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February 11, 2020
Tour Colombia 2.1 2020 – Stage 1 TTT – Tunja – Tunja : 16,7 km
In its third year on the UCI Calendar, Tour Colombia 2.1 returns February 11-16 with another field of Grand Tour winners and future contenders ready to begin their 2020 campaigns.
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February 11, 2020
Tour Colombia 2.1 2020 – Stage 1 TTT – Tunja – Tunja : 16,7 km
In its third year on the UCI Calendar, Tour Colombia 2.1 returns February 11-16 with another field of Grand Tour winners and future contenders ready to begin their 2020 campaigns. The South American cycling hotbed has been knocking on the door of international greatness for decades and appears to have finally arrived in the form of Egan Bernal and his first Tour de France win last July at the age of 22. Bernal won the inaugural edition of this race in 2018 when it was named Colombia Oro Y Paz, and he was fourth last year while in service of his Team Ineos teammate Iván Sosa. Bernal returns this year triumphant as the reigning Tour de France champion, a feat no other Colombian has achieved, and the week will likely be a moving celebration of his achievement and his country as well as a bike race.
EF Pro Cycling smashed the opening team time trial of the Tour Colombia 2.1, delivering a 45-second beating to Deceuninck-Quickstep in the 16.7km test, with Team Ineos and Tour de France champion Egan Bernal 58 seconds adrift in third.
Ecuadoran Jonathan Caicedo surged across the line first, and will trade his national champion’s jersey for the first orange leader’s jersey of the race.
How it unfolded
The 16.7km team time trial in Tunja was relatively flat and very fast, although the teams climbed from just after the start into a headwind on a hill that gained 90 metres of elevation before the course turned back for a smoking fast run to the finish.
Starting fifth of the 27 teams, Pro Continental Team Rally Cycling set the mark to beat the early starters with a time of 19 minutes. The American team set the fastest time at all the check points and cruised onto the hot seat for a lengthy stay.
Rally’s mark held until Deceuninck-QuickStep, starting on the 19th spot, blasted across the line in 18:46, relegating Rally to second and taking over the the spot on the hot seat. UAE Team Emirates came in next at 19:01, failing to eclipse either the Belgian WorldTour team or the American pro Continental squad. EPM-Scott was next and also set a time of 19:01.
Deceuninck-QuickStep’s mark was obliterated by EF Pro Cycling, which started in the 23rd position and crossed the line in 18:01, a minute faster than Rally and 45 seconds better than their Belgian WorldTour rivals.
The Team Ineos squad of Colombian Tour de France champion Egan Bernal could only manage the third-best time when they crossed the line with a time of 18:46, missing QuickStep by just one second.
With only the Russian National Team, and two Continental teams – Efapal and Canel’s – remaining, the US WorldTour team took the stage win and put Caicedo into the leader’s jersey.
Results :
1 EF Pro Cycling 0:18:01
2 Deceuninck-Quick-Step 0:00:45
3 Team Ineos 0:00:58
4 Rally Cycling 0:00:59
5 EPM-Scott 0:01:00
6 UAE Team Emirates
7 Movistar Team 0:01:02
8 Israel Start-Up Nation 0:01:21
9 Team Medellin 0:01:22
10 Colombia Andina 0:01:33
11 Uno X Norwegian Development Team
12 Androni Giocattoli Sidermec 0:01:34
13 Team Illuminate 0:01:42
14 Colombia Tierra de Atletas GW 0:01:47
15 Efapel 0:01:57
16 Ogrull Paisa 0:02:02
17 Supergiros Alcaldía de Manizales 0:02:08
18 Russian National Team 0:02:12
19 Ecuador 0:02:13
20 Vini Zabu KTM 0:02:18
21 Bardiani CSF Faizané 0:02:19
22 Venezuela 0:02:26
23 Canel’s Pro Cycling 0:02:31
24 Brazil 0:02:40
25 Amore e Vita 0:02:45
26 Team Novo Nordisk 0:03:07
27 Agrupación Virgen de Fátima 0:03:28
General Classification after Stage 1 :
