Tour de Yorkshire 2018 – Stage 3 [LAST 30 KM]

May 05, 2018

Tour de Yorkshire 2018 – Stage 3 – Scarborough – Richmond : 184 km

Established in the wake of the 2014 Tour de France’s successful Grand Départ in the region, the ASO-organised Tour de Yorkshire is now in its fourth year. With that comes an extra stage, making it a four-day race. Taking in the eastern Pennines, as well as the North York Moors, the Tour de Yorkshire is one for the puncheurs and baroudeurs. It’s not all hills, though, with at least one opportunity for the sprinters along the way. Rather than a staging ground for new talent, the race has so far proven to be a battle of established riders. Looking at the roll of honour and seeing the names of Lars Petter Nordhaug, Thomas Voeckler and Serge Pauwels gives one a good idea of what to expect. The race kicks off in Beverley on Thursday, May 3, and finishes in Leeds on Sunday, May 6.

Max Walscheid (Team Sunweb) won stage 3 of the Tour de Yorkshire in Scarborough, pipping overall leader Magnus Cort Nielsen (Astana) to the line in a frantic sprint finish. Jon Aberasturi (Euskadi-Murias) took third place.

With late attacker Sylvain Chavanel (Direct Énergie) caught within sight of the line, there was hardly enough time to organise a proper sprint. Vital Concept and Bryan Coquard hit the front first, before Nielsen powered through with Walscheid on his wheel. The German then came through in the closing metres to score his first victory of the season.

“A few times during the day, I was on the limit but I had a great team and they brought me back,” said Walscheid after the finish. “We did really good work.

“To win a more difficult stage is really nice for me because normally I’m more for the really flat bunch sprint stages,” he added. “Now I’m growing towards a sprinter who can win more difficult stages and that satisfies me a lot.”

Cort Nielsen’s second place sees him extend his GC lead to ten seconds over Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), while Eduard Prades (Euskadi-Murias) retains third overall, twelve seconds back.

“It was an intense day,” said Cort Nielsen after the stage. “I’m very happy though. I keep the jersey. Last year on this finish I was lying at the 200-metre mark with a broken collarbone and fractured ribs so I’m happy to be back here and feeling a lot better than I did last year.

“Tomorrow will be really, really hard and it will not be easy to keep the jersey,” he added.

How it happened

The penultimate stage of the race saw a return to the coastal town of Scarborough, the only permanent fixture of the race’s short history. Back in 2015 and 2016, the windy and lumpy finish proved to be a race decider, but last year saw Dylan Groenewegen beat Caleb Ewan in a bunch sprint.

Two categorised climbs peppered the stage – the Côte de Suffolk Bank (1.4km at 12%) at 69.5km, and the Côte de Silpho (1.5km at 8.2%) at 132.5km. Intermediate sprints came at Morton-on-Swale 38km into the stage, and at Pickering at the 102.5km mark. On the run-in to the coast, the familiar hills would provide opportunity to once again foil the sprinters.

Peter Williams (One Pro Cycling), Johnny McEvoy (Madison-Genesis), Robbert De Greef (Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij), Mathias Le Turnier (Cofidis) and Adam Kenway (Virtus Pro Cycling) made up the break of the day, escaping in the first 15km and quickly building up a lead of 2:30.

Williams took the first climb at Suffolk Bank. However, McEvoy foiled his bid for the overall lead (working on behalf of teammate and classification leader Michael Cuming) on the Côte de Silpho. Meanwhile De Greef won the points but perhaps more importantly, the bonus cash, for both in-termediate sprints.

BMC hit the front at Silpho, splitting the peloton. It wasn’t long, though, before the two groups and breakaway were reunited on the first pass through Scarborough, 37km from the line.

As crosswinds hit the race on the exposed headlands on the loop south of the town, a five-rider group including the GC threat of Brent Bookwalter (BMC), broke away with 20km to race. It took 10km of work for the Astana- and Vital Concept-led peloton to make the catch, but once they did all signs pointed towards a bunch sprint.

