5a tappa Mer 10 Luglio SAINT-DIÉ-DES-VOSGES - COLMAR tappa in linea collinare 175.5 Km
Il Fenomeno é tornato!
Al Tour de France nella 5a tappa é il giorno di Peter Sagan.
© A.S.O. Photo Alec Broadway
10.07.2019 - From the flat early stages, the terrain of the Tour de France has become progressively harder as the week has gone on. Today, moving into the Vosges mountains of north-east France, the undulating 175.5 km parcours saw four categorised climbs over its distance.
Starting with the relatively easy Côte de Grendelbruch, with its 4.9% average gradient, the climbs got longer and steeper as the day went on, with the Côte des Trois-Épis the day’s hardest, with average gradients of 6.7% over its 5km distance. The finale was pan flat, but the grouping of climbs so close to the finish would exclude the pure sprinters from challenging for the stage win.
Knowing they’d be unlikely to have the sprinters chasing them down today, the break went off with a spring in their step – albeit after a few false starts. This strong quartet immediately set about building their lead, but with BORA-hansgrohe driving the pace hard in the hope of contesting the finish, the lead couldn’t even reach two minutes, falling to a little more than a minute before the team peeled off the front and the gap started to rise again – testament to the sheer power and pace of the BORA-hansgrohe riders.
After the break made their way through the intermediate sprint after 71km, Peter Sagan took second from the bunch, adding some more points to his tally. Entering the bigger climbs, Marcus Burghardt and then Lukas Pöstlberger took to the front again, reducing the gap, as the pure sprinters began to be dropped off the back of the peloton, and at the same time the break started showing signs of splintering, with one of their number attacking solo, and another being dropped on the Côte des Trois-Épis.
It was all back together with 22km remaining, and it was going to be tense with plenty of opportunities to attack on the day’s final climb. The incredibly hard pace set from the peloton, as well as headwinds, meant it was almost impossible to attack in the run-in to the finish.
The strung-out, reduced bunch knew a sprint was the likely outcome as the race dipped into the final 10km and in spite of a late attack, Gregor Mühlberger took to the front to reel them back, with the German National Champion, Maximilian Schachmann riding to protect Peter Sagan. In the twisting lead-in to the finish, Peter read the road perfectly, surfing wheels and staying in the slipstream of the other sprinters.
Exploding with a few hundred metres to go, there was absolutely no doubt who was going to take the win, the Slovak rider leaving his rivals in the dust and extending his lead in the points contest.
TOUR, VAN AERT SFIORA LA VITTORIA NELLA 5a TAPPA
Il belga si è piazzato secondo alle spalle del vincitore Sagan, rafforzando la leadership nella Classifica Giovani
Grazie all'abbuono guadagnato nella città dell'Alto Reno, Van Aert ha rafforzato la seconda posizione in classifica generale, a 14 secondi dalla maglia gialla Julian Alaphilippe e con 11" di vantaggio sul suo capitano Steven Kruijswijk e sul compagno di squadra George Bennett. Van Aert ha inoltre portato a 26" il margine su Egan Bernal nella Classifica Giovani.
Foto: 1) La volata di Wout Van Aert, a sinistra, a Colmar (Credits Bettini Photo); 2) La Oltre XR4 di Wout Van Aert.
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Colmar, July 10th - Sonny Colbrelli grabs the 4th place in the 5th stage in Colmar. A sweet and bitter result for the Italian sprinter:"I'm a little disappointed because today I felt the leg of the best days and I thought I could do a very good result. Unfortunately, the sprints with a reduced bunch can also be these and I have to thank my partner Matej Mohoric for the good job he did but, at some point, I lost him because of a shoulder push”.
"I came out of the last curve around the tenth position and then I reassembled but now the others were far away. I’m also sorry because there are not many occasions at the Tour and day by day fewer and fewer are left. Tomorrow we go uphill and I have to try to survive, but in the following stages I will definitely try again ".
Tomorrow, in fact, the 6th stage brings the first summit finish of this edition. The final haul is the steep and partly unpaved La Planche des Belles Filles, while the 160.5 kilometer route serves a total of seven climbs.
It will be the first exam for Vincenzo Nibali's ambitions for the final victory in Paris. "For us it is an important stage - explains SD Paolo Slongo - and the first real ascent after the Giro d'Italia. It will serve to better understand how Vincenzo is doing and based on the result we will understand what direction this Tour will take for him”.
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Ordine d’arrivo 5a tappa Tour de France
1 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 4:02:33
2 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma
3 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott
4 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
5 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) CCC Team
6 Julien Simon (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits
7 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb
8 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
9 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
10 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep
11 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty-Gobert
12 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data
13 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) EF Education First
14 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty-Gobert
15 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
16 Omar Fraile (Spa) Astana Pro Team
17 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
18 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
19 Warren Barguil (Fra) Arkéa Samsic
20 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott
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Classifica generale dopo 5 tappe del Tour de France
1 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep 18:44:12
2 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:00:14
3 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:00:25
4 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma
5 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:00:40
6 Egan Bernal (Col) Team Ineos
7 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Ineos 0:00:45
8 Enric Mas (Spa) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:46
9 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:50
10 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) CCC Team 0:00:51
11 Michael Woods (Can) EF Education First
12 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
13 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:52
14 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education First 0:00:53
15 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) EF Education First
16 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:56
17 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:57
18 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
19 Rudy Molard (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
20 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sunweb 0:01:00
21 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:01:01
22 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:01:06
23 Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott
24 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott
25 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team
26 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team
27 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Astana Pro Team
28 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:01:11
29 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
30 Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:01:18
31 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Cofidis Solutions Credits
32 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data 0:01:19
33 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Dimension Data
34 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal
35 Daniel Martin (Irl) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:28
36 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates
37 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:01:30
38 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
39 Mikel Landa (Spa) Movistar Team
40 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team
41 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:34
42 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:43
43 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo
44 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
45 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
46 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:44
47 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 0:01:48
48 Michael Valgren Andersen (Den) Dimension Data 0:02:00
49 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Total Direct Energie 0:02:07
50 Jack Haig (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:02:15
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