta a Colombia
Report by Imladrik
| | | | | | | | | | Stage 1 | FLAT | | 171,7 KM | | | | | | | Stage 2 | MTN | | 165,2 KM | | | | | | | Stage 3 | MTN | | 149,6 KM | | | | | | | Stage 4 | FLAT | | 171,2 KM | | | | | | | Stage 5 | MTN | | 162,1 KM | | | | | | | Stage 6 | MTN | | 139,9 KM | | | | | |
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Third | | | | | | | 2025 | LECUISINIER Pierre-Henri | GODOY Caio | MORTON Lachlan | | | | | | | 2024 | LECUISINIER Pierre-Henri | PHINNEY Taylor | DOMBROWSKI Joe | | | | | | | 2023 | LECUISINIER Pierre-Henri | WELLENS Tim | DOMBROWSKI Joe | | | | | | | 2022 | WELLENS Tim | HAIG Jack | KUDUS Merhawi | | | | | | | 2021 | KUDUS Merhawi | LECUISINIER Pierre-Henri | MADRAZO Angel | | | | | | | 2020 | TAARAMAE Rein | DOMBROWSKI Joe | PLUCHKIN Aleksandr | | | | | | | 2019 | PLUCHKIN Aleksandr | AMADOR Andrei | TENORIO Justo | | | | | | | 2018 | PLUCHKIN Aleksandr | DENIFL Stefan | URAN Rigoberto | | | | | | | 2017 | AMADOR Andrei | HENAO Sergio | DENIFL Stefan | | | | | | | 2016 | MADRAZO Angel | SPILAK Simon | DOMBROWSKI Joe | | | | | | | 2015 | SPILAK Simon | MADRAZO Angel | TAARAMAE Rein | | | | | | | 2014 | ALARCON Jose | MACHADO Tiago | AMADOR Andrei | | | | | | | 2013 | AMADOR Andrei | VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen | MACHADO Tiago | | | | | | | 2012 | CUNEGO Damiano | HENAO Sergio | MACHADO Tiago | | | | | | | 2011 | VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen | GIL Koldo | HESJEDAL Ryder | | | | | | | 2010 | PEDRAZA Walter | HENAO Sergio | PEREZ CUAPIO Julio | | | | | | | 2009 | SERPA Jose | DEVOLDER Stijn | RUJANO José | | | | | | | 2008 | PEREIRO SIO Oscar | POZZOVIVO Domenico | GHISALBERTI Sergio | | | | | |
S1: Alexandr Kulikovskiy (Sony - Force India) S2: Nikias Arndt (Evonik - ELKO) S3: Nicola Bagioli (Grieg-Maersk) S4: Aliaksandr Riabushenko (McCormick Pro Cycling) S5: Mattias Skjelmose Jensen (Carlsberg - Danske Bank) S6: Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier (Evonik - ELKO) Pts: Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier (Evonik - ELKO) KoM: Nicola Bagioli (Grieg-Maersk) Yth: Mattias Skjelmose Jensen (Carlsberg - Danske Bank)
| 1 | Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier | Evonik - ELKO | 23h43'18 | | | | | | | 2 | Caio Godoy | Team UBS | + 1'35 | | | | | | | 3 | Lachlan Morton | cycleYorkshire | + 2'17 | | | | | | | 4 | Mark Padun | Trans Looney Tunes | + 2'43 | | | | | | | 5 | Ivan Sosa | McCormick Pro Cycling | s.t. | | | | | | | 6 | Pavel Sivakov | Tinkoff Team - La Datcha | + 4'37 | | | | | | | 7 | Joseph Dombrowski | Gazelle | + 4'53 | | | | | | | 8 | Joao Almeida | MOL Cycling Team | + 5'25 | | | | | | | 9 | Sergio Higuita | Los Pollos Hermanos | + 6'10 | | | | | | | 10 | Mattias Skjelmose Jensen | Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 6'30 | | | | | |
S1: Stanislaw Aniolkowski (Rabobank) S2: Mick Van Dijke (Sony - Force India) S3: Dylan Groenewegen (Aker - MOT) S4: Arnaud Demare (Tryg - Eni) S5: Simon Yates (cycleYorkshire) S6: Thomas Pidcock (Xero Racing) S7: Eddie Dunbar (Indosat Ooredoo) S8: Ruben Guerreiro (Fastned) Pts: Arnaud Demare (Tryg - Eni) Mtn: Mateo Frankovic (Xero Racing) Yth: Remco Evenepoel (Rabobank)
