Tour of Britain 2017 – Stage 5 [FULL STAGE – Individual Time Trial]

September 07, 2017

Tour of Britain 2017 – Stage 5 – Tendring – Tendring (ITT) : 16 km

The 2017 Tour of Britain is a eight-stage men’s professional road cycling race. It is the fourteenth running of the modern version of the Tour of Britain and the 77th British tour in total. The race starts on 3 September in Edinburgh and finishes on 10 September in Cardiff. The race is part of the 2017 UCI Europe Tour.

Lars Boom (LottoNL-Jumbo) took the overall lead at the Tour of Britain, with a decisive victory in the stage five time trial. The Dutchman, who won the race in 2011, beat teammate and European time trial champion Victor Campenaerts into second place by six seconds, while Stefan Küng (BMC) was two seconds further back in third place.

Boom’s time of 19:02 was one of the last to be set, and gives him a GC lead of eight seconds over Campenaerts. Seven further riders lie within twenty seconds of the lead, setting up an intriguing race situation going into the final three stages.

For his first win since 2015, it was a commanding one for Boom. He set the fastest time at the 8km checkpoint, clocking 9 minutes exactly. Before Boom’s blitz, the quickest riders to the halfway mark were Küng, Alex Dowsett (Movistar) and Tony Martin (Katusha-Alpecin), setting times a full 18 seconds slower.

The wind, a tailwind from the start along Clacton coast but a headwind on the way back to the finish, was a factor as many riders posted slower times in the second half of the stage. One might have expected Boom to slow considerably during the second half, but he held on for a comfortable victory.

“I know I always go out quite hard,” he said after the stage. “So I knew already that with the headwind in the last four kilometres I might drop some seconds, but in the end, I could keep it [my gearing] on 45, 48 so it was quite OK.”

“For sure [I’m pleased], especially if you see all the names in the top 10. I’m really happy with it. The week before I came to Britain I had some problems with my stomach, so I was looking for shape but in the end, the feeling was pretty good on the TT bike.

“We have to make a plan for the next few days,” Boom said. “It could be difficult with only six riders in the team. It makes racing a bit more tactical I think. But 20 seconds is not much so I don’t know yet.”

How it unfolded

While the race up to this point had been a sprinter’s paradise, stage 5 was all about the wealth of time trialists present. The early pace was set by Marcin Bialoblocki (CCC Sprandi-Polkowice), who posted the first sub-20 minute time of the day.

The Pole clocked in at 19:34, but the opening hour of the day saw something of a time trial hot seat version of musical chairs. A surprise ride from Harry Tanfield (Bike Channel-Canyon) saw him go six seconds faster than Bialoblocki. The 22-year-old is clearly in great form – he had been in the break on stage 3.

Luke Durbridge (Orica-Scott) was the next man to go fastest with a time of 19:23, but 20 minutes later, 2015 world time trial champion Vasil Kiryienka (Team Sky) obliterated the Australian’s time by 14 seconds.

From then on it was just a case of waiting for the other big names to head out and battle for the win. Kiryienka’s teammate Geraint Thomas briefly made it a Sky one-two with a time of 19:19 before Campenaerts went on to set a time of 19:08, which would be beaten by only one rider.

By that point, late in the afternoon, the time trial stars were heading out onto the course thick and fast. Jos Van Emden (LottoNL-Jumbo), Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky), Dowsett, Küng and Martin all came and went, all failing to beat the Belgian who held the provisional lead.

After Boom had blown everybody away, the only remaining intrigue was to see how the sprinters at the top of the GC classification managed to hold up.

The short story is that they didn’t. At least, not apart from Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data). The Norwegian put in a respectable time of 19:32 to leave him 19 seconds behind Boom heading into the potentially decisive final stages.

Meanwhile, race leader Elia Viviani (Team Sky) came in 1:23 down on Boom’s time. Second overall before the stage, Caleb Ewan (Orica-Scott) endured a miserable ride as mechanical problems necessitated a bike change on his way to finishing almost four minutes down.

