Feature Report: Tour of Britain Stage 6

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Feature Report: Tour of Britain Stage 6

Stage 6 Stoke-on-Trent to Nottingham | Friday 11 September

Edvald Boasson Hagen extended his lead in the Aviva Tour of Britain, finishing second on Nottingham’s Forest Recreation Ground behind Etixx Quick-Step rider Matteo Trentin, who took his team’s third stage win of the week.

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The Italian outsprinted Boasson Hagen in a two-up sprint at the end of the 192-kilometre stage after the Aviva Yellow Jersey had bridged across to him in the final kilometres through Nottingham, going on to describe the stage as the hardest he had ever ridden.

The two riders were just ahead of a chasing bunch of 28 riders, all that remained of the main field at the end of a hard day’s racing, which saw aggressive riding from the start in Stoke-on-Trent.

The sight of a 75 strong grupetto coming home 45-minutes and 47-seconds behind the stage winner – on a 192km stage of less than five hours and featuring no long climbs – would appear to back up Trentin’s claim.

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That the Etixx Quick-Step rider had contributed massively to the main break of the day while still having enough energy to outsprint Boasson Hagen was testament to his good form.

“For me and probably 99% of the field that is the hardest race I have ever done,” said Trentin. “It was full gas right from the beginning we never really stopped. You just have to look at the numbers, I was averaging 365 watts for four hours and 45 minutes. That’s tough. In the break we were never more than one minute or so ahead, the race was always on and never slowed. Even when it was flat at the start we had cross winds and then think about riding the climbs in the cross winds

“When Edvald attacked off the front of the group and came up to join me I thought that would be it because somebody was sure to chase the yellow jersey. But when he joined me we looked back and everybody was on the limit. Edvald was riding for the bonifaction and GC so I took a rest in his wheel and went for the stage win. And then I just sprinted as hard as I could.

“That is the mentality of this Etixx team whether even when we have injuries or crashes. We have a winning mentality, we always race for the victory, we are never here to be just part of the race. Sometime it works sometime it doesn’t but we always try.”

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The Etixx Quick-Step team have now won three stages of the race, although both previous stage victors – Petr Vakoc and Fernando Gaviria – have dropped out through injury, and were today joined by Mark Cavendish who crashed, causing his abandonment.

With two stages to go, Boasson Hagen now leads by 13-seconds from Wout Poels, with Rasmus Guldhammer third at 43-seconds and Britain’s Owain Doull fourth, one second back and keeping hold of both the Chain Reaction Cycles Points Jersey and Premier Inn Best British Rider Award.

In both the YodelDirect Sprints and SKODA King of the Mountains classifications there was no change with ONE Pro Cycling’s Peter Williams keeping hold of both jerseys, with neither Williams or his nearest challengers collecting any points towards either competition on Stage Six.

Boasson Hagen and Trentin had both been among a leading group of 30-riders that over the course of the stage from Stoke-on-Trent to Nottingham, through Derbyshire and the Peak District, that chased a lead group of varying different combinations.

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Initially a strong eight man group of Trentin, Ian Stannard, Zdenek Stybar, Stefan Kueng, Steven Kruijswijk, Sebastian Langeveld, Tao Geoghegan Hart and last year’s winner Dylan Van Baarle forged ahead, but on heavy rolling roads the race was a constantly changing picture, until a six rider group built a small group.

Kueng and Trentin remained clear coming off the hills and into Nottingham, with the latter taking a slender lead into the final three-kilometres before being joined by Boasson Hagen. The MTN Qhubeka rider jumped across the gap that had been reduced by Sky duo Stannard and Ben Swift, but couldn’t defeat Trentin in the sprint.

“It was a really hard day but I am happy with that result,” said Boasson Hagen afterwards. “I would have happily settled for that before the start of the stage. Sky applied the pressure and eventually the break went and when Stannard came back I had to try and cover the moves and hope for the best.

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Owain Doull, third on the stage and yet again the Best British rider

“Stannard asked me to ride at one stage and that is natural of course but I didn’t want to do that before the final intermediate sprint because I could have lost time there or they could have attacked me there. I wanted to wait as long as possible before I stated to work but it was always my plan to try something about five kilometres out. I looked over and Wouter seemed to be on his own so I went.

“I didn’t feel my form was that good at the start of the race but it feels like it is getting better every day now. We will see tomorrow for sure. A lot of people are very tired although perhaps the riders in the grupetto are not quite so tired. I need to stay focussed for two more days now and hope that the team have been saving a lot of energy for the long day tomorrow.”

Coming home in third place on Stage Six four seconds back was the in-form Owain Doull of Team WIGGINS who now moves into fourth place overall with power to add in the final two stage.

