Schlagwort-Archive: Victor Lafay

110. Tour de France Etappe2

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Vitoria-Gasteiz – San Sébastián – 209 Km

1 LAFAY Victor FRA COFIDIS 04:46:39
2 VAN AERT Wout BEL JUMBO-VISMA 00:00
3 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:00
4 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 00:00
5 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 00:00
6 JENSEN Skjelmose Mattias DEN LIDL – TREK 00:00
7 WOODS Michael CAN ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 00:00
8 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 00:00
9 TEUNS Dylan BEL ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 00:00
10 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 00:00
11 CRAS Steff BEL TOTALENERGIES 00:00
12 CICCONE Giulio ITA LIDL – TREK 00:00
13 BETTIOL Alberto ITA EF EDUCATION – EASYPOST 00:00
14 BENOOT Tiesj BEL JUMBO-VISMA 00:00
15 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 00:00

Gesamt:

1 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 09:09:18
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:06
3 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 00:06
4 LAFAY Victor FRA COFIDIS 00:12
5 VAN AERT Wout BEL JUMBO-VISMA 00:17
6 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 00:16
7 WOODS Michael CAN ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 00:22
8 JENSEN Skjelmose Mattias DEN LIDL – TREK 00:22
9 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 00:22
10 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 00:22
11 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 00:22
12 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 00:22
13 KELDERMAN Wilco NED JUMBO-VISMA 00:22
14 TEUNS Dylan BEL ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 00:43
15 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 00:43
16 CRAS Steff BEL TOTALENERGIES 00:43
17 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 00:43
18 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 00:43

Jai Hindley und Emanuel Buchmann beenden die zweite schwere Tour-de-France-Etappe in der ersten Gruppe der Favoriten

Eine zweite schwere Etappe im Baskenland wartete heute auf das Feld der Tour. Mit dem Jaizkibel nur 15 km vor dem Ziel wurde ein weiterer Schlagabtausch der Favoriten erwartet. Eine frühe Fluchtgruppe war auch heute chancenlos. Als letzter Fahrer wurde N. Powless etwa drei Kilometer vor der letzten Bergwertung gestellt. Eine Gruppe von ca. 25 Fahrern machte sich dann auf den Weg Richtung San Sebastian und Emanuel Buchmann versuchte sein Glück mit einer Attacke etwa 6 km vor dem Ende. Doch es war V. Lafay der am Ende den Sieg mit einem Angriff auf den letzten 1000 m einfahren konnte. Jai und Emu erreichten das Ziel sicher und zeitgleich in der ersten Gruppe.

Von der Ziellinie
„Es war wieder ein harter und stressiger Tag. Die Jungs haben mich wieder sehr gut unterstützt und Jordi hat mich einmal zurückgebracht, als ich einen Schuh wechseln musste. Wir haben den letzten Anstieg in sehr guter Position in Angriff genommen und dort war das Tempo wieder sehr hart. Auch die Fans waren wieder unglaublich. Ich habe mich gut gefühlt, bin aber konservativ gefahren. Auch am Ende ging es für mich nur darum, keine Zeit zu verlieren. Morgen sollte es die erste Chance für Jordi geben, und ich hoffe, wir können vorne mitmischen.“ – Jai Hindley

“Die ersten beiden harten Tage sind rum und wir können zufrieden sein. Die Etappe heute war wieder sehr technisch und das Team hat sehr gut für Jai gearbeitet und wir konnten Stürze vermeiden. Am Jaizkibel hatten wir noch Bob und Emu bei ihm. Bob war im ersten Teil wichtig, um die Position zu verteidigen, aber es war auch sehr gut, dass Emu im Finale in der Gruppe war. Es war klar, dass es wenig Chancen gibt, da Jumbo-Visma kontrolliert hat. Emu hat es einmal versucht, als Bilbao eingeholt wurde, aber am Ende sind wir konservativ gefahren. Wir sind nun in einer sehr guten Position und die kommenden beiden Tage müssen wir Jai aus Schwierigkeiten raushalten. Aber natürlich werden wir auch Jordi in den Sprints unterstützen.” – Rolf Aldag, Sportlicher Leiter

