Lesser known race results 2011

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Let's hope Nairo Quintana isn't there again (or a good course, maybe with a really long flat time trial)

Actually i hope we have a strong field, colombians with their best, and a some what mountainous course. I'd like to see what sort of progression he has made and where his level is at.

PS:

kelderman is u23 dutch champion on road also?

 

[Lupetto]

Actually i hope we have a strong field, colombians with their best, and a some what mountainous course. I'd like to see what sort of progression he has made and where his level is at.

I hope, that the italians will be there, too. They did not participate in 2009 and 2010.

The course will be very mountainous, according to the french sélectionneur Bernard Bourreau.

 

[theyoungest]

kelderman is u23 dutch champion on road also?

No, reigning champion is still Slagter, the road nationals are next week (on the course where Lars Boom won a few years ago).

 

[DenisMenchov]

So Tour de Serbia ended. Stevic won with 2 sec advantage over Rasmussen.

I met Rasmussen, and he seems like a really nice guy. I asked him whether he will start next years Giro and he said that there are good chances.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Giro Della Toscana

Dan Martin
Mauro Santambrogio (1st race back since april)

 

[dlwssonic]

Giro Della Toscana

Dan Martin
Mauro Santambrogio (1st race back since april)

good ride by mauro! great day for BMC

 

[Jamsque]

Go Danny Boy!

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Luke Rowe won the final stage at Thüringen Rundfahrt.

Kelderman takes overall.

1. KELDERMAN Wilco RB3 21h02'03"
2. STEIGMILLER Jakob TET 32"
3. DUMOULIN Tom RB3 01'01"
4. MCCARTHY Jay JAI 01'07"
5. LE BON Johan BSC 01'16"
6. GOOS Marc RB3 01'19"
7. PLÖTNER Nils THF 01'22"
8. ARNDT Nikias LKT 01'32"
9. YATES Simon - 02'01"
10. COURTEILLE Arnaud FDJ 02'09"

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Go Danny Boy!

Does anyone know anything about the course?

From what I can gather from this article and the accompanying photo, it seems that Martin won from a bunch sprint!

Now Martin can actually sprint surprisingly well, but you'd have to presume that it must have been a very hilly course with a climb at the finish. Yet the last two winners were Petacchi and Bennati. There really shouldn't be too many finishes which suit both Petacchi and Martin. Do they change the course every year or something?

Anyway, there's an interesting feature on Martin from yesterday, here. It seems that the Garmin riders still don't know who is going to be in the Tour squad.

 

[Michele]

They just showed the recorded highlights on RAI and Martin won a sprint but a bit strange as you'd expect him to try on the climb and Le Mevel wait the sprint but it was the other way around.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

They just showed the recorded highlights on RAI and Martin won a sprint but a bit strange as you'd expect him to try on the climb and Le Mevel wait the sprint but it was the other way around.

Was the finish quite steep?

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

I've just seen the full result. It was a sprint from an elite selection, not a full bunch sprint. That makes much more sense.

 

[Duartista]

Actually i hope we have a strong field, colombians with their best, and a some what mountainous course. I'd like to see what sort of progression he has made and where his level is at.

PS:

kelderman is u23 dutch champion on road also?

Quintana will go, but neither Atapuma or Pantano appear to be eligible, so the Colombians might not have such a strong team this year. CEP have said they will ask to borrow 3 riders from other Colombian teams, so it will depend on inter-team politics I guess. If they could get some of the guys who were supposed to do the Girobio they'd have an excellent team... but that may be unlikely.

 

[pmcg76]

Well done Dan Martin, makes up for Cunego losing out today.

 

[Michele]

Was the finish quite steep?

It was totally flat, kinda downhill until the 1km to go.

 

[rzombie1988]

Tour de Serbie - Rasmussen almost wins!

Rider Team Time
1. STEVIC Ivan ZAN 27h29'32"
2. RASMUSSEN Michael TST 02"
3. CONVERSET Matthieu - 14"
4. KASA Gabor MNS 01'12" 12
5. BOMMEL Henning LKT 01'30"
6. LEBAS Thomas - 01'41"
7. FIRSANOV Sergey TIK 01'42"
8. BINDI Emanuele MKT 01'45"
9. HEIDER Johannes LKT 01'51"
10. BLAZEVIC Darko MKT 02'38"
11. RIBET Aurélien - 03'48"
12. BAJC Andi MNS 04'10"
13. WEICHT Michael LKT 04'14"
14. DER Zsolt - 04'32"
15. MEEUSEN Tom FID 04'34"
16. BRENTERCH Erwan - 05'02"
17. HASANOVIC Esad ZAN 05'03"
18. JORGENSEN Rene TST 05'04"
19. MCLAUGHLIN James - 05'06"
20. RUDASKOV Sergey TIK 05'09"

 

[auscyclefan94]

They just showed the recorded highlights on RAI and Martin won a sprint but a bit strange as you'd expect him to try on the climb and Le Mevel wait the sprint but it was the other way around.

