TOUR OF BRITAIN: A CALEB EWAN LA KERMESSE FINALE, A CUMMINGS LA CLASSIFICA

Il britannico Steve Cummings porta a casa la 24a edizione del Tour of Britain, secondo successo in carriera in una corsa a tappe del corridore in maglia Dimension Data, conquistato senza vittorie di tappe nel giorno dell’unico arrivo in salita. Dietro di lui hanno chiuso ad una trentina di secondi Dennis e Dumoulin, staccati tra di loro di 12″ e protagonisti negli ultimi giorni della lotta per il secondo posto della classifica, vinta dall’australiano con un colpo a sorpresa nella penultima tappa, sulla carta favorevole ai velocisti. Non si sono registrate “improvvisate”, invece, nella conclusiva tappa di Londra, conquista allo sprint dal giovane “canguro” Caleb Ewan

La Kermesse londinese, classico appuntamento di chiusura del Tour of Britain, ha visto la vittoria di Caleb Ewan. L’australiano della Orica-BikeExchange si è imposto su Dylan Groenewegen (LottoNL) e Jens Debusschere (Lotto Soudal. Piccole soddisfazioni anche per i corridori italiani con Elia Viviani (Sky) 5°, Nicola Ruffoni e Paolo Simion (Bardiani), nono e decimo.
La classifica generale ovviamente non ha subito ripercussioni dall’esito dell’ultima tappa, anche perchè non ci sono state scaramucce tra l’australiano Rohan Dennis e l’olandese Tom Dumoulin, rispettivamente 2° e 3° con un scarto tra di loro di appena 12″ secondi, a differenza di quanto accaduto il giorno prima a Bristol dove, al termine di un’altra tappa destinata agli sprinter, l’australiano era riuscito ad evadere nel finale e ad intascare proprio 12″, 6″ di distacco reale e altrettanti d’abbuono. Dal canto suo, si trovava nella classica “botte di ferro” il britannico Steven Cummings, che ha così conquistato la sua seconda corsa a tappe della carriera dopo il Giro del Mediterraneo del 2014. Il portacolori della Dimension Data, leader della corsa dal giorno dell’arrivo in salita all’altopiano di Dartmoor, venerdì scorse, si impone precedendo rispettivamente di 26″ e 38″ i due “litiganti” Dennis e Dumoulin. Il migliore degli italiano è Jacopo Mosca (Trek – Segafredo), 10° a 2’32”.

