Remco Evenepoel focused on the Algarve ITT

Remco Evenepoel focused on the Algarve ITT

After a day in the mountains, the Volta ao Algarve returned close to the coast for a day with bumpy roads, at the end of which the sprinters were expected to fight for the win. Following the new familiar pattern, a group rode away from the peloton and remained at the front of the race until 15 kilometers to go, when they were reeled in.

Just like in the previous years, the bunch sprint in Tavira was very messy, a crash disrupting the lead-out trains inside the last kilometers before the headwind complicated matters for the fast men, most of whom were by themselves after that incident. The win went to Wout Van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike), while Remco Evenepoel – having escaped the crash – rolled over the line together with most of his Soudal Quick-Step teammates.

Now, the ITT World Champion will switch his attention to Saturday’s 22.2km stage against the clock, which has the potential to bring some significant changes to the general classification. At the moment, Evenepoel sits just four seconds behind the leader of the race, and a solid outing on the roads of Albufeira could move him into the yellow jersey ahead of the iconic finish atop Alto do Malhão.

Race details

1 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
4:50:57
2 Rui Oliveira
UAE Team Emirates
0:00
3 Marius Mayrhofer
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:00
4 Gerben Thijssen
Intermarché - Wanty
0:00
5 Stefan Bissegger
EF Education - EasyPost
0:00
6 Rasmus Tiller
Uno-X Mobility
0:00
7 Jasper Stuyven
Lidl - Trek
0:00
8 Magnus Cort Nielsen
Uno-X Mobility
0:00
9 Yevgeniy Fedorov
Astana Qazaqstan Team
0:00
10 Santiago Mesa Pietralunga
Efapel Cycling
0:00
39 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
69 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
75 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
101 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
115 Pieter Serry
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
135 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
0:07
146 Warre Vangheluwe
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
1 Daniel Felipe Martínez Poveda
BORA - hansgrohe
14:23:11
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:04
3 Sepp Kuss
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:12
4 Sergio Higuita García
BORA - hansgrohe
0:16
5 Jan Tratnik
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:18
6 Thomas Pidcock
INEOS Grenadiers
0:18
7 Tao Geoghegan Hart
Lidl - Trek
0:18
8 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:22
9 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
0:23
10 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
0:23
30 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
2:25
48 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
4:27
79 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
10:27
111 Pieter Serry
Soudal Quick-Step
16:41
141 Warre Vangheluwe
Soudal Quick-Step
24:58
1 Gerben Thijssen
Intermarché - Wanty
38 pt
2 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
29 pt
3 Rui Oliveira
UAE Team Emirates
28 pt
4 Marius Mayrhofer
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
16 pt
5 Jordi Meeus
BORA - hansgrohe
16 pt
6 Daniel Felipe Martínez Poveda
BORA - hansgrohe
15 pt
7 Lars Boven
Alpecin - Deceuninck
13 pt
8 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
12 pt
9 Jasper Stuyven
Lidl - Trek
12 pt
10 Sepp Kuss
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
10 pt
26 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
27 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
1 Daniel Felipe Martínez Poveda
BORA - hansgrohe
10 pt
2 German Nicolás Tivani Pérez
Aviludo - Louletano - Loulé Concelho
8 pt
3 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
8 pt
4 Aleksandr Grigorev
Efapel Cycling
7 pt
5 Tomas Contte
Aviludo - Louletano - Loulé Concelho
7 pt
6 Andreas Leknessund
Uno-X Mobility
6 pt
7 Sepp Kuss
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
6 pt
8 Martin Urianstad Bugge
Uno-X Mobility
6 pt
9 Carlos Miguel Salgueiro
5 pt
10 Sergio Higuita García
BORA - hansgrohe
4 pt
15 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
1 António Morgado
UAE Team Emirates
14:23:41
2 Jan Christen
UAE Team Emirates
0:02
3 Magnus Sheffield
INEOS Grenadiers
0:52
4 Jaume Guardeño Roma
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
3:49
5 Enzo Paleni
Groupama - FDJ
5:02
6 Isaac del Toro Romero
UAE Team Emirates
5:50
7 Per Strand Hagenes
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
7:09
8 Pavel Bittner
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
12:15
9 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
12:15
10 Alexandre Montez
Credibom / LA Alumínios / Marcos Car
16:50
1 BORA - hansgrohe 43:10:35
2 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 0:08
3 INEOS Grenadiers 1:01
4 UAE Team Emirates 1:40
5 Soudal Quick-Step 1:51
6 Astana Qazaqstan Team 2:43
7 EF Education - EasyPost 2:47
8 Lidl - Trek 5:52
9 Uno-X Mobility 6:15
10 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 9:21

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