“I’ve been taking it day by day, it was very hard from the off but I made the selection and was very happy with third place. I’m a bit surprised at my form although I have always targeted this race and the Under-23 Worlds later this month.

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Three quarters of the race finish 45 minutes behind the leaders

“We will be trying to get onto the podium, there are three intermediate sprints tomorrow with a total of nine seconds available so if I could grab a few of those it would be pretty good but I need to keep contesting the finishes as well and try and get it that way as well. We will give it a good go in the next two days.”

Stage Seven sees the race return to East Anglia for the first time since 2012, with Norfolk hosting its first stage start, at Fakenham, since 2010. At 227-kilometres riders will face the longest stage of the race to Ipswich, including a YodelDirect Sprint on the runway of Wattisham Airfield, home to the British Army’s Apache helicopters.

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Sprint for third won by Owain Doull

 

Stage 6
1 TRENTIN Matteo EQS 04:45:27
2 BOASSON HAGEN Edvald MTN ST
3 DOULL Owain WGN 4
4 STYBAR Zdenek EQS ST
5 DEBUSSCHERE Jens LTS ST
6 BETTIOL Alberto TCG ST
7 PETERS Alex GBR ST
8 TEUNS Dylan BMC ST
9 MEURISSE Xandro SKT ST
10 POELS Wouter SKY ST
11 GULDHAMMER Rasmus CLT ST
12 FERNANDEZ Ruben MOV ST
13 KRUIJSWIJK Steven TLJ ST
14 PHINNEY Taylor BMC ST
15 HART Tao Geoghegan GBR ST
16 CLEMENT Stef IAM ST
17 SÖRENSEN Chris Anker TCS ST
18 VAN BAARLE Dylan TCG ST
19 DENIFL Stefan IAM ST
20 KISERLOVSKI Robert TCS ST
21 IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka MOV ST
22 KENNAUGH Peter SKY ST
23 QUAADE Rasmus Christian CLT ST
24 TANKINK Bram TLJ ST
25 LANGEVELD Sebastian TCG ST
26 KUENG Stefan BMC 39
27 STANNARD Ian SKY 01:56
28 SWIFT Ben SKY ST
29 WYSS Danilo BMC 01:57
30 TOLHOEK Antwan TCS 02:39
31 OLIPHANT Evan RAL 45:47:00
32 DOWNING Russell CLT ST
33 MORTENSEN Martin CLT ST
34 PYM George RAL ST
35 HARPER George ONE ST
36 LOZANO RIBA David TNN ST
37 KLUGE Roger IAM ST
38 ZEPUNTKE Ruben TCG ST
39 MULLEN Ryan TCG ST
40 HOUSE Kristian JLT ST
41 PAUWELS Serge MTN ST
42 STEWART Thomas MGT ST
43 BOUWMAN Koen TLJ ST
44 PARTRIDGE Robert NPC ST
45 BIBBY Ian NPC ST
46 APPLEBY Dale NPC ST
47 GERTS Floris BMC ST
48 DOWSETT Alex MOV ST
49 VANGENECHTEN Jonas IAM ST
50 SVENDGAARD Michael Carbel CLT ST
51 DE BIE Sean LTS ST
52 WEGMANN Fabian CLT ST
53 GREIPEL André LTS ST
54 SIEBERG Marcel LTS ST
55 PERON Andrea TNN ST
56 PLANET Charles TNN ST
57 FRISON Frederik LTS ST
58 DE MESMAEKER Kevin TNN ST
59 DUNBAR Eddie NPC ST
60 HENTTALA Joonas TNN ST
61 VIVIANI Elia SKY ST
62 LIGTHART Pim LTS ST
63 ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor MOV ST
64 MARANGONI Alan TCG ST
65 CHEVRIER Clement IAM ST
66 WILLIAMS Peter ONE ST
67 TEKLEHAIMANOT Daniel MTN ST
68 BRIGGS Graham JLT ST
69 CIOLEK Gerald MTN ST
70 FARRAR Tyler MTN ST
71 MCNALLY Mark MGT ST
72 SLATER Alistair SKT ST
73 CRONSHAW Mathew MGT ST
74 JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt MTN ST
75 MEGIAS LEAL Javier TNN ST
76 SISKEVICIUS Paulius SKT ST
77 SAGAN Juraj TCS ST
78 TRUSOV Nikolay TCS ST
79 OPIE Chris ONE ST
80 ENGER Sondre Holst IAM ST
81 KNEISKY Morgan RAL ST
82 MOSES Thomas JLT ST
83 CLANCY Edward JLT ST
84 MCEVOY Jonathan NPC ST
85 BARKER Yanto ONE ST
86 BIALOBLOCKI Marcin ONE ST
87 WOOD Oliver GBR ST
88 DAVIES Scott GBR ST
89 DUNNE Conor SKT ST
90 FENN Andrew SKY ST
91 DOMAGALSKI Karol RAL ST
92 RENSHAW Mark EQS ST
93 HUNT Joshua ONE ST
94 SCULLY Thomas MGT ST
95 LOBATO DEL VALLE Juan Jose MOV ST
96 INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Benat MOV ST
97 MORKOV Michael TCS ST
98 HOLMES Matthew MGT ST
99 HANDLEY Richard JLT ST
100 CUMING Michael JLT ST
101 WIGGINS Bradley WGN ST
102 KRUOPIS Aidis SKT ST
103 TENNANT Andrew WGN ST
104 DIBBEN Jonathan WGN ST
105 CULLAIGH Gabriel GBR ST
106 THOMPSON Michael WGN ST

