Sitting in sunny Bilbao, we had some great training days in the small streets of the Basque Country. Some form for the hills is built up - and maybe some for the cobbled classiques, thinking of a couple of streets we passed...
Being quite strong so far on almost every terrain, climbing is something we have to improve for now. Some amateur rider in Euskadi jerseys overtook all of us, when we were testing on a climb in the Pyrenees. But Frank and Johann starting later in the season and Laurent being ill no trouble on that for now.
We had quite a lot of fans talking to our riders, asking for autographs... Cycling is still a big sport in Pais Vasco, especially thinking of the time when Euskaltel was still at first-class-cycling.
Look what we found according to that:
Season opener
It is confirmed that we stay in Europe, but we will have at least a couple of racedays before Omloop. Most likely Tour de Haut Var & GP Marseilles or Algarve.
JM-Project
The JM-Project was found by a group of Belgian, mostly agents working in competitive sports. It should generate money, with which young Belgian sportsmen should be supported and professionally escorted. This should keep these guys out of physical and psychologic trouble for the way the grow up to professonal athletes.
The project was founded nearly at the same time as our team. On our sponsoring trip we had some contact with this project, and we agreed on a partnership to it.
The first event, organized by the JM-Project, is a sports competition taking part in Gent. It contains a couple of sports events:
GENT 2015
1. indoor football tournament: 4 Teams are competing in the tournement. The host KAA Gent from the Flandres, Standart Liege from the Wallonie, VFL Wolfsburg from Germany and PSV Eindhoven from the Netherlands.
2. tennis match: There will be a showmatch between the top belgian player David Goffin and young talent Kimmer Coppejans.
3.track racing: Six Teams send two riders to a track championship in the Velodrom of Gent. There will be Lotto-Soudal (Kris Boeckmans & Kenny Dehaes), Etixx-Quick Step (Iljo Keisse & Stijn Vandenbergh), Wanty Groupe Gobert (Bjorn Leukemans & Jerome Baugnies), Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise (Edward Theuns & Pieter Jacobs), Leopard-Evonik ProCycling (Kristof Vandewalle & Jelle Wallays) and Wallonie-Bruxelles (Sebastien Delfosse & Antoine Demoitie)
This amazing velodrome in Gent will be the target for Kristof and Jelle soon...
Hi there,
we are Kristof and Jelle, writing from Gent. We spent 3 days here, meeting a lot of sportsmen, well-known pros as well as fascinated kids. A lot of talks and giveaways of autograph-cards have been done.
A lot of money has been collected, and we put our effort in for that. Firstly by riding in the JM track-event, but in secondary also by giving our jerseys to an auction after all the sports have been done. So if you see someone riding a Leopard-Evonik jersey with a small Jelle or Kristof on the side, this guy doesn´t automatically have to be one of us
The track event has been really interesting, the first time in the season we met some of the elite belgian cyclist. So this was kind of an inofficial belgian national track championship for road racers.
Finally we could both compete, but really were not near winning this competition. But winning wasn´t the main issue this time wasn´t it? The fun we had and the attention we got for both this sport and this project made this a really great event. Can you guess the final top three based on pics made a time ago?
Guess it´s not too hard but interesting if you are able to find out who it is.
If you are interested in the other sports, Coppejans won against Goffin in four sets and Liege took the win over Wolfsburg, Gent and Eindhoven.
If you didn´t watched this sports weekend, there is a huge chance that next year the second edition will start, maybe with us again. So stay tuned with our team announcements
Right now we are on our way back to Luxembourg, where we will have our final preparations for the season to start.
You will here form us as soon as the season starts...
Jelle Wallays and Kristof Vandewalle
Just a short update...this story is NOT done, racing will start as soon as the pcm.daily2015 database is out...
I was away a couple of weeks, so that´s why no updates were made here...for the moment I´m just out of ideas about pre-season content, what can be used without having the DB yet...
Stay tuned
We all noticed the sad news...no PCM daily database. A heartbreak after the long time we waited for it to start racing, but now we have to go another way.
