2024 UAE Tour (WorldTour),
United Arab Emirates

6th Edition: February 19 - 25, 2024
Complete results

UAE Tour podium history | 2023 edition | Start list
Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5 | Stage 6 | Stage 7

2024 UAE Tour map

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Sunday, February 25: 7th & Final Stage, Al Ain - Jebel Hafeet, 161 km

Stage 7 map & profile

Lennert Van Eetvelt wins the stage and the 2024 UAE Tour. Photo: Photonews

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Weather at the start city of Al Ain, Dhubai at 8:30 AM, local time: 22C (72F), fair, with the wind from the south-southeast at 29 km/hr (18 mph). The temperature is forecast to climb to 31C (87F) by 2:00 PM. No rain is forecast.

The race: Here's the race organizer's final 2024 UAE Tour report.

Jebel Hafeet, 25 February 2024 – The 10.8 kilometres of the Jebel Hafeet climb changed the hierarchies of the UAE Tour 2024, which was decided on the line in favour of Lennert Van Eetvelt. The Belgian rider took the Red Jersey thanks to a spectacular action in the last 2 km of a climb that had seen in the first half Brandon McNulty and Jay Vine, respectively first and third in the general classification, being dropped by the front group. After catching Emanuel Buchmann, lone survivor of today’s breakaway, it was Van Eetvelt who attacked first, followed by the White Jersey Ilan Van Wilder and Michael Storer.

With 1.8 km to the finish, Van Eetvelt went solo and kept pushing until the last metre, relegating the chasing group, led by Bilbao on O’Connor, to 22 seconds. Thanks to the time bonuses, Van Eetvelt won his first career stage race by 2″ over O’Connor and 11" over Bilbao. In addition to the Red Jersey, the Lotto Dstny rider also took home the White Jersey as best young rider with Tim Merlier in the Green Jersey, Mark Stewart in the Black Jersey, and Lidl-Trek at the top of the teams classification.

Speaking immediately after being presented with the Red Jersey and the race winner’s trophy on the podium, Lennert Van Eetvelt said: “My plan for today was to finish with no regret and I don’t have any regret now! I looked at race last couple of years, where they went and I noticed the steeper part at 3km to go. That was the last chance to go for GC. My legs were really good today. This is by far my best result. I’ve improved a lot really. It’s a bit crazy that I win the UAE Tour thanks to time bonuses I took in a breakaway on stage 5. It started with a joke with the doctor and it became a nice training ride that gave me 6’’ and now I win the overall by 2’’. It’s crazy to see my name on the list of riders who have won this race after Remco Evenepoel, Tadej Pogacar, Primoz Roglic. I came for a good result on GC, not for winning, so it’s just amazing. My next race Strade Bianche suits me well. I’m confident I can do a good result there too”.

The winner of the Green Jersey Tim Merlier said: “I didn’t expect Lennert Van Eetveld to win the UAE Tour. But we knew that echelons could dictate the scenario of the race and some riders paid the price. As for myself, I’m really happy and proud of what I’ve achieved here with three stage wins and the Green Jersey for the second year in a row. I’d like to come back to the UAE Tour for sure”.

STATISTICS

• Lennert Van Eetvelt, at 22 years 7 months and 8 days is the second-youngest winner of the UAE Tour, behind Tadej Pogacar (22 years 5 months 6 days in 2021).
• Lennert Van Eetvelt won the UAE Tour with just 2 seconds over Ben O’Connor: it’s a new record for the smallest gap at the end of the race, beating the 22” between Tadej Pogacar and Adam Yates in 2022.
• Lennart Van Eetvelt is the youngest Belgian winner at the UAE Tour at 22 years 7 months and 8 days. The previous record belonged to Jasper Philipsen (23 years 11 months 18 days in Madinat Zayed in 2022).

2024 UAE Tour winner Lennert Van Eetvelt. Photo: Sprint Cycling Agency

Complete results:

161 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.217 km/hr

1	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto Dstny	3hr 38min 28sec
2	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	@ 22sec
3	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
4	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
5	Attila Valter	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
6	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
7	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	0:27
8	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	0:38
9	Einer Rubio	Movistar	s.t.
10	Bart Lemmen	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:47
11	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	0:48
12	Emanuel Buchmann	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
13	Max Poole	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	0:51
14	Jesus David Peña	Jayco-AlUla	0:59
15	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	1:12
16	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
17	Martin López	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
18	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
19	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	1:15
20	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	1:31
21	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
22	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	1:38
23	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
24	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
25	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	2:31
26	Ivan Romeo	Movistar	2:39
27	Simon Carr	EF Education-EasyPost	3:04
28	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	3:22
29	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	4:12
30	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
31	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
32	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
33	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	5:17
34	Jan Maas	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
35	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
36	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
37	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar	s.t.
38	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	5:24
39	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
40	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	6:24
41	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	7:36
42	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
43	Nicolas Prodhomme	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	7:39
44	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	7:44
45	Nils Brun	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
46	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	8:29
47	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
48	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	8:44
49	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	s.t.
50	Andrii Ponomar	Corratec-Vini Fantini	9:51
51	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
52	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
53	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	9:53
54	Loe Van Belle	Visma | Lease a Bike	10:26
55	Tosh Van Der Sande	Visma | Lease a Bike	10:26
56	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	10:27
57	Aj August	INEOS Grenadiers	10:36
58	Johannes Adamietz	Lotto Dstny	10:44
59	Valentin Retailleau	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	11:09
60	Eddy Finé	Cofidis	11:15
61	Olav Kooij	Visma | Lease a Bike	11:35
62	Henri Vandenabeele	Lotto Dstny	11:53
63	Attilio Viviani	Corratec-Vini Fantini	11:57
64	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	12:08
65	Tobias Lund Andresen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	12:32
66	Remi Cavagna	Movistar	12:34
67	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	13:45
68	Sam Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
69	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	13:48
70	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	14:00
71	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
72	Tim Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
73	Kelland O'Brien	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
74	Mick Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
75	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
76	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	s.t.
77	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
78	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
79	Enzo Leijnse	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
80	Mark Stewart	Corratec-Vini Fantini	14:06
81	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	15:08
82	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
83	Michael Schwarzmann	Israel-Premier Tech	15:45
84	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
85	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
86	Alexy Faure-Prost	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
87	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	16:20
88	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	16:22
89	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
90	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
91	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	16:36
92	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	17:23
93	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	17:44
94	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	18:36
95	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
96	Jordi Warlop	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
97	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
98	Pelayo Sanchez	Movistar	20:04
99	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
100	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
101	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
102	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
103	Timo Roosen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
104	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
105	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
106	Michael Mørkøv	Astana Qazaqstan	21:17
107	Elia Viviani	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
108	Gleb Syritsa	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
109	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
110	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	s.t.
111	Christophe Noppe	Cofidis	s.t.
112	Florian Stork	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
113	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
114	Alessandro Monaco	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
115	Marco Murgano	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
116	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	21:29
117	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	21:31
118	Rick Pluimers	Tudor Pro Cycling	22:14
119	Boy Van Poppel	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
120	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
121	Arvid De Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
122	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	23:54
123	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
124	Julius Van Den Berg	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	24:26
125	Davide Cimolai	Movistar	25:50
126	Samuele Zambelli	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
127	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling	25:52
128	Fabio Jakobsen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	28:15
129	Sam Bennett	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	29:43

 

Final GC after stage 7:

• GC winner: Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto Dstny)
• Points classification winner: Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Best young rider: Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto Dstny)
• Teams classification winner: Lidl-Trek

