American rider says BMC Racing Team ‘is on the cusp of something great’ in 2014
Taylor Phinney took his best early season result to date today when he maintained his advantage in the Dubai Tour and won the first-ever edition of the race. The American talent reaped the benefits of a very solid period of winter training, winning the opening time trial, leading the race from start to finish and ending up best of a star-studded field in the 2.1-ranked UCI event.
The final stage saw another sprint win by Marcel Kittel (Giant Shimano), who is also enjoying his best-ever early season performances and who has underlined his status as the world’s fastest sprinter.
He thundered in ahead of Mark Renshaw (Omega Pharma Quick Step), Andrea Guardini (Astana), Robert Ferrari (Lampre Merida), Alexandr Porsev (Katusha), Daniele Ratto (Cannondale) and the rest of the main bunch; rivals Peter Sagan (Cannondale) and Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma Quick Step) had hoped to challenge him, but were frustrated by a crash and mechanical issues respectively.
According to his team, Sagan was run into from behind with approximately five kilometres to go and suffered abrasions, while Cavendish indicated that he hit a plastic bollard with a kilometre and a half to go. He said that the incident ripped his chain out of his rear derailleur and also gave him a swollen hand.
Kittel had no such problems, and while he had to sprint from a long way out, had little problems in taking win number three this week.
“I am super happy, but I am totally dead now,” said Kittel, who looked initially exhausted after winning into Burj Khalifa. “The final today was really, really fast. I lost my boys with two kilometres to go, two and a half…just before the bridge. It was amazing how Tom Veelers brought me back to the front.
“Out of nowhere the rest of the team was again there and could do the leadout. I think today we did a brilliant job as a team…thank you to my team.”
Phinney finished without problems in the peloton and thus conserved his overnight advantage. He ended the race fifteen seconds clear of his BMC Racing team-mate Steve Cummings and seventeen up on the impressive Garmin-Sharp signing Lasse Norman Hansen.
Current world time trial champion Tony Martin (Omega Pharma Quick Step) and former rainbow jersey Fabian Cancellara (Trek Factory Racing) took fourth and fifth, while Kittel’s sprint victory and Sagan’s delay due to his fall saw the German move up to sixth overall.
“For sure I am relieved. Every day it felt like it was my race to lose,” said the 23 year old American. “Having a great team around me gave me a lot of confidence these days. After performing well yesterday, I knew that today, barring disaster, we would be coming here with the overall win.
“I am super happy, super relieved and I know the boys are really happy. I am just glad that we can celebrate as a team and I am glad that I could make BMC proud.”
Although he was on a standard bike as per race rules, Phinney won the time trial thanks to his highest-ever power in a race of that length. He said that his strong form was thanks to a perfect buildup. “I had a really strong winter. I haven’t had a problem free winter, injury, sickness-wise ever [before]. This was first really solid winter,” he said.
“I had a great time in the US with my friends in Boulder, Colorado, and then really solid month of training in San Diego.”
In addition to that, he made sure to do things absolutely right in terms of recovery. “I always had my personal soigneur, my personal massage therapist with me. I invested a lot into this year, I knew it was a very important year. So I am super happy to be coming into the season and getting results straight away. And restoring my team’s belief in me – that is great.”
Kittel echoed that when talking about his fine form. “It is absolutely the best start for me in my professional career so far. I can feel that I did last year a great Tour and for sure it helped me in my development as a rider,” he said. “It simply makes you stronger. I am super happy that I can start in such good shape in 2014.”
How it played out:
Eager to give his Sky Dive Dubai team some publicity on home soil, Francisco Mancebo went clear early on with Jay McCarthy (Tinkoff Saxo) and Pier Paolo de Negri (Vini Fantini-Nippo). They rode hard in trying to eke out a stage-winning advantage, but never managed to do so and were caught inside the final fifteen kilometres.
The sprinters’ teams battled to try to get their leaders into the optimum position for the final and also to keep the race together. With five kilometres to go, the Astana team moved to the front and stretched things out. The Kazakh squad was trying to set things up for the Italian Andrea Guardini, who was keen to grab a result.
