Lesser Known Race Results 2016

[lemon cheese cake]

Kicking the year off in Australia are the Bay Crits.

Caleb Ewan won the mens race, while teammate Jack Haig worked on the front for quite a few laps.

Gracie Elvin won the womens race with teammate Lizzie Williams coming second.

Sounds like Orica have started the 2016 season well then. The crits carry on over the next three days.

 

[Squire]

Venezuelan Orluis Aular, who just turned 19 back in November, wins the sprint of the opening stage in the Vuelta al Tachira ahead of Southeast's Matteo Busato. The Giro 2016 winner safely in the pack in 55th.

 

[Ruudz0r]

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Venezuelan Orluis Aular, who just turned 19 back in November, wins the sprint of the opening stage in the Vuelta al Tachira ahead of Southeast's Matteo Busato. The Giro 2016 winner safely in the pack in 55th.

I scouted this guy for a game I play about 2 years ago, he was a climber back then now he is mainly doing well in sprints . Though he can also still turn out to be a good guy for GCs as he is still so young and he didnt do too bad in his first U23 year in the mountains.

 

[BalearicBeats]

So tomorrow marks the beginning of the Tropicale Amissa Bongo, the race where random European domestiques used to be able to rack up some wins. However, with Palini and Hutarovitsj competing the sprints will probabmy be contended between them and the chosen Morrocan sprinter of the day (Mraouni I guess). I am interesetd how Janvier Hadi will do in the ITT as he seems to be one of the strongest African TTers, at least for short ones like this one.

Stage 1 - Kango › Lambarene (146k) Small climb in the last 3 km, but nothing steep.
Stage 2 - Fougamou › Mouila (105k) Flat
Stage 3 - Lambarene › Ndole (130k) Uphill sprint
Stage 4 - Oyem › Ambam (141k) Bumpy stage (lots of small climbs not even worth cat. 4 status)) with an uphill sprint finish
Stage 5 - Meyo Kie › Oyem (118k) Bumpy stage with a small hill at the end
Stage 6 (ITT) - Akanda › Stade de (4k)
Stage 7 - Cap Esterias › Libreville (130k) Bumpy circuit that could hurt the chances of some sprinters

 

[Bushman]

21-year old Venezuelaen Jose Mendoza has won a stage and is currently leading Vuelta al Tachira. Does anyone have som information about him?

 

[May0maniac]

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21-year old Venezuelaen Jose Mendoza has won a stage and is currently leading Vuelta al Tachira. Does anyone have som information about him?

He was already 4th at the 2015 Vuelta Ciclista a Venezuela, but Tachira is the bigger race for climbers and usually has harder mountain stages, I don't know anything else about him.
I hope that Southeast will get a few of the interesting Venezuelan riders, Monsalve also rode a decent Vuelta al Tachira until now.

 

[jens_attacks]

Damn he just cracked big time
The costarican will take tachira, unexpected

 

[Squire]

Quite an expected result in the first stage of the Tropicale Amissa Bongo.

1. Andrea Palini
2. Yauheni Hutarovich
3. Adrien Petit
4. Yohan Gene
5. Armindo Fonseca

 

[Alexandre B.]

Andrea Palini wins stage 2.
Adrien Petit wins stage 3.

 

[BalearicBeats]

Surprised by how few wins Petit actually has with his qualities.

Today seemed to be carnage, but unlike last year Skydive wasn't the one inflicting all the pain!

 

[Der Effe]

Adil Jelloul won stage 4 and Adrien Petit won stage 5.

 

[BalearicBeats]

Will La Tropicale finally be won by an African rider? Okubamariam seems very consistent, but if he wins he will lose in the very prestigious "most top10s without a win" competition!

 

[MatParker117]

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Will La Tropicale finally be won by an African rider? Okubamariam seems very consistent, but if he wins he will lose in the very prestigious "most top10s without a win" competition!

Berhane and Chtioui won the last two.

 

[BalearicBeats]

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Will La Tropicale finally be won by an African rider? Okubamariam seems very consistent, but if he wins he will lose in the very prestigious "most top10s without a win" competition!

Berhane and Chtioui won the last two.

Ookay that was a very stupid thing of me to say, I didn't think about that because they're with more well-known teams

 

[Der Effe]

I think Petit will win the overall. Is pretty decent in short TT's, won last year's prologue in Luxembourg.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

well, I hope Petit wins. Go go.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Petit wins the TT and takes the lead.

GC :
1°) Adrien Petit
2°) Andrea Palini +12s
3°) Anthony Delaplace +14s
4°) Tesfom Okubamariam +20s

 

[BalearicBeats]

The Asian continental championships have ended. The male elite TT and RR were dominated by Cheun King Lok, a rider from Hong Kong who should move countries to China and take over the Chinese guy position in Giant-Alpecin. It impressed me that he managed to beat Arashiro by 7 seconds on a quite bumpy parcours in the RR, while Arashiro is certainly a good rider.

TT:
1 Cheung King Lok
2 Choe Hyeong Min 0.07
3 Haghi Alireza 0.10

The level seemed quite low but beating Iranians is always a good sign I guess.

RR:
1 Cheung King Lok
2 Arashiro Yukiya 0.07
3 Beppu Fumiyuki 4.38

Arashiro and Cheung were certainly the best here, because they even left guys like Poorseyedi and Mizbani several minutes behind (though that might have been due to the fact that there was testing or something).

I am however only writing this text to present you the new Poorseyedigholakour, a new kid on the block with the coolest name ever, who won the U23 RR:

1 RAJABIKABOODCHESHMEH Mahdi (this is impossible to remember)
2 THANH Huynh st
3 GANJKHANLOU Mohammad 1.12

 

[TMP402]

Dries Devenyns wins GP Marseillaise, his first win this decade.

 

[Rovinin]

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Dries Devenyns wins GP Marseillaise, his first win this decade.

Finally, someone who really deserves this kind of victory after his hard work for his teamleaders.

 

[TMP402]

Coquard wins Stage 1 of Etoile de Besseges, Will Clarke wins the prologue of the Herald Sun Tour.

 

[BalearicBeats]

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Coquard wins Stage 1 of Etoile de Besseges, Will Clarke wins the prologue of the Herald Sun Tour.

Démare only seventh behind the usual suspects in French races: Planckaert, Demoitie and Barbier. Not in good form yet?

 

[May0maniac]

What is wrong with Pelucchi? Only 15th against this kind of sprinters field, last year he was beatig guys like Greipel and Viviani at the start of the season.

 

[Hedebooo]

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What is wrong with Pelucchi? Only 15th against this kind of sprinters field, last year he was beatig guys like Greipel and Viviani at the start of the season.

Bad shape it seems

Speaking of Tour Down Under, "Matteo Pelucchi was forced to abandon the stage after only four kilometres of racing. He was just not in shape,” Carlström said."

- http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/dennis-shows-his-form-before-corkscrew-hill-showdown-tour-down-under-shorts/

 

[Brullnux]

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What is wrong with Pelucchi? Only 15th against this kind of sprinters field, last year he was beatig guys like Greipel and Viviani at the start of the season.

Might've been positioning. I'm not sure I didn't watch it but he was behind a couple of lead out men (Petit) so that could be why.

Ofc shape will affect it.