Tour of Britain 2019 – Stage 1 [FULL STAGE]

September 7, 2019

Tour of Britain 2019 – Stage 1 – Glasgow – Kircudbright : 201,5 km

Every year there is a new angle in the story that the Tour of Britain has written since 2004, but this year’s is obvious: it’s an ideal build up event on British roads for the upcoming World Championships in Yorkshire. Not that all the stages will resemble the lumpy, technical parcours of Harrogate – although a few will do just that – but the Manchester finish comes 15 days before the elite men’s race, giving plenty of time for recovery before the big day. Not surprising then that the field is one of the strongest that the race has ever seen, headed by the prodigious Mathieu Van der Poel, whose victory in the Amstel Gold Race in late April makes him an obvious favourite for Harrogate.

This was Jumbo-Visma’s day at the Tour of Britain, with the Dutch team in total control of the stage and their sprinter Dylan Groenewegen dominating the finish of the 201 kilometre stage from Glasgow to Kircudbright in clinical style from Davide Cimolai of Israel Cycling Academy and Matteo Trentin of Mitchelton-Scott, with pre-race favourite Mathieu Van der Poel coming fourth.

“After the Tour de France I was tired, and got a bit unlucky in some of the races but now my legs have come good again,” said the 26-year-old Groenewegen after landing his 12th individual win of a season which has included team time trial and sprint stages in the Tour de France and a brace in Paris-Nice.

Jumbo-Visma kept the entire stage under control, unflustered by a long-range break featuring Jacob Scott (Swift Carbon ProCycling), Dries de Bondt (Correndon-Circus), Rory Townsend (Canyon DHB) and James Fouche (Wiggins). The move started out as six riders, then was cut back to four after Conor Dunne dropped back to work for Cimolai and Ag2R’s Gediminas Bagdonas also disappeared.

Behind the break, Jumbo put Koen Bouwman and Pascal Eenkhorn on the front, pulling the quartet back to around a minute through the Galloway hills at 60 kilometres to go, and finally bringing the race together with seven kilometres remaining. Of the quartet, Townsend picked up enough bonus seconds at intermediate sprints to end the day second overall, while Scott took an early grip on the King of the Mountains prize.

“Today, we had no help from any of the other teams, so we had to do everything. We put Koen and Pascal on the front and then I got a really good leadout,” said Groenewegen, who timed his sprint perfectly, with Mike Teunissen, Jos Van Emden and Amund Grondal Jansen bringing him to the front with four kilometres to go of a run-in that was relatively straightforward and devoid of road furniture.

Groenewegen’s lead-out men disappeared in the final kilometre, but their sprinter latched onto Mitchelton-Scott’s Matteo Trentin and then moved forward as the British champion Ben Swift launched himself forwards. With Trentin to his left, Swift to his right, the Dutchman had no option but to go down the middle, and he then moved just enough to his left to discourage Trentin as the road curved slightly 50 metres before the line.

Cimolai and Van der Poel both left their efforts relatively late, but the Italian got no closer than a bike length to the flying Groenewegen, with Swift fading for fifth place. All of which left Groenewegen in the race leader’s jersey with Townsend three seconds behind, but with the prospect of a second sprint stage over similar roads to the east through the border country, starting and finishing at the town of Kelso. Shorter than the opening day at 165km, the Kelso stage looked slightly hillier with three second category ascents, but the flat run-in made it look promising for the Jumbo machine.