Victor Lafay maintains French tradition in San Sebastian

Victor Lafay escaped from the group of the favourites one kilometre before the end to deliver the stage victory the Cofidis team waited for fifteen year – since Sylvain Chavanel outclassed Jérémy Roy in Montluçon in 2008. Lafay maintained the tradition of French stage wins in San Sebastian after Louis Caput in 1949 and Dominique Arnould in 1992. Third on the line, Tadej Pogacar gained four seconds of time bonus while Adam Yates retained the yellow jersey.

POWLESS, BOASSON HAGEN AND CAVAGNA IN THE LEAD

174 riders started stage 2 in Vitoria-Gasteiz at 12.32. One non-starter: Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost). Three riders managed to go clear at km 8, firstly Edvald Boasson Hagen (TotalEnergies) and Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost), joined secondly by Rémi Cavagna (Soudal-Quick Step). The maximum time gap of 4’55’’ was recorded at km 68 as Vegard Stake Laengen was pulling the bunch for UAE Team Emirates until his team-mate Mikkel Bjerg took over. The peloton was 2’30’’ adrift and it was raining when Mark Cavendish got dropped in a non-categorized climb with 83km to go. Cavagna could no longer hold the pace in the ascent to Alkiza where Powless mathematically secured his polka dot jersey at km 140.9. All the riders dropped got back to the pack with 57km to go as they followed Cavendish’s servant Gianni Moscon.

POGACAR FIRST AT JAIZKIBEL

With 40km to go, the deficit of the peloton was down to two minutes. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Ben O’Connor (AG2R-Citroën) crashed 37km before the end but got back to the pack pretty quickly. With 36km to go, Powless distanced Boasson Hagen and continued solo en route to the Jaizkibel, the main difficulty of the main located 16.5km away from the finishing line. The American had 1’30’’ lead at the bottom of 8-km long climb. He was reeled in 2.5km before the summit and it was all together again with 19.5km remaining. Pogacar won the bonus point atop the Jaizkibel before Vingegaard while Simon Yates crested in third position. Pogacar and Vingegaard went away in the downhill but were brought back by the reduced yellow jersey group with 12km to go.

LAFAY SOLOES AT THE FLAMME ROUGE

Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) rode away solo at the end of the downhill. He was reeled in with 5.5km to go by 25 riders. Jumbo-Visma led the group until Victor Lafay (Cofidis) attacked with 1km to go. The Frenchman fended off the riders sprinting behind him to beat Wout van Aert and claim his first Tour de France stage win, two years after he imposed himself in a stage of the Giro d’Italia as well.

Arctic Race of Norway Etappe 3+4

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3. Etappe: Namsos – Skallstuggu – 180 Km

1 LAFAY Victor FRA COFIDIS 04:09:29
2 VAUQUELIN Kévin FRA TEAM ARKÉA-SAMSIC 00:03
3 HOULE Hugo CAN ISRAEL-PREMIER TECH 00:03
4 BYSTRØM Sven Erik NOR INTERMARCHÉ-WANTY-GOBERT 00:03
5 HAGEN Carl Fredrik NOR ISRAEL-PREMIER TECH 00:03
6 HERMANS Quinten BEL INTERMARCHÉ-WANTY-GOBERT 00:03
7 OSBORNE Jason GER ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 00:03
8 SCHULTZ Nick AUS TEAM BIKEEXCHANGE-JAYCO 00:03
9 CHZHAN Igor KAZ ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 00:03
10 CONCI Nicola ITA ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 00:09

