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Sunday, September 9: 8th & final stage, London - London, 77.0 km

Caleb Ewan wins Tour of Britain stage eight.

The race: Here's the organizer's stage 8 summary.

Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) was crowned the 2018 OVO Energy Tour of Britain in London on Sunday as Mitchelton-SCOTT’s Caleb Ewan won the eighth and final stage on Regent Street St James.

Ewan, who claimed the stage victory in Central London the last time the race finished there in 2016, outsprinted Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors) and André Greipel (Lotto Soudal) at the end of a frantic 77-kilometre stage.

Alaphilippe finished safely in the peloton to win the race and crown a memorable OVO Energy Tour of Britain debut. Team Sky’s Wout Poels, winner of Friday’s Queen stage from Barrow-in-Furness to Whinlatter in Cumbria, finished second overall, with former OVO Energy Green Jersey leader Primoz Roglic completing the podium in third.

Patrick Bevin (BMC Racing Team), who placed fourth overall, won the Wahoo Points Jersey, while Team Dimension Data’s Nic Dlamini finished the stage untroubled to secure the SKODA King of the Mountains Jersey.

The one competition left unresolved at the start of the day, the Eisberg Sprints Jersey, contributed to a thrilling subplot to Stage Eight. Canyon Eisberg’s Alex Paton claimed the jersey after a thrilling battle with nearest challenger Matt Holmes.

Holmes’ Madison Genesis team were continuously on the attack in an attempt to dislodge Paton. The opening lap saw British road race champion Connor Swift break clear with American Taylor Phinney (Team EF Education First-Drapac), a move that Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas bridged across to before it was shut down.

His team-mate and six-time Grand Tour winner Chris Froome also got involved in the action, forming part of a short-lived escape with Holmes, Swift and decorated Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel (Direct Energie).

The longest breakaway attempt of the day saw another Team Sky rider, Belarusian and former world time trial champion Vasil Kiryienka ride solo around Piccadilly, Haymarket, the Strand and Whitehall for around 25 kilometres. By that point, Holmes had reduced the gap in the Eisberg Sprints competition to just three points approaching the final prime with 12 kilometres to go, and attacked from the peloton in pursuit on crossing the line to level the scores, a move that ended Kiryienka’s time out front.

However Paton managed to shut down this attack down and went past him to take maximum points; an acceleration that was followed by a sporting handshake between the pair.

The sprinters’ teams then successfully controlled the closing kilometres to set up the much-anticipated bunch sprint on the uphill finish line on Regent Street. Ewan rounded the final corner in the wheel of André Greipel, winner of Stages One and Four already this week, and got the better of all of his rivals to claim an emotional victory. The 24-year-old Australian is not expected to race again for Mitchelton-SCOTT, the team he turned professional with in 2015, before leaving for the Belgian Lotto Soudal squad in 2019.

Complete results:

77.0 kilometers raced at an average speed of 46.880 km/hr

1	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	1hr 38min 33sec
2	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
3	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
4	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
5	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain	s.t.
6	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
7	DRUCKER Jempy	BMC	s.t.
8	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	s.t.
9	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
10	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	s.t.
11	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	s.t.
12	SÜTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	s.t.
13	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
14	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
15	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	s.t.
16	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
17	ROELANDTS Jürgen	BMC	s.t.
18	ROGLIČ Primož	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
19	LIEPIŅŠ Emīls	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
20	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
21	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
22	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
23	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
24	POELS Wout	Sky	s.t.
25	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
26	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	s.t.
27	ROJAS José Joaquín	Movistar	s.t.
28	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
29	FERNÁNDEZ Rubén	Movistar	s.t.
30	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
31	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
32	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
33	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	s.t.
34	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	s.t.
35	SEPÚLVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	s.t.
36	HAMILTON Chris	Team Sunweb	s.t.
37	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
38	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
39	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
40	PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	s.t.
41	DLAMINI Nic	Dimension Data	s.t.
42	WIŚNIOWSKI Łukasz	Sky	s.t.
43	STRAKHOV Dmitry	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
44	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
45	JUNGELS Bob	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
46	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
47	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
48	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	s.t.
49	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
50	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
51	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	@ 28sec
52	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	0:30
53	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	0:32
54	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	s.t.
55	STANNARD Ian	Sky	s.t.
56	THOMSON Jay	Dimension Data	s.t.
57	FOUCHE James	Team Wiggins	s.t.
58	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	s.t.
59	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
60	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	0:35
61	WRIGHT Alfred	Great Britain	s.t.
62	POWER Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
63	DE LA PARTE Víctor	Movistar	s.t.
64	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
65	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
66	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick-Step Floors	0:42
67	KEISSE Iljo	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
68	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	0:53
69	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	1:01
70	BAYLIS Tom	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
71	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
72	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
73	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	s.t.
74	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	s.t.
75	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	1:10
76	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
77	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	1:15
78	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	1:21
79	FROOME Chris	Sky	s.t.
80	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	s.t.
81	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	s.t.
82	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	s.t.
83	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	1:28
84	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain	1:33
85	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	1:38
86	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	1:42
87	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain	s.t.
88	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain	1:51
89	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	2:02
90	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	2:07
91	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	2:14
92	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
93	WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads	Katusha-Alpecin	2:28
94	NIEVE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	2:43
95	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	s.t.
96	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	3:25
97	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	s.t.
98	PYM George	Madison Genesis	s.t.
99	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	3:54
100	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	3:58
101	SHAW James	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
102	MOULD Jon	JLT Condor	s.t.
103	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
104	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
105	NALLY Joe	Great Britain	4:54
106	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	7:03

Final GC after stage 8:

1,135.3 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.942 km/hr

1	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick-Step Floors	26hr 25min 58sec
2	POELS Wout	Sky	@ 17sec
3	ROGLIČ Primož	LottoNL-Jumbo	0:33
4	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	0:42
5	JUNGELS Bob	Quick-Step Floors	0:51
6	SÜTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	0:58
7	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:10
8	STRAKHOV Dmitry	Katusha-Alpecin	1:21
9	HAMILTON Chris	Team Sunweb	1:28
10	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:34
11	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	1:49
12	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	1:54
13	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:58
14	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	2:00
15	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	2:09
16	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain	2:17
17	PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	2:24
18	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	2:27
19	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
20	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	2:42
21	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	3:14
22	ROJAS José Joaquín	Movistar	3:33
23	FERNÁNDEZ Rubén	Movistar	3:50
24	SEPÚLVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	4:33
25	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	5:13
26	LIEPIŅŠ Emīls	One Pro Cycling	5:48
27	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	5:52
28	POWER Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	6:02
29	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	6:46
30	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	6:52
31	ROELANDTS Jürgen	BMC	7:02
32	NIEVE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	7:25
33	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	7:38
34	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	7:53
35	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	8:05
36	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	9:12
37	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain	9:42
38	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	9:44
39	SHAW James	Lotto-Soudal	9:49
40	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	10:00
41	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	10:26
42	WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads	Katusha-Alpecin	10:30
43	DE LA PARTE Víctor	Movistar	10:50
44	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	11:15
45	THOMSON Jay	Dimension Data	s.t.
46	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
47	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	11:18
48	STANNARD Ian	Sky	11:34
49	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	11:58
50	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick-Step Floors	12:04
51	DRUCKER Jempy	BMC	12:30
52	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	12:32
53	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	13:01
54	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Quick-Step Floors	13:02
55	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	13:57
56	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	14:12
57	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	14:28
58	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain	14:58
59	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	15:01
60	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	15:10
61	WIŚNIOWSKI Łukasz	Sky	15:41
62	WRIGHT Alfred	Great Britain	16:58
63	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	17:06
64	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	18:19
65	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	18:24
66	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	19:17
67	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani-CSF	19:40
68	DLAMINI Nic	Dimension Data	20:14
69	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick-Step Floors	20:41
70	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	20:51
71	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	21:15
72	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	21:37
73	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	22:01
74	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	22:02
75	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	22:36
76	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	23:25
77	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	23:34
78	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	23:42
79	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	23:52
80	FOUCHE James	Team Wiggins	23:56
81	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	26:15
82	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	26:34
83	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	27:20
84	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	27:59
85	FROOME Chris	Sky	28:25
86	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain	28:51
87	BAYLIS Tom	One Pro Cycling	29:00
88	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	29:23
89	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	30:08
90	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	30:10
91	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	30:23
92	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	30:54
93	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	33:07
94	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	35:14
95	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	36:15
96	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	37:40
97	MOULD Jon	JLT Condor	38:02
98	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	39:15
99	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	40:35
100	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	41:30
101	KEISSE Iljo	Quick-Step Floors	43:14
102	PYM George	Madison Genesis	44:33
103	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	45:51
104	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	46:14
105	NALLY Joe	Great Britain	46:25
106	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	52:46

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Saturday, September 8: Stage 7, West Bridgford - Mansfield, 215.6 km

Ian Stannard wins stage seven.

The race: Here's the organizer's race summary.

After team-mate Wout Poels won atop Whinlatter on Friday, Team Sky’s Ian Stannard produced a brilliant individual performance to solo to victory in Mansfield during the 2018 OVO Energy Tour of Britain’s penultimate and longest stage in Nottinghamshire on Saturday.

Stannard instigated the day’s five-man breakaway, which went clear after the first SKODA King of the Mountains climb at Keyworth – located 20 kilometres after the race’s longest stage departed from West Bridgford – before eventually going solo with 16 kilometres remaining.

The 31-year-old Briton last won a stage of the race in 2016, when he also soloed to glory in Tatton Park, Knutsford. This time he was time chased hard by Team KATUSHA ALPECIN’s Nils Politt, who kept him at arm’s length until the final run in to the line.

