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February 09, 2019
Étoile de Bessèges 2019 – Stage 3 – Besseges – Besseges : 158 km
The first Étoile de Bessèges took place in 1971 and for the first three years was only a one-day race.
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February 09, 2019
Étoile de Bessèges 2019 – Stage 3 – Besseges – Besseges : 158 km
The first Étoile de Bessèges took place in 1971 and for the first three years was only a one-day race. But in 1974 it became a five-day stage race, and as of 2005 became part of the UCI European Tour. It remains one of the opening European stage races of the calendar year, made up of flat stages and an individual time trial and this year it’s been reduced from five to four , with a time trial still in place as the final stage.
Marc Sarreau (Groupama-FDJ) won stage 3 of the Étoile de Bessèges, beating Christophe Laporte (Cofidis) and Mikel Aristi (Euskadi-Murias) to the line at the bunch sprint in Bessèges. Second for Laporte was enough to maintain his lead in the overall classification ahead of Bryan Coquard (Vital Concept-B&B Hotels).
The 25-year-old Sarreau launched his sprint early to surprise the rest of the peloton and crossed the line by a clear bike length. The result gave the Groupama-FDJ squad their first victory of the 2019 season.
Super aggressive racing for much of the largely flat stage saw attacks come and go but a breakaway was unable to establish itself until the final 50 kilometres of racing. In the end, six men were able to get away from the peloton. They managed to establish a modest gap but the sprint teams were working hard behind them and it never quite reached a minute.
The escapees were Axel Domont (AG2R La Mondiale), Anthony Turgis (Direct Énergie), Quentin Pacher (Vital Concept-B&B Hotels), Evaldas Šiškevičius (Delko Marseille Provence), Eliot Lietaer (Wallonie-Bruxelles) and Alo Jakin (St Michel-Auber 93). Heading into the final 10km, the group remained out front, still fighting with a 20-second gap.
It was always a tough ask to hold off the peloton on the flat run-in though, and the six were duly caught with four kilometres to race. Loïc Vliegen (Wanty-Groupe Gobert) and Maxime Monfort (Lotto Soudal) launched a counter-attack heading into the final two kilometres, but it was not to be and they were soon brought back by the bunch.
The Vital Concept train hit the front as the peloton passed under the flame rouge, and it looked like being a Coquard vs Laporte showdown once again. Groupama-FDJ had other ideas though, with Sarreau opting to go long and holding his speed to the line for his first win since May 2018.
Results :
1 Marc Sarreau (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 3:26:31
2 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits
3 Mikel Aristi Gardoki (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
4 Niccolò Bonifazio (Ita) Direct Energie
5 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels
6 Milan Menten (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
7 Roy Jans (Bel) Corendon-Circus
8 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
9 Baptiste Planckaert (Bel) Wallonie Bruxelles
10 August Jensen (Nor) Israel Cycling Academy
11 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
12 Lawrence Naesen (Bel) Lotto Soudal
13 Benjamin Declercq (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
14 Tom Dernies (Bel) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
15 Jordi Warlop (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
16 Alessandro Covi (Ita) Team Colpack
17 Anthony Maldonado (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
18 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Israel Cycling Academy
19 Sep Vanmarcke (Bel) EF Education First
20 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) EF Education First
21 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
22 Julien Mortier (Bel) Wallonie Bruxelles
23 Kevin Le Cunff (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
24 Piet Allegaert (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
25 Sean Bennett (USA) EF Education First
26 Kevin Ledanois (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
27 Julien Trarieux (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence
28 Andrea Toniatti (Ita) Team Colpack
29 Aime De Gendt (Bel) Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team
30 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Groupama-FDJ
31 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal
32 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
33 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) AG2R La Mondiale
34 Pierre Idjouadiene (Fra) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
35 Elie Gesbert (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
36 Evaldas Siskevicius (Ltu) Delko Marseille Provence
37 Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
38 Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels
39 Dries Van Gestel (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
40 Romain Combaud (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence
41 Yoann Paillot (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
42 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
43 Tony Hurel (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
44 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal
45 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal
46 Loïc Vliegen (Bel) Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team
47 Samuel Leroux (Fra) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
48 Valentin Madouas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
49 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Sovac
50 Joe Dombrowski (USA) EF Education First
51 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy
52 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
53 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team
54 Anthony Turgis (Fra) Direct Energie
55 Thomas Degand (Bel) Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team
56 Otto Vergaerde (Bel) Corendon-Circus
57 Tom Wirtgen (Lux) Wallonie Bruxelles
58 Artem Nych (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
59 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale
60 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
61 Paolo Baccio (Ita) Team Colpack
62 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
63 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) Israel Cycling Academy
64 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
65 Alexander Cataford (Can) Israel Cycling Academy
66 Guy Niv (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy
67 Eliot Lietaer (Bel) Wallonie Bruxelles
68 Antoine Duchesne (Can) Groupama-FDJ
69 Amaury Capiot (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
70 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels
71 Alo Jakin (Est) St Michel-Auber 93
72 Romain Hardy (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
73 Nicolas Baldo (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
74 Paul Ourselin (Fra) Direct Energie
75 Jimmy Janssens (Bel) Corendon-Circus
76 Cyril Gautier (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels
77 Romain Seigle (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
78 Jerome Cousin (Fra) Direct Energie
79 Thibault Guernalec (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
80 Alexis Guerin (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence
81 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
82 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Direct Energie
83 Edward Planckaert (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
84 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Direct Energie
85 Brice Feillu (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
86 Kevin Reza (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels 0:00:12
87 Julien Morice (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels 0:00:39
88 Quentin Pacher (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels 0:01:06
89 Bert Van Lerberghe (Bel) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:05:13
90 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
91 Alex Kirsch (Lux) Trek-Segafredo
92 Bruno Armirail (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
93 Maxime Daniel (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:07:47
94 Zico Waeytens (Bel) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:09:04
95 Pierre Luc Perichon (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:12:29
96 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo 0:12:39
97 Marco Mathis (Ger) Cofidis Solutions Credits
98 Julius van den Berg (Ned) EF Education First
99 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
100 Giulio Masotto (Ita) Team Colpack
101 Dries De Bondt (Bel) Corendon-Circus
102 Luca Colnaghi (Ita) Team Colpack
103 Loic Chetout (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits
104 Morné Van Niekerk (RSA) St Michel-Auber 93
105 Kenny Dehaes (Bel) Wallonie Bruxelles
106 Geoffrey Soupe (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits
107 Viesturs Luksevics (Lat) Amore & Vita-Prodir
108 Pierpaolo Ficara (Ita) Amore & Vita-Prodir
109 Anton Vorobyev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
110 Brian van Goethem (Ned) Lotto Soudal
111 Bram Welten (Ned) Team Arkea-Samsic
112 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Bel) Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team
113 Mickael Delage (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
114 Angelo Tulik (Fra) Direct Energie
115 Enzo Wouters (Bel) Lotto Soudal
116 Lukas Spengler (Swi) Wallonie Bruxelles
117 Pierre Barbier (Fra) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
118 Maxence Moncassin (Fra) Amore & Vita-Prodir
119 Juan Antonio Lopez-Cozar Jaimez (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
120 Christophe Masson (Fra) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
121 Igor Boev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
122 Emiel Vermeulen (Bel) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
123 Jonas Rickaert (Bel) Corendon-Circus
124 Julen Irizar Laskurain (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
125 Eduard-Michael Grosu (Rom) Delko Marseille Provence
126 Przemyslaw Kasperkiewicz (Pol) Delko Marseille Provence
127 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Delko Marseille Provence
128 Thomas Vaubourzeix (Fra) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
129 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Corendon-Circus
130 Aritz Bagues Kalparsoro (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
131 Urko Berrade Fernandez (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
132 Sergio Rodriguez Reche (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
133 Ander Barrenetxea Uriarte (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:13:46
134 Stepan Kuriyanov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:15:59
135 Sacha Modolo (Ita) EF Education First 0:17:17
136 Samy Aurignac (Fra) Sovac
DNF Tom Devriendt (Bel) Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team
DNF Joeri Stallaert (Bel) Corendon-Circus
DNF Benjamin Perry (Can) Israel Cycling Academy
DNF Marco Bernardinetti (Ita) Amore & Vita-Prodir
DNF Iltjan Nika (Alb) Amore & Vita-Prodir
DNF Danilo Celano (Ita) Amore & Vita-Prodir
DNF Jan-André Freuler (Swi) Amore & Vita-Prodir
DNF Jalel Duranti (Ita) Team Colpack
DNF Abderrahmane Mehdi Hamza (Alg) Sovac
DNF Nassim Saidi (Alg) Sovac
DNF Boualem Belmokhtar (Alg) Sovac
DNF Laurent Evrard (Bel) Sovac
DNF Mohamed Bouzidi (Alg) Sovac
General Classification after Stage 3 :
1 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 10:13:56
2 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels 0:00:05
3 Marc Sarreau (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:06
4 Jerome Cousin (Fra) Direct Energie 0:00:09
5 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:10
6 Mikel Aristi Gardoki (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:00:12
7 Amaury Capiot (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
8 Valentin Madouas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:13
9 Anthony Turgis (Fra) Direct Energie
10 Yoann Paillot (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
11 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:14
12 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Direct Energie
13 Julien Trarieux (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence 0:00:15
14 Evaldas Siskevicius (Ltu) Delko Marseille Provence
15 Romain Combaud (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence
16 Niccolò Bonifazio (Ita) Direct Energie 0:00:16
17 Roy Jans (Bel) Corendon-Circus
18 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Israel Cycling Academy
19 Piet Allegaert (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
20 Lawrence Naesen (Bel) Lotto Soudal
21 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
22 Jordi Warlop (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
23 Anthony Maldonado (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
24 Tom Dernies (Bel) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
25 Baptiste Planckaert (Bel) Wallonie Bruxelles
26 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
27 Dries Van Gestel (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
28 Sep Vanmarcke (Bel) EF Education First
