Dan Martin’s Garmin-Sharp journey through the vineyards in the rain to a lowly 16th in the team time trial
Dan Martin’s Garmin-Sharp squad has been one of the best at the team time trial discipline during different periods in recent years, but on the opening stage of the Tirreno–Adriatico in Italy today that pedigree was not in evidence.
The US-based outfit could manage only 16th of the 22 teams in the field, relinquishing 57 seconds to winners Omega Pharma-Quickstep in the 16.9km test in wet conditions.
It means Martin has already lost a not insignificant amount of time to some of the best riders in the world including Alberto Contador (Saxo-Tinkoff), Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-Quickstep), Vincenzo Nibali (Cannondale), Cadel Evans (BMC) and others.
Mark Cavendish crossed the line first rider in the winning team today and so assumes the leader’s jersey for tomorrow’s opening road stage; a 232km run from San Vincenzo to Indicatore.
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The field is of considerably better quality than that taking part in Paris-Nice, and with a number of mountainous stages over the next week, Martin should have plenty of opportunity to stretch his legs if his form allows after an illness-hit start to the season.
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Tirreno – Adriatico: March 6th – 12th
San Vincenzo - Donoratico (TTT) 16.9km
1 Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:19:24
2 Movistar Team 0:00:11
3 BMC 0:00:16
4 Cannondale 0:00:19
5 Astana 0:00:20
6 Orica-Greenedge 0:00:24
7 Sky 0:00:25
8 Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:00:32
9 Lampre-Merida 0:00:35
10 RadioShack-Leopard 0:00:36
11 Blanco 0:00:37
12 NetApp-Endura 0:00:39
13 Katusha 0:00:44
14 Argos-Shimano 0:00:51
15 Lotto-Belisol 0:00:55
16 Garmin-Sharp 0:00:57
17 MTN-Qhubeka 0:01:00
18 FDJ 0:01:02
19 Vacansoleil-DCM 0:01:04
20 Ag2r-La Mondiale 0:01:05
21 Vini Fantini 0:01:06
22 Euskaltel-Euskadi
General Classification
1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:19:24
2 Tony Martin (Ger) Omega Pharma-Quick Step
3 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-Quick Step
4 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Omega Pharma-Quick Step
5 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Omega Pharma-Quick Step
6 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:00:11
7 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Movistar Team
8 Andrey Amador Bakkazakova (CRc) Movistar Team
9 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa) Movistar Team
10 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Movistar Team
11 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team
12 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Movistar Team
13 Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:16
14 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team
15 Stephen Cummings (GBr) BMC Racing Team
16 Thor Hushovd (Nor) BMC Racing Team
17 Michael Schär (Swi) BMC Racing Team
18 Moreno Moser (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:00:19
19 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Cannondale Pro Cycling
20 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling
21 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling
22 Peter Sagan (Svk) Cannondale Pro Cycling
23 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Cannondale Pro Cycling
24 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:00:20
25 Fredrik Carl Wilhelm Kessiakoff (Swe) Astana Pro Team
26 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Astana Pro Team
27 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Astana Pro Team
28 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana Pro Team
29 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Astana Pro Team
30 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Orica-GreenEdge 0:00:24
93 Daniel Martin (Irl) Garmin-Sharp @57 seconds
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