Lay easily takes sprint 2 ahead of Dekkers and Sutton
points standings
Westra 50
Lay 45
Dekkers 28
This sprinting could be hurting some of these sprinters energy, there is another one circuit before the finish that will probably really scramble things.
Gazelle completely control things before then.
Dekkers denies Lay in this late sprint bonus, Sutton is again third.
Points situation:
Westra 50
lay 49
Dekkers 34
JK Cycling look to take advantage for the stage win of the other sprinters messing about in the bonifications as they set up a perfect sprint train with 3km to go.
Itami, Uuganbayer and Peeters lead out with Guardini, Cano , Sutton, Day and Manan on the wheels.
Allianz and Iberia have attempted to set up trains.
Coyot, Carrara, Dekkers with Sohrabi and Lander in the wheels.
Toribio, Nesset, Lay with Sai-Udomsin and Makino in the wheels.
1.7km to go: Lay and Dekkers have trouble moving up as JK hold a great position.
Guardini cannot hold Peeters wheel.
Peeters eases past Uugunbayer in the home straight, Sutton is battling Cano and Day in third places.
Lay in the green jersey is staying on quite well.
Peeters is the easy winner.
Sai-Udomsin is a surprise second ahead of Sutton, Lander and Green jersey winner Lay.
Westra comes home in the pack to take the Kumano tour, Sai-Udomsin was in that leading group yesterday and takes an excellent second place overall and the youth jersey with PCT teams taking 2nd, 3rd and 4th on the overall. Evian securing 4th, 7th and 8th.
Lay comfortably takes the points crown over race winner Westra, with Dekkers taking third. Iberia narrowly take the team jersey ahead of Gazelle.
Stage results
Rank
Name
Team
Time
1
Kevin Peeters
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
2h12'05
2
Phucong Sai-Udomsin
PFG-Armavia
s.t.
3
Christopher Sutton
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
s.t.
4
Sebastian Lander
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
s.t.
5
Saulo Lay
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
s.t.
6
Anuar Manan
Meiji - Cannondale
s.t.
7
Khayabkhyrvaa Uugunbayar
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
s.t.
8
Tyler Day
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
s.t.
9
Junpei Murakami
Meiji - Cannondale
s.t.
10
Mahdi Sohrabi
PFG-Armavia
s.t.
11
Kosuke Makino
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
s.t.
12
Jose Luis Cano
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
s.t.
13
Hans Dekkers
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
s.t.
14
Kenji Itami
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
s.t.
15
Marco Minnard
Team Gazelle
s.t.
16
Matteo Carrara
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
s.t.
17
Andrea Guardini
Evian-MIAT
s.t.
18
Maani Altanzul
Evian-MIAT
s.t.
19
Clement Koretzky
Evian-MIAT
s.t.
20
Mustafa Carsi
Evian-MIAT
s.t.
21
Abdalla Ben Youcef
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
s.t.
22
Tomohiro Hayakawa
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
s.t.
23
Ngock Yves Ngue
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
s.t.
24
Sigurd Nesset
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
s.t.
25
Jonas Vangenechten
Team Gazelle
s.t.
26
Mohammed Zamri Salleh
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
27
Jimmy Pranata
PFG-Armavia
s.t.
28
Matej Mugerli
Team Gazelle
s.t.
29
Hossein Alizadeh
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
30
Arnaud Coyot
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
s.t.
31
Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
s.t.
32
Christian Mager
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
s.t.
33
Dimitri Jiriakov
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
34
Lieuwe Westra
Team Gazelle
s.t.
35
Calvin Watson
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
s.t.
36
Nino Schurter
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
37
Roy Sentjens
Team Gazelle
s.t.
38
Jose Vicente Toribio
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
s.t.
39
Jerome Mainard
Evian-MIAT
s.t.
40
Marco Salas
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
s.t.
41
Christer Rake
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
s.t.
42
Maarten Tjallingii
Control Team
s.t.
