2023 Danmark Rundt - Tour of Denmark (2.Pro)

32nd edition: August 15 - 19, 2023

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Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5

2023 Tour of Denmark overall map.

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Saturday, August 19: 5th & Final Stage, Helsingør 16.1 km individual time trial

Stage 5 map & profile

Mads Pedersen wins the stage and the 2023 Tour of Denmark.

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Weather at the finish city of Helsingør at 1:25 PM, local time: 24C (76F), fair, with the wind from the southeast at 21 km/hr (13 mph). There is a 2% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the report from Team Soudal Quick-Step.

The last stage of the Danmark Rundt scheduled a completely flat and non-technical 16.1km individual time trial, and Soudal Quick-Step was again prominent, after the pair of victories that Fabio Jakobsen racked up on the previous days of the competition.

One of the early starters, Josef Cerny put up a solid ITT that allowed him to go into the hot seat for an hour, before his result was improved by one of the home riders. Later into the stage, it was the turn of Casper Pedersen to show again what he’s capable of on a course like this, and the Dane didn’t disappoint, producing a solid effort that netted him seventh on the stage classification in Helsingør.

It was the 27-year-old’s third top ten of the season in an individual time trial, after the ones in Tirreno-Adriatico and the Belgium To

Complete results:

16.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 54.168 km/hr

1	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	17min 50sec
2	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	@ 24sec
3	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	0:33
4	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	0:35
5	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	0:45
6	Niklas Larsen	Uno-X	0:50
7	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	0:54
8	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	0:58
9	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Dstny	1:00
10	Frederik Muff	Team Coloquick	s.t.
11	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
12	Mathias Bregnhøj	Leopard TOGT	1:01
13	Alexander Kamp	Tudor Pro Cycling	1:02
14	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Dstny	1:05
15	Magnus Bak Klaris	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	1:06
16	Lasse Norman Leth	Uno-X	1:09
17	Jenno Berckmoes	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
18	Andreas Stokbro	Leopard TOGT	1:10
19	Logan Currie	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	1:12
20	Miguel Heidemann	Leopard TOGT	1:13
21	Stefan De Bod	EF Education-EasyPost	1:14
22	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
23	Florian Stork	Team dsm-firmenich	1:17
24	Aivaras Mikutis	Tudor Pro Cycling	1:18
25	Tobias Svarre	Team Coloquick	1:19
26	Enzo Leijnse	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
27	Sébastien Grignard	Lotto Dstny	1:20
28	Marco Brenner	Team dsm-firmenich	1:21
29	Søren Kragh Andersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:22
30	Henrik Pedersen	Team Coloquick	1:27
31	Simon Bak	Team Coloquick	1:28
32	Mads Østergaard	Leopard TOGT	1:31
33	Szymon Sajnok	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	1:32
34	Michael Mørkøv	Soudal Quick-Step	1:34
35	Nicola Conci	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:35
36	Mark Stewart	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	1:38
37	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:39
38	Robin Juel Skivild	Leopard TOGT	1:40
39	Mikkel Honore	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
40	Thomas Scully	EF Education-EasyPost	1:41
41	James Oram	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
42	Marcin Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	1:42
43	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	1:43
44	Joshua Giddings	Lotto Dstny	1:44
45	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team dsm-firmenich	1:45
46	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	1:46
47	Tobias Ludvigsson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	1:47
48	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	1:48
49	Riccardo Lucca	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	1:49
50	Charles-Etienne Chrétien	Human Powered Health	1:50
51	Nikolaj Mengel	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	1:51
52	Vito Braet	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
53	Louis Bendixen	Uno-X	1:52
54	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	1:55
55	Martin Toft Madsen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	1:56
56	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
57	Jack Bauer	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	1:57
58	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
59	Jensen Plowright	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:59
60	Rasmus Bøgh Wallin	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
61	Matyas Kopecky	Team Novo Nordisk	2:00
62	Boas Lysgaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
63	Simon Pellaud	Tudor Pro Cycling	2:02
64	Ruben Apers	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
65	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:04
66	Alan Banaszek	Human Powered Health	2:05
67	Jeppe Aaskov Pallesen	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	2:07
68	Matteo Moschetti	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	2:10
69	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	2:13
70	Tuur Dens	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
71	Jakub Kaczmarek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	2:17
72	William Blume Levy	Uno-X	2:19
73	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	2:21
74	Luca Paletti	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	2:22
75	Emil Vinjebo	Leopard TOGT	2:23
76	Luc Wirtgen	Tudor Pro Cycling	2:24
77	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
78	Nicklas Pedersen	Team Coloquick	2:26
79	Frederik Jensen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
80	Mathias Larsen	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	2:27
81	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Human Powered Health	2:28
82	Kasper Andersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
83	Nicolò Parisini	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	2:30
84	Kevin Biehl	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	2:31
85	Oscar Bluhm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	2:32
86	Filippo Ridolfo	Team Novo Nordisk	2:33
87	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
88	Martijn Tusveld	Team dsm-firmenich	2:36
89	Tomasz Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
90	Alexander Salby	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	2:41
91	Anthon Charmig	Uno-X	2:43
92	Jakob Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	2:44
93	Peter Kusztor	Team Novo Nordisk	2:47
94	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:53
95	Wessel Krul	Human Powered Health	s.t.
96	Emil Toudal	Team Coloquick	2:55
97	Alessio Nieri	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	2:57
98	Luca Colnaghi	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
99	Mads-Emil Hougaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	3:00
100	Sebastian Nielsen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
101	Jules Hesters	Team Flanders-Baloise	3:04
102	Andrea Peron	Team Novo Nordisk	3:09
103	Declan Irvine	Team Novo Nordisk	3:11
104	Hamish Beadle	Team Novo Nordisk	3:13
105	Axel De Lie	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
106	Norbert Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	3:15
107	Luca Rastelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	3:16
108	Alessandro Santaromita	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	3:18
109	Stephen Bassett	Human Powered Health	3:27
110	Harry Sweeny	Lotto Dstny	3:30
111	Jacob Schebye	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	3:31
112	Quinten De Graeve	Team Novo Nordisk	3:36
113	James Fouche	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	3:40
114	Luke Mudgway	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	3:41
115	Tobiasz Pawlak	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	3:48
116	Julius Johansen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	3:49
117	Adrian Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
118	Alfred Grenaae	Uno-X	3:52
119	Emil Schandorff Iwersen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	3:53
120	Barnabas Peak	Human Powered Health	3:54
121	Fabio Jakobsen	Soudal Quick-Step	3:58
122	Daniel Stampe	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	3:59
123	Filippo Magli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	4:05

 

Final GC after stage 5:

• GC winner: Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek)
• Mountains classification winner: Niklas Pedersen (Team ColoQuick)
• Points classification winner: Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek)
• Best young rider: Logan Currie (Bolton Equities-Black Spoke)
• Teams classification winner: Lidl-Trek