978.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.429 km/hr

1	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto Dstny	22hr 31min 18sec
2	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	@ 2sec
3	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	0:11
4	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	0:21
5	Attila Valter	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:34
6	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling	0:36
7	Max Poole	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	0:55
8	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	1:00
9	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	1:09
10	Bart Lemmen	Visma | Lease a Bike	1:13
11	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	1:18
12	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:27
13	Einer Rubio	Movistar	1:34
14	Martin López	Astana Qazaqstan	1:48
15	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
16	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	1:51
17	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	2:07
18	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	2:12
19	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	2:18
20	Simon Carr	EF Education-EasyPost	3:13
21	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	3:34
22	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	3:45
23	Jesus David Peña	Jayco-AlUla	4:02
24	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	4:06
25	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	4:19
26	Ivan Romeo	Movistar	4:34
27	Emanuel Buchmann	Bora-hansgrohe	4:38
28	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	5:16
29	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	5:17
30	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	7:55
31	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	9:34
32	Nicolas Prodhomme	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	10:09
33	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	10:19
34	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	10:23
35	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
36	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
37	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	10:44
38	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	13:18
39	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	14:32
40	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	14:41
41	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	14:43
42	Andrii Ponomar	Corratec-Vini Fantini	14:56
43	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	15:06
44	Johannes Adamietz	Lotto Dstny	15:33
45	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar	15:53
46	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto Dstny	16:17
47	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
48	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	16:26
49	Jan Maas	Jayco-AlUla	16:42
50	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	16:49
51	Alexy Faure-Prost	Intermarché-Wanty	17:10
52	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	17:44
53	Loe Van Belle	Visma | Lease a Bike	18:27
54	Mick Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	18:46
55	Aj August	INEOS Grenadiers	18:47
56	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	18:55
57	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	19:50
58	Nils Brun	Tudor Pro Cycling	19:55
59	Remi Cavagna	Movistar	20:21
60	Valentin Retailleau	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	20:51
61	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	21:23
62	Tim Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	21:45
63	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	22:12
64	Kelland O'Brien	Jayco-AlUla	22:27
65	Pelayo Sanchez	Movistar	22:28
66	Tosh Van Der Sande	Visma | Lease a Bike	22:41
67	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	23:16
68	Alessandro Monaco	Corratec-Vini Fantini	25:03
69	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	26:21
70	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	27:14
71	Eddy Finé	Cofidis	27:20
72	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	28:09
73	Timo Roosen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	29:18
74	Olav Kooij	Visma | Lease a Bike	30:00
75	Florian Stork	Tudor Pro Cycling	30:17
76	Marco Murgano	Corratec-Vini Fantini	30:24
77	Tobias Lund Andresen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	30:36
78	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	30:55
79	Henri Vandenabeele	Lotto Dstny	31:00
80	Attilio Viviani	Corratec-Vini Fantini	31:27
81	Enzo Leijnse	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	31:40
82	Sam Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	31:42
83	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	31:56
84	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	32:01
85	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	32:06
86	Mark Stewart	Corratec-Vini Fantini	32:19
87	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	32:26
88	Rick Pluimers	Tudor Pro Cycling	33:14
89	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	33:17
90	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	33:18
91	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	33:22
92	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	33:29
93	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	33:49
94	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	34:26
95	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	34:32
96	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	34:44
97	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	35:03
98	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	35:04
99	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious	35:20
100	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	36:04
101	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	36:09
102	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	36:30
103	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	37:04
104	Jordi Warlop	Soudal Quick-Step	37:12
105	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	37:54
106	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	38:25
107	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	38:55
108	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	38:57
109	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	39:36
110	Elia Viviani	INEOS Grenadiers	39:41
111	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	39:47
112	Christophe Noppe	Cofidis	39:54
113	Michael Schwarzmann	Israel-Premier Tech	40:26
114	Boy Van Poppel	Intermarché-Wanty	40:36
115	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	40:41
116	Arvid De Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling	41:07
117	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	41:24
118	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan	41:38
119	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling	43:24
120	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	44:18
121	Davide Cimolai	Movistar	44:32
122	Gleb Syritsa	Astana Qazaqstan	45:34
123	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	47:24
124	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates	47:58
125	Sam Bennett	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	48:16
126	Julius Van Den Berg	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	48:30
127	Michael Mørkøv	Astana Qazaqstan	50:30
128	Fabio Jakobsen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	52:03
129	Samuele Zambelli	Corratec-Vini Fantini	55:48

 

Stage 7 map & profile:

Stage 7 map

Stage 7 profile

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Saturday, February 24: Stage 6, Louvre Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi Breakwater, 138 km

Stage 6 map & profile

Tim Merlier wins stage six.

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Weather at Abu Dhabi at 8:20 AM, local time: 21C (69F), mist, with the wind from the southwest at 5 km/hr (3 mph). The temperature is forecast to climb to 25C (77F) by 1:00 PM. There is just a 2% chance of rain.

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

After winning in Liwa and Dubai Harbour, Tim Merlier brings home also the ALDAR stage, 138 km from Abu Dhabi Louvre Museum to Abu Dhabi Breakwater, becoming the first rider to win five stages at the UAE Tour and the first one with three stages in a single edition. The Green Jersey showed again perfect timing by taking the lead in the last 150 meters and resisting the return of Arvid De Kleijn, who finished in second place, as in the other sprints won by the former Belgian National Champion.

With this victory, Merlier secures the leadership of the Points Classification on the eve of the final stage of the one and only UCI World Tour race in the Middle East which will take the riders to atop the 1025 metres of Jebel Hafeet. Jay Vine will start in the Red Jersey with an advantage of 11″ over Ben O’ Connor and 13″ over Brandon McNulty. 14 riders have a gap of less than a minute from the UAE Team Emirates rider which means that everything can still happen in the final 161 km of this edition.

Speedy Tim Merlier wins another stage.

Speaking in the press conference, the stage winner Tim Merlier said: “The guys brought me in good position when the road was a bit narrow. From there it went really fast. I was a bit surprised to see that we were already in the last kilometre. There was a bit of space to move up with 700 metres to go. Bert [Van Lerberghe] delivered me just on time. I didn’t find his slipstream anymore but I went all in as we were coming to the right. It’s nice to finish it off. It’s a very nice feeling to being the first guy to win three stages in a single UAE Tour, looking at all the sprinters who were here in the past and now. It makes me really proud”.

The Red Jersey Jay Vine said: “I didn’t see any dangerous point today really. It reminded me of not so long ago when I was commuting by bike to go to work in Australia. You got that feeling of riding through red lights it was very cool to have a look at the buildings and stuff. Today was not super hard, but it’s going to be a big day tomorrow. I’ll have to consume about 4000 calories, maybe a bit more, so I had to do fuelling today for tomorrow, on the bike, after race and this evening, just to keep my stomach ok. I don’t know if we’ll have to set a defensive tempo tomorrow. Looking at this stage in previous years, it’s really up to people who have to make up time that haver to make the race hard, so I expect Decathlon-Ag2r and Soudal Quick-Step to speed up from the lower slopes. It shouldn’t be all up to us. We have some good riders. Mikkel [Bjerg] is really strong. To have him as far as possible up the climb with us will be useful. It’s also probably going to be the hottest day of the week tomorrow. It’ll be about responding, not losing time. As long as I keep McNulty’s wheel in front of mine, it should be fine”.

STATISTICS

• Tim Merlier posted his 5th season win, nearly a half of the ones he scored last season (11). This was his 39th professional win.
• Third stage podium for Arvid De Kleijn at the UAE Tour: they are all 2nd places, and all behind Tim Merlier, in stages 1, 4 and 6.
• Second stage podium at the UAE Tour for Phil Bauhaus: he was equally 3rd in this same stage finish on the 27th of February 2021.