We will go with the JESGD 2015DB V1.75, some individually (but only marginally) edited stats based on the Ardennes Classics included. Our riders were left untouched, so that we have a clear look on the stats. Martijn & Julian were created based on the pcmdaily 2014 database; David based on his 2014 results...his stats are near the ones of Sebastian Balck. Stay tuned, it´s time for some racing action soon!
Special thanks
I would once again like to thank the_hoyle for his support, guiding me through the editor to bring our team in the database.
Good news, was coming here to suggest that but you were one step ahead! Looking forward to starting!
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Beginning this season 21 teams will compete in the Pro-Continental division, with more or less ambitions to go up to the highest league of cycling. The strongest sides are the french teams Cofidis and Europcar as well as south african team MTN-Qhubeka. behind that a couple of teams want a part of the cake, especially Leopard, Androni, Bardiani, Wanty and Bora seem to be able to fight for the first places.
Team-Schedule Part 1
The final plan for the first three months of racing is out! We have a special interest in the bold races; the italic ones are not confirmed yet. The other races are to build up form, let young riders get special experiences or have a financial background.
January
19.1.-25.1.
Tour de San Luis
2.1.
29.1.-1.2.
Vuelta a Mallorca
2.1.
February
4.2.-9.2.
Etoile de Besseges
2.1.
18.2.-22.2.
Vuelta a Andalucia
2.1.
18.2.-22.2.
Volta ao Algarve
2.1.
28.2.
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
1.HC
28.2.
Classic Sud Ardeche - Souvenir Francis Delpech
1.1.
March
1.3.
Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne
1.1.
1.3.
GP di Lugano
1.HC
4.3.
Le Samyn
1.1.
6.3.-8.3.
Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
2.1.
7.3.
Strade Bianchi
1.HC
14.3.
Albert Achterhes Pet Ronde van Drenthe
1.1.
14.3.
Vuelta a la Region di Murcia
1.1.
18.3.
Nokere Koerse - Danilith Classic
1.1.
20.3.
Handzame Classic
1.1.
21.3.
Ronde Van Zeeland Seaports
1.1.
21.3.
Classic Loire Atlantique
1.1.
22.3.
Cholet - Pays de Loire
1.1.
25.3.
Dwars door Vlaanderen
1.HC
26.3.-30.3.
Settimana Coppi e Bartali
2.1.
27.3.
E3 Harelbeke
Classic
30.3.
Gent - Wevelgem
Classic
31.3.-2.4.
Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde
2.HC
Some hard decisions, we went with not too many pre-action races, but especially our young men, who don´t have to deliver early in the season, told us that they really want to try something in the early races. So at the beginning we won´t hunt for big results that much, but try something for our young men.
We thought about the point to limit the time-trials in our pre-goal races, but our team has a lot of talent for TTs, so we think that we should give them the chance of performing on their preferred terrain already before the big races are coming.
Tour of San Luis
We thought about that Tour of San Luis invitation a long time. Our plan was not to go out of Europe (we had invitations from Dubai, Oman, Qatar and Malaysia), but this one is a special offer. Cycling in South America is growing fast, a lot of talented riders float from there to World Tour Cycling. They offered us a really interesting package: On the one hand we start there with a team of six riders, come there three days early to have some rides out with young regional cyclists and the San Luis Somos Todos team. Andy Schleck will lead the team out of the car, and will take part in a special event. He will race the Mirador del Portrero against the colombian legend Felix Cardenas, Argentinas top cyclist Eduardo Sepulveda and the national u23 champion Emiliano Contreras.
On the other hand all the money for the trip (like flight, transport, hotel) will be paid by the organisers of the Tour and the cycling federation of Argentina. Another positiv effect is the massive increase of popularity and the growing network for the future market South America.