729.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.374 km/hr

1	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	16hr 49min 16sec
2	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	@ 41sec
3	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	1:18
4	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	1:29
5	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Dstny	2:03
6	Alexander Kamp	Tudor Pro Cycling	2:12
7	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Dstny	2:27
8	Mathias Bregnhøj	Leopard TOGT	2:28
9	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	2:29
10	Magnus Bak Klaris	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	2:33
11	Nicola Conci	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:35
12	Andreas Stokbro	Leopard TOGT	2:43
13	Stefan De Bod	EF Education-EasyPost	2:49
14	Logan Currie	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	2:50
15	Simon Bak	Team Coloquick	3:03
16	Marcin Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	3:12
17	Vito Braet	Team Flanders-Baloise	3:18
18	Tobias Svarre	Team Coloquick	s.t.
19	Ruben Apers	Team Flanders-Baloise	3:32
20	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:33
21	Jakub Kaczmarek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	3:50
22	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	3:50
23	Kasper Andersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	4:03
24	Tomasz Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	4:14
25	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	4:43
26	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	5:17
27	Filippo Magli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	5:40
28	Matyas Kopecky	Team Novo Nordisk	5:59
29	Søren Kragh Andersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	7:04
30	Niklas Larsen	Uno-X	7:37
31	Jenno Berckmoes	Team Flanders-Baloise	7:49
32	Florian Stork	Team dsm-firmenich	7:59
33	Robin Juel Skivild	Leopard TOGT	8:02
34	Mikkel Honore	EF Education-EasyPost	8:16
35	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	8:43
36	Anthon Charmig	Uno-X	9:13
37	Simon Pellaud	Tudor Pro Cycling	9:16
38	Charles-Etienne Chrétien	Human Powered Health	9:53
39	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	9:56
40	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	10:07
41	Marco Brenner	Team dsm-firmenich	10:17
42	Sébastien Grignard	Lotto Dstny	11:20
43	Luca Colnaghi	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	11:33
44	Emil Vinjebo	Leopard TOGT	12:03
45	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	12:34
46	Julius Johansen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	12:45
47	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	12:56
48	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	13:14
49	Harry Sweeny	Lotto Dstny	13:42
50	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	13:51
51	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	14:44
52	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team dsm-firmenich	14:45
53	Szymon Sajnok	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	15:24
54	Stephen Bassett	Human Powered Health	16:08
55	Michael Mørkøv	Soudal Quick-Step	16:30
56	Mark Stewart	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	17:02
57	Fabio Jakobsen	Soudal Quick-Step	17:03
58	Jack Bauer	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	17:22
59	Alessandro Santaromita	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	18:20
60	Filippo Ridolfo	Team Novo Nordisk	18:28
61	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	19:52
62	Jeppe Aaskov Pallesen	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	20:28
63	Frederik Jensen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	20:36
64	Matteo Moschetti	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	20:40
65	Luca Rastelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	21:42
66	Andrea Peron	Team Novo Nordisk	22:48
67	Henrik Pedersen	Team Coloquick	22:50
68	Daniel Stampe	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	22:51
69	Nicklas Pedersen	Team Coloquick	22:57
70	James Fouche	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	23:35
71	Luca Paletti	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	23:49
72	Miguel Heidemann	Leopard TOGT	24:12
73	James Oram	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	24:27
74	Sebastian Nielsen	Team Coloquick	24:42
75	Alexander Salby	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	24:44
76	Tobias Ludvigsson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	25:17
77	Riccardo Lucca	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	25:34
78	Nikolaj Mengel	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	26:19
79	Kevin Biehl	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	26:36
80	Jensen Plowright	Alpecin-Deceuninck	26:53
81	Luke Mudgway	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	26:56
82	Mads-Emil Hougaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	27:05
83	Martijn Tusveld	Team dsm-firmenich	27:18
84	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	28:36
85	William Blume Levy	Uno-X	29:00
86	Louis Bendixen	Uno-X	29:20
87	Lasse Norman Leth	Uno-X	30:17
88	Luc Wirtgen	Tudor Pro Cycling	30:23
89	Rasmus Bøgh Wallin	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	30:33
90	Thomas Scully	EF Education-EasyPost	30:45
91	Emil Schandorff Iwersen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	30:58
92	Nicolò Parisini	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	31:42
93	Alessio Nieri	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	31:52
94	Tuur Dens	Team Flanders-Baloise	32:28
95	Norbert Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	32:38
96	Declan Irvine	Team Novo Nordisk	32:47
97	Mads Østergaard	Leopard TOGT	32:48
98	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Human Powered Health	32:51
99	Jacob Schebye	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	32:52
100	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	33:14
101	Enzo Leijnse	Team dsm-firmenich	33:16
102	Joshua Giddings	Lotto Dstny	33:18
103	Boas Lysgaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	34:17
104	Alan Banaszek	Human Powered Health	34:43
105	Jakob Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	34:46
106	Aivaras Mikutis	Tudor Pro Cycling	35:00
107	Oscar Bluhm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	35:25
108	Emil Toudal	Team Coloquick	36:00
109	Wessel Krul	Human Powered Health	36:30
110	Barnabas Peak	Human Powered Health	37:36
111	Quinten De Graeve	Team Novo Nordisk	37:57
112	Alfred Grenaae	Uno-X	38:52
113	Hamish Beadle	Team Novo Nordisk	40:26
114	Peter Kusztor	Team Novo Nordisk	41:55
115	Jules Hesters	Team Flanders-Baloise	43:06
116	Axel De Lie	Lotto Dstny	43:32
117	Tobiasz Pawlak	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	43:37
118	Martin Toft Madsen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	45:06
119	Frederik Muff	Team Coloquick	45:07
120	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	47:08
121	Mathias Larsen	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	47:15
122	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	50:52
123	Adrian Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	53:01

 

Stage 5 map & profile:

Stage 5 map

Stage 5 profile

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Friday, August 18: Stage 4, Kalundborg - Bagsvaerd, 178.4 km

Stage 4 map & profile

Fabio Jakobsen (white jersey) wins stage 4.

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Weather at the finish city of Bagsvaerd at 2:00 PM, local time: 22C (81F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the east at 13 km/hr (8 mph). There is just a 4% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner Fabio Jakobsen's Team Soudal Quick-Step.

For the 11th time in the last twelve years – the only exception being 2020, when many races got cancelled due to the pandemic – Soudal Quick-Step made it to 40 successes, the most recent milestone being recorded Friday afternoon, courtesy of a truly unstoppable Fabio Jakobsen.

The European Champion confirmed he is the best sprinter at the Danmark Rundt, winning stage four by a clear margin after another superb lead-out. If two days ago it was Casper Pedersen who launched him to victory, this time Michael Mørkøv was on lead-out duties, and the experienced Dane showed again there’s a reason why he’s one of the best in the business.

Coming off Michael’s wheel with around 200 meters to go, Jakobsen blasted past all the other riders as he dashed to his 45th victory in the pro ranks and his seventh of the season – a result that puts the 26-year-old Dutchman in the Danmark Rundt points classification jersey with one stage to go – the individual time trial in Helsingør.

“I am happy with my two victories here this week, which wouldn’t have been possible without the help of my teammates, to whom I want to thank for their incredible work. Having such a great squad around you gives a lot of confidence and makes it a lot easier in the finale, and I am delighted I could repay their confidence and amazing effort. The fact that today’s success was Soudal Quick-Step’s 40th win of the season is just the icing on the cake”, Fabio said after the stage that concluded in Bagsvaerd.

