Dubai Tour 2017 – Stage 5 [FULL STAGE]

February 4, 2017

Dubai Tour 2017 – Stage 5– Dubai – City Walk – 124 km

The Dubai Tour is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Dubai, which began in 2014 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. The race was classified as a 2.1. in 2013.The race is organized by the Dubai Sports Council in partnership with RCS Sport, and was held for the first time between 5 and 8 February 2014. The race is a men’s competition consisting of four stages. The race contains mainly flat stages, with some hillier parts. In 2015, the second edition of the race has been upgraded to 2.HC, meaning that more UCI World Tour teams can compete in the event.
During the race, the leader of the general classification wears a blue jersey, the leader of points classification is denoted by a red jersey and best young rider by white. The race does not award a mountains jersey.

Marcel Kittel (QuickStep Floors) stamped his authority on the Dubai Tour by winning the final stage, his third of the race, and the overall title, on Saturday.

The German edged out Elia Viviani (Team Sky) and Riccardo Minali (Astana Pro Team) in the finale, with Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data) suffering a mechanical in the sprint and fading to fourth. The British rider told reporters at the finish that his gears jumped just as he was launching his sprint.

Kittel’s early form has seen him win all but one stage of this year’s race and seal his second consecutive title in Dubai. Despite not featuring in the sprint finish, Dylan Groenewegen (Team LottoNl-Jumbo) did enough to secure second overall in the race.

“I’m extremely proud of what I achieved today: my second Dubai Tour overall in a row, my 75th career victory,” Kittel said at the finish.

“When I came back to Dubai, I thought this is a nice race, it’s a goal for me, but I didn’t think it would go so well. The team did a really god job. It’s a very nice way to start the season. It was a short stage after the cancellation of stage 4 and we tried to control the race from the very beginning. The breakaway wasn’t too big so it went very well for us. At the end, it didn’t go exactly according to the plan because Fabio Sabatini’s chain fell off. He was supposed to be my last lead out man, so I had to go by myself but at the end I was well positioned, so I could do my sprint as I wanted to.”

Kittel was always the favourite to win the GC battle heading into the final flat stage of the race. Once again his QuickStep patrolled the front of the peloton after an early break of Floris Gerts (BMC), Ivan Garcia Cortina (Bahrain-Merida), Dimitry Gruzdev (Astana), and Matteo Bono (UAE -Abu Dhabi) moved clear.

The four riders built up a sizable lead but on the flat course, and with so many strong sprinters in the race, the break’s chances were always limited. Heading into the final 20 kilometres their advantages was culled to just over a minute with Dimension Data, Trek Segafredo and QuickStep Floors in control of the race. 


When the catch was finally made with 9.9km to go it looked as though Dimension Data had control of affairs. Cavendish was neatly tucked into the tail of his leadout with Adam Blythe once again winning the battle for the British rider’s rear wheel.

Kittel’s train took a different approach. They posted two men on the front of the bunch to ensure the pace remained high but then brought Kittel into the frame with only 5 kilometres to go as Trek and LottoNL-Jumbo desperately looked to get back on terms.

The finish was peppered with two swinging right-hand turns and when Kittel lost leadout man Fabio Sabatini to a dropped chain it looked as though Cavendish had the advantage. However the Dimension Data train were a spent force as they headed into the final 500 meters, and although Mark Renshaw kept the pace high, Cavendish was forced to ease back and look for Kittel’s wheel.

He was successful but losing speed and then searching for it again proved somewhat costly. It briefly looked as though he would come around the German’s broad frame but when he sat down again with the line in sight Kittel could afford to raise his arms in victory. Viviani and the impressive Minali rounded out the top three but this was Kittel’s race almost from start to finish.

