Cyclassics Hamburg 2018 [FULL RACE]

August 19, 2018

Cyclassics Hamburg 2018 – Hamburg – Hamburg : 216,4 km

Hamburg hosts yet another sprinters’ showdown on Sunday, when Quick-Step Floor’s Elia Viviani, Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe), Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ) and UAE Team Emirates’ Alexander Kristoff rub shoulders at the EuroEyes Cyclassics Hamburg.

Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors) repeated his victory in the EuroEyes Cyclassics race in Hamburg, winning the sprint of a reduced peloton. Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ) jumped first in the closing sprint, but had to settle for second, with Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates) third.

The race was marked by a long breakaway by five riders, who were caught with only 18km left on the day. Various attacks followed, but the sprinters’ teams kept control of the situation and brought them all back. A crash near the front of the field in the final 2km made the already reduced peloton even smaller, but with many top sprinters still in the front to contest for the win.

How it unfolded

Shortly after the start in Hamburg, a group of five formed. Ivan Cortina (Bahrain Merida), Alessandro De Marchi (BMC), Winner Anacona (Movistar), Kamil Gradek (CCC) and Evgeny Shaluna (Gazprom-RusVelo) built up a lead of up to three minutes on the mostly flat course.

Katusha-Alpecin suffered an early loss, with Jenthe Bierman having to leave the race after a crash. He was taken to the team doctor, apparently to get stitches for facial lacerations.

The field kept the break group under strict control, with the gap dropping to two minutes at the feed zone, and then slowly coming down after that. With 60 km to go, Nils Politt (Katusha) and a rider from Bahrain Merida jumped from the field to give chase. They never got far from the peloton but helped to bing the gap down to 30 seconds, before being caught. That sent the gap back up to a minute, before Politt tried again in a solo. He couldn’t stay away though.

The five leaders crossed the finish line for the first time 1:33 ahead of the field. The gap came down again on this closing circuit course, with the sprinters’ teams determined to have their way at the end. With 18km to go, the five leaders had been roped in.

Three riders got away on the final climb of the Waseberg, only 15km from the finish line. Another seven riders gave chase, and soon caught them. The group, which included Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain Merida), Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-Scott) and BMC’s Dylan Theuns and Jurgen Roelandts, fought hard to stay away from the greatly reduced peloton, down to about 50 riders, but the last of the lead group were caught with 4.4km to go.

A crash with 2km to go took down three riders, including German champion Pascal Ackermann (Bora-hansgrohe). This left only a small group of some 30 riders to challenge for the win. Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ) opened the sprint, but Viviani easily powered his way past the Frenchman for his second consecutive win in Hamburg.

Results :
1 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 4:46:02
2 Arnaud Demare (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
3 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
4 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo
5 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott
6 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:01
7 Sacha Modolo (Ita) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
8 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb
9 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
10 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
11 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) BMC Racing Team
12 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
13 Ruslan Tleubayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
14 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal
15 Jose Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team
16 Jonas Koch (Ger) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:00:02
17 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Sky
18 Mathias De Witte (Bel) Veranda’s Willems Crelan
19 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00:03
20 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Groupama-FDJ
21 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:05
22 Arjen Livyns (Bel) Veranda’s Willems Crelan
23 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:00:06
24 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:11
25 Michael Morkov (Den) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:13
26 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:14
27 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:16
28 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Mitchelton-Scott
29 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
30 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Dimension Data 0:00:17
31 Pawel Franczak (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:00:19
32 Jay Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data 0:00:21
33 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
34 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin
35 Artem Nych (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
36 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott
37 Jan Bakelants (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale
38 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
39 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:00:22
40 Joey Rosskopf (USA) BMC Racing Team
41 Yevgeniy Gidich (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
42 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
43 Michal Paluta (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
44 Sergei Shilov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
45 Lars Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal
46 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Movistar Team
47 Louis Vervaeke (Bel) Team Sunweb
48 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
49 Lukasz Owsian (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
50 Tom Bohli (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:00:23
51 Floris De Tier (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo
52 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Sky
53 Igor Boev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
54 Clement Chevrier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
55 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal
56 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale
57 Simon Gerrans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:00:24
58 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
59 Dmitriy Kozontchuk (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
60 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:28
61 Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:29
62 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:32
63 Gregory Rast (Swi) Trek-Segafredo
64 Scott Davies (GBr) Dimension Data
65 Jan Tratnik (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
66 Ivan Garcia (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:33
67 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
68 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:00:34
69 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:45
70 Jose Gonalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:47
71 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky 0:00:48
72 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:00:49
73 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) BMC Racing Team
74 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Team Sky
75 Luke Rowe (GBr) Team Sky
76 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data 0:00:50
77 Olivier Le Gac (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
78 Duijn Hubertus Martinus Cornelis
79 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team
80 Zhandos Bizhigitov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
81 Grega Bole (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
82 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:51
83 Michael Albasini (Swi) Mitchelton-Scott
84 Oliviero Troia (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
85 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data
86 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb
87 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
88 Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:58
89 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:01:01
90 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:01:22
91 Matteo Bono (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
92 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:31
93 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:01:32
94 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
95 Danny van Poppel (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:01:35
96 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:01:40
97 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:41
98 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott 0:01:58
99 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:07
100 Antoine Duchesne (Can) Groupama-FDJ
101 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:02:19
102 Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:02:49
103 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:03:19
104 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:04:15
105 Stan Godrie (Ned) Veranda’s Willems Crelan
106 William Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:04:16
107 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 0:04:17
108 Kim Magnusson (Swe) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:04:18
109 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 0:04:21
110 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:04:22
111 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data
112 Mitchell Docker (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:04:23
113 Daniel McLay (GBr) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
114 Elias Van Breussegem (Bel) Veranda’s Willems Crelan 0:05:32
115 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:05:33
116 Johannes Frohlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb
117 Winner Anacona (Col) Movistar Team 0:06:35
118 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team 0:06:36
119 Kamil Gradek (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
120 Moreno Moser (Ita) Astana Pro Team
121 Philip Deignan (Irl) Team Sky 0:06:37
122 Robert Wagner (Ger) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:06:38
123 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:06:42
124 William Bonnet (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:06:43
125 Bruno Armirail (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
126 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:10:23
127 Rory Sutherland (Aus) UAE Team Emirates
128 Thomas Leezer (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
129 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Lotto Soudal
130 Eugenio Alafaci (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:10:24
131 Lawson Craddock (USA) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
132 Remi Cavagna (Fra) Quick-Step Floors
133 Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
134 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:12:26
DNF Iljo Keisse (Bel) Quick-Step Floors
DNF Antonio Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
DNF Rafael Valls Ferri (Spa) Movistar Team
DNF Maxim Belkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
DNF Jenthe Biermans (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin
DNF Simon Špilak (Slo) Katusha-Alpecin
DNF Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
DNF Beñat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Team Sky
DNF Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Sunweb
DNF Michael Gogl (Aut) Trek-Segafredo
DNF Marko Kump (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice