La Vuelta 2015 – Stage 16 [FULL STAGE]

September 7, 2015

La Vuelta 2015 – Stage 16 – Luarca – Ermita del Alba. Quirós : 185 km

Oleg Tinkov won’t appreciate the irony, but after spending much of last winter and spring trying to bait Chris Froome, Vincenzo Nibali and Nairo Quintana into taking on his so-called Grand Tour challenge, his man Alberto Contador is the glaring absentee from one of the most star-studded editions in Vuelta a España history. The Vuelta organisers will undoubtedly miss the defending champion Contador, who carries a box office appeal in Spain that none of his contemporaries can match. No other rider, for instance, could knock Real Madrid off the front page of Marca on the day football’s transfer window closed, as Contador did in 2014, but his absence is offset in no small part by the glittering array of galacticos in the field this year. Twelve months ago, the Vuelta had the feel of a Tour de France do-over, as Contador and Froome looked to make amends after crashing out in July. This time around, it is something grander again: a Tour de France rematch. The three podium finishers from the Tour – Froome, Quintana and his Movistar stable-mate Alejandro Valverde – are all on hand, along with the fourth-placed Nibali, who for good measure is joined by his Astana stable-mates Fabio Aru and Mikel Landa. Froome, of course, is not simply facing off against the men he beat to the Tour crown a month ago, he is also making a tilt at history. Only two riders – Jacques Anquetil in 1963 and Bernard Hinault in 1978 – have achieved the Tour-Vuelta double, and their victories came when the Vuelta preceded the Tour by some two months. Since the Vuelta shifted to its current Autumn slot in 1995, Carlos Sastre is the only Tour champion to even start the Vuelta a month later, and his 2008 double bid ended with a third place finish behind Contador.

Fränk Schleck (Trek Factory Racing) emerged from the wilderness to claim his first victory in over four years on stage 16 of the Vuelta a España, but his achievement will inevitably be overshadowed by the battle that took place ten minutes behind him on the road. On the viciously steep slopes of the Alto Ermita de Alba, Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) did just enough to divest Fabio Aru (Astana) of the red jersey by a solitary second, but both men will be concerned by how Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) managed to keep his hopes of final overall victory alive.

The final three kilometres of the last of the day’s seven categorised climbs featured slopes that touched 30%, and the overall contenders seemed to spend much of the afternoon with those gradients foremost in their thoughts, allowing Schleck and the early escapees to build up a maximum advantage of 21 minutes.

Schleck and his fellow survivor Rodolfo Torres (Colombia) still had ten minutes in hand by the time they reached the base of the final climb, where the Luxembourger would eventually inch clear 1,500 metres from the summit, though by that point, the forcing of the Astana and Tinkoff-Saxo squads had reduced the red jersey group to just 15 or so riders.

After Pawel Poljanski’s impressive cameo at the bottom in the service of Rafal Majka (Tinkoff-Saxo), Mikel Landa (Astana) took over as the gradient stiffened. Ostensibly, the Basque’s goal was to shake Dumoulin loose, but for long stretches, his leader Aru seemed to be in just as much difficulty, though his pace did at least prevent Rodriguez from unsheathing his sword before the stinging final kilometres.

Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) and Esteban Chaves (Orica-GreenEdge) were distanced as the gradient bit in earnest with two kilometres to go, but while Dumoulin finally betrayed signs of suffering within sight of the flamme rouge, he remained in touch until the final 800 metres.

At that very moment, Rodriguez sensed his opportunity, bounding clear of the red jersey group, but as the pace dropped almost to slow motion, Aru managed to battle gamely and limit his losses. He was almost within clutching distance of Rodriguez’s coattails by the summit, but eventually came home two seconds behind the Catalan, and lost his red jersey by a scant second.

“To be honest, I was just following Purito in the last kilometres,” Aru said, deftly side-stepping a query on Landa’s fealty. “He was going very well. We tried to control him with my teammates but we couldn’t follow him all the way. There’s an important time trial to come and one second won’t count for much.”

Dumoulin, meanwhile, was out of sight but by no means out of the general classification picture. He came home in 16th place on the stage – some 9:18 down on Schleck but less than half a minute behind Rodriguez and Aru. With Wednesday’s 38.7km time trial in Burgos still to come, Dumoulin lies in fourth overall, just 1:51 down on Rodriguez and he had ample reason to smile as he recovered at the summit.