Quick-Step Floors rider Julian Alaphilippe finished safely within the peloton to all-but claim the overall title with a largely ceremonial stage in London awaiting the peloton on Sunday.

“It was always pretty close with Pollit, seven or eight seconds or so, and it was getting tough,” said Stannard, who eventually won by 59 seconds. “Luckily there were a few little kicks towards the end so I managed to put a bit more into the gap. When I got into the break today I was pretty confident – I looked at the other guys, how they were riding all day and I knew that I had the edge. “

Undeterred by the 215.6km that comprised this year’s Nottinghamshire stage, on a route that took in all seven districts and boroughs in the county, the attacks went from the gun once again – including four from Politt in the opening 10 kilometres.

The day’s winning break proved to be fruitful for more than just Stannard, as Canyon Eisberg’s Alex Paton was able to claim maximum points at all three Eisberg Sprints – located in Retford, Worksop and Bilsthorpe – to take over the lead in that classification from Madison Genesis rider Matt Holmes. Paton has a four-point gap over Holmes with a maximum of nine up for grabs in London on Sunday.

Furthermore, with Stannard, Politt, Holmes, fellow Briton Mark McNally (Wanty-Groupe Gobert) and Bardiani-CSF’s Giovanni Carboni not figuring in the SKODA King of the Mountains competition, all Team Dimension Data’s Nic Dlamini needs to do now to win that jersey in complete the race in the capital on Sunday.

The break gained a maximum advantage of nearly nine minutes, a gap that reduced to around four as the race passed through Newstead Abbey with 40 kilometres remaining. Yet the decision of Alaphilippe’s Quick-Step Floors team to end the chase effectively decided the outcome of the stage.

Paton dropped back after the final Eisberg Sprint to conserve energy, and McNally began to struggle as Stannard launched his first big attack approaching Ashfield. Politt managed to follow this acceleration, and several others, before the Briton broke the German rider’s resistance in Kirkby in Ashfield. The Team Sky rider then stayed clear until the finish, notably increasing his gap in the final kilometres from 10 seconds to nearly a minute, to claim a memorable victory.

Behind, ONE Pro Cycling’s Emils Liepins won the bunch sprint for fifth, just over four minutes after Stannard crossed the line on Chesterfield Road South. Kiwi Patrick Bevin (BMC Racing) placed sixth to mean he’s now uncatchable in the Wahoo Points Jersey.

Sunday’s eighth and final stage is a 77-kilometre leg around an iconic circuit in Central London. Beginning at 15:30, the peloton will pass Regent Street St James, Piccadilly, Haymarket, Strand and Whitehall 14 times before a likely bunch sprint finish.

Complete results:

215.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.636 km/hr

1	STANNARD Ian	Sky	4hr 56min 27sec
2	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	@ 59sec
3	CARBONI Giovanni	Bardiani CSF	3:09
4	MCNALLY Mark	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	3:54
5	LIEPINS Emils	One Pro Cycling	4:04
6	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	s.t.
7	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain	s.t.
8	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
9	TENNANT Andrew	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
10	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	s.t.
11	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
12	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	s.t.
13	STRAKHOV Dmitrii	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
14	ROJAS José	Movistar	s.t.
15	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
16	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	s.t.
17	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
18	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
19	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
20	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
21	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
22	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	s.t.
23	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
24	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	s.t.
25	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
26	SUTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	s.t.
27	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	s.t.
28	BARBERO CUESTA Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
29	ROELANDTS Jurgen	BMC	s.t.
30	POELS Wout	Sky	s.t.
31	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain	s.t.
32	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
33	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
34	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
35	WRIGHT Fred	Great Britain	s.t.
36	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
37	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	s.t.
38	ROGLIC Primoz	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
39	PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	s.t.
40	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
41	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
42	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	s.t.
43	HAMILTON Christopher	Team Sunweb	s.t.
44	SEPULVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	s.t.
45	FERNANDEZ Ruben	Movistar	s.t.
46	SCHMIDT Mads Würtz	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
47	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
48	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
49	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	Sky	s.t.
50	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
51	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
52	DE LA PARTE Victor	Movistar	s.t.
53	JUNGELS Bob	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
54	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
55	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	s.t.
56	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	s.t.
57	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
58	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
59	DRUCKER Jean-Pierre	BMC	s.t.
60	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	s.t.
61	RICHEZE Ariel Maximiliano	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
62	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	s.t.
63	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
64	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	s.t.
65	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain	s.t.
66	POWER Rob	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
67	NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
68	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	s.t.
69	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
70	KEISSE Iljo	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
71	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	4:22
72	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	4:26
73	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
74	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	s.t.
75	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	s.t.
76	SHAW James	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
77	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
78	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	s.t.
79	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
80	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	4:40
81	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
82	FROOME Christopher	Sky	s.t.
83	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
84	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	s.t.
85	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	s.t.
86	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	4:53
87	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	7:21
88	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
89	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
90	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
91	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
92	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	s.t.
93	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	s.t.
94	DLAMINI Nicholas	Dimension Data	s.t.
95	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	s.t.
96	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	s.t.
97	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	s.t.
98	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain	s.t.
99	MOULD Jonathan	JLT Condor	s.t.
100	FOUCHÉ James	Team Wiggins	s.t.
101	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	7:39
102	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	7:51
103	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	8:58
104	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
105	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	9:37
106	PYM George	Madison Genesis	s.t.
107	BAYLIS Thomas	One Pro Cycling	11:23
108	NALLY Joseph	Great Britain	15:26
109	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	15:28

GC after stage 7:

1,059.3 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.681 km/hr

1	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick Step Floors	24hr 47min 25sec
2	POELS Wout	Sky	@ 17sec
3	ROGLIC Primoz	LottoNL-Jumbo	33
4	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	46
5	JUNGELS Bob	Quick Step Floors	51
6	SUTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	58
7	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:10
8	STRAKHOV Dmitrii	Katusha-Alpecin	1:24
9	HAMILTON Christopher	Team Sunweb	1:28
10	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:35
11	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	1:49
12	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	1:54
13	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:58
14	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	2:00
15	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	2:09
16	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	2:13
17	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain	2:17
18	PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	2:24
19	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	2:27
20	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
21	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	2:42
22	ROJAS José	Movistar	3:33
23	FERNANDEZ Ruben	Movistar	3:50
24	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	4:12
25	SEPULVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	4:33
26	NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	4:42
27	POWER Rob	Mitchelton-Scott	5:27
28	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani CSF	5:45
29	LIEPINS Emils	One Pro Cycling	5:48
30	SHAW James	Lotto-Soudal	5:51
31	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	5:52
32	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	6:17
33	ROELANDTS Jurgen	BMC	7:02
34	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	7:20
35	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	7:25
36	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	7:38
37	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain	7:51
38	SCHMIDT Mads Würtz	Katusha-Alpecin	8:02
39	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	8:05
40	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	8:11
41	CARBONI Giovanni	Bardiani CSF	8:14
42	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	8:23
43	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	9:07
44	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	9:51
45	DE LA PARTE Victor	Movistar	10:15
46	BARBERO CUESTA Carlos	Movistar	10:26
47	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	10:43
48	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
49	STANNARD Ian	Sky	11:02
50	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	11:15
51	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	11:18
52	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick Step Floors	11:23
53	DRUCKER Jean-Pierre	BMC	12:30
54	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	12:32
55	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	12:36
56	RICHEZE Ariel Maximiliano	Quick Step Floors	13:02
57	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain	13:16
58	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	14:12
59	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	14:28
60	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	14:35
61	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	15:11
62	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	Sky	15:41
63	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani CSF	15:42
64	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	15:45
65	MCNALLY Mark	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	16:11
66	WRIGHT Fred	Great Britain	16:23
67	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	18:07
68	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	18:19
69	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	18:28
70	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	19:41
71	DLAMINI Nicholas	Dimension Data	20:14
72	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick Step Floors	20:47
73	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	20:59
74	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	21:05
75	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	21:15
76	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	21:26
77	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	21:32
78	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani CSF	22:02
79	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	22:10
80	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	22:24
81	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	22:36
82	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	22:41
83	FOUCHÉ James	Team Wiggins	23:24
84	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	23:55
85	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	24:52:00
86	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	26:15:00
87	FROOME Christopher	Sky	27:04:00
88	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain	27:18:00
89	BAYLIS Thomas	One Pro Cycling	27:59:00
90	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	28:30:00
91	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	29:33:00
92	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	29:51:00
93	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	30:08:00
94	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	30:10:00
95	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	31:49:00
96	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	32:37:00
97	TENNANT Andrew	Canyon Eisberg	33:43:00
98	MOULD Jonathan	JLT Condor	34:04:00
99	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	35:26:00
100	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani CSF	36:15:00
101	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	36:37:00
102	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	37:37:00
103	PYM George	Madison Genesis	41:08:00
104	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	41:30:00
105	NALLY Joseph	Great Britain	41:31:00
106	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	42:16:00
107	KEISSE Iljo	Quick Step Floors	42:32:00
108	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani CSF	45:19:00
109	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	50:35:00

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Friday, September 7: Stage 6, Barrow in Furness - Whinlatter, 168.3 km

Wout Poels wins stage six

The race: Here's the organizer's stage summary.

Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe moved into the OVO Energy Tour of Britain race lead with two stages remaining after finishing second behind Team Sky’s Wout Poels at Whinlatter on Friday afternoon.

