Tour of California 2016 – Stage 8 [FULL STAGE]
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Sacramento - Sacramento - 136,5 km
Sacramento - Sacramento - 136,5 km
After a week of falling short,
Mark Cavendish and his
Dimension Data teammates finally timed it right on the final stage of the
Amgen Tour of California, taking out the bunch sprint in Sacramento over
Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) and
Alexander Kristoff (Katusha).
Julian Alaphilippe (Etixx-Quickstep) sealed the overall victory after a taxing week by 21 seconds over
BMC's
Rohan Dennis and 43 seconds on
Brent Bookwalter.
Sagan sealed the points classification, while
Evan Huffman (
Rally Cycling) held onto the mountains classification that he led from the second stage.
Neilson Powless (
Axeon Hagens Berman) held onto the best young rider's classification, finishing ninth overall.
Cavendish had to freelance has way to the head of affairs after his Dimension Data teammates used themselves up to bring back a breakaway that made it onto the finishing circuits.
"The break got a second wind at the end," he said. "They pulled away because they were really, really strong, and we had to use the guys up to bring them back.
"Tinkoff went to the front, and they weren't going that fast, to be honest," he said. "So we had to go up and catch the break. We either use up the lead out to catch the break or we don't catch them. So it was just everyone committing to catch them, and then I had to freestyle. I knew I had to be on
Peter's wheel. He had [
Adam] Blythe with him so I knew he'd be in the best position.
And I just went from there really."
Alaphilippe said the win was important to him because it is his first of the season and the first general classification win of his professional career.
"So it's really something special to win this race, especially here in
California," he said of the race he lost by just three seconds last year. "I'm proud of my team all week, and especially today, because it was a really stressful day for the riders in the peloton.
Everybody wanted to be in the front without losing time for the GC riders. It was a good day and I'm really, really happy."
Results :
1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data 3:01:12
2 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff
Team
3 Alexander Kristoff (Nor)
Team Katusha
4
Danny van Poppel (Ned) Team Sky
5
John Degenkolb (Ger)
Team Giant-Alpecin
6
Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
7
Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux)
BMC Racing Team
8
Maximiliano Richeze (Arg)
Etixx - Quick-Step
9
Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
Final General classification :
1 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Etixx - Quick-Step 31:47:50
2 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:00:21
3 Brent Bookwalter (
USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:43
4
Andrew Talansky (USA)
Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:00:52
5
Lawson Craddock (USA) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:01:22
6
Samuel Sanchez (Spa) BMC Racing Team
7
George Bennett (NZl) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:01:50
8
Jurgen Van Den Broeck (
Bel) Team Katusha 0:01:53
9 Neilson Powless (USA) Axeon Hagens Berman 0:01:57
10
Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:02:13