Leaders - Goals
Lieuwe Westra
Frank Schleck
Marcus Burghardt
Bob Jungels
Kristof Vandewalle
Feedback Corner
@jandal7, the_hoyle & trekbmc: great to see you still interested in the story, you guys are amazing
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Edited by Croatia14 on 28-04-2015 13:05
Goals: Top 10 in a stage; Top 10 in the GC or win the Mountains Jersey
Stage 1 San Luis - Villa Mercedes 165 km
A short, flat stage at the beginning. It has to be a bunch sprint today, they won´t want to giveaway the first chance to a breakaway. The favourites are:
Right from the beginning two riders attack. They are Giuseppe Fonzi (Southeast) and Maciej Paterski (CCC Sprandi). The peloton didn´t really react to this, so that the couple increased their lead to a maximum of 6"10 with 90 km to go.
The sprinters didn´t want to loose the first stage to a breakaway. The domestiques, especially of Lampre and Androni, increased the pace, and at the second intermediate sprint the lead was down to 2"40 with 60 km to go. Each one of the couple upfront won one of the sprints, while Appollonio (Androni) took both of the peloton sprints. This made him the favourite for the final sprint, so Androni organized the chase to break down Paterski&Fonzi.
We wanted to sit back this and next stage, just to get fresh into the hilly stages.
8 km were just left when the peloton catched the chase. Nearly at the same time Movistar and Southeast had a heartbreak, a bunch of their main man crashed and could not come back until the end (Ponzi, Gavazzi, Izagirre, Amador, Gadret).
Androni set up a great pace to lead Appollonio into the sprint. But from his backwheel the Yauheni Hutarovich came around and took the stage. The belorussijan sprinter and Appollonio opened up a big gap to Ventoso (Movistar) on P3.
We didn´t plan to participate in the sprint, but with 1km to go Mathieu decided to put his head down and just ride as hard as he can to see what he can get. He surprisingly ended up at P5, which also meant that he took the Youth Classification for at least one day. Great job by him!
Results
Stage & GC
1
Yauheni Hutarovich
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
3h35'42
2
Davide Appollonio
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
3
Francisco José Ventoso
Movistar Team
s.t.
4
Michael Mørkøv
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
5
Mathieu van der Poel
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
6
Peter Kennaugh
Team Sky
s.t.
7
Rubén Plaza
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
8
Andrew Fenn
Team Sky
s.t.
9
Jonathan Hivert
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
10
Jarlinson Pantano
IAM Cycling
s.t.
Spoiler
11
Lars Petter Nordhaug
Team Sky
s.t.
12
Sérgio Pardilla
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
13
Francesco Lasca
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
14
Marco Benfatto
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
15
Riccardo Zoidl
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
16
David Arroyo
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
17
Sérgio Paulinho
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
18
Franco Pellizotti
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
19
Giuseppe Fonzi
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
20
Maxim Belkov
Team Katusha
s.t.
21
Petr Vakoč
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
22
Chun Feng
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
23
Fabio Duarte
Team Colombia
s.t.
24
Sebastian Henao
Team Sky
s.t.
25
Maciej Paterski
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
26
Miguel Rubiano
Team Colombia
s.t.
27
Vicente Reynès
IAM Cycling
s.t.
28
Emanuele Sella
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
29
Julian Kern
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
30
Eduardo Sepulveda
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
31
Johann Tschopp
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
32
Mikaël Chérel
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
33
Kristijan Durasek
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
34
Damien Gaudin
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
35
Pello Bilbao
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
36
Hayden Roulston
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
37
Blel Kadri
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
38
Fabio Felline
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
39
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
Team Katusha
s.t.
40
Alexey Tsatevitch
Team Katusha
s.t.
41
Dayer Quintana
Movistar Team
s.t.
42
Alessandro Bazzana
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
43
Florian Vachon
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
44
Adriano Malori
Movistar Team
s.t.
45
Mauro Finetto
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
46
Hugo Houle
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
47
Salvatore Puccio
Team Sky
s.t.
48
Przemyslaw Niemiec
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
49
Jesse Sergent
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
50
Pawel Poljanski
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
51
Daniele Ratto
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
52
Andrea Zordan
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
53
Jarosław Marycz
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
54
Luke Rowe
Team Sky
s.t.
55
Matthias Brändle
IAM Cycling
s.t.
