16 laps of 10 kilometers each form the route of this race which counts with some well-known hilly specialists. So, it will be interesting to see how they perform today. And with the season closing to its final, every point is crucial in order to dream with the promotion or with an accomplished season goal.
Gomes Colinas, Turano, Murphy, Sarkisov, Friedman and Coutts make the breakaway today.
Dupont, Van Avermaet, Howes and Cunha are able to join them.
Kavsek and Cioni also bridge to this group while Howes gets a gap on the same, but he would be caught shortly after.
Kenda and M&M control the race. With 100km to the finish, the gap is 4'30''.
Koren attacks with 85km to go.
And he raises to 3 the number of Starbucks riders in the front group. 56km - 3'10''.
BMC and Kenda shorten the gap to a minute and a half with 30km left to ride.
Sensing the peloton, Cunha, Coutts, Van Avermaet and Gomes Colinas attack the breakaway and form a group.
19km to go and Visconti attacks!
Kiserlovski, Vorganov and Terciado also try to escape, while some of the breakaway riders are being caught.
Time for Astarloa, Wegmann, Bru Pascal, Raisin and Saldarriaga to leave the peloton. In the front, the four recent attackers join with the other four who attacked the breakaway.
But the peloton catches everyone with 12km to go.
Well, not everyone. Vorganov and Terciado hold an advantage of 35 seconds.
In a flat part, 9km to go, Leukemans, Wegmann, Rabon and Gomes Colinas attack.
Vicioso, Efimkin, Seeldrayers and Saldarriaga attack when Gomes Colinas is being caught.
More moves! This time it's Visconti along with Kiserlovski and Astarloa.
No more climbing with 5km to go. Rabon was the strongest in the uphill and he's being directly chased by Wegmann and Efimkin.
Rabon keeps his lead but the chase has changed. After a handful of new attacks, Kiserlovski is the second in the road followed by Seeldrayers.
Behind, Efimkin is leading Wegmann, Leukemans, Astarloa, Visconti and Vicioso. Vorganov, Saldarriaga and Terciado are near.
Rabon leads in the entrance of the last two kilometers.
And he holds the lead until the finish, he wins Univest Grand Prix!
Solid second for Kiserlovski and amazing performance by Seeldrayers to take the third place (he sure benefited of the lazyness of the pursuiting group which was just following Efimkin). Wegmann is the best of the rest.
Race Classification:
1
Frantisek Rabon
Team NOS
4h32'16
2
Robert Kiserlovski
M&M Cycling
s.t.
3
Kevin Seeldraeyers
Team NOS
s.t.
4
Fabian Wegmann
BMC Racing Team
s.t.
5
Igor Astarloa
Team Energie - Diesel
s.t.
6
Aleksandr Efimkin
Kenda Pro Cycling P/B Spinergy
s.t.
7
Björn Leukemans
Kenda Pro Cycling P/B Spinergy
s.t.
8
Angel Vicioso
Team Energie - Diesel
s.t.
9
Giovanni Visconti
Team Starbucks
s.t.
10
Andres Saldarriaga
Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin
s.t.
11
Eduard Vorganov
AON Global
s.t.
12
Francisco José Terciado
Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin
s.t.
13
Mirko Lorenzetto
M&M Cycling
+ 1'12
14
Krzysztof Szczawinski
AON Global
s.t.
15
Maurizio Biondo
Team Energie - Diesel
s.t.
16
Damian Martínez
Acqua & Sapone
s.t.
17
Jackson Stewart
BMC Racing Team
s.t.
18
Eddy Ratti
Acqua & Sapone
s.t.
19
Taylor Tolleson
BMC Racing Team
s.t.
20
Yauhen Sobal
Team NOS
s.t.
21
Juan Van Heerden
AON Global
s.t.
22
Yon Bru Pascal
Acqua & Sapone
s.t.
23
Ruslan Sambris
Acqua & Sapone
s.t.
24
Martin Mares
AON Global
s.t.