Complete results:

178.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.489 km/hr

1	Fabio Jakobsen	Soudal Quick-Step	4hr 0min 38sec
2	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
3	Luca Colnaghi	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
4	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	s.t.
5	Jensen Plowright	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
6	Alexander Salby	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
7	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
8	Matteo Moschetti	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
9	Andrea Peron	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
10	Sebastian Nielsen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
11	Tuur Dens	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
12	Alan Banaszek	Human Powered Health	s.t.
13	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
14	Matyas Kopecky	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
15	Nicklas Pedersen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
16	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
17	Wessel Krul	Human Powered Health	s.t.
18	Vito Braet	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
19	James Fouche	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
20	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
21	Norbert Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
22	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
23	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
24	Ruben Apers	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
25	Daniel Stampe	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
26	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
27	Joshua Giddings	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
28	Magnus Bak Klaris	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
29	Mathias Bregnhøj	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
30	Henrik Pedersen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
31	Frederik Jensen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
32	Logan Currie	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	@ 8sec
33	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
34	Luke Mudgway	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
35	Luca Rastelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
36	Marcin Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
37	Charles-Etienne Chrétien	Human Powered Health	s.t.
38	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
39	Robin Juel Skivild	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
40	Andreas Stokbro	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
41	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Human Powered Health	s.t.
42	Sébastien Grignard	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
43	Jakub Kaczmarek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
44	Boas Lysgaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
45	Julius Johansen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
46	Simon Bak	Team Coloquick	s.t.
47	Kasper Andersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
48	Tomasz Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
49	Stefan De Bod	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
50	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
51	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
52	Marco Brenner	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
53	Nicola Conci	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
54	Filippo Magli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
55	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
56	Tobias Svarre	Team Coloquick	0:13
57	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
58	Luca Paletti	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
59	Alexander Kamp	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
60	Mikkel Honore	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
61	Jacob Schebye	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
62	Declan Irvine	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
63	Tim Declercq	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
64	Jenno Berckmoes	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
65	Kevin Biehl	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
66	Oscar Bluhm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
67	Michael Mørkøv	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
68	Anthon Charmig	Uno-X	s.t.
69	Simon Pellaud	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
70	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
71	Filippo Ridolfo	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
72	Quinten De Graeve	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
73	Mads-Emil Hougaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
74	Tim Naberman	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
75	Mark Stewart	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
76	Alessandro Santaromita	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
77	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
78	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
79	Florian Stork	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
80	Martijn Tusveld	Team dsm-firmenich	0:20
81	Jack Bauer	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	0:22
82	Søren Kragh Andersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	0:23
83	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
84	Stephen Bassett	Human Powered Health	0:25
85	Niklas Larsen	Uno-X	0:30
86	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	0:35
87	Szymon Sajnok	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	0:41
88	Tobias Ludvigsson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
89	Riccardo Lucca	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	0:45
90	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	0:48
91	Thomas Scully	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
92	James Oram	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	1:01
93	Nicolò Parisini	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	1:06
94	Harry Sweeny	Lotto Dstny	1:27
95	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:35
96	Enzo Leijnse	Team dsm-firmenich	1:42
97	Nikolaj Mengel	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	1:45
98	Rasmus Bøgh Wallin	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
99	Emil Vinjebo	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
100	Peter Kusztor	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
101	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	2:02
102	Alessio Nieri	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
103	Miguel Heidemann	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
104	Jeppe Aaskov Pallesen	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
105	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	2:08
106	James Shaw	EF Education-EasyPost	2:26
107	Emil Schandorff Iwersen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
108	Martin Toft Madsen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
109	Luc Wirtgen	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
110	Tobiasz Pawlak	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
111	Jules Hesters	Team Flanders-Baloise	2:39
112	Mads Østergaard	Leopard TOGT	2:50
113	Emil Toudal	Team Coloquick	s.t.
114	Mathias Larsen	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
115	Aivaras Mikutis	Tudor Pro Cycling	3:27
116	Hamish Beadle	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
117	Barnabas Peak	Human Powered Health	s.t.
118	Axel De Lie	Lotto Dstny	3:35
119	William Blume Levy	Uno-X	3:51
120	Frederik Muff	Team Coloquick	s.t.
121	Alfred Grenaae	Uno-X	s.t.
122	Louis Bendixen	Uno-X	s.t.
123	Adrian Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	6:30
124	Jakob Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	6:32
125	Ollie Jones	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
126	Lasse Norman Leth	Uno-X	13:24
127	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.

 

GC after stage 4:

720.9 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.629 km/hr

1	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	16hr 31min 24sec
2	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	@ 4sec
3	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	0:49
4	Nicola Conci	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:04
5	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Dstny	1:07
6	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	1:09
7	Alexander Kamp	Tudor Pro Cycling	1:14
8	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Dstny	1:26
9	Vito Braet	Team Flanders-Baloise	1:31
10	Magnus Bak Klaris	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
11	Mathias Bregnhøj	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
12	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:33
13	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
14	Ruben Apers	Team Flanders-Baloise	1:34
15	Marcin Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
16	Andreas Stokbro	Leopard TOGT	1:37
17	Jakub Kaczmarek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
18	Filippo Magli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	1:39
19	Simon Bak	Team Coloquick	s.t.
20	Stefan De Bod	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
21	Kasper Andersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
22	Logan Currie	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	1:42
23	Tomasz Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
24	Tim Declercq	Soudal Quick-Step	1:47
25	Tobias Svarre	Team Coloquick	2:03
26	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	2:06
27	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	2:34
28	Matyas Kopecky	Team Novo Nordisk	4:03
29	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	4:27
30	Søren Kragh Andersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	5:46
31	Robin Juel Skivild	Leopard TOGT	6:26
32	Anthon Charmig	Uno-X	6:34
33	Mikkel Honore	EF Education-EasyPost	6:40
34	Jenno Berckmoes	Team Flanders-Baloise	6:44
35	Florian Stork	Team dsm-firmenich	6:46
36	Niklas Larsen	Uno-X	6:51
37	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	7:04
38	Simon Pellaud	Tudor Pro Cycling	7:18
39	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
40	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	8:03
41	Charles-Etienne Chrétien	Human Powered Health	8:07
42	Luca Colnaghi	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	8:40
43	Marco Brenner	Team dsm-firmenich	9:00
44	Julius Johansen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
45	Emil Vinjebo	Leopard TOGT	9:44
46	Sébastien Grignard	Lotto Dstny	10:04
47	Harry Sweeny	Lotto Dstny	10:16
48	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	10:27
49	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	10:43
50	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	12:04
51	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	12:16
52	Stephen Bassett	Human Powered Health	12:45
53	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	13:02
54	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team dsm-firmenich	13:04
55	Fabio Jakobsen	Soudal Quick-Step	13:09
56	Szymon Sajnok	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	13:56
57	Michael Mørkøv	Soudal Quick-Step	15:00
58	Alessandro Santaromita	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	15:06
59	Mark Stewart	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	15:28
60	Jack Bauer	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	15:29
61	Filippo Ridolfo	Team Novo Nordisk	15:59
62	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	17:32
63	Frederik Jensen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	18:14
64	Jeppe Aaskov Pallesen	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	18:25
65	Luca Rastelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	18:30
66	Matteo Moschetti	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	18:34
67	Daniel Stampe	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	18:56
68	Andrea Peron	Team Novo Nordisk	19:43
69	James Fouche	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	19:59
70	Nicklas Pedersen	Team Coloquick	20:35
71	Henrik Pedersen	Team Coloquick	21:27
72	Luca Paletti	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	21:31
73	Sebastian Nielsen	Team Coloquick	21:46
74	Alexander Salby	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	22:07
75	James Oram	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	22:50
76	Miguel Heidemann	Leopard TOGT	23:03
77	Luke Mudgway	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	23:19
78	Tobias Ludvigsson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	23:34
79	Riccardo Lucca	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	23:49
80	Mads-Emil Hougaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	24:09:00
81	Kevin Biehl	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
82	Nikolaj Mengel	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	24:32:00
83	Martijn Tusveld	Team dsm-firmenich	24:46:00
84	Jensen Plowright	Alpecin-Deceuninck	24:58:00
85	William Blume Levy	Uno-X	26:45:00
86	Emil Schandorff Iwersen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	27:09:00
87	Louis Bendixen	Uno-X	27:32:00
88	James Shaw	EF Education-EasyPost	28:00:00
89	Luc Wirtgen	Tudor Pro Cycling	28:03:00
90	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	28:05:00
91	Rasmus Bøgh Wallin	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	28:38:00
92	Alessio Nieri	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	28:59:00
93	Tim Naberman	Team dsm-firmenich	29:00:00
94	Thomas Scully	EF Education-EasyPost	29:08:00
95	Lasse Norman Leth	Uno-X	29:12:00
96	Nicolò Parisini	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	29:16:00
97	Jacob Schebye	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	29:25:00
98	Norbert Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	29:27:00
99	Declan Irvine	Team Novo Nordisk	29:40:00
100	Tuur Dens	Team Flanders-Baloise	30:19:00
101	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Human Powered Health	30:27:00
102	Mads Østergaard	Leopard TOGT	31:21:00
103	Joshua Giddings	Lotto Dstny	31:38:00
104	Enzo Leijnse	Team dsm-firmenich	32:01:00
105	Jakob Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	32:06:00
106	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	32:20:00
107	Boas Lysgaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	32:21:00
108	Alan Banaszek	Human Powered Health	32:42:00
109	Oscar Bluhm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	32:57:00
110	Emil Toudal	Team Coloquick	33:09:00
111	Wessel Krul	Human Powered Health	33:41:00
112	Aivaras Mikutis	Tudor Pro Cycling	33:46:00
113	Barnabas Peak	Human Powered Health	s.t.
114	Quinten De Graeve	Team Novo Nordisk	34:25:00
115	Alfred Grenaae	Uno-X	35:04:00
116	Hamish Beadle	Team Novo Nordisk	37:17:00
117	Peter Kusztor	Team Novo Nordisk	39:12:00
118	Tobiasz Pawlak	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	39:53:00
119	Jules Hesters	Team Flanders-Baloise	40:06:00
120	Axel De Lie	Lotto Dstny	40:23:00
121	Martin Toft Madsen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	43:14:00
122	Frederik Muff	Team Coloquick	44:11:00
123	Mathias Larsen	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	44:52:00
124	Ollie Jones	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	44:54:00
125	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	45:16:00
126	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	48:35:00
127	Adrian Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	49:16:00

