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Sparkassen Giro 2010

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August 8, 2010

August 8, Elite men:

Terpstra wins Sparkassen Giro

By:
Cycling News
Published:
August 8, 2010, 17:01,
Updated:
August 9, 2010, 07:22

Boivin, Greipel round out top three

Dutch champion Niki Terpstra (Team Milram) claimed a solo victory at the Sparkassen Giro. Terpstra attacked on the final climb to take a solo victory, with a margin of just 10 seconds over the six remaining breakaway riders that crossed the line together.

After winning the Tour of Poland’s final stage a day earlier André Greipel (Team HTC – Columbia) didn’t have the legs to match Canadian Guillaume Boivin (Spidertech-Planet Energy) in the sprint for second place. Robert Retschke (Continental Team Differdange) dropped out of the lead group on the final climb, finishing a further five seconds behind in eighth place.

“That was a great performance by our team,” said Team Milram directeur sportif Jochen Hahn. “We wanted to make the race hard from the very beginning, since we had no classic sprinter with us, and also had great respect for the fast riders in the field, like Andre Greipel.

“Our two stagiaires Stefan Schäfer and Michael Weicht were very good today and were a great support for the team,” he added. “And then Niki Terpstra was our man for the finale, he attacked at the right moment and crowned our team's work with a victory. Everything went exactly as we had planned.”

Milram had kicked off the attacks early on with Australia’s Luke Roberts one of the first to go. Roberts moved ahead of the peloton with HTC-Columbia’s Tony Martin, before being caught by the peloton.

The race splintered 120 kilometres in, with a group of 40 moving ahead of the peloton. That group was narrowed down to eight as Terpstra started to show his cards with an attack at 20 kilometres remaining.

Full Results

Elite men
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 3:50:46  
2 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Spidertech Powered By Planet Energy 0:00:10  
3 André Greipel (Ger) Team HTC - Columbia    
4 Eric Baumann (Ger) Team Netapp    
5 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Landbouwkrediet    
6 Vojtech Hacecky (Cze) Atlas Personal    
7 David Hesselbarth (Ger) Team Heizomat    
8 Robert Retschke (Ger) Continental Team Differdange 0:00:15  
9 David Boily (Can) Spidertech Powered By Planet Energy 0:01:00  
10 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet    
11 Clemens Fankhauser (Aut) Vorarlberg - Corratec    
12 Hakan Nilsson (Swe) Continental Team Differdange    
13 Jarno Gmelich (Ned) Cyclingteam Jo Piels    
14 Daniel Schorn (Aut) Team Netapp 0:01:10  
15 Felix Rinker (Ger) Team Heizomat    
16 Matthew Brammeier (Irl) An Post - Sean Kelly    
17 Peter Schulting (Ned) Cyclingteam Jo Piels    
18 Jelle Posthuma (Ned) Cyclingteam Jo Piels    
19 Frank Danie Wagner (Ger) Seven Stones    
20 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse    
21 Stefan Schäfer (Ger) Team Milram    
22 Jonas Schmeiser (Ger) Team Heizomat    
23 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Team Netapp    
24 Patrick Bercz (Ger) Seven Stones    
25 Guillau Dessibourg (Swi) Atlas Personal    
26 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) Vorarlberg - Corratec    
27 Mig Rubiano Chavez (Col) Meridiana Kamen Team    
28 Alexander Gottfried (Ger) Team Netapp    
29 Koen Barbe (Bel) Landbouwkrediet    
30 Bruno Langlois (Can) Spidertech Powered By Planet Energy    
31 Josef Benetseder (Aut) Vorarlberg - Corratec    
32 René Obst (Ger) Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse    
33 Sébastian Baldauf (Ger) Vorarlberg - Corratec    
34 Connor McConvey (Irl) An Post - Sean Kelly    
35 Jan Barta (Cze) Team Netapp    
36 Mark Mcnally (GBr) An Post - Sean Kelly    
37 Nicolas Baldo (Fra) Atlas Personal    
38 Robert Nagy (Svk) Dukla Trencin Merida 0:01:20  
39 Roger Beuchat (Swi) CKT Tmit - Champion System 0:02:29  
40 Pim De Beer (Ned) Cyclingteam Jo Piels 0:04:20