EuroEyes Cyclassics 2016

EuroEyes Cyclassics 2016
General
output	21st Cyclassics Hamburg
Racing series	UCI WorldTour 2016 1st UWT
date	August 21, 2016
overall length	217.7 km
Host country	Germany
begin	Hamburg
target	Hamburg
Teams	22nd
Driver at the start	176
Driver at the finish	144
Average speed	44.363 km / h
Result
winner	Caleb Ewan ( Orica-BikeExchange )
Second	John Degenkolb ( Giant-Alpecin )
Third	Giacomo Nizzolo ( Trek-Segafredo )
◀ 2015	2017 ▶
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The 21st EuroEyes Cyclassics 2016 was a German road bike race . The one-day race took place on Sunday , August 21, 2016 . This bike race started and ended in Hamburg on Mönckebergstraße with a length of 217.7 km . The route also ran through Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein . In addition, you had to complete three laps in Hamburg on the Waseberg, which is up to 15 percent steep on average . It was also part of the UCI WorldTour 2016 , where it was the 21st of a total of 28 races in this series.

Participating teams

The 18 UCI WorldTeams were automatically entitled to start . In addition, four UCI Professional Continental teams were invited.

WorldTeams (18) Lotto Soudal Tinkoff Sky BMC Racing Etixx-Quick Step Katusha Orica-BikeExchange Trek-Segafredo FDJ Movistar Astana AG2R La Mondiale Lotto NL-Jumbo Lampre-Merida Cannondale-Drapac Giant Alpecin I AM Dimension data Professional Continental Teams (4) Bora argon 18 Stölting Service Group Cofidis Verva ActiveJet

Race result

The real winner was Nacer Bouhanni from Cofidis, Solutions Crédits from France . However, due to a handicap (dangling) in the sprint against Caleb Ewan, he was distanced to the end of the group with which he reached the finish.

Overall rating driver country team time 1. Caleb Ewan Australia Orica-BikeExchange 4 h 54 min 26 s 2. John Degenkolb Germany Giant Alpecin + 0 s 3. Giacomo Nizzolo Italy Trek-Segafredo + 0 s 4th Danny van Poppel Netherlands Sky + 0 s 5. Alexander Kristoff Norway Katusha + 0 s 6th Dylan Groenewegen Netherlands LottoNL Jumbo + 0 s 7th Mark Renshaw Australia Dimension data + 0 s 8th. Sondre Holst Enger Norway I AM + 0 s 9. Matteo Trentin Italy Etixx-Quick Step + 0 s 10. André Greipel Germany Lotto Soudal + 0 s 11. Jürgen Roelandts Belgium Lotto Soudal + 0 s 12. Daniel Oss Italy BMC Racing Team + 0 s 13. Ruslan Tleubaev Kazakhstan Astana + 0 s 