Behind, another fastman Peter Sagan hit the deck and lost out any chanced he had of winning the final stage. He looked relatively unhurt but threw his bike to the ground in frustration, realising that he was also losing his sixth place overall.
Astana continued to lead into four kilometres to go, then a Lampre Merida rider moved to the front. He did a long stint and was then joined by his team-mates, but other teams were also pushing forward.
Astana moved back to the front when the 2013 Giro d’Italia winner Vincenzo Nibali drove the pace into the final three kilometres, but it was an impossible task for the climber to keep driving the pace beyond that and the Omega Pharma Quick Step team swept to the front.
They were trying to set Mark Cavendish for what would have been his first sprint win, but Giant Shimano were determined to try to get a third success for Marcel Kittel.
The Dutch team battled to the front and stretched things out inside the final kilometre. Kittel ran out of leadout men slightly early and had to go long, but was strong enough to hold on ahead of Mark Renshaw (Omega Pharma Quick Step), who stepped up after Cavendish had problems, as well as a fast-finishing Guardini and Roberto Ferrari (Lampre Merida).
Phinney savoured the win, knowing that it suggests he is moving to a higher level. He can expect to grow stronger as he matures physically, but there is also a sense that the BMC Racing team is making progress.
“You see Cadel [Evans] in Down Under, how the team rode there and how the team rode here,” he said. “We will see how the boys fare in Qatar and Oman.
“I head now to the Tour of the Med and I hope I can take the time trial there. There is a great atmosphere in the team and I think we are on the cusp of something really great. I am super excited to be a part of it and be part of those list of results.”
Dubai Tour (2.1)
Stage 4, Dubai to Burj-Khalifa:
1, Marcel Kittel (Team Giant-Shimano) 123 kilometres in 2 hours 41 mins 9 secs
2, Mark Renshaw (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team)
3, Andrea Guardini (Astana Pro Team)
4, Roberto Ferrari (Lampre-Merida)
5, Alexandr Porsev (Team Katusha)
6, Daniele Ratto (Cannondale)
7, Niccolò Bonifazio (Lampre-Merida)
8, Takashi Miyazawa (Vini-Fantini-Nippo)
9, Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team)
10, Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Movistar Team)
11, Tyler Farrar (Garmin Sharp)
12, Nikolay Trusov (Tinkoff-Saxo)
13, Thor Hushovd (BMC Racing Team)
14, Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek Factory Racing)
15, Soufiane Haddi (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team)
16, Sun Jae Jang (RTS-Santic Racing Team)
17, Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Pro Team)
18, Steven Cummings (BMC Racing Team)
19, Riccardo Stacchiotti (Vini-Fantini-Nippo)
20, Tony Martin (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team)
21, Lasse Norman Hansen (Garmin Sharp)
22, Bruno De Matos Sancho (Banco BIC Carmim)
23, Alessandro Petacchi (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team)
24, Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing Team)
25, Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Movistar Team)
26, Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Lampre-Merida)
27, Enrique Sanz Unzue (Movistar Team)
28, Dylan Van Baarle (Garmin Sharp)
29, Alessandro Malaguti (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) at 4 secs
30, Peter Velits (BMC Racing Team)
31, Sergei Chernetski (Team Katusha)
32, Davide Cimolai (Lampre-Merida)
33, Yannick Eijssen (BMC Racing Team)
34, Nelson Oliveira (Lampre-Merida)
35, Ivan Rovny (Tinkoff-Saxo)
36, Simon Buttner (RTS-Santic Racing Team)
37, Jacopo Guarnieri (Astana Pro Team)
38, Klaas Lodewyck (BMC Racing Team)