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| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MTN | MM | ST | RS | RC |  Kudus | Merhawi | ERI | 32 | 85 | 82 | 79 | 77 | 79 |  Pogacar | Tadej | SLO | 28 | 83 | 80 | 79 | 80 | 80 |
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| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MTN | MM | ST | RS | RC |  Sivakov | Pavel | RUS | 29 | 82 | 77 | 79 | 77 | 82 |  Amezawa | Takeaki | JPN | 31 | 80 | 79 | 76 | 78 | 80 |  Almeida | Joao | POR | 28 | 83 | 78 | 76 | 78 | 78 |  Higuita | Sergio | COL | 29 | 79 | 80 | 76 | 78 | 79 |  Latour | Pierre | FRA | 33 | 80 | 77 | 79 | 77 | 78 |  Giannoutsos | Miltiadis | GRE | 29 | 81 | 77 | 76 | 78 | 75 |
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| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MTN | MM | ST | RS | RC |  Aular | Orluis | VEN | 30 | 81 | 77 | 76 | 75 | 77 |  Plapp | Luke | AUS | 26 | 79 | 78 | 74 | 78 | 76 |  Rodriguez | Carlos | ESP | 25 | 80 | 77 | 75 | 76 | 77 |  Padun | Mark | UKR | 30 | 82 | 80 | 72 | 74 | 76 |  Faglum Karlsson | Marcus | SWD | 32 | 79 | 76 | 78 | 75 | 76 |  Skjelmose Jensen | Mattias | DEN | 26 | 81 | 78 | 73 | 77 | 75 |  Johannessen | Tobias Halland | NOR | 27 | 80 | 77 | 73 | 77 | 77 |
Other leaders
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MTN | MM | ST | RS | RC |  Ardila | Andres Camilo | COL | 27 | 81 | 81 | 69 | 70 | 74 |  Vauquelin | Kevin | FRA | 25 | 79 | 75 | 72 | 76 | 75 |  Formolo | Davide | ITA | 34 | 77 | 78 | 73 | 73 | 69 |  Vingegaard | Jonas | DEN | 30 | 78 | 74 | 76 | 77 | 77 |  Carapaz | Richard Antonio | ECU | 33 | 79 | 75 | 69 | 74 | 75 |  Van Gils | Maxim | BEL | 27 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 75 | 75 |  Min | Kyeng Ho | KOR | 30 | 79 | 78 | 75 | 77 | 70 |  Misbah | Mushin | MAS | 29 | 79 | 75 | 76 | 73 | 74 |
Sprinters
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | FL | RC | SP | AC | | | Samolenkov | Artem | RUS | 33 | 73 | 76 | 80 | 77 | | | Thijssen | Gerben | BEL | 28 | 75 | 78 | 79 | 81 | | | Willwohl | Willi | GER | 32 | 73 | 78 | 79 | 78 | | | Riabushenko | Aliaksandr | BLR | 31 | 76 | 76 | 79 | 77 | | | Bonifazio | Niccolo | ITA | 33 | 78 | 69 | 79 | 79 | | | Rajovic | Dusan | SER | 29 | 72 | 70 | 78 | 82 | |
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Posted on 14-11-2026 14:44
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| Heine |
Posted on 12-11-2026 10:55
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Am I allowed to be sad that PHL is not here and wont win again?
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| redordead |
Posted on 12-11-2026 11:04
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First time here for Pogacar. It can't be much worse than East Java last year can it? Rajovic is probably doomed since we don't have a leadout for him.
Thanks for the preview 
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 12-11-2026 11:04
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Quite a decent start list for Amezawa. Still a tough field of course, but could've been much worse. I would love a repeat of the Top 5 from the ToME and I think that's realistic. Beating Padun and/or Almeida would also be great for the promotion race.
