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Tour of California - Stage 1
Smowz
Posted on 31-01-2012 22:02
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The opening stage in the Tour of California could be an unpredictable one with the last ascent of Brookway Summit very close to the finish. There is an opportunity you would think for a decent punchaer to nip away, the question is who will control the days inevitable break.
With an early King of the mountains prime up for grabs riders go up the road eager for good start to their teams journey to the West Coast of the US of A.
Tom Leezer
gets the glory over the top of the first climb.
Following him here is
Leonardo Duque
and
Juan-Antonio Flecha
to get the second and third places on this 6-4-2 climb as all four categorised offer on today's stage.
The three are joined by six more riders for a break of the day. The names including some decent punchy types:
Italian young 'un Chiaffredo Grippo
'Le Nose' Pierrick Fédrigo
British criterium king Russell Downing
Giro reject Salvatore Mancuso
French tough man Clément Lhotellerie
and Kazach all rounder Dmitri Muravjev
along with the three already named we have a nice mixture of veterens and roulers.
Downing shows his years honed on the tight British road circuit are not wasted by winning one of the two sprints, Colombian fast man Duque taking the other. In the second and third king of the Mountains climbs Fedrigo sniffs a chance of the leaders jersey accumulating 10 points with Leezer and Mancuso next best on 6 points.
The question of who is going to chase in the pack is left to wait until the last possible minute when with the leader timed at nearly 11 minutes, Wikipedia start to organise chase. After they start to bring things back UBS and Spyker join in the exercise of pulling this pretty decent nine man group back.
Lhotelliere found himself dropped on the third king of the mountains and with 25km to go the lead 8 now have a minute on him with three minutes on the pack. Have the pack left this chase too late?
The infighting amongst the lead eight starts before the Brockway summit climbing begins as Fedrigo, Flecha and Grippo move away with some purpose.
The climbing begins and with 10km to go we have this:
lead three - - - - > five remaining break @ 36 seconds
- - - - - - - - - - - - > Pack at 2.44
It looks like our winner is going to be from the break here and indeed our first leader here in California, it does depend how hard this climb proves to be.
The 25 year old Grippo is in the company of two absolute experts in this sort of stage, decides that offense is the best move here and attacks as the gradient rises up to the summit.
Back down the hill, as the pack climb it is world champion
Tejay Van Garderen
that increases the pace with 3km of the climb left.
Up front Grippo falters slightly, he has broken Flecha but Fedrigo comes up to his wheel and burns away up the climb.
Back in the pack some of the best punchaers in the world are in action as
Stefan Schumacher
and
Patrik Sinkewitz
neutralise TvG.
No big names seem to be missing from head of the pack, but we are really stretched over the top of the climb. Fedrigo leads over it having a profitable day gather 16 points, Grippo takes four more to add to two he picked up earlier and Mancuso gets his tally up to 8.
As the mad descent begins with Fedrigo and Grippo ahead the pack overhaul the rest of the breakaway and it is the attacking
Justo Tenorio
who tries to surprise everyone with a bold solo move.
3km to go and Fedrigo seems to have this holding out a 20 second advantage on Grippo and a minute in hand on the 47 man pack.
The pack is stretched so that it splits 27 to 18 and a few behind that... names missing the split are:
Beñat Intxausti
Martijn Keizer
Jerome Coppel
and
Walter Pedraza
Up front Fedrigo holds his advantage over by 16 seconds over Grippo to win the opening stage and takes the early lead in the race.
Behind Tenerio's solo downhill comes to nought but he does at least get the 8 second bonus just under a minute behind Fedrigo. Wikipedia follow the Santander rider in, Phinney keeping himself well and truly near the front of things.
Behind the Intxausti/Keizer group drop a further 56 seconds on the favourites ahead, it's careless time lost on the opening day of the race.