Complete results:

138 kilometers raced at an average speedof 45.436 km/hr

1	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	3hr 2min 14sec
2	Arvid De Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
3	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
4	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	s.t.
5	Gleb Syritsa	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
6	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
7	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
8	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	s.t.
9	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
10	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
11	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
12	Jakub Mareczko	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
13	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
14	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
15	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
16	Olav Kooij	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
17	Sam Bennett	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
18	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
19	Sam Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
20	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
21	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
22	Attilio Viviani	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
23	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
24	Tim Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
25	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	s.t.
26	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
27	Christophe Noppe	Cofidis	s.t.
28	Elia Viviani	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
29	Tobias Lund Andresen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
30	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
31	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar	s.t.
32	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
33	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
34	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
35	Andrii Ponomar	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
36	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
37	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
38	Max Poole	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
39	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
40	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
41	Fabio Jakobsen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
42	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
43	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
44	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
45	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
46	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
47	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
48	Nicolas Prodhomme	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
49	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
50	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
51	Jesus David Peña	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
52	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
53	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
54	Remi Cavagna	Movistar	s.t.
55	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
56	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
57	Samuele Zambelli	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
58	Ivan Romeo	Movistar	s.t.
59	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
60	Tosh Van Der Sande	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
61	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
62	Attila Valter	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
63	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
64	Kenny Elissonde	Cofidis	s.t.
65	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
66	Bart Lemmen	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
67	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	s.t.
68	Michael Schwarzmann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
69	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
70	Loe Van Belle	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
71	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
72	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
73	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
74	Einer Rubio	Movistar	s.t.
75	Johannes Adamietz	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
76	Alexy Faure-Prost	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
77	Enzo Leijnse	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
78	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
79	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
80	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
81	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
82	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
83	Simon Carr	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
84	Rick Pluimers	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
85	Emanuel Buchmann	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
86	Alessandro Monaco	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
87	Aj August	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
88	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
89	Jason Osborne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
90	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
91	Mark Stewart	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
92	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
93	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
94	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
95	Davide Cimolai	Movistar	s.t.
96	Jan Maas	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
97	Mick Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
98	Marco Murgano	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
99	Pelayo Sanchez	Movistar	s.t.
100	Michael Mørkøv	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
101	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
102	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
103	Boy Van Poppel	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
104	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
105	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
106	Martin López	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
107	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
108	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
109	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	s.t.
110	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
111	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
112	Henri Vandenabeele	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
113	Julius Van Den Berg	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
114	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
115	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
116	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
117	Florian Stork	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
118	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
119	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
120	Jordi Warlop	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
121	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
122	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
123	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
124	Timo Roosen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
125	Valentin Retailleau	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	@ 38sec
126	Eddy Finé	Cofidis	s.t.
127	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
128	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan	0:42
129	Nils Brun	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
130	Kelland O'Brien	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
131	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	0:46
132	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	0:50
133	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	1:17
134	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	1:59

 

GC after stage 6:

• GC leader: Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates)
• Points classification leader: Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Best young rider: Ilan Van Wilder (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Teams classification leader: UAE Team Emirates

817.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.295 km/hr

1	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	18hr 52min 23sec
2	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	@ 11sec
3	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	0:13
4	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	0:21
5	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	0:22
6	Max Poole	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	0:31
7	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	0:33
8	Simon Carr	EF Education-EasyPost	0:36
9	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto Dstny	0:37
10	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
11	Attila Valter	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:39
12	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling	0:41
13	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	0:49
14	Bart Lemmen	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:53
15	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	1:01
16	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	1:03
17	Martin López	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
18	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:06
19	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
20	Jason Osborne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:14
21	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
22	Einer Rubio	Movistar	1:23
23	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	1:30
24	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
25	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	1:31
26	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	1:32
27	Alexy Faure-Prost	Intermarché-Wanty	1:52
28	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	2:02
29	Ivan Romeo	Movistar	2:22
30	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto Dstny	2:44
31	Pelayo Sanchez	Movistar	2:51
32	Kenny Elissonde	Cofidis	2:52
33	Nicolas Prodhomme	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	2:57
34	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	3:00
35	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	3:02
36	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:06
37	Jesus David Peña	Jayco-AlUla	3:30
38	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	3:34
39	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:35
40	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	4:10
41	Alessandro Monaco	Corratec-Vini Fantini	4:13
42	Emanuel Buchmann	Bora-hansgrohe	4:18
43	Mick Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	5:13
44	Johannes Adamietz	Lotto Dstny	5:16
45	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	5:19
46	Andrii Ponomar	Corratec-Vini Fantini	5:32
47	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	5:33
48	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	6:15
49	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	7:28
50	Tim Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	8:12
51	Remi Cavagna	Movistar	8:14
52	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	8:23
53	Loe Van Belle	Visma | Lease a Bike	8:28
54	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
55	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	8:32
56	Aj August	INEOS Grenadiers	8:38
57	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	8:51
58	Kelland O'Brien	Jayco-AlUla	8:54
59	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	8:55
60	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	9:09
61	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	9:17
62	Florian Stork	Tudor Pro Cycling	9:27
63	Marco Murgano	Corratec-Vini Fantini	9:34
64	Timo Roosen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	9:41
65	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	9:42
66	Valentin Retailleau	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	10:09
67	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	10:18
68	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar	11:03
69	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	11:27
70	Rick Pluimers	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
71	Jan Maas	Jayco-AlUla	11:52
72	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	11:54
73	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	11:57
74	Nils Brun	Tudor Pro Cycling	12:38
75	Tosh Van Der Sande	Visma | Lease a Bike	12:42
76	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	13:41
77	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	15:08
78	Eddy Finé	Cofidis	16:32
79	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	17:22
80	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling	17:59
81	Enzo Leijnse	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	18:07
82	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	18:11
83	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	18:17
84	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	18:19
85	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	18:21
86	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	18:23
87	Sam Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	18:24
88	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	18:25
89	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	18:28
90	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Dstny	18:30
91	Tobias Lund Andresen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	18:31
92	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	18:33
93	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	18:41
94	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	18:43
95	Mark Stewart	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
96	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	18:46
97	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	18:47
98	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	18:48
99	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
100	Boy Van Poppel	Intermarché-Wanty	18:49
101	Elia Viviani	INEOS Grenadiers	18:51
102	Olav Kooij	Visma | Lease a Bike	18:52
103	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	18:53
104	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	18:54
105	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
106	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	18:55
107	Sam Bennett	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	19:00
108	Jordi Warlop	Soudal Quick-Step	19:03
109	Christophe Noppe	Cofidis	19:04
110	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	19:09
111	Davide Cimolai	Movistar	s.t.
112	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	19:14
113	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	19:18
114	Arvid De Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling	19:20
115	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious	19:25
116	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	19:26
117	Henri Vandenabeele	Lotto Dstny	19:34
118	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	19:51
119	Attilio Viviani	Corratec-Vini Fantini	19:57
120	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	20:14
121	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	20:16
122	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	20:22
123	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan	20:48
124	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	23:28
125	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	23:57
126	Fabio Jakobsen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	24:15
127	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates	24:31
128	Julius Van Den Berg	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
129	Gleb Syritsa	Astana Qazaqstan	24:44
130	Michael Schwarzmann	Israel-Premier Tech	25:08
131	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	29:33
132	Michael Mørkøv	Astana Qazaqstan	29:40
133	Samuele Zambelli	Corratec-Vini Fantini	30:25
134	Jakub Mareczko	Corratec-Vini Fantini	30:30

 

Stage 6 map & profile:

Stage 6 map

Stage 6 profile

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Friday, February 23: Stage 5, Al Aqah - Al Quwain, 182 km

Stage 5 map & profile

Olav Kooij wins the big sprint. Photo: Sprint Cycling Agency

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Weather at the finish city of Umm Al Quwain at 7:30 AM, local time: 16C (61F), fair, with the wind from the south-southeast at 2 km/hr (1 mph). The temperature is forecast to climb to 25C (76F) by 1:00 PM. There is a 1% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner Olav Kooij's Team Visma | Lease a Bike.

Olav Kooij has won the fifth stage of the UAE Tour. In the bunch sprint, the young Dutchman turned out to cross the finish line just a bit earlier than Tim Merlier after an extensive examination of the finish photo. It is the second win of 2024 for Kooij.

For the sprinters, Friday's stage meant the third chance for success. After the first two bunch sprints turned out to be a win for Belgian Merlier, Kooij, after a nerve-racking sprint, was able to claim victory. In the final meters Kooij came forward on the right side of the road. Just a fraction ahead of Merlier, he pushed his wheel over the line.