The Quick-Step Floors rider, making his debut in the race, produced an aggressive display on the climb up to the Forestry Commission’s Visitor Centre in Cumbria to distance overnight leader Primoz Roglic (Team LottoNL-Jumbo) and edge closer to the overall victory.

Dutchman Poels, who had earlier been distanced on the lower slopes of the climb after Alaphilippe’s team-mate Bob Jungels sacrificed his GC chances by kick-starting a flurry of attacks, has now the OVO Energy Tour of Britain’s last three hill-top finishes (Hartside Pass in 2015 and Haytor two years ago).

“I’m really happy – the team did a really good job – G [Geraint Thomas], Ian Stannard – so it’s really nice that I could finish it off,” said Poels, who moves into second overall, 17 seconds behind Alaphilippe.

However, he admitted winning the race overall would be a struggle: “Second is really nice, I’m quite happy with it. It’s going to be a hard fight – no more uphill finishes, everything is flat. But we’ll keep on trying.”

New OVO Energy Green Jersey leader Alaphilppe, who won Tuesday’s third stage in Bristol and is the race’s fifth leader in six days, said: “I’m really proud of my team today, they did an incredible performance. Everybody was riding for me and protecting me. Bob [Jungels] really fought for me. I was only riding to take the jersey; in the fight for the stage victory Wout was fresher than me so I’m not disappointed [to miss out].”

The race’s second day in Cumbria, presented by BAE Systems, was dramatic from the off as crosswinds split the peloton on the road from the stage start in Barrow-in-Furness. Although the majority of GC contenders made it into the front group, Stage Two winner Cameron Meyer (Mitchelton-SCOTT) and SKODA King of the Mountains leader Nic Dlamini (Team Dimension Data) were among those caught out on the wrong side of the split before the groups rejoined after the day’s first Eisberg Sprint at Ulverston.

Quick-Step Floors’ desire to dislodge Roglic from the OVO Energy Green Jersey was evident here, as Alaphilippe and Jungels were first across the line at the prime, cutting their overnight deficits to the Team LottoNL-Jumbo rider to three and 14 seconds respectively.

A four-man breakaway, including former world time trial champions Tony Martin (Team KATUSHA ALPECIN) and Vasil Kiryienka (Team Sky), went clear shortly after and were only caught at the start of the second ascent of Whinlatter with 3.5 kilometres remaining.

British champion Connor Swift was also among the quartet (he claimed the day’s bonus MacRebur Prime in Broughton Moor) as British team Madison Genesis went on the offensive. His team-mate Matt Holmes, the current Eisberg Sprints competition leader, tried to dislodge Dlamini from the SKODA King of the Mountains jersey but was followed across the line at the first four summits by the South African.

As soon as the peloton reeled in the quartet on the lower slopes of Whinlatter, Jungels immediately went on the offensive, producing an acceleration that only a handful of riders could follow.

Briton Hugh Carthy (Team EF Education First – Drapac) was among them and successive attacks from him and Alaphilippe resulted in Roglic being dramatically distanced.

While the race leader was going backwards, Poels managed to bridge across to the two up front before sprinting to take the win. Alaphilippe crossed the line two seconds down, with Carthy securing third.

Roglic finished almost half a minute behind the stage winner, but sits third overall behind Alaphilippe and Poels.

Former race leader Patrick Bevin (BMC Racing) continues to lead the Wahoo Points Jersey, while Dlamini is close to securing the SKODA King of the Mountains jersey, with only a maximum of nine points up for grabs. Holmes will wear the Eisberg Sprints Jersey during Stage Seven on Saturday.

The penultimate stage of the race takes the riders to Nottinghamshire for the longest leg of the 2018 edition, a 215.6-kilometre run from West Bridgford to Mansfield, before the OVO Energy Tour of Britain culminates with a London circuit race on Sunday afternoon.

Complete results:

168.3 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.753 km/hr.

1	POELS Wout	Sky	4hr 1min 51sec
2	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick Step Floors	@ 2sec
3	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	12
4	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	21
5	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	s.t.
6	*PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	s.t.
7	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
8	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
9	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
10	SUTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	s.t.
11	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
12	HAMILTON Christopher	Team Sunweb	s.t.
13	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
14	NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	27
15	STRAKHOV Dmitrii	Katusha-Alpecin	29
16	CARBONI Giovanni	Bardiani-CSF	31
17	ROGLIC Primoz	LottoNL-Jumbo	32
18	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
19	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
20	JUNGELS Bob	Quick Step Floors	36
21	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	s.t.
22	FERNANDEZ Ruben	Movistar	s.t.
23	SEPULVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	s.t.
24	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	39
25	LIEPINS Emils	One Pro Cycling	58
26	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:00
27	POWER Rob	Mitchelton-Scott	1:06
28	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
29	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:20
30	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	s.t.
31	ROJAS José	Movistar	s.t.
32	FERNANDES José	EF Education First-Drapac	1:30
33	BAYLIS Thomas	One Pro Cycling	1:49
34	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	1:56
35	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	3:01
36	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	s.t.
37	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	s.t.
38	SHAW James	Lotto - Soudal	s.t.
39	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
40	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
41	ROELANDTS Jurgen	BMC	s.t.
42	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
43	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
44	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto - Soudal	s.t.
45	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	s.t.
46	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
47	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	s.t.
48	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	s.t.
49	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
50	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
51	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	s.t.
52	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
53	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	3:19
54	DLAMINI Nicholas	Dimension Data	s.t.
55	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	s.t.
56	DE LA PARTE Victor	Movistar	s.t.
57	SCHMIDT Mads Würtz	Katusha-Alpecin	3:43
58	DRUCKER Jean-Pierre	BMC	3:47
59	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	s.t.
60	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	4:07
61	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	5:06
62	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
63	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
64	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
65	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	s.t.
66	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto - Soudal	s.t.
67	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
68	GREIPEL André	Lotto - Soudal	s.t.
69	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	s.t.
70	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto - Soudal	s.t.
71	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	s.t.
72	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
73	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
74	KÜNG Stefan	BMC	s.t.
75	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	s.t.
76	FROOME Christopher	Sky	s.t.
77	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	Sky	s.t.
78	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	s.t.
79	STANNARD Ian	Sky	s.t.
80	FOUCHÉ James	Team Wiggins	s.t.
81	MCNALLY Mark	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
82	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	s.t.
83	BARBERO CUESTA Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
84	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	s.t.
85	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	s.t.
86	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	s.t.
87	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	s.t.
88	WRIGHT Fred	Great Britain-GBR	6:08
89	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	6:54
90	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
91	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	6:58
92	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	7:22
93	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	7:39
94	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain-GBR	7:42
95	RICHEZE Ariel Maximiliano	Quick Step Floors	8:35
96	NALLY Joseph	Great Britain-GBR	9:16
97	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	10:55
98	MOULD Jonathan	JLT Condor	11:07
99	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	12:24
100	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
101	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
102	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
103	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
104	TENNANT Andrew	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
105	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
106	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
107	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	s.t.
108	PYM George	Madison Genesis	s.t.
109	KEISSE Iljo	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
110	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	13:26
111	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	14:24

GC after stage 6:

842.7 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.589 km/hr

1	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick Step Floors	19hr 46min 54sec
2	POELS Wout	Sky	@ 17sec
3	ROGLIC Primoz	LottoNL-Jumbo	33
4	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	46
5	JUNGELS Bob	Quick Step Floors	51
6	SUTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	58
7	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:10
8	STRAKHOV Dmitrii	Katusha-Alpecin	1:24
9	HAMILTON Christopher	Team Sunweb	1:28
10	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:35
11	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	1:49
12	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	1:54
13	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:58
14	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	2:00
15	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	2:09
16	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	2:13
17	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain-GBR	2:17
18	PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	2:24
19	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	2:27
20	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
21	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	2:42
22	ROJAS José	Movistar	3:33
23	FERNANDEZ Ruben	Movistar	3:50
24	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	4:12
25	SEPULVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	4:33
26	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain-GBR	4:34
27	NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	4:42
28	POWER Rob	Mitchelton-Scott	5:27
29	SHAW James	Lotto - Soudal	5:29
30	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	5:45
31	LIEPINS Emils	One Pro Cycling	5:48
32	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	5:52
33	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	6:17
34	ROELANDTS Jurgen	BMC	7:02
35	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto - Soudal	7:03
36	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	7:20
37	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	7:38
38	SCHMIDT Mads Würtz	Katusha-Alpecin	8:02
39	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	8:05
40	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick Step Floors	8:06
41	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	8:11
42	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	8:23
43	CARBONI Giovanni	Bardiani-CSF	8:55
44	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	9:01
45	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	9:07
46	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	9:41
47	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	9:51
48	DE LA PARTE Victor	Movistar	10:15
49	BARBERO CUESTA Carlos	Movistar	10:26
50	KÜNG Stefan	BMC	10:30
51	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	10:43
52	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
53	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	11:15
54	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	11:18
55	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani-CSF	12:25
56	DRUCKER Jean-Pierre	BMC	12:30
57	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	12:32
58	RICHEZE Ariel Maximiliano	Quick Step Floors	13:02
59	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain-GBR	13:16
60	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	13:50
61	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	14:06
62	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	14:35
63	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	15:09
64	STANNARD Ian	Sky	15:18
65	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	Sky	15:41
66	WRIGHT Fred	Great Britain-GBR	16:23
67	MCNALLY Mark	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	16:24
68	DLAMINI Nicholas	Dimension Data	16:57
69	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	17:42
70	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	17:48
71	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto - Soudal	17:49
72	GREIPEL André	Lotto - Soudal	18:06
73	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	18:19
74	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	19:19
75	FOUCHÉ James	Team Wiggins	20:07
76	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	20:38
77	BAYLIS Thomas	One Pro Cycling	20:40
78	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	20:43
79	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick Step Floors	20:47
80	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	21:15
81	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	21:26
82	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	21:35
83	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	22:02
84	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	22:10
85	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto - Soudal	22:24
86	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	22:36
87	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	22:41
88	FERNANDES José	EF Education First-Drapac	24:41
89	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	26:15
90	FROOME Christopher	Sky	26:28
91	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	26:53
92	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain-GBR	27:18
93	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	28:32
94	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	29:11
95	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	29:15
96	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	30:08
97	NALLY Joseph	Great Britain-GBR	30:09
98	MOULD Jonathan	JLT Condor	30:47
99	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	31:43
100	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	32:01
101	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	32:43
102	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	32:58
103	TENNANT Andrew	Canyon Eisberg	33:43
104	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	34:50
105	PYM George	Madison Genesis	35:35
106	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	35:57
107	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	36:15
108	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	38:29
109	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	39:20
110	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	42:02
111	KEISSE Iljo	Quick Step Floors	42:32

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Thursday, September 6: Stage 5, Cockermouth - Whinlatter 14 km team time trial.