Chavanel launched out of the peloton unopposed 5km from the line, looking to disrupt the party. It looked as though he would score an unlikely victory, but the combined forces of Team Sky and Vital Concept saw him swallowed up metres from the finish.

Results :
1 Max Walscheid (Ger) Team Sunweb 4:10:27
2 Magnus Cort (Den) Astana Pro Team
3 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
4 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Vital Concept Club
5 Robert-Jon McCarthy (Irl) JLT Condor
6 Connor Swift (GBr) Madison Genesis
7 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb
8 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team
9 Emils Liepins (Lat) One Pro Cycling
10 Colin Joyce (USA) Rally Cycling
11 Eduard Prades Reverter (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
12 Jenthe Biermans (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin
13 Adam Blythe (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport
14 Dorian Godon (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
15 Etienne van Empel (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
16 Aritz Bagues Kalparsoro (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
17 Gabriel Cullaigh (GBr) Great Britain
18 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) Katusha-Alpecin
19 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Katusha-Alpecin
20 Karol Domagalski (Pol) One Pro Cycling
21 Alistair Slater (GBr) JLT Condor
22 James Lowsley-Williams (GBr) Canyon Eisberg
23 Steff Cras (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin
24 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team
25 Patrick Bevin (NZl) BMC Racing Team
26 Kristoffer Halvorsen (Nor) Team Sky
27 Edmund Bradbury (GBr) JLT Condor
28 Fred Wright (GBr) Great Britain
29 James Shaw (GBr) Great Britain
30 Cyril Barthe (Fra) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
31 Martijn Budding (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
32 Thomas Pidcock (GBr) Great Britain
33 Oliver Wood (GBr) JLT Condor
34 Ian Bibby (GBr) JLT Condor
35 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain
36 Mark Christian (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport
37 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Direct Energie
38 Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) Vital Concept Club
39 Edward Dunbar (Irl) Aqua Blue Sport
40 Luis Angel Mate Mardones (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
41 Daniel Pearson (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport
42 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team
43 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Dimension Data
44 Anthony Perez (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
45 Hayden McCormick (NZl) One Pro Cycling
46 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
47 James Gullen (GBr) JLT Condor
48 Nick van der Lijke (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
49 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin
50 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb
51 Bryan Nauleau (Fra) Direct Energie
52 Peter Williams (GBr) One Pro Cycling
53 Leonardo Basso (Ita) Team Sky
54 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb
55 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Sky
56 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
57 Joey Walker (GBr) Great Britain
58 Kyle Murphy (USA) Rally Cycling
59 Ryan Anderson (Can) Rally Cycling
60 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Team Sky
61 Garikoitz Bravo Oiarbide (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
62 Jeremy Cornu (Fra) Direct Energie
63 Richard Handley (GBr) Madison Genesis
64 Edward Laverack (GBr) JLT Condor
65 James Oram (NZl) One Pro Cycling
66 Jacob Scott (GBr) One Pro Cycling
67 Robbert de Greef (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
68 Harry Tanfield (GBr) Canyon Eisberg
69 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky
70 Pieter Weening (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
71 Michael Cuming (GBr) Madison Genesis
72 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Direct Energie 0:00:13
73 Jérémy Lecroq (Fra) Vital Concept Club 0:00:27
74 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:36
75 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:00:48
76 Shane Archbold (NZl) Aqua Blue Sport 0:00:56
77 Harrison Jones (GBr) Vitus Pro Cycling 0:00:59
78 Kevin Reza (Fra) Vital Concept Club 0:01:10
79 Ben Walsh (Irl) Vitus Pro Cycling 0:01:12
80 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:01:34
81 Nicolas Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data 0:01:49
82 Calvin Watson (Aus) Aqua Blue Sport
83 Mathias Le Turnier (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
84 Joshua Hunt (GBr) Vitus Pro Cycling
85 Tobyn Horton (GBr) Madison Genesis
86 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Direct Energie
87 Nathan Van Hooydonck (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:02:55
88 Marco Mathis (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
89 Angelo Tulik (Fra) Direct Energie 0:03:21
90 Axel Journiaux (Fra) Direct Energie
91 Erick Rowsell (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:04:23
92 Adam Kenway (GBr) Vitus Pro Cycling
93 Jonathan McEvoy (GBr) Madison Genesis
94 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team 0:04:35
95 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Sunweb
96 Julien Morice (Fra) Vital Concept Club
97 Steven Lammertink (Ned) Vital Concept Club
98 Loic Chetout (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
99 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) Vital Concept Club
100 Moreno Moser (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:05:06
101 Thomas Baylis (GBr) One Pro Cycling 0:05:41
102 Jay Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data 0:08:18
103 Pim Ligthart (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
104 Jesse Anthony (USA) Rally Cycling
105 Wouter Wippert (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
106 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) Aqua Blue Sport
107 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data
108 Leon Mazzone (GBr) Holdsworth Pro Racing
109 Sean McKenna (Irl) Holdsworth Pro Racing
110 Julio Alberto Amores Palacios (Spa) Vitus Pro Cycling
111 Liam Davies (GBr) Vitus Pro Cycling
112 Julien Vermote (Bel) Dimension Data
113 Dexter Gardias (GBr) Canyon Eisberg
114 Matteo Dal-Cin (Can) Rally Cycling
115 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
116 Russell Downing (GBr) Holdsworth Pro Racing
117 Scott Davies (GBr) Dimension Data
118 Andrew Tennant (GBr) Canyon Eisberg
119 Mikel Aristi Gardoki (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
120 Julen Irizar Laskurain (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
121 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team
122 Seid Lizde (Ita) Holdsworth Pro Racing
123 Max Stedman (GBr) Canyon Eisberg
124 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Sunweb
125 George Pym (GBr) Madison Genesis
DNF Truls Korsaeth (Nor) Astana Pro Team