"It took a very long time before redemption came," Kooij described the moments right after the sprint. "I wasn't sure if I had won. However, the long wait did not diminish the relief. The field of competitors is very strong and everything has to go along to be able to compete for the win here at the UAE Tour. That was the case today. I was well in front at the last roundabout, because of the good work of the team. In the end, I squeezed into Mark Cavendish's wheel. A gap then opened up and I saw my chance."

The 22-year-old sprinter thus grabbed his second victory of the season, raising Team Visma | Lease a Bike's victory tally to three. "I rate this win highly. Not least because the competition here is also very strong. It is a very nice victory that gives me a lot of confidence towards the rest of my season. I'm pleased that I can now reward the work of the team. We came here for a stage win and we can now say that we succeeded," Kooij said.

Complete results:

182 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.920 km/hr

1	Olav Kooij	Visma | Lease a Bike	4hr 8min 38sec
2	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
3	Sam Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
4	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
5	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	s.t.
6	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
7	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
8	Tim Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
9	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
10	Fabio Jakobsen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
11	Sam Bennett	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
12	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
13	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
14	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
15	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
16	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
17	Mark Cavendish	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
18	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
19	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
20	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	s.t.
21	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
22	Jakub Mareczko	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
23	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
24	Arvid De Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
25	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
26	Elia Viviani	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
27	Ivan Romeo	Movistar	s.t.
28	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	s.t.
29	Andrii Ponomar	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
30	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
31	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
32	Samuele Zambelli	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
33	Michael Mørkøv	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
34	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
35	Kelland O'Brien	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
36	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
37	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
38	Christophe Noppe	Cofidis	s.t.
39	Bart Lemmen	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
40	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
41	Einer Rubio	Movistar	s.t.
42	Timo Roosen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
43	Attilio Viviani	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
44	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
45	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
46	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
47	Max Poole	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
48	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
49	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
50	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
51	Alexy Faure-Prost	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
52	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
53	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
54	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
55	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
56	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
57	Jesus David Peña	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
58	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
59	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
60	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
61	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	s.t.
62	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
63	Johannes Adamietz	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
64	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
65	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
66	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
67	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
68	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
69	Marco Murgano	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
70	Mark Stewart	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
71	Mick Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
72	Henri Vandenabeele	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
73	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
74	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
75	Davide Cimolai	Movistar	s.t.
76	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
77	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
78	Nils Brun	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
79	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
80	Martin López	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
81	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
82	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
83	Tosh Van Der Sande	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
84	Loe Van Belle	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
85	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
86	Eddy Finé	Cofidis	s.t.
87	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
88	Alessandro Monaco	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
89	Kenny Elissonde	Cofidis	s.t.
90	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
91	Simon Carr	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
92	Jan Maas	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
93	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
94	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar	s.t.
95	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
96	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
97	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
98	Nicolas Prodhomme	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
99	Aj August	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
100	Emanuel Buchmann	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
101	Attila Valter	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
102	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
103	Jason Osborne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
104	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	s.t.
105	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
106	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
107	Pelayo Sanchez	Movistar	s.t.
108	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
109	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
110	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
111	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
112	Remi Cavagna	Movistar	s.t.
113	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
114	Jordi Warlop	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
115	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
116	Valentin Retailleau	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
117	Boy Van Poppel	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
118	Rick Pluimers	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
119	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
120	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
121	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
122	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	@ 22sec
123	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
124	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	0:37
125	Julius Van Den Berg	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	0:48
126	Florian Stork	Tudor Pro Cycling	0:56
127	Enzo Leijnse	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	1:04
128	Tobias Lund Andresen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
129	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
130	Michael Schwarzmann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
131	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
132	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan	1:08
133	Gleb Syritsa	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
134	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	1:29
135	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	2:33

 

GC after stage 5:

• GC leader: Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates)
• Points classification leader: Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Best young rider: Ilan Van Wilder (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Teams classification leader: UAE Team Emirates

679.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.884 km/hr

1	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	15hr 50min 9sec
2	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:11
3	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	0:13
4	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	0:21
5	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	0:22
6	Max Poole	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	0:31
7	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	0:33
8	Simon Carr	EF Education-EasyPost	0:36
9	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto Dstny	0:37
10	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
11	Attila Valter	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:39
12	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling	0:41
13	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	0:49
14	Bart Lemmen	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:53
15	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	1:01
16	Martin López	Astana Qazaqstan	1:03
17	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
18	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:06
19	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	1:12
20	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	1:14
21	Jason Osborne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
22	Einer Rubio	Movistar	1:23
23	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	1:30
24	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
25	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	1:31
26	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	1:32
27	Alexy Faure-Prost	Intermarché-Wanty	1:52
28	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	2:02
29	Ivan Romeo	Movistar	2:22
30	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto Dstny	2:44
31	Pelayo Sanchez	Movistar	2:51
32	Kenny Elissonde	Cofidis	2:52
33	Nicolas Prodhomme	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	2:57
34	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	3:00
35	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	3:02
36	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:06
37	Jesus David Peña	Jayco-AlUla	3:30
38	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	3:34
39	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:35
40	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	4:10
41	Alessandro Monaco	Corratec-Vini Fantini	4:13
42	Emanuel Buchmann	Bora-hansgrohe	4:18
43	Mick Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	5:13
44	Johannes Adamietz	Lotto Dstny	5:16
45	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	5:19
46	Andrii Ponomar	Corratec-Vini Fantini	5:32
47	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	5:33
48	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	6:15
49	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	7:28
50	Tim Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	8:12
51	Kelland O'Brien	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
52	Remi Cavagna	Movistar	8:14
53	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	8:23
54	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	8:28
55	Loe Van Belle	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
56	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	8:32
57	Aj August	INEOS Grenadiers	8:38
58	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	8:51
59	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	8:55
60	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	8:56
61	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	9:10
62	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	9:17
63	Florian Stork	Tudor Pro Cycling	9:27
64	Valentin Retailleau	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	9:31
65	Marco Murgano	Corratec-Vini Fantini	9:38
66	Timo Roosen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	9:41
67	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	10:18
68	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar	11:03
69	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	11:07
70	Rick Pluimers	Tudor Pro Cycling	11:27
71	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
72	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	11:42
73	Jan Maas	Jayco-AlUla	11:52
74	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	11:54
75	Nils Brun	Tudor Pro Cycling	11:56
76	Tosh Van Der Sande	Visma | Lease a Bike	12:42
77	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	15:08
78	Eddy Finé	Cofidis	15:55
79	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	17:22
80	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling	17:59
81	Enzo Leijnse	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	18:07
82	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	18:11
83	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	18:17
84	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	18:19
85	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	18:23
86	Sam Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	18:24
87	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	18:25
88	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	18:28
89	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Dstny	18:30
90	Tobias Lund Andresen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	18:31
91	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
92	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	18:33
93	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	18:41
94	Mark Stewart	Corratec-Vini Fantini	18:43
95	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	18:46
96	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	18:47
97	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
98	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	18:48
99	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
100	Boy Van Poppel	Intermarché-Wanty	18:49
101	Elia Viviani	INEOS Grenadiers	18:51
102	Olav Kooij	Visma | Lease a Bike	18:52
103	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	18:53
104	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	18:54
105	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
106	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	18:55
107	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	18:59
108	Sam Bennett	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	19:00
109	Jordi Warlop	Soudal Quick-Step	19:03
110	Christophe Noppe	Cofidis	19:04
111	Davide Cimolai	Movistar	19:09
112	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
113	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	19:14
114	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	19:18
115	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious	19:25
116	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	19:26
117	Arvid De Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
118	Henri Vandenabeele	Lotto Dstny	19:34
119	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	19:51
120	Attilio Viviani	Corratec-Vini Fantini	19:57
121	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan	20:06
122	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	20:14
123	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	20:22
124	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	23:28
125	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	23:57
126	Fabio Jakobsen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	24:15
127	Julius Van Den Berg	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	24:31
128	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
129	Gleb Syritsa	Astana Qazaqstan	24:44
130	Michael Schwarzmann	Israel-Premier Tech	25:08
131	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	28:55
132	Mark Cavendish	Astana Qazaqstan	29:34
133	Michael Mørkøv	Astana Qazaqstan	29:40
134	Samuele Zambelli	Corratec-Vini Fantini	30:25:
135	Jakub Mareczko	Corratec-Vini Fantini	30:30

 

Stage 5 map & profile:

Stage 5 map

Sage 5 profile

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Thursday, February 22: Stage 4, Dubai Police Officer's Club - Dubai Harbor, 168 km

Stage 4 map & profile

The stage is Tim Merlier's. Photo: Getty Sport

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Weather at Dubai at 8:00 AM, local time: 20C (68F), fair, with the wind from the southeast at 8 km/hr (5 mph). The temperature is forecast to rise to 24C (76F) by 1:00 PM. There is just a 1% chance of rain.

