Abu Dhabi Tour 2018 – Stage 5 [FULL STAGE]

February 25, 2018

Abu Dhabi Tour 2018 – Stage 5 – Al Ain – Jabel Hafeet : 199 km

The 2018 Abu Dhabi Tour is a road cycling stage race that is taking place between 21 and 25 February 2018 in Abu Dhabi. It is the fourth edition of the Abu Dhabi Tour and the third event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.

Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) claimed the final stage and with it the overall win at the Abu Dhabi Tour. The Spaniard edged out Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana) atop Jabel Hafeet after the pair had dropped their rivals inside the final kilometres. Overnight leader Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing) cracked on the climb and conceded 1:42 to Valverde.

Valverde took the overall race from Wilco Kelderman (Sunweb) with Lopez rounding out the podium in third.

The race inevitably came down to the final climb with Movistar pushing the pace alongside Astana.

The day’s early break of Lawson Craddock (EF Education First-Drapac), Mathias Brandle (TrekSegafredo), Andre Greipel (Lotto-Soudal), Rudy Barbier (AG2R La Mondiale), Fredrik Frison (Lotto-Soudal), Michael Bresciani (Bardiani CSF), Nicolo Bonifazio (Trek-Segafredo), Nikolay Trusov (Gazprom-Rusvelo) and Joonas Henttala (Novo Nordisk) initially held a lead of over 10 minutes but on the early slopes of the climb their advantage was clipped to within two minutes.

With eight kilometres to go, Astana lined out the peloton with Ion Izagirre (Bahrain-Merida) an early casualty due to an untimely mechanical. Craddock and Greipel mustered a brief counter from the remnants of the break as Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha-Alpecin) and Gianluca Brambilla (Trek-Segafredo) buckled under Astana’s pressure.

Davide Formolo (Bora-Hansgrohe) jumped clear of the Dennis group with seven kilometres to go. The Italian’s initial gap sparked Valverde into life, with the Spaniard joining him with an almost effortless attack. The chase from the peloton was too much for Dennis, and with six kilometres remaining the Australian found himself off the back as Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) linked up with Formolo and Valverde and then Lopez. Four became three when Formolo lost contact and Dennis continued to lose time despite being paced by teammate, Damiano Caruso.

Kelderman and Rafal Majka joined the leading contenders but Fabio Aru failed to make a strong impression, with the world time trial champion, Dumoulin, suffering a second mechanical in as many days.

Formolo, Kelderman, Lopez, Valverde, Majka, Alaphilippe, and Niklas Eg joined forces at the front, but with four kilometres to the line, Lopez attacked before Valverde joined him. Despite a series of counter-attacks the two leaders were never seen again, with Valverde taking the stage and the overall.