Results :
1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Quick-Step Floors 2:34:12
2 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky
3 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team
4 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
5 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo
6 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
7 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) BMC Racing Team
8 Paolo Simion (Ita) Bardiani CSF
9 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
10 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
11 Truls Korsaeth (Nor) Astana Pro Team
12 Jan Polanc (Slo) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
13 Adam Blythe (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport
14 Thomas Stewart (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling
15 Floris Gerts (Ned) BMC Racing Team 0:00:03
16 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team
17 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Wilier Triestina
18 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data
19 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
20 Andrew Fenn (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport
21 Yousef Mirza (UAE) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
22 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data
23 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Movistar Team
24 Marco Maronese (Ita) Bardiani CSF
25 Matthew Brammeier (Irl) Aqua Blue Sport 0:00:06
26 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Movistar Team
27 Badr Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Alhammadi (UAE) UAE
28 Karol Domagalski (Pol) ONE Pro Cycling
29 Nicola Boem (Ita) Bardiani CSF
30 Hayden Mccormick (NZl) ONE Pro Cycling
31 Enrico Barbin (Ita) Bardiani CSF
32 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo
33 Koen De Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
34 Quentin Valognes (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk
35 Steele Von Hoff (Aus) ONE Pro Cycling
36 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team
37 Silvan Dillier (Swi) BMC Racing Team
38 Loïc Vliegen (Bel) BMC Racing Team
39 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
40 Joey Rosskopf (USA) BMC Racing Team
41 Joshua Hunt (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling
42 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team
43 Peter Williams (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling
44 Simone Velasco (Ita) Bardiani CSF
45 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team
46 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo
47 Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk
48 Arman Kamyshev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
49 Samuel Williams (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling
50 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Aqua Blue Sport
51 Yousef Almansoori (UAE) UAE
52 Joonas Henttala (Fin) Team Novo Nordisk
53 Héctor Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team
54 David Lozano (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
55 Nasser Almemari (UAE) UAE
56 Winner Anacona (Col) Movistar Team
57 Jaber Almansoori (UAE) UAE
58 Cristian Rodriguez (Spa) Wilier Triestina
59 Ivan Garcia (Spa) Bahrain-Merida
60 Amund Grondahl Jansen (Nor) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:00:14
61 Daniel Pearson (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport
62 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team
63 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) Dimension Data
64 Umberto Poli (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk
65 Markel Irizar (Spa) Trek-Segafredo
66 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) BMC Racing Team
67 Zhandos Bizhigitov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
68 Kristijan Durasek (Cro) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
69 Gijs Van Hoecke (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
70 Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data
71 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:17
72 Timo Roosen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
73 Simone Consonni (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:00:19
74 Mark Christian (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport 0:00:21
75 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky 0:00:29
76 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
77 Alessandro Tonelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF
78 Gregory Rast (Swi) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:31
79 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors
80 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:00:36
81 Majid Albalushi (UAE) UAE 0:00:38
82 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
83 Liam Bertazzo (Ita) Wilier Triestina
84 Juan Jose Lobato (Spa) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:00:41
85 Thomas Leezer (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
86 Ahmed Almansory (UAE) UAE
87 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Movistar Team 0:00:46
88 Scott Thwaites (GBr) Dimension Data
89 Julien Vermote (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:47
90 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:00:50
91 Ruslan Tleubayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:00:53
92 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Sky
93 Simone Andreetta (Ita) Bardiani CSF
94 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Team Sky
95 Matteo Bono (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:01:04
96 Gerd De Keijzer (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk 0:01:07
97 Bob Jungels (Lux) Quick-Step Floors
98 Chun Kai Feng (Tpe) Bahrain-Merida
99 Grega Bole (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:01:22
100 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky 0:01:27
101 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Sky 0:01:41
102 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
103 Matteo Busato (Ita) Wilier Triestina
104 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Dimension Data
105 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:01:48
106 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:04
107 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
108 Michael Gogl (Aut) Trek-Segafredo 0:02:07
109 Bram Tankink (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
110 Alberto Cecchin (Ita) Wilier Triestina 0:02:09
111 Rafael Andriato (Bra) Wilier Triestina
112 Christopher Williams (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk 0:02:16
113 Borut Bozic (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:02:46
114 Saif Mayoof Al Kaabi (UAE) UAE 0:03:08
115 David Per (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
116 Luka Pibernik (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
117 Giuseppe Fonzi (Ita) Wilier Triestina
118 Mohammed Almurawwi Alblooshi (UAE) UAE
119 Nick Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data
120 Kristian House (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling
121 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Team Sky 0:03:47
122 Jacopo Mosca (Ita) Wilier Triestina