Results :
1 Lars Boom (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:19:03
2 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:00:06
3 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Team Sky 0:00:07
4 Stefan Küng (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:00:08
5 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:00:11
6 Tony Martin (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:12
7 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Sky 0:00:17
8 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky
9 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team 0:00:21
10 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Orica-Scott
11 Ryan Mullen (Irl) Cannondale-Drapac 0:00:25
12 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
13 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:26
14 Harry Tanfield (GBr) Bike Channel Canyon
15 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:00:29
16 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data 0:00:30
17 Marcin Bialoblocki (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:00:32
18 Dylan Van Baarle (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac 0:00:40
19 Joey Rosskopf (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:41
20 Mads Würtz Schmidt (Den) Katusha-Alpecin
21 Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa) Movistar Team
22 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:43
23 Gorka Izagirre (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:46
24 James Gullen (GBr) JLT Condor 0:00:48
25 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Team Sky
26 Jan Tratnik (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:00:49
27 Patrick Bevin (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac 0:00:52
28 Laurens De Plus (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:53
29 Silvan Dillier (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:00:57
30 Roger Kluge (Ger) Orica-Scott 0:01:00
31 Kamil Gradek (Pol) One Pro Cycling
32 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team
33 Gijs Van Hoecke (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:01:02
34 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) Katusha-Alpecin
35 Ben Hermans (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:01:07
36 James Oram (NZl) One Pro Cycling 0:01:09
37 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:01:10
38 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin
39 Hayden Mccormick (NZl) One Pro Cycling 0:01:12
40 Hugh Carthy (GBr) Cannondale-Drapac 0:01:13
41 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Movistar Team 0:01:19
42 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert
43 Connor Swift (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:01:20
44 Karol Domagalski (Pol) One Pro Cycling 0:01:21
45 Daniel Martin (Irl) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:23
46 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky
47 Lukasz Owsian (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:01:25
48 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:26
49 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal
50 James Shaw (GBr) Lotto Soudal 0:01:28
51 Christopher Lawless (GBr) Great Britain
52 Senne Leysen (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:01:29
53 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Movistar Team
54 Mark Stewart (GBr) An Post Chain Reaction 0:01:30
55 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:31
56 Dion Smith (NZl) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:01:32
57 Maciej Paterski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:01:35
58 Jonas Koch (Ger) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:01:36
59 Ethan Hayter (GBr) Great Britain 0:01:37
60 Oliver Wood (GBr) Great Britain 0:01:42
61 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
62 Regan Gough (NZl) An Post Chain Reaction
63 Floris Gerts (Ned) BMC Racing Team 0:01:46
64 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:47
65 Jay Thompson (RSA) Dimension Data 0:01:48
66 Matthew Holmes (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:01:52
67 Davide Formolo (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac
68 Alessandro Tonelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:01:53
69 Rob Power (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:01:55
70 Taylor Gunman (NZl) Madison Genesis 0:01:57
71 Russell Downing (GBr) JLT Condor 0:02:02
72 Brenton Jones (Aus) JLT Condor
73 James Knox (GBr) Great Britain 0:02:08
74 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Orica-Scott 0:02:13
75 Peter Williams (GBr) One Pro Cycling 0:02:15
76 Ian Bibby (GBr) JLT Condor
77 Fernando Gaviria (Col) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:16
78 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data 0:02:17
79 Graham Briggs (GBr) JLT Condor 0:02:19
80 Thomas Gibbons (USA) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:02:25
81 Mark Mcnally (GBr) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:02:26
82 Alistair Slater (GBr) JLT Condor 0:02:28
83 Robert Partridge (GBr) Bike Channel Canyon
84 Enrico Barbin (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:02:29
85 Enzo Wouters (Bel) Lotto Soudal
86 Nikolas Maes (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:02:31
87 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Wanty – Groupe Gobert
88 Jonathan Mcevoy (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:02:33
89 Jacob Hennessy (GBr) Great Britain
90 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:02:35
91 Jacob Scott (GBr) An Post Chain Reaction 0:02:37
92 Vincenzo Albanese (Ita) Bardiani CSF
93 Rory Townsend (GBr) Bike Channel Canyon 0:02:38
94 Matthew Teggart (Irl) An Post Chain Reaction
95 Chris Opie (GBr) Bike Channel Canyon
96 Eric Marcotte (USA) Cylance Cycling 0:02:39
97 Richard Handley (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:02:41
98 Dexter Gardias (GBr) Bike Channel Canyon 0:02:45
99 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
100 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Madison Genesis 0:02:47
101 Steele Von Hoff (Aus) One Pro Cycling
102 Damien Shaw (Irl) An Post Chain Reaction
103 Kyle Murphy (USA) Cylance Cycling 0:02:49
104 Simone Andreetta (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:02:50
105 Sean Mckenna (Irl) An Post Chain Reaction 0:02:53
106 Adam Hartley (GBr) Great Britain
107 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:02:55
108 Andres Diaz (Ven) Cylance Cycling 0:03:07
109 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Dimension Data 0:03:11
110 Alan Banaszek (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:03:38
111 Scott Thwaites (GBr) Dimension Data 0:03:56
112 Orlando Garibay (Mex) Cylance Cycling
113 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:03:57
114 Paolo Simion (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:04:04

