Tour du Limousin 2020 – Stage 2 [FULL STAGE] (french)

August 19, 2020

Tour du Limousin 2020 – Stage 2 – Base Départementale de Rouffiac – Grand Étang de Saint-Estèphe : 173,9 km

Tour du Limousin is a 4-day road bicycle race held annually in Limousin, France. It was first held in 1968 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2011 it was upgraded to an 2.HC event, and downgraded to 2.1 since 2013. Between 1968 and 1974 it was an amateur race.

Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates) won stage 2 of the Tour du Limousin after a breathless finale in Grand Etang de Saint-Estèph. The Colombian outsprinted Joel Suter (Bingoal – Wallonie Bruxelles) after he triggered the winning seven-man move with a fierce acceleration on the rolling run-in.

Suter’s second place was enough to lift him into the overall lead. The Swiss rider is level on time with previous leader Luca Wackermann (Vini Zabú-KTM) but takes the jersey by dint of his higher placings on the first two stages.

Kévin Ledanois (Team Arkéa-Samsic) took third place on the stage at two seconds, just ahead of Michael Storer (Sunweb), while the fragmented peloton came home at 7 seconds.

Gaviria went on the offensive with 9km to go as the peloton was shattering and he persisted in tracking aggressive counter-attacks from the AG2R La Mondiale duo Alexis Gougeard and Geoffrey Bouchard.

Gaviria still had seven riders for company beneath the flamme rouge, where he was the only man capable of following a fierce acceleration from Suter. From there, the stage victory was a formality: Gaviria sat tucked on the Swiss rider’s wheel before he swooped past him in the finishing straight to claim the stage victory.

“I’m really happy, it’s my 27th birthday and I wanted to give myself a present,” Gaviria said. “We wanted to try yesterday but the penultimate climb was too hard for me. It was a complicated finish. I knew I had to take the descent on the front, I tried and I was able to win a very nice stage. For tomorrow, I don’t know. I spent a lot of energy today. We’re still a long way from the Giro but there are a lot of races before then where I want to do well.”

The stage was animated by a break featuring Adrien Guillonnet (St-Michel-Auber 93), Laurenz Rex (Bingoal-Wallonie-Bruxelles), Jokin Aranburu Arruti (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and Laurent Pichon (Team Arkéa-Samsic) escaped in the opening kilometres.

The escapees had a maximum buffer of 3:45 but they were pulled back as the terrain became more rugged in the finale.