Final General Classification :
1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Quick-Step Floors 15:08:56
2 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:00:18
3 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:20
4 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) BMC Racing Team 0:00:24
5 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky
6 Thomas Stewart (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling
7 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:00:26
8 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
9 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data 0:00:27
10 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team
11 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Wilier Triestina 0:00:29
12 Floris Gerts (Ned) BMC Racing Team
13 Yousef Mirza Banihammad (UAE) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
14 Nicola Boem (Ita) Bardiani CSF
15 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:00:30
16 Adam Blythe (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport
17 Paolo Simion (Ita) Bardiani CSF
18 Jan Polanc (Slo) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
19 Truls Korsaeth (Nor) Astana Pro Team
20 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:00:32
21 Loïc Vliegen (Bel) BMC Racing Team
22 Silvan Dillier (Swi) BMC Racing Team
23 Andrew Fenn (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport 0:00:33
24 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
25 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Movistar Team
26 Marco Maronese (Ita) Bardiani CSF
27 Peter Williams (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling 0:00:35
28 Steele Von Hoff (Aus) ONE Pro Cycling 0:00:36
29 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Movistar Team
30 Koen De Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
31 Quentin Valognes (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk
32 Joey Rosskopf (USA) BMC Racing Team
33 Karol Domagalski (Pol) ONE Pro Cycling
34 Hayden Mccormick (NZl) ONE Pro Cycling
35 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team
36 Arman Kamyshev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
37 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team
38 Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk
39 Enrico Barbin (Ita) Bardiani CSF
40 Joshua Hunt (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling
41 Simone Velasco (Ita) Bardiani CSF
42 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team
43 Joonas Henttala (Fin) Team Novo Nordisk
44 Cristian Rodriguez (Spa) Wilier Triestina
45 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Aqua Blue Sport
46 Daniel Pearson (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport 0:00:44
47 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) BMC Racing Team
48 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team
49 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:47
50 Simone Consonni (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:00:49
51 David Lozano (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
52 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data 0:00:50
53 Winner Anacona (Col) Movistar Team 0:00:53
54 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:57
55 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky 0:00:59
56 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
57 Zhandos Bizhigitov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:01:01
58 Kristijan Durasek (Cro) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
59 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:08
60 Juan Jose Lobato (Spa) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:01:11
61 Thomas Leezer (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
62 Markel Irizar (Spa) Trek-Segafredo
63 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Team Sky 0:01:23
64 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:24
65 Amund Grondahl Jansen (Nor) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:01:25
66 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Movistar Team 0:01:33
67 Simone Andreetta (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:01:43
68 Mark Christian (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport 0:01:44
69 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:02:01
70 Gregory Rast (Swi) Trek-Segafredo
71 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Sky 0:02:04
72 Grega Bole (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:02:05
73 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:02:06
74 Timo Roosen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
75 Matthew Brammeier (Irl) Aqua Blue Sport 0:02:07
76 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Sky 0:02:11
77 Ruslan Tleubayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:02:34
78 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors
79 Jaber Almansoori (UAE) UAE 0:02:36
80 Rafael Andriato (Bra) Wilier Triestina 0:02:39
81 Alessandro Tonelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:02:50
82 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:03:27
83 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) Dimension Data 0:03:34
84 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors 0:03:37
85 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:03:42
86 Umberto Poli (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk 0:03:45
87 Majid Albalushi (UAE) UAE 0:03:46
88 Ivan Garcia (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 0:03:48
89 Bob Jungels (Lux) Quick-Step Floors 0:03:59
90 Scott Thwaites (GBr) Dimension Data 0:04:04
91 Julien Vermote (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 0:04:10
92 Yousef Almansoori (UAE) UAE 0:04:23
93 Samuel Williams (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling 0:04:26
94 Giuseppe Fonzi (Ita) Wilier Triestina 0:04:33
95 David Per (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:04:57
96 Bram Tankink (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:04:58
97 Héctor Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team 0:05:07
98 Gijs Van Hoecke (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:05:20
99 Liam Bertazzo (Ita) Wilier Triestina 0:05:35
100 Christopher Williams (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk 0:05:41
101 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:05:58
102 Gerd De Keijzer (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk 0:06:05
103 Chun Kai Feng (Tpe) Bahrain-Merida 0:06:06
104 Luka Pibernik (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:06:24
105 Matteo Bono (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:06:29
106 Matteo Busato (Ita) Wilier Triestina 0:06:43
107 Jacopo Mosca (Ita) Wilier Triestina 0:06:52
108 Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data 0:07:31
109 Alberto Cecchin (Ita) Wilier Triestina 0:07:40
110 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Team Sky 0:07:57
111 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 0:07:59
112 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Dimension Data 0:08:41
113 Badr Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Alhammadi (UAE) UAE 0:08:46
114 Nasser Almemari (UAE) UAE 0:09:25
115 Michael Gogl (Aut) Trek-Segafredo 0:09:41
116 Ahmed Almansory (UAE) UAE 0:09:51
117 Borut Bozic (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:10:08
118 Kristian House (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling 0:10:20
119 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky 0:12:19
120 Saif Mayoof Al Kaabi (UAE) UAE 0:13:11
121 Mohammed Almurawwi Alblooshi (UAE) UAE 0:14:09
122 Nick Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data 0:14:33