LottoNL-Jumbo on their stage-winning ride

The race: Here's the organizer's report:

Slovenian Primoz Roglic moved into the lead of the OVO Energy Tour of Britain after Team LottoNL-Jumbo took victory in the race’s first-ever team time trial stage, held between Cockermouth and Whinlatter in Cumbria.

The Dutch squad completed the 14-kilometre course, which included the climb of Whinlatter from its western approach, in 19’37”, 16 seconds faster than nearest challengers Quick-Step Floors.

Roglic – who placed fourth in this year’s Tour de France – started the day just 16 seconds behind former race leader Patrick Bevin, whose BMC Racing Team could only place fifth on the stage.

Roglic said: “We are all really happy – it’s a really special moment. Getting the jersey was not really a big objective – we just wanted to do a nice team time trial. But as we managed to take it, we will try and defend the jersey in the next days.

“There was quite a lot of communication out on the road because it was a really hard climb. I think all the guys did a really good job, each and every one of them. It’s a really nice win.”

Roglic leads Quick-Step Floors duo Julian Alaphilippe and Bob Jungels by six and 16 seconds respectively, with Bevin dropping to fourth, 24 seconds in arrears.

Team Sky finished fourth on the day, which leaves Dutchman and three-time stage winner in the race Wout Poels fifth overall, 26 seconds down.

Roglic is seeking to become the second Team LottoNL-Jumbo rider in as many years to win the OVO Energy Tour of Britain, after team-mate Lars Boom claimed the overall title in 2017.

With no primes along the route, André Griepel (Lotto Soudal), Nic Dlamini (Team Dimension Data) and Matt Holmes (Madison Genesis) retain their leads in the Wahoo Points, SKODA King of the Mountains and Eisberg Sprints competitions respectively.

Welshman Scott Davies has overtaken Hugh Carthy (Team EF Education First-Drapac) atop the Adnams Best British Rider classification after Team Dimension Data beat the American-registered team by 22 seconds.

Tomorrow’s stage will likely decide this year’s champion; the peloton will race 168.3 kilometres from Barrow-in-Furness to another hill-top finish at Whinlatter, tackling the climb twice from its harder eastern side.

Results:

14.0 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.821 km/hr

1	LottoNL-Jumbo	19min 37sec
2	Quick-Step Floors	@ 16sec
3	Katusha-Alpecin	+20''
4	Sky	+26''
5	Movistar	+36''
6	BMC	+38''
7	Mitchelton-Scott	+54''
8	Team Sunweb	+1' 06''
9	Direct Energie	+1' 10''
10	Great Britain	+1' 18''
11	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	+1' 18''
12	Lotto - Soudal	+1' 19''
13	Dimension Data	+1' 22''
14	Team Wiggins	+1' 25''
15	ONE Pro Cycling	+1' 33''
16	Canyon - Eisberg	+1' 43''
17	EF Education First–Drapac	+1' 44''
18	Madison-Genesis	+1' 50''
19	Bardiani-CSF	+2' 04''
20	JLT-Condor	+2' 14''

GC after stage 5:

674.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.816 km/hr

1	ROGLIC Primoz	LottoNL-Jumbo	15hr 45min 4sec
2	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick Step Floors	@ 6sec
3	JUNGELS Bob	Quick Step Floors	16
4	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	24
5	POELS Wout	Sky	26
6	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	34
7	SUTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	36
8	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	37
9	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
10	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	42
11	STRAKHOV Dmitrii	Katusha-Alpecin	54
12	HAMILTON Christopher	Team Sunweb	1:06
13	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	1:32
14	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	1:36
15	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	1:47
16	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	1:51
17	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain-GBR	1:55
18	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	1:56
19	*PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	2:02
20	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	2:05
21	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
22	ROJAS José	Movistar	2:12
23	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	2:20
24	SHAW James	Lotto-Soudal	2:31
25	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	2:43
26	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	2:50
27	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	2:51
28	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick Step Floors	2:59
29	FERNANDEZ Ruben	Movistar	3:13
30	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	3:20
31	SEPULVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	3:56
32	ROELANDTS Jurgen	BMC	4:00
33	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain-GBR	4:01
34	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	4:02
35	NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	4:14
36	SCHMIDT Mads Würtz	Katusha-Alpecin	4:18
37	POWER Rob	Mitchelton-Scott	4:20
38	RICHEZE Ariel Maximiliano	Quick Step Floors	4:27
39	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	4:36
40	LIEPINS Emils	One Pro Cycling	4:49
41	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	5:03
42	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	5:09
43	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	5:17
44	BARBERO CUESTA Carlos	Movistar	5:19
45	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	5:21
46	KÜNG Stefan	BMC	5:23
47	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	5:33
48	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	6:05
49	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	6:08
50	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	6:11
51	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	6:49
52	DE LA PARTE Victor	Movistar	6:55
53	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
54	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	7:12
55	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani-CSF	7:18
56	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	7:25
57	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	7:41
58	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
59	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	8:21
60	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick Step Floors	8:22
61	CARBONI Giovanni	Bardiani-CSF	8:23
62	DRUCKER Jean-Pierre	BMC	8:42
63	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	10:02
64	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	10:11
65	STANNARD Ian	Sky	s.t.
66	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain-GBR	10:14
67	*WRIGHT Fred	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
68	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	10:18
69	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	Sky	10:34
70	MCNALLY Mark	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	11:17
71	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	12:41
72	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	12:59
73	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	13:12
74	DLAMINI Nicholas	Dimension Data	13:37
75	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	13:44
76	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	14:12
77	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	14:47
78	FOUCHÉ James	Team Wiggins	15:00
79	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	15:31
80	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	16:08
81	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	16:19
82	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	16:28
83	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	16:41
84	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	16:55
85	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	17:17
86	TEGGART Matthew	Team Wiggins	18:48
87	BAYLIS Thomas	One Pro Cycling	18:50
88	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	19:08
89	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain-GBR	19:35
90	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	19:39
91	MOULD Jonathan	JLT Condor	s.t.
92	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	19:59
93	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	20:18
94	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	20:33
95	*NALLY Joseph	Great Britain-GBR	20:52
96	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	21:08
97	TENNANT Andrew	Canyon Eisberg	21:18
98	FROOME Christopher	Sky	21:21
99	PYM George	Madison Genesis	23:10
100	FERNANDES José	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
101	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	23:32
102	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	23:50
103	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	23:54
104	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	24:04
105	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	24:08
106	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	24:21
107	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	25:12
108	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	26:09
109	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	26:55
110	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	29:46
111	KEISSE Iljo	Quick Step Floors	30:07
112	BRIGGS Graham	JLT Condor	30:29
113	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	36:55

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Wednesday, September 5: Stage 4, Nuneaton - Royal Leamington Spa, 183.5 km

André Greipel wins stage four.

The race: Here's the organizer's report.

Lotto Soudal’s André Greipel won his second stage of the 2018 OVO Energy Tour of Britain on Wednesday, claiming victory in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire’s first-ever stage of the modern race.

The German rider easily saw off Sacha Modolo (Team EF Education First – Drapac p/b Cannondale) and OVO Energy Green Jersey wearer Patrick Bevin, who extended his lead at the top of the standings by virtue of his four-second time bonus on the line.

Greipel’s win, coming at the end of a 183.5-kilometre stage that started in Nuneaton, was his seventh in race history. “The guys worked really well to keep me upfront, especially Jasper de Buyst again,” said Greipel. “My aim was to go full gas from the final corner, even though it was 300m from line – I knew that I could make it. I’m happy with another win.

“I think everybody was a bit tired from the last three days; all the main teams expected a bunch sprint and so we saved energy for the team time trial tomorrow. Even though it’s not easy to control the breakaway, together with Quick-Step Floors and Mitchelton-SCOTT we managed to make that possible today.

“When it comes down to sprints, we have a good team here, with Moreno Hofland and Jens Keukeleire, too, who worked really hard with [Quick-Step Floors’] Iljo Keisse today. I’ve got really experienced guys to set me up.”

From the start in the centre of Nuneaton to the finish on Royal Leamington Spa’s Newbold Terrace, huge crowds lined the route of the stage, with thousands of school children celebrating the start of term by watching the world’s best race past.

A six-rider break was the main feature of the stage, with Madison Genesis’ Matt Holmes taking out all three Eisberg Sprints to move into the red jersey, while Nicholas Dlamini (Team Dimension Data) retook the SKODA King of the Mountains jersey from his team-mate Scott Davies.

