May 20/17 18:20 pm - Tour of California: Stage 7 and FInal GC
Posted by Editoress on 05/20/17
The final day of racing at the 2017 Amgen Tour of California was nothing like a parade. George Bennett (LottoNL-Jumbo) faced many attacks from his GC rivals, led by Rafal Majka (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Andrew Talansky (Cannondale-Drapac). But the Kiwi climber made it to the finish in a reduced bunch to celebrate his biggest win to date. At the front, Rally Cycling managed to upset the sprinters once again with a second breakaway victory for Evan Huffman this week.
Evan Huffman (Rally Cycling): "I actually felt pretty bad this morning. But it was our plan to go for the breakaway and upset the sprinters. I’m quite in disbelief to be able to win two stages here, especially like that. I knew Lopez was gonna go for it so with two kilometres I decided to sit in his wheel. We started sprinting early, it was kind of a slow-motion sprint. And I was able to outmuscle him. "
George Bennett (LottoNL-Jumbo): «"This is really really special. Yesterday I was in disbelief and then it had time to sink in last night. It was pain, then I was happy, then pain again… Talansky must have attacked me ten times today. The guys made it a very hard race. It was relieving to cross the line. It gives me a lot of confidence but it’s not like I’m going for the Yellow Jersey at the Tour de France now. It’s a big step from here. I gotta keep my feet on the ground. "
Top Canadian on thhe stage was Rob Britton (Rally Cycling), finishing 5th at the same time at the winner. Britton was also the top Canadian in GC finishing 26th at 17:07.
Results from the seventh and final stage in California
| Stage 7: Mtn High Ski Area to Pasadena, 125 km | |
| 1 Evan Huffman (USA) Rally Cycling | 2:37:28 |
| 2 David Lopez (Esp) Team Sky | |
| 3 Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | |
| 4 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data | |
| 5 Rob Britton (Can) Rally Cycling | all s.t. |
| 6 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe | 0:22 |
| 7 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 8 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 9 Ben King (USA) Dimension Data | |
| 10 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 11 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team | |
| 12 Luis Angel Mate (Esp) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | |
| 13 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb | |
| 14 Michael Schär (Sui) BMC Racing Team | |
| 15 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Team Sky | |
| 16 Andrew Talansky (USA) Cannondale-Drapac | |
| 17 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe | |
| 18 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 19 Janier Acevedo (Col) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | |
| 20 Daan Olivier (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | |
| 21 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | |
| 22 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 23 Haimar Zubeldia (Esp) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 24 George Bennett (NZl) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | |
| 25 Nathan Brown (USA) Cannondale-Drapac | |
| 26 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky | |
| 27 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | |
| 28 Samuel Sanchez (Esp) BMC Racing Team | all s.t. |
| 29 Floris De Tier (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | 0:35 |
| 30 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Sunweb | 0:39 |
| 31 Rúben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 32 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Quick-Step Floors | 0:53 |
| 33 Travis McCabe (USA) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | |
| 34 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 35 Matti Breschel (Den) Astana Pro Team | |
| 36 Colin Joyce (USA) Rally Cycling | |
| 37 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 38 Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned) Team Sunweb | |
| 39 Jacob Rathe (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | |
| 40 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data | |
| 41 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb | |
| 42 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team | |
| 43 Michael Morkov (Den) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 44 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac | |
| 45 Koen De Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 46 Kristijan Durasek (Cro) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 47 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | |
| 48 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe | |
| 49 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 50 Jay McCarthy (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe | all s.t. |
| 51 Enric Mas (Esp) Quick-Step Floors | 0:59 |
| 52 Greg Henderson (NZl) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | |
| 53 David Lozano (Esp) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| 54 Serghei Tvetcov (Rom) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | |
| 55 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 56 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky | |
| 57 Matteo Dal-Cin (Can) Rally Cycling | |
| 58 Mathias Leturnier (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | |
| 59 Martin Elmiger (Sui) BMC Racing Team | all s.t. |
| 60 Danny Pate (USA) Rally Cycling | 1:02 |
| 61 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 62 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | |
| 63 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) BMC Racing Team | |
| 64 Scott Thwaites (GBr) Dimension Data | |
| 65 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | |
| 66 Federico Zurlo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 67 Tom Bohli (Sui) BMC Racing Team | |
| 68 Daniel Eaton (USA) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | all s.t. |
| 69 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | 1:07 |
| 70 Nick Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data | |
| 71 Gavin Mannion (USA) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | |
| 72 Javier Megias (Esp) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| 73 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe | all s.t. |
| 74 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Dimension Data | 1:10 |
| 75 Daniel Jaramillo (Col) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 76 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky | 1:17 |
| 77 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Team Sky | 1:32 |
| 78 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Team Sky | 1:36 |
| 79 Jack Bauer (NZl) Quick-Step Floors | 1:37 |
| 80 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Quick-Step Floors | 2:25 |
| 81 Sepp Kuss (USA) Rally Cycling | 2:30 |
| 82 Truls Korsaeth (Nor) Astana Pro Team | 2:46 |
| 83 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo | 3:49 |
| 84 Brendan Canty (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac | 3:55 |
| 85 Alexey Vermeulen (USA) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | |
| 86 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | |
| 87 Miles Scotson (Aus) BMC Racing Team | |
| 88 Yoann Bagot (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | |
| 89 Jordan Cheyne (Can) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | all s.t. |
| 90 Sean Bennett (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | 9:20 |
| 91 Jonathan Clarke (Aus) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | 10:21 |
| 92 Joonas Henttala (Fin) Team Novo Nordisk | 11:39 |
| 93 Marco Mathis (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 94 Gregory Daniel (USA) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 95 Romain Gioux (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| 96 Joshua Berry (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | |
| 97 Christopher Williams (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| 98 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb | |
| 99 Jonas van Genechten (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | |
| 100 Martin Velits (Svk) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 101 Geoffrey Soupe (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | |
| 102 Floris Gerts (Ned) BMC Racing Team | |
| 103 Ruslan Tleubayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | |
| 104 Rick Zabel (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 105 Ben Wolfe (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | |
| 106 Marko Kump (Slo) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 107 Arman Kamyshev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | |
| 108 Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| 109 Michal Kolár (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe | |
| 110 Juraj Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe | |
| 111 Markel Irizar (Esp) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 112 Roy Curvers (Ned) Team Sunweb | |
| 113 Daniil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | |
| 114 Adam de Vos (Can) Rally Cycling | |
| 115 Ulises Alfredo Castillo Soto (Mex) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | |
| 116 Tanner Putt (USA) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | |
| 117 Mads Würtz Schmidt (Den) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 118 Tyler Farrar (USA) Dimension Data | |
| 119 Lawson Craddock (USA) Cannondale-Drapac | all s.t. |
| 120 Filippo Ganna (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 11:51 |
| 121 Yousif Mirza Alhammadi (UAE) UAE Team Emirates | 13:27 |
| DNF Taylor Phinney (USA) Cannondale-Drapac | |
| DNF Wouter Wippert (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac | |
| Final GC | |
| 1 George Bennett (NZl) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | 22:54:38 |
| 2 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe | at 0:35 |
| 3 Andrew Talansky (USA) Cannondale-Drapac | 0:36 |
| 4 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team | 0:45 |
| 5 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky | 1:00 |
| 6 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) UAE Team Emirates | 1:54 |
| 7 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data | 1:55 |
| 8 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Team Sky | 2:12 |
| 9 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb | 2:15 |
| 10 Haimar Zubeldia (Esp) Trek-Segafredo | 3:14 |
| 11 Luis Angel Mate (Esp) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 3:38 |
| 12 Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 3:39 |
| 13 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | 3:53 |
| 14 Enric Mas (Esp) Quick-Step Floors | 4:27 |
| 15 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors | 4:50 |
| 16 Samuel Sanchez (Esp) BMC Racing Team | 5:15 |
| 17 Janier Acevedo (Col) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | 6:09 |
| 18 David Lopez (Esp) Team Sky | 6:18 |
| 19 Serghei Tvetcov (Rom) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | 7:11 |
| 20 Michael Schär (Sui) BMC Racing Team | 7:46 |
| 21 Ben King (USA) Dimension Data | 8:52 |
| 22 Nathan Brown (USA) Cannondale-Drapac | 11:44 |
| 23 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin | 12:59 |
| 24 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe | 13:22 |
| 25 Greg Henderson (NZl) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | 14:02 |
| 26 Rob Britton (Can) Rally Cycling | 17:07 |
| 27 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | s.t. |
| 28 Sepp Kuss (USA) Rally Cycling | 17:48 |
| 29 Javier Megias (Esp) Team Novo Nordisk | 18:17 |
| 30 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin | 18:49 |
| 31 Scott Thwaites (GBr) Dimension Data | 20:33 |
| 32 Gavin Mannion (USA) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | 21:30 |
| 33 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Team Sky | 22:42 |
| 34 Adam de Vos (Can) Rally Cycling | 23:00 |
| 35 Floris De Tier (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | 23:40 |