39, Martin Velits (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team)
40, Rafaa Chtioui (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team)
41, Michael Valgren Andersen (Tinkoff-Saxo)
42, Antonio Viola (Vini-Fantini-Nippo)
43, Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Trek Factory Racing)
44, Johan Van Summeren (Garmin Sharp)
45, Maciej Bodnar (Cannondale)
46, Pavel Brutt (Team Katusha)
47, Koen De Kort (Team Giant-Shimano)
48, Janez Brajkovic (Astana Pro Team)
49, Fabian Cancellara (Trek Factory Racing)
50, Ruslan Karimov (RTS-Santic Racing Team)
51, Fabio Silvestre (Trek Factory Racing)
52, Adriano Malori (Movistar Team)
53, Jesus Herrada Lopez (Movistar Team)
54, Jonathan Castroviejo (Movistar Team)
55, Sebastian Lander (BMC Racing Team)
56, Rory Sutherland (Tinkoff-Saxo)
57, Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin Sharp)
58, Danilo Hondo (Trek Factory Racing)
59, Vladimir Gusev (Team Katusha)
60, Filippo Pozzato (Lampre-Merida)
61, Bob Jungels (Trek Factory Racing)
62, Nikolas Maes (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team)
63, Tom Veelers (Team Giant-Shimano)
64, Sebastian Langeveld (Garmin Sharp)
65, Tan Peng Yuan (RTS-Santic Racing Team)
66, Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Movistar Team)
67, Raymond Kreder (Garmin Sharp)
68, Angel Vicioso Arcos (Team Katusha)
69, Rafael Ferreira Reis (Banco BIC Carmim)
70, Matteo Tosatto (Tinkoff-Saxo)
71, Vincenzo Nibali (Astana Pro Team)
72, Luca Dodi (Lampre-Merida)
73, Alberto Losada Alguacil (Team Katusha)
74, Kim Magnusson (Vini-Fantini-Nippo)
75, Alexandr Pliuschin (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team)
76, Eugenio Alafaci (Trek Factory Racing)
77, Nawaf Albalooshi (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team)
78, Adil Jelloul (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team)
79, Mohammed Albalooshi (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team)
80, Cheng Ji (Team Giant-Shimano) at 13 secs
81, Luca Paolini (Team Katusha)
82, Mohammed Almansoury (United Arab Emirates) at 14 secs
83, Bruno Manuel Sil Pires (Tinkoff-Saxo) at 17 secs
84, Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (Team Giant-Shimano)
85, Bert De Backer (Team Giant-Shimano)
86, Lawson Craddock (Team Giant-Shimano) at 21 secs
87, Daniel Mestre (Banco BIC Carmim)
88, Rick Zabel (BMC Racing Team)
89, Edward King (Cannondale)
90, Ahmed Almansoori (United Arab Emirates)
91, Alex Coutts (RTS-Santic Racing Team)
92, Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Team Katusha)
93, Kristof Vandewalle (Trek Factory Racing)
94, Valentin Iglinskiy (Astana Pro Team)
95, Yousif Mirza (United Arab Emirates) at mins 25 secs
96, Majid Albalooshi (United Arab Emirates) at 34 secs
97, Wouter Poels (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) at 42 secs
98, Julien Vermote (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team)
99, Fabio Sabatini (Cannondale) at 51 secs
100, Marco Marcato (Cannondale) at 52 secs
101, Henrique Madeira Casimiro (Banco BIC Carmim) at 57 secs
102, Mansour Thani (United Arab Emirates)
103, Manabu Ishibashi (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) at 1 min 3 secs
104, Ramon Sinkeldam (Team Giant-Shimano) at 1 min 9 secs
105, Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) at 1 min 10 secs
106, Alex Dowsett (Movistar Team)
107, Andrea Palini (Lampre-Merida)
108, Diogo Nunes (Banco BIC Carmim) at 1 min 40 secs
109, Joao Pereira (Banco BIC Carmim)
110, Manuel Antunes Amaro (Banco BIC Carmim)
111, Keon-Woo Park (RTS-Santic Racing Team)
112, Francisco Mancebo (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team)
113, Khaled Altani (United Arab Emirates)
114, Valter Pereira (Banco BIC Carmim)
