UNA JUMBO-VISMA SUPERLATIVA FA VOLARE AQUILA CV NELLA CRONOSQUADRE DEL TOUR
La squadra WorldTour equipaggiata con la speciale bici da crono di Bianchi ha vinto ancora a Bruxelles infliggendo 20” al Team Ineos e 21” alla Deceuninck - Quick Step. Teunissen rafforza il suo primato in classifica
Treviglio (Bergamo), 7 luglio 2019 - Il celeste Bianchi si è abbinato perfettamente con il giallo del Tour de France nel primo weekend della Grande Boucle 2019. Dopo il successo di Mike Teunissen nella tappa inaugurale, il Team Jumbo-Visma ha colto un’altra straordinaria vittoria nella seconda frazione, una cronosquadre di 27,6 km con partenza e arrivo a Bruxelles (Belgio). Equipaggiata con Aquila CV, la bicicletta da cronometro più vincente del World Tour, la formazione olandese ha completato la prova in 28'57", alla media di 57,202 km orari, precedendo di 20 secondi il Team Ineos e di 21 la Deceuninck - Quick Step.
Grazie all'eccellente prestazione di squadra, la maglia gialla Mike Teunissen ha rafforzato il primato in una classifica generale che vede, ai primi cinque posti, altrettanti atleti equipaggiati con bici Bianchi. Dalla seconda alla quinta posizione, infatti, tutti staccati di 10", ci sono nell'ordine Wout Van Aert, Steven Kruijswijk, Tony Martin e George Bennett. Teunissen detiene anche la maglia verde di leader della Classifica a Punti, Van Aert quella bianca della Classifica Giovani.
Quest’anno i corridori del Team Jumbo Visma stanno esaltando al meglio le qualità della loro bici da crono, considerando le sette vittorie già ottenute in prove individuali (con tre titoli nazionali conquistati), mentre come squadra si erano già imposti all’UAE Tour.
LA BICI DEL TEAM JUMBO-VISMA
Il Team Jumbo-Visma è equipaggiato con Aquila CV, il più avanzato modello Bianchi da cronometro, progettato con sistema Bianchi CV powered by Countervail. Aquila CV è studiata per garantire il massimo controllo e una maggiore riduzione del dispendio energetico.
Foto: 1-2) Il Team Jumbo-Visma in azione con Aquila CV nella cronosquadre di Bruxelles (Credits Bettini Photo); 3) Mike Teunissen, maglia gialla dopo le prime due tappe del Tour de France 2019;
Team INEOS seal strong second in Brussels TTT
Team INEOS enjoyed a strong outing on the stage two team time trial at the Tour de France, finishing second in Brussels.
The team were first down the ramp in the Belgian capital and set an opening benchmark time of 29 minutes and 18 seconds. That marker held up well, as 20 teams tried and failed to finish quicker across a fast power course.
With the team waiting on the hot seats, it was Jumbo-Visma who crossed the line last, taking victory on the day by a margin of 20 seconds.
Despite missing out on the stage victory, the day proved to be a successful one as both Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal climbed the general classification, taking key time out of a number of contenders.
Without the benefit of knowing the time splits of their rivals, the team set a consistent pace across the course. Luke Rowe and then Wout Poels emptied the tank before pulling off, with Michal Kwiatkowski following suit on the finish straight. Thomas led the team in, flanked by Bernal, Gianni Moscon, Jonathan Castroviejo and Dylan van Baarle.
The result moves half of the team up into the top 10 overall, with Bernal and Thomas sitting 30 seconds behind continued race leader Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma).
Reaction
- Geraint Thomas
"It was quite good going off first as your judgment on how the ride went isn’t skewed by the result, but I felt it was good.
"Looking at GC, it’s a good performance, but obviously we wanted to win. I think 20 seconds [to Jumbo-Visma] is a big enough gap to know a few mistakes didn’t cost us the stage win. It was a positive day for sure.
"I have no injury issues, I was going pretty slow when I hit the barriers yesterday - I'm absolutely fine."
- Egan Bernal
"I think we did a really good TTT and it was really nice to be in the hot seat. We took some time on some good GC riders today so it was perfect for us. I felt really good in the stage - the feeling was better than last year in the TTT. I can be happy with that because I'm not a specialist and I was doing the TT with some strong guys. It was difficult but I felt good.