| 36 Daan Olivier (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | 23:47 |
| 37 Jay McCarthy (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe | 24:42 |
| 38 Mathias Leturnier (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 25:50 |
| 39 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe | 28:08 |
| 40 Brendan Canty (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac | 28:28 |
| 41 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Sunweb | 30:23 |
| 42 Evan Huffman (USA) Rally Cycling | 30:36 |
| 43 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac | 31:09 |
| 44 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | 31:15 |
| 45 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin | 31:47 |
| 46 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 35:07 |
| 47 Matteo Dal-Cin (Can) Rally Cycling | 39:36 |
| 48 Jack Bauer (NZl) Quick-Step Floors | 39:37 |
| 49 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data | 41:44 |
| 50 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Team Sky | 44:07 |
| 51 Nick Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data | 44:30 |
| 52 Alexey Vermeulen (USA) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | 44:31 |
| 53 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb | 44:36 |
| 54 Matti Breschel (Den) Astana Pro Team | 44:51 |
| 55 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | 45:21 |
| 56 Kristijan Durasek (Cro) UAE Team Emirates | 45:34 |
| 57 Tom Bohli (Sui) BMC Racing Team | 45:41 |
| 58 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | 45:45 |
| 59 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 45:50 |
| 60 Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned) Team Sunweb | 46:10 |
| 61 Yoann Bagot (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 46:12 |
| 62 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin | 46:20 |
| 63 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky | 46:32 |
| 64 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | 46:37 |
| 65 Daniel Jaramillo (Col) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | 46:41 |
| 66 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Quick-Step Floors | 47:04 |
| 67 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo | 47:54 |
| 68 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) BMC Racing Team | 48:13 |
| 69 Koen De Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo | 48:16 |
| 70 Jordan Cheyne (Can) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | 48:18 |
| 71 Daniel Eaton (USA) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | 48:19 |
| 72 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 73 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team | 48:38 |
| 74 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky | 48:58 |
| 75 Martin Elmiger (Sui) BMC Racing Team | 49:27 |
| 76 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Quick-Step Floors | 49:37 |
| 77 Jacob Rathe (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | 50:01 |
| 78 Michael Morkov (Den) Katusha-Alpecin | 50:08 |
| 79 Geoffrey Soupe (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 50:22 |
| 80 Danny Pate (USA) Rally Cycling | 51:05 |
| 81 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo | 51:10 |
| 82 Travis McCabe (USA) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | 51:43 |
| 83 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo | 51:47 |
| 84 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | 52:33 |
| 85 Rúben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo | 54:52 |
| 86 Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk | 55:50 |
| 87 Miles Scotson (Aus) BMC Racing Team | 56:18 |
| 88 Truls Korsaeth (Nor) Astana Pro Team | 56:25 |
| 89 Roy Curvers (Ned) Team Sunweb | 56:28 |
| 90 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Dimension Data | 56:38 |
| 91 Sean Bennett (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | 57:02 |
| 92 Rick Zabel (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin | 57:37 |
| 93 Markel Irizar (Esp) Trek-Segafredo | 57:46 |
| 94 Joonas Henttala (Fin) Team Novo Nordisk | 57:55 |
| 95 Colin Joyce (USA) Rally Cycling | 59:00 |
| 96 Ruslan Tleubayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | 59:09 |
| 97 Joshua Berry (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | 59:11 |
| 98 Tanner Putt (USA) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 99 David Lozano (Esp) Team Novo Nordisk | 59:25 |
| 100 Jonathan Clarke (Aus) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team | 59:59 |
| 101 Federico Zurlo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 1:00:11 |
| 102 Michal Kolár (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe | 1:00:17 |
| 103 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb | 1:02:03 |
| 104 Jonas van Genechten (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 1:02:05 |
| 105 Mads Würtz Schmidt (Den) Katusha-Alpecin | 1:03:57 |
| 106 Gregory Daniel (USA) Trek-Segafredo | 1:04:00 |
| 107 Marko Kump (Slo) UAE Team Emirates | 1:04:16 |
| 108 Floris Gerts (Ned) BMC Racing Team | 1:04:24 |
| 109 Filippo Ganna (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 1:04:25 |
| 110 Daniil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | 1:04:41 |
| 111 Yousif Mirza Alhammadi (UAE) UAE Team Emirates | 1:04:48 |
| 112 Juraj Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe | 1:06:30 |
| 113 Lawson Craddock (USA) Cannondale-Drapac | 1:09:16 |
| 114 Arman Kamyshev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | 1:10:59 |
| 115 Ulises Alfredo Castillo Soto (Mex) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | 1:12:07 |
| 116 Marco Mathis (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin | 1:12:44 |
| 117 Ben Wolfe (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis | 1:13:17 |
| 118 Christopher Williams (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk | 1:15:12 |
| 119 Romain Gioux (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk | 1:16:27 |
| 120 Martin Velits (Svk) Quick-Step Floors | 1:16:32 |
| 121 Tyler Farrar (USA) Dimension Data | 1:16:49 |
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