Tour of Britain Stage 8

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The final day for the Tour of Britain Garmin Sharp’s Dylan Van Baarle clinch overall victory as Marcel Kittel and Bradley Wiggins ended the race with stage victories in central London

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Tour of Britain Stage 8

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Garmin Sharp’s Dylan Van Baarle clinched overall victory at the Friends Life Tour of Britain, as Marcel Kittel book ended the race with a stage victory in central London.

The Giant Shimano rider outsprinted Mark Cavendish on Whitehall in the sprint battle that British spectators had been waiting all week to see, with Kittel just edging Cavendish, ahead of Italian Nicola Ruffoni.

Behind Van Baarle crossed the line in 29th position to seal overall victory by ten seconds over Michal Kwiatkowski, who also took the Chain Reaction Cycles Points Jersey, with Sir Bradley Wiggins taking third overall, 22 seconds down, having won the morning’s 8.8-kilometre individual time trial.

Wiggins had taken victory in the time trial ahead of Sylvain Chavanel and Steve Cummings, clocking a 9:50:71 around the London circuit. Meanwhile Van Baarle finished eleventh, 25 seconds back, ceding just nine seconds to sixth placed Kwiatkowski.

With a lead of ten seconds in the Friends Life General Classification, only disaster or a freak result in the sprint finish would prevent the Dutchman keeping hold of the Friends Life Yellow Jersey, and that’s how it proved.

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“I didn’t really win the race today, – won it in Brighton yesterday,” said Dylan Van Baarle afterwards. “It was tough to defend my jersey in a time trial against Kwiatkowski but I did it and I’m very happy, I will remember this day for my whole life.

“I like these kind of stage races very much – not too long – but at the start of the week when I saw the list of riders, guys like Wiggins and Kwiatkowski I knew it was going to be very hard. I was hoping for perhaps top ten.

“It’s been a very hard race, the roads are heavy, lots of little steep climbs but also the six man teams is a factor. It makes it really exciting as we saw in the stage of Alex Dowsett on Friday when the peloton were pulling and pulling and could not catch the break. That ride inspired me a little bit for our break on Saturday.

“In the future I would like to develop into a Classics rider – Roubaix and Flanders – and also races like this. I am probably too heavy to be a Grand Tour rider!”

Come the final sprint and the Giant Shimano team reeled in the final attempts at another breakaway victory, keeping the pace high along Victoria Embankment and setting things up perfectly for Kittel. With Cavendish’s Omega Pharma Quick-Step teammates also at the fore, the Manxman was perfectly positioned on Kittel’s wheel, but could only get alongside the German on the dash up Whitehall, as the first three riders crossed the line spread across the full width of the road.

Despite an early attack on lap one, Alex Dowsett couldn’t stay away in his bid to take the points at the single YodelDirect Sprint on lap fiveand overall erstwhile leader Sebastian Lander, with the Dane’s BMC Racing teammate Steve Cummings taking the YodelDirect Sprint from the break, to prevent him losing the jersey.

An Post Chain Reaction’s Mark McNally finished safely in the pack to confirm his hold on the SKODA King of the Mountains jersey.

Two of the week’s most prominent riders also made an appearance on the London podium, with double-stage winner Matthias Brandle joining his IAM Cycling team colleagues as winners of the Friends Life Team Classification, and Alex Dowsett taking the overall Rouleur Combativity Award for the 2014 Friends Life Tour of Britain.

Chris Latham was the final daily Rouleur Combativity Award winner, take the cheese for the London stage presented by Transport for London.

PHOTOS FROM THE DAY

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Bradley Wiggins was just awesome … I watched his countdown ‘ritual’ and he shot off that line like no-one else in the race. Brilliant!

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Steve Lampier acknowledges the crowd before his time trial

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Steve  Cummings led the time trial before Chavenal and Wiggins came in quicker. He was third.

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Bikes are checked before the time trial.

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Tao gets into position before the final five second countdown from Carole

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The Yellow jersey Dylan Van Baarle waiting for his ‘pressure’ ride where he held on to his lead.

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Alex Dowsett on his way to eighth place in the time trial

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Bradley Wiggins, resplendent in his champions skin suit

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Adam Blythe who is joining Orica-GreenEdge for 2015

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Last race in the 2014 Tour of Britain gets underway in front of a big crowd

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James Lowsley-Williams (NFTO) and Mark McNally two of the Brits in this first attempt to get a break away.