“I saved the day,” Dumoulin admitted. “I was much better than expected. It was very fast but I was never really in trouble.”

There was an air of disappointment, by contrast, about Majka, who came home with Nairo Quintana (Movistar), 12 seconds down on Rodriguez, and who now lies third overall, 1:35 down. “I’m a little bit surprised with the last kilometre,” he said. “I tried to follow Rodriguez, but he is a specialist for the steep part and it’s difficult to stay behind him.”

For Schleck, meanwhile, the victory was his first since he served a one-year ban for a positive test for Xipamide at the 2012 Tour de France. His last win of any description came at the 2011 Criterium International, while Luxembourg’s last Vuelta stage winner was his father Johny, in 1970.

“I came here with intentions of a nice classification but I was involved in a couple of crashes so I had to change tactics,” Schleck said. “The team and I talked about this stage, I knew it was good for me.”

How it unfolded

As the Vuelta peloton faced into its ninth summit finish of the race, its third in as many days, and with some seven categorised climbs on the agenda, there was a truce of sorts called in the red jersey group for the opening half of Monday’s stage.

The early break featuring Schleck, Torres, Moreno Moser (Cannondale-Garmin), Cyril Lemoine (Cofidis), Larry Warbasse (IAM Cycling), George Bennett (LottoNL-Jumbo), Omar Fraile (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA), Carlos Verona (Etixx-Quick Step), Pierre Rolland (Europcar) and Tsgabu Grmay (Lampre-Merida) sallied clear ahead of the Alto de Aristebano and the peloton gladly left them to it.

While Fraile gleefully mopped up the mountains points, the ten escapees – none of them a threat on general classification – built up a maximum advantage of some 21 minutes with 120 kilometres remaining before Katusha – after a stand-off with Astana over who ought to chase – finally set about pegging the gap back.

The hostilities only truly began in the main peloton on the day’s third last climb, the Alto del Cordal, where Tinkoff-Saxo set a fierce pace in support of Majka, and that kind of effort was replicated by Astana on the next ascent, the Alto de la Cobertoria, where Diego Rosa was very prominent.

The aim, undoubtedly, was to discommode Dumoulin, but the Dutchman seemed unflustered throughout, suggesting afterwards that he would have been more troubled by repeated changes in pace rather than the brisk tempo imposed by Astana and Tinkoff-Saxo.

Their efforts did reduce the leading group just 15 riders by the final climb, but despite Landa’s forcing, Dumoulin held tough for longer than any of his rivals will have appreciated. Rodriguez, meanwhile, will begin the final push towards Madrid in the red jersey, and he will hope that the third time is a charm.

In 2012, he was caught out by Alberto Contador’s surprise attack on the road to Fuente De after the second rest day. In 2010, perhaps more pertinently and certainly more traumatically, his challenge collapsed with a calamitous showing in the Penafiel time trial.

“The goal is the podium and, why not, the victory. Let’s hope I can do a great time trial,” Rodriguez said. “In the end, winning the Vuelta is in my own hands.”

