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Bos takes final stage in Tour of Denmark, Gerrans wins overall

by Bjorn Haake at 12:07 PM EST   comments
Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results
 
Big stage win for Australian, double Herald Sun Tour winner

simon gerransTheo Bos (Rabobank) prevented Sacha Modolo from taking his third stage win at this year's Tour of Denmark. The Dutchman was fastest on the final stage, beating Modolo and Manuel Belletti (both Colnago - CSF Inox). Double Herald Sun Tour winner Simon Gerrans (Sky) took the biggest stage win of his career by taking a nine-second win over Daniele Bennati (Leopard Trek).

Rabobank's day didn't start well when Matti Breschel, who had held the leader's jersey after stage two for a day, decided not to participate in the final stage. Bos took over. "The most important in top sports is winning," directeur sportif Jan Boven said on the team's website.

Rabobank was committed to Breschel for the overall, but that plan fell to pieces when the Danish rider lost almost two minutes in the 13.2km stage-five time trial, apparently suffering from sickness. "The team worked very hard this week to get Matti in a good position for the time trial and then it can be all over after such a disappointment," Boven said. He added that the win by Bos rewarded the hard work they had put in.

Breschel did stay out of the saddle on Sunday. "It wasn't good Saturday night and it looked like he was developing a fever," Boven said. "It doesn't clear everything up, as for that his time trial was really too bad. But it explains it a bit so that I can better understand his declarations made yesterday."

Boven was satisfied with his team in the Danish Tour."We came here with two ambitions. We wanted to win a stage and we wanted to get a good overall result. We got 50 percent of that," Boven said.

The Sky team was even happier with the overall win by Gerrans. "It's a really good result," Sports Director Marcus Ljungqvist said. "A very nice win for Simon and for the team. Like always without the help of the team it is difficult to pull something off, so it was great to see."

With only an eight-second lead, the overall was not decided on the final day, thanks to the time bonuses. "It was full-on bike racing from the start today. They had to fight for it and work hard to get the intermediate sprint. It was a perfect one for us. Simon nipped in front of Bennati and took a bit of his morale I think."

Still, the virtual lead on the road was just that - virtual. "Bennati could have still won the race with the 10-second bonus on the line so it wasn't over until the finish. The rest of the team they did a great job, supporting and taking care of Simon, making sure he was in position at all times," Ljungqvist said.

The situation was a bit complicated for Gerrans. "There was a lot of talk before about who would do what," Ljungqvist said. "We would have done the same and try to control it until the first sprint and try and get the seconds which is exactly what Leopard Trek wanted to do." It came down to the wire and Bennati is a man who can win bunch sprints. But his 11th place was far enough away from the victory and the ten bonus seconds that Gerrans could ride in relaxed in 24th spot.


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Tour of Denmark (2.HC) Stage 6 Results: Hillerød to Frederiksberg (162.4km)

