BMC wins the team time trial in Eneco Tour
BMC lived up their status as the favourites in the team time trial on stage 5 of the Eneco Tour as the American formation beat Etixx-QuickStep in a close battle.
Arriving at the finish with all 8 riders, they stopped the clock in 23’11” to go six seconds faster than Etixx-QuickStep while LottoNL-Jumbo was a massive 23 seconds behind in a distant third place. Rohan Dennis is back in the leader’ jersey with a 16-second advantage over teammate Taylor Phinney as Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) slips to fourth, 27 seconds off the pace.
Sagan will get his first chance in tomorrow’s stage 6 which is the hilliest of the race. The riders will head into the Ardennes where they will face a long series of climbs in the final 100km. However, the final challenge comes with 18km to g and from there it is a mainly flat run to the finish where the riders will face a final kilometre that is slightly uphill at an average gradient of 3%.
Eneco Tour 2016 – stage 5 results (Sittard-Geleen TTT):
| 1 | BMC Racing Team |
0:23:11 |
| 2 | Etixx-QuickStep |
+06” |
| 3 | LottoNL-Jumbo |
+23” |
| 4 | Movistar |
+25” |
| 5 | IAM Cycling |
+26” |
| 6 | Lotto Soudal |
+29” |
| 7 | Giant-Alpecin |
+33” |
| 8 | Tinkoff |
+34” |
| 9 | Team Sky |
+38” |
| 10 | FDJ |
+40” |
General classification after stage 5:
| 1 | Rohan Dennis (BMC) |
13:40:47 |
| 2 | Taylor Phinney (BMC) |
+16” |
| 3 | Tony Martin (Etixx-QuickStep) |
+24” |
| 4 | Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) |
+27” |
| 5 | Niki Terpstra (Etixx-QuickStep) |
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| 6 | Jos van Emden (LottoNL-Jumbo) |
+28” |
| 7 | Manuel Quinziato (BMC) |
+29” |
| 8 | Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) |
+33” |
| 9 | Bob Jungels (Etixx-QuickStep) |
+36” |
| 10 | Marcel Kittel (Etixx-QuickStep) |
+37” |