Results :
1 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 4:39:49
2 Davide Cimolai (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy
3 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott
4 Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Corendon-Circus
5 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Ineos
6 Boris Vallee (Bel) Wanty-Gobert
7 Trond Håkon Trondsen (Nor) Team Coop
8 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal
9 Matthew Bostock (GBr) Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes
10 Sacha Modolo (Ita) EF Education First
11 Matthew Walls (GBr) Great Britain
12 Christophe Noppe (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
13 Nils Eekhoff (Ned) Team Sunweb
14 Ethan Vernon (GBr) Great Britain
15 Loïc Vliegen (Bel) Wanty-Gobert
16 Andreas Nielsen (Den) Riwal Readynez Cycling Team
17 Cees Bol (Ned) Team Sunweb
18 Dries Van Gestel (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
19 Harry Tanfield (GBr) Katusha-Alpecin
20 Thimo Willems (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
21 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin
22 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team
23 Peter Williams (GBr) Swift Carbon Pro Cycling
24 Brent van Moer (Bel) Lotto Soudal
25 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Wanty-Gobert
26 Gabriel Cullaigh (GBr) Team Wiggins Lecol
27 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
28 Robert Scott (GBr) Team Wiggins Lecol
29 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Education First
30 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
31 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Israel Cycling Academy
32 Larry Warbasse (USA) AG2R La Mondiale
33 Pavel Sivakov (Rus) Team Ineos
34 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) EF Education First
35 Christopher Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb
36 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
37 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Katusha-Alpecin
38 Alexander Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
39 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott
40 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal
41 Emil Nygaard Vinjebo (Den) Riwal Readynez Cycling Team
42 Connor Swift (GBr) Madison Genesis
43 Tanel Kangert (Est) EF Education First
44 Amund Grøndahl Jansen (Nor) Team Jumbo-Visma
45 James Shaw (GBr) Swift Carbon Pro Cycling
46 Danilo Wyss (Swi) Dimension Data
47 Benjamin Perry (Can) Israel Cycling Academy
48 Thomas Sprengers (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
49 Aaron Verwilst (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
50 Julien Vermote (Bel) Dimension Data
51 Carlos Verona (Spa) Movistar Team
52 Wesley Kreder (Ned) Wanty-Gobert
53 Jake Stewart (GBr) Groupama-FDJ Continental
54 Bagdonas Gediminas (Ltu) AG2R La Mondiale
55 Otto Vergaerde (Bel) Corendon-Circus
56 Matthew Holmes (GBr) Madison Genesis
57 Mark Donovan (GBr) Team Wiggins Lecol
58 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Ineos
59 Hector Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team
60 Lasse Norman Hansen (Den) Corendon-Circus
61 Luis Villalobos (Mex) Aevolo
62 Mads Schmidt Würtz (Den) Katusha-Alpecin
63 Ryan Christensen (NZl) Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes
64 Juri Hollmann (Ger) Heizomat Rad-Net.de
65 Rory Townsend (Irl) Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes
66 Rasmus Iversen (Den) Lotto Soudal
67 Eduardo Sepulveda (Arg) Movistar Team
68 Benjamin Declercq (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
69 Edoardo Affini (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott
70 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
71 Andrew Tennant (GBr) Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes
72 Roy Curvers (Ned) Team Sunweb
73 Edward Dunbar (Irl) Team Ineos
74 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Ineos
75 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
76 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
77 Jim Brown (GBr) Great Britain
78 Moreno Hofland (Ned) EF Education First
79 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb
80 Mark Christian (GBr) Team Wiggins Lecol
81 Philipp Walsleben (Ger) Corendon-Circus
82 Erick Rowsell (GBr) Madison Genesis
83 Michael Cuming (GBr) Madison Genesis
84 Lucas Eriksson (Swe) Riwal Readynez Cycling Team
85 Ben Hardy (GBr) Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling
86 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty-Gobert
87 Tony Gallopin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
88 Ben Hermans (Bel) Israel Cycling Academy
89 Samuel Jenner (Aus) Team Wiggins Lecol
90 Jimmy Janssens (Bel) Corendon-Circus
91 Omer Goldstein (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy
92 Stephen Cummings (GBr) Dimension Data
93 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Movistar Team
94 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale
95 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Ineos
96 Jos van Emden (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
97 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Madison Genesis
98 Pascal Eenkhoorn (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
99 Tristan Robbins (GBr) Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling
100 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal
101 Mikel Landa (Spa) Movistar Team
102 Sindre Skjøstad Lunke (Nor) Riwal Readynez Cycling Team
103 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data
104 Alex Colman (Bel) Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes
105 Jonathan McEvoy (GBr) Madison Genesis
106 Joey Walker (GBr) Madison Genesis
107 Edward Laverack (GBr) Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling
108 Dries De Bondt (Bel) Corendon-Circus
109 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
110 Alexander Kamp (Den) Riwal Readynez Cycling Team
111 Frederik Frison (Bel) Lotto Soudal
112 Rhys Britton (Gbr) Great Britain
113 Florian Stork (Ger) Team Sunweb
114 Conor Dunne (Irl) Israel Cycling Academy
115 Torkil Veyhe (Den) Riwal Readynez Cycling Team 0:00:40
116 Thomas Stewart (GBr) Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes
117 Jacob Scott (GBr) Swift Carbon Pro Cycling 0:01:07
118 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Dimension Data 0:01:29
119 James Fouche (NZl) Team Wiggins Lecol 0:03:23
120 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:04:31