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Country Result Name Team Time
ned NED 1 Theo Bos (Rabobank) 03:27:51
ita ITA 2 Sacha Modolo (Colnago-CSF Inox) s.t.
ita ITA 3 Manuel Belletti (Colnago-CSF Inox) s.t.
bel BEL 4 Gorik Gardeyn (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
ita ITA 5 Angelo Furlan (Christina Watches-Onfone) s.t.
ita ITA 6 Daniele Colli (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
fra FRA 7 Adrien Petit (Cofidis) s.t.
fra FRA 8 Sébastien Turgot (Europcar) s.t.
ita ITA 9 Alberto Ongarato (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
den DEN 10 Casper Degn Larsen () s.t.
ita ITA 11 Daniele Bennati (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
ita ITA 12 Matteo Pelucchi (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
ita ITA 13 Davide Appollonio (Team Sky) s.t.
aus AUS 14 Christopher Sutton (Team Sky) s.t.
ita ITA 15 Andrea Piechele (Colnago-CSF Inox) s.t.
slo SLO 16 Jure Kocjan (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) s.t.
esp ESP 17 Oscar Gomez Freire (Rabobank) s.t.
den DEN 18 Kasper Jebjerg (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) s.t.
den DEN 19 Rolf Broge () s.t.
den DEN 20 Sebastian Lander (Team Concordia Forsinkring - Himmerland) s.t.
ita ITA 21 Davide Vigano (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
den DEN 22 Daniel Foder Holm (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) s.t.
gbr GBR 23 Daniel Lloyd (Garmin-Cervelo) s.t.
aus AUS 24 Simon Gerrans (Team Sky) s.t.
den DEN 25 Niki Ostergaard (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) s.t.
ned NED 26 Martijn Verschoor (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) s.t.
bel BEL 27 Stijn Joseph (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t.
den DEN 28 Michael Morkov (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
ned NED 29 Bert-jan Lindeman (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
bel BEL 30 Zico Waeytens (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t.
gbr GBR 31 Russell Downing (Team Sky) s.t.
gbr GBR 32 Jeremy Hunt (Team Sky) s.t.
den DEN 33 Asbjørn Andersen () s.t.
den DEN 34 Kasper Larsen Klostergaard (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
fra FRA 35 Sébastien Chavanel (Europcar) s.t.
ned NED 36 Wouter Mol (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
den DEN 37 Christian Rasmus Quaade (Team Concordia Forsinkring - Himmerland) s.t.
den DEN 38 Troels Ronning Vinther (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) s.t.
den DEN 39 Andre Steensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
den DEN 40 Jesper Hansen (Energi Fyn) s.t.
gbr GBR 41 Roger Hammond (Garmin-Cervelo) s.t.
den DEN 42 Jesper Odgaard Nielsen (Christina Watches-Onfone) s.t.
den DEN 43 Thomas Nybo Riis () s.t.
gbr GBR 44 Alex Dowsett (Team Sky) s.t.
fra FRA 45 Damien Gaudin (Europcar) s.t.
ita ITA 46 Dario Cioni (Team Sky) s.t.
bel BEL 47 Sven Jodts (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t.
den DEN 48 Thomas Guldhammer (Team Concordia Forsinkring - Himmerland) s.t.
fra FRA 49 Jean-eudes Demaret (Cofidis) s.t.
fra FRA 50 Mathieu Claude (Europcar) s.t.
fra FRA 51 Tristan Valentin (Cofidis) s.t.
nor NOR 52 Kurt-asle Arvesen (Team Sky) s.t.
can CAN 53 David Veilleux (Europcar) s.t.
ita ITA 54 Andrea Pasqualon (Colnago-CSF Inox) s.t.
rus RUS 55 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
fra FRA 56 Jérôme Cousin (Europcar) s.t.
ned NED 57 Pim Ligthart (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
fra FRA 58 Laszlo Bodrogi (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) s.t.
ita ITA 59 Santo Anza (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
den DEN 60 Brian Vandborg (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
den DEN 61 Chris Anker Sorensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