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

Dubai Harbour, 22 February 2024 – Second sprint and second victory for Tim Merlier who, after winning the opening stage, took home also the Dubai Stage.

As it happened on the first day of the UAE Tour, the former Belgian National Champion took the lead in the sprint with just over 100 metres to go, keeping behind Arvid De Kleijn and Olav Kooij. No changes in the classifications as Jay Vine keeps the Red Jersey while Ilan Van Wilder still holds the White Jersey. Mark Stewart, in the breakaway for the third day out of three in company with Harm Vanhoucke, has increased his lead in the Green and Black Jersey Classifications.

Speaking seconds after the stage finish, the stage winner Tim Merlier said: “It might have looked easy but it wasn’t. Sprinting is never easy. With my team-mates we found each other really good today. They brought me in a very good position. In the last 500 metres I was waiting to start my sprint. I wanted to go early but I managed not to. Olav Kooij went first and I passed him. I love to win again. It’s nice to hear that I’m making history being the first sprinter to win two stages in two consecutive UAE Tour. I want to make more history in the next two days as the team is on the rails for more successes but it won’t be easy”.
The former Belgian National Champion becomes the most succesful rider in the history of the UAE Tour. Arvid De Kleijn, second placed as in the opening stage, and Olav Kooij complete today’s podiums

Complete results:

168 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.690 km/hr

1	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	4hr 1min 47sec
2	Arvid De Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
3	Olav Kooij	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
4	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	s.t.
5	Jakub Mareczko	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
6	Fabio Jakobsen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
7	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
8	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
9	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	s.t.
10	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
11	Sam Bennett	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
12	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
13	Michael Schwarzmann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
14	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
15	Gleb Syritsa	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
16	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
17	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
18	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
19	Attilio Viviani	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
20	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
21	Mark Cavendish	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
22	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
23	Boy Van Poppel	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
24	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
25	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
26	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	s.t.
27	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
28	Jesus David Peña	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
29	Julius Van Den Berg	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
30	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
31	Elia Viviani	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
32	Tobias Lund Andresen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
33	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
34	Timo Roosen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
35	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
36	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
37	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
38	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
39	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
40	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
41	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
42	Loe Van Belle	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
43	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
44	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	s.t.
45	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
46	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
47	Christophe Noppe	Cofidis	s.t.
48	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
49	Max Poole	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
50	Samuele Zambelli	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
51	Nicolas Prodhomme	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
52	Jason Osborne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
53	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
54	Eddy Finé	Cofidis	s.t.
55	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
56	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
57	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
58	Bart Lemmen	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
59	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
60	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
61	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
62	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
63	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
64	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
65	Ivan Romeo	Movistar	s.t.
66	Valentin Retailleau	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
67	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
68	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
69	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
70	Tosh Van Der Sande	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
71	Pelayo Sanchez	Movistar	s.t.
72	Davide Cimolai	Movistar	s.t.
73	Marco Murgano	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
74	Aj August	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
75	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
76	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
77	Alessandro Monaco	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
78	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
79	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
80	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
81	Mark Stewart	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
82	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
83	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
84	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
85	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
86	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
87	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
88	Mick Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
89	Jordi Warlop	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
90	Tim Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
91	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar	s.t.
92	Michael Mørkøv	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
93	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
94	Kelland O'Brien	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
95	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
96	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
97	Remi Cavagna	Movistar	s.t.
98	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
99	Attila Valter	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
100	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
101	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
102	Einer Rubio	Movistar	s.t.
103	Andrii Ponomar	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
104	Martin López	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
105	Kenny Elissonde	Cofidis	s.t.
106	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
107	Emanuel Buchmann	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
108	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
109	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
110	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
111	Henri Vandenabeele	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
112	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
113	Alexy Faure-Prost	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
114	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
115	Florian Stork	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
116	Jan Maas	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
117	Nils Brun	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
118	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
119	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
120	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
121	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
122	Simon Carr	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
123	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
124	Enzo Leijnse	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
125	Johannes Adamietz	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
126	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
127	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
128	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
129	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
130	Sam Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
131	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
132	Rick Pluimers	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
133	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
134	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
135	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	s.t.
136	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.

 

GC after stage 4:

• GC leader: Jay Vine: (UAE Team Emirates)
• Points classification leader: Mark Stewart (Corratec-Vini Fantini)
• Best young rider: Ilan Van Wilder (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Teams classification leader: UAE Team Emirates

497.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.517 km/hr

1	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	11hr 41min 31sec
2	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	@ 11sec
3	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	0:13
4	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	0:21
5	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	0:22
6	Max Poole	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	0:31
7	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	0:33
8	Simon Carr	EF Education-EasyPost	0:36
9	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	0:37
10	Attila Valter	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:39
11	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	0:40
12	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling	0:41
13	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto Dstny	0:43
14	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	0:49
15	Bart Lemmen	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:53
16	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	1:01
17	Martin López	Astana Qazaqstan	1:03
18	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
19	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:06
20	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	1:12
21	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	1:14
22	Jason Osborne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
23	Einer Rubio	Movistar	1:23
24	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	1:30
25	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
26	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	1:31
27	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	1:32
28	Alexy Faure-Prost	Intermarché-Wanty	1:52
29	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	2:02
30	Ivan Romeo	Movistar	2:22
31	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto Dstny	2:47
32	Pelayo Sanchez	Movistar	2:51
33	Kenny Elissonde	Cofidis	2:52
34	Nicolas Prodhomme	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	2:57
35	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	3:00
36	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	3:02
37	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:06
38	David Peña Jesus	Jayco-AlUla	3:30
39	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	3:34
40	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:35
41	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	4:10
42	Alessandro Monaco	Corratec-Vini Fantini	4:13
43	Emanuel Buchmann	Bora-hansgrohe	4:18
44	Mick Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	5:13
45	Johannes Adamietz	Lotto Dstny	5:16
46	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	5:19
47	Andrii Ponomar	Corratec-Vini Fantini	5:32
48	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	5:36
49	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	6:15
50	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	7:28
51	Tim Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	8:12
52	Kelland O'Brien	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
53	Remi Cavagna	Movistar	8:14
54	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	8:23
55	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	8:28
56	Loe Van Belle	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
57	Florian Stork	Tudor Pro Cycling	8:31
58	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	8:32
59	Aj August	INEOS Grenadiers	8:38
60	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	8:51
61	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	8:55
62	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	8:56
63	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	9:10
64	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	9:17
65	Valentin Retailleau	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	9:31
66	Marco Murgano	Corratec-Vini Fantini	9:38
67	Timo Roosen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	9:41
68	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	10:03
69	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	10:18
70	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar	11:03
71	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	11:05
72	Rick Pluimers	Tudor Pro Cycling	11:27
73	Stake Laengen Vegard	UAE Team Emirates	11:42
74	Jan Maas	Jayco-AlUla	11:52
75	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	11:54
76	Nils Brun	Tudor Pro Cycling	11:56
77	Tosh Van Der Sande	Visma | Lease a Bike	12:42
78	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	15:08
79	Eddy Finé	Cofidis	15:55
80	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	16:42
81	Enzo Leijnse	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	17:03
82	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	17:22
83	Tobias Lund Andresen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	17:27
84	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	17:49
85	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling	17:59
86	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	18:17
87	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	18:19
88	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	18:23
89	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	18:25
90	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	18:26
91	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	18:28
92	Sam Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
93	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Dstny	18:30
94	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	18:33
95	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	18:37
96	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	18:41
97	Mark Stewart	Corratec-Vini Fantini	18:43
98	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	18:46
99	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	18:47
100	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
101	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
102	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	18:48
103	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	18:49
104	Boy Van Poppel	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
105	Elia Viviani	INEOS Grenadiers	18:51
106	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	18:53
107	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	18:54
108	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
109	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	18:55
110	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan	18:58
111	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	18:59
112	Sam Bennett	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	19:00
113	Olav Kooij	Visma | Lease a Bike	19:02
114	Jordi Warlop	Soudal Quick-Step	19:03
115	Christophe Noppe	Cofidis	19:04
116	Davide Cimolai	Movistar	19:09
117	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
118	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	19:14
119	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	19:18
120	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious	19:25
121	Arvid De Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling	19:26
122	Henri Vandenabeele	Lotto Dstny	19:34
123	Attilio Viviani	Corratec-Vini Fantini	19:57
124	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	20:14
125	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	23:28
126	Gleb Syritsa	Astana Qazaqstan	23:36
127	Julius Van Den Berg	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	23:43
128	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	23:57
129	Michael Schwarzmann	Israel-Premier Tech	24:04
130	Fabio Jakobsen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	24:15
131	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates	24:31
132	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	28:55
133	Mark Cavendish	Astana Qazaqstan	29:34
134	Michael Mørkøv	Astana Qazaqstan	29:40
135	Samuele Zambelli	Corratec-Vini Fantini	30:25
136	Jakub Mareczko	Corratec-Vini Fantini	30:30:

 

Stage 4 map & profile:

UAE Tour stage 4 map

UAE Tour stage 4 profile

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Wednesday, February 21: Stage 3, Al Marjan Island - Jebel Jais, 176 km

Stage 3 map & profile

Ben O'Connor wins stage three. Getty photo

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Weather at the city of Ras al Khaimah (see map below) at 8:30 AM, local time: 21C (69F), fair, with the wind from the south-southeast at 11 km/hr (7 mph). No rain is forecast. The temperature is forecast to climb to 25C (74F) by noon.

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

The first uphill finish of the UAE Tour redefines the general classification of the sixth edition of the one and only UCI WorldTour race in the Middle East. Thanks to a superb lead out by his team-mate Valentin Paret-Paintre, it was Ben O’Connor who imposed himself atop of the 1489 metres of Jebel Jais, anticipating by 5" the comeback of the group in which almost all the main GC riders were included.

The Red Jersey has a new owner but remains in the same team (UAE Team Emirates) as Jay Vine, second at the finish, is now the new leader of the general classification. The pace that followed the attack by the Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team duo was too hard for Brandon McNulty who was dropped in the final 300 meters. The winner of yesterday’s time trial reached the finish line 14″ after Ben O’Connor and now he sits in 3rd place 13" behind Vine. Adam Yates, who crashed in the first half of the stage, was forced to abandon the race with just over 10km to go.

PRESS CONFERENCE
Speaking in the press conference, the stage winner Ben O’Connor said: “I asked Valentin Paret-Peintre] to just go full gas. I didn’t really thought about what we were doing. I didn’t want to go for the sprint. I had to go earlier. We got a gap and I had to hold on. My preparation for the season has been great. I won my first race in Murcia with echelons and we were three in the front group. Today was the first mountain test and it couldn’t go any better. To come here for racing is really really good. It’s nice to race for a sprinter [Sam Bennett] as well. We all get along here. It’s a WorldTour win and that’s where we’ve set the bar. I wanted to win a big stage”.

The new Red Jersey Jay Vine said: “My sights are always on winning. A surge came, I looked for Brandon, he started turning back and I heard on the radio “Jay you’ve got topull”. I carried to the front and I kept going flat out. The plan was for the team to take the red jersey home at the end of the week. We did pretty well to come away with me in the red jersey at the end of the day. Mikkel Bjerg rode a fantastic race keeping Brandon and myself at the front. In the last kilometre it was just giving everything till the finish. Adam Yates’ crash was a bit of a weird one, not on a pretty stressful part. I didn’t see it happen. But unfortunately he can’t remember hitting the ground. Hopefully he’s OK. The plan now is to retain the red jersey till the end with a rider from UAE Team Emirates it doesn’t matter who, but I’m sure there are hundred guys out there who have a different idea. It’s incredible that at my first race of the year I’m wearing a WorldTour leader jersey”.

Jay Vine is the new GC leader. Photo: Sprint Cycling Agency

The White Jersey Ilan Van Wilder said: “I’m satisfied to move two spots up on GC to fourth now. It was a nice actually. I was up front in the echelons thanks to my team-mates also. I tried to go for the victory but I exploded a bit when I tried to go in the wheel of Jay Vine. I’d like to make the final podium but even on the flat stages I’ll have to stay very attentive”.

The Green Jersey and Black Jersey holder Mark Stewart said: “It’s pretty special to get the green jersey after three stages. I knew it was possible but it’s not often that things actually go your way. There were a few guys interested in the green jersey competition and I wasn’t sure if they’d let me get in the breakaway. The initial breakaway was quite easy with myself and Silvan Dillier. I picked up the first points then the crosswinds happened. I had to stay in the front group and fight hard for the second intermediate sprint. For a small team and even a small rider like myself, to be presented with the Green Jersey and be able to compete with these top riders, it’s a great honour”.

Complete results:

176 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.194 km/hr

1	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	4hr 16min 21sec
2	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	@ 5sec
3	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
4	Max Poole	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
5	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
6	Attila Valter	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
7	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
8	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
9	Einer Rubio	Movistar	s.t.
10	Simon Carr	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
11	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
12	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
13	Jason Osborne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
14	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	0:12
15	Martin López	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
16	Bart Lemmen	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
17	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	0:14
18	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
19	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	0:20
20	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
21	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
22	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
23	Alexy Faure-Prost	Intermarché-Wanty	0:23
24	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	0:25
25	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	0:28
26	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	0:34
27	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
28	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	0:43
29	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
30	Kenny Elissonde	Cofidis	1:15
31	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	1:28
32	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto Dstny	1:56
33	David Peña Jesus	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
34	Nicolas Prodhomme	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	1:59
35	Ivan Romeo	Movistar	2:02
36	Pelayo Sanchez	Movistar	s.t.
37	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	2:13
38	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
39	Alessandro Monaco	Corratec-Vini Fantini	2:17
40	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	2:19
41	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	3:00
42	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:16
43	Emanuel Buchmann	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
44	Johannes Adamietz	Lotto Dstny	3:39
45	Andrii Ponomar	Corratec-Vini Fantini	3:54
46	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
47	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	4:38
48	Mick Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
49	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	s.t.
50	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	5:48
51	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	7:48
52	Remi Cavagna	Movistar	s.t.
53	Loe Van Belle	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
54	Tim Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
55	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
56	Marco Murgano	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
57	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
58	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
59	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
60	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
61	Valentin Retailleau	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
62	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
63	Aj August	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
64	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
65	Florian Stork	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
66	Kelland O'Brien	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
67	Timo Roosen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	8:01
68	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	8:47
69	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	9:04
70	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	10:32
71	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
72	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar	s.t.
73	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
74	Nils Brun	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
75	Jan Maas	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
76	Rick Pluimers	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
77	Tosh Van Der Sande	Visma | Lease a Bike	11:17
78	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	13:57
79	Eddy Finé	Cofidis	s.t.
80	Enzo Leijnse	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	16:15
81	Tobias Lund Andresen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
82	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
83	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
84	Sam Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	17:31
85	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
86	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
87	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
88	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
89	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
90	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
91	Boy Van Poppel	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
92	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	s.t.
93	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
94	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
95	Henri Vandenabeele	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
96	Sam Bennett	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
97	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	s.t.
98	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
99	Attilio Viviani	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
100	Elia Viviani	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
101	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
102	Davide Cimolai	Movistar	s.t.
103	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
104	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
105	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
106	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	s.t.
107	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
108	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
109	Christophe Noppe	Cofidis	s.t.
110	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
111	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
112	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
113	Jordi Warlop	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
114	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
115	Olav Kooij	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
116	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
117	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
118	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
119	Arvid De Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
120	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
121	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
122	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
123	Mark Stewart	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
124	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	19:15
125	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	22:20
126	Michael Schwarzmann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
127	Fabio Jakobsen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	22:48
128	Julius Van Den Berg	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
129	Gleb Syritsa	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
130	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates	23:22
131	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
132	Michael Mørkøv	Astana Qazaqstan	27:57
133	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
134	Mark Cavendish	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
135	Samuele Zambelli	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
136	Jakub Mareczko	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.