 

Stage 4 map & profile:

Stage 4 map

Stage 4 profile

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Thursday, August 17: Stage 3, Vejen - Vejle, 209 km

Stage 3 map & profile

Mattias Skjelmose takes a solo win in Vejle. Photo: Dan Møller

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Weather at the finish city of Vejle at 1:50 PM, local time: 17C (63F), cloudy, with the wind from the northeast at 6 km/hr (4 mph). There is a 1% chance of rain, rising to 60% at 5:00.

The race: Here's the report from Team Soudal Quick-Step.

It was an action-packed day at the five-stage race, with the peloton tackling the famous Vejle stage, the very one that Remco Evenepoel used to build his success on two years ago, at his first outing in Denmark. Just like back then, the attacks began coming early, as soon as the bunch caught the breakaway that had animated the day for more than 150 kilometers.

On one of the many climbs, the group split leaving only nine men – including Casper Pedersen and Martin Svrcek – at the front, with a small gap that in the space of a couple of kilometers grew to almost 40 seconds. The Figueroa Champions Classic winner tried his luck and briefly got away, but the others responded and made sure the group remained as one ahead of the final lap.

It was there that Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) made his move and soloed to victory and the leader’s jersey. Around one minute later, Tim Declercq came home and concluded the stage as the best-placed Soudal Quick-Step rider, a result that puts him in the top 20 overall before the individual time trial in Bagsvaerd.

Complete results:

209 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.867 km/hr

1	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	4hr 59min 32sec
2	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	@ 10sec
3	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	0:44
5	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Dstny	0:49
6	Alexander Kamp	Tudor Pro Cycling	0:51
7	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	1:11
8	Tobias Svarre	Team Coloquick	s.t.
9	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	1:15
10	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
11	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Dstny	1:16
12	Marcin Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
13	Harry Sweeny	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
14	Andreas Stokbro	Leopard TOGT	1:19
15	Jakub Kaczmarek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
16	Marco Brenner	Team dsm-firmenich	1:21
17	Mathias Bregnhøj	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
18	Vito Braet	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
19	Filippo Magli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
20	Stefan De Bod	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
21	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	s.t.
22	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
23	Simon Bak	Team Coloquick	s.t.
24	Magnus Bak Klaris	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
25	Kasper Andersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
26	Tim Declercq	Soudal Quick-Step	1:24
27	Logan Currie	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
28	Simon Pellaud	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
29	Tomasz Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
30	Ruben Apers	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
31	Robin Juel Skivild	Leopard TOGT	1:36
32	Sébastien Grignard	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
33	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:40
34	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
35	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	1:48
36	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	2:09
37	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	2:11
38	Jenno Berckmoes	Team Flanders-Baloise	2:17
39	Matyas Kopecky	Team Novo Nordisk	3:53
40	Søren Kragh Andersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	5:17
41	Anthon Charmig	Uno-X	6:11
42	Niklas Larsen	Uno-X	s.t.
43	Mikkel Honore	EF Education-EasyPost	6:17
44	Florian Stork	Team dsm-firmenich	6:23
45	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	6:48
46	Emil Vinjebo	Leopard TOGT	7:49
47	Charles-Etienne Chrétien	Human Powered Health	s.t.
48	Mark Stewart	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
49	Julius Johansen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	7:59
50	Luca Colnaghi	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	8:12
51	Alessandro Santaromita	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
52	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
53	Szymon Sajnok	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
54	Michael Mørkøv	Soudal Quick-Step	8:21
55	Jack Bauer	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	10:04
56	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
57	Luca Rastelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
58	Nicola Conci	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
59	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
60	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	10:33
61	Jacob Schebye	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	12:21
62	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	12:29
63	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
64	Luca Paletti	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
65	James Oram	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
66	James Fouche	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
67	Nikolaj Mengel	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	12:51
68	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team dsm-firmenich	12:54
69	Louis Bendixen	Uno-X	s.t.
70	Fabio Jakobsen	Soudal Quick-Step	13:25
71	Jeppe Aaskov Pallesen	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	14:50
72	Nicklas Pedersen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
73	Alexander Salby	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	15:32
74	Alfred Grenaae	Uno-X	s.t.
75	Henrik Pedersen	Team Coloquick	15:38
76	Jakob Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
77	Norbert Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
78	Mads-Emil Hougaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
79	Declan Irvine	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
80	Jensen Plowright	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
81	Lasse Norman Leth	Uno-X	s.t.
82	William Blume Levy	Uno-X	s.t.
83	Martijn Tusveld	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
84	Andrea Peron	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
85	Filippo Ridolfo	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
86	Kevin Biehl	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
87	Frederik Muff	Team Coloquick	s.t.
88	Tobias Ludvigsson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
89	Nicolò Parisini	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
90	Miguel Heidemann	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
91	James Shaw	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
92	Emil Toudal	Team Coloquick	s.t.
93	Thomas Scully	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
94	Emil Schandorff Iwersen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
95	Frederik Jensen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
96	Luke Mudgway	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
97	Tim Naberman	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
98	Rasmus Bøgh Wallin	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
99	Daniel Stampe	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
100	Axel De Lie	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
101	Aivaras Mikutis	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
102	Alessio Nieri	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
103	Riccardo Lucca	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
104	Barnabas Peak	Human Powered Health	s.t.
105	Enzo Leijnse	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
106	Mads Østergaard	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
107	Luc Wirtgen	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
108	Tuur Dens	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
109	Boas Lysgaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	15:52
110	Matteo Moschetti	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	16:18
111	Sebastian Nielsen	Team Coloquick	21:36
112	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	21:57
113	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	22:35
114	Martin Toft Madsen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
115	Tobiasz Pawlak	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	22:46
116	Adrian Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
117	Mathias Larsen	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
118	Jules Hesters	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
119	Peter Kusztor	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
120	Quinten De Graeve	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
121	Oscar Bluhm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
122	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Human Powered Health	s.t.
123	Alan Banaszek	Human Powered Health	s.t.
124	Ollie Jones	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
125	Hamish Beadle	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
126	Joshua Giddings	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
127	Tobias Aagaard Hansen	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
128	Wessel Krul	Human Powered Health	26:09