swe SWE 62 Gustav Erik Larsson (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
den DEN 63 Mikkel Mortensen (Team Bonnat 91) s.t.
ita ITA 64 Sonny Colbrelli (Colnago-CSF Inox) s.t.
den DEN 65 Lasse Bochman (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) s.t.
den DEN 66 Christopher Juul-jensen (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) s.t.
den DEN 67 Nikola Aistrup (Team Concordia Forsinkring - Himmerland) s.t.
den DEN 68 Rene Joergensen (Christina Watches-Onfone) s.t.
fra FRA 69 Remi Cusin (Cofidis) s.t.
sui SUI 70 Noe Gianetti (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
aus AUS 71 Richie Porte (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
ned NED 72 Jetse Bol (Rabobank Continental Team) s.t.
ita ITA 73 Marcello Pavarin (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
ger GER 74 Grischa Niermann (Rabobank) s.t.
ita ITA 75 Andrea Grendene (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) s.t.
den DEN 76 Michael Reihs (Christina Watches-Onfone) s.t.
est EST 77 Kalle Kriit (Cofidis) s.t.
ita ITA 78 Alessandro Bazzana (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) s.t.
fra FRA 79 Romain Delalot (Cofidis) 00:00:16
den DEN 80 Jakob Fuglsang (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
den DEN 81 Michael Rasmussen (Christina Watches-Onfone) s.t.
den DEN 82 Kasper Linde Jorgensen (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) s.t.
aus AUS 83 Benjamin King (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) s.t.
rus RUS 84 Maxim Belkov (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
ita ITA 85 Tomas Alberio (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
den DEN 86 Benjamin Justesen () s.t.
den DEN 87 Anders Lund (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
ita ITA 88 Marco Corti (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
den DEN 89 Martin Mortensen (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
bel BEL 90 Arthur Vanoverberghe (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t.
den DEN 91 Rasmus Guldhammer (Team Concordia Forsinkring - Himmerland) s.t.
bel BEL 92 Steven Van Vooren (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t.
ned NED 93 Steven Kruijswijk (Rabobank) s.t.
slo SLO 94 Aldo Ino Ilesic (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) s.t.
bel BEL 95 Preben Van Hecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t.
aut AUT 96 Matthias Brandle (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:00:25
usa USA 97 Joe Eldridge (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) s.t.
den DEN 98 Mads Christensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
ned NED 99 Pieter Weening (Rabobank) 00:00:28
aus AUS 100 Cameron Meyer (Garmin-Cervelo) s.t.
aus AUS 101 Jack Bobridge (Garmin-Cervelo) s.t.
ita ITA 102 Christian Delle Stelle (Colnago-CSF Inox) 00:00:31
ned NED 103 Coen Vermeltfoort (Rabobank) 00:00:32
den DEN 104 Kristian Sobota (Christina Watches-Onfone) 00:00:34
fra FRA 105 Alexandre Pichot (Europcar) 00:00:39
fra FRA 106 Morgan Lamoisson (Vendée U) s.t.
ita ITA 107 Angelo Pagani (Colnago-CSF Inox) 00:00:51
ger GER 108 Rüdiger Seelig (Leopard-Trek) 00:00:55
den DEN 109 Philip Nicholas Nielsen (Blois Cac 41) 00:00:58
ita ITA 110 Paolo Locatelli (Colnago-CSF Inox) 00:01:28
den DEN 111 Marc Hester (Christina Watches-Onfone) 00:02:58
aut AUT 112 Stefan Denifl (Leopard-Trek) 00:08:01
den DEN 113 Martin Pedersen (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
den DEN DNF Andreas Frisch (Team Concordia Forsinkring - Himmerland)  
den DEN DNF Jens-erik Madsen (Team Concordia Forsinkring - Himmerland)  
bel BEL DNS Kris Boeckmans (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator)  
den DEN DNF Lasse Normann Hansen (Team Concordia Forsinkring - Himmerland)  
den DEN DNS Matti Breschel (Rabobank)  
bel BEL DNS Michael Van Staeyen (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator)  

Final general classification:

Country Result Name Team Time
aus AUS 1 Simon Gerrans (Team Sky) 19:12:01
ita ITA 2 Daniele Bennati (Leopard-Trek) 00:00:09
den DEN 3 Michael Morkov (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:00:29
fra FRA 4 Damien Gaudin (Europcar) 00:00:33
gbr GBR 5 Alex Dowsett (Team Sky) 00:00:41
ita ITA 6 Dario Cioni (Team Sky) 00:00:49
fra FRA 7 Jérôme Cousin (Europcar) 00:00:57
ita ITA 8 Daniele Colli (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:00:58
bel BEL 9 Zico Waeytens (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:01:13
fra FRA 10 Sébastien Turgot (Europcar) 00:01:14
ned NED 11 Pim Ligthart (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:01:30
den DEN 12 Andre Steensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:01:34
den DEN 13 Niki Ostergaard (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) 00:01:41
ned NED 14 Bert-jan Lindeman (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:01:43
ita ITA 15 Andrea Pasqualon (Colnago-CSF Inox) s.t.
esp ESP 16 Oscar Gomez Freire (Rabobank) 00:02:03
ned NED 17 Wouter Mol (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:02:08
den DEN 18 Jakob Fuglsang (Leopard-Trek) 00:02:18
fra FRA 19 Remi Cusin (Cofidis) 00:02:24
ita ITA 20 Sacha Modolo (Colnago-CSF Inox) 00:02:25
ned NED 21 Steven Kruijswijk (Rabobank) 00:02:27
den DEN 22 Troels Ronning Vinther (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) 00:02:30
den DEN 23 Anders Lund (Leopard-Trek) 00:02:31
den DEN 24 Asbjørn Andersen () 00:02:42
gbr GBR 25 Daniel Lloyd (Garmin-Cervelo) 00:02:48
swe SWE 26 Gustav Erik Larsson (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
den DEN 27 Lasse Bochman (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) 00:03:00
fra FRA 28 Tristan Valentin (Cofidis) s.t.
rus RUS 29 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:03:04
ita ITA 30 Alessandro Bazzana (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) 00:03:12
den DEN 31 Martin Mortensen (Leopard-Trek) 00:03:19
ita ITA 32 Santo Anza (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:03:41
den DEN 33 Daniel Foder Holm (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) 00:03:45
den DEN 34 Michael Rasmussen (Christina Watches-Onfone) 00:03:54
fra FRA 35 Laszlo Bodrogi (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) 00:03:55
den DEN 36 Nikola Aistrup (Team Concordia Forsinkring - Himmerland) 00:04:17
den DEN 37 Jesper Hansen (Energi Fyn) 00:04:22
fra FRA 38 Mathieu Claude (Europcar) 00:04:42
slo SLO 39 Jure Kocjan (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) 00:04:45
nor NOR 40 Kurt-asle Arvesen (Team Sky) 00:05:03
aut AUT 41 Matthias Brandle (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:05:11
est EST 42 Kalle Kriit (Cofidis) 00:05:13
ita ITA 43 Davide Vigano (Leopard-Trek) 00:05:21
den DEN 44 Sebastian Lander (Team Concordia Forsinkring - Himmerland) 00:05:35
bel BEL 45 Gorik Gardeyn (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:06:18
den DEN 46 Thomas Nybo Riis () 00:06:40
den DEN 47 Kasper Larsen Klostergaard (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:07:36
fra FRA 48 Sébastien Chavanel (Europcar) 00:08:06
gbr GBR 49 Roger Hammond (Garmin-Cervelo) 00:08:48
rus RUS 50 Maxim Belkov (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:08:49
ita ITA 51 Tomas Alberio (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:08:52
ita ITA 52 Marcello Pavarin (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:09:08
fra FRA 53 Jean-eudes Demaret (Cofidis) 00:09:18
aus AUS 54 Richie Porte (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:09:26
can CAN 55 David Veilleux (Europcar) 00:09:30
ita ITA 56 Manuel Belletti (Colnago-CSF Inox) 00:09:34