The final remnants of the group were reeled in on the fast approach to Royal Leamington Spa to set up a thrilling sprint finish, with Greipel taking a comfortable victory ahead of Modolo, and overall contender Bevin.

Speaking afterwards, Bevin said: “It was an interesting bunch finish, having a corner with 350m to go. It was always going to be a bit dicey, so I made the call before the stage to come out of there first. I led the sprint out from there; I wasn’t going to win it from there, but I came third and picked up bonus seconds.

“We had a plan this morning to ensure there were no surprises today. The break was quite tough to pull back; if the finish was a bit different it would have been hard to pull them back but the big, wide, windy roads did for them. My team-mates looked after me really well and we were rewarded with a bit more time. At the end of the day one team-mate did the majority of work today, so that won’t have a huge effect on tomorrow [in the Stage Five team time trial].|”

Bevin also takes over the Wahoo Points Jersey with a 10-point advantage over Greipel, and his BMC Racing Team will start the Stage Five team time trial in Cumbria on Thursday last of the 20 teams at 14:02.

Complete results:

183.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.012 km/hr

1	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	4hr 22min 4sec
2	MODOLO Sacha	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
3	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	s.t.
4	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
5	BARBERO CUESTA Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
6	LIEPINS Emils	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
7	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	s.t.
8	MCLAY Daniel	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
9	TENNANT Andrew	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
10	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	s.t.
11	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
12	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
13	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
14	ROJAS José	Movistar	s.t.
15	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	s.t.
16	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
17	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	s.t.
18	SUTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	s.t.
19	POELS Wout	Sky	s.t.
20	ROELANDTS Jurgen	BMC	s.t.
21	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	s.t.
22	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	s.t.
23	SCHMIDT Mads Würtz	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
24	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
25	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
26	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
27	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
28	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
29	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
30	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
31	JUNGELS Bob	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
32	RICHEZE Ariel Maximiliano	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
33	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	s.t.
34	DRUCKER Jean-Pierre	BMC	s.t.
35	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
36	SHAW James	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
37	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
38	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
39	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
40	CARBONI Giovanni	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
41	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
42	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
43	STRAKHOV Dmitrii	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
44	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
45	KÜNG Stefan	BMC	s.t.
46	HAMILTON Christopher	Team Sunweb	s.t.
47	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
48	BAYLIS Thomas	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
49	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
50	*PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	s.t.
51	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
52	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	s.t.
53	FERNANDEZ Ruben	Movistar	s.t.
54	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	s.t.
55	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
56	PYM George	Madison Genesis	s.t.
57	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
58	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
59	ROGLIC Primoz	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
60	MOULD Jonathan	JLT Condor	s.t.
61	SEPULVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	s.t.
62	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	s.t.
63	NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
64	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
65	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	s.t.
66	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	s.t.
67	POWER Rob	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
68	TEGGART Matthew	Team Wiggins	s.t.
69	DLAMINI Nicholas	Dimension Data	s.t.
70	*WRIGHT Fred	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
71	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
72	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
73	*NALLY Joseph	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
74	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
75	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
76	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	s.t.
77	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	s.t.
78	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	s.t.
79	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	Sky	s.t.
80	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	s.t.
81	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	s.t.
82	DE LA PARTE Victor	Movistar	s.t.
83	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
84	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
85	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
86	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	s.t.
87	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
88	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	s.t.
89	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	s.t.
90	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	s.t.
91	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	22
92	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain-GBR	32
93	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	s.t.
94	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	38
95	STANNARD Ian	Sky	44
96	FROOME Christopher	Sky	s.t.
97	FOUCHÉ James	Team Wiggins	s.t.
98	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
99	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
100	MCNALLY Mark	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
101	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
102	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	s.t.
103	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
104	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	57
105	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani CSF	1:03
106	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	1:07
107	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
108	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	1:30
109	FERNANDES José	EF Education First-Drapac	1:33
110	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	0
111	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
112	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	3:14
113	BRIGGS Graham	JLT Condor	s.t.
114	KEISSE Iljo	Quick Step Floors	3:50
115	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.

GC after stage 4:

660.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.816 km/hr

1	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	15hr 25min 11sec
2	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	@ 4sec
3	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick Step Floors	6
4	SUTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	16
5	POELS Wout	Sky	s.t.
6	HAMILTON Christopher	Team Sunweb	s.t.
7	JUNGELS Bob	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
8	ROGLIC Primoz	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
9	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	23
10	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	26
11	SCHMIDT Mads Würtz	Katusha-Alpecin	50
12	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
13	STRAKHOV Dmitrii	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
14	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	53
15	ROJAS José	Movistar	s.t.
16	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
17	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
18	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
19	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
20	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
21	*PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	s.t.
22	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
23	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	s.t.
24	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	s.t.
25	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani CSF	55
26	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	1:12
27	SHAW James	Lotto-Soudal	1:28
28	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	1:44
29	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	1:46
30	FERNANDEZ Ruben	Movistar	2:53
31	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick Step Floors	2:59
32	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
33	MODOLO Sacha	EF Education First-Drapac	3:30
34	LIEPINS Emils	One Pro Cycling	3:32
35	ROELANDTS Jurgen	BMC	3:36
36	SEPULVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	s.t.
37	NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
38	BARBERO CUESTA Carlos	Movistar	3:42
39	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	s.t.
40	POWER Rob	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
41	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	3:43
42	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	3:52
43	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	4:16
44	RICHEZE Ariel Maximiliano	Quick Step Floors	4:27
45	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	s.t.
46	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
47	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	4:38
48	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	4:59
49	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
50	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
51	KÜNG Stefan	BMC	s.t.
52	DRUCKER Jean-Pierre	BMC	s.t.
53	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	s.t.
54	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	5:03
55	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	5:21
56	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani CSF	5:30
57	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick Step Floors	6:31
58	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	6:34
59	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	6:35
60	CARBONI Giovanni	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
61	DE LA PARTE Victor	Movistar	s.t.
62	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	s.t.
63	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	s.t.
64	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
65	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	7:31
66	MCNALLY Mark	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	8:47
67	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	Sky	8:54
68	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain-GBR	9:12
69	*WRIGHT Fred	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
70	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	s.t.
71	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	9:39
72	STANNARD Ian	Sky	10:01
73	DLAMINI Nicholas	Dimension Data	10:30
74	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	11:32
75	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	11:56
76	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	12:14
77	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	12:16
78	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
79	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	13:44
80	FOUCHÉ James	Team Wiggins	13:51
81	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	13:57
82	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	14:54
83	TEGGART Matthew	Team Wiggins	14:58
84	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani CSF	15:07
85	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
86	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	16:14
87	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	16:57
88	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain-GBR	17:28
89	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani CSF	17:33
90	BAYLIS Thomas	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
91	MOULD Jonathan	JLT Condor	17:41
92	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	17:44
93	MCLAY Daniel	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
94	TENNANT Andrew	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
95	*NALLY Joseph	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
96	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	s.t.
97	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	18:14
98	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	18:22
99	FROOME Christopher	Sky	18:28
100	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	19:55
101	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	20:10
102	PYM George	Madison Genesis	s.t.
103	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	20:54
104	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	21:16
105	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	21:19
106	FERNANDES José	EF Education First-Drapac	21:42
107	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	22:19
108	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	22:23
109	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	22:27
110	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	23:08
111	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	23:38
112	KEISSE Iljo	Quick Step Floors	28:16
113	BRIGGS Graham	JLT Condor	28:31
114	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	29:42
115	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani CSF	33:55

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Tuesday, September 4: Stage 3, Bristol - Bristol, 127.2 km

Julian Alaphilippe wins stage three.

The race: Here's the organizer's stage summary.

Quick-Step Floors’ Julian Alaphilippe issued a warning shot to his rivals by sprinting to victory at the end of a breathless third stage of the OVO Energy Tour of Britain in Bristol on Tuesday. The Frenchman, who won the King of the Mountains prize at this summer’s Tour de France, outsprinted Patrick Bevin (BMC Racing) and ONE Pro Cycling’s Emils Liepins to win a reduced bunch sprint on Ladies Mile, Clifton Down.

Kiwi Bevin moves into the OVO Energy Green Jersey, level on time with Stage Two winner Cameron Meyer (Mitchelton-SCOTT), with Alaphilippe just two seconds in arrears. “I’m happy to win, especially today as it’s my first race after a good break,” said Alaphilippe. “My team did a really good job today – Bob [Jungels] and I have tried since the start of the Tour to win, so I’m happy to take the victory today.  In the end I was in a really good position – Bob did a really good job and voila!

“This is my first time in the race, and I’m really happy to be part of this race. I’m surprised to be active in the race, especially in the final kilometres – maybe it’s because I’m fresh. I really like the parcours here.”

The Bristol Stage combined spectacular man-made wonders – a double crossing of Brunel’s Clifton Suspension Bridge – with the local area’s best natural features as the race wound its way through Cheddar Gorge and across the Mendip Hills.

An energetic start to proceedings had seen a break struggle to stick, and when it eventually did it contained a former winner in Bristol – Tony Martin (Team KATUSHA ALEPCIN) – as well as Frenchman Angelo Tulik (Direct Energie) and British pairing Ben Swift (Great Britain) and Jon Mould (JLT Condor).

Their advantage never went far above the minute margin, and their hopes were finally extinguished on the fast run to the day’s final SKODA King of the Mountains climb of Providence Lane on the outskirts of Bristol.