 

GC after stage 3:

• GC leader: Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates)
• Points classification leader: Mark Stewart (Corratec-Vini Fantini)
• Best young rider: Ilan Van Wilder (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Teams classification leader: UAE Team Emirates

329.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.951 km/hr

1	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	7:39:44
2	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	11
3	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	13
4	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	21
5	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	22
6	Max Poole	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	31
7	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	33
8	Simon Carr	EF Education-EasyPost	36
9	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	37
10	Attila Valter	Visma | Lease a Bike	39
11	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	40
12	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling	41
13	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto Dstny	43
14	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	49
15	Bart Lemmen	Visma | Lease a Bike	53
16	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	1:01
17	Martin López	Astana Qazaqstan	1:03
18	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
19	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:06
20	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	1:12
21	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	1:14
22	Jason Osborne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
23	Einer Rubio	Movistar	1:23
24	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	1:30
25	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
26	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	1:31
27	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	1:32
28	Alexy Faure-Prost	Intermarché-Wanty	1:52
29	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	2:02
30	Ivan Romeo	Movistar	2:22
31	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto Dstny	2:51
32	Pelayo Sanchez	Movistar	s.t.
33	Kenny Elissonde	Cofidis	2:52
34	Nicolas Prodhomme	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	2:57
35	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	3:00
36	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	3:02
37	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:06
38	David Peña Jesus	Jayco-AlUla	3:30
39	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	3:34
40	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:35
41	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	4:10
42	Alessandro Monaco	Corratec-Vini Fantini	4:13
43	Emanuel Buchmann	Bora-hansgrohe	4:18
44	Mick Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	5:13
45	Johannes Adamietz	Lotto Dstny	5:16
46	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	5:19
47	Andrii Ponomar	Corratec-Vini Fantini	5:32
48	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	5:36
49	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	6:15
50	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	7:28
51	Tim Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	8:12
52	Kelland O'Brien	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
53	Remi Cavagna	Movistar	8:14
54	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	8:23
55	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	8:28
56	Loe Van Belle	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
57	Florian Stork	Tudor Pro Cycling	8:31
58	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	8:32
59	Aj August	INEOS Grenadiers	8:38
60	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	8:51
61	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	8:55
62	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	8:56
63	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	9:10
64	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	9:17
65	Valentin Retailleau	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	9:31
66	Marco Murgano	Corratec-Vini Fantini	9:38
67	Timo Roosen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	9:41
68	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	10:03
69	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	10:18
70	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar	11:03
71	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	11:05
72	Rick Pluimers	Tudor Pro Cycling	11:27
73	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	11:42
74	Jan Maas	Jayco-AlUla	11:52
75	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	11:54
76	Nils Brun	Tudor Pro Cycling	11:56
77	Tosh Van Der Sande	Visma | Lease a Bike	12:42
78	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	15:08
79	Eddy Finé	Cofidis	15:55
80	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	16:42
81	Enzo Leijnse	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	17:03
82	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	17:22
83	Tobias Lund Andresen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	17:27
84	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	17:49
85	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling	17:59
86	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	18:17
87	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	18:19
88	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	18:23
89	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	18:25
90	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	18:26
91	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	18:28
92	Sam Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
93	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Dstny	18:30
94	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	18:33
95	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	18:41
96	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	18:46
97	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	18:47
98	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
99	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
100	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
101	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	18:48
102	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	18:49
103	Mark Stewart	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
104	Boy Van Poppel	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
105	Elia Viviani	INEOS Grenadiers	18:51
106	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	18:53
107	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	18:54
108	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
109	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	18:55
110	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan	18:58
111	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	18:59
112	Sam Bennett	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	19:00
113	Jordi Warlop	Soudal Quick-Step	19:03
114	Christophe Noppe	Cofidis	19:04
115	Olav Kooij	Visma | Lease a Bike	19:06
116	Davide Cimolai	Movistar	19:09
117	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
118	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	19:14
119	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	19:18
120	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious	19:26
121	Arvid De Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling	19:32
122	Henri Vandenabeele	Lotto Dstny	19:34
123	Attilio Viviani	Corratec-Vini Fantini	19:57
124	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	20:14
125	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	23:28
126	Gleb Syritsa	Astana Qazaqstan	23:36
127	Julius Van Den Berg	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	23:43
128	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	23:57
129	Michael Schwarzmann	Israel-Premier Tech	24:04:00
130	Fabio Jakobsen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	24:15:00
131	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates	24:32:00
132	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	28:55:00
133	Mark Cavendish	Astana Qazaqstan	29:34:00
134	Michael Mørkøv	Astana Qazaqstan	29:40:00
135	Samuele Zambelli	Corratec-Vini Fantini	30:25:00
136	Jakub Mareczko	Corratec-Vini Fantini	30:30:00

 

Stage 3 map & profile:

Stage 3 map

Stage 3 profile

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Tuesday, February 20: Stage 2, Hudayriyat Island 12.1 km individual time trial

Stage 2 map & profile

Brandon McNulty on his way to winning the stage and taking over the GC lead. UAE Team Emirates photo

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Weather at Hudayriyat Island at 9:00 AM, local time: 21C (70F), fair, with the wind from the northwest at 3 km/hr (2 mph). The temperature is expected to climb to 23C (74F) by 1:00 PM. There is just a 1% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the report from winner Brandon McNulty's UAE team Emirates:

UAE Team Emirates dominated the ITT at Al Hudayriyat Island (12,1 km) with Brandon McNulty taking first place in 13’27”, followed by teammates Jay Vine (+2”) and Mikkel Bjerg (+4”). There was a solid performance by Adam Yates also who put in a highly respectable time (16th, + 28”).

The hat-trick was facilitated by the foresight of the team’s sports directors of scheduling the start of the three riders in the early part of the day when course conditions were most favourable. McNulty rode at a blistering speed of 53,9788 km/h.

McNulty, new leader of the UAE Tour ahead of team mates Vine and Bjerg: “The team decided to put the best three time trialist out first in the starting order and it paid off, I guess.

"I am satisfied with my performance. I had good speed and I won the time trial, that was what I wanted. It’s great that we got three of our team on the podium.
Tomorrow’s stage will be demanding, the climb is tough but our team has good climbers so we are confident”.

Brandon McNulty will start stage three in the GC leader's red jersey.

Stage 3 (176 km) will start from Al Marjan Island and it will end on the summit finish of Jebel Jais (19 km at 5,6%).

Complete Results:

12.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 53.979 km/hr

1	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	13min 27sec
2	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	@ 2sec
3	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	0:04
4	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	0:14
5	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	0:16
6	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	0:17
7	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	0:19
8	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
9	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:20
10	Ivan Romeo	Movistar	0:21
11	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:22
12	Tim Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:25
13	Kelland O'Brien	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
14	Max Poole	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	0:27
15	Remi Cavagna	Movistar	s.t.
16	Adam Yates	UAE Team Emirates	0:28
17	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
18	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:29
19	Simon Carr	EF Education-EasyPost	0:32
20	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar	s.t.
21	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	0:34
22	Attila Valter	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:35
23	Mick Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:36
24	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
25	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
26	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:37
27	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	0:38
28	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	0:41
29	Loe Van Belle	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:42
30	Bart Lemmen	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
31	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto Dstny	0:43
32	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	0:44
32	Florian Stork	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
34	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	0:45
35	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	0:47
36	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	0:48
37	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
38	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	0:49
39	Enzo Leijnse	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
40	Gleb Syritsa	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
41	Pelayo Sanchez	Movistar	0:50
42	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
43	Aj August	INEOS Grenadiers	0:51
44	Martin López	Astana Qazaqstan	0:52
45	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	0:53
46	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	0:55
47	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
48	Julius Van Den Berg	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	0:56
49	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
50	Rick Pluimers	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
51	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
52	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	0:57
53	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	0:58
54	Sam Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
55	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	0:59
56	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
57	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
58	Nicolas Prodhomme	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
59	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
60	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Dstny	1:00
61	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
62	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
63	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:02
64	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	1:03
65	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
66	Emanuel Buchmann	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
67	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	1:04
68	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	1:08
69	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
70	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:09
71	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
72	Jason Osborne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:10
73	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	1:11
74	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
75	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
76	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	1:12
77	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
78	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates	1:13
79	Tobias Lund Andresen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
80	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	1:16
81	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	s.t.
82	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	1:17
83	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
84	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
85	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	1:18
86	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	1:19
87	Boy Van Poppel	Intermarché-Wanty	1:19
88	Einer Rubio	Movistar	s.t.
89	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	1:20
90	Jan Maas	Jayco-AlUla	1:21
91	Elia Viviani	INEOS Grenadiers	1:22
92	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:23
93	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	s.t.
94	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	1:24
95	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
96	Nils Brun	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:25
97	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
98	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
99	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	1:26
100	Tosh Van Der Sande	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
101	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	1:27
102	Fabio Jakobsen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	1:28
103	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
104	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	1:29
105	Alexy Faure-Prost	Intermarché-Wanty	1:30
106	Sam Bennett	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
107	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
108	Mark Stewart	Corratec-Vini Fantini	1:31
109	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	1:32
110	Jordi Warlop	Soudal Quick-Step	1:33
111	Christophe Noppe	Cofidis	1:34
112	Jesus David Peña	Jayco-AlUla	1:35
113	Olav Kooij	Visma | Lease a Bike	1:36
114	Kenny Elissonde	Cofidis	1:38
115	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	s.t.
116	Johannes Adamietz	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
117	Mark Cavendish	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
118	Davide Cimolai	Movistar	1:39
119	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
120	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
121	Andrii Ponomar	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
122	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	1:41
123	Timo Roosen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
124	Valentin Retailleau	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	1:44
125	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	s.t.
126	Michael Mørkøv	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
127	Michael Schwarzmann	Israel-Premier Tech	1:45
128	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	1:48
129	Marco Murgano	Corratec-Vini Fantini	1:55
130	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious	1:57
131	Alessandro Monaco	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
132	Eddy Finé	Cofidis	1:59
133	Henri Vandenabeele	Lotto Dstny	2:04
134	Arvid De Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:08
135	Attilio Viviani	Corratec-Vini Fantini	2:27
136	Samuele Zambelli	Corratec-Vini Fantini	2:29
137	Jakub Mareczko	Corratec-Vini Fantini	2:39

 

GC after stage 2:

• GC leader: Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates)
• Points classification leader: Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates)
• Best young rider: Ilan Van Wilder (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Teams classification leader: UAE Team Emirates

153.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 45.170 km/hr

1	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	3hr 23min 22sec
2	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	@ 2sec
3	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	0:04
4	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	0:14
5	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	0:16
6	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	0:17
7	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	0:18
8	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	0:19
9	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:20
10	Ivan Romeo	Movistar	0:21
11	Ben O'Connor	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:22
12	Tim Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:25
13	Kelland O'Brien	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
14	Max Poole	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	0:27
15	Remi Cavagna	Movistar	s.t.
16	Adam Yates	UAE Team Emirates	0:28
17	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
18	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:29
19	Simon Carr	EF Education-EasyPost	0:32
20	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar	s.t.
21	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	0:34
22	Attila Valter	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:35
23	Mick Van Dijke	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:36
24	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
25	Óscar Rodríguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
26	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:37
27	Brandon Rivera	INEOS Grenadiers	0:38
28	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	0:41
29	Loe Van Belle	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
30	Bart Lemmen	Visma | Lease a Bike	0:42
31	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto Dstny	0:43
32	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	0:44
33	Florian Stork	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
34	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	0:45
35	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	0:47
36	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	0:48
37	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
38	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	0:49
39	Enzo Leijnse	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
40	Gleb Syritsa	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
41	Pelayo Sanchez	Movistar	0:50
42	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
43	Aj August	INEOS Grenadiers	0:51
44	Martin López	Astana Qazaqstan	0:52
45	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	0:53
46	Carlos Verona	Lidl-Trek	0:55
47	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
48	Julius Van Den Berg	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	0:56
49	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
50	Rick Pluimers	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
51	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
52	Mauri Vansevenant	Soudal Quick-Step	0:57
53	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	0:58
54	Sam Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
55	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	0:59
56	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
57	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
58	Nicolas Prodhomme	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
59	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
60	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Dstny	1:00
61	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
62	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
63	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:02
64	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	1:03
65	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
66	Emanuel Buchmann	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
67	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	1:04
68	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	1:08
69	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
70	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:09
71	Pascal Ackermann	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
72	Jason Osborne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:10
73	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	1:11
74	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
75	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
76	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	1:12
77	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
78	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates	1:13
79	Tobias Lund Andresen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
80	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	1:16
81	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	s.t.
82	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	1:17
83	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
84	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
85	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
86	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	1:18
87	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	1:19
88	Boy Van Poppel	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
89	Einer Rubio	Movistar	s.t.
90	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty	1:20
91	Jan Maas	Jayco-AlUla	1:21
92	Elia Viviani	INEOS Grenadiers	1:22
93	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:23
94	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	s.t.
95	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	1:24
96	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
97	Mark Stewart	Corratec-Vini Fantini	1:25
98	Nils Brun	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
99	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
100	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
101	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	1:26
102	Tosh Van Der Sande	Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
103	Fabio Jakobsen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	1:28
104	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
105	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	1:29
106	Alexy Faure-Prost	Intermarché-Wanty	1:30
107	Sam Bennett	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
108	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
109	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	1:32
110	Jordi Warlop	Soudal Quick-Step	1:33
111	Christophe Noppe	Cofidis	1:34
112	Jesus David Peña	Jayco-AlUla	1:35
113	Olav Kooij	Visma | Lease a Bike	1:36
114	Kenny Elissonde	Cofidis	1:38
115	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	s.t.
116	Johannes Adamietz	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
117	Mark Cavendish	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
118	Davide Cimolai	Movistar	1:39
119	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
120	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
121	Andrii Ponomar	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
122	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	1:41
123	Timo Roosen	dsm-firmenich-PostNL	s.t.
124	Valentin Retailleau	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	1:44
125	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	s.t.
126	Michael Mørkøv	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
127	Michael Schwarzmann	Israel-Premier Tech	1:45
128	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	1:48
129	Marco Murgano	Corratec-Vini Fantini	1:51
130	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious	1:57
131	Alessandro Monaco	Corratec-Vini Fantini	s.t.
132	Eddy Finé	Cofidis	1:59
133	Arvid De Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:02
134	Henri Vandenabeele	Lotto Dstny	2:04
135	Attilio Viviani	Corratec-Vini Fantini	2:27
136	Samuele Zambelli	Corratec-Vini Fantini	2:29
137	Jakub Mareczko	Corratec-Vini Fantini	2:34

 

Stage 2 map & profile:

Stage 2 map

Stage 2 profile