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Alex Dowsett then forced a move away 

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Two ‘testers’ Alex Dowsett and Ryan Mullen at the front of the race on stage 8B of the Tour of Britain

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Great to see Rob Partridge in a move off the front

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A rider who has been very active in this years Tour of Britain, Paul Voss with Alex Dowsett

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Michal Kwiatkowski was keen to try and break Garmin but on a short pan flat stage that wasn’t happening

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Steve Cummings in  the races main break with Liam Holohan of Madison Genesis.

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The gap to the break yoyo’d as the peloton kept them within catching distance

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Has to be done every year, the Tour of Britain under the shadow of the iconic Big Ben

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Whilst our images seemed to say Kittel had won the stage, it was quite a while before it was confirmed and the big crowd favourite came onto stage.

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Team winners IAM cycling.

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Great result for Liverpool’s Mark McNally as he wins the KoM jersey in the toughest Tour of Britain yet

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Overall Combativity award for Alex Dowsett

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Really tight sprint for the win between  Ruffoni, Cavendish and Kittel

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Steve Cummings leading the peloton chasing the first break  before making the next one.

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Congrats to Chris Latham for winning the stage’s Combativity award.

STAGE 8 B
1 KITTEL Marcel GIA 01:50:33
2 CAVENDISH Mark OPQ @ st
3 RUFFONI Nicola BAR @ st
4 SANZ UNZUE Enrique MOV @ st
5 ZABEL Rick BMC @ st
6 WILKINSON Ian RAL @ st
7 MCLAY Daniel GBR @ st
8 TRUSOV Nikolay TCS @ st
9 BLYTHE Adam NPC @ st
10 ARCHBOLD Shane SKT @ st
11 MARKUS Barry BEL @ st
12 CHAVANEL Sylvain IAM @ st
13 PERON Andrea TNN @ st
14 IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI Jon MOV @ st
15 KNEISKY Morgan RAL @ st
16 VERSCHOOR Martijn TNN @ st