56
Marco Canola
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
57
Stefan Denifl
IAM Cycling
s.t.
58
Florian Guillou
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
59
Nelson Oliveira
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
60
Fabio Silvestre
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
61
Sebastian Balck
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
62
Nikolai Trusov
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
63
Marco Haller
Team Katusha
s.t.
64
Laurent Didier
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
65
Alexander Porsev
Team Katusha
s.t.
66
Jakub Mareczko
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
67
Tsgabu Grmay
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
68
Lluis Guillermo Mas Bonet
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
69
Jonathan Fumeaux
IAM Cycling
s.t.
70
Rafael Andriato
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
71
Luke Keough
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
72
Reto Hollenstein
IAM Cycling
s.t.
73
Leonardo Duque
Team Colombia
s.t.
74
Stijn Devolder
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
75
Eryk Laton
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
76
Javier Francisco Aramendia
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
77
Michael Valgren
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
78
Jacopo Guarnieri
Team Katusha
s.t.
79
Leszek Pluckinski
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
80
Jakub Kaczmarek
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
81
Kiel Reijnen
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
82
Nikolay Mihaylov
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
83
Carlos Mario Ramírez
Team Colombia
s.t.
84
Axel Domont
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
85
Jean-Marc Bideau
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
86
Carlos Gimenez
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
87
Carlos Alzate
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
+ 2'16
88
Simone Ponzi
Southeast Pro Cycling
+ 8'28
89
Ion Izagirre
Movistar Team
s.t.
90
Michael Kolar
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
91
Edwin Ávila
Team Colombia
s.t.
92
Andrey Amador
Movistar Team
s.t.
93
Brayan Ramírez
Team Colombia
s.t.
94
John Gadret
Movistar Team
s.t.
95
Quentin Jauregui
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
96
Francesco Gavazzi
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
Points Classification
1
Giuseppe Fonzi
Southeast Pro Cycling
5
2
Maciej Paterski
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
5
3
Davide Appollonio
Androni Giocattoli
2
Mountains Classification
-
Young Rider Classification
1
Mathieu van der Poel
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
3h35'42
2
Andrew Fenn
Team Sky
s.t.
3
Giuseppe Fonzi
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
Spoiler
4
Petr Vakoč
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
5
Sebastian Henao
Team Sky
s.t.
6
Eduardo Sepulveda
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
7
Pello Bilbao
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
8
Fabio Felline
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
9
Dayer Quintana
Movistar Team
s.t.
10
Hugo Houle
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
11
Pawel Poljanski
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
12
Andrea Zordan
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
13
Luke Rowe
Team Sky
s.t.
14
Fabio Silvestre
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
15
Marco Haller
Team Katusha
s.t.
16
Jakub Mareczko
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
17
Tsgabu Grmay
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
18
Luke Keough
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
19
Eryk Laton
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
20
Michael Valgren
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
21
Leszek Pluckinski
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
22
Jakub Kaczmarek
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
23
Carlos Mario Ramírez
Team Colombia
s.t.
24
Axel Domont
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
25
Carlos Gimenez
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
26
Michael Kolar
Tinkoff - Saxo
+ 8'28
27
Brayan Ramírez
Team Colombia
s.t.
28
Quentin Jauregui
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
Team Classification
1
Team Sky
10h47'06
2
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
3
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
Spoiler
4
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
5
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
6
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
7
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
8
Movistar Team
s.t.
9
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
10
IAM Cycling
s.t.
11
Team Katusha
s.t.
12
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
13
Team Colombia
s.t.
14
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
15
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
16
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
Future Vision
Now that we got the young riders jersey with Mathieu we don´t want to give it away. So we will try to defend it until the mountains come. Laurent and Johann will try to save as much energy as possible for the mountains.
@trekbmc: We did not expect that, but we like what we see
@Ian Butler: The great thing is that he can already lead us on smaller races. That´s what we want to see by giving him the "young riders free role".
@all: Should we keep the reviews like this for every stage/race? We would have a detailed season then, and a slow but detailed pace.
