Cycling results

Cavendish wins the first stage of the Tour of Qatar in front of Kristoff and Modolo. Mörkov launched Kristoff with 200 metres to go but Kristoff was only strong enough to finish 5th ou of the 12 man group. Cavendish is starting a good Tour of Qatar after a rubbish Dubai Tour. Here are the top 20 in the stage: 1.    CAVENDISH Mark    DIMENSION DATA    03h 28' 46'' 2.    MODOLO Sacha    LAMPRE - MERIDA    + 00' 00'' 3.    GUARDINI Andrea    ASTANA PRO TEAM    + 00' 00'' 4.    BENNETT Sam    BORA-ARGON 18    + 00' 00'' 5.    KRISTOFF Alexander    TEAM KATUSHA    + 00' 00'' 6.    BOASSON HAGEN Edvald    DIMENSION DATA    + 00' 00'' 7.    VAN AVERMAET Greg    BMC RACING TEAM    + ...

Coppel wins the fina time trial and the GC. Here are the top 20 in the stage: 1    Jerome COPPEL    FRA    IAM    16:48 2    Thibaut PINOT    FRA    FDJ    14 3    Jean-Christophe PERAUD    FRA    ALM    15 4    Tony GALLOPIN    FRA    LTS    25 5    Sylvain CHAVANEL    FRA    DEN    30 6    Dries DEVENYNS    BEL    IAM    33 7    Arthur VICHOT    FRA    FDJ    33 8    Pierre-Roger LATOUR    FRA    ALM    40 9    Sander ARMEE    BEL    LTS    40 ...

Vandenbergh won the stage while Poels qon the GC. Vandenbergh attacked the peloton with 15 km. to go. With 5 to go he got away from his other companion and won the stage by a few seconds. Wouter Poels won the GC. That is Team Sky's second GC victory already!

Here are the official participants In the Touf of Qatar: TEAM KATUSHA 1    Alexander KRISTOFF    2    Sven Erik BYSTRÖM    3    Jacopo GUARNIERI    4    Marco HALLER    5    Dmitriy KOZONCHUK    6    Viacheslav KUZNETSOV    7    Michael MORKOV    8    Nils POLITT    DIMENSION DATA 11    Mark CAVENDISH    12    Edvald BOASSON HAGEN    13    Mattew BRAMMEIER    14    Mekseb DEBESAY    15    Tyler FARRAR    16    Youcef REGUIGUI    17    Mark RENSHAW    18    Jay THOMSON    TEAM GIANT-ALPECIN 2...

Madrazo wins the second last stage of the Etoile de Besseges and Chavanel keeps his yellow jersey. Here is the top 20 in the stage: 1   MADRAZO Angel Caja Rural - Seguros RGA ESP 03h35'18'' 19'' 2   SISKEVICIUS Evaldas Delko Marseille Provence KTM LTU 03h35'20'' 02'' 9'' 3   BOUVRY Dieter Roubaix Mét. Aurop. de Lille BEL 03h35'22'' 04'' 5'' 4   BRUN Frédéric Fortuneo Vital Concept FRA 03h35'25'' 07'' 2'' 5   SCOTT Jacob An Post - ChainReaction GBR 03h35'29'' 11'' 1'' 6   ROSTOLLAN Thomas Armée de Terre FRA 03h35'29 7   DUPONT Timothy Veranda`s Willems CT BEL 03h35'31'' 13'' 8   CHAVANEL Sylvain Direct Energie FRA 03h35'31 9   FEILLU Romain HP BTP - Auber93 FRA 03h35'31 10   PLANCKAERT Baptiste Wallonie Bruxelles - Group Prot BEL 03h35'31 11 15  VICHOT Arthur FDJ FRA 03h35'31 12 95  VANTOMME Maxime Roubaix Mét. Auro...

Wouter Poels beats Aru and Izagirre to win the queen stage of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. Astana isolated Poels on the final climb, where he got away from Aru, Navarro and Rosa. He stayed away and won the stage while Aru and Rosa were caught by Intxausti and Izagirre, who finished 2nd and 3rd respectively. Here are the top 20 in the stage: 1º 25 POELS, Wouter ELI TEAM SKY 03:26:32 2º 22 INTXAUSTI, Benat ELI TEAM SKY a 23 3º 15 IZAGUIRRE, Jon ELI MOVISTAR TEAM a 23 4º 41 ARU, Fabio ELI ASTANA PRO TEAM a 25 5º 86 NAVARRO, Daniel ELI COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDIT a 25 6º 44 SANCHEZ, Luis Leon ELI ASTANA PRO TEAM a 31 7º 64 FORMOLO, Davide ELI CANNONDALE PRO C.T. a 38 8º 152 FIRSANOV, Sergey ELI RUSVELO a 38 9º 67 SLAGTER, Tom Jelte ELI CANNONDALE PRO C.T. a 38 10º 17 MORENO, Javier ELI MOVISTAR TEAM a 38 11º 35 MARTIN, Daniel ELI ETIXX - QUICK STEP a 01:00 12º 13 HERRADA, Jesus ELI MOVISTAR TEAM a 01:05 13º 98 WEENING, Pieter ELI ROOMPOT - ORANJE PELOTON a 01:05 14º 43 ROSA, Diego...

Froome wins the final stage and the GC in the Herald Sun Tour. Froome attacked 16km. from the finish, only Cooper could follow him. Here are the top 20 in the stage: 1.    Christopher FROOME (SKY)    2h58:44 2.    Damien HOWSON (OGE)    17 3.    Jonathan CLARKE (UHC)    21 4.    Chris HAMILTON (AUS)    29 5.    Robbie HUCKER (AIW)    29 6.    Jack HAIG (OGE)    29 7.    Peter KENNAUGH (SKY)    32 8.    Jack BOBRIDGE (TFS)    36 9.    Anthony GIACOPPO (AIW)    41 10.    Dion SMITH (ONE)    43 11.    Lachlan NORRIS (DPC)    45 12.    Michael STORER (AUS)    48 13.    Angus LYONS (AUS)    48 ...

Kittel beats Cavendish and Viviani in the fourth stage of the Dubai Tour. As well as the stage he also got the GC victory. Kittel gave Cavendish and Vivivani no option in this stage. He has definitely come back from his illness last year. Kittel has won 2 stages and the GC, Lobato 1 and the Italian Viviani 1. Results - top 10 1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Etixx-QuickStep 02:50:47 2 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky 3 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data 4 Andrea Palini (Ita) Skydive Dubai 5 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre-Merida 6 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 7 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Etixx-QuickStep 8 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 9 Erik Baska (Svk) Tinkoff 10 Yanto Barker (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling Final General Classification 1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Etixx-QuickStep 14:46:54 2 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 00:00:04 3 Juan José Lobato (Spa) Movistar 00:00:06 4 Silvan Dillier (Swi) BMC 00:00:16 5 Gorka Izaguirre (Spa) Movistar 00:00:23 6 Philippe Gilber...

Vorganov (ex-russian champion) is caught on drugs. This is second time Katusha riders have been caught on drugs in less then a year. There will be a possible suspension for the Russian rider.

Juan José Lobato wins the third stage in the Dubai Tour. This stage finished on a 200 m. hill with a 17% average. Lobato brokeaway at the start of the hill and got away from Italian Nizzolo, who is now first in the GC. Here are the top 20 in the stage: 1    LOBATO DEL VALLE    Juan    ESP    MOVISTAR TEAM    4:13:23 2    NIZZOLO    Giacomo    ITA    TREK - SEGAFREDO    4:13:25 3    DILLIER    Silvan    SUI    BMC RACING TEAM    4:13:27 4    CANCELLARA    Fabian    SUI    TREK - SEGAFREDO    4:13:27 5    GILBERT    Philippe    BEL    BMC RACING TEAM    4:13:27 6    KITTEL    Marcel ...

Groenewegen beats Bouhanni in the third stage of the Volta a La Comunitat Valenciana. The 23 year old Groenewegen got in front if French star Bouhanni who was launched well by his team Cofidis. This is a great result for the youngster from Lotto NL Jumbo. Here are the top 20: 1º 53 GROENEWEGEN, Dylan ELI TEAM LOTTO NL - JUMBO 04:04:12 2º 81 BOUHANNI, Nacer ELI COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDIT 0 3º 2 PORSEV, Alexander ELI TEAM KATUSHA 0 4º 31 BOONEN, Tom ELI ETIXX - QUICK STEP 0 5º 95 KREDER, Raymond ELI ROOMPOT - ORANJE PELOTON 0 6º 77 VANGENECHTEN, Jonas ELI IAM CYCLING 0 7º 217 TORRES, Albert ELI SEL. ESPAÑOLA 0 8º 102 RUFFONI, Nicola ELI BARDIANI CSF 0 9º 191 FORTIN, Filippo ELI GM EUROPA OVINI 0 10º 221 BOCCHIOLA, Giorgio ELI D'AMICO BOTTACHIA 0 11º 124 PRADES, Eduard ELI CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA 0 12º 15 IZAGUIRRE, Jon ELI MOVISTAR TEAM 0 13º 62 BRESCHEL, Matti ELI CANNONDALE PRO C.T. 0 14º 134 CECCHIN, Alberto ELI TEAM ROTH 0 15º 187 MATYSIAK, Bartlomiej ELI CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE 0 16...

Jacob Murphy ( UHC) wins the sprint in the 3rd stage of the Herald Sun Tour. He finished in front of Caleb Ewan and Bonifazio. The GC stays the same as the queen stage approaches on Sunday. Here are the top 20 in the stage: 1.    John MURPHY (UHC)    3h20:52 2.    Niccolo BONIFAZIO (TFS)    0 3.    Steele VON HOFF (ONE)    0 4.    Jesse KERRISON (SOM)    0 5.    Anthony GIACOPPO (AIW)    0 6.    Caleb EWAN (OGE)    0 7.    Neil VAN DER PLOEG (AIW)    0 8.    Daniele COLLI (NIP)    0 9.    Alistair DONOHOE (AUS)    0 10.    Luke ROWE (SKY)    0 11.    Adam PHELAN (DPC)    0 12.    Robbie HUCKER (AIW)    0 13.    Kazushi...

Hosking wins the final stage in a bunch sprint while Worrack wins the General Clasiification. T.Worrack finished in front of Kasper and Van Dijk. Kristen Wild won the points jersey, Canyon-Sram Racing won the team classification and Koster won the youth jersey.

Sylvain Chavanel beats Gallopin in Etoile de Besseges. The strong breakway stayed away where Chavanel beat Gallopin in the final kilometres. Here are the top 20 in the stage: 1 42 CHAVANEL Sylvain Direct Energie FRA 03h40'06'' 14'' 2 1 GALLOPIN Tony Lotto Soudal FRA 03h40'06'' 9'' 3 15 VICHOT Arthur FDJ FRA 03h40'06'' 5'' 4 147 DELFOSSE Sébastien Wallonie Bruxelles - Group Prot BEL 03h40'06'' 5 61 COUSIN Jérôme Cofidis Solutions Crédits FRA 03h40'06'' 2'' 6 68 HARDY Romain Cofidis Solutions Crédits FRA 03h40'06'' 7 55 FERRARI BARCELO Fabricio Caja Rural - Seguros RGA URU 03h40'06'' 8 122 DASSONVILLE Flavien HP BTP - Auber93 FRA 03h40'06'' 9 115 DRON Boris Wanty - Groupe Gobert BEL 03h40'06'' 3'' 10 73 CAM Maxime Fortuneo Vital Concept FRA 03h40'06'' 11 27 DUPONT Hubert AG2R la Mondiale FRA 03h40'06'' 12...

Juan José Lobato wins the third stage in the Dubai Tour. This stage finished on a 200 m. hill with a 17% average. Lobato brokeaway at the start of the hill and got away from Italian Nizzolo, who is now first in the GC. Here are the top 20 in the stage: 1    LOBATO DEL VALLE    Juan    ESP    MOVISTAR TEAM    4:13:23 2    NIZZOLO    Giacomo    ITA    TREK - SEGAFREDO    4:13:25 3    DILLIER    Silvan    SUI    BMC RACING TEAM    4:13:27 4    CANCELLARA    Fabian    SUI    TREK - SEGAFREDO    4:13:27 5    GILBERT    Philippe    BEL    BMC RACING TEAM    4:13:27 6    KITTEL    Mar...

Caleb Ewan wins the second stage of the Herald Sun Tour. Froome and Kennaugh followed the attack made by J.Bobridge, now 3rd. But that did not stop sprinter Caleb Ewan follow them. The Australian from Orica beat them in the Sprint. Here are the top 20 in the stage: 1.    Caleb EWAN (OGE)    3h29:06 2.    Tanner PUTT (UHC)    0 3.    Peter KENNAUGH (SKY)    3 4.    Christopher FROOME (SKY)    5 5.    Jack BOBRIDGE (TFS)    5 6.    Jack HAIG (OGE)    14 7.    Niccolo BONIFAZIO (TFS)    25 8.    John MURPHY (UHC)    25 9.    Patrick SHAW (AIW)    25 10.    Fumiyuki BEPPU (TFS)    25 11.    Damien HOWSON (OGE)    25 12.    Joseph COOPER (...

Brian Coquard wins again in the second stage of Etoile de Besseges. This time he beat Pelucchi and Demare in the sprint. Here are the top 20: 1 43 COQUARD Bryan Direct Energie FRA 03h51'23'' 10'' 2 36 PELUCCHI Matteo IAM Cycling ITA 03h51'23'' 6'' 3 112 CLAEYS Dimitri Wanty - Groupe Gobert BEL 03h51'23'' 7'' 4 103 VAN LERBERGHE Bert Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise BEL 03h51'23'' 5 12 DEMARE Arnaud FDJ FRA 03h51'23'' 6 123 FEILLU Romain HP BTP - Auber93 FRA 03h51'23'' 7 113 DEMOITIE Antoine Wanty - Groupe Gobert BEL 03h51'23'' 8 46 PETIT Adrien Direct Energie FRA 03h51'23'' 9 13 DELAGE Mickaël FDJ FRA 03h51'23'' 10 165 VEREECKEN Nicolas An Post - ChainReaction BEL 03h51'23'' 11 145 PARDINI Olivier Wallonie Bruxelles - Group Prot BEL 03h51'23'' 12 185 DUPONT Timothy Veranda`s Willems CT BEL 03h51'23'' 13 151 YSSAAD Yannis ...

Elen Van Dijk wins the stage as T.Worrack gets the gold jersey. From a few kilometres in Elen Van Dijk won the stage, she was the first of four from the breakway. She attacke Kristen Wild, winner of the first stage, Handson and Koster finished second third and fourth respectively.  Worrack came in a second afterwards while the Gold Jersey wearer before the stage, Garfoot, finished the stage in the peloton, a minute behind.

Dan Martin gets his victory of the season and his victory with his team, Etixx-Quickstep. José Herrada attacked with seven kilometres to go. Team Sky, with Nieve, Kiriyenka, Poels (the leader), López, König and Intxausti, caught him down with less than a kilometre to go. Dan Martin immediately counterattacked and got away, José Herrada and Poels finished 2 seconds behind him and Poels will start the day tomorrow in blue. Here are the top 20 in the GC: Here are the top 20 in the stage: 1º 35 MARTIN, Daniel ETIXX - QUICK STEP 04:10:06 2º 13 HERRADA, Jesus MOVISTAR TEAM a 02 3º 25 POELS, Wouter TEAM SKY a 02 4º 22 INTXAUSTI, Benat TEAM SKY a 02 5º 67 SLAGTER, Tom Jelte CANNONDALE PRO CYCLING TE a 02 6º 15 IZAGUIRRE, Jon MOVISTAR TEAM a 02 7º 44 SANCHEZ, Luis Leon ASTANA PRO TEAM a 02 8º 124 PRADES, Eduard CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA a 02 9º 16 QUINTANA, Dayer MOVISTAR TEAM a 02 10º 64 FORMOLO, Davide CANNONDALE PRO CYCLING TE a 02 11º 32 JUNGELS, Bob ETIXX - QUICK STEP a 02 12º 43 ROSA, Di...

Garfoot, the Australian from Orica-Ais, won the second stage of the Women's Tour of Qatar. She made a magnificent solo effort to finish 13 seconds in front of the next group, which contained 3 top riders: Worrack, Peters and Kasper. The peloton came in a minute later. Now Garfoot is leader of the race.

Wouter Poels starts the season with victory in the prologue of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. He beat Luis León Sánchez and his team mate and time trial World Champion, Vasil Kiriyenka. He is now in front of L.L Sánchez by 14 seconds and Kiriyenka by 20 seconds.