17 DOWSETT Alex MOV @ st
18 SWIFT Ben SKY @ st
19 NORTHEY Michael James MGT @ st
20 THWAITES Scott TNE @ st
21 RENSHAW Mark OPQ @ st
22 SCHORN Daniel TNE @ st
23 BOL Jetse BEL @ st
24 BAUER Jack GRS @ st
25 LOWSLEY WILLIAMS James NPC @ st
26 BATTAGLIN Enrico BAR @ st
27 MULLEN Ryan SKT @ st
28 BARKER Yanto RAL @ st
29 VAN BAARLE Dylan GRS @ st
30 MORGAN Bradley VGR @ st
31 BOULO Matthieu RAL @ st
32 @ st AUFF Andreas MTN @ st
33 KWIATKOWSKI Michal OPQ @ st
34 CUMMINGS Stephen BMC @ st
35 TEUNS Dylan BMC @ st
36 LASTRAS GARCIA Pablo MOV @ st
37 SUTHERLAND Rory TCS @ st
38 VAN NIEKERK Dennis MTN @ st
39 ROCHE Nicolas TCS @ st
40 ZARDINI Edoardo BAR @ st
41 GOLAS Michal OPQ @ st
42 HAUSSLER Heinrich IAM @ st
43 BURTON Germain GBR @ st
44 HNIK Karel MTN @ st
45 REICHENBACH Sébastien IAM @ st
46 WIGGINS Bradley SKY @ st
47 BARTA Jan TNE @ st
48 GEOGHEGAN HART Tao GBR @ st
49 MOSS James VGR @ st
50 LANDER Sebastian BMC @ st
51 LAMPIER Steve VGR @ st
52 JUUL JENSEN Christopher TCS @ st
53 HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian SKY @ st
54 HANDLEY Richard RCS @ st
55 FLENS Rick BEL @ st
56 OPIE Chris RCS @ st
57 BONGIORNO Francesco Manuel BAR @ st
58 WYNANTS Maarten BEL @ st
59 TANKINK Bram BEL @ st
60 PINEAU Jérôme IAM @ st
61 KONOVALOVAS Ignatas MTN @ st
62 LOPEZ GARCIA David SKY @ st
63 MCNALLY Mark SKT @ st
64 BRANDLE Matthias IAM @ st
65 BIALOBLOCKI Marcin VGR @ st
66 ISTA Kevin IAM @ st
67 VISCONTI Giovanni MOV @ st
68 WILSON Jack SKT @ st
69 JIM Songezo MTN @ st
70 KOHLER Martin BMC @ st
71 @ st AMSNIJDER Tom GIA @ st
72 DEKKER Thomas GRS @ st
73 GIRDLESTONE Dylan GRS @ st
74 SZMYD Sylvester MOV @ st
75 LOZANO RIBA David TNN @ st
76 APPLEBY Dale NPC @ st
77 VOSS Paul TNE @ st
78 HOUSE Kristian RCS @ st
79 DOULL Owain SKT @ st
80 ATKINS George RAL @ st
81 @ st EWART Thomas MGT @ st
82 EISEL Bernhard SKY @ st
83 BIBBY Ian MGT @ st
84 PETERS Alex MGT @ st
85 PARTRIDGE Robert VGR @ st
86 CHRISTIAN Mark RAL @ st
87 MOSES Thomas RCS @ st
88 SCULLY Thomas MGT @ st
89 EDMONDSON Nathan VGR @ st
90 HOLOHAN Liam MGT @ st
91 NORDHAUG Lars-Petter BEL 21
92 TERPSTRA Niki OPQ 24
93 KÖNIG Leopold TNE 35
94 VERMOTE Julien OPQ 37
95 DE BACKER Bert GIA 48
96 LATHAM Christopher GBR @ st
97 HANSEN Lasse Norman GRS 50
98 FARRAR Tyler GRS @ st
99 VEELERS Tom GIA @ st
100 TIMMER Albert GIA @ st
101 BOARO Manuele TCS 55
102 MEGIAS LEAL Javier TNN 01:45
103 LAWLESS Christopher GBR 02:42
104 HUNT Joshua NPC @ st