Or should we shortcut the less important races like San Luis and only make a review for the whole race in cases like these? The focused races would stay like this first review. We would have faster pace for developement, more seasons,... , but we would have less details and screenshots from smaller races.
Stage 2 Tilisarao - Terrazas del Portezuelo 174,4 km
Pretty similar to the last stage, it´s slightly more hilly but there is no change looking at the pre-race favourites.
Julian was the first man to attack on the day, but he was followed by a bunch of riders, which the sprinters didn´t want to let go.
The next attack came from Nikolai Trussov (Tinkoff-Saxo), and no one wanted to follow. No action from the peloton in response to that, one rider alone is always nice for a peloton to control, especially on a flat stage.
He carried on to the mountain sprint, where he finished first with an advantage of 2"30 to the peloton.
In there Julian came to the fore to achieve the second place at the KOM point, maybe it could be helpful later this tour. Further the peloton decided to push, a big battle for the first intermediate sprint took place. CCC-Sprandi tried to bring Paterski into the lead of the sprinters jersey with five men, but at the end Appollonio took it one again in front of Hutarovich.
The race slowed down a lot after that, so that Nikolai extended his advantage to 3"57 with 40 km to go (at the first intermediate sprint he had only 20 secondds left). The peloton didn´t really chase with full power, and at the second intermediate sprint just after the hill he had still 1"04 for 10 km. On the downhill section they couldn´t really chase him down, and with 33 seconds for 4,4 km it didn´t look too bad. But Androni and Bretagne found something left in the tank, with what they catched Trusov inside the last 500 meters. Van der Poel stayed behind Vakoc, who had his turn upfront around 1,5 km to go, but then couldn´t find a good wheel. From the backwheel of Benfatto (Androni) he could sprint to P8, securing his first place in the youth classification. Yauheni Hutarovich (Bretagne) took the stage once again after some great work of his team in the final kilometers.
Results
Stage
1
Yauheni Hutarovich
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
3h57'43
2
Davide Appollonio
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
3
Michael Mørkøv
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
4
Hayden Roulston
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
5
Jonathan Hivert
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
6
Florian Vachon
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
7
Francisco José Ventoso
Movistar Team
s.t.
8
Mathieu van der Poel
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
9
Jesse Sergent
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
10
Marco Benfatto
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
Spoiler
11
Nikolai Trusov
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
12
Alexey Tsatevitch
Team Katusha
s.t.
13
Leonardo Duque
Team Colombia
s.t.
14
Franco Pellizotti
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
15
Andrew Fenn
Team Sky
s.t.
16
Andrea Zordan
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
17
Riccardo Zoidl
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
18
Luke Rowe
Team Sky
s.t.
19
Chun Feng
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
20
Salvatore Puccio
Team Sky
s.t.
21
Rubén Plaza
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
22
Stijn Devolder
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
23
Fabio Silvestre
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
24
Lars Petter Nordhaug
Team Sky
s.t.
25
Sebastian Henao
Team Sky
s.t.
26
Nelson Oliveira
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
27
Petr Vakoč
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
28
Sérgio Pardilla
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
29
Jean-Marc Bideau
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
30
Emanuele Sella
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
31
Tsgabu Grmay
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
32
Jarlinson Pantano
IAM Cycling
s.t.
33
Miguel Rubiano
Team Colombia
s.t.
34
Peter Kennaugh
Team Sky
s.t.
35
Lluis Guillermo Mas Bonet
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
36
David Arroyo
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
37
Reto Hollenstein
IAM Cycling
s.t.
38
Fabio Duarte
Team Colombia
s.t.
39
Eduardo Sepulveda
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
40
Maciej Paterski
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
41
Daniele Ratto
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
42
Jakub Mareczko
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
43
Sérgio Paulinho
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
44
Carlos Alzate
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
45
Fabio Felline
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
46
Dayer Quintana
Movistar Team
s.t.