Results :
1 Fernando Gaviria Rendon (Col) UAE Team Emirates 4:13:18
2 Joel Suter (Swi) Bingoal WB
3 Kevin Ledanois (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:00:02
4 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb
5 Alessandro Fedeli (Ita) Nippo Delko Provence
6 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
7 Geoffrey Bouchard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
8 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:00:08
9 Thomas Boudat (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
10 Filippo Fiorelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’
11 Max Kanter (Ger) Team Sunweb
12 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) UAE Team Emirates
13 Piet Allegaert (Bel) Cofidis
14 Francisco Galvan Fernandez (Spa) Kern Pharma
15 Sergei Chernetskii (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
16 Antonio Angulo Sampedro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
17 Matteo Malucelli (Ita) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
18 Petr Rikunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
19 Mikel Aristi Gardoki (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
20 Alejandro Osorio Carvajal (Col) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
21 Eduard-Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo Delko Provence
22 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
23 Péter Kusztor (Hun) Team Novo Nordisk
24 Julien Vermote (Bel) Cofidis
25 Thibault Ferasse (Fra) Natura4ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
26 Connor Swift (GBr) Team Arkea-Samsic
27 Jérémy Leveau (Fra) Natura4ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
28 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
29 Jake Stewart (GBr) Groupama-FDJ
30 Mathias De Witte (Bel) Natura4ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
31 Dimitri Peyskens (Bel) Bingoal WB
32 Marti Marquez Roman (Spa) Kern Pharma
33 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates
34 Luca Wackermann (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM
35 Dimitri Claeys (Bel) Cofidis
36 Benjamin Declercq (Bel) Team Arkea-Samsic
37 Clément Chevrier (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
38 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R la Mondiale
39 Nico Denz (Ger) Team Sunweb
40 Daniel Alejandro Mendez Noreña (Col) Kern Pharma
41 Olivier Le Gac (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
42 Marlon Gaillard (Fra) Total Direct Energie
43 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
44 Mauro Finetto (Ita) Nippo Delko Provence
45 Romain Combaud (Fra) Nippo Delko Provence
46 Flavien Maurelet (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
47 Asbjørn Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb
48 Jonathan Lastra Martinez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
49 Simon Guglielmi (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
50 Adrien Garel (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept 0:00:55
51 Orluis Alberto Aular Sanabria (Ven) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:01:01
52 Alessandro Tonelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’
53 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:01:23
54 Alberto Dainese (Ita) Team Sunweb 0:01:38
55 Vincenzo Albanese (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’
56 Delio Fernandez Cruz (Spa) Nippo Delko Provence 0:01:41
57 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
58 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Groupama-FDJ 0:02:54
59 Gonzalo Serrano Rodriguez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
60 Daniel Savini (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 0:03:02
61 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
62 Dmitrii Strakhov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:03:20
63 Emmanuel Morin (Fra) Cofidis
64 Louis Louvet (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
65 Lucas De Rossi (Fra) Nippo Delko Provence
66 Romain Cardis (Fra) Total Direct Energie
67 Jarno Mobach (Ned) Team Sunweb
68 Martin Salmon (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:03:25
69 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:03:59
70 Roberto González (Pan) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:05:08
71 Jeremy Bellicaud (Fra) Circus-Wanty Gobert
72 Eddy Fine (Fra) Cofidis
73 Alan Riou (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
74 Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk 0:05:16
75 Franklin Six (Bel) Bingoal WB 0:05:32
76 Jérémy Lecroq (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
77 Kevyn Ista (Bel) Bingoal WB
78 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Arg) UAE Team Emirates 0:05:35
79 Maxime Cam (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
80 Valentin Ferron (Fra) Total Direct Energie
81 Iker Ballarin Manso (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:06:16
82 Baptiste Constantin (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93 0:07:19
83 Fabio Mazzucco (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’
84 Sam Brand (GBr) Team Novo Nordisk 0:08:48
85 Dusan Rajovic (Srb) Nippo Delko Provence
86 Imerio Cima (Ita) Gazprom-Rusvelo
87 Riccardo Stacchiotti (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM
88 Nathan Haas (Aus) Cofidis
89 Peio Goikoetxea Goiogana (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
90 Tony Hurel (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
91 Umberto Poli (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk
92 Leonardo Bonifazio (Ita) Total Direct Energie
93 Brian Kamstra (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk
94 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk
95 Giovanni Lonardi (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’
96 Luca Mozzato (Ita) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
97 Igor Boev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
98 Julien Morice (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
99 Sergio Nestor Araiz Michel (Spa) Kern Pharma
100 Julen Irizar Laskurain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
101 Maximilien Picoux (Bel) Natura4ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
102 Jordan Levasseur (Fra) Natura4ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
103 Juan Jose Lobato del Valle (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
104 Tom Devriendt (Bel) Circus-Wanty Gobert
105 Etienne Van Empel (Ned) Vini Zabu’ KTM
106 Kenneth Vanbilsen (Bel) Cofidis
107 Sean De Bie (Bel) Bingoal WB
108 Wesley Kreder (Ned) Circus-Wanty Gobert
109 Léo Vincent (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
110 Alfdan De Decker (Bel) Circus-Wanty Gobert
111 Justin Mottier (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
112 William Bonnet (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
113 Laurent Pichon (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
114 Rui Oliveira (Por) UAE Team Emirates
115 Brandon McNulty (USA) UAE Team Emirates
116 Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
117 Laurenz Rex (Bel) Bingoal WB
118 Mathijs Paasschens (Ned) Bingoal WB
119 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) Circus-Wanty Gobert
120 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Circus-Wanty Gobert
121 Ibon Ruiz Sedano (Spa) Kern Pharma
122 Adrien Guillonnet (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
123 Pierre Idjouadiene (Fra) Natura4ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
124 Leonardo Tortomasi (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:11:53
125 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:12:36
126 Enrique Sanz Unzue (Spa) Kern Pharma
127 Oliver Behringer (Swi) Team Novo Nordisk 0:15:45
128 Nicolas Dalla Valle (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 0:20:07
129 Morné Van Niekerk (RSA) St Michel-Auber 93 0:20:09
130 Andrea Bartolozzi (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:20:11
131 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
OTL Jokin Aranburu Arruti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:33:33
OTL Jan Petelin (Lux) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:38:50
DNF Juan Fernando Calle Hurtado (Col) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
DNF Lilian Calmejane (Fra) Total Direct Energie
DNF Jon Agirre Egaña (Spa) Kern Pharma