General Classification after Stage 1 :
1 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 4:39:39
2 Rory Townsend (Irl) Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes 0:00:03
3 Davide Cimolai (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy 0:00:04
4 Bagdonas Gediminas (Ltu) AG2R La Mondiale
5 Dries De Bondt (Bel) Corendon-Circus 0:00:05
6 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:06
7 Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Corendon-Circus 0:00:10
8 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Ineos
9 Boris Vallee (Bel) Wanty-Gobert
10 Trond Håkon Trondsen (Nor) Team Coop
11 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal
12 Matthew Bostock (GBr) Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes
13 Sacha Modolo (Ita) EF Education First
14 Matthew Walls (GBr) Great Britain
15 Christophe Noppe (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
16 Nils Eekhoff (Ned) Team Sunweb
17 Ethan Vernon (GBr) Great Britain
18 Loïc Vliegen (Bel) Wanty-Gobert
19 Andreas Nielsen (Den) Riwal Readynez Cycling Team
20 Cees Bol (Ned) Team Sunweb
21 Dries Van Gestel (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
22 Harry Tanfield (GBr) Katusha-Alpecin
23 Thimo Willems (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
24 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin
25 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team
26 Peter Williams (GBr) Swift Carbon Pro Cycling
27 Brent van Moer (Bel) Lotto Soudal
28 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Wanty-Gobert
29 Gabriel Cullaigh (GBr) Team Wiggins Lecol
30 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
31 Robert Scott (GBr) Team Wiggins Lecol
32 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Education First
33 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
34 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Israel Cycling Academy
35 Larry Warbasse (USA) AG2R La Mondiale
36 Pavel Sivakov (Rus) Team Ineos
37 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) EF Education First
38 Christopher Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb
39 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
40 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Katusha-Alpecin
41 Alexander Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
42 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott
43 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal
44 Emil Nygaard Vinjebo (Den) Riwal Readynez Cycling Team
45 Connor Swift (GBr) Madison Genesis
46 Tanel Kangert (Est) EF Education First
47 Amund Grøndahl Jansen (Nor) Team Jumbo-Visma
48 James Shaw (GBr) Swift Carbon Pro Cycling
49 Danilo Wyss (Swi) Dimension Data
50 Benjamin Perry (Can) Israel Cycling Academy
51 Thomas Sprengers (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
52 Aaron Verwilst (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
53 Julien Vermote (Bel) Dimension Data
54 Carlos Verona (Spa) Movistar Team
55 Wesley Kreder (Ned) Wanty-Gobert
56 Jake Stewart (GBr) Groupama-FDJ Continental
57 Otto Vergaerde (Bel) Corendon-Circus
58 Matthew Holmes (GBr) Madison Genesis
59 Mark Donovan (GBr) Team Wiggins Lecol
60 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Ineos
61 Hector Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team
62 Lasse Norman Hansen (Den) Corendon-Circus
63 Luis Villalobos (Mex) Aevolo
64 Mads Schmidt Würtz (Den) Katusha-Alpecin
65 Ryan Christensen (NZl) Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes
66 Juri Hollmann (Ger) Heizomat Rad-Net.de
67 Rasmus Iversen (Den) Lotto Soudal
68 Eduardo Sepulveda (Arg) Movistar Team
69 Benjamin Declercq (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
70 Edoardo Affini (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott
71 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
72 Andrew Tennant (GBr) Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes
73 Roy Curvers (Ned) Team Sunweb
74 Edward Dunbar (Irl) Team Ineos
75 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Ineos
76 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
77 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
78 Jim Brown (GBr) Great Britain
79 Moreno Hofland (Ned) EF Education First
80 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb
81 Mark Christian (GBr) Team Wiggins Lecol
82 Philipp Walsleben (Ger) Corendon-Circus
83 Erick Rowsell (GBr) Madison Genesis
84 Michael Cuming (GBr) Madison Genesis
85 Lucas Eriksson (Swe) Riwal Readynez Cycling Team
86 Ben Hardy (GBr) Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling
87 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty-Gobert
88 Tony Gallopin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
89 Ben Hermans (Bel) Israel Cycling Academy
90 Samuel Jenner (Aus) Team Wiggins Lecol
91 Jimmy Janssens (Bel) Corendon-Circus
92 Omer Goldstein (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy
93 Stephen Cummings (GBr) Dimension Data
94 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Movistar Team
95 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale
96 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Ineos
97 Jos van Emden (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
98 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Madison Genesis
99 Pascal Eenkhoorn (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
100 Tristan Robbins (GBr) Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling
101 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal
102 Mikel Landa (Spa) Movistar Team
103 Sindre Skjøstad Lunke (Nor) Riwal Readynez Cycling Team
104 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data
105 Alex Colman (Bel) Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes
106 Jonathan McEvoy (GBr) Madison Genesis
107 Joey Walker (GBr) Madison Genesis
108 Edward Laverack (GBr) Swiftcarbon Pro Cycling
109 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
110 Alexander Kamp (Den) Riwal Readynez Cycling Team
111 Frederik Frison (Bel) Lotto Soudal
112 Rhys Britton (Gbr) Great Britain
113 Florian Stork (Ger) Team Sunweb
114 Conor Dunne (Irl) Israel Cycling Academy
115 Torkil Veyhe (Den) Riwal Readynez Cycling Team 0:00:50
116 Thomas Stewart (GBr) Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes
117 Jacob Scott (GBr) Swift Carbon Pro Cycling 0:01:17
118 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Dimension Data 0:01:39
119 James Fouche (NZl) Team Wiggins Lecol 0:03:33
120 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:04:41