FINAL OVERALL

1 VAN BAARLE Dylan GRS 32:22:50
2 KWIATKOWSKI Michal OPQ 10
3 WIGGINS Bradley SKY 22
4 ZARDINI Edoardo BAR 37
5 ROCHE Nicolas TCS 42
6 IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI Jon MOV 46
7 CHAVANEL Sylvain IAM 50
8 DOWSETT Alex MOV 54
9 BARTA Jan TNE 01:09
10 TEUNS Dylan BMC 01:10
11 LOPEZ GARCIA David SKY 01:11
12 REICHENBACH Sébastien IAM ST
13 KONOVALOVAS Ignatas MTN 01:19
14 JUUL JENSEN Christopher TCS 01:24
15 GEOGHEGAN HART Tao GBR 01:52
16 SUTHERLAND Rory TCS 01:53
17 BONGIORNO Francesco Manuel BAR 01:59
18 LAMPIER Steve VGR 02:06
19 BOULO Matthieu RAL 02:13
20 BAUER Jack GRS 02:16
21 VISCONTI Giovanni MOV 02:44
22 NORDHAUG Lars-Petter BEL 03:16
23 GOLAS Michal OPQ 03:31
24 HNIK Karel MTN 03:41
25 SWIFT Ben SKY ST
26 HANDLEY Richard RCS 03:42
27 HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian SKY 04:42
28 HOLOHAN Liam MGT 05:18
29 TANKINK Bram BEL 05:39
30 VAN NIEKERK Dennis MTN 05:41
31 BIALOBLOCKI Marcin VGR 05:45
32 PINEAU Jérôme IAM 06:10
33 BATTAGLIN Enrico BAR 07:14
34 KÖNIG Leopold TNE 07:29
35 CHRISTIAN Mark RAL 09:15
36 PETERS Alex MGT 10:46
37 BRANDLE Matthias IAM 10:47
38 DOULL Owain SKT 11:58
39 ZABEL Rick BMC 12:37
40 HAUSSLER Heinrich IAM 13:29
41 CAVENDISH Mark OPQ 13:42
42 SZMYD Sylvester MOV 14:03
43 VOSS Paul TNE 16:13
44 WYNANTS Maarten BEL 16:21
45 VERMOTE Julien OPQ 16:27
46 ISTA Kevin IAM 16:28
47 TERPSTRA Niki OPQ 18:33
48 STAMSNIJDER Tom GIA 18:39
49 KNEISKY Morgan RAL 19:33
50 LASTRAS GARCIA Pablo MOV 20:25
51 DEKKER Thomas GRS 20:31
52 CUMMINGS Stephen BMC 20:48
53 TIMMER Albert GIA 21:23
54 BLYTHE Adam NPC 22:00
55 MCNALLY Mark SKT 24:07:00
56 GIRDLESTONE Dylan GRS 24:32:00
57 FARRAR Tyler GRS 24:50:00
58 LOZANO RIBA David TNN 25:00:00
59 KOHLER Martin BMC 26:27:00
60 VEELERS Tom GIA 26:54:00
61 VERSCHOOR Martijn TNN 28:47:00
62 THWAITES Scott TNE 29:05:00
63 STEWART Thomas MGT 30:09:00
64 STAUFF Andreas MTN 33:04:00
65 MOSES Thomas RCS 36:13:00
66 SANZ UNZUE Enrique MOV 36:34:00
67 NORTHEY Michael James MGT 37:18:00
68 BOL Jetse BEL 39:18:00
69 PARTRIDGE Robert VGR 39:33:00
70 SCHORN Daniel TNE 41:05:00
71 RENSHAW Mark OPQ 41:20:00
72 BURTON Germain GBR 41:31:00
73 FLENS Rick BEL 42:38:00
74 ARCHBOLD Shane SKT 43:01:00
75 TRUSOV Nikolay TCS 44:07:00
76 HOUSE Kristian RCS 44:33:00
77 MEGIAS LEAL Javier TNN 44:45:00
78 SCULLY Thomas MGT 45:03:00
79 ATKINS George RAL 46:29:00
80 KITTEL Marcel GIA 46:46:00
81 JIM Songezo MTN 49:04:00
82 HANSEN Lasse Norman GRS 49:08:00
83 APPLEBY Dale NPC 50:12:00
84 BOARO Manuele TCS 50:32:00
85 MULLEN Ryan SKT 51:04:00
86 EDMONDSON Nathan VGR 51:41:00
87 MCLAY Daniel GBR 54:56:00
88 RUFFONI Nicola BAR 57:15:00
89 LANDER Sebastian BMC 57:18:00
90 PERON Andrea TNN 58:43:00
91 HUNT Joshua NPC 59:21:00
92 BIBBY Ian MGT 59:28:00
93 BARKER Yanto RAL 01:03:10
94 MARKUS Barry BEL 01:04:43
95 DE BACKER Bert GIA 01:05:22
96 OPIE Chris RCS 01:08:41
97 EISEL Bernhard SKY 01:09:56
98 WILKINSON Ian RAL 01:11:15
99 MORGAN Bradley VGR 01:12:15
100 MOSS James VGR 01:14:09
101 LOWSLEY WILLIAMS James NPC 01:19:58
102 LATHAM Christopher GBR 01:20:39
103 WILSON Jack SKT 01:26:44
104 LAWLESS Christopher GBR 01:29:00