 

GC after stage 3:

542.5 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.355 km/hr

1	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	12hr 30min 46sec
2	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	@ 10sec
3	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	0:50
5	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Dstny	0:59
6	Alexander Kamp	Tudor Pro Cycling	1:01
7	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	1:09
8	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	1:21
9	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:25
10	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Dstny	1:26
11	Marcin Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
12	Andreas Stokbro	Leopard TOGT	1:29
13	Jakub Kaczmarek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
14	Vito Braet	Team Flanders-Baloise	1:31
15	Filippo Magli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
16	Magnus Bak Klaris	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
17	Mathias Bregnhøj	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
18	Simon Bak	Team Coloquick	s.t.
19	Stefan De Bod	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
20	Kasper Andersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
21	Logan Currie	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	1:34
22	Ruben Apers	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
23	Tim Declercq	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
24	Tomasz Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
25	Tobias Svarre	Team Coloquick	1:51
26	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	1:58
27	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	2:19
28	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	2:21
29	Matyas Kopecky	Team Novo Nordisk	4:03
30	Søren Kragh Andersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	5:23
31	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	6:16
32	Robin Juel Skivild	Leopard TOGT	6:18
33	Niklas Larsen	Uno-X	6:21
34	Anthon Charmig	Uno-X	s.t.
35	Mikkel Honore	EF Education-EasyPost	6:27
36	Jenno Berckmoes	Team Flanders-Baloise	6:31
37	Florian Stork	Team dsm-firmenich	6:33
38	Simon Pellaud	Tudor Pro Cycling	6:40
39	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	6:43
40	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	7:55
41	Charles-Etienne Chrétien	Human Powered Health	7:59
42	Emil Vinjebo	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
43	Luca Colnaghi	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	8:44
44	Harry Sweeny	Lotto Dstny	8:49
45	Marco Brenner	Team dsm-firmenich	8:52
46	Julius Johansen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
47	Sébastien Grignard	Lotto Dstny	9:56
48	Nicola Conci	Alpecin-Deceuninck	10:14
49	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
50	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	10:43
51	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	11:51
52	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	13:02
53	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team dsm-firmenich	13:04
54	Szymon Sajnok	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	13:15
55	Fabio Jakobsen	Soudal Quick-Step	13:19
56	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	14:16
57	Alessandro Santaromita	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	14:23
58	Michael Mørkøv	Soudal Quick-Step	14:37
59	Jack Bauer	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	15:07
60	Mark Stewart	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	15:15
61	Filippo Ridolfo	Team Novo Nordisk	15:46
62	Lasse Norman Leth	Uno-X	15:48
63	Jeppe Aaskov Pallesen	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	16:23
64	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	17:32
65	Frederik Jensen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	18:14
66	Luca Rastelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	18:22
67	Matteo Moschetti	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	18:34
68	Daniel Stampe	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	18:56
69	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	19:29
70	Andrea Peron	Team Novo Nordisk	19:43
71	James Fouche	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	20:02
72	Nicklas Pedersen	Team Coloquick	20:39
73	Miguel Heidemann	Leopard TOGT	21:01
74	Luca Paletti	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	21:13
75	Henrik Pedersen	Team Coloquick	21:27
76	Sebastian Nielsen	Team Coloquick	21:46
77	Alexander Salby	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	22:07
78	Nikolaj Mengel	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	22:47
79	Tobias Ludvigsson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	22:51
80	William Blume Levy	Uno-X	22:54
81	Riccardo Lucca	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	23:04
82	Luke Mudgway	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	23:11
83	Louis Bendixen	Uno-X	23:41
84	Mads-Emil Hougaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	23:56
85	Kevin Biehl	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
86	Martijn Tusveld	Team dsm-firmenich	24:26
87	Emil Schandorff Iwersen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	24:43
88	James Shaw	EF Education-EasyPost	25:34
89	Jakob Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	25:37
90	Luc Wirtgen	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
91	Rasmus Bøgh Wallin	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	26:57
92	Alessio Nieri	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
93	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	27:42
94	Nicolò Parisini	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	28:10
95	Thomas Scully	EF Education-EasyPost	28:20
96	James Oram	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	28:31
97	Mads Østergaard	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
98	Tim Naberman	Team dsm-firmenich	28:47
99	Jacob Schebye	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	29:12
100	Declan Irvine	Team Novo Nordisk	29:27
101	Norbert Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	29:30
102	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Human Powered Health	30:19
103	Emil Toudal	Team Coloquick	s.t.
104	Aivaras Mikutis	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
105	Tuur Dens	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
106	Enzo Leijnse	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
107	Barnabas Peak	Human Powered Health	s.t.
108	Jensen Plowright	Alpecin-Deceuninck	31:13
109	Alfred Grenaae	Uno-X	s.t.
110	Joshua Giddings	Lotto Dstny	31:38
111	Boas Lysgaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	32:12
112	Alan Banaszek	Human Powered Health	32:42
113	Oscar Bluhm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	32:45
114	Wessel Krul	Human Powered Health	33:42
115	Hamish Beadle	Team Novo Nordisk	33:50
116	Quinten De Graeve	Team Novo Nordisk	34:12
117	Tobias Aagaard Hansen	Leopard TOGT	36:12
118	Axel De Lie	Lotto Dstny	36:47
119	Peter Kusztor	Team Novo Nordisk	37:27
120	Tobiasz Pawlak	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
121	Jules Hesters	Team Flanders-Baloise	38:23
122	Frederik Muff	Team Coloquick	40:19
123	Martin Toft Madsen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	40:48
124	Mathias Larsen	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	42:02
125	Ollie Jones	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	43:44
126	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	45:12
127	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	46:33
128	Adrian Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	49:41

 

Stage 3 map & profile:

Stage 3 map

Stage 3 profile

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Wednesday, August 16: Stage 2, Kjellerup - Silkeborg, 163.6 km

Stage 2 map & profile

Fabio Jakobsen wins stage two. Photo: Dan Møller

Les Woodland's book Tour of Flanders: The Inside Story - The rocky roads of the Ronde van Vlaanderen is available in print, Kindle eBook and audiobook versions. To get your copy, just click on the Amazon link on the right.

Weather at the finish city of Silkeborg at 1:45 PM, local time: 18C (65F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the west at 14 km/hr (9 mph). There is a 75% chance of rain, dropping to 7% at 4:00.

The race: Here's the report from fourth-place Tobias Lund Andresen's Team dsm-firmenich.

A day destined to end in a fast finale, Tobias Lund Andresen once again showed his quick legs with a fourth place finish into the town of Silkeborg.

Like the opening day of racing, a breakaway was able to establish itself early on with all Team dsm-firmenich riders in the bunch; looking to conserve energy to support sprint finish Lund Andresen for the finale. As the kilometres ticked by the gap to the break fell and heading towards the local circuits, Enzo Leijnse and Tim Naberman brought the team forward, staying safe in case of any potential crosswind danger which in the end never materialiased.

Florian Stork, Martijn Tusveld and Marco Brenner positioned Lund Andresen who was attentive in following dangerous moves on the penultimate and final time up the climb. Any attackers would be brought back and it was clear the race was heading for a sprint finish. The fight for position was hectic and Brenner tried to bring Lund Andresen forward but coming out of the last corner the Team dsm-firmenich riders were in around tenth wheel. Unleashing a strong finish and fighting to the line, Lund Andresen passed several riders on his way to fourth place as Jakobsen took the win ahead.