115, Jay McCarthy (Tinkoff-Saxo)
116, Wen Chung Huang (RTS-Santic Racing Team)
117, Evan Huffman (Astana Pro Team)
118, Alessandro Vanotti (Astana Pro Team)
119, Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin Sharp) at 2 mins 13 secs
120, Willem Jakobus Smit (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) at 2 mins 28 secs
121, Pier Paolo De Negri (Vini-Fantini-Nippo)
122, Damiano Caruso (Cannondale) at 2 mins 58 secs
123, Juraj Sagan (Cannondale)
124, Peter Sagan (Cannondale)
Did not finish: Oliver Zaugg (Tinkoff-Saxo)
Points:
1, Marcel Kittel (Team Giant-Shimano) 20 pts
2, Mark Renshaw (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) 16
3, Francisco Mancebo (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) 16
4, Andrea Guardini (Astana Pro Team) 12
5, Roberto Ferrari (Lampre-Merida) 9
6, Jay McCarthy (Tinkoff-Saxo) 8
7, Pier Paolo De Negri (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) 8
8, Alexandr Porsev (Team Katusha) 7
9, Daniele Ratto (Cannondale) 5
10, Niccolò Bonifazio (Lampre-Merida) 4
11, Takashi Miyazawa (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) 3
12, Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) 2
13, Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Movistar Team) 1
14, Yousif Mirza (United Arab Emirates) 1
15, Diogo Nunes (Banco BIC Carmim) 1
Sprint:
1, Francisco Mancebo (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) 8 pts
2, Pier Paolo De Negri (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) 5
3, Jay McCarthy (Tinkoff-Saxo) 3
4, Diogo Nunes (Banco BIC Carmim) 1
Teams:
1, Lampre – Merida, 8 hours 3 mins 27 secs
2, Omega Pharma – Quick-Step
3, BMC Racing Team
4, Garmin Sharp
5, Movistar Team
6, Vini Fantini – Nippo – De Rosa, at 4 secs
7, Astana Pro Team
8, Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team
9, Team Katusha, at 8 secs
10, Tinkoff Saxo
11, RTS – Santic Racing Team
12, Trek Factory Racing
13, Team Giant – Shimano
14, Cannondale, at 25 secs
15, Banco Bic – Carmim
16, UAE National Team, at 1 min
Final overall classification:
1, Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing Team) 9 hours 31 mins 33 secs
2, Steven Cummings (BMC Racing Team) at 15 secs
3, Lasse Norman Hansen (Garmin Sharp) at 17 secs
4, Tony Martin (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) at 23 secs
5, Fabian Cancellara (Trek Factory Racing) at 30 secs
6, Marcel Kittel (Team Giant-Shimano)
7, Adriano Malori (Movistar Team) at 37 secs
8, Maciej Bodnar (Cannondale) at 40 secs
9, Peter Velits (BMC Racing Team) at 42 secs
10, Dylan Van Baarle (Garmin Sharp)
11, Filippo Pozzato (Lampre-Merida) at 45 secs
12, Rory Sutherland (Tinkoff-Saxo) at 47 secs
13, Sergei Chernetski (Team Katusha) at 48 secs
14, Yannick Eijssen (BMC Racing Team)
15, Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Lampre-Merida)
16, Jonathan Castroviejo (Movistar Team) at 49 secs
17, Vincenzo Nibali (Astana Pro Team)
18, Martin Velits (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team)
19, Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin Sharp)
20, Bob Jungels (Trek Factory Racing) at 50 secs
21, Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Trek Factory Racing) at 54 secs
22, Angel Vicioso Arcos (Team Katusha) at 55 secs
23, Jesus Herrada Lopez (Movistar Team) at 57 secs
24, Nikolay Trusov (Tinkoff-Saxo)
25, Ivan Rovny (Tinkoff-Saxo)
26, Sebastian Langeveld (Garmin Sharp)
27, Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Movistar Team) at 58 secs
28, Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (Team Giant-Shimano) at 1 min 4 secs
29, Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Pro Team) at 1 min 6 secs
30, Mark Renshaw (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) at 1 min 12 secs
31, Alexandr Porsev (Team Katusha)