4. Etappe: Trondheim – 160 Km

1 LEKNESSUND Andreas NOR TEAM DSM 03:30:26
2 CONCI Nicola ITA ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 00:16
3 ZINGLE Axel FRA COFIDIS 00:18
4 POOLE Max GBR TEAM DSM 00:18
5 HOULE Hugo CAN ISRAEL-PREMIER TECH 00:20
6 HERMANS Quinten BEL INTERMARCHÉ-WANTY-GOBERT 00:35
7 BURGAUDEAU Mathieu FRA TOTALENERGIES 00:35
8 SBARAGLI Kristian ITA ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 00:35
9 BAX Sjoerd NED ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 00:35
10 KORETZKY Victor FRA B&B HOTELS-KTM 00:35

Endstand:

1 LEKNESSUND Andreas NOR TEAM DSM 16:11:32
2 HOULE Hugo CAN ISRAEL-PREMIER TECH 00:08
3 CONCI Nicola ITA ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 00:09
4 ZINGLE Axel FRA COFIDIS 00:14
5 LAFAY Victor FRA COFIDIS 00:15
6 VAUQUELIN Kévin FRA TEAM ARKÉA-SAMSIC 00:22
7 POOLE Max GBR TEAM DSM 00:23
8 HERMANS Quinten BEL INTERMARCHÉ-WANTY-GOBERT 00:26
9 HAGEN Carl Fredrik NOR ISRAEL-PREMIER TECH 00:28
10 BAX Sjoerd NED ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 00:35

Unforgettable victory in home soil for Andreas Leknessund

Team DSM’s Andreas Leknessund pulled off a masterpiece he will never forget to win the final stage and the GC of the 2022 Arctic Race of Norway. The Norwegian rider went clear from the peloton with a hundred kilometres to go and proved to be the strongest in the final circuit of Trondheim, holding off all the attempts to bring him back and landing a solo victory that subsequently awarded him the overall win ahead of Hugo Houle (Israel-PremierTech) and Nicola Conci (Alpecin-Deceuninck). It’s the first time a Norwegian rider triumphs in this event since the victory of Thor Hushovd on its first edition, back in 2013.
108 riders took the start on the 4th stage of the 2022 Arctic Race of Norway, which began and finished in Trondheim after covering 159,1 kilometres, at 14:20. One DNS: Intermarché-Wanty Gobert’s Sven Eryk Bystrøm, who fell ill overnight and sat out of the race giving up his hard-earned 4th position on the GC. It was a hectic start, with many moves as all of the event’s prizes and honors were undecided or straight away up for grabs, as the 400 liters of Mack Brewery products awarded to the winner of the first intermediate sprint in Spongdal (IS, km 26). Israel-Premier Tech led out, yet former GC leader Axel Zingle (Cofidis) proved the fastest of the contenders and took three important bonus seconds ahead of Quinten Hermans (Intermarché-Wanty Gobert) and Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-Samsic), who closed in to Midnight Sun jersey wearer Victor Lafay (Cofidis) by two and one seconds respectively.

Three-man breakaway up the road
Virtually every rider from every team wanted to break away, and that made for a thrilling first hour of racing until Andreas Leknessund (Team DSM), Fabian Greiller (TotalEnergies) and Alessandro Verre (Arkéa-Samsic) managed to jump clear 65 kilometres into the stage. The trio build a buffer that reached 2’15” atop Løvset (Cat 2, km 78,7), first crowned by Greiller. Cofidis drove the bunch to keep the gap steady as Leknessund led the way through Ståggån (Cat 2, km 101,9).

Leknessund takes off
It was with 37 kilometres to go that the riders entered the final circuit in Trondheim: a 8,1-kilometre loop with a steep climb to Tylhot Tower (1,4 km at 7,7%) to be crested 5,8 kilometres from the finish line. As soon as the road pitched upwards, Leknessund took off from his companions to reach the summit of Tylhot Tower (Cat 2, km 128,9) solo, holding a 1’10” gap on a bunch where attacks began to take place. A three-man group with Martin Urianstad (Uno-X), Embret Svestad-Bardseng (Team Coop) and Thomas Gloag (Trinity Racing) went clear atop the climb and caught up with Verre and Greiller after the second crossing of the finish line with 24 kilometres to go. They were quickly swept up by the pack when the race finally took shape.