Stage results
Rank Name Team Time 1 Pierrick Fédrigo Nestlé Cycling Team 4h42'28 2 Chiaffredo Grippo Wiggle - San Pellegrino + 16 3 Justo Tenorio Santander + 56 4 Tejay Van Garderen Wikipedia s.t. 5 Taylor Phinney Wikipedia s.t. 6 Aleksandr Efimkin Milka - Vittel s.t. 7 Vladimir Karpets Nestlé Cycling Team s.t. 8 Alberto Contador Festina - Conec s.t. 9 Patrik Sinkewitz Spyker Cars s.t. 10 Andrei Kashechkin Webeffect s.t. 11 Russell Downing Pendleton's Twicer s.t. 12 Robert Kiserlovski Hollister s.t. 13 Robin van der Hugenhaben Sony Ericsson s.t. 14 Jukka Vastaranta Pearl Adidas s.t. 15 Leonardo Duque Café de Colombia s.t. 16 Dmitri Muravjev Sony Ericsson s.t. 17 Tom Diggle Wiggle - San Pellegrino s.t. 18 Stefan Schumacher UBS - La Pierre s.t. 19 Vitor Rodrigues Webeffect s.t. 20 Maurice Schreurs Spyker Cars s.t. 21 Sylwester Szmyd Hollister s.t. 22 Tom Leezer Pearl Adidas s.t. 23 Juan-Antonio Flecha Warner Brothers s.t. 24 Rubén Plaza Jack Wolfskin s.t. 25 Jérôme Baugnies Webeffect s.t. 26 Danny Summerhill Wikipedia s.t. 27 Maxim Iglinski Vesuvio-Accumalux s.t. 28 Domenik Klemme Team B&O s.t. 29 David Zabriskie Pendleton's Twicer s.t. 30 Peter Velits Pearl Adidas s.t. 31 Salvatore Mancuso Bacardi - Ignis + 1'52 32 Ian Bibby Wiggle - San Pellegrino s.t. 33 Matej Mugerli Bacardi - Ignis s.t. 34 Beñat Intxausti Vesuvio-Accumalux s.t. 35 José Serpa Festina - Conec s.t. 36 Francisco Ventoso Santander s.t. 37 Walter Pedraza Sony Ericsson s.t. 38 Martijn Keizer Bacardi - Ignis s.t. 39 Rasmus Guldhammer Team B&O s.t. 40 Sébastien Duret Pendleton's Twicer s.t. 41 Brent Bookwalter Wikipedia s.t. 42 Lars Ytting Bak Spyker Cars s.t. 43 Jakob Fuglsang Spyker Cars s.t. 44 Tim Dees Festina - Conec s.t. 45 Jerome Coppel Milka - Vittel s.t. 46 Juan Miguel Mercado Hollister s.t. 47 Stefan Cohnen Spyker Cars + 2'12 48 Julien El Fares Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom s.t. 49 Rémy Di Gregorio Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom s.t. 50 Tom Danielson Webeffect + 3'02 51 Sébastien Joly Café de Colombia s.t. 52 Allan Davis Hollister s.t. 53 Óscar Pereiro Sio Café de Colombia s.t. 54 Konstantin Siutsou Pendleton's Twicer s.t. 55 Christophe Le Mével Warner Brothers s.t. 56 Zdenek Stybar Milka - Vittel s.t. 57 Yasmani Martinez Hollister s.t. 58 Carlos Betancourt Vesuvio-Accumalux s.t. 59 Danny Pate Wikipedia s.t. 60 Kenny De Ketele Warner Brothers s.t. 61 Evgeni Sokolov Bacardi - Ignis s.t. 62 Drasutis Stundzia Vesuvio-Accumalux s.t. 63 Ben Gastauer Vesuvio-Accumalux s.t. 64 Alexandre Geniez Spyker Cars s.t. 65 Martin Hacecký Team B&O s.t. 66 Evgeni Popov Pearl Adidas s.t. 67 Juan Carlos Rienda Segura Santander s.t. 68 Jurgen Roelandts Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom s.t. 69 Thomas Rohregger Milka - Vittel s.t. 70 José Antonio Pecharroman Spyker Cars s.t. 71 Eric Berthou Pearl Adidas + 4'01 72 Jonathan Tiernan-Locke Wiggle - San Pellegrino s.t. 73 Raúl Granjel Cabrera Sony Ericsson + 4'23 74 Francisco Javier Echarri Santander s.t. 75 Arkaitz Durán Santander s.t. 76 José Antonio Redondo Warner Brothers s.t. 77 Michel Kreder Jack Wolfskin s.t. 78 Welle Jallays Jack Wolfskin s.t. 79 Pieter Mertens Pendleton's Twicer s.t. 80 Wout Poels Jack Wolfskin s.t. 81 Luis Fernández Oliveira Sony Ericsson s.t. 82 Matej Vysna Milka - Vittel s.t. 83 Paul Martens Jack Wolfskin + 4'58 84 Tony Gallopin Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom s.t. 85 Juan Abenhamar Gallego Martin Santander s.t. 86 Marcel Sieberg