Mario Prato

ORDINE D’ARRIVO

1 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 2:09:24
2 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
3 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal
4 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
5 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky
6 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal
7 Daniel McLay (GBr) Great Britain
8 Steele Von Hoff (Aus) ONE Pro Cycling
9 Nicola Ruffoni (Ita) Bardiani CSF
10 Paolo Simion (Ita) Bardiani CSF
11 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
12 Roy Curvers (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
13 Russell Downing (GBr) JLT Condor
14 Rick Zabel (Ger) BMC Racing Team
15 Dylan Van Baarle (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac
16 Jack Bauer (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac
17 Stephen Cummings (GBr) Dimension Data
18 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Etixx – Quick-Step
19 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert
20 Ryan Mullen (Irl) Cannondale-Drapac
21 Nicolas Vereecken (Bel) An Post-Chainreaction
22 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sky
23 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
24 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal
25 Jacopo Mosca (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
26 Oliver Wood (GBr) Great Britain
27 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty – Groupe Gobert
28 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Sky
29 Domingos Gonçalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
30 Julien Vermote (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step
31 Emiel Wastyn (Bel) An Post-Chainreaction
32 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Great Britain
33 Steven Lampier (GBr) JLT Condor
34 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
35 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Etixx – Quick-Step
36 Dion Smith (NZl) ONE Pro Cycling
37 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team
38 Ruben Zepuntke (Ger) Cannondale-Drapac
39 Erick Rowsell (GBr) Madison Genesis
40 Mark Christian (GBr) Team WIGGINS
41 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:00:10
42 Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team
43 Mark Stewart (GBr) Great Britain
44 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
45 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data
46 Alistair Slater (GBr) JLT Condor 0:00:18
47 Edoardo Zardini (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:00:21
48 Diego Rubio (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
49 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:00:26
50 Peter Williams (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling 0:00:31
51 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Orica-BikeExchange 0:00:33
52 Hector Saez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:00:37
53 Jorge Arcas Pena (Spa) Movistar Team
54 Mathew Cronshaw (GBr) Madison Genesis
55 Eugenio Alafaci (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
56 Jochem Hoekstra (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
57 Wouter Poels (Ned) Team Sky
58 Edmund Bradbury (GBr) NFTO
59 Daniel Martin (Irl) Etixx – Quick-Step
60 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:00:46
61 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Orica-BikeExchange 0:00:48
62 Marco Marcato (Ita) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:00:49
63 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:00:54
64 Mark McNally (GBr) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:01:01
65 Taylor Karl Gunman (NZl) Madison Genesis
66 Dale Appleby (GBr) NFTO
67 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
68 Paul Martens (Ger) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
69 Bertjan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
70 Thomas Leezer (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
71 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Team Sky 0:01:09
72 Loic Vliegen (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:01:14
73 Miguel Angel Benito (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
74 Thomas Moses (GBr) JLT Condor
75 Robert Partridge (GBr) NFTO
76 Damien Shaw (Irl) An Post-Chainreaction
77 Jonathan McEvoy (GBr) NFTO 0:01:22
78 Alessandro Tonelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF
79 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:01:26
80 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Team WIGGINS
81 Owain Doull (GBr) Team WIGGINS
82 Hayden McCormick (NZl) ONE Pro Cycling
83 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Wanty – Groupe Gobert
84 Nicola Boem (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:01:30
85 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Dimension Data 0:01:34
86 Jacob Scott (GBr) An Post-Chainreaction 0:01:37
87 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Sky 0:01:38
88 Ian Bibby (GBr) NFTO
89 Adam Blythe (GBr) Great Britain
90 Marco Coledan (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:42
91 Conor Dunne (Irl) JLT Condor 0:02:20
92 Thomas Stewart (GBr) Madison Genesis
93 Javier Moreno (Spa) Movistar Team 0:02:37
94 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team 0:03:07
95 Tony Martin (Ger) Etixx – Quick-Step
96 Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data 0:03:11
97 Johann Van Zyl (RSA) Dimension Data
98 Kristian House (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling 0:03:12
99 Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:03:14
100 James Shaw (GBr) Lotto Soudal
101 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 0:03:17
102 Alexander Edmondson (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 0:03:19
103 Karol Domagalski (Pol) ONE Pro Cycling 0:03:20
104 Robert Power (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 0:03:31
105 Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:05:02
106 Oliver Ket-Spark (Aus) An Post-Chainreaction
107 Jasper Bovenhuis (Ned) An Post-Chainreaction
108 Gabriel Cullaigh (GBr) Great Britain
109 Matthew Holmes (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:05:53
110 Daniel Pearson (GBr) Team WIGGINS
111 Liam Stones (GBr) NFTO 0:05:54