25
Sébastien Duret
AON Global
s.t.
26
Andrei Kunitski
M&M Cycling
s.t.
27
Hubert Dupont
AON Global
s.t.
28
Dario David Cioni
Acqua & Sapone
s.t.
29
Gustavo Veloso
Team Energie - Diesel
s.t.
30
Massimo Iannetti
M&M Cycling
s.t.
31
Saul Raisin
Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News
s.t.
32
Kristjan Koren
Team Starbucks
s.t.
33
André Vital
Team Energie - Diesel
s.t.
34
Tom Stamsnijder
Team NOS
s.t.
35
Fabio Ciccarese
Team Starbucks
s.t.
36
Luca Paolini
Kenda Pro Cycling P/B Spinergy
s.t.
37
André Cardoso
Team Energie - Diesel
s.t.
38
Markus Fahnert
Team Starbucks
s.t.
39
Edwin Parra Bustamante
M&M Cycling
s.t.
40
Gerben Löwik
Kenda Pro Cycling P/B Spinergy
s.t.
41
Rob Ruijgh
Team NOS
s.t.
42
Kenny De Ketele
Kenda Pro Cycling P/B Spinergy
s.t.
43
Ruslan Grychenko
Kenda Pro Cycling P/B Spinergy
s.t.
44
Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha
Team Energie - Diesel
s.t.
45
Thomas Peterson
BMC Racing Team
s.t.
46
Alex Howes
BMC Racing Team
s.t.
47
Dominique Rollin
Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News
s.t.
48
Sergey Sarkisov
Team Ultra Adventure Pro Cycling - Sponsored by Hello Kitty
s.t.
49
John Murphy
Acqua & Sapone
s.t.
50
Hesham Abdelmotelb
Team Ultra Adventure Pro Cycling - Sponsored by Hello Kitty
s.t.
51
Pablo Urtasun
Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin
s.t.
52
Raúl Turano
Team Starbucks
s.t.
53
Bruno Lima
Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin
s.t.
54
Victor Gomes Colinas
Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin
s.t.
55
Sébastien Minard
Team Starbucks
s.t.
56
Jonathan Page
Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News
s.t.
57
Tiziano Dall'Antonia
Kenda Pro Cycling P/B Spinergy
s.t.
58
Dadley Corwin
Acqua & Sapone
s.t.
59
Cherif Abdallah
AON Global
s.t.
60
Rik Kavsek
Team Starbucks
s.t.
61
Bruno Neves
Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin
s.t.
62
Davronjan Shatskikh
M&M Cycling
+ 2'37
63
Jonathan Tiernan-Locke
Accumalux-Huez
s.t.
64
Behnam Khalilikhosroshani
Team Ultra Adventure Pro Cycling - Sponsored by Hello Kitty
s.t.
65
Marek Rutkiewicz
M&M Cycling
s.t.
66
Alex Coutts
Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News
s.t.
67
Kazuo Inoue
Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News
+ 3'36
68
Mike Friedman
BMC Racing Team
s.t.
69
Daan Rijntjes
Team NOS
s.t.
70
Yves Da Luz
Team Ultra Adventure Pro Cycling - Sponsored by Hello Kitty
s.t.
71
Scott Nydam
BMC Racing Team
+ 4'15
72
Greg Van Avermaet
Team NOS
+ 4'58
73
Jeremy Powers
Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News
s.t.
74
Evgeny Wacker
Team Ultra Adventure Pro Cycling - Sponsored by Hello Kitty
+ 6'00
75
Couliball Moussavou
Team Ultra Adventure Pro Cycling - Sponsored by Hello Kitty
+ 6'23
76
Ananias Ananias
Accumalux-Huez
s.t.
77
Peter Williams
Accumalux-Huez
s.t.
78
Kristian House
Accumalux-Huez
s.t.
79
Javier Benitez
Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin
+ 9'34
80
Bolderdene Boldbaatar
Team Ultra Adventure Pro Cycling - Sponsored by Hello Kitty