General Classification after Stage 5 :
1 Lars Boom (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 17:57:25
2 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:00:08
3 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Team Sky 0:00:09
4 Stefan Küng (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:00:10
5 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:00:13
6 Tony Martin (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:14
7 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Sky 0:00:19
8 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data
9 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky
10 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team 0:00:23
11 Ryan Mullen (Irl) Cannondale-Drapac 0:00:27
12 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
13 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:28
14 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:00:31
15 Dylan Van Baarle (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac 0:00:42
16 Joey Rosskopf (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:43
17 Mads Würtz Schmidt (Den) Katusha-Alpecin
18 Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa) Movistar Team
19 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:45
20 Gorka Izagirre (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:48
21 Patrick Bevin (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac 0:00:54
22 Silvan Dillier (Swi) BMC Racing Team
23 Laurens De Plus (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:55
24 Kamil Gradek (Pol) One Pro Cycling 0:00:57
25 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:02
26 Gijs Van Hoecke (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:01:04
27 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) Katusha-Alpecin
28 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin
29 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky 0:01:05
30 James Oram (NZl) One Pro Cycling 0:01:11
31 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:01:12
32 Hayden Mccormick (NZl) One Pro Cycling 0:01:14
33 Hugh Carthy (GBr) Cannondale-Drapac 0:01:15
34 Karol Domagalski (Pol) One Pro Cycling 0:01:17
35 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Movistar Team 0:01:21
36 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert
37 Daniel Martin (Irl) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:25
38 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:28
39 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal
40 James Shaw (GBr) Lotto Soudal 0:01:30
41 Christopher Lawless (GBr) Great Britain
42 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Movistar Team 0:01:31
43 Mark Stewart (GBr) An Post Chain Reaction 0:01:32
44 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:33
45 Dion Smith (NZl) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:01:34
46 Maciej Paterski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:01:37
47 Floris Gerts (Ned) BMC Racing Team 0:01:48
48 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:49
49 Alessandro Tonelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:01:55
50 Oliver Wood (GBr) Great Britain 0:01:59
51 Fernando Gaviria (Col) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:04
52 Russell Downing (GBr) JLT Condor
53 Brenton Jones (Aus) JLT Condor
54 James Knox (GBr) Great Britain 0:02:10
55 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Orica-Scott 0:02:15
56 Enrico Barbin (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:02:31
57 Nikolas Maes (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:02:33
58 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Wanty – Groupe Gobert
59 Matthew Teggart (Irl) An Post Chain Reaction 0:02:40
60 Richard Handley (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:02:42
61 Dexter Gardias (GBr) Bike Channel Canyon 0:02:47
62 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:02:57
63 Lukasz Owsian (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:03:15
64 Roger Kluge (Ger) Orica-Scott 0:03:27
65 Regan Gough (NZl) An Post Chain Reaction 0:03:34
66 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data 0:03:38
67 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:03:39
68 James Gullen (GBr) JLT Condor 0:03:45
69 Jan Tratnik (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:03:46
70 Ben Hermans (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:03:50
71 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:04:31
72 Eric Marcotte (USA) Cylance Cycling
73 Davide Formolo (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac 0:04:35
74 Jonas Koch (Ger) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
75 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:04:36
76 Steele Von Hoff (Aus) One Pro Cycling 0:04:39
77 Jay Thompson (RSA) Dimension Data 0:04:45
78 Rory Townsend (GBr) Bike Channel Canyon 0:06:02
79 Alistair Slater (GBr) JLT Condor 0:07:14
80 Connor Swift (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:07:48
81 Harry Tanfield (GBr) Bike Channel Canyon 0:07:56
82 Senne Leysen (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:07:57
83 Scott Thwaites (GBr) Dimension Data 0:08:22
84 Vincenzo Albanese (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:09:05
85 Taylor Gunman (NZl) Madison Genesis 0:09:30
86 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:09:33
87 Thomas Gibbons (USA) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:09:41
88 Mark Mcnally (GBr) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:09:45
89 Peter Williams (GBr) One Pro Cycling 0:09:48
90 Enzo Wouters (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:10:02
91 Jonathan Mcevoy (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:10:06
92 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Madison Genesis 0:10:17
93 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data 0:10:19
94 Damien Shaw (Irl) An Post Chain Reaction 0:10:20
95 Sean Mckenna (Irl) An Post Chain Reaction 0:10:26
96 Andres Diaz (Ven) Cylance Cycling 0:10:40
97 Ethan Hayter (GBr) Great Britain 0:10:55
98 Paolo Simion (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:11:20
99 Kyle Murphy (USA) Cylance Cycling 0:11:22
100 Jacob Hennessy (GBr) Great Britain 0:12:09
101 Jacob Scott (GBr) An Post Chain Reaction 0:13:02
102 Simone Andreetta (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:13:21
103 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Team Sky 0:13:25
104 Ian Bibby (GBr) JLT Condor 0:14:29
105 Rob Power (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:14:31
106 Marcin Bialoblocki (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:15:37
107 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Dimension Data
108 Alan Banaszek (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:15:38
109 Matthew Holmes (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:15:51
110 Robert Partridge (GBr) Bike Channel Canyon 0:17:17
111 Chris Opie (GBr) Bike Channel Canyon 0:18:45
112 Orlando Garibay (Mex) Cylance Cycling 0:19:01
113 Adam Hartley (GBr) Great Britain 0:19:58
114 Graham Briggs (GBr) JLT Condor 0:31:41