Alpecin-Deceuninck comes close as Cofidis loses its lead
Nicola Conci (Alpecin-Deceuninck) unfurled a ferocious acceleration to pass the summit of the second climb to Tylhot Tower (Cat 2, km 137) second to Leknessund, who was still leading the race with a 45-second buffer. The Italian rider was joined from behind by teammates Jason Osborne and Kristian Sbaragli, as well as by Hugo Houle (Israel-Premier Tech), Dries de Potter (Intermarché-Wanty Gobert), Axel Zingle (Cofidis) and Max Poole (Team DSM). The Alpecin-Deceuninck squad kept a fast tempo as Leknessund collected KOM points in Tylhot Tower (Cat 2, km 145,2) and bonus seconds on the third and fourth crossing of the finish line. Conci took off again up the final climb to Tylhot Tower (Cat 2, km 137) in a furious pursuit of Leknessund, who managed to keep him at bay. Behind, Lafay, Vauquelin and Hermans took on a late chase with the Midnight Sun jersey in mind that turned out unfruitful as all of them finished off the podium for the benefit of Conci, Houle… and the outstanding overall winner Leknessund.

Giro d’Italia – Etappe 8

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Foggia – Guardia Sanframondi (170 km)

1 Victor Lafay (Fra) Cofidis 4:06:47
2 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Eolo – Kometa Cycling Team 0:00:36
3 Nikias Arndt (GER) Team DSM 0:00:37
4 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team 0:00:41
5 Giovanni Carboni (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizanè 0:00:44
6 Kobe Goossens (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00:58
7 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Team Qhubeka ASSOS 0:01:00
8 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R Citroën Team 0:01:54
9 Fernando Gaviria Rendon (Col) UAE Team Emirates 0:03:04
10 João Almeida (Por) Deceuninck – Quick-Step 0:04:48
11 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) Astana – Premier Tech 0:04:48
12 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:04:48
13 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Deceuninck – Quick-Step 0:04:48
14 Gianni Moscon (Ita) INEOS Grenadiers 0:04:48
15 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain Victorious 0:04:48

Gesamtwertung
1 Attila Valter (Hun) Groupama – FDJ 31:10:53
2 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Deceuninck – Quick-Step 0:00:11
3 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) INEOS Grenadiers 0:00:16
4 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) Astana – Premier Tech 0:00:24
5 Hugh Carthy (GBr) EF Education – Nippo 0:00:38
6 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain Victorious 0:00:39
7 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek – Segafredo 0:00:41
8 Daniel Martin (Irl) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:00:47
9 Simon Yates (GBr) Team BikeExchange 0:00:49
10 Louis Vervaeke (Bel) Alpecin – Fenix 0:00:50
11 Davide Formolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:55
12 Daniel Felipe Martinez Poveda (Col) INEOS Grenadiers 0:01:06
13 Marc Soler Gimènez (Esp) Movistar Team 0:01:14
14 Romain Bardet (Fra) Team DSM 0:01:14
15 Emanuel Buchmann (GER) BORA – hansgrohe 0:01:40

Emanuel Buchmann beendet die 8. Etappe des Giro d’Italia mit der Favoritengruppe, während Ausreißer den Sieg holen

Eine 173 km lange Etappe und rund 3,000 Höhenmeter waren heute auf der südlichsten Etappe des Giros zu bewältigen. Nach dem Start in Foggia führte die Strecke über hügeliges Terrain bis 50 km vor dem Ziel der 20 km lange Anstieg nach Bocca della Selvaes und kurz vor dem Ziel der Schlussanstieg nach Guardia Sanframondi warteten. Auf der heutigen Strecke hatte eine Ausreißergruppe gute Chancen auf den Sieg und nach mehreren erfolglosen Versuchen gelang es letztlich einer neunköpfigen Gruppe sich vom Feld zu lösen. Das Peloton ließ die Flüchtlinge ziehen und die Gruppe konnte zwischenzeitlich einen Vorsprung von mehr als 7 Minuten herausfahren. Am Ende konnte die Spitze nicht mehr gestellt werden und V. Lafay rollte als Erster der Ausreißergruppe über die Ziellinie. Emanuel Buchmann war bester BORA – hansgrohe Fahrer, der das Ziel mit der Gruppe von GC-Favoriten erreichte, und jetzt den 15. Platz in der Gesamtwertung belegt.

