The prologue takes place at Long Beach’s waterfront overlooking Rainbow Harbor.
The area was belonging by the Tongva people when it was settled, by Spanish soldier Manuel Nieto in 1784 receiving a huge land grant of 1,200 km2. The town enveloped near the seaside in the last part of the 1800’s. Today the city has a population of about 470,000 people now part of Los Angeles metropolitan area.
First rider is Postlberger 7’21”
Some less important riders and them we get the first rider with a shot at a top race result van der Hugenhaben 7’39” losing 18”
Vinhas 7’47”
Roche 7’36”
And then new best form Sterbini 7’12”
Salinas 7’31”
Poljanski 7’45”
Soler 7’15”
Moazemi 7’47”
Kwiatkowski 7’32”
Keinath 7’25”
Stannard 7’19”
Yatsevich in the same time as Sterbini 7’12”
Reis 7’30”
Ligthart 7’19”
Konrad 7’40”
Nesset 7’46”
Jallays 7’29”
Kangert 7’23”
Gallopin 7’15”
Goldstein new best 7’11”
Chiarello 7’34”
Gastauer 7’46”
Cutting 6” of the current best Malori new best in 7’05
Augustyn 7’34”
Cheung 7’26”
Durbridge 2nd best in 7’08”
Arndt 8’02”,that was a lot to lose even for a climber.
Brändle in the same time as Malori 7’05
Brenes 7’39”
Slagter 7’46”
Hansen 7’18”
Koretzky 7’48”
Ginanni 7’44”
Mohoric 7’50”
Shikai 7’22”
Meintjes 7’22”
Olivier 7’38”
Intxausti 3rd in 7’08”
Martin 7’27”
The last rider to start today is Herklotz coming in at +8”, 7’13”
This was Adrian Malori’s first ever stage win in Tour of California, he thereby also lead the points and his team the team classification.
Tour of California 