OVERALL
1 BOASSON HAGEN Edvald MTN 27:47:54
2 POELS Wouter SKY 13
3 GULDHAMMER Rasmus CLT 43
4 DOULL Owain WGN 44
5 TEUNS Dylan BMC 51
6 STYBAR Zdenek EQS ST
7 FERNANDEZ Ruben MOV ST
8 KRUIJSWIJK Steven TLJ ST
9 MEURISSE Xandro SKT ST
10 SÖRENSEN Chris Anker TCS ST
11 IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka MOV 58
12 VAN BAARLE Dylan TCG 59
13 QUAADE Rasmus Christian CLT 01:04
14 KISERLOVSKI Robert TCS 01:06
15 PETERS Alex GBR 01:19
16 DEBUSSCHERE Jens LTS 01:33
17 KENNAUGH Peter SKY 01:45
18 TANKINK Bram TLJ 01:52
19 LANGEVELD Sebastian TCG 01:54
20 BETTIOL Alberto TCG 01:59
21 DENIFL Stefan IAM 02:04
22 CLEMENT Stef IAM 04:40
23 HART Tao Geoghegan GBR 05:30
24 SWIFT Ben SKY 07:26
25 KUENG Stefan BMC 07:43
26 TRENTIN Matteo EQS 08:39
27 PHINNEY Taylor BMC 11:05
28 WYSS Danilo BMC 14:46
29 TOLHOEK Antwan TCS 15:14
30 STANNARD Ian SKY 37:02:00
31 INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Benat MOV 46:29:00
32 BRIGGS Graham JLT 46:39:00
33 PAUWELS Serge MTN 47:20:00
34 ZEPUNTKE Ruben TCG 47:22:00
35 LOZANO RIBA David TNN ST
36 GERTS Floris BMC 47:33:00
37 BOUWMAN Koen TLJ 48:13:00
38 SLATER Alistair SKT 50:57:00
39 MOSES Thomas JLT 51:52:00
40 LIGTHART Pim LTS 51:57:00
41 ENGER Sondre Holst IAM 52:00:00
42 BIBBY Ian NPC 52:13:00
43 HANDLEY Richard JLT 52:52:00
44 DAVIES Scott GBR 55:51:00
45 LOBATO DEL VALLE Juan Jose MOV 56:14:00
46 MEGIAS LEAL Javier TNN 56:36:00
47 MORKOV Michael TCS 56:39:00
48 DE BIE Sean LTS 57:33:00
49 HUNT Joshua ONE 58:08:00
50 GREIPEL André LTS 58:13:00
51 SIEBERG Marcel LTS 59:07:00
52 CHEVRIER Clement IAM 01:00:24
53 MARANGONI Alan TCG 01:02:48
54 MCNALLY Mark MGT 01:03:54
55 APPLEBY Dale NPC 01:05:58
56 ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor MOV 01:07:01
57 DOMAGALSKI Karol RAL 01:08:58
58 FRISON Frederik LTS 01:10:28
59 MCEVOY Jonathan NPC 01:10:40
60 DUNBAR Eddie NPC 01:11:36
61 MULLEN Ryan TCG 01:12:00
62 WEGMANN Fabian CLT 01:12:03
63 TEKLEHAIMANOT Daniel MTN 01:12:49
64 PLANET Charles TNN 01:12:57
65 OLIPHANT Evan RAL 01:14:54
66 MORTENSEN Martin CLT 01:17:20
67 STEWART Thomas MGT 01:17:26
68 BIALOBLOCKI Marcin ONE 01:17:41
69 CIOLEK Gerald MTN 01:18:20
70 CULLAIGH Gabriel GBR ST
71 HOLMES Matthew MGT 01:18:37
72 SAGAN Juraj TCS 01:18:57
73 TRUSOV Nikolay TCS ST
74 HARPER George ONE 01:19:07
75 THOMPSON Michael WGN 01:19:20
76 RENSHAW Mark EQS 01:19:32
77 SCULLY Thomas MGT 01:20:59
78 WILLIAMS Peter ONE 01:21:08
79 CRONSHAW Mathew MGT 01:21:45
80 HENTTALA Joonas TNN 01:22:24
81 CUMING Michael JLT 01:22:48
82 VANGENECHTEN Jonas IAM 01:22:50
83 VIVIANI Elia SKY 01:23:36
84 TENNANT Andrew WGN 01:24:00
85 SISKEVICIUS Paulius SKT 01:24:53
86 HOUSE Kristian JLT 01:25:00
87 BARKER Yanto ONE 01:25:29
88 PERON Andrea TNN 01:25:30
89 WOOD Oliver GBR 01:25:38
90 DOWNING Russell CLT 01:25:46
91 FARRAR Tyler MTN 01:26:43
92 WIGGINS Bradley WGN 01:26:56
93 KRUOPIS Aidis SKT 01:28:53
94 PARTRIDGE Robert NPC 01:29:18
95 SVENDGAARD Michael Carbel CLT 01:29:22
96 DIBBEN Jonathan WGN 01:30:08
97 KNEISKY Morgan RAL 01:31:36
98 FENN Andrew SKY 01:31:37
99 JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt MTN 01:32:51
100 DUNNE Conor SKT 01:32:53
101 PYM George RAL 01:33:43
102 OPIE Chris ONE 01:34:18
103 KLUGE Roger IAM 01:35:13
104 DOWSETT Alex MOV 01:40:59
105 DE MESMAEKER Kevin TNN 01:41:36
106 CLANCY Edward JLT 01:45:53
POINTS
1 DOULL Owain 194 WGN 62
2 BOASSON HAGEN Edvald 81 MTN 54
3 DEBUSSCHERE Jens 73 LTS 42
4 TRENTIN Matteo 15 EQS 39
5 POELS Wouter 25 SKY 31
6 GULDHAMMER Rasmus 53 CLT 31
7 BETTIOL Alberto 2 TCG 30
8 STYBAR Zdenek 14 EQS 26
9 LOBATO DEL VALLE Juan Jose 104 MOV 25
10 VIVIANI Elia 26 SKY 24