Results :
1 Frank Schleck (Lux) Trek Factory Racing 5:49:56
2 Rodolfo Torres (Col) Colombia 0:01:10
3 Moreno Moser (Ita) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 0:01:48
4 George Bennett (NZl) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:02:42
5 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Team Europcar 0:02:49
6 Omar Fraile (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:03:05
7 Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:04:26
8 Larry Warbasse (USA) IAM Cycling 0:06:02
9 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha 0:08:51
10 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:08:53
11 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:09:03
12 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team
13 Mikel Nieve (Spa) Team Sky 0:09:05
14 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:09:06
15 Louis Meintjes (RSA) MTN – Qhubeka 0:09:07
16 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:09:18
17 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Team Katusha 0:09:33
18 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:09:48
19 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Fra) Team Europcar 0:09:54
20 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica GreenEdge 0:09:56
21 Bart De Clercq (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:10:25
22 Andre Cardoso (Por) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team
23 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
24 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:12:03
25 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:12:12
26 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:12:20
27 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:12:40
28 Diego Rosa (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:12:47
29 Joseph Lloyd Dombrowski (USA) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 0:13:27
30 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) FDJ.fr 0:13:28
31 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:13:48
32 Sergio Luis Henao (Col) Team Sky 0:14:13
33 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:15:37
34 David Arroyo (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:16:18
35 José Gonçalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
36 Tiago Machado (Por) Team Katusha 0:16:42
37 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky 0:16:56
38 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Lampre-Merida
39 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:17:08
40 Romain Sicard (Fra) Team Europcar 0:17:10
41 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Trek Factory Racing 0:17:53
42 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
43 Angel Madrazo Ruiz (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:18:28
44 Lawson Craddock (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:19:30
45 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ.fr 0:20:21
46 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:22:11
47 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Etixx – Quick-Step
48 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:22:54
49 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 0:23:16
50 Jesper Hansen (Den) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:24:22
51 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:26:01
52 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:28:31
53 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team
54 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal
55 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Lotto Soudal
56 Jay McCarthy (Aus) Tinkoff-Saxo
57 Riccardo Zoidl (Aut) Trek Factory Racing
58 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky
59 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team
60 Stephen Cummings (GBr) MTN – Qhubeka
61 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Team Katusha
62 Bertjan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
63 Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Team Katusha
64 Kristijan Durasek (Cro) Lampre-Merida
65 Timo Roosen (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
66 Darwin Atapuma Hurtado (Col) BMC Racing Team
67 Alex Cano (Col) Colombia
68 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Orica GreenEdge
69 Jerome Coppel (Fra) IAM Cycling
70 Jaco Venter (RSA) MTN – Qhubeka
71 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Movistar Team
72 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Movistar Team 0:28:42
73 Damien Howson (Aus) Orica GreenEdge
74 Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) Lampre-Merida
75 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Lampre-Merida
76 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:28:46
77 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:28:52
78 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sky
79 Cyril Gautier (Fra) Team Europcar
80 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:29:02
81 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal
82 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Trek Factory Racing
83 Jérôme Cousin (Fra) Team Europcar 0:29:05
84 Koen De Kort (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
85 Daryl Impey (RSA) Orica GreenEdge
86 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Team Katusha
87 Sébastien Minard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
88 Simon Pellaud (Swi) IAM Cycling
89 Markel Irizar (Spa) Trek Factory Racing
90 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Trek Factory Racing
91 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Orica GreenEdge
92 Dennis Van Winden (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
93 Fabio Duarte (Col) Colombia
94 Peter Velits (Svk) BMC Racing Team
95 Marcel Aregger (Swi) IAM Cycling
96 Walter Pedraza (Col) Colombia
97 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Team Europcar
98 Vicente Reynes (Spa) IAM Cycling
99 Juan Pablo Valencia (Col) Colombia
100 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica GreenEdge
101 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
102 Benjamin King (USA) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team
103 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky
104 Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) MTN – Qhubeka
105 Antoine Duchesne (Can) Team Europcar
106 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) BMC Racing Team
107 Ilia Koshevoy (Blr) Lampre-Merida
108 Ricardo Vilela (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
109 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) MTN – Qhubeka
110 Pieter Serry (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step
111 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal
112 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
113 Andrew Talansky (USA) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team
114 Natnael Berhane (Eri) MTN – Qhubeka
115 Martin Velits (Svk) Etixx – Quick-Step
116 Yohan Bagot (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
117 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) FDJ.fr
118 Miguel Angel Rubiano (Col) Colombia
119 Dominique Rollin (Can) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
120 Thierry Hupond (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin
121 Laurent Pichon (Fra) FDJ.fr
122 Olivier Le Gac (Fra) FDJ.fr
123 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Team Europcar
124 Nikolas Maes (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step
125 Johann Van Zyl (RSA) MTN – Qhubeka
126 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale
127 Julien Simon (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
128 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) IAM Cycling
129 Songezo Jim (RSA) MTN – Qhubeka
130 Alex Howes (USA) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team
131 Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team
132 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
133 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
134 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
135 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step
136 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Team Sky
137 Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) AG2R La Mondiale 0:29:25
138 Youcef Reguigui (Alg) MTN – Qhubeka
139 Mickael Delage (Fra) FDJ.fr
140 Joseph Rosskopf (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:29:27
141 Javier Moreno (Spa) Movistar Team 0:29:32
142 Kévin Reza (Fra) FDJ.fr 0:29:33
143 Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Team Katusha
144 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
145 Tony Hurel (Fra) Team Europcar
146 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Team Katusha 0:29:37
147 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 0:29:38
148 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:29:48
149 Leonardo Duque (Col) Colombia 0:30:44
150 Carlos Quintero (Col) Colombia
151 Brayan Ramirez (Col) Colombia
152 Zico Waeytens (Bel) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:30:47
153 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) Trek Factory Racing 0:31:23
154 Blel Kadri (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:31:46
155 Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:31:48
156 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
157 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:32:29
158 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Tinkoff-Saxo
159 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Lampre-Merida
160 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff-Saxo
161 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:32:33
162 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Orica GreenEdge
163 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team Giant-Alpecin
164 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:32:43
165 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:33:07
166 John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin
167 Valerio Conti (Ita) Lampre-Merida