43
Benedikt Mundle
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
44
Baasankhuu Myagmarsuren
Evian-MIAT
s.t.
45
Alireza Ashgarzadeh
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
46
Salfo Bikienga
PFG-Armavia
s.t.
47
Taiji Nishitani
Meiji - Cannondale
s.t.
48
Nariyuki Masuda
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
s.t.
49
Suk-Young Choi
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
s.t.
50
Leif Hoste
Control Team
s.t.
51
Jaco Venter
Team Gazelle
s.t.
52
Jonas Aaen Jørgensen
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
s.t.
53
Amir Mustafa Rusli
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
54
Andreas Klier
Control Team
s.t.
55
Ho-Ting Kwok
Meiji - Cannondale
s.t.
56
Hakon Frengstad Berger
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
s.t.
57
Sven Nooytens
PFG-Armavia
s.t.
58
Hossein Nateghi
Meiji - Cannondale
s.t.
59
Maxim Burlutsky
PFG-Armavia
s.t.
60
Heiko Redecker
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
s.t.
61
Martin Puusepp
Evian-MIAT
s.t.
62
Tesfay Abraha
PFG-Armavia
s.t.
63
Brice Feillu
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
s.t.
64
Luca Paolini
Control Team
s.t.
65
Sven Erik Bystrom
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
s.t.
66
Tomas Okrouhlicky
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
s.t.
67
Wataru Mutsumine
Meiji - Cannondale
s.t.
68
Florian Senechal
Meiji - Cannondale
s.t.
69
Juan Pablo Valencia
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
s.t.
70
Nazar Jumabekov
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
s.t.
71
Marconi Durán
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
s.t.
72
Luis Enrique Lemus Davila
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
s.t.
73
Jan Polanc
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
s.t.
74
Deiber Esquivel
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
s.t.
75
Robby Meul
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
s.t.
76
Johannes Christofel Nel
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
s.t.
77
Henry Raabe
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
s.t.
78
Javier Chacon
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
s.t.
79
Björn Leukemans
Control Team
s.t.
80
César Rojas Villegas
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
+ 4'08
Final GC
No doubt about the GC winner with Westra winning the two decisive stages. Marakami gave home fans a lot to cheer but Westra smartly tracked the Japanese's wheel on stage three. Thailand rider Sai-Udomsin made his name a bit better known with the young Frenchman Koretzky just missing the podium.
Rank
Name
Team
Time
1
Lieuwe Westra
Team Gazelle
8h10'11
2
Phucong Sai-Udomsin
PFG-Armavia
+ 12
3
Junpei Murakami
Meiji - Cannondale
+ 13
4
Clement Koretzky
Evian-MIAT
+ 19
5
Dimitri Jiriakov
Sauber Petronas Racing
+ 23
6
Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
+ 24
7
Maani Altanzul
Evian-MIAT
s.t.
8
Martin Puusepp
Evian-MIAT
s.t.
9
Marco Minnard
Team Gazelle
+ 25
10
Jonas Vangenechten
Team Gazelle
s.t.
11
Matej Mugerli
Team Gazelle
+ 26
12
Christer Rake
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
s.t.
13
Nariyuki Masuda
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
s.t.
14
Jose Vicente Toribio
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
+ 27
15
Christian Mager
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
s.t.
16
Tomas Okrouhlicky
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
s.t.
17
Nazar Jumabekov
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
s.t.
18
Ngock Yves Ngue
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
+ 28
19
Jimmy Pranata
PFG-Armavia
s.t.
20
Nino Schurter
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
21
Hossein Alizadeh
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
22
Brice Feillu
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
s.t.
23
Matteo Carrara
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
+ 30
24
Alireza Ashgarzadeh
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
25
Juan Pablo Valencia
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
s.t.