Slightly annoyed with myself that I didn't bring Jago Willems here, who could've had a real shot at a stage win or two, but Perera can at least compete for the Top 5 on a good day in this field.
Overall, tough to look past Kudus here. I'm most curious about Ardila and if the stages are "easy" enough for him to compete.
Thanks for the preview Laurens!
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Posted on 12-11-2026 11:34
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Heine wrote:
Am I allowed to be sad that PHL is not here and wont win again?
You're not alone with that thought 
Plapp here for us. Top 10 has to be the goal.
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 12-11-2026 12:46
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Would be nice to see something from Formolo here, or why not Sanikwathi with a random sprint result. Probably neither will happen and we'll have to settle for breakaway action. In any case, happy to be back racing after a long spell on the sidelines.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 12-11-2026 13:49
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This is the debut for trained Skjelmose, and it's certainly not the easiest startlist for it. Pretty brutal, really. That said, he had a nice break last year and ended up top 10 when he was only 79 mtn, so you never know what could happen. The stages are also relatively short and, besides stage 2, don't have tons of repeated climbing, which should help him. It's also one of the few races where he and Olivier will be riding together, so I'm curious how the AI uses the latter.
Thanks for the preview!
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| SotD |
Posted on 12-11-2026 15:21
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We always knew this was going to be a stacked field, but let’s see if Giannoutsos can get a top 10 nontheless. He does have a pretty deep support team around him.
Also Gibbons just outside the sprinter favorite list. Fingers crossed he is ready to do some magic like in Middle East. If he does, he’s already home safe with our individual target for him.
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 12-11-2026 19:13
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Hopefully Misbah can sneak his way to a top 10 like he has many times before but without a TT we think it's more likely to be a top 15
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| jph27 |
Posted on 12-11-2026 19:26
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In theory this is another race like ToME where the mountain stages work better with Ardila's limitations. However, it's a stronger field and the impact of multiple climbs on each stage may work against him so we'll see how it goes. |
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 12-11-2026 20:18
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Thanks for the preview Laurens (and especially for mentioning Vauquelin among the "other leaders" ! Realistically he'll probably be better off hunting stages than actually going for a minor GC result, but we'll be happy with whatever we get here.
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 12-11-2026 22:39
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I expect this will be tough for Carapaz to get any real scoring out of but let's see how we goes!
Thank you for the preview and looking forward to the race
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 13-11-2026 00:59
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Really tough field but I am excited to see how Carlos goes here! We also have Boni for the 2 sprint stages. Keen for the first real showing of Carlos Rodriguez!
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 13-11-2026 04:01
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Would really have preferred Sosa here as he took 5th last year and as others have mentioned this parcours might favor the true hybrids. But the calendar didn't work out for that so it is Aular and his more traditional skill set instead. His talent for Los Pollos was chugging his way to solid results without doing anything dramatic, will live with that.
Riabushenko's best sprints came here last year so lets hope he can repeat that.
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 13-11-2026 13:45
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I think planning my sprinters correctly will be the biggest learning for next season. Still would've hoped for a bit more from Perera than 15th, but ultimately that stage won't matter much. Onto hopefully better things tomorrow.
Congrats jaxika, the leadouts showing they can do it on their own, too, here with Stewart and then Dekker in second place. Thanks for the nice report Imladrik!
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 13-11-2026 13:54
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Forssell was in the mix but just not good enough. I might have to consider actually signing a secondary sprinter next year, although I was wary to send Skjelmose to any races with a legit sprinter anyway because of the AI. So maybe we'll just have to accept we can't be competitive everywhere. Congrats to jaxika.
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Posted on 13-11-2026 14:54
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Strong sprint by Kurianov. Very appreciated!
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| jaxika |
Posted on 13-11-2026 15:04
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Wow, fantastic sprint by Stewart!
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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 13-11-2026 15:08
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Why are Vasyliv and Girdlestone losing 2'22" in the first stage  Awful
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Posted on 13-11-2026 15:15
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Yeah some pretty strong riders losing time for no apparent reason. Minor points for us, if any though.
Gibbons did alright here. Thought he was nowhere as he wasn’t mentioned in the report.
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