Compared to last year’s 5.4 km opening prologue today we got a 13.3 km long ITT, although it is still a short ITT, we can expect to see some losses between the GC riders, on a bad day in the saddle some may even lose the race before it really began.
It will be rainy and quite cold but with little wind.
Top tempo riders Vlatos 2nd riders to start the race and he will set an early time not easy to beat for most riders.
15’14”
Squire + 1’35”
Zakarin + 14” at this point 2nd best
Tratnik + 1’58”
Vakoc + 1’07
Wirtgen +15”
Rosskopf + 29”
Van Niekerk + 1’46
Turek + 28”
Senyenov + 1’38”
Sepulveda a good time for a puncher + 32”
Prevar + 2’04, ouch!
I. Oliveira +21
Sütterlin 2nd best time +5”
Müller +1’54”
Padun 1’34
N. Oliveira 3rd best with +9”
Frison new 3rd +8”
Schlegel + 1’28
Mano new 3rd + 7”
S. Lammertink shared best with 15’14”
Goos 4th +6”
Kung 3rd just 1” behind the shared lead.
Politt +4”
Malori also at + 1”
Chaves + 1’29”
Haugard with another 15’14” three riders now share the lead.
Goncalves + 4”
Boily + 52”
Dal Col with new best time 15’12”
Campenaerts + 3”
Gidich +34
Coppel 2nd +1
Kratochvila + 1’08
Bratashcuk + 2’58 that must hurt
Chernetskiy + 1’15
Brändle +12”
Furdi + 1’22”
Boswell 1’21”
Bellis 1’56”
Dillier + 8”
Cheung 14”
Ackermann + 1’27
Dennis with new best time 15’10” what a day for him.
Bystrom one more top puncher punished in the ITT, + 2’57”
Jensen +51“
Viviani + 13”
Bakelants + 1’49
Kwiatkowski + 54”
Mohoric + 1’44
Würtz new best with 15’06 3” faster than Dennis
Würtz with Ponzi in the background
Ponzi 1’26
Van Garderen + 1’23
Bobridge + 24”
Skujins + 2’31
Kinoshita + 1’25
Pluchkin + 19”
Hagen + 43”
Edvald Boasson Hagen was the last rider to cross the line
In-game result: As always may be adjusted a little in the official result