Video: Aqua Blue Sport storms to podium finish at Vuelta

Aqua Blue Sport podium Vuelta

Irish ProContinental team Aqua Blue Sport has taken a podium finish on the first road stage of the Vuelta.

 

Aqua Blue Sport podium on first Vuelta road stage

 

Irish ProContinental team Aqua Blue Sport has taken a podium finish on the first road stage of the Vuelta.

British national champion Adam Blythe put in a great turn of speed at the end of the 203km stage from Nimes to Gruissan.

The peloton would fracture when QuickStep put the hammer down with 2km remaining.

And with gaps appearing everywhere it was QuickStep’s Yves Lampaert who attacked solo with 1km remaining.

He just about held off the next group on the road to win, as well as taking the race lead.

 

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Just behind, his team meat Matteo Trentin took 2nd place and Blyth was 3rd.

A 10-man group was credited with the same time as the winner and stole five seconds on the next riders home.

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In that group was Vincenzo Nibali; the Astana man making small gains on his rivals already.

Nicolas Roche (BMC Racing) would finish in a group some 14 seconds down. He slips from 3rd overall to 5th but keeps his lead in the climbers’ classification.

The only other Irish rider in the race; Conor Dunne (Aqua Blue Sport) would come home in 168th place some 2:32 down.

More to follow.

 

Stage 2: Nimes to Gruissan (203km)

1 Yves Lampaert (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 4:36:13
2 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
3 Adam Blythe (GBr) AquaBlueSport
4 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
5 Sacha Modolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
6 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
7 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Cannondale-Drapac
8 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team
9 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
10 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
11 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio (Col) Orica-Scott 0:00:05
12 Simon Clarke (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac
13 Sebastián Molano (Col) Manzana Postobon
14 Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:08
15 Youcef Reguigui (Alg) Dimension Data
16 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky
17 Daniel Hoelgaard (Nor) FDJ
18 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors
19 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team
20 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates
21 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team
22 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team
23 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
24 Sven Erik Bystrøm (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin
25 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez (Col) Movistar Team
42 Nicolas Roche (Irl) BMC Racing Team 0:00:13
111 Lawrence Warbasse (USA)AquaBlueSport 0:00:39
117 Aaron Gate (NZl) AquaBlueSport 0:00:55
120 Mark Christian (GBr) AquaBlueSport 0:01:14
122 Lasse Norman Hansen (Den) AquaBlueSport 0:01:17
125 Michel Kreder (Ned) AquaBlueSport 0:01:20
162 Peter Koning (Ned) AquaBlueSport 0:02:32
168 Conor Dunne (Irl) AquaBlueSport
178 Stefan Denifl (Aut) AquaBlueSport 0:07:28

 

General Classification

1 Yves Lampaert (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 4:52:07
2 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:01
3 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:00:03
4 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:17
5 Nicolas Roche (Irl) BMC Racing Team
6 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team
7 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:18
8 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
9 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:21
10 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Sky
11 David de la Cruz (Spa) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:23
12 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Sunweb
13 Bob Jungels (Lux) Quick-Step Floors
14 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb
15 Søren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb
16 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:25
17 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio (Col) Orica-Scott 0:00:26
18 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Sky
19 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott 0:00:29
20 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:33
21 Jack Haig (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:00:34
22 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott
23 Magnus Cort (Den) Orica-Scott
24 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:35
25 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez (Col) Movistar Team 0:00:36

 

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