General Classification after Stage 16 :
1 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha 67:52:44
2 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:00:01
3 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:01:35
4 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:01:51
5 Mikel Nieve (Spa) Team Sky 0:02:32
6 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica GreenEdge 0:02:38
7 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Team Katusha 0:02:49
8 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:03:11
9 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:03:58
10 Louis Meintjes (RSA) MTN – Qhubeka 0:05:22
11 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:06:46
12 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:09:21
13 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Fra) Team Europcar 0:10:20
14 Bart De Clercq (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:13:25
15 Romain Sicard (Fra) Team Europcar 0:14:18
16 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) FDJ.fr 0:14:24
17 Andre Cardoso (Por) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 0:14:36
18 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:19:36
19 David Arroyo (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:24:23
20 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:27:04
21 Sergio Luis Henao (Col) Team Sky 0:30:03
22 Diego Rosa (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:31:10
23 Frank Schleck (Lux) Trek Factory Racing 0:31:20
24 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:33:27
25 Rodolfo Torres (Col) Colombia 0:36:10
26 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:36:47
27 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:42:47
28 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:43:05
29 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Trek Factory Racing 0:44:17
30 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sky 0:44:22
31 George Bennett (NZl) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:52:18
32 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Team Katusha 0:53:50
33 Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:56:02
34 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Lampre-Merida 1:00:04
35 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 1:02:13
36 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Tinkoff-Saxo 1:07:33
37 José Gonçalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 1:08:23
38 Lawson Craddock (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin 1:08:45
39 Larry Warbasse (USA) IAM Cycling 1:11:33
40 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Team Europcar 1:14:32
41 Tiago Machado (Por) Team Katusha 1:21:11
42 Joseph Lloyd Dombrowski (USA) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 1:21:25
43 Jerome Coppel (Fra) IAM Cycling 1:22:00
44 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) IAM Cycling 1:22:05
45 Ricardo Vilela (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 1:25:31
46 Angel Madrazo Ruiz (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 1:28:21
47 Jesper Hansen (Den) Tinkoff-Saxo 1:29:28
48 Riccardo Zoidl (Aut) Trek Factory Racing 1:30:21
49 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1:32:05
50 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 1:32:17
51 Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Team Katusha 1:34:14
52 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 1:34:46
53 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:36:54
54 Alex Cano (Col) Colombia 1:39:20
55 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:39:46
56 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 1:42:25
57 Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) Lampre-Merida 1:42:44
58 Darwin Atapuma Hurtado (Col) BMC Racing Team 1:44:11
59 Cyril Gautier (Fra) Team Europcar 1:49:50
60 Julien Simon (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 1:51:04
61 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 1:54:28
62 Peter Velits (Svk) BMC Racing Team 1:54:31
63 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky 1:55:15
64 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 1:55:41
65 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 1:57:51
66 Pieter Serry (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step 1:59:15
67 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Team Katusha 2:00:48
68 Koen De Kort (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 2:01:25
69 Jay McCarthy (Aus) Tinkoff-Saxo 2:02:09
70 Fabio Duarte (Col) Colombia 2:02:17
71 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky 2:03:06
72 Omar Fraile (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 2:03:53
73 Leonardo Duque (Col) Colombia 2:03:55
74 Javier Moreno (Spa) Movistar Team 2:05:33
75 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Team Europcar 2:06:20
76 Jérôme Cousin (Fra) Team Europcar 2:07:14
77 Kristijan Durasek (Cro) Lampre-Merida 2:07:54
78 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 2:08:50
79 Natnael Berhane (Eri) MTN – Qhubeka 2:10:09
80 Moreno Moser (Ita) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 2:11:37
81 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 2:12:00
82 Miguel Angel Rubiano (Col) Colombia 2:13:12
83 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto Soudal 2:15:33
84 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 2:15:42