General Classification after Stage 3 :
1 Magnus Cort (Den) Astana Pro Team 11:44:02
2 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:00:10
3 Eduard Prades Reverter (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:00:12
4 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Dimension Data 0:00:16
5 Colin Joyce (USA) Rally Cycling 0:00:21
6 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Katusha-Alpecin
7 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb
8 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:27
9 Steff Cras (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin
10 Anthony Perez (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
11 Edward Dunbar (Irl) Aqua Blue Sport 0:00:29
12 Mark Christian (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport
13 Daniel Pearson (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport
14 Etienne van Empel (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
15 Ian Bibby (GBr) JLT Condor
16 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Sky 0:00:35
17 Patrick Bevin (NZl) BMC Racing Team 0:00:39
18 James Shaw (GBr) Great Britain 0:00:41
19 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Direct Energie
20 James Oram (NZl) One Pro Cycling
21 Luis Angel Mate Mardones (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:00:44
22 Michael Cuming (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:00:46
23 Alistair Slater (GBr) JLT Condor 0:00:47
24 Karol Domagalski (Pol) One Pro Cycling
25 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb
26 Thomas Pidcock (GBr) Great Britain
27 Leonardo Basso (Ita) Team Sky
28 Kyle Murphy (USA) Rally Cycling
29 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:00:53
30 Edmund Bradbury (GBr) JLT Condor 0:00:55
31 Nick van der Lijke (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
32 Peter Williams (GBr) One Pro Cycling
33 Richard Handley (GBr) Madison Genesis
34 Edward Laverack (GBr) JLT Condor
35 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:01:03
36 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky
37 Cyril Barthe (Fra) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:01:06
38 Jeremy Cornu (Fra) Direct Energie
39 Hayden McCormick (NZl) One Pro Cycling 0:01:09
40 Aritz Bagues Kalparsoro (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:01:13
41 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Direct Energie 0:01:16
42 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) Katusha-Alpecin 0:01:17
43 James Lowsley-Williams (GBr) Canyon Eisberg 0:01:23
44 Pieter Weening (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 0:01:30
45 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 0:01:31
46 Connor Swift (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:01:34
47 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:01:46
48 Kevin Reza (Fra) Vital Concept Club 0:02:05
49 Robbert de Greef (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 0:02:18
50 Jenthe Biermans (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin 0:02:20
51 Bryan Nauleau (Fra) Direct Energie 0:02:24
52 Fred Wright (GBr) Great Britain 0:02:30
53 Ryan Anderson (Can) Rally Cycling
54 Joey Walker (GBr) Great Britain
55 Dorian Godon (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:03:27
56 Gabriel Cullaigh (GBr) Great Britain
57 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:03:51
58 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Team Sky 0:03:52
59 Mathias Le Turnier (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:04:03
60 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Vital Concept Club 0:04:16
61 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team
62 Martijn Budding (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 0:04:43