CLASSIFICA GENERALE

1 Stephen Cummings (GBr) Dimension Data 31:30:45
2 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:00:26
3 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:00:38
4 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal 0:01:02
5 Dylan Van Baarle (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac 0:01:21
6 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sky 0:01:26
7 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:01:48
8 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Sky 0:01:52
9 Julien Vermote (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:02:12
10 Jacopo Mosca (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:02:32
11 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:02:52
12 Mark Christian (GBr) Team WIGGINS 0:04:02
13 Daniel Martin (Irl) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:05:10
14 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Great Britain 0:05:23
15 Erick Rowsell (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:05:41
16 Dion Smith (NZl) ONE Pro Cycling 0:06:10
17 Steven Lampier (GBr) JLT Condor 0:07:05
18 Domingos Gonçalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:08:11
19 Edoardo Zardini (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:08:15
20 Ruben Zepuntke (Ger) Cannondale-Drapac 0:08:42
21 Edmund Bradbury (GBr) NFTO 0:09:32
22 Russell Downing (GBr) JLT Condor 0:09:54
23 Jack Bauer (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac 0:11:04
24 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:11:35
25 Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:12:39
26 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:12:50
27 Marco Marcato (Ita) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:13:59
28 Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team 0:15:23
29 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:16:19
30 Diego Rubio (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:16:20
31 Loic Vliegen (Bel) BMC Racing Team
32 Wouter Poels (Ned) Team Sky 0:16:52
33 Nicolas Vereecken (Bel) An Post-Chainreaction 0:17:32
34 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:17:58
35 Jochem Hoekstra (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:18:15
36 Thomas Stewart (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:18:29
37 Alistair Slater (GBr) JLT Condor 0:19:55
38 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Orica-BikeExchange 0:20:04
39 Nicola Boem (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:21:03
40 Javier Moreno (Spa) Movistar Team 0:21:32
41 Daniel Pearson (GBr) Team WIGGINS 0:22:23
42 Hector Saez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:24:25
43 Peter Williams (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling 0:26:20
44 Paul Martens (Ger) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:26:31
45 Tony Martin (Ger) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:27:51
46 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:28:37
47 Bertjan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:28:46
48 Robert Power (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 0:28:58
49 Jorge Arcas Pena (Spa) Movistar Team 0:28:59
50 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:31:38
51 Mark Stewart (GBr) Great Britain 0:31:48
52 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:32:16
53 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) Team Sky 0:32:23
54 James Shaw (GBr) Lotto Soudal 0:33:18
55 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:35:19
56 Miguel Angel Benito (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:35:43
57 Daniel McLay (GBr) Great Britain 0:36:10
58 Jacob Scott (GBr) An Post-Chainreaction 0:37:10
59 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Sky 0:38:09
60 Roy Curvers (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:38:31
61 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:39:10
62 Gabriel Cullaigh (GBr) Great Britain 0:39:16
63 Ian Bibby (GBr) NFTO 0:39:50
64 Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:40:08
65 Karol Domagalski (Pol) ONE Pro Cycling 0:40:17
66 Matthew Holmes (GBr) Madison Genesis 0:40:39
67 Steele Von Hoff (Aus) ONE Pro Cycling 0:40:50
68 Rick Zabel (Ger) BMC Racing Team 0:41:01
69 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Orica-BikeExchange 0:41:11
70 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:43:41
71 Thomas Leezer (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:44:47
72 Eugenio Alafaci (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:44:51
73 Alessandro Tonelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:45:59
74 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 0:46:32
75 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:47:47
76 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Dimension Data 0:48:09
77 Paolo Simion (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:49:27
78 Mark McNally (GBr) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:49:38
79 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:51:07
80 Ryan Mullen (Irl) Cannondale-Drapac 0:53:20
81 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:53:37
82 Marco Coledan (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:54:17
83 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data 0:55:46
84 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:56:06
85 Thomas Moses (GBr) JLT Condor 0:56:24
86 Adam Blythe (GBr) Great Britain 0:56:34
87 Nicola Ruffoni (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:56:47
88 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team 0:57:37
89 Hayden McCormick (NZl) ONE Pro Cycling 0:57:57
90 Johann Van Zyl (RSA) Dimension Data 0:58:17
91 Jonathan McEvoy (GBr) NFTO 1:00:09
92 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data 1:00:10
93 Oliver Wood (GBr) Great Britain 1:02:04
94 Robert Partridge (GBr) NFTO 1:02:10
95 Dale Appleby (GBr) NFTO 1:02:23
96 Damien Shaw (Irl) An Post-Chainreaction 1:07:01
97 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 1:07:16
98 Conor Dunne (Irl) JLT Condor 1:09:40
99 Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data 1:11:12
100 Taylor Karl Gunman (NZl) Madison Genesis 1:12:13
101 Oliver Ket-Spark (Aus) An Post-Chainreaction 1:13:12
102 Jasper Bovenhuis (Ned) An Post-Chainreaction 1:16:01
103 Owain Doull (GBr) Team WIGGINS 1:17:32
104 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky 1:18:10
105 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Team WIGGINS 1:19:04
106 Liam Stones (GBr) NFTO 1:19:56
107 Mathew Cronshaw (GBr) Madison Genesis 1:20:33
108 Kristian House (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling 1:23:21
109 Alexander Edmondson (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 1:24:38
110 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 1:34:28
111 Emiel Wastyn (Bel) An Post-Chainreaction 1:37:37

Sul podio di Londra il 35enne britannico Cummings guarda in alto, quasi a voler puntare prossimamente ad una nuova, prestigiosa affermazione (foto Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)