32, Alberto Losada Alguacil (Team Katusha) at 1 min 19 secs
33, Matteo Tosatto (Tinkoff-Saxo) at 1 min 26 secs
34, Nelson Oliveira (Lampre-Merida) at 1 min 34 secs
35, Nikolas Maes (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) at 1 min 35 secs
36, Pavel Brutt (Team Katusha) at 1 min 38 secs
37, Luca Paolini (Team Katusha)
38, Danilo Hondo (Trek Factory Racing) at 1 min 43 secs
39, Janez Brajkovic (Astana Pro Team) at 1 min 44 secs
40, Alessandro Petacchi (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) at 1 min 45 secs
41, Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek Factory Racing)
42, Lawson Craddock (Team Giant-Shimano) at 1 min 47 secs
43, Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Movistar Team) at 1 min 50 secs
44, Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Movistar Team) at 1 min 53 secs
45, Koen De Kort (Team Giant-Shimano)
46, Tyler Farrar (Garmin Sharp) at 1 min 57 secs
47, Wouter Poels (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) at 1 min 59 secs
48, Rafael Ferreira Reis (Banco BIC Carmim) at 2 mins 1 secs
49, Rafaa Chtioui (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) at 2 mins 7 secs
50, Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) at 2 mins 12 secs
51, Edward King (Cannondale) at 2 mins 24 secs
52, Adil Jelloul (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) at 2 mins 28 secs
53, Michael Valgren Andersen (Tinkoff-Saxo) at 2 mins 34 secs
54, Enrique Sanz Unzue (Movistar Team) at 2 mins 35 secs
55, Vladimir Gusev (Team Katusha) at 2 mins 37 secs
56, Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Team Katusha) at 2 mins 38 secs
57, Marco Marcato (Cannondale) at 2 mins 39 secs
58, Yousif Mirza (United Arab Emirates) at 2 mins 44 secs
59, Johan Van Summeren (Garmin Sharp) at 2 mins 46 secs
60, Raymond Kreder (Garmin Sharp)
61, Julien Vermote (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) at 2 mins 47 secs
62, Alexandr Pliuschin (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) at 2 mins 48 secs
63, Eugenio Alafaci (Trek Factory Racing) at 2 mins 51 secs
64, Luca Dodi (Lampre-Merida) at 3 mins 2 secs
65, Alessandro Malaguti (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) at 3 mins 5 secs
66, Niccolò Bonifazio (Lampre-Merida) at 3 mins 10 secs
67, Kim Magnusson (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) at 3 mins 12 secs
68, Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) at 3 mins 20 secs
69, Riccardo Stacchiotti (Vini-Fantini-Nippo)
70, Bruno Manuel Sil Pires (Tinkoff-Saxo) at 3 mins 21 secs
71, Francisco Mancebo (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) at 3 mins 25 secs
72, Soufiane Haddi (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team)
73, Peter Sagan (Cannondale) at 3 mins 27 secs
74, Roberto Ferrari (Lampre-Merida) at 3 mins 28 secs
75, Alessandro Vanotti (Astana Pro Team) at 3 mins 29 secs
76, Ramon Sinkeldam (Team Giant-Shimano) at 3 mins 32 secs
77, Tom Veelers (Team Giant-Shimano) at 3 mins 39 secs
78, Daniele Ratto (Cannondale) at 4 mins 2 secs
79, Fabio Sabatini (Cannondale) at 4 mins 15 secs
80, Bert De Backer (Team Giant-Shimano) at 4 mins 20 secs
81, Daniel Mestre (Banco BIC Carmim) at 4 mins 33 secs
82, Joao Pereira (Banco BIC Carmim) at 4 mins 34 secs
83, Pier Paolo De Negri (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) at 4 mins 41 secs
84, Damiano Caruso (Cannondale) at 4 mins 42 secs
85, Fabio Silvestre (Trek Factory Racing) at 4 mins 45 secs
86, Jacopo Guarnieri (Astana Pro Team) at 4 mins 47 secs
87, Kristof Vandewalle (Trek Factory Racing) at 4 mins 58 secs
88, Jay McCarthy (Tinkoff-Saxo) at 4 mins 59 secs
89, Thor Hushovd (BMC Racing Team) at 5 mins 0 secs
90, Davide Cimolai (Lampre-Merida) at 5 mins 2 secs
91, Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin Sharp) at 5 mins 4 secs
92, Henrique Madeira Casimiro (Banco BIC Carmim) at 5 mins 11 secs
93, Andrea Guardini (Astana Pro Team) at 5 mins 21 secs
94, Manuel Antunes Amaro (Banco BIC Carmim) at 5 mins 22 secs
95, Sun Jae Jang (RTS-Santic Racing Team) at 5 mins 34 secs
96, Alex Coutts (RTS-Santic Racing Team) at 5 mins 35 secs
97, Tan Peng Yuan (RTS-Santic Racing Team) at 5 mins 43 secs
98, Takashi Miyazawa (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) at 5 mins 52 secs
99, Simon Buttner (RTS-Santic Racing Team) at 6 mins 6 secs
100, Bruno De Matos Sancho (Banco BIC Carmim) at 6 mins 9 secs
101, Mohammed Albalooshi (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) at 6 mins 33 secs
102, Manabu Ishibashi (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) at 6 mins 38 secs
103, Andrea Palini (Lampre-Merida) at 6 mins 46 secs
104, Valentin Iglinskiy (Astana Pro Team) at 6 mins 53 secs
105, Cheng Ji (Team Giant-Shimano) at 7 mins 33 secs
106, Ahmed Almansoori (United Arab Emirates) at 7 mins 37 secs
107, Majid Albalooshi (United Arab Emirates) at 7 mins 42 secs
108, Alex Dowsett (Movistar Team) at 8 mins 3 secs
109, Juraj Sagan (Cannondale) at 8 mins 30 secs
110, Klaas Lodewyck (BMC Racing Team) at 8 mins 50 secs
111, Rick Zabel (BMC Racing Team) at 9 mins 1 secs
112, Sebastian Lander (BMC Racing Team) at 10 mins 20 secs
113, Evan Huffman (Astana Pro Team) at 10 mins 22 secs
114, Nawaf Albalooshi (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) at 10 mins 47 secs
115, Mohammed Almansoury (United Arab Emirates) at 10 mins 54 secs
116, Antonio Viola (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) at 12 mins 6 secs
117, Keon-Woo Park (RTS-Santic Racing Team) at 12 mins 9 secs
118, Willem Jakobus Smit (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) at 15 mins 34 secs
119, Valter Pereira (Banco BIC Carmim) at 16 mins 4 secs
120, Mansour Thani (United Arab Emirates) at 16 mins 14 secs
121, Wen Chung Huang (RTS-Santic Racing Team) at 16 mins 56 secs
122, Khaled Altani (United Arab Emirates) at 17 mins 24 secs
123, Ruslan Karimov (RTS-Santic Racing Team) at 17 mins 45 secs
124, Diogo Nunes (Banco BIC Carmim) at 21 mins 39 secs
Points:
1, Marcel Kittel (Team Giant-Shimano) 60 pts
2, Peter Sagan (Cannondale) 33
3, Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing Team) 32
4, Willem Jakobus Smit (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) 32
5, Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Movistar Team) 26
6, Francisco Mancebo (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) 24
7, Diogo Nunes (Banco BIC Carmim) 17
8, Steven Cummings (BMC Racing Team) 16
9, Mark Renshaw (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) 16
10, Roberto Ferrari (Lampre-Merida) 14
11, Lasse Norman Hansen (Garmin Sharp) 12
12, Andrea Guardini (Astana Pro Team) 12
13, Tony Martin (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) 9
14, Dylan Van Baarle (Garmin Sharp) 9
15, Alexandr Porsev (Team Katusha) 9
16, Pier Paolo De Negri (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) 8
17, Jay McCarthy (Tinkoff-Saxo) 8
18, Fabian Cancellara (Trek Factory Racing) 7
19, Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (Team Giant-Shimano) 7
20, Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek Factory Racing) 7
21, Nikolay Trusov (Tinkoff-Saxo) 6
22, Wouter Poels (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) 5
23, Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) 5
24, Daniele Ratto (Cannondale) 5
25, Ruslan Karimov (RTS-Santic Racing Team) 5
26, Adriano Malori (Movistar Team) 4
27, Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Movistar Team) 4
28, Alexandr Pliuschin (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) 4