Lund Andresen said: “Today was stressful because of the chance of crosswind the whole day. We were fighting to stay towards the front to be proactive if something was going to happen. We entered the laps all the way in the front as planned, to make it easier for me to preserve energy towards the sprint. On the last lap I followed the move to stay in front and be sure to make it over in the first group. With a kilometre to go Marco found his way back to me to try and set me up for the sprint. In the end I had to open my sprint with 300 metres to go because we were too far back but almost made it onto the podium. I had amazing legs so hopefully we can get more tomorrow.”

Team dsm-firmenich coach Roy Curvers added: “Again it was another good day of teamwork setting up Tobias for a sprint. Unfortunately, the boys got a little distanced from the front of the bunch; so Tobi and Marco had to come from too far in the final straight, but with a real fast sprint Tobi was again able to grab another top five finish.”

Complete results:

163.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.386 km/hr

1	Fabio Jakobsen	Soudal Quick-Step	3hr 41min 9sec
2	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	s.t.
3	Søren Kragh Andersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
4	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
5	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
6	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
7	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
8	Jensen Plowright	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
9	Matyas Kopecky	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
10	Filippo Magli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
11	Vito Braet	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
12	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
13	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
14	Sebastian Nielsen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
15	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
16	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
17	Simon Bak	Team Coloquick	s.t.
18	Charles-Etienne Chrétien	Human Powered Health	s.t.
19	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
20	Tobias Svarre	Team Coloquick	s.t.
21	Simon Pellaud	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
22	Logan Currie	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
23	Andreas Stokbro	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
24	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Human Powered Health	s.t.
25	Mikkel Honore	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
26	Jakub Kaczmarek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
27	Anthon Charmig	Uno-X	s.t.
28	Marcin Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
29	Filippo Ridolfo	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
30	Niklas Larsen	Uno-X	s.t.
31	Michael Mørkøv	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
32	Magnus Bak Klaris	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
33	Matteo Moschetti	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
34	Wessel Krul	Human Powered Health	s.t.
35	Ruben Apers	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
36	Emil Vinjebo	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
37	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
38	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
39	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
40	Tim Declercq	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
41	Mathias Bregnhøj	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
42	Florian Stork	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
43	Nicola Conci	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
44	Stefan De Bod	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
45	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
46	Stephen Bassett	Human Powered Health	s.t.
47	Jack Bauer	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
48	Szymon Sajnok	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
49	Luke Mudgway	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
50	Marco Brenner	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
51	Alexander Kamp	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
52	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
53	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
54	James Oram	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
55	Harry Sweeny	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
56	James Fouche	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
57	Andrea Peron	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
58	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
59	Kasper Andersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
60	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
61	Lasse Norman Leth	Uno-X	s.t.
62	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
63	Tomasz Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
64	Alessandro Santaromita	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	@ 15sec
65	Luca Colnaghi	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	0:22
66	Jacob Schebye	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
67	Luca Rastelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	0:45
68	Mads-Emil Hougaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
69	Kevin Biehl	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
70	Sébastien Grignard	Lotto Dstny	0:49
71	Tobias Ludvigsson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
72	Jeppe Aaskov Pallesen	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
73	Julius Johansen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
74	Nicklas Pedersen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
75	Henrik Pedersen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
76	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	1:12
77	Martijn Tusveld	Team dsm-firmenich	1:15
78	Alexander Salby	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	1:32
79	Emil Schandorff Iwersen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
80	Daniel Stampe	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	2:23
81	Nikolaj Mengel	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
82	Luca Paletti	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
83	Riccardo Lucca	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
84	James Shaw	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
85	Alan Banaszek	Human Powered Health	s.t.
86	Mark Stewart	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
87	Jakob Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	2:26
88	Joshua Giddings	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
89	Mathias Larsen	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
90	Frederik Jensen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
91	Oscar Bluhm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
92	Aaron Gate	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
93	Luc Wirtgen	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
94	William Blume Levy	Uno-X	s.t.
95	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
96	Jenno Berckmoes	Team Flanders-Baloise	3:28
97	Hamish Beadle	Team Novo Nordisk	3:31
98	Quinten De Graeve	Team Novo Nordisk	3:53
99	Robin Juel Skivild	Leopard TOGT	4:32
100	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	4:51
101	Miguel Heidemann	Leopard TOGT	5:13
102	Tim Naberman	Team dsm-firmenich	5:36
103	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	5:53
104	Tobias Aagaard Hansen	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
105	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	5:57
106	Louis Bendixen	Uno-X	s.t.
107	Ollie Jones	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	6:16
108	Norbert Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
109	Declan Irvine	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
110	Rasmus Bøgh Wallin	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
111	Alessio Nieri	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
112	Thomas Scully	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
113	Enzo Leijnse	Team dsm-firmenich	7:08
114	Aivaras Mikutis	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
115	Jules Hesters	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
116	Tuur Dens	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
117	Mads Østergaard	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
118	Emil Toudal	Team Coloquick	s.t.
119	Tobiasz Pawlak	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
120	Peter Kusztor	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
121	Barnabas Peak	Human Powered Health	s.t.
122	Axel De Lie	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
123	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
124	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
125	Nicolò Parisini	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	7:42
126	Boas Lysgaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	9:55
127	Madsen Martin Toft	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	10:40
128	Frederik Muff	Team Coloquick	s.t.
129	Adrian Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
130	Alfred Grenaae	Uno-X	s.t.
131	Kristian Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.

 

GC after stage 2:

233.5 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 44.363 km/hr

1	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	7hr 31min 3sec
2	Fabio Jakobsen	Soudal Quick-Step	@ 6sec
3	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	0:18
4	Søren Kragh Andersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
5	Filippo Ridolfo	Team Novo Nordisk	0:20
6	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team dsm-firmenich	0:22
7	Vito Braet	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
8	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
9	Matyas Kopecky	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
10	Sebastian Nielsen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
11	Filippo Magli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
12	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
13	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
14	Andreas Stokbro	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
15	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
16	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
17	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
18	Jakub Kaczmarek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
19	Magnus Bak Klaris	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
20	Logan Currie	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
21	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
22	Mathias Bregnhøj	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
23	Ruben Apers	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
24	Charles-Etienne Chrétien	Human Powered Health	s.t.
25	Simon Bak	Team Coloquick	s.t.
26	Marcin Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
27	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
28	Mikkel Honore	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
29	Niklas Larsen	Uno-X	s.t.
30	Stefan De Bod	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
31	Anthon Charmig	Uno-X	s.t.
32	Emil Vinjebo	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
33	Florian Stork	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
34	Nicola Conci	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
35	Kasper Andersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
36	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
37	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
38	Tim Declercq	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
39	Alexander Kamp	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
40	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
41	Lasse Norman Leth	Uno-X	s.t.
42	Tomasz Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
43	Luca Colnaghi	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	0:44
44	Tobias Svarre	Team Coloquick	0:52
45	Julius Johansen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	1:05
46	Jeppe Aaskov Pallesen	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	1:45
47	Matteo Moschetti	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	2:28
48	Stephen Bassett	Human Powered Health	s.t.
49	Frederik Jensen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	2:48
50	Daniel Stampe	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	3:30
51	Andrea Peron	Team Novo Nordisk	4:17
52	Jenno Berckmoes	Team Flanders-Baloise	4:26
53	Robin Juel Skivild	Leopard TOGT	4:54
54	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	5:02
55	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	5:13
56	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	5:15
57	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
58	Szymon Sajnok	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
59	Jack Bauer	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
60	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
61	Simon Pellaud	Tudor Pro Cycling	5:28
62	Miguel Heidemann	Leopard TOGT	5:35
63	Henrik Pedersen	Team Coloquick	6:01
64	Nicklas Pedersen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
65	Alessandro Santaromita	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	6:23
66	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	6:27
67	Michael Mørkøv	Soudal Quick-Step	6:28
68	Alexander Salby	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	6:47
69	Tobias Ludvigsson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	7:25
70	William Blume Levy	Uno-X	7:28
71	Riccardo Lucca	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	7:38
72	Mark Stewart	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
73	Aaron Gate	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	7:41
74	Marco Brenner	Team dsm-firmenich	7:43
75	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Human Powered Health	7:45
76	Luke Mudgway	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
77	Wessel Krul	Human Powered Health	s.t.
78	Harry Sweeny	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
79	James Fouche	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
80	Mads-Emil Hougaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	8:30
81	Luca Rastelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
82	Kevin Biehl	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
83	Sébastien Grignard	Lotto Dstny	8:32
84	Luca Paletti	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	8:56
85	Martijn Tusveld	Team dsm-firmenich	9:00
86	Joshua Giddings	Lotto Dstny	9:04
87	Emil Schandorff Iwersen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	9:17
88	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	9:37
89	Nikolaj Mengel	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	10:08
90	James Shaw	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
91	Alan Banaszek	Human Powered Health	s.t.
92	Jakob Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	10:11
93	Oscar Bluhm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
94	Luc Wirtgen	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
95	Louis Bendixen	Uno-X	10:59
96	Hamish Beadle	Team Novo Nordisk	11:16
97	Rasmus Bøgh Wallin	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	11:31
98	Alessio Nieri	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
99	Quinten De Graeve	Team Novo Nordisk	11:38
100	Nicolò Parisini	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	12:44
101	Thomas Scully	EF Education-EasyPost	12:54
102	Kristian Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	13:03
103	Mads Østergaard	Leopard TOGT	13:05
104	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	13:07
105	Tim Naberman	Team dsm-firmenich	13:21
106	Tobias Aagaard Hansen	Leopard TOGT	13:38
107	Declan Irvine	Team Novo Nordisk	14:01
108	Norbert Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	14:04
109	Emil Toudal	Team Coloquick	14:53
110	Tuur Dens	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
111	Peter Kusztor	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
112	Aivaras Mikutis	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
113	Enzo Leijnse	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
114	Barnabas Peak	Human Powered Health	s.t.
115	Tobiasz Pawlak	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
116	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
117	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	15:25
118	Jensen Plowright	Alpecin-Deceuninck	15:47
119	Jules Hesters	Team Flanders-Baloise	15:49
120	Alfred Grenaae	Uno-X	15:53
121	James Oram	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	16:14
122	Boas Lysgaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	16:32
123	Jacob Schebye	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	17:03
124	Martin Toft Madsen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	18:25
125	Mathias Larsen	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	19:28
126	Ollie Jones	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	21:10
127	Axel De Lie	Lotto Dstny	21:21
128	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	23:27
129	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	24:10
130	Frederik Muff	Team Coloquick	24:53
131	Adrian Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	27:07

 

Stage 2 map & profile:

Stage 2 map

Stage 2 profile

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Tuesday, August 15: Stage 1, Aalborg - Aalborg, 169.9 km

Stage 1 map & profile

Soren Waerenskjold has time to sit up and celebrate his win with the thundering herd six seconds back.

Les Woodland's book Cycling's World Championships: The Inside Story is available in print, Kindle eBook & audiobook versions. To get your copy, just click on the Amazon link on the right.

Weather at the start/finish city of Aalborg at 1:20 PM, local time: 21C (70F), rain showers, with the wind from the south-southwest at 10 km/hr (6 mph). There is a 50% chance that the rain will continue through the afternoon.

The race Here's the report from second-place Fabio Jakobsen's Team Soudal Quick-Step.

Danmark Rundt, the country’s most important race, got underway Tuesday afternoon with a flat stage held around Aalborg. On paper, it should have been a pretty straightforward day, with the sprinters’ teams controlling the breakaway and a mass gallop to decide the first leader of the competition, but it turned out to be more complicated.

The main reason for this was that once the six-man breakaway was reeled in – in part, thanks to a mammoth work of the Soudal Quick-Step boys – attacks began coming left and right. In the last 30 kilometers of the stage, these countless accelerations and a crash that ended up splitting the bunch played a huge role in the final outcome. Despite an incredibly long pull of Casper Pedersen – who made his return from injury at his home race – in the closing kilometers, late attacker Soren Waerenskjold (Uno-X) made it, taking the win by a handful of seconds.

Fabio Jakobsen was the fastest rider of the chasing group, taking runner-up behind the Norwegian for what was his ninth podium finish of the season, a result that puts him in second place on the general classification. The race will now continue with an undulating stage to Silkeborg, but without Mauri Vansevenant. The Belgian was among those involved in the crash and had to abandon the race, but fortunately only with some abrasions and surface injuries as consequence.

Complete results:

169.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.290 km/hr

1	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	3hr 50min 10sec
2	Fabio Jakobsen	Soudal Quick-Step	@ 6sec
3	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
4	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
5	Vito Braet	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
6	Søren Kragh Andersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
7	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
8	Sebastian Nielsen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
9	Andreas Stokbro	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
10	Luca Colnaghi	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
11	Bak Klaris Magnus	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
12	Jakub Kaczmarek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
13	Matyas Kopecky	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
14	Filippo Magli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
15	Kasper Andersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
16	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
17	Mathias Bregnhøj	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
18	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
19	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
20	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
21	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
22	Frederik Jensen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
23	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
24	Ruben Apers	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
25	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
26	Stefan De Bod	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
27	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
28	Logan Currie	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
29	Robin Juel Skivild	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
30	Florian Stork	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
31	Nicola Conci	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
32	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
33	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
34	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
35	Emil Vinjebo	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
36	Lasse Norman Leth	Uno-X	s.t.
37	Marcin Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
38	Niklas Larsen	Uno-X	s.t.
39	Miguel Heidemann	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
40	Tim Declercq	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
41	Alexander Kamp	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
42	Filippo Ridolfo	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
43	Mikkel Honore	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
44	Anthon Charmig	Uno-X	s.t.
45	Julius Johansen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
46	Charles-Etienne Chrétien	Human Powered Health	s.t.
47	Tomasz Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
48	Simon Bak	Team Coloquick	s.t.
49	Tobias Svarre	Team Coloquick	0:36
50	Jeppe Aaskov Pallesen	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	0:42
51	Jenno Berckmoes	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
52	Daniel Stampe	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	0:52
53	Kristian Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	2:12
54	Stephen Bassett	Human Powered Health	s.t.
55	Matteo Moschetti	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
56	Andrea Peron	Team Novo Nordisk	4:01
57	William Blume Levy	Uno-X	4:46
58	Louis Bendixen	Uno-X	s.t.
59	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
60	Nicolò Parisini	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
61	Alfred Grenaae	Uno-X	4:57
62	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	4:59
63	Rasmus Bøgh Wallin	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
64	Riccardo Lucca	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
65	Alessio Nieri	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
66	Henrik Pedersen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
67	Alexander Salby	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
68	Szymon Sajnok	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
69	Nicklas Pedersen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
70	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
71	Jack Bauer	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
72	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
73	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
74	Aaron Gate	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
75	Mark Stewart	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
76	Mads Østergaard	Leopard TOGT	5:41
77	Alessandro Santaromita	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	5:52
78	Simon Pellaud	Tudor Pro Cycling	5:12
79	Michael Mørkøv	Soudal Quick-Step	6:12
80	Luca Paletti	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	6:17
81	Tobias Ludvigsson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	6:20
82	Boas Lysgaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	6:21
83	Thomas Scully	EF Education-EasyPost	6:22
84	Joshua Giddings	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
85	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	6:55
86	Marco Brenner	Team dsm-firmenich	7:27
87	Oscar Bluhm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	7:29
88	Jakob Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
89	Martin Toft Madsen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
90	Declan Irvine	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
91	Emil Schandorff Iwersen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
92	Mads-Emil Hougaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
93	Nikolaj Mengel	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
94	Luke Mudgway	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
95	James Fouche	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
96	Harry Sweeny	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
98	Quinten De Graeve	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
99	Luca Rastelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
100	Tim Naberman	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
101	Emil Toudal	Team Coloquick	s.t.
102	Peter Kusztor	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
103	Tobias Aagaard Hansen	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
104	Tuur Dens	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
105	Sébastien Grignard	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
106	Norbert Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
108	James Shaw	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
109	Aivaras Mikutis	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
110	Martijn Tusveld	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
111	Wessel Krul	Human Powered Health	s.t.
112	Barnabas Peak	Human Powered Health	s.t.
113	Kevin Biehl	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
114	Enzo Leijnse	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
115	Luc Wirtgen	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
116	Tobiasz Pawlak	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
117	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
118	Alan Banaszek	Human Powered Health	s.t.
118	Jules Hesters	Team Flanders-Baloise	8:25
119	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	9:16
120	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	12:51
121	Axel De Lie	Lotto Dstny	13:57
122	Frederik Muff	Team Coloquick	s.t.
123	Ollie Jones	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	14:38
124	Jensen Plowright	Alpecin-Deceuninck	15:31
125	James Oram	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	15:58
126	Adrian Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	16:11
127	Chad Haga	Human Powered Health	16:18
128	Tom Devriendt	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	16:21
129	Jacob Schebye	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	16:25
130	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	16:42
131	Mathias Larsen	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	16:46
132	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	16:46
133	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	17:14
134	Gilles De Wilde	Team Flanders-Baloise	20:20