General Classification after Stage 2 :
1 Joel Suter (Swi) Bingoal WB 8:43:45
2 Luca Wackermann (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM
3 Kevin Ledanois (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:00:07
4 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:00:11
5 Geoffrey Bouchard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
6 Jake Stewart (GBr) Groupama-FDJ
7 Romain Combaud (Fra) Nippo Delko Provence
8 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:00:13
9 Sergei Chernetskii (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
10 Olivier Le Gac (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:15
11 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:16
12 Filippo Fiorelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 0:00:17
13 Francisco Galvan Fernandez (Spa) Kern Pharma
14 Thibault Ferasse (Fra) Natura4ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
15 Connor Swift (GBr) Team Arkea-Samsic
16 Antonio Angulo Sampedro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
17 Benjamin Declercq (Bel) Team Arkea-Samsic
18 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
19 Mathias De Witte (Bel) Natura4ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
20 Dimitri Claeys (Bel) Cofidis
21 Marti Marquez Roman (Spa) Kern Pharma
22 Mauro Finetto (Ita) Nippo Delko Provence
23 Jonathan Lastra Martinez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
24 Simon Guglielmi (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
25 Flavien Maurelet (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93 0:00:30
26 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:00:41
27 Max Kanter (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:00:45
28 Dimitri Peyskens (Bel) Bingoal WB
29 Nico Denz (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:00:55
30 Péter Kusztor (Hun) Team Novo Nordisk 0:01:04
31 Vincenzo Albanese (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 0:01:47
32 Alessandro Tonelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 0:01:57
33 Petr Rikunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:02:10
34 Matteo Malucelli (Ita) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
35 Julien Vermote (Bel) Cofidis
36 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R la Mondiale
37 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
38 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:02:37
39 Jérémy Leveau (Fra) Natura4ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole 0:02:51
40 Clément Chevrier (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
41 Marlon Gaillard (Fra) Total Direct Energie
42 Alberto Dainese (Ita) Team Sunweb 0:03:24
43 Eduard-Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo Delko Provence 0:03:43
44 Daniel Savini (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 0:03:49
45 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Groupama-FDJ 0:03:50
46 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:04:06
47 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:04:08
48 Alan Riou (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:05:17
49 Valentin Ferron (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:05:44
50 Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk 0:05:53
51 Dmitrii Strakhov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:06:03
52 Adrien Garel (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept 0:06:09
53 Piet Allegaert (Bel) Cofidis 0:06:24
54 Jeremy Bellicaud (Fra) Circus-Wanty Gobert 0:07:10
55 Alessandro Fedeli (Ita) Nippo Delko Provence 0:07:30
56 Fernando Gaviria Rendon (Col) UAE Team Emirates 0:08:39
57 Luca Mozzato (Ita) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept 0:09:44
58 Thomas Boudat (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:10:02
59 Eddy Fine (Fra) Cofidis 0:10:22
60 Julen Irizar Laskurain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
61 Kevyn Ista (Bel) Bingoal WB 0:10:46
62 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) UAE Team Emirates 0:10:47
63 Mikel Aristi Gardoki (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
64 Alejandro Osorio Carvajal (Col) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
65 Adrien Guillonnet (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
66 Delio Fernandez Cruz (Spa) Nippo Delko Provence 0:10:57