47
Julian KernLeopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
48
Quentin Jauregui
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
49
Przemyslaw Niemiec
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
50
Johann Tschopp
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
51
Simone Ponzi
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
52
Michael Valgren
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
53
Nikolay Mihaylov
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
54
Mikaël Chérel
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
55
Adriano Malori
Movistar Team
s.t.
56
Stefan Denifl
IAM Cycling
s.t.
57
Pello Bilbao
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
58
Mauro Finetto
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
59
Marco Canola
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
60
Sebastian Balck
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
61
Leszek Pluckinski
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
62
Laurent Didier
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
63
Matthias Brändle
IAM Cycling
s.t.
64
Francesco Lasca
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
65
Ion Izagirre
Movistar Team
s.t.
66
Jakub Kaczmarek
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
67
Andrey Amador
Movistar Team
s.t.
68
Jarosław Marycz
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
69
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
Team Katusha
s.t.
70
John Gadret
Movistar Team
s.t.
71
Michael Kolar
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
72
Luke Keough
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
73
Alessandro Bazzana
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
74
Maxim Belkov
Team Katusha
s.t.
75
Alexander Porsev
Team Katusha
s.t.
76
Eryk Laton
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
77
Axel Domont
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
78
Kristijan Durasek
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
79
Blel Kadri
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
80
Francesco Gavazzi
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
81
Florian Guillou
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
82
Pawel Poljanski
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
83
Giuseppe Fonzi
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
84
Edwin Ávila
Team Colombia
s.t.
85
Jonathan Fumeaux
IAM Cycling
s.t.
86
Vicente Reynès
IAM Cycling
s.t.
87
Jacopo Guarnieri
Team Katusha
s.t.
88
Hugo Houle
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
89
Damien Gaudin
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
90
Marco Haller
Team Katusha
s.t.
91
Javier Francisco Aramendia
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
92
Rafael Andriato
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
93
Brayan Ramírez
Team Colombia
+ 4'19
94
Carlos Mario Ramírez
Team Colombia
s.t.
95
Kiel Reijnen
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
96
Carlos Gimenez
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
General Classification
1
Yauheni Hutarovich
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
7h33'25
2
Davide Appollonio
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
3
Michael Mørkøv
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
4
Francisco José Ventoso
Movistar Team
s.t.
5
Mathieu van der Poel
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
6
Jonathan Hivert
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
7
Andrew Fenn
Team Sky
s.t.
8
Marco Benfatto
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
9
Rubén Plaza
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
10
Riccardo Zoidl
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
Spoiler
11
Franco Pellizotti
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
12
Lars Petter Nordhaug
Team Sky
s.t.
13
Peter Kennaugh
Team Sky
s.t.
14
Sérgio Pardilla
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
15
Hayden Roulston
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
16
Chun Feng
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
17
Jarlinson Pantano
IAM Cycling
s.t.
18
Petr Vakoč
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
19
Sebastian Henao
Team Sky
s.t.
20
Florian Vachon
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
21
David Arroyo
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
22
Alexey Tsatevitch
Team Katusha
s.t.
23
Emanuele Sella
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
24
Jesse Sergent
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
25
Miguel Rubiano
Team Colombia
s.t.
26
Sérgio Paulinho
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
27
Fabio Duarte
Team Colombia
s.t.
28
Maciej Paterski
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
29
Salvatore Puccio
Team Sky
s.t.
30
Andrea Zordan
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
31
Eduardo Sepulveda
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
32
Luke Rowe
Team Sky
s.t.
33
Nikolai Trusov
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
34
Julian Kern
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
35
Francesco Lasca
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
36
Johann Tschopp
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
37
Fabio Felline
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
38
Fabio Silvestre
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
39
Nelson Oliveira
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
40
Mikaël Chérel
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
41
Leonardo Duque
Team Colombia
s.t.
42
Dayer Quintana
Movistar Team
s.t.
43
Pello Bilbao
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
44
Daniele Ratto
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
45
Maxim Belkov
Team Katusha
s.t.
46
Stijn Devolder
Trek Factory Racing
s.t.
47
Przemyslaw Niemiec
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
48
Tsgabu Grmay
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
49
Adriano Malori
Movistar Team
s.t.