63 Jacob Scott (GBr) One Pro Cycling 0:04:48
64 Jonathan McEvoy (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:05:14
65 Adam Kenway (GBr) Vitus Pro Cycling 0:05:52
66 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:07:12
67 Nathan Van Hooydonck (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:08:11
68 Nicolas Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data 0:08:35
69 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) Vital Concept Club 0:08:51
70 Max Stedman (GBr) Canyon Eisberg 0:08:53
71 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) Aqua Blue Sport 0:09:05
72 Harry Tanfield (GBr) Canyon Eisberg 0:09:24
73 Steven Lammertink (Ned) Vital Concept Club 0:09:29
74 Max Walscheid (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:09:33
75 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:09:39
76 Garikoitz Bravo Oiarbide (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:09:42
77 Robert-Jon McCarthy (Irl) JLT Condor 0:09:43
78 Adam Blythe (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport
79 Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) Vital Concept Club
80 Kristoffer Halvorsen (Nor) Team Sky
81 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
82 Julen Irizar Laskurain (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 0:09:51
83 Emils Liepins (Lat) One Pro Cycling 0:10:05
84 Scott Davies (GBr) Dimension Data 0:10:08
85 Jérémy Lecroq (Fra) Vital Concept Club 0:10:10
86 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Sky 0:10:19
87 Matteo Dal-Cin (Can) Rally Cycling 0:10:48
88 Tobyn Horton (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:11:30
89 Joshua Hunt (GBr) Vitus Pro Cycling 0:11:32
90 Calvin Watson (Aus) Aqua Blue Sport
91 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Direct Energie
92 Seid Lizde (Ita) Holdsworth Pro Racing 0:11:45
93 Marco Mathis (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0:12:38
94 Ben Walsh (Irl) Vitus Pro Cycling 0:12:53
95 Axel Journiaux (Fra) Direct Energie 0:13:01
96 Angelo Tulik (Fra) Direct Energie 0:13:23
97 Loic Chetout (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:14:18
98 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team
99 Thomas Baylis (GBr) One Pro Cycling 0:15:16
100 Julien Morice (Fra) Vital Concept Club 0:15:53
101 Moreno Moser (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:16:11
102 Wouter Wippert (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 0:18:01
103 Russell Downing (GBr) Holdsworth Pro Racing
104 Andrew Tennant (GBr) Canyon Eisberg
105 Leon Mazzone (GBr) Holdsworth Pro Racing
106 Dexter Gardias (GBr) Canyon Eisberg
107 Pim Ligthart (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
108 Julien Vermote (Bel) Dimension Data
109 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
110 Jay Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data
111 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data
112 Mikel Aristi Gardoki (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
113 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:18:47
114 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:19:20
115 Oliver Wood (GBr) JLT Condor 0:20:57
116 James Gullen (GBr) JLT Condor
117 Harrison Jones (GBr) Vitus Pro Cycling 0:21:56
118 Shane Archbold (NZl) Aqua Blue Sport 0:22:26
119 Erick Rowsell (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:25:20
120 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:28:01
121 Jesse Anthony (USA) Rally Cycling
122 Sean McKenna (Irl) Holdsworth Pro Racing 0:29:15
123 Julio Alberto Amores Palacios (Spa) Vitus Pro Cycling
124 George Pym (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:29:26
125 Liam Davies (GBr) Vitus Pro Cycling 0:35:12