A little over 200 kilometers of riding await the riders in the Lillestrom municipality of Norway. The best cobbles riders of the CT division have gathered en-masse to aim for the top spot in this race.
Favourites
FLA
HIL
STA
RES
COB
SPR
ACC
Vanspeybrouck
74
69
75
68
80
65
66
Van Keirsbulck
72
71
75
73
78
70
68
Vanmarcke
75
65
75
70
79
69
70
Declerq
74
73
73
71
77
67
67
Naesen
75
72
77
73
76
77
76
Tsatevich
74
77
74
73
75
75
75
Taubel
73
65
69
73
78
61
64
Puccio
72
66
76
71
78
60
55
Richardson
71
67
68
68
78
60
61
Orue
69
64
77
70
78
53
58
Kolev
75
62
73
71
77
62
67
Thwaites
73
65
74
70
76
78
76
Riesebeek
74
73
73
75
73
69
72
Kumara
74
67
74
70
75
71
67
Nielsen
75
67
71
75
74
73
71
Ovsyannikov
72
68
74
72
74
77
76
Abraha
72
64
70
71
75
74
72
We have 14 riders making it into the early break:
King Cardona Gough, Le Roux Oss Visser, Lauk Arensman Rojas De Tier Van Tricht Wright Schorn, A. Johannessen
Cardona can't keep up with the break and is caught with 170 kilometers to go.
Riders are already dropping from the peloton which is down to 87.
Oss is dropped from the break and caught with 137 kilometers left.
Over the next 25 kilometer, Visser and Gough are also caught by the pack as the cobbles break up the break.
Ovsyannikov attacks from the pack with 106 kilometers to go.
95 kilometers left to ride. Ovsyannikov has caught the break, from where only four riders remain - De Tier, Lauk, Le Roux and Schorn.
The peloton is down to 68.
Le Roux and Schorn are caught 9 kilometers later.
Lauk and De Tier are also caught, another 10 kilometers later.
Rathe and Sbaragli attack from the pack and catch Ovsyannikov. 64 kilometers to go.
Ovsyannikov is dropped and caught by the pack 3 kilometers later.
Jakobsen and Nielsen then make it a four rider escape group with 52 kilometers to go.
Ovsyannikov pays for his efforts as he is dropped!
Jakobsen and Sbaragli are now caught. 34 kilometers to go.
The remaining duo is also caught by the 35 rider peloton a further 5 kilometers later.
Tsatevich is first of the big names to attack.
Jakobsen, Sbaragli, Nielsen, Rathe, Riesebeek, Abraha, Kristoff and Olereich have been dropped.
Vanspeybrouck, Puccio, Vanmarcke, Naesen, Declerq and Richardson are off from the front of the pack. Our cameras missed Tsatevich having already been caught.
Kolev, Kumara, Losch and Bauhaus are the next to be dropped.
More splits happening now as the chase group is down to five:
Van Keirsbulck, Manakov, Kuznetsov, Kreder and Kluge are gapped.
The next group has Tsatevich, Orue, Taubel, Thwaites, Stokbro, Corwin and Hesters.
The first two groups come together soon after.
Manakov, Van Keirsbulck, Kuznetsov and Kreder are dropped again. 10 kilometers to go.
3 kilometers later, Vanspeybrouck, Puccio, Vanmarck and Naesen attack. Declerq is chasing them.
Richardson and Kluge are in the third group on the road.
With 5 kilometers remaining, Declerq catches E1 to make in two Crabbe riders in the lead group. Kluge catches them a kilometer later.
Declerq and Vanmarcke attack just as we reach the final kilometer!
Vanmarcke leads with 400 meters to go. It's between the front two for the win now.
Vanmarcke tires going into the final 100 meters. Declerq goes into the lead.
Declerq wins for Crabbe-CC!
Vanmarcke holds onto 2nd ahead of a faster finishing Vanspeybrouck.
Kluge is 4th.
Naesen finishes 5th ahead of Puccio (ignore the Strava rider being lapped).
Richardson is 7th.
Kuznetsov finishes 8th, with Manakov in 9th.
Stokbro completes the Top 10. Kreder and Thwaites cross the line next.
Tsatevich finishes 13th.
Amongst the gaggle of lapped riders, Van Keirsbulck and Corwin make up 14th and 15th.
Today's winner - Tim Declerq.
Declerq continues Crabbe-CC's cobbles domination. Vanmarcke has made a habit of finishing 2nd this season, and does so again. Vanspeybrouck completes the podium.