Jack Wolfskin s.t. 87 Adrian Honkisz Milka - Vittel s.t. 88 Paul Voss Festina - Conec s.t. 89 Aidis Kruopis Bacardi - Ignis s.t. 90 Steven Caethoven Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom + 5'35 91 Chris Barton Wikipedia s.t. 92 Anthony Delaplace Milka - Vittel s.t. 93 Niels Scheunemann Spyker Cars s.t. 94 Paul Mach Hollister s.t. 95 Bjorn Selander Hollister s.t. 96 Michael Albasini UBS - La Pierre + 6'07 97 Johann Tschopp UBS - La Pierre s.t. 98 Chu Thien Sinelobov UBS - La Pierre s.t. 99 Florentino Marquez UBS - La Pierre s.t. 100 Abolfazl Gilanipoor Webeffect s.t. 101 João Cabreira Vesuvio-Accumalux s.t. 102 Klaas Sys Jack Wolfskin s.t. 103 Aitor Galdos Santander s.t. 104 Gian Piero Signorini UBS - La Pierre s.t. 105 Kevin Fouquet Sony Ericsson s.t. 106 Clément Lhotellerie Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom s.t. 107 Romain Vanderbiest Pearl Adidas s.t. 108 Fabio Silvestre Webeffect s.t. 109 Simas Kondrotas Bacardi - Ignis s.t. 110 Cheng Ji Pearl Adidas s.t. 111 Maximiliano Richeze UBS - La Pierre s.t. 112 Rafael Serrano Santander s.t. 113 Pedro Pablo Pérez Márquez Team D s.t. 114 Mathieu Heijboer Bacardi - Ignis + 6'50 115 Anthony Lavoine Festina - Conec s.t. 116 Roy Sentjens Festina - Conec s.t. 117 Borut Bozic Pendleton's Twicer s.t. 118 Jos Van Emden Jack Wolfskin s.t. 119 Niki Østergaard Festina - Conec s.t. 120 Horacio Gallardo Café de Colombia s.t. 121 Andreas Stauff Vesuvio-Accumalux s.t. 122 Tim Kennaugh Pendleton's Twicer s.t. 123 Matt Rowe Wiggle - San Pellegrino s.t. 124 Gianluca Coletta Warner Brothers s.t. 125 Bradley McGee Team D s.t. 126 Svein Tuft Team D s.t. 127 Nicolas Portal Nestlé Cycling Team + 7'24 128 Max Öste-Macdonald Sony Ericsson s.t. 129 David Loosli Nestlé Cycling Team s.t. 130 Damion Drapac Festina - Conec s.t. 131 William Germán RodrÃguez Parra Café de Colombia s.t. 132 David Vitoria Nestlé Cycling Team s.t. 133 Alexander Kristoff UBS - La Pierre s.t. 134 Ivano Lo Cicero Nestlé Cycling Team s.t. 135 Richard Tanguy Wiggle - San Pellegrino + 9'35 136 Óscar Solis Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom + 10'36 137 Nico Schinker Vesuvio-Accumalux s.t. 138 Giacomo Nizzolo Pearl Adidas s.t. 139 Kris Boeckmans Webeffect s.t. 140 David Millar Pendleton's Twicer s.t. 141 Scott Nydam Team D s.t. 142 Jempy Drucker Team B&O + 11'12 143 Edward King Wikipedia s.t. 144 Tyler Farrar Wikipedia s.t. 145 Jaime Alberto Castañeda Café de Colombia s.t. 146 Patrick Gretsch Nestlé Cycling Team s.t. 147 Kristian Sobota Team B&O s.t. 148 Marvin Van der Pluijm Warner Brothers s.t. 149 Sam Bennett Café de Colombia s.t. 150 Igor Abakoumov Bacardi - Ignis + 14'04 151 Óscar Avelino Webeffect s.t. 152 Danilo Kupfernagel Nestlé Cycling Team s.t. 153 Andrew Fenn Wiggle - San Pellegrino s.t. 154 Kobe Vanoverschelde Team B&O s.t. 155 Yauheni Hutarovich Milka - Vittel s.t. 156 Joe Hicks Hollister s.t. 157 Thomas Riber-Sellebjerg Team B&O + 14'38 158 Kevin Peeters Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom s.t. 159 Tiago Pinto Warner Brothers + 15'01 160 Alexander Giraldo Warner Brothers + 15'18 161 Troels Vinter Team B&O + 17'13 162 Russell Hampton Wiggle - San Pellegrino s.t. 163 Cameron Meyer Sony Ericsson s.t. 164 Christian Vande Velde Team D + 22'42
GC
