Rohan Dennis wins Eneco Tour time trial
Rohan Dennis of BMC was the fastest on second stage of the 12th Eneco Tour, on a day when the riders powered their time machines in the first of two chronos, the second being a team time trial on Friday. Dennis pulled on the white and red leader’s jersey as well as earning the triumph.
A lot was expected of Tom Dumoulin, who won chronos in three consecutive Grand Tours from the 2015 Vuelta a España to this season’s Tour de France. But the Dutchman came up 20-seconds short of Dennis.
However, another rider from the Netherlands, Jos van Emden of LottoNL-Jumbo, became the second fastest rider at +0:05. World Champion Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus/Sky) somehow missed his start time and threw a bottle in anger. It turned out there might have been a reason for that.
Although Jon Izagirre couldn’t set a time faster than 11:07, his German teammate Jasha Sütterlin roared into third place with 11:02.
ENECO Tour 2016 – stage 2 results (Breda ITT):
| 1 | Rohan Dennis (BMC) |
0:10:48 |
| 2 | Jos Van Emden (LottoNl-Jumbo) |
+05” |
| 3 | Jasha Sütterlin (Movistar) |
+14” |
| 4 | Wilco Kelderman (LottoNl-Jumbo) |
+15” |
| 5 | Matthias Brandle (IAM) |
,, |
| 6 | Primoz Roglic (LottoNl-Jumbo) |
+16” |
| 7 | Taylor Phinney (BMC) |
,, |
| 8 | Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) |
+17” |
| 9 | Marcel Kittel (Etixx – Quick-Step) |
,, |
| 10 | Alex Dowsett (Movistar) |
+18” |
General classification after stage 2:
| 1 | Rohan Dennis (BMC) |
4:24:48 |
| 2 | Jos Van Emden (LottoNl-Jumbo) |
+05” |
| 3 | Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) |
+13” |
| 4 | Jasha Sütterlin (Movistar) |
+14” |
| 5 | Wilco Kelderman (LottoNl-Jumbo) |
+15” |
| 6 | Matthias Brandle (IAM) |
,, |
| 7 | Taylor Phinney (BMC) |
+16” |
| 8 | Primoz Roglic (LottoNl-Jumbo) |
,, |
| 9 | Marcel Kittel (Etixx – Quick-Step) |
+17” |
| 10 | Alex Dowsett (Movistar) |
+18” |