SPRINTS
1 WILLIAMS Peter 176 ONE 18
2 DUNNE Conor 62 SKT 11
3 LIGTHART Pim 74 LTS 8
4 KRUOPIS Aidis 64 SKT 8
5 WYSS Danilo 45 BMC 7
6 IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka 103 MOV 6
7 TRENTIN Matteo 15 EQS 6
8 BIALOBLOCKI Marcin 172 ONE 4
9 BOASSON HAGEN Edvald 81 MTN 3
10 HOUSE Kristian 121 JLT 3
KoM
1 WILLIAMS Peter 176 ONE 32
2 MCNALLY Mark 91 MGT 29
3 STEWART Thomas 96 MGT 29
4 BIBBY Ian 163 NPC 28
5 DUNNE Conor 62 SKT 26
6 POELS Wouter 25 SKY 21
7 HOUSE Kristian 121 JLT 20
8 FARRAR Tyler 83 MTN 18
9 WYSS Danilo 45 BMC 15
10 KRUIJSWIJK Steven 133 TLJ 14

 

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STAGES
Stage 1 | Sunday 6 September Beaumaris, Anglesey to Wrexham, 177.7km
Stage 2 | Monday 7 September Clitheroe to Colne, 159.3km
Stage 3 | Tuesday 8 September Cockermouth to Floors Castle, Kelso, 216km
Stage 4 | Wednesday 9 September Edinburgh to Blyth, 217.4km
Stage 5 | Thursday 10 September Prudhoe to Hartside, 166.2km
Stage 6 | Friday 11 September Stoke-on-Trent to Nottingham, 192.8km
Stage 7 | Saturday 12 September Fakenham to Ipswich, 227.4km
Stage 8 | Sunday 13 September London stage presented by TfL, 86.8km

TEAMS

UCI WorldTeams
BMC Racing (USA)
Etixx Quick-Step (Belgium)
IAM Cycling (Switzerland)
Lotto Soudal (Belgium)
Movistar Team (Spain)
Team Cannondale – Garmin (USA)
Team Lotto NL Jumbo (Netherlands)
Team Sky (Great Britain)
Tinkoff – Saxo (Russia)

UCI Pro Continental teams
Cult Energy Pro Cycling (Denmark)
MTN Qhubeka (South Africa)
Team Novo Nordisk (USA)

UCI Continental teams
An Post Chain Reaction (Ireland)
JLT Condor presented by Mavic (Great Britain)
Madison Genesis (Great Britain)
NFTO (Great Britain)
ONE Pro Cycling (Great Britain)
Team Raleigh GAC (Great Britain)
Team WIGGINS (Great Britain)

National Teams
Great Britain Cycling Team

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