Tour of Britain – Stage 5

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Matthias Brandle of the IAM Cycling team held on for victory in Exeter, attacking his breakaway companions on the final SKODA King of the Mountains climb to take the win in front of packed crowds in the city centre.

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Tour of Britain – Stage 5

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Matthias Brandle takes solo win in Exeter in Friends Life Tour of Britain

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Matthias Brandle wins the day in Exeter .. but no nipple tweak celebration here…

The Austrian rider was part of the day’s four strong escape group, and with the peloton bearing down on them as they approached the SKODA King of the Mountains climb of Stoke Hill on the outskirts, Brandle attacked to distance his companions.

Shane Archbold and Maarten Wynants valiantly held off the peloton on the fast descent into Exeter to finish second and third, eight seconds down on Brandle, with Sonny Colbrelli leading in what remained of the peloton a further six seconds down.

Omega Pharma Quick-Step’s Michal Kwiatkowski came in seventh, safely in the lead pack to retain the Friends Life Yellow Jersey for the second day, with no major changes to the Friends Life General Classification behind him.

The Pole also keeps the Chain Reaction Cycles Points Jersey, with Sky’s Ben Swift narrowing the deficit to just three points. Elsewhere Sebastian Lander of BMC Racing retained the YodelDirect Sprints Jersey, while Mark McNally extended his lead in the SKODA King of the Mountains Jersey, picking up points behind the break on both the Mamhead and Haytor climbs.

“We had to chase yesterday, because it is my job I had to go really deep to chase the breakaway back,” said Matthias Brandle speaking afterwards. “Today I got in the breakaway and thought maybe it was possible for a stage win, that’s what I tried to do. And finally its happens.

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Matthias Brandle driving the break along

“No one really believed, but then they give us a little bit more and then we chatted some more and now we go full speed ,we started to try and then it was 2’30- 2’40 and it was impossible for them to get us back.

“Finally we really worked well together and it was me who could take the win I had the best legs on the last climb, I tried to push as hard as I could, I managed to break them down and so it was a really nice victory for me but also to win a stage at the Tour of Britain, they are really good guys here and I’m really happy that I could take the win for my team.”

The four rider break of Andreas Stauff (MTN Qhubeka), Shane Archbold (An Post Chain Reaction), Maarten Wynants (Belkin Pro Cycling) and Brandle went within the first few miles of racing from Exmouth, striking out on a venture which would see the latter three never reigned in.

With a maximum lead of just over three minutes, Omega Pharma Quick-Step were content to slowly reel them in, before a large effort by Garmin Sharp brought the lead tumbling down.

On the climb of Stoke Hill it was enough to provoke fireworks from the peloton, with several riders striking out but none being able to bridge the gap to Wynants and Archbold, who continued to chase Brandle all the way to the finish line.

The day’s Rouleur Combativity Award was added to the stage victory for Brandle, while IAM Cycling also celebrated further success by moving into the lead of the Friends Life Team Classification, a closely fought affair with the top four teams – IAM, Tinkoff Saxo, Movistar Team and Team Sky – separated by just 30 seconds.

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Rob Partridge and his birthday cake from the Tour

Speaking afterwards, Omega Pharma Quick-Step’s Michal Kwiatkowski said; “We were trying to control that gap to around three minutes, we knew that Brandle had three minutes in the GC so was not a dangerous break away for us. We knew that if someone from another team wants to win the stage they have to take control and chase down the break away, Garmin did it and I am really thankful to my team mates today they put me out of pressure. Out of the four stages so far this was the first one that I could really relax, it of course was tough, hard with the one kilometre climb and the fast decent into the finish.”

Friday morning sees the modern Friends Life Tour of Britain make its debut in Bath, as the historic city hosts the start of Stage Six to Hemel Hempstead, taking in over 200 kilometres of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, including three testing SKODA King of the Mountains climbs in the Chiltern Hills.

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Shane Archibold protects his teammates KoM lead by winning the first KoM

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KoM leader is still Liverpool’s Mark McNally

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Lander of BMC in the Sprints jersey

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Another day in yellow for Michal  Kwiatkowski beckons in Bath

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Stage winner Matthias Brandle

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While the break were full gas, led here by  Matthias Brandle … 

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… into the final 15 miles and Garmin take to the front to bring the gap down to the break. 

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Mark Renshaw sees what goodies are in the musette…

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The field in a long line after Haytor

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Chavanel and Wiggins have a chat across the moors after the climb of Haytor

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Michal  Kwiatkowski was untroubled with his team in control

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Haytor was yet again packed with people, some as ever in fancy dress…

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From the start after the break went away, Mark Renshaw was working for his team leader and yellow jersey, Michal  Kwiatkowski

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Sprints leader  Sebastian Lander of BMC trying to get up the road at the start

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Morgan Kneisky of Team Raleigh trying to get in an early move

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The race gets underway in Exmouth with the ‘jerseys’ at the front.

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Bradley Wiggins signs a post being auctioned for charity

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Sonny Colbrelli gets the better of Ben Swift in the sprint for fourth

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Shane Archibold gets second from Maarten Wynants

 STAGE 5

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

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

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