26
Suk-Young Choi
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
+ 31
27
Mohammed Zamri Salleh
Sauber Petronas Racing
+ 32
28
Kosuke Makino
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
+ 1'42
29
Wataru Mutsumine
Meiji - Cannondale
+ 1'49
30
Maxim Burlutsky
PFG-Armavia
+ 1'50
31
Marco Salas
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
+ 2'26
32
Calvin Watson
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
+ 4'07
33
Arnaud Coyot
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
+ 4'10
34
Johannes Christofel Nel
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
+ 4'14
35
Heiko Redecker
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
+ 5'45
36
Jaco Venter
Team Gazelle
+ 5'48
37
Jerome Mainard
Evian-MIAT
+ 5'50
38
Saulo Lay
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
+ 6'41
39
Taiji Nishitani
Meiji - Cannondale
+ 7'06
40
Jose Luis Cano
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
+ 7'07
41
Javier Chacon
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
+ 7'15
42
Robby Meul
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
s.t.
43
Benedikt Mundle
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
44
Khayabkhyrvaa Uugunbayar
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
+ 7'17
45
Hossein Nateghi
Meiji - Cannondale
s.t.
46
Sigurd Nesset
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
+ 7'18
47
Abdalla Ben Youcef
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
s.t.
48
Sven Nooytens
PFG-Armavia
s.t.
49
Luis Enrique Lemus Davila
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
+ 7'19
50
Hakon Frengstad Berger
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
s.t.
51
Marconi Durán
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
s.t.
52
Mahdi Sohrabi
PFG-Armavia
+ 7'20
53
Salfo Bikienga
PFG-Armavia
+ 7'21
54
Baasankhuu Myagmarsuren
Evian-MIAT
s.t.
55
Amir Mustafa Rusli
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
56
Andrea Guardini
Evian-MIAT
+ 7'23
57
Deiber Esquivel
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
s.t.
58
Tomohiro Hayakawa
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
+ 7'24
59
Sven Erik Bystrom
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
s.t.
60
César Rojas Villegas
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
+ 11'28
61
Roy Sentjens
Team Gazelle
+ 14'38
62
Tesfay Abraha
PFG-Armavia
+ 17'54
63
Luca Paolini
Control Team
+ 18'31
64
Hans Dekkers
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
+ 19'49
65
Christopher Sutton
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
+ 20'03
66
Tyler Day
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
+ 20'15
67
Sebastian Lander
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
+ 20'18
68
Ho-Ting Kwok
Meiji - Cannondale
+ 22'18
69
Mustafa Carsi
Evian-MIAT
+ 22'19
70
Florian Senechal
Meiji - Cannondale
+ 22'23
71
Kevin Peeters
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
+ 24'06
72
Kenji Itami
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
+ 24'27
73
Jonas Aaen Jørgensen
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
+ 24'29
74
Jan Polanc
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
+ 24'30
75
Henry Raabe
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
+ 25'54
76
Anuar Manan
Meiji - Cannondale
+ 26'42
77
Leif Hoste
Control Team
+ 33'29
78
Maarten Tjallingii
Control Team
+ 33'42
79
Andreas Klier
Control Team
+ 33'47
80
Björn Leukemans
Control Team
s.t.
Points
Lay got his hands dirty and fought for intermediates rather than saving himself for the stage win. Still makes it a solid tour for Iberia, Dekkers and Sutton looked fast at times but could not land the big win that Peeters did.