85 Benjamin King (USA) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 2:16:21
86 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 2:16:33
87 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Team Sky 2:16:41
88 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) BMC Racing Team 2:17:27
89 Vicente Reynes (Spa) IAM Cycling 2:19:30
90 Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team 2:19:54
91 Carlos Quintero (Col) Colombia 2:20:32
92 Juan Pablo Valencia (Col) Colombia 2:21:28
93 Daryl Impey (RSA) Orica GreenEdge 2:25:46
94 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 2:26:06
95 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Orica GreenEdge 2:26:35
96 Andrew Talansky (USA) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 2:27:18
97 Marcel Aregger (Swi) IAM Cycling 2:29:46
98 Yohan Bagot (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 2:30:26
99 Stephen Cummings (GBr) MTN – Qhubeka 2:30:58
100 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Etixx – Quick-Step 2:31:10
101 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Movistar Team 2:31:36
102 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 2:32:42
103 Bertjan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 2:34:18
104 Nikolas Maes (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step 2:34:44
105 Laurent Pichon (Fra) FDJ.fr 2:34:59
106 Markel Irizar (Spa) Trek Factory Racing 2:35:33
107 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Team Katusha 2:36:09
108 John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 2:36:11
109 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) MTN – Qhubeka 2:37:21
110 Sébastien Minard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2:39:37
111 Timo Roosen (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 2:39:59
112 Kévin Reza (Fra) FDJ.fr 2:40:44
113 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 2:41:39
114 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky 2:42:24
115 Martin Velits (Svk) Etixx – Quick-Step 2:42:41
116 Olivier Le Gac (Fra) FDJ.fr 2:43:36
117 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 2:43:51
118 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 2:44:01
119 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team 2:44:19
120 Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) MTN – Qhubeka 2:46:36
121 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 2:48:19
122 Dennis Van Winden (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 2:48:34
123 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ.fr 2:48:54
124 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team Giant-Alpecin 2:50:28
125 Joseph Rosskopf (USA) BMC Racing Team 2:50:58
126 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) BMC Racing Team 2:51:15
127 Brayan Ramirez (Col) Colombia 2:51:26
128 Dominique Rollin (Can) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 2:52:05
129 Jaco Venter (RSA) MTN – Qhubeka 2:52:53
130 Alex Howes (USA) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 2:53:08
131 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Lampre-Merida 2:53:30
132 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff-Saxo 2:54:07
133 Mickael Delage (Fra) FDJ.fr 2:54:55
134 Johann Van Zyl (RSA) MTN – Qhubeka 2:55:17
135 Youcef Reguigui (Alg) MTN – Qhubeka 2:56:49
136 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal 2:57:14
137 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 2:57:21
138 Simon Pellaud (Swi) IAM Cycling 2:57:25
139 Walter Pedraza (Col) Colombia 2:57:41
140 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Trek Factory Racing 3:02:10
141 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Astana Pro Team 3:02:14
142 Songezo Jim (RSA) MTN – Qhubeka 3:03:19
143 Thierry Hupond (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin 3:03:49
144 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3:04:07
145 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 3:04:28
146 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 3:04:32
147 Tony Hurel (Fra) Team Europcar 3:04:54
148 Antoine Duchesne (Can) Team Europcar 3:05:13
149 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Trek Factory Racing 3:05:27
150 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Tinkoff-Saxo 3:06:02
151 Ilia Koshevoy (Blr) Lampre-Merida 3:07:09
152 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Tinkoff-Saxo 3:07:25
153 Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Team Katusha 3:10:56
154 Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 3:11:36
155 Blel Kadri (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3:12:20
156 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step 3:13:19
157 Damien Howson (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 3:15:20
158 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Movistar Team 3:15:51
159 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Lampre-Merida 3:17:23
160 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Team Europcar 3:20:11
161 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 3:20:35
162 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 3:22:33
163 Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) AG2R La Mondiale 3:25:03
164 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) FDJ.fr 3:26:37
165 Valerio Conti (Ita) Lampre-Merida 3:35:53
166 Zico Waeytens (Bel) Team Giant-Alpecin 3:38:45
167 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) Trek Factory Racing 4:01:35