Santambrogio would won if he didn't give Martin a perfect leadout from 300m to go in a head wind sprint. He's easily a better sprinter than dan.

Was the finish quite steep?

The climb which ends with about 1-2km to go is quite steep.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Gediminas Bagdonas (An Post Sean Kelly) won the Ronde de L'Oise (2.2). He also won the second stage along the way.

These were his fourth and fifth wins of the last three weeks, after also winning two stages and the overall race in the An Post Ras. He's proving to be a very good rider at this level, winning both sprints and stage races. He wasn't the most heralded of the prospects the An Post Sean Kelly team picked up this year (that would probably be Andy Fenn, who won the Memorial Van Coningsloo last week) but he's really getting some good results for them.

I'd barely heard of the guy before the Ras, but after the way he rode that race he's becoming one of my favourite lesser known riders. He won one stage from a small breakaway, another in a large bunch sprint, and had to ride both hard and smart to protect the yellow jersey for six days in a notoriously chaotic race.

Bagdonas won the Lithuanian National TT Championship today.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Another Tour alternative:

The GP Torres Vedras-Trofeu Joaquim Agostinho started today. This is the main warm-up race for the Volta a Portugal, and is a bumpy but not mountainous race around Torres Vedras and the surrounding area, usually finishing with a flat circuit race in the city.

The region is hardly what you'd call mountainous, but the race is still difficult, owing to large numbers of short, sharp climbs; the parcours is similar to races like Coppi e Bartali, Ardennes stage races or the Tour de Brétagne. However, this race has the opportunity to use the 9,2km @ 6,2% Alto de Montejunto.

This year, they're using it twice, from both sides, but neither time as a stage finish, in the first two stages.

The first stage, today, featured Montejunto early on, then 5 climbs in the last 60km, finishing on a short, sharp uphill into Sobral de Monte Agraço. Tomorrow's 2nd stage features a mostly flat first half before climbing Montejunto and a 2nd category climb to finish. The third stage features no memorable climbs but is up and down all day, while the final stage is a full on flat circuit race.

In today's stage there was some interesting squabbling with multiple attacks going away and being brought back; the one that stuck was led by David Belda of Burgos 2016, who took Tavira's climber Ricardo Mestre (the KOM winner in the Volta ao Algarve if any of you remember that far back) with him. Délio Fernández (Onda) and teammate Alejandro Marque got into that group as well, but Mestre hit for home setting a pace the non-climbers couldn't match on the first climb of Monte Agraço, eventually soloing in over a minute ahead of the bunch.

Results:
1. Ricardo Mestre (Tavira-Prio) POR 4'07'28"
2. Alejandro Marque Porto (Onda-Boavista) ESP +1'16"
3. Ian Bibby (Motorpoint) GBR +1'18"
4. David Belda García (Burgos 2016) ESP +1'21"
5. Sérgio Ribeiro (Barbot-Efapel) POR +1'21"
6. André Cardoso (Tavira-Prio) POR +1'21"
7. Edgar Pinto (LA-Antarte-Rota dos Móveis) POR +1'21"
8. Sergey Chernetskiy (Lokomotiv) RUS +1'21"
9. Ricardo García Ambroa (Orbea Continental) ESP +1'21"
10. Hernâni Broco (LA-Antarte-Rota dos Móveis) POR +1'21"

 

[Parrulo]

ty for the info libertine. i had seen the results but didn't knew what happened.

anyway ricardo mestre should be domesticing for andre cardoso at this years volta right? hopefully this year is a portuguese affair and andre cardoso wins so he can get himself a contract on a world tour team. dreaming never hurt any1 right?

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Sam Bennett (An Post Sean Kelly), the 20 year old Irish sprint prospect, won the GP Stad Gael yesterday, a Belgian 1.2 race.

 

[Parrulo]

Ricardo mestre was able to keep his lead on the GP Torres Vedras-Trofeu Joaquim Agostinho on the following stages sealing the win for the second most prestigious race of the portuguese domestique calendar

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Good result, but not exactly surprising; Tavira could do a reasonable job of controlling given Mestre had a minute's headstart.

 

[Parrulo]

Good result, but not exactly surprising; Tavira could do a reasonable job of controlling given Mestre had a minute's headstart.

ya the race was decided after the first stage

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

first stage vuelta venezuela, a massprint:

Etapa 1:
1. Honorio Machado 1:40:05
2. Arthur Garcia m.t.
3. Carlos Linares m.t.
4. Miguel Chacón m.t.
5. Ralf Monsalve m.t.
6. Frederick Segura m.t.
7. Miguel Ubeto m.t.
8. Arnold Arcolea m.t.
9. Darwin Urrea m.t.
10. José Rujano m.t.

rujano