29 August Jensen (Nor) Israel Cycling Academy
30 Julien Mortier (Bel) Wallonie Bruxelles
31 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team
32 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy
33 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal
34 Milan Menten (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
35 Aime De Gendt (Bel) Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team
36 Antoine Duchesne (Can) Groupama-FDJ
37 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Groupama-FDJ
38 Alessandro Covi (Ita) Team Colpack
39 Loïc Vliegen (Bel) Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team
40 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) EF Education First
41 Benjamin Declercq (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
42 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
43 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
44 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) AG2R La Mondiale
45 Kevin Ledanois (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
46 Otto Vergaerde (Bel) Corendon-Circus
47 Sean Bennett (USA) EF Education First
48 Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
49 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal
50 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) Israel Cycling Academy
51 Elie Gesbert (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
52 Alexander Cataford (Can) Israel Cycling Academy
53 Kevin Le Cunff (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
54 Thomas Degand (Bel) Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team
55 Eliot Lietaer (Bel) Wallonie Bruxelles
56 Tom Wirtgen (Lux) Wallonie Bruxelles
57 Andrea Toniatti (Ita) Team Colpack
58 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
59 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal
60 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Direct Energie
61 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
62 Tony Hurel (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
63 Romain Seigle (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
64 Cyril Gautier (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels
65 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
66 Samuel Leroux (Fra) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
67 Jimmy Janssens (Bel) Corendon-Circus
68 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale
69 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Sovac
70 Artem Nych (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
71 Paul Ourselin (Fra) Direct Energie
72 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels
73 Brice Feillu (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
74 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
75 Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels
76 Thibault Guernalec (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
77 Edward Planckaert (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
78 Alexis Guerin (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence
79 Nicolas Baldo (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
80 Paolo Baccio (Ita) Team Colpack
81 Guy Niv (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy
82 Joe Dombrowski (USA) EF Education First
83 Romain Hardy (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
84 Kevin Reza (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels 0:00:28
85 Julien Morice (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels 0:00:55
86 Quentin Pacher (Fra) Vital Concept-B&B Hotels 0:01:22
87 Pierre Idjouadiene (Fra) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole 0:01:56
88 Alo Jakin (Est) St Michel-Auber 93
89 Alex Kirsch (Lux) Trek-Segafredo 0:05:29
90 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
91 Bert Van Lerberghe (Bel) Cofidis Solutions Credits
92 Bruno Armirail (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
93 Maxime Daniel (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:08:01
94 Zico Waeytens (Bel) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:09:20
95 Pierre Luc Perichon (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:12:42
96 Pierre Barbier (Fra) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole 0:12:51
97 Enzo Wouters (Bel) Lotto Soudal
98 Emiel Vermeulen (Bel) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole 0:12:52
99 Kenny Dehaes (Bel) Wallonie Bruxelles 0:12:55
100 Luca Colnaghi (Ita) Team Colpack
101 Bram Welten (Ned) Team Arkea-Samsic
102 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
103 Jonas Rickaert (Bel) Corendon-Circus
104 Angelo Tulik (Fra) Direct Energie
105 Przemyslaw Kasperkiewicz (Pol) Delko Marseille Provence
106 Maxence Moncassin (Fra) Amore & Vita-Prodir
107 Julen Irizar Laskurain (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
108 Anton Vorobyev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
109 Eduard-Michael Grosu (Rom) Delko Marseille Provence
110 Mickael Delage (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
111 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Delko Marseille Provence
112 Urko Berrade Fernandez (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
113 Aritz Bagues Kalparsoro (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
114 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo
115 Julius van den Berg (Ned) EF Education First
116 Igor Boev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
117 Dries De Bondt (Bel) Corendon-Circus
118 Marco Mathis (Ger) Cofidis Solutions Credits
119 Christophe Masson (Fra) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
120 Viesturs Luksevics (Lat) Amore & Vita-Prodir
121 Brian van Goethem (Ned) Lotto Soudal
122 Giulio Masotto (Ita) Team Colpack
123 Lukas Spengler (Swi) Wallonie Bruxelles
124 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Bel) Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team
125 Morné Van Niekerk (RSA) St Michel-Auber 93
126 Pierpaolo Ficara (Ita) Amore & Vita-Prodir
127 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Corendon-Circus
128 Geoffrey Soupe (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits
129 Thomas Vaubourzeix (Fra) Natura4Ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
130 Sergio Rodriguez Reche (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
131 Ander Barrenetxea Uriarte (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:14:02
132 Juan Antonio Lopez-Cozar Jaimez (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:14:11
133 Loic Chetout (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:14:33
134 Stepan Kuriyanov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:16:15
135 Sacha Modolo (Ita) EF Education First 0:17:27
136 Samy Aurignac (Fra) Sovac 0:17:53