 

GC after stage 1:

1	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	3hr 50min 0sec
2	Fabio Jakobsen	Soudal Quick-Step	@ 10sec
3	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	0:12
4	Filippo Ridolfo	Team Novo Nordisk	0:14
5	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team dsm-firmenich	0:16
6	Vito Braet	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
7	Søren Kragh Andersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
8	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
9	Sebastian Nielsen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
10	Andreas Stokbro	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
11	Luca Colnaghi	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
12	Bak Klaris Magnus	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
13	Jakub Kaczmarek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
14	Matyas Kopecky	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
15	Filippo Magli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
16	Kasper Andersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
17	Michael Valgren	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
18	Mathias Bregnhøj	Leopard Togt Pro Cycling	s.t.
19	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
20	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
21	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
22	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
23	Frederik Jensen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
24	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
25	Ruben Apers	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
26	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
27	Stefan De Bod	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
28	Lucas Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
29	Logan Currie	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
30	Robin Juel Skivild	Leopard Togt Pro Cycling	s.t.
31	Florian Stork	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
32	Nicola Conci	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
33	Toms Skujins	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
34	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
35	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
36	Emil Vinjebo	Leopard Togt Pro Cycling	s.t.
37	Lasse Norman Leth	Uno-X	s.t.
38	Marcin Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
39	Niklas Larsen	Uno-X	s.t.
40	Miguel Heidemann	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
41	Tim Declercq	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
42	Alexander Kamp	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
43	Mikkel Honore	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
44	Anthon Charmig	Uno-X	s.t.
45	Julius Johansen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
46	Charles-Etienne Chrétien	Human Powered Health	s.t.
47	Tomasz Budzinski	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
48	Simon Bak	Team Coloquick	s.t.
49	Tobias Svarre	Team Coloquick	0:46
50	Jeppe Aaskov Pallesen	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	0:52
51	Jenno Berckmoes	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
52	Daniel Stampe	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	1:02
53	Kristian Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	2:17
54	Stephen Bassett	Human Powered Health	2:22
55	Matteo Moschetti	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
56	Andrea Peron	Team Novo Nordisk	4:11
57	William Blume Levy	Uno-X	4:56
58	Louis Bendixen	Uno-X	s.t.
59	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
60	Nicolò Parisini	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
61	Nicklas Pedersen	Team Coloquick	5:06
62	Alfred Grenaae	Uno-X	5:07
63	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	5:09
64	Rasmus Bøgh Wallin	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
65	Riccardo Lucca	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
66	Alessio Nieri	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
67	Henrik Pedersen	Team Coloquick	s.t.
68	Alexander Salby	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
69	Szymon Sajnok	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
70	Jacob Eriksson	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
71	Jack Bauer	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
72	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
73	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
74	Aaron Gate	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
75	Mark Stewart	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
76	Simon Pellaud	Tudor Pro Cycling	5:22
77	Mads Østergaard	Leopard TOGT	5:51
78	Alessandro Santaromita	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	6:02
79	Michael Mørkøv	Soudal Quick-Step	6:22
80	Luca Paletti	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	6:27
81	Tobias Ludvigsson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	6:30
82	Boas Lysgaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	6:31
83	Thomas Scully	EF Education-EasyPost	6:32
84	Joshua Giddings	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
85	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	7:05
86	Marco Brenner	Team dsm-firmenich	7:37
87	Sébastien Grignard	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
88	Oscar Bluhm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	7:39
89	Jakob Egholm	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	s.t.
90	Martin Toft Madsen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
91	Declan Irvine	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
92	Emil Schandorff Iwersen	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
93	Mads-Emil Hougaard	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
94	Nikolaj Mengel	BHS-PL Beton Bornholm	s.t.
95	Luke Mudgway	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
96	James Fouche	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	s.t.
97	Harry Sweeny	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
98	Quinten De Graeve	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
99	Luca Rastelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
100	Tim Naberman	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
102	Tuur Dens	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
103	Emil Toudal	Team Coloquick	s.t.
104	Peter Kusztor	Team Novo Nordisk	s.t.
105	Tobias Aagaard Hansen	Leopard TOGT	s.t.
106	James Shaw	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
107	Aivaras Mikutis	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
108	Martijn Tusveld	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
109	Wessel Krul	Human Powered Health	s.t.
110	Barnabas Peak	Human Powered Health	s.t.
111	Kevin Biehl	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	s.t.
112	Enzo Leijnse	Team dsm-firmenich	s.t.
113	Luc Wirtgen	Tudor Pro Cycling	s.t.
114	Tobiasz Pawlak	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	s.t.
115	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
116	Alan Banaszek	Human Powered Health	s.t.
117	Norbert Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	7:42
118	Jules Hesters	Team Flanders-Baloise	8:35
119	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	9:26
120	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	13:01
121	Axel De Lie	Lotto Dstny	14:07
122	Frederik Muff	Team Coloquick	s.t.
123	Ollie Jones	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	14:48
124	Jensen Plowright	Alpecin-Deceuninck	15:41
125	James Oram	Bolton Equities-Black Spoke	16:08
126	Adrian Banaszek	HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski	16:21
127	Chad Haga	Human Powered Health	16:28
128	Tom Devriendt	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	16:31
129	Jacob Schebye	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	16:35
130	Jarne Van De Paar	Lotto Dstny	16:52
131	Mathias Larsen	Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras	16:56
132	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	16:56
133	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Denmark-Postnord Landsholdet	17:24
134	Gilles De Wilde	Team Flanders-Baloise	20:30

Stage 1 map & Profile:

Stage 1 map

Stage 1 profile