Rank
Name
Team
Points
General
1
Saulo Lay
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
28
61
2
Lieuwe Westra
Team Gazelle
0
50
3
Hans Dekkers
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
17
37
4
Christopher Sutton
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
20
34
5
Kevin Peeters
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
25
34
6
Junpei Murakami
Meiji - Cannondale
7
33
7
Jose Luis Cano
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
6
30
8
Phucong Sai-Udomsin
PFG-Armavia
20
27
9
Kosuke Makino
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
5
27
10
Taiji Nishitani
Meiji - Cannondale
0
22
11
Anuar Manan
Meiji - Cannondale
10
22
12
Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
0
19
13
Tyler Day
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
8
18
14
Ho-Ting Kwok
Meiji - Cannondale
0
17
15
Clement Koretzky
Evian-MIAT
0
16
16
Javier Chacon
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
0
16
17
Khayabkhyrvaa Uugunbayar
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
9
16
18
Sebastian Lander
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
14
14
19
Marco Minnard
Team Gazelle
1
13
20
Benedikt Mundle
Sauber Petronas Racing
0
12
21
Hossein Nateghi
Meiji - Cannondale
0
12
22
Dimitri Jiriakov
Sauber Petronas Racing
0
10
23
Jose Vicente Toribio
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
0
10
24
Mahdi Sohrabi
PFG-Armavia
6
10
25
Nino Schurter
Sauber Petronas Racing
0
9
Mountains
It was a case of be there on stage 3 or don't bother. Meiji perhaps unsurprisingly keen to score points wherever they could on their home course.
Rank
Name
Team
General
1
Taiji Nishitani
Meiji - Cannondale
10
2
Robby Meul
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
10
3
Wataru Mutsumine
Meiji - Cannondale
6
4
Brice Feillu
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
4
5
Tomohiro Hayakawa
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
4
6
Marco Salas
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
2
Youth
The Thai surprise takes the youth jersey away from Koretzky, Evian doing well to score with a loanee here. How about Mongolian rider Altanzul excellent third place on youth and 7th overall.
Name
Team
General Time
Phucong Sai-Udomsin
PFG-Armavia
8h10'23 (1)
Clement Koretzky
Evian-MIAT
+ 7 (2)
Maani Altanzul
Evian-MIAT
+ 12 (3)
Martin Puusepp
Evian-MIAT
+ 12 (4)
Marco Minnard
Team Gazelle
+ 13 (5)
Christian Mager
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
+ 15 (6)
Ngock Yves Ngue
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
+ 16 (7)
Jimmy Pranata
PFG-Armavia
+ 16 (8)
Hossein Alizadeh
Sauber Petronas Racing
+ 16 (9)
Juan Pablo Valencia
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
+ 18 (10)
Wataru Mutsumine
Meiji - Cannondale
+ 1'37 (11)
Calvin Watson
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
+ 3'55 (12)
Johannes Christofel Nel
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
+ 4'02 (13)
Heiko Redecker
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
+ 5'33 (14)
Saulo Lay
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
+ 6'29 (15)
Jose Luis Cano
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
+ 6'55 (16)
Benedikt Mundle
Sauber Petronas Racing
+ 7'03 (17)
Sigurd Nesset
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
+ 7'06 (18)
Sven Nooytens
PFG-Armavia
+ 7'06 (19)
Luis Enrique Lemus Davila
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
+ 7'07 (20)
Hakon Frengstad Berger
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
+ 7'07 (21)
Salfo Bikienga
PFG-Armavia
+ 7'09 (22)
Baasankhuu Myagmarsuren
Evian-MIAT
+ 7'09 (23)
Andrea Guardini
Evian-MIAT
+ 7'11 (24)
Tomohiro Hayakawa
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
+ 7'12 (25)
Sven Erik Bystrom
Iberia - Communidad Valenciana
+ 7'12 (26)
César Rojas Villegas
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
+ 11'16 (27)
Tesfay Abraha
PFG-Armavia
+ 17'42 (28)
Tyler Day
MTN - World Bicycle Relief
+ 20'03 (29)
Sebastian Lander
Risa - Ergon Cycling Team
+ 20'06 (30)
Ho-Ting Kwok
Meiji - Cannondale
+ 22'06 (31)
Mustafa Carsi
Evian-MIAT
+ 22'07 (32)
Florian Senechal
Meiji - Cannondale
+ 22'11 (33)
Kenji Itami
Japanese - Korean Cycling Project
+ 24'15 (34)
Jan Polanc
Allianz-BMW Cycling Team
+ 24'18 (35)
Teams
Iberia couldn't grab a podium on GC, disappointing for a rider of Sammy sanchez's stature but they did edge Gazelle and the youthful Evian on the team standings.