50
Giuseppe Fonzi
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
51
Mauro Finetto
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
52
Lluis Guillermo Mas Bonet
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
53
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
Team Katusha
s.t.
54
Jakub Mareczko
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
55
Reto Hollenstein
IAM Cycling
s.t.
56
Kristijan Durasek
Lampre - Merida
s.t.
57
Vicente Reynès
IAM Cycling
s.t.
58
Stefan Denifl
IAM Cycling
s.t.
59
Jean-Marc Bideau
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
60
Alessandro Bazzana
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
61
Marco Canola
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
62
Blel Kadri
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
63
Matthias Brändle
IAM Cycling
s.t.
64
Jarosław Marycz
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
65
Sebastian Balck
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
66
Damien Gaudin
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
67
Laurent Didier
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
68
Michael Valgren
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
69
Pawel Poljanski
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
70
Hugo Houle
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
71
Nikolay Mihaylov
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
72
Florian Guillou
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
s.t.
73
Alexander Porsev
Team Katusha
s.t.
74
Leszek Pluckinski
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
75
Luke Keough
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
76
Jakub Kaczmarek
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
77
Eryk Laton
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
78
Marco Haller
Team Katusha
s.t.
79
Jonathan Fumeaux
IAM Cycling
s.t.
80
Axel Domont
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
81
Rafael Andriato
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
82
Jacopo Guarnieri
Team Katusha
s.t.
83
Javier Francisco Aramendia
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
s.t.
84
Carlos Alzate
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
+ 2'16
85
Kiel Reijnen
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
+ 4'19
86
Carlos Mario Ramírez
Team Colombia
s.t.
87
Carlos Gimenez
Androni Giocattoli
s.t.
88
Simone Ponzi
Southeast Pro Cycling
+ 8'28
89
Quentin Jauregui
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
90
Ion Izagirre
Movistar Team
s.t.
91
Andrey Amador
Movistar Team
s.t.
92
Michael Kolar
Tinkoff - Saxo
s.t.
93
John Gadret
Movistar Team
s.t.
94
Edwin Ávila
Team Colombia
s.t.
95
Francesco Gavazzi
Southeast Pro Cycling
s.t.
96
Brayan Ramírez
Team Colombia
+ 12'47
Points Classification
1
Nikolai Trusov
Tinkoff - Saxo
6
2
Davide Appollonio
Androni Giocattoli
5
3
Giuseppe Fonzi
Southeast Pro Cycling
5
4
Maciej Paterski
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
5
5
Yauheni Hutarovich
Bretagne - Séché Environnement
3
Mountains Classification
1
Nikolai Trusov
Tinkoff - Saxo
3
2
Julian Kern
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
2
3
Marco Benfatto
Androni Giocattoli
1
Young Rider Classification
1
Mathieu van der Poel
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
7h33'25 (1)
2
Andrew Fenn
Team Sky
+ 0 (2)
3
Petr Vakoč
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
+ 0 (3)
4
Sebastian Henao
Team Sky
+ 0 (4)
5
Andrea Zordan
Androni Giocattoli
+ 0 (5)
Team Classification
1
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
22h40'15 (1)
2
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
+ 0 (2)
3
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
s.t.
+ 0 (3)
12
Leopard-Evonik ProCycling
s.t.
+ 0 (12)
What else?
We are happy with the stage. Another Top 10 for Mathieu and no trouble for our climbers.
Tomorrow the first stage with a bigger chance of time gaps appears. We will try to defend the white jersey at the Mirador del Portrero, but especially Henao, Quintana and Sepulveda will bring us into trouble. No big attacks from us then, because the Mountains jersey will be taken by the stage winner, and our riders don´t have the shape for that. Our climbers pointed out stage 5 and 6 for being offensive.
Feedback Corner
@Ian Butler: I like that opinion. San Luis will defenitly stay at this pace as it´s the debut race for Leopard
Gent 
Frank Schleck 
Marcus Burghardt 
Exciting for the next stage(s)