Results :
1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 4:38:47
2 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team
3 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:15
4 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
5 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
6 Davide Formolo (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:37
7 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:47
8 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:55
9 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates
10 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
11 Mathias Frank (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale
12 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:59
13 Bjorg Lambrecht (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:01:01
14 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:01:03
15 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
16 Fabio Aru (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:05
17 Rafael Valls Ferri (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:23
18 Michael Woods (Can) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:01:26
19 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
20 Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa) Team Sky 0:01:41
21 Ion Izagirre (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 0:01:43
22 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team
23 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team
24 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:02:01
25 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:02:03
26 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data 0:02:09
27 Scott Davies (GBr) Dimension Data 0:02:28
28 Daniel Moreno (Spa) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
29 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:02:47
30 Jesper Hansen (Den) Astana Pro Team
31 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Trek-Segafredo
32 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:03:20
33 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
34 Sebastian Henao (Col) Team Sky
35 Pierre Rolland (Fra) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
36 Toms Skujins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo 0:03:33
37 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:03:41
38 Clement Chevrier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
39 José Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:04:26
40 Victor De La Parte (Spa) Movistar Team
41 Artem Nych (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
42 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
43 Joey Rosskopf (USA) BMC Racing Team
44 Pascal Eenkhoorn (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:04:38
45 David Lozano (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
46 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott
47 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal
48 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:05:20
49 James Knox (GBr) Quick-Step Floors 0:05:25
50 Enric Mas (Spa) Quick-Step Floors
51 Michael Gogl (Aut) Trek-Segafredo
52 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb
53 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal
54 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:05:38
55 Davide Villella (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:05:44
56 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:05:50
57 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Quick-Step Floors 0:05:58
58 Sven Erik Bystrøm (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
59 Manuele Mori (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
60 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale
61 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb
62 Jos van Emden (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:06:24
63 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Katusha-Alpecin 0:06:26
64 Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
65 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
66 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:06:28
67 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:07:20
68 Gijs Van Hoecke (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:07:28
69 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:07:45
70 Kim Magnusson (Swe) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
71 Mekseb Debesay (Eri) Dimension Data
72 Juraj Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
73 Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team 0:08:12
74 Hendrikus van Ijzendoorn (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk 0:08:26
75 Alessandro Tonelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:08:53
76 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
77 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Mitchelton-Scott 0:09:01
78 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:09:03
79 Patrick Bevin (NZl) BMC Racing Team
80 Kilian Frankiny (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:09:43
81 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Team Sky 0:10:07
82 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Astana Pro Team
83 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 0:10:24
84 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:10:30
85 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
86 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb
87 Luke Rowe (GBr) Team Sky
88 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
89 Sam Brand (GBr) Team Novo Nordisk
90 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk
91 Romain Gioux (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk
92 Joonas Henttala (Fin) Team Novo Nordisk
93 Leonardo Basso (Ita) Team Sky
94 Alvaro Hodeg (Col) Quick-Step Floors
95 Vincenzo Albanese (Ita) Bardiani CSF
96 Marco Maronese (Ita) Bardiani CSF
97 Mirco Maestri (Ita) Bardiani CSF
98 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
99 Kristoffer Halvorsen (Nor) Team Sky
100 William Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
101 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data
102 Frederik Frison (Bel) Lotto Soudal
103 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Sunweb
104 Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
105 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Bahrain-Merida
106 Lawson Craddock (USA) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
107 Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:12:34
108 Rudy Barbier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
109 Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha-Alpecin 0:13:20
110 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
111 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team 0:13:22
112 Andrea Guardini (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:13:28
113 Danny van Poppel (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:13:30
114 Robert Wagner (Ger) LottoNL-Jumbo
115 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
116 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data
117 Matthias Brändle (Aut) Trek-Segafredo 0:13:33
118 Rick Zabel (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0:13:37
119 Stephen Cummings (GBr) Dimension Data
120 Roger Kluge (Ger) Mitchelton-Scott 0:13:42
121 Svein Tuft (Can) Mitchelton-Scott
122 Miles Scotson (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:13:48
123 Alex Frame (NZl) Trek-Segafredo
124 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Sunweb
125 Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:15:01
126 Erik Baska (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
127 Daniel McLay (GBr) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
128 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team
129 Michael Bresciani (Ita) Bardiani CSF
130 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
131 Roman Maikin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
132 Nikolay Trusov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
DNS Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk
DNF Daniele Bennati (Ita) Movistar Team