An initial attack from Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors) sparked off a charge up the steep slopes, with British youngster Tom Pidcock (Team WIGGINS) leading the much-reduced peloton over the top. BMC Racing then hit the front, leading the charge up the unclassified Rownham Hill climb to the Clifton Suspension Bridge, with Bevin’s overall challenge at the forefront of their minds.

Coming onto the long, 900-metre finish straight Quick-Step Floors’ Bob Jungels took over from BMC, lifting the pace and setting up perfectly for Alaphilippe, who headed home Bevin and the fast-finishing Emils Liepins, with Great Britain youngster Ethan Hayter a highly creditable fourth.

Speaking after the stage, Bevin said: “It was hard all day – I’m not sure if the TV pictures did it justice, but the pace never really came off. It was a classic Tour of Britain day. Every kilometre today was tough – the guys did a great job, we got it right over the final climb, I had team-mates around me until the end. The stage win would have been really nice, but we’re still in the hunt for the overall.

“It was frantic. The first big break that went worried too many teams – Sky and Bardiani-CSF chased that down hard. We had about three or four kilometres where it was relaxed, and then we went back to race mode!”

Looking ahead to subsequent stages, Bevin identified the upcoming Stage Five team time trial in Cumbria as key to success in the race. “The aim of the team was to keep guys up there on GC until the team time trial; you can’t get better than leading the race. If we can hold it tomorrow, we’ll see how things shake out.

“I always love coming to Britain to race. The organisational put on a really great race – I look forward to coming here every year.”

Overnight leader Alessandro Tonelli finished 43rd, losing almost a minute to relinquish the OVO Energy Green Jersey, slipping to 25th overall.

Alaphilippe also took over the Wahoo Points Jersey following Stage Three, while the Eisberg Sprints and SKODA King of the Mountains jerseys remain with Matthew Teggart (Team WIGGINS) and Scott Davies (Team Dimension Data) respectively.

Complete results:

127.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.514 km/hr

1	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick-Step Floors	2hr 47min 41sec
2	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	s.t.
3	LIEPIŅŠ Emīls	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
4	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
5	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
6	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	s.t.
7	WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
8	SÜTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	s.t.
9	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
10	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
11	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	s.t.
12	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
13	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
14	MODOLO Sacha	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
15	POELS Wout	Sky	s.t.
16	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
17	PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	s.t.
18	ROJAS José Joaquín	Movistar	s.t.
19	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
20	HAMILTON Chris	Team Sunweb	s.t.
21	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
22	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	s.t.
23	STRAKHOV Dmitry	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
24	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
25	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
26	ROGLIČ Primož	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
27	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
28	ROELANDTS Jürgen	BMC	s.t.
29	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	s.t.
30	SEPÚLVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	s.t.
31	NIEVE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
32	JUNGELS Bob	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
33	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	@ 6sec
34	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
35	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	s.t.
36	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
37	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	s.t.
38	POWER Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
39	SHAW James	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
40	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	0:19
41	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	0:40
42	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani-CSF	0:51
43	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
44	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
45	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	s.t.
46	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
47	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
48	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
49	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	1:02
50	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	1:23
51	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
52	FERNANDES José	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
53	MCNALLY Mark	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
54	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	s.t.
55	KÜNG Stefan	BMC	s.t.
56	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
57	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
58	DRUCKER Jempy	BMC	s.t.
59	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	s.t.
60	WIŚNIOWSKI Łukasz	Sky	s.t.
61	STANNARD Ian	Sky	1:46
62	FERNÁNDEZ Rubén	Movistar	2:01
63	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain-GBR	2:06
64	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
65	TEGGART Matthew	Team Wiggins	2:59
66	THOMSON Jay	Dimension Data	s.t.
67	DLAMINI Nic	Dimension Data	s.t.
68	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	s.t.
69	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
70	DE LA PARTE Víctor	Movistar	s.t.
71	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
72	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	s.t.
73	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
74	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	s.t.
75	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
76	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
77	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	s.t.
78	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	s.t.
79	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
80	BAYLIS Tom	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
81	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
82	CARBONI Giovanni	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
83	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	3:58
84	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	5:36
85	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
86	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	s.t.
87	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	s.t.
88	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	s.t.
89	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
90	MCLAY Daniel	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
91	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
92	NALLY Joe	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
93	FROOME Chris	Sky	s.t.
94	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
95	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
96	TENNANT Andrew	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
97	WRIGHT Alfred	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
98	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	s.t.
99	FOUCHE James	Team Wiggins	s.t.
100	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	s.t.
101	PYM George	Madison Genesis	s.t.
102	MOULD Jon	JLT Condor	s.t.
103	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
104	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	s.t.
105	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	s.t.
106	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	s.t.
107	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	s.t.
108	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
109	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
110	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	6:45
111	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	7:04
112	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	7:31
113	KEISSE Iljo	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
114	BRIGGS Graham	JLT Condor	s.t.
115	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	9:31

GC after stage 3:

476.9 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.133 km/hr

1	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	11hr 3min 11sec
2	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
3	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick-Step Floors	@ 2sec
4	SÜTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	@ 12sec
5	POELS Wout	Sky	s.t.
6	HAMILTON Chris	Team Sunweb	s.t.
7	JUNGELS Bob	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
8	ROGLIČ Primož	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
9	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	0:19
10	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	0:22
11	WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads	Katusha-Alpecin	0:46
12	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
13	STRAKHOV Dmitry	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
14	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain-GBR	0:49
15	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
16	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
17	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
18	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
19	ROJAS José Joaquín	Movistar	s.t.
20	PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	s.t.
21	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
22	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
23	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	s.t.
24	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	s.t.
25	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	0:51
26	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	1:08
27	SHAW James	Lotto-Soudal	1:24
28	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	1:40
29	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	1:42
30	FERNÁNDEZ Rubén	Movistar	2:49
31	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick-Step Floors	2:55
32	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
33	LIEPIŅŠ Emīls	One Pro Cycling	3:28
34	ROELANDTS Jürgen	BMC	3:32
35	MODOLO Sacha	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
36	SEPÚLVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	s.t.
37	NIEVE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
38	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	3:38
39	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	s.t.
40	POWER Robert	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
41	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	3:48
42	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	s.t.
43	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	4:12
44	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani-CSF	4:23
45	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	s.t.
46	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
47	RICHEZE Maximiliano	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
48	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
49	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	4:34
50	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	4:55
51	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	s.t.
52	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
53	KÜNG Stefan	BMC	s.t.
54	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
55	DRUCKER Jempy	BMC	s.t.
56	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	s.t.
57	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick-Step Floors	6:27
58	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	6:30
59	THOMSON Jay	Dimension Data	6:31
60	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	s.t.
61	DE LA PARTE Víctor	Movistar	s.t.
62	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	s.t.
63	CARBONI Giovanni	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
64	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
65	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	7:27
66	MCNALLY Mark	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	7:59
67	WIŚNIOWSKI Łukasz	Sky	8:50
68	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain-GBR	9:08
69	WRIGHT Alfred	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
70	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	s.t.
71	STANNARD Ian	Sky	9:13
72	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	9:35
73	DLAMINI Nic	Dimension Data	10:26
74	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	11:28
75	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	12:02
76	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	12:10
77	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
78	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	12:12
79	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
80	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	13:03
81	FOUCHE James	Team Wiggins	s.t.
82	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	13:53
83	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	s.t.
84	TEGGART Matthew	Team Wiggins	14:54
85	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	15:03
86	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
87	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
88	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain-GBR	16:52
89	BAYLIS Tom	One Pro Cycling	17:29
90	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
91	MOULD Jon	JLT Condor	17:37
92	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	17:38
93	NALLY Joe	Great Britain-GBR	17:40
94	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	s.t.
95	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	s.t.
96	FROOME Chris	Sky	s.t.
97	MCLAY Daniel	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
98	TENNANT Andrew	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
99	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	18:18
100	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	19:07
101	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	19:53
102	FERNANDES José	EF Education First-Drapac	20:05
103	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	20:06
104	PYM George	Madison Genesis	s.t.
105	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	s.t.
106	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	20:28
107	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	21:15
108	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	21:35
109	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
110	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	22:23
111	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	22:27
112	KEISSE Iljo	Quick-Step Floors	24:22:00
113	BRIGGS Graham	JLT Condor	25:13:00
114	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	29:38:00
115	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	33:51:00

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Monday, September 3: Stage 2, Cranbrook - Barnstable, 174.9 km

Cameron Meyer takes stage two.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner Cameron Meyer's Mitchelton-Scott team.

Commonwealth Games time trial champion Cameron Meyer won the second stage of the OVO Energy Tour of Britain today, surviving to the finish line in Barnstaple after spending the whole day in the breakaway.

The breakaway group of five riders gradually whittled down over the climbs coming into the final, leaving just Meyer and Alessandro Tonelli (Bardiani-CSF) to battle it out for the victory. Meyer used his experience and turn of speed in the closing metres to hold off a chasing group by a couple of seconds and sprint to the stage win.

The start of the second 174km stage from Cranbrook saw a battle to get into the day's initial breakaway with Meyer jumping into the right move which successfully established in the first 20km. The group quickly open up a solid lead with the peloton happy to let them go. Working well together over the undulating terrain, the lead continued to increase, reaching a maximum advantage of over six and a half minutes as they entered the final 100km.

With 25km remaining the advantage was sliced down due to a hard chase behind and the leaders hovered just over one minute ahead. As they started to climb the category one Challacombe Hill, a 1.3km ascent with gradients reaching 22 percent, the breakaway reduced to just three riders and the peloton behind also significantly shattered.

Tonelli and Meyer continued to work hard to keep ahead of the chasers as their other breakaway companion Scott Davies (Dimension-Data) finally dropped off the fierce pace.