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„Es war von Anfang an eine hektische Etappe mit viel Seitenwind aber wir waren immer vorne mit dabei und nachdem sich die Ausreißergruppe gebildet hatte, war es ein ziemlich kontrolliertes Rennen. Ich hatte gute Unterstützung, meine Teamkollege brachten mich vor dem letzten Anstieg in eine sehr gute Position und ich kam mit der Gruppe von Favoriten ins Ziel. Ich bin auch zufrieden damit, wie ich mich heute fühlte, bei dem guten Wetter ging alles doch viel besser. Jetzt müssen wir sehen, was in den nächsten Tagen passiert.“ – Emanuel Buchmann

„Heute haben wir uns auf Emu konzentriert. Wir wussten auch, dass es auf dieser Etappe eine gute Chance gab, dass die Spitzengruppe durchkommen würde, und so haben wir versucht, mit mehreren Fahrern in die Ausreißergruppe zu gehen. Leider hat das heute nicht geklappt. Aber am Ende konnte Emu mit den Besten des Gesamtklassements das Ziel erreichen und hat keine Zeit verloren.“ – Jens Zemke, Sportlicher Leiter

Campenaerts 7th after impressive breakaway effort on stage 8 of Giro d’Italia

Guardia Sanframondi, 15 May 2021 – A brave, fighting performance from Victor Campenaerts saw the Belgian take a strong seventh position on the uphill finish to Guardia Sanframondi on stage 8 of the Giro d’Italia.
The stage was won by Victor Lafay (Cofidis) ahead of Francesco Gavazzi (Eolo-Kometa) while Attila Valter (FDJ) retained the race lead overall.
On a day where the fight to get into the breakaway was particularly brutal, and saw numerous attempts by our own riders to make it, a group of eight riders eventually made their escape after approximately 55km. Campenaerts, as he’d promised prior to the start, refused to miss out and time-trialed his way to bridging the gap in the main move of the day.
After joining the leaders, the gap to the peloton rapidly stretched and looked likely that he the stage-winner would come from the breakaway. Campenaerts duly played his part and then safely navigated the long descent ahead of the climb to the finish before launching an attack of his own with about 7km to go.
Campenaerts was joined by Giovanni Carboni in the late surge for glory but the efforts of the day took their toll on the final climb and Campenaerts then gamely hung on for an excellent seventh place overall.

Victor Campenaerts
[On bridging the gap] It was terrible, really really terrible. I tried a few times to get in before we had a small climb and then I suffered a lot to get over the climb and then the breakaway went for free in the downhill.
I was not so happy to see that so I thought to let’s try and get there but they didn’t wait for me and the peloton was also chasing at that point with Bora. So that was my time trial of the day, early on in the stage when nobody was watching television!
I knew it would be very, very hard to win the stage with an uphill finish because I am not really a climber but I managed to get into a successful break and I also tried to do some sort of a final to try and escape before we hit the climb, I put a lot of effort into that for only 10 seconds.

Hendrik Redant – Sports Director
It was very strong performance from Victor today and he spent a huge amount of energy just to get into the break, as there were already eight guys in the front. It was really hard to close the gap at that point as there was already a lot of speed there and he really had to go fast.
He was riding to win today. We were planning on making an attack with about 20km to go as we knew the last climb was not going to be easy against Lafay and Gavazzi but we rode to win, he tried and got away a few times but at the end that last climb killed him off.
It was a great effort from Victor, sad we couldn’t win it and compliments to the winner and his team. A performance like this for the team is good for the morale of the team.