Final General Classification :
1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 16:00:11
2 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:17
3 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 0:00:29
4 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:31
5 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:45
6 Davide Formolo (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:01:13
7 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:18
8 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:28
9 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:01:29
10 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:01:37
11 Mathias Frank (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale
12 Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa) Team Sky 0:01:41
13 Fabio Aru (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:42
14 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Mitchelton-Scott
15 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:02:06
16 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:02:08
17 Ion Izagirre (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 0:02:18
18 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:02:29
19 Michael Woods (Can) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:02:36
20 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:02:43
21 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:02:50
22 Rafael Valls Ferri (Spa) Movistar Team 0:02:55
23 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:03:44
24 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Trek-Segafredo 0:03:48
25 Jesper Hansen (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:03:58
26 Toms Skujins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo 0:04:20
27 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:04:40
28 Daniel Moreno (Spa) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:04:50
29 Joey Rosskopf (USA) BMC Racing Team
30 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:04:52
31 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:05:23
32 José Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:05:27
33 Pascal Eenkhoorn (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:05:41
34 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal
35 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:05:42
36 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo 0:05:44
37 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott 0:05:54
38 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:05:55
39 Michael Gogl (Aut) Trek-Segafredo 0:06:01
40 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:06:12
41 David Lozano (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
42 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:06:20
43 Enric Mas (Spa) Quick-Step Floors 0:06:21
44 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:06:23
45 Jos van Emden (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:06:26
46 Davide Villella (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:06:36
47 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:06:38
48 Bjorg Lambrecht (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:06:46
49 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale 0:07:11
50 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:07:17
51 Scott Davies (GBr) Dimension Data 0:07:20
52 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Quick-Step Floors 0:07:26
53 Gijs Van Hoecke (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:08:05
54 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:08:23
55 Mekseb Debesay (Eri) Dimension Data 0:08:43
56 Sebastian Henao (Col) Team Sky 0:08:47
57 Kim Magnusson (Swe) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:08:50
58 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data 0:09:05
59 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Katusha-Alpecin 0:09:07
60 Clement Chevrier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:09:09
61 Patrick Bevin (NZl) BMC Racing Team 0:09:12
62 Pierre Rolland (Fra) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
63 Victor De La Parte (Spa) Movistar Team 0:09:33
64 James Knox (GBr) Quick-Step Floors 0:09:35
65 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:09:39
66 Artem Nych (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:09:45
67 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Mitchelton-Scott 0:10:01
68 Alessandro Tonelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:10:06
69 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:10:21
70 Juraj Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:10:26
71 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:10:33
72 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:10:52
73 Sven Erik Bystrøm (Nor) UAE Team Emirates 0:10:55
74 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:10:59
75 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott
76 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:11:05
77 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Team Sky 0:11:08
78 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAE Team Emirates 0:11:10
79 Alvaro Hodeg (Col) Quick-Step Floors 0:11:21
80 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:11:28
81 Manuele Mori (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:11:30
82 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Sunweb
83 Kristoffer Halvorsen (Nor) Team Sky 0:11:31
84 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:11:49
85 Mirco Maestri (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:12:02
86 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:12:07
87 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Bahrain-Merida 0:12:08
88 Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:12:12
89 Leonardo Basso (Ita) Team Sky 0:12:16
90 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:12:23
91 Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:12:26
92 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 0:12:40
93 Frederik Frison (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:12:50
94 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:12:51
95 Luke Rowe (GBr) Team Sky 0:13:31
96 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team 0:13:46
97 Miles Scotson (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:13:50
98 Danny van Poppel (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:14:04
99 Alex Frame (NZl) Trek-Segafredo 0:14:21
100 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0:14:30
101 Hendrikus van Ijzendoorn (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk 0:14:32
102 Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha-Alpecin 0:14:43
103 Lawson Craddock (USA) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:14:53
104 Kilian Frankiny (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:14:58
105 Robert Wagner (Ger) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:14:59
106 Roger Kluge (Ger) Mitchelton-Scott 0:15:01
107 Svein Tuft (Can) Mitchelton-Scott 0:15:06
108 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data 0:15:09
109 William Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:15:35
110 Rudy Barbier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:15:40
111 Daniel McLay (GBr) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:15:58
112 Andrea Guardini (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:16:03
113 Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team 0:16:09
114 Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:16:24
115 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk 0:16:32
116 Joonas Henttala (Fin) Team Novo Nordisk 0:16:38
117 Rick Zabel (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0:16:46
118 Sam Brand (GBr) Team Novo Nordisk 0:16:47
119 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:16:51
120 Vincenzo Albanese (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:16:59
121 Roman Maikin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:17:03
122 Romain Gioux (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk 0:17:04
123 Erik Baska (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:17:06
124 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:17:09
125 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:17:10
126 Marco Maronese (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:17:13
127 Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:17:39
128 Matthias Brändle (Aut) Trek-Segafredo 0:18:40
129 Stephen Cummings (GBr) Dimension Data 0:19:45
130 Nikolay Trusov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:20:36
131 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Sunweb
132 Michael Bresciani (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:20:54