After the climb, a chasing group formed and with some strong and dangerous riders present it was touch and go whether Meyer and Tonelli could hold on to the finish line as they hovered just 10seconds ahead as they passed the flamme rouge. In the final few hundred metres, Meyer, a track specialist, launched from the wheel of Tonelli with a rapid turn of speed and to the stage win.

Meyer now heads into tomorrow’s third stage in second place overall but on the same time as the new leader Tonelli and as the leader of the points classification.

Cameron Meyer
“It was tough conditions and in the end it was a great bike race to finish like that, to come down to the last kilometre and throw my hands in the air is really cool. It is a bit of a shock and a bit of a surprise to take the win today.

"We will see what the next days bring. We have Caleb Ewan who was second yesterday and is in good form sprinting so for the sprint stages we will obviously look to him and we will see what I can do for the rest of the tour.”

Complete results:

174.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.191 km/hr

1	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	4hr 14min 46sec
2	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani CSF	@ 1sec
3	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	@ 2sec
4	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
5	SUTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	s.t.
6	ROGLIC Primoz	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
7	POELS Wout	Sky	s.t.
8	HAMILTON Christopher	Team Sunweb	s.t.
9	JUNGELS Bob	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
10	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	9
11	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	14
12	SCHMIDT Mads Würtz	Katusha-Alpecin	39
13	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
14	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
15	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	s.t.
16	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
17	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
18	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
19	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
20	ROJAS José	Movistar	s.t.
21	*PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	s.t.
22	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
23	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
24	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	s.t.
25	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
26	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
27	FERNANDEZ Ruben	Movistar	s.t.
28	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
29	STRAKHOV Dmitrii	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
30	SHAW James	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
31	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	s.t.
32	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	s.t.
33	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	s.t.
34	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	s.t.
35	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	3:22
36	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
37	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	s.t.
38	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
39	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	s.t.
40	LIEPINS Emils	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
41	FOUCHÉ James	Team Wiggins	s.t.
42	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	s.t.
43	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	s.t.
44	DLAMINI Nicholas	Dimension Data	s.t.
45	DE LA PARTE Victor	Movistar	s.t.
46	BARBERO CUESTA Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
47	KÜNG Stefan	BMC	s.t.
48	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
49	SEPULVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	s.t.
50	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	Sky	s.t.
51	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
52	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
53	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	s.t.
54	*WRIGHT Fred	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
55	ROELANDTS Jurgen	BMC	s.t.
56	DRUCKER Jean-Pierre	BMC	s.t.
57	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
58	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
59	CARBONI Giovanni	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
60	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	s.t.
61	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
62	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
63	STANNARD Ian	Sky	s.t.
64	RICHEZE Ariel Maximiliano	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
65	MODOLO Sacha	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
66	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
67	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
68	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	s.t.
69	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	s.t.
70	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	s.t.
71	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	s.t.
72	NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
73	POWER Rob	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
74	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
75	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	6:26
76	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
77	MCNALLY Mark	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
78	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
79	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	s.t.
80	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
81	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
82	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	s.t.
83	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	11:14
84	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	11:54
85	TEGGART Matthew	Team Wiggins	s.t.
86	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
87	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	s.t.
88	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
89	PYM George	Madison Genesis	s.t.
90	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	s.t.
91	FROOME Christopher	Sky	s.t.
92	*NALLY Joseph	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
93	BAYLIS Thomas	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
94	MCLAY Daniel	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
95	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	s.t.
96	FERNANDES José	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
97	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
98	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
99	TENNANT Andrew	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
100	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	s.t.
101	BRIGGS Graham	JLT Condor	s.t.
102	HAMILTON Lucas	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
103	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	s.t.
104	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	s.t.
105	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
106	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
107	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
108	KEISSE Iljo	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
109	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
110	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
111	MOULD Jonathan	JLT Condor	s.t.
112	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
113	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	s.t.
114	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
115	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	28:05
116	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani CSF	s.t.

GC after Stage 2:

349.7 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.329 km/hr

1	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani CSF	8hr 15min 30sec
2	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
3	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	@ 8sec
4	POELS Wout	Sky	@ 12sec
5	SUTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	s.t.
6	HAMILTON Christopher	Team Sunweb	s.t.
7	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
8	JUNGELS Bob	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
9	ROGLIC Primoz	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
10	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	19
11	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	22
12	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain-GBR	49
13	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
14	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
15	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
16	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
17	ROJAS José	Movistar	s.t.
18	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
19	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
20	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
21	*PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	s.t.
22	FERNANDEZ Ruben	Movistar	s.t.
23	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
24	SCHMIDT Mads Würtz	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
25	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	s.t.
26	STRAKHOV Dmitrii	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
27	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	s.t.
28	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	s.t.
29	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
30	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
31	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	s.t.
32	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	s.t.
33	SHAW James	Lotto-Soudal	1:14
34	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	1:42
35	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick Step Floors	3:28
36	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	3:32
37	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	s.t.
38	LIEPINS Emils	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
39	ROELANDTS Jurgen	BMC	s.t.
40	BARBERO CUESTA Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
41	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	s.t.
42	MODOLO Sacha	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
43	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
44	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
45	KÜNG Stefan	BMC	s.t.
46	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
47	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	s.t.
48	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
49	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
50	*WRIGHT Fred	Great Britain-GBR	s.t.
51	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	s.t.
52	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	s.t.
53	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	s.t.
54	DE LA PARTE Victor	Movistar	s.t.
55	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
56	SEPULVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	s.t.
57	DRUCKER Jean-Pierre	BMC	s.t.
58	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
59	CARBONI Giovanni	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
60	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	s.t.
61	RICHEZE Ariel Maximiliano	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
62	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	s.t.
63	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
64	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
65	NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
66	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
67	POWER Rob	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
68	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	6:26
69	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	6:30
70	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	6:36
71	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	s.t.
72	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
73	MCNALLY Mark	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
74	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	7:27
75	FOUCHÉ James	Team Wiggins	s.t.
76	DLAMINI Nicholas	Dimension Data	s.t.
77	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	Sky	s.t.
78	STANNARD Ian	Sky	s.t.
79	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	8:17
80	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	s.t.
81	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain-GBR	11:16
82	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	11:22
83	TEGGART Matthew	Team Wiggins	11:55
84	*NALLY Joseph	Great Britain-GBR	12:04
85	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	s.t.
86	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
87	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	s.t.
88	MOULD Jonathan	JLT Condor	s.t.
89	FROOME Christopher	Sky	s.t.
90	MCLAY Daniel	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
91	TENNANT Andrew	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
92	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	s.t.
93	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
94	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	s.t.
95	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
96	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
97	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	s.t.
98	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	12:57
99	PYM George	Madison Genesis	14:30
100	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	s.t.
101	BAYLIS Thomas	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
102	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	s.t.
103	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	s.t.
104	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani CSF	s.t.
105	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	15:19
106	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	15:55
107	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	15:59
108	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	s.t.
109	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	16:47
110	HAMILTON Lucas	Mitchelton-Scott	16:51
111	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	s.t.
112	KEISSE Iljo	Quick Step Floors	s.t.
113	BRIGGS Graham	JLT Condor	17:42
114	FERNANDES José	EF Education First-Drapac	18:42
115	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani CSF	28:15
116	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.

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Sunday, September 2: Stage 1, Pembrey County Park - Newport, 174.8 km

André Greipel takes the first stage

The race: Here's the organizer's stage one report:

Lotto Soudal’s André Greipel timed his sprint to perfection to win Stage One of the 2018 OVO Energy Tour of Britain in the City of Newport on Sunday and take the first Green Jersey of the race.

The experienced German beat Caleb Ewan (Mitchelton-SCOTT) and Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors) to claim the victory at the end of the 174.8-kilometre stage, which started in Pembrey Country Park, Carmarthenshire.

It was the German’s sixth stage victory in the race – he has now won stages in England, Scotland and Wales. Greipel said: “Winning Stage One brings the leader’s jersey with it, which is always a nice thing. This is a big race, so it’s prestigious to wear the jersey in it. We wanted to win a stage, so we’re happy that we made it possible on the first day.”

“I had a really good lead-out by Jasper de Buyst, so I’m happy that I could time it right and finish it off. We expected it to be a bunch sprint – I’m happy that I could win again."

With his opening day victory Greipel takes both the OVO Energy Green Jersey and Wahoo Points Jersey heading into the second stage in Devon on Monday.

A six-rider break had swept up most of the day’s honours, with Nic Dlamnini (Team Dimension Data) taking the SKODA King of the Mountains jersey and Matthew Bostock (Great Britain) the Eisberg Sprints Jersey.

As the race rolled through Carmarthenshire, Powys and Monmouthshire it was Rory Townsend (Canyon Eisberg) who was the last to be caught from the break, finally being reeled in approaching the final SKODA King of the Mountains climb at Belmont Hill on the edge of Newport, with under 10 kilometres remaining.

Team Sky’s pulling at the front of the peloton approaching the climb sparked an attack from home favourite Geraint Thomas (Team Sky), with the Tour de France champion creating a move that dragged clear Quick-Step Floors duo Julian Alaphilppe and Bob Jungles over the top.  The latter held on to his slender advantage until hitting Usk Way, being swept up by the BMC-led peloton under the one-kilometre to go marker, before his team-mate Gaviria hit out at the head of the sprint.