67 Léo Vincent (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:11:31
68 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Circus-Wanty Gobert
69 Asbjørn Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb 0:12:01
70 Orluis Alberto Aular Sanabria (Ven) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:12:54
71 Emmanuel Morin (Fra) Cofidis 0:13:14
72 Fabio Mazzucco (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 0:13:35
73 Laurent Pichon (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:14:00
74 Brandon McNulty (USA) UAE Team Emirates 0:14:40
75 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:14:55
76 Nathan Haas (Aus) Cofidis 0:15:04
77 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk
78 Igor Boev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
79 Juan Jose Lobato del Valle (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
80 Wesley Kreder (Ned) Circus-Wanty Gobert
81 Mathijs Paasschens (Ned) Bingoal WB
82 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) Circus-Wanty Gobert
83 Martin Salmon (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:15:18
84 Jérémy Lecroq (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept 0:16:11
85 Iker Ballarin Manso (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:16:55
86 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Arg) UAE Team Emirates 0:17:28
87 Jarno Mobach (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:18:08
88 Leonardo Tortomasi (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:18:09
89 Gonzalo Serrano Rodriguez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:18:39
90 Lucas De Rossi (Fra) Nippo Delko Provence 0:19:05
91 Romain Cardis (Fra) Total Direct Energie
92 Riccardo Stacchiotti (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:19:27
93 Kenneth Vanbilsen (Bel) Cofidis
94 Alfdan De Decker (Bel) Circus-Wanty Gobert
95 Pierre Idjouadiene (Fra) Natura4ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
96 Louis Louvet (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93 0:19:29
97 Roberto González (Pan) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:19:56
98 Giovanni Lonardi (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 0:20:41
99 Julien Morice (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
100 Leonardo Bonifazio (Ita) Total Direct Energie
101 Brian Kamstra (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk
102 Jordan Levasseur (Fra) Natura4ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
103 Rui Oliveira (Por) UAE Team Emirates
104 William Bonnet (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
105 Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
106 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:21:22
107 Daniel Alejandro Mendez Noreña (Col) Kern Pharma 0:21:36
108 Maxime Cam (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept 0:21:50
109 Baptiste Constantin (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93 0:22:27
110 Imerio Cima (Ita) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:23:36
111 Peio Goikoetxea Goiogana (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
112 Sam Brand (GBr) Team Novo Nordisk 0:24:26
113 Tom Devriendt (Bel) Circus-Wanty Gobert 0:24:49
114 Justin Mottier (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept 0:25:03
115 Laurenz Rex (Bel) Bingoal WB 0:28:02
116 Franklin Six (Bel) Bingoal WB 0:29:01
117 Dusan Rajovic (Srb) Nippo Delko Provence 0:30:08
118 Tony Hurel (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93 0:30:11
119 Sergio Nestor Araiz Michel (Spa) Kern Pharma 0:30:16
120 Maximilien Picoux (Bel) Natura4ever-Roubaix-Lille Metropole
121 Ibon Ruiz Sedano (Spa) Kern Pharma
122 Umberto Poli (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk 0:32:17
123 Sean De Bie (Bel) Bingoal WB
124 Etienne Van Empel (Ned) Vini Zabu’ KTM
125 Enrique Sanz Unzue (Spa) Kern Pharma 0:34:04
126 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Total Direct Energie
127 Oliver Behringer (Swi) Team Novo Nordisk 0:39:14
128 Andrea Bartolozzi (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:41:42
129 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
130 Nicolas Dalla Valle (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 0:43:46
131 Morné Van Niekerk (RSA) St Michel-Auber 93 0:52:15