"I'm happy to be through these first two stages. In a Grand Tour you have to go day by day. I'm already thinking about tomorrow."
- Nicolas Portal
"Fantastic. This morning everyone was nervous. We’ve always done well in the TTT at the Tour but we’ve never won it. It’s day two so if you’re not too sure, you can lose time. We were pretty confident but you never know, and it’s a stressful day.
"At the end we’ve just been beaten by one team. We are a GC team and the guys have been working hard at climbing. They are all good time triallists but they’ve been working hard to become super climbers. So, for a climbing team, that’s a really good result."
A team victory and a team celebration 👠Une victoire en équipe, c’est aussi une célébration en équipe 👠@JumboVismaRoad #TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/L5tGn0jQmT — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) 7 luglio 2019
Tour de France #2: Team Dimension Data 14th in TTT
Team Jumbo-Visma made it 2 stages out of 2, by winning today's team time trial at the Tour de France. Team Ineos was 2nd and Deceuninck-Quickstep finished in 3rd place.
The stage 2 TTT was run over 27.6km in Brussels and it was a fast course with the top teams averaging around 57km/h for the entire route. The big GC teams were under pressure to not lose major time to any of their key rivals which made for an exciting race at the top of the leader board.
Ineos, being the first team off, held the hot seat from early on. Quickstep came close to taking the lead, within 1 second of the British team, but in the end, it was the final team to finish that would dislodge Ineos, Team Jumbo-Visma.
Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka, not expected to challenge for the top placings today, put together a fair performance to finish in 14th out of the 22 teams, 54 seconds behind the winners.
" It was 30 minutes of hell out there but actually, I think it went really well for us. We haven't done much focused TTT training together as a group but we had a plan today and we executed that plan well." - Michael Valgren
After taking the yellow jersey yesterday, and Team Jumbo-Visma winning today, Mike Teunissen retained the yellow jersey heading into tomorrow's stage 3.
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Ordine d'arrivo Cronometro a Squadre 2a tappa Tour de France
1 Team Jumbo-Visma 0:28:57
2 Team Ineos 0:00:20
3 Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:21
4 Team Sunweb 0:00:26
5 Katusha-Alpecin
6 EF Education First 0:00:28
7 CCC Team 0:00:31
8 Groupama-FDJ 0:00:32
9 Bahrain-Merida 0:00:36
10 Astana Pro Team 0:00:41
11 Mitchelton-Scott
12 Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:46
13 Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:00:53
14 Dimension Data 0:00:54
15 Lotto Soudal 0:00:59
16 UAE Team Emirates 0:01:03
17 Movistar Team 0:01:05
18 Trek-Segafredo 0:01:18
19 AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:19
20 Total Direct Energie 0:01:42
21 Team Arkea-Samsic 0:01:51
22 Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team 0:01:58
Classifica generale dopo la 3a tappa
1 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 4:51:34
2 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:00:10
3 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
4 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma
5 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma
6 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Ineos 0:00:30
7 Egan Bernal (Col) Team Ineos
8 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Ineos
9 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Ineos
10 Elia Viviani (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:31
11 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep
12 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep
13 Enric Mas (Spa) Deceuninck-QuickStep
14 Yves Lampaert (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:33
15 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:00:36
16 Rick Zabel (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
17 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
18 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
19 Lennard Kämna (Ger) Team Sunweb
20 Mads Würtz Schmidt (Den) Katusha-Alpecin
21 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
22 Søren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb
23 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Katusha-Alpecin
24 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) EF Education First 0:00:38
25 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) EF Education First
26 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education First
27 Michael Woods (Can) EF Education First
28 Tanel Kangert (Est) EF Education First
29 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:40
30 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) CCC Team 0:00:41
31 Patrick Bevin (NZl) CCC Team
32 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) EF Education First
33 Joseph Rosskopf (USA) CCC Team
34 Simon Geschke (Ger) CCC Team
35 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:42
36 Rudy Molard (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
37 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
38 Stefan Küng (Swi) Groupama-FDJ
39 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) Groupama-FDJ
40 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sunweb 0:00:45
41 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:46
42 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
43 Jan Tratnik (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
44 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
45 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) CCC Team
46 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Bahrain-Merida
47 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
48 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:50
49 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:51
50 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott
51 Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott
52 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
53 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team
54 Hugo Houle (Can) Astana Pro Team
55 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team
56 Magnus Cort Nielsen (Den) Astana Pro Team
57 Omar Fraile (Spa) Astana Pro Team
58 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
59 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Astana Pro Team
60 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:56
61 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
62 Gregor Mühlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
63 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
64 Dylan Teuns (Bel) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:59
65 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:01:00