Complete results:

174.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.537 km/hr

1	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	4hr 0min 54sec
2	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	ST
3	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick Step Floors	ST
4	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	ST
5	ROELANDTS Jurgen	BMC	ST
6	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	ST
7	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain	ST
8	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	ST
9	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	ST
10	POELS Wout	Sky	ST
11	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	ST
12	MODOLO Sacha	EF Education First-Drapac	ST
13	THEUNS Edward	Team Sunweb	ST
14	SUTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	ST
15	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	ST
16	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain	ST
17	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	ST
18	BARBERO CUESTA Carlos	Movistar	ST
19	NALLY Joseph	Great Britain	ST
20	LIEPINS Emils	One Pro Cycling	ST
21	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	ST
22	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	ST
23	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	ST
24	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	ST
25	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	ST
26	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	ST
27	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	ST
28	ROJAS José	Movistar	ST
29	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	ST
30	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	ST
31	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	ST
32	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	ST
33	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	ST
34	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani-CSF	ST
35	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	ST
36	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	ST
37	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	ST
38	MOULD Jonathan	JLT Condor	ST
39	PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	ST
40	FERNANDEZ Ruben	Movistar	ST
41	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	ST
42	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	ST
43	KÜNG Stefan	BMC	ST
44	WRIGHT Fred	Great Britain	ST
45	HAMILTON Christopher	Team Sunweb	ST
46	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	ST
47	STRAKHOV Dmitrii	Katusha-Alpecin	ST
48	JUNGELS Bob	Quick Step Floors	ST
49	VANENDERT Jelle	Lotto-Soudal	ST
50	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick Step Floors	ST
51	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	ST
52	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	ST
53	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	ST
54	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	ST
55	TEGGART Matthew	Team Wiggins	ST
56	DRUCKER Jean-Pierre	BMC	ST
57	SCHMIDT Mads Würtz	Katusha-Alpecin	ST
58	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	ST
59	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	ST
60	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	ST
61	SEPULVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	ST
62	TENNANT Andrew	Canyon Eisberg	ST
63	DE LA PARTE Victor	Movistar	ST
64	FROOME Christopher	Sky	ST
65	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	ST
66	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	ST
67	MCLAY Daniel	EF Education First-Drapac	ST
68	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	ST
69	CARBONI Giovanni	Bardiani-CSF	ST
70	RICHEZE Ariel Maximiliano	Quick Step Floors	ST
71	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	ST
72	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	ST
73	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick Step Floors	ST
74	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	ST
75	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	ST
76	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	ST
77	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	ST
78	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	ST
79	NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	ST
80	MCNALLY Mark	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	ST
81	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain	ST
82	ROGLIC Primoz	LottoNL-Jumbo	ST
83	WALKER Joey	Team Wiggins	ST
84	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	ST
85	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	ST
86	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	ST
87	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	ST
88	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	ST
89	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	ST
90	POWER Rob	Mitchelton-Scott	ST
91	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	ST
92	SHAW James	Lotto-Soudal	@ 25sec
93	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	@ 53sec
94	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	ST
95	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	2:26
96	BAYLIS Thomas	One Pro Cycling	ST
97	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	ST
98	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	ST
99	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	ST
100	PYM George	Madison Genesis	ST
101	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	Sky	3:55
102	STANNARD Ian	Sky	ST
103	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	ST
104	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	ST
105	DLAMINI Nicholas	Dimension Data	ST
106	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	ST
107	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	ST
108	FOUCHÉ James	Team Wiggins	ST
109	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	ST
110	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	4:47
111	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	ST
112	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	ST
113	KEISSE Iljo	Quick Step Floors	ST
114	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	ST
115	HAMILTON Lucas	Mitchelton-Scott	ST
116	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	ST
117	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain	ST
118	BRIGGS Graham	JLT Condor	5:38
119	FERNANDES José	EF Education First-Drapac	6:38

GC after Stage 1:

1	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	4hr 0min 44sec
2	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	@ 4sec
3	GAVIRIA Fernando	Quick Step Floors	6
4	CULLAIGH Gabriel	Team Wiggins	10
5	ROELANDTS Jurgen	BMC	ST
6	PASQUALON Andrea	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	ST
7	HAYTER Ethan	Great Britain	ST
8	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	ST
9	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	ST
10	POELS Wout	Sky	ST
11	CARDIS Romain	Direct Energie	ST
12	MODOLO Sacha	EF Education First-Drapac	ST
13	THEUNS Edward	Team Sunweb	ST
14	SUTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	ST
15	THWAITES Scott	Dimension Data	ST
16	SWIFT Ben	Great Britain	ST
17	ZABEL Rick	Katusha-Alpecin	ST
18	BARBERO CUESTA Carlos	Movistar	ST
19	NALLY Joseph	Great Britain	ST
20	LIEPINS Emils	One Pro Cycling	ST
21	DOWSETT Alex	Katusha-Alpecin	ST
22	BOUWMAN Koen	LottoNL-Jumbo	ST
23	VAN EMDEN Jos	LottoNL-Jumbo	ST
24	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	ST
25	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	ST
26	SMITH Dion	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	ST
27	MEURISSE Xandro	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	ST
28	ROJAS José	Movistar	ST
29	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	ST
30	STEWART Thomas	JLT Condor	ST
31	EENKHOORN Pascal	LottoNL-Jumbo	ST
32	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	ST
33	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	ST
34	BARBIN Enrico	Bardiani-CSF	ST
35	CHAVANEL Sylvain	Direct Energie	ST
36	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	ST
37	PHINNEY Taylor	EF Education First-Drapac	ST
38	MOULD Jonathan	JLT Condor	ST
39	PIDCOCK Thomas	Team Wiggins	ST
40	FERNANDEZ Ruben	Movistar	ST
41	HOLMES Matthew	Madison Genesis	ST
42	POWLESS Neilson	LottoNL-Jumbo	ST
43	KÜNG Stefan	BMC	ST
44	WRIGHT Fred	Great Britain	ST
45	HAMILTON Christopher	Team Sunweb	ST
46	STEDMAN Maximilian	Canyon Eisberg	ST
47	STRAKHOV Dmitrii	Katusha-Alpecin	ST
48	JUNGELS Bob	Quick Step Floors	ST
49	VANENDERT Jelle	Lotto-Soudal	ST
50	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Quick Step Floors	ST
51	BRESCHEL Matti	EF Education First-Drapac	ST
52	CARTHY Hugh	EF Education First-Drapac	ST
53	CHRISTENSEN Ryan	Canyon Eisberg	ST
54	EEKHOFF Nils	Team Sunweb	ST
55	TEGGART Matthew	Team Wiggins	ST
56	DRUCKER Jean-Pierre	BMC	ST
57	SCHMIDT Mads Würtz	Katusha-Alpecin	ST
58	OURSELIN Paul	Direct Energie	ST
59	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	ST
60	BRADBURY Edmund	JLT Condor	ST
61	SEPULVEDA Eduardo	Movistar	ST
62	TENNANT Andrew	Canyon Eisberg	ST
63	DE LA PARTE Victor	Movistar	ST
64	FROOME Christopher	Sky	ST
65	MARTIN Tony	Katusha-Alpecin	ST
66	VAN GARDEREN Tejay	BMC	ST
67	MCLAY Daniel	EF Education First-Drapac	ST
68	MCCORMICK Hayden	One Pro Cycling	ST
69	CARBONI Giovanni	Bardiani-CSF	ST
70	RICHEZE Ariel Maximiliano	Quick Step Floors	ST
71	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	ST
72	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	ST
73	SCHACHMANN Maximilian	Quick Step Floors	ST
74	ANTONINI Simone	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	ST
75	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	ST
76	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	ST
77	THOMAS Geraint	Sky	ST
78	KEUKELEIRE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	ST
79	NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel	Mitchelton-Scott	ST
80	MCNALLY Mark	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	ST
81	WILLIAMS Stephen	Great Britain	ST
82	ROGLIC Primoz	LottoNL-Jumbo	ST
83	WALKER Joey	Team Wiggins	ST
84	SLATER Alistair	JLT Condor	ST
85	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	ST
86	TULIK Angelo	Direct Energie	ST
87	ORAM James	One Pro Cycling	ST
88	KIRYIENKA Vasil	Sky	ST
89	HIVERT Jonathan	Direct Energie	ST
90	POWER Rob	Mitchelton-Scott	ST
91	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	ST
92	SHAW James	Lotto-Soudal	35
93	SWIFT Connor	Madison Genesis	1:03
94	KLUGE Roger	Mitchelton-Scott	ST
95	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	2:36
96	BAYLIS Thomas	One Pro Cycling	ST
97	LATHAM Christopher	One Pro Cycling	ST
98	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	ST
99	PICHOT Alexandre	Direct Energie	ST
100	PYM George	Madison Genesis	ST
101	MOSES Thomas	JLT Condor	4:01
102	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz	Sky	4:05
103	STANNARD Ian	Sky	ST
104	PATON Alex	Canyon Eisberg	ST
105	GARDIAS Dexter	Canyon Eisberg	ST
106	DLAMINI Nicholas	Dimension Data	ST
107	WILLIAMS Peter	One Pro Cycling	ST
108	FOUCHÉ James	Team Wiggins	ST
109	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	ST
110	BOSTOCK Matthew	Great Britain	4:50
111	TOWNSEND Rory	Canyon Eisberg	4:53
112	HANDLEY Richard	Madison Genesis	4:55
113	DOWNEY Mark	Team Wiggins	4:56
114	ROWSELL Erick	Madison Genesis	4:57
115	KEISSE Iljo	Quick Step Floors	ST
116	MCEVOY Jonathan	Madison Genesis	ST
117	HAMILTON Lucas	Mitchelton-Scott	ST
118	BRIGGS Graham	JLT Condor	5:48
119	FERNANDES José	EF Education First-Drapac	6:48