den DEN 57 Christopher Juul-jensen (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) 00:09:45
bel BEL 58 Stijn Joseph (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:09:52
ita ITA 59 Alberto Ongarato (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:10:01
den DEN 60 Jesper Odgaard Nielsen (Christina Watches-Onfone) s.t.
bel BEL 61 Arthur Vanoverberghe (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:10:14
fra FRA 62 Alexandre Pichot (Europcar) 00:10:41
ita ITA 63 Sonny Colbrelli (Colnago-CSF Inox) 00:10:43
ita ITA 64 Angelo Furlan (Christina Watches-Onfone) 00:10:53
aut AUT 65 Stefan Denifl (Leopard-Trek) 00:11:20
aus AUS 66 Cameron Meyer (Garmin-Cervelo) 00:11:44
ita ITA 67 Marco Corti (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
den DEN 68 Kasper Linde Jorgensen (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) 00:12:27
den DEN 69 Rene Joergensen (Christina Watches-Onfone) 00:12:43
aus AUS 70 Christopher Sutton (Team Sky) 00:12:57
fra FRA 71 Romain Delalot (Cofidis) 00:13:16
gbr GBR 72 Russell Downing (Team Sky) 00:13:30
den DEN 73 Rolf Broge () 00:13:31
ger GER 74 Grischa Niermann (Rabobank) s.t.
den DEN 75 Mikkel Mortensen (Team Bonnat 91) 00:13:38
sui SUI 76 Noe Gianetti (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:13:47
den DEN 77 Brian Vandborg (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:13:48
bel BEL 78 Steven Van Vooren (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:13:57
ned NED 79 Pieter Weening (Rabobank) 00:14:20
den DEN 80 Kristian Sobota (Christina Watches-Onfone) 00:15:12
bel BEL 81 Preben Van Hecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:15:16
ita ITA 82 Angelo Pagani (Colnago-CSF Inox) 00:18:00
den DEN 83 Kasper Jebjerg (Glud & Marstrand - LRØ Rådgivning) 00:18:18
den DEN 84 Michael Reihs (Christina Watches-Onfone) 00:18:58
den DEN 85 Chris Anker Sorensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:19:03
ita ITA 86 Davide Appollonio (Team Sky) 00:19:15
ned NED 87 Jetse Bol (Rabobank Continental Team) 00:20:17
ned NED 88 Theo Bos (Rabobank) 00:21:30
fra FRA 89 Adrien Petit (Cofidis) 00:21:31
ger GER 90 Rüdiger Seelig (Leopard-Trek) 00:22:38
den DEN 91 Casper Degn Larsen () 00:22:56
ita ITA 92 Christian Delle Stelle (Colnago-CSF Inox) 00:23:15
ita ITA 93 Andrea Grendene (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) 00:23:34
ita ITA 94 Matteo Pelucchi (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:23:36
den DEN 95 Benjamin Justesen () 00:24:39
slo SLO 96 Aldo Ino Ilesic (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) 00:25:43
den DEN 97 Martin Pedersen (Leopard-Trek) 00:28:42
fra FRA 98 Morgan Lamoisson (Vendée U) 00:29:53
ita ITA 99 Andrea Piechele (Colnago-CSF Inox) 00:30:41
gbr GBR 100 Jeremy Hunt (Team Sky) 00:30:45
ned NED 101 Martijn Verschoor (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) 00:31:44
den DEN 102 Thomas Guldhammer (Team Concordia Forsinkring - Himmerland) 00:31:52
den DEN 103 Rasmus Guldhammer (Team Concordia Forsinkring - Himmerland) 00:32:11
aus AUS 104 Jack Bobridge (Garmin-Cervelo) 00:32:35
aus AUS 105 Benjamin King (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) 00:32:38
den DEN 106 Marc Hester (Christina Watches-Onfone) 00:33:31
den DEN 107 Christian Rasmus Quaade (Team Concordia Forsinkring - Himmerland) 00:39:11
den DEN 108 Mads Christensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:44:24
den DEN 109 Philip Nicholas Nielsen (Blois Cac 41) 00:48:14
bel BEL 110 Sven Jodts (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:48:25
ned NED 111 Coen Vermeltfoort (Rabobank) 00:48:42
ita ITA 112 Paolo Locatelli (Colnago-CSF Inox) 01:02:01
usa USA 113 Joe Eldridge (Team Type 1 - SANOFI) 01:12:33

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