STAGE 8 A

1 1 WIGGINS Bradley SKY 09:50.710
2 11 CHAVANEL Sylvain IAM 08
3 161 CUMMINGS Stephen BMC 09
4 142 BARTA Jan TNE 14
5 14 BRANDLE Matthias IAM 15
6 74 KWIATKOWSKI Michal OPQ 16
7 173 MULLEN Ryan SKT 20
8 102 DOWSETT Alex MOV ST
9 194 JUUL JENSEN Christopher TCS 24
10 162 KOHLER Martin BMC 25
11 45 VAN BAARLE Dylan GRS ST
12 192 BOARO Manuele TCS 26
13 105 IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI Jon MOV ST
14 44 HANSEN Lasse Norman GRS 28
15 71 CAVENDISH Mark OPQ ST
16 181 KITTEL Marcel GIA 29
17 141 KÖNIG Leopold TNE 30
18 41 BAUER Jack GRS ST
19 166 VELITS Peter BMC 31
20 42 DEKKER Thomas GRS ST
21 12 HAUSSLER Heinrich IAM 32
22 191 ROCHE Nicolas TCS ST
23 185 TIMMER Albert GIA 34
24 76 VERMOTE Julien OPQ 35
25 4 SWIFT Ben SKY ST
26 114 ZARDINI Edoardo BAR 37
27 134 FLENS Rick BEL ST
28 94 SCULLY Thomas MGT 39
29 196 TRUSOV Nikolay TCS 40
30 75 TERPSTRA Niki OPQ 42
31 15 REICHENBACH Sébastien IAM 45
32 54 KONOVALOVAS Ignatas MTN ST
33 193 SUTHERLAND Rory TCS 46
34 6 LOPEZ GARCIA David SKY 47
35 101 VISCONTI Giovanni MOV ST
36 73 GOLAS Michal OPQ 49
37 184 VEELERS Tom GIA ST
38 144 SCHORN Daniel TNE 50
39 121 BOULO Matthieu RAL ST
40 91 STEWART Thomas MGT ST
41 31 GEOGHEGAN HART Tao GBR 52
42 176 DOULL Owain SKT ST
43 95 BIBBY Ian MGT 53
44 164 ZABEL Rick BMC 54
45 61 BIALOBLOCKI Marcin VGR 55
46 183 STAMSNIJDER Tom GIA ST
47 72 RENSHAW Mark OPQ 56
48 65 LAMPIER Steve VGR ST
49 115 BONGIORNO Francesco Manuel BAR 57
50 165 TEUNS Dylan BMC 59
51 135 TANKINK Bram BEL ST
52 2 HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian SKY 01:01
53 146 VOSS Paul TNE ST
54 186 DE BACKER Bert GIA ST
55 136 WYNANTS Maarten BEL 01:03
56 34 LATHAM Christopher GBR ST
57 32 MCLAY Daniel GBR ST
58 24 HANDLEY Richard RCS ST
59 92 NORTHEY Michael James MGT 01:04
60 46 GIRDLESTONE Dylan GRS 01:06
61 43 FARRAR Tyler GRS ST
62 64 MORGAN Bradley VGR ST
63 131 NORDHAUG Lars-Petter BEL 01:07
64 145 THWAITES Scott TNE 01:08
65 133 BOL Jetse BEL 01:10
66 22 OPIE Chris RCS 01:12
67 151 BLYTHE Adam NPC ST
68 124 KNEISKY Morgan RAL 01:13
69 53 VAN NIEKERK Dennis MTN ST
70 171 ARCHBOLD Shane SKT 01:15
71 132 MARKUS Barry BEL 01:16
72 56 HNIK Karel MTN ST
73 23 MOSES Thomas RCS ST
74 83 MEGIAS LEAL Javier TNN ST
75 125 CHRISTIAN Mark RAL 01:19
76 126 ATKINS George RAL 01:20
77 81 VERSCHOOR Martijn TNN 01:21
78 172 MCNALLY Mark SKT 01:23
79 36 BURTON Germain GBR 01:25
80 111 BATTAGLIN Enrico BAR ST
81 93 HOLOHAN Liam MGT 01:26
82 66 PARTRIDGE Robert VGR 01:27
83 35 LAWLESS Christopher GBR ST
84 82 PERON Andrea TNN 01:29
85 84 LOZANO RIBA David TNN 01:31
86 51 JIM Songezo MTN 01:33
87 62 MOSS James VGR 01:35
88 106 SANZ UNZUE Enrique MOV 01:37
89 163 LANDER Sebastian BMC 01:38
90 104 SZMYD Sylvester MOV ST
91 5 EISEL Bernhard SKY 01:39
92 155 LOWSLEY WILLIAMS James NPC 01:43
93 63 EDMONDSON Nathan VGR 01:45
94 103 LASTRAS GARCIA Pablo MOV 01:47
95 112 RUFFONI Nicola BAR ST
96 123 WILKINSON Ian RAL 01:48
97 153 HUNT Joshua NPC 01:49
98 156 APPLEBY Dale NPC 01:52
99 21 HOUSE Kristian RCS 01:54
100 122 BARKER Yanto RAL 02:00
101 55 STAUFF Andreas MTN 02:06
102 16 PINEAU Jérôme IAM 02:08
103 174 WILSON Jack SKT 02:25
104 13 ISTA Kevin IAM 02:36
105 96 PETERS Alex MGT 07:33

 

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