Viviani wins the second stage in Dubai and goes first in the GC. Team Sky protected Viviani from the crashes where Kittel and Cavendish got held up. Cavendish got back to the main group but was too tired to finish above tenth place. Swift launched Viviani to win the stage. Here are the highlights of the stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLktY6hZtS0

Coquard wins the first stage of the Etoile de Bessges in France.

Kennaugh and Froome finish first and 2nd respectively in the big mountain stage in Australia. Froome attacked first and then, behind, Ke nnaugh did the same. Froome let Kennaugh win in the sprint as they are in the same team. Kennaugh will be wearing the orange jersey, Froome is 2nd 7 seconds behind and 23 seconds behind is the Aussie Dion Smith.

Kittel beats Cavendish in the first stage of Dubai. The breakaway was caught 50 km. from the end and then Etixx, his new team, protected him to the finish where he beat Cavendish, Viviani and Modolo.

The Herald Sun Tour starts tomorrow with 2 big stars, Froome and Ewan. Here are the rest of the riders riding the race: ORICA-GreenEDGE 1. Caleb Ewan (AUS) 2. Mitchell Docker(AUS) 3. Jack Haig (AUS) 4. Damien Howson (AUS) 5. Sam Bewley (NZL) 6. Christian Meier (CAN) Team Sky 11. Christopher Froome (GBR) 12. Peter Kennaugh (GBR) 13. Luke Rowe (GBR) 14. Ian Boswell (USA) 15. Sebastian Henao Gomez (COL) 16. Salvatore Puccio (ITA) Trek – Segafredo 21. Eugenio Alafaci (ITA) 22. Fumiyuki Beppu (JPN) 23. Julien Bernard (FRA) 24. Niccolo Bonifazio (ITA) 25. Laurent Didier (LUX) 26. Jack Bobridge (AUS) Drapac Professional Cycling 31. Lachlan Norris (AUS) 32. Adam Phelan (AUS) 33. Nathan Earle (AUS) 34. William Clarke (AUS) 35. Travis Meyer (AUS) 36. Thomas Scully (NZL) United Healthcare Professional Cycling Team 41. Jonathan Clarke (AUS) 42. Adrian Hegyvary (USA) 43. Tyler Magner (USA) 44. John Murphy (USA) 45. Daniel Summerhill (USA) 46. Tanner Putt (USA) Team Novo Nordisk 51. Chri...

The Dubai Tour starts in 2 days along with the Herald Sun Tour, with Froome starting, and the newly created Tour a la Comunitat Valenciana.  The Dubai tour is a flat tour held in the United Arab Emirates. Last year John Degenkolb won a stage while Cavendish won 2 stages and the GC. Viviani won a stage. The race will finish on Saturday (3-6 February). Here are all the participants:  Dimension Data 1    CAVENDISH    Mark 2    BERHANE    Natnael 3    BRAMMEIER    Matthew 4    DOUGALL    Nick 5    EISEL    Bernhard 6    JIM    Songezo 7    RENSHAW    Mark 8    TEKLEHAIMANOT    Daniel Astana 11    GUARDINI    Andrea 12    BOOM    Lars 13    DE VREESE   ...

Kristen Wild (Hitec Products) wins the first stage of the Women's Tour of Qatar. Cippolini and Lizzie Williams finished 2nd and 3rd respectively vut were bot good enough to beat the Dutchwomen Kristen Wild.

Women's Tour of Qatar's participants have come out today: HITEC PRODUCTS / NOR 1    WILD Kirsten 2    BECKER Charlotte 3    JOHNSEN Cecilie Gotaas 4    KITCHEN Lauren 5    LETH Julie 6    MOBERG Emilie WIGGLE HIGH5 / GBR 11    HOSKING Chloe 12    JOHANSSON Emma 13    KING Danielle 14    LONGO BORGHINI Elisa 15    PIETERS Amy 16    ROBERTS Amy BOELS DOLMANS CYCLINGTEAM / NED 21    VAN DIJK Eleonora 22    BLAAK Chantal 23    DE JONG Demi 24    KASPER Romy 25    MAJERUS Christine 26    PAWLOWSKA Katarzyna CANYON SRAM RACING / GER 31    WORRACK Trixi 32    BRENNAUER Lisa 33    CECCHINI Elena 34    CROMWELL Tiffany 35    GUARISCHI Barbara 36...