Sunday 17 April 2011

Swift wins final stage in Vuelta a Castilla y Leon

Ben Swift has won the final stage in the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon. Swift took the victory comfortably after a strong leadout by Russell Downing. The win is Swift's third of the year following two stages of the Tour Down Under.



Result
1. Ben Swift - Sky
2. Francisco Ventoso - Movistar
3. Ruben Perez - Euskaltel

Saturday 16 April 2011

Rowe wins ZLM Tour

Luke Rowe has won the ZLM Tour, the third race of the Under 23 Nations Cup. It is the second time that Rowe has won the race - he also triumphed in 2009.

Result
1. Luke Rowe - Great Britain
2. Robin Steeniut - Belgium +0"
3. Youcef Reguigui - Algeria +0"

Saturday 9 April 2011

Paris - Roubaix

British riders starting Paris - Roubaix:

Garmin-Cervelo
Roger Hammond

Sky
Jeremy Hunt
Ian Stannard
Geraint Thomas
Bradley Wiggins

HTC-Highroad
Mark Cavendish

Friday 8 April 2011

Bibby wins Cinturón stage 3

Ian Bibby has won stage three of the Cinturón a Mallorca by winning the sprint from a nine man escape group. Iker Camaño of Endura Racing has taken the lead after previous leader Jose Belda missed the move forming on a descent. There were three other British riders in the leading group. Camaño's teammate Rob Partidge worked hard to enable the breakaway to be successful, and two riders from Pendragon, James McLaughlin and Rhys Lloyd, also made the escape.



Result
1. Ian Bibby - Motorpoint
2. Erik Hofmann - Activity Racing
3. Bernard Oberholzer - Price Your Bike

Overall Standing
1. Iker Camaño - Endura Racing
2. Tadej Valjavec - Manisaspor +32"
3. Ian Bibby - Motorpoint +58"

Wednesday 6 April 2011

Scheldeprijs victory for Cavendish again

Mark Cavendish took the sprint finish of the Scheldeprijs today to record his second victory of the season. Cavendish won the race easily after a crash took out two of his main rivals, Tyler Farrar and Wouter Weylandt. The win is the third time Cavendish has won the race after previous victories in 2007 and 2008.



Result
1. Mark Cavendish - HTC-High Road
2. Denis Galimzyanov - Katusha
3. Yauheni Hutarovich - FDJ

Tuesday 5 April 2011

Cinturón Ciclista a Mallorca

Five British teams will be taking part in the Cinturón Ciclista a Mallorca this week. The race starts on Wednesday with a 7.1km individual time trial - the corresponding stage last year was won by Ian Bibby who is amongst those returning for the Motorpoint team this year.


Endura Racing
Jack Anderson
David Clarke
Maarten De Jonge
Rob Partridge
Scott Thwaites
Alex Wetterhall
Callum Wilkinson
Motorpoint
Marcin Bialoblocki
Ian Bibby
Will Bjergfelt
Tobyn Horton
Johnny McEvoy
James Sampson
Peter Williams
Pendragon-Le Col-Colnago
Yanto Barker
Rhys Lloyd
Jake Martin
Tom Martin
Jon Mozley
James McLaughlin
Chris Opie
Raleigh
Matt Cronshaw
Richard Handley
Liam Holohan
Matt Jones
Matt Kipling
Ryan Parnes
Jamie Sparling
Rapha-Condor-Sharp
Ed Clancy
Dan Craven
Zak Dempster
Kristian House
Andrew Tennant
Jon Tiernan-Locke
Dean Windsor

Saturday 2 April 2011

Ronde van Vlaanderen

The second monument of the season, Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) takes place on Sunday. The overwhelming favourite is Fabian CAncellara due to his dominating performance in winning E3 Prijs Vlaanderen last week.

The British riders on the startlist are Roger Hammond and Dan Lloyd for Garmin-Cervelo, Adam Blythe of Omega Pharma-Lotto, Mark Cavendish of HTC-High Road and the quartet of Jeremy Hunt, Ian Stannard, Ben Swift and Geraint Thomas will all be riding for Sky. They will be hoping to get the chance to be only the second British winner of the race - it is now fifty years since Tom Simpson won in 1961.