29, Niccolò Bonifazio (Lampre-Merida) 4
30, Maciej Bodnar (Cannondale) 3
31, Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin Sharp) 3
32, Takashi Miyazawa (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) 3
33, Jacopo Guarnieri (Astana Pro Team) 2
34, Rick Zabel (BMC Racing Team) 2
35, Peter Velits (BMC Racing Team) 1
36, Jesus Herrada Lopez (Movistar Team) 1
37, Yousif Mirza (United Arab Emirates) 1
38, Raymond Kreder (Garmin Sharp) 1
39, Evan Huffman (Astana Pro Team) 1
Sprint:
1, Willem Jakobus Smit (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) 16 pts
2, Francisco Mancebo (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) 11
3, Diogo Nunes (Banco BIC Carmim) 11
4, Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing Team) 8
5, Steven Cummings (BMC Racing Team) 5
6, Pier Paolo De Negri (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) 5
7, Lasse Norman Hansen (Garmin Sharp) 3
8, Alexandr Pliuschin (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) 3
9, Jay McCarthy (Tinkoff-Saxo) 3
10, Fabian Cancellara (Trek Factory Racing) 1
11, Rick Zabel (BMC Racing Team) 1
12, Evan Huffman (Astana Pro Team) 1
Young rider:
1, Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing Team) 9 hours 31 mins 33 secs
2, Lasse Norman Hansen (Garmin Sharp) at 17 secs
3, Dylan Van Baarle (Garmin Sharp) at 42 secs
4, Sergei Chernetski (Team Katusha) at 48 secs
5, Yannick Eijssen (BMC Racing Team)
6, Bob Jungels (Trek Factory Racing) at 50 secs
7, Jesus Herrada Lopez (Movistar Team) at 57 secs
8, Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (Team Giant-Shimano) at 1 min 4 secs
9, Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Pro Team) at 1 min 6 secs
10, Nelson Oliveira (Lampre-Merida) at 1 min 34 secs
11, Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek Factory Racing) at 1 min 45 secs
12, Lawson Craddock (Team Giant-Shimano) at 1 min 47 secs
13, Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Movistar Team) at 1 min 50 secs
14, Rafael Ferreira Reis (Banco BIC Carmim) at 2 mins 1 secs
15, Michael Valgren Andersen (Tinkoff-Saxo) at 2 mins 34 secs
16, Enrique Sanz Unzue (Movistar Team) at 2 mins 35 secs
17, Raymond Kreder (Garmin Sharp) at 2 mins 46 secs
18, Julien Vermote (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team) at 2 mins 47 secs
19, Eugenio Alafaci (Trek Factory Racing) at 2 mins 51 secs
20, Niccolò Bonifazio (Lampre-Merida) at 3 mins 10 secs
21, Kim Magnusson (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) at 3 mins 12 secs
22, Riccardo Stacchiotti (Vini-Fantini-Nippo) at 3 mins 20 secs
23, Soufiane Haddi (Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team) at 3 mins 25 secs
24, Peter Sagan (Cannondale) at 3 mins 27 secs
25, Ramon Sinkeldam (Team Giant-Shimano) at 3 mins 32 secs
26, Daniele Ratto (Cannondale) at 4 mins 2 secs
27, Joao Pereira (Banco BIC Carmim) at 4 mins 34 secs
28, Fabio Silvestre (Trek Factory Racing) at 4 mins 45 secs
29, Jay McCarthy (Tinkoff-Saxo) at 4 mins 59 secs
30, Davide Cimolai (Lampre-Merida) at 5 mins 2 secs
Teams:
1, BMC Racing Team, 28 hours 35 mins 33 secs
2, Garmin Sharp, at 50 secs
3, Omega Pharma – Quick-Step, at 1 min 5 secs
4, Movistar Team, at 1 min 15 secs
5, Trek Factory Racing, at 1 min 16 secs
6, Team Katusha, at 1 min 25 secs
7, Tinkoff Saxo, at 1 min 36 secs
8, Lampre – Merida, at 2 mins 5 secs
9, Team Giant – Shimano, at 2 mins 6 secs
10, Cannondale, at 2 mins 23 secs
11, Astana Pro Team, at 2 mins 39 secs
12, Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team, at 4 mins 41 secs
13, Banco Bic – Carmim, at 6 mins 58 secs
14, Vini Fantini – Nippo – De Rosa, at 7 mins 27 secs
15, RTS – Santic Racing Team, at 13 mins 52 secs
16, UAE National Team, at 16 mins 30 secs