66 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:01:03
67 Julien Simon (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits
68 Daniel Oss (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
69 Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits
70 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Cofidis Solutions Credits
71 Anthony Perez (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits
72 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Ineos
73 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Dimension Data 0:01:04
74 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data
75 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Dimension Data
76 Ben King (USA) Dimension Data
77 Stephen Cummings (GBr) Dimension Data
78 Pierre Luc Perichon (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:01:07
79 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:01:09
80 Roger Kluge (Ger) Lotto Soudal
81 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal
82 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal
83 Anthony Roux (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:01:10
84 Michael Valgren Andersen (Den) Dimension Data 0:01:12
85 Lars Bak (Den) Dimension Data
86 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:13
87 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) UAE Team Emirates
88 Sergio Henao (Col) UAE Team Emirates
89 Fabio Aru (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
90 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
91 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates
92 Daniel Martin (Irl) UAE Team Emirates
93 Sven Erik Bystrøm (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
94 Jack Haig (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:01:14
95 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:01:15
96 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team
97 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
98 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team
99 Mikel Landa (Spa) Movistar Team
100 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team
101 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Ineos 0:01:17
102 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:28
103 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
104 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo
105 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
106 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
107 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
108 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:29
109 Mathias Frank (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale
110 Tony Gallopin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
111 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
112 Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
113 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:01:32
114 Tom Scully (NZl) EF Education First
115 Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha-Alpecin 0:01:34
116 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data 0:01:39
117 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:01:40
118 Oliver Naesen (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:46
119 Lilian Calmejane (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:01:52
120 Romain Sicard (Fra) Total Direct Energie
121 Paul Ourselin (Fra) Total Direct Energie
122 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Total Direct Energie
123 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Total Direct Energie
124 Laurens De Plus (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:01:55
125 Luke Rowe (GBr) Team Ineos 0:01:58
126 Warren Barguil (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 0:02:01
127 Amael Moinard (Fra) Arkéa Samsic
128 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Arkéa Samsic
129 Florian Vachon (Fra) Arkéa Samsic
130 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Education First 0:02:02
131 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Wanty-Gobert 0:02:08
132 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty-Gobert
133 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty-Gobert
134 Odd Christian Eiking (Nor) Wanty-Gobert
135 Anthony Turgis (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:02:09
136 Michael Schär (Swi) CCC Team 0:02:10
137 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Wanty-Gobert 0:02:11
138 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:02:13
139 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:02:15
140 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
141 Frederik Backaert (Bel) Wanty-Gobert 0:02:17
142 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:02:18
143 Kevin Van Melsen (Bel) Wanty-Gobert 0:02:28
144 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team 0:02:29
145 Niccolò Bonifazio (Ita) Total Direct Energie 0:02:34
146 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) CCC Team 0:02:42
147 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 0:02:44
148 Aime De Gendt (Bel) Wanty-Gobert 0:02:49
149 Cees Bol (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:02:50
150 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb 0:02:54
151 William Bonnet (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:02:55
152 Fabien Grellier (Fra) Total Direct Energie
153 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:02:56
154 André Greipel (Ger) Arkéa Samsic 0:03:11
155 Carlos Verona (Spa) Movistar Team 0:03:13
156 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:03:15
157 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:03:17
158 Amund Grøndahl Jansen (Nor) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:03:20
159 Christopher Juul Jensen (Den) Mitchelton-Scott 0:03:25
160 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:03:36
161 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:03:56
162 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott
163 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:03:57
164 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:04:32
165 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:04:33
166 Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa) Team Ineos 0:04:41
167 Serge Pauwels (Bel) CCC Team 0:04:49
168 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:04:57
169 Ivan Garcia (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 0:05:10
170 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:05:17
171 Kevin Ledanois (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 0:05:27
172 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:05:31
173 Lukas Pöstlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:06:01
174 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin 0:06:39
175 Elie Gesbert (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 0:07:22
176 Toms Skujins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo 0:07:46