Rank Name Team Time 1 Pierrick Fédrigo Nestlé Cycling Team 4h42'08 2 Chiaffredo Grippo Wiggle - San Pellegrino + 24 3 Russell Downing Pendleton's Twicer + 1'06 4 Justo Tenorio Santander + 1'08 5 Leonardo Duque Café de Colombia s.t. 6 Dmitri Muravjev Sony Ericsson + 1'14 7 Tejay Van Garderen Wikipedia + 1'16 8 Taylor Phinney Wikipedia s.t. 9 Aleksandr Efimkin Milka - Vittel s.t. 10 Vladimir Karpets Nestlé Cycling Team s.t. 11 Alberto Contador Festina - Conec s.t. 12 Patrik Sinkewitz Spyker Cars s.t. 13 Andrei Kashechkin Webeffect s.t. 14 Robert Kiserlovski Hollister s.t. 15 Robin van der Hugenhaben Sony Ericsson s.t. 16 Jukka Vastaranta Pearl Adidas s.t. 17 Tom Diggle Wiggle - San Pellegrino s.t. 18 Stefan Schumacher UBS - La Pierre s.t. 19 Vitor Rodrigues Webeffect s.t. 20 Maurice Schreurs Spyker Cars s.t. 21 Sylwester Szmyd Hollister s.t. 22 Tom Leezer Pearl Adidas s.t. 23 Juan-Antonio Flecha Warner Brothers s.t. 24 Rubén Plaza Jack Wolfskin s.t. 25 Jérôme Baugnies Webeffect s.t. 26 Danny Summerhill Wikipedia s.t. 27 Maxim Iglinski Vesuvio-Accumalux s.t. 28 Domenik Klemme Team B&O s.t. 29 David Zabriskie Pendleton's Twicer s.t. 30 Peter Velits Pearl Adidas s.t. 31 Salvatore Mancuso Bacardi - Ignis + 2'08
Points
Rank Name Team Points 1 Pierrick Fédrigo Nestlé Cycling Team 25 2 Chiaffredo Grippo Wiggle - San Pellegrino 20 3 Justo Tenorio Santander 16 4 Russell Downing Pendleton's Twicer 15 5 Tejay Van Garderen Wikipedia 14 6 Taylor Phinney Wikipedia 12 7 Aleksandr Efimkin Milka - Vittel 10 8 Vladimir Karpets Nestlé Cycling Team 9 9 Leonardo Duque Café de Colombia 9 10 Alberto Contador Festina - Conec 8 11 Patrik Sinkewitz Spyker Cars 7 12 Andrei Kashechkin Webeffect 6 13 Salvatore Mancuso Bacardi - Ignis 4 14 Robert Kiserlovski Hollister 4 15 Robin van der Hugenhaben Sony Ericsson 3 16 Dmitri Muravjev Sony Ericsson 2 17 Jukka Vastaranta Pearl Adidas 2
Mountains
Rank Name Team Mountain 1 Pierrick Fédrigo Nestlé Cycling Team 16 2 Salvatore Mancuso Bacardi - Ignis 8 3 Tom Leezer Pearl Adidas 6 4 Chiaffredo Grippo Wiggle - San Pellegrino 6 5 Leonardo Duque Café de Colombia 4 6 Russell Downing Pendleton's Twicer 4 7 Juan-Antonio Flecha Warner Brothers 2 8 Dmitri Muravjev Sony Ericsson 2
Youth
Rank Name Team General Time 1 Chiaffredo Grippo Wiggle - San Pellegrino 4h42'32 (1) 2 Justo Tenorio Santander + 44 (2) 3 Tejay Van Garderen Wikipedia + 52 (3) 4 Taylor Phinney Wikipedia + 52 (4) 5 Tom Diggle Wiggle - San Pellegrino + 52 (5) 6 Maurice Schreurs Spyker Cars + 52 (6) 7 Jérôme Baugnies Webeffect + 52 (7) 8 Danny Summerhill Wikipedia + 52 (8) 9 Martijn Keizer Bacardi - Ignis + 1'48 (9) 10 Rasmus Guldhammer Team B&O + 1'48 (10) 11 Tim Dees Festina - Conec + 1'48 (11) 12 Yasmani Martinez Hollister + 2'58 (12) 13 Carlos Betancourt Vesuvio-Accumalux + 2'58 (13) 14 Ben Gastauer Vesuvio-Accumalux + 2'58 (14) 15 Alexandre Geniez Spyker Cars + 2'58 (15) 16 Martin Hacecký Team B&O + 2'58 (16) 17 Juan Carlos Rienda Segura Santander + 2'58 (17) 18 Raúl Granjel Cabrera Sony Ericsson + 4'19 (18) 19 Michel Kreder Jack Wolfskin + 4'19 (19) 20 Welle Jallays Jack Wolfskin + 4'19 (20) 21 Wout Poels Jack Wolfskin + 4'19 (21) 22 Matej Vysna Milka - Vittel + 4'19 (22) 23 Tony Gallopin Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom + 4'54 (23) 24 Juan Abenhamar Gallego Martin Santander + 4'54 (24) 25 Adrian Honkisz Milka - Vittel + 4'54 (25)
Teams
Team General Time Wikipedia 14h10'12 (1) Webeffect + 0 (2) Pearl Adidas + 0 (3) Wiggle - San Pellegrino + 16 (4) Sony Ericsson + 56 (5) Spyker Cars + 56 (6) Hollister + 56 (7) Pendleton's Twicer + 56 (8) Festina - Conec + 1'52 (9) Bacardi - Ignis + 2'48 (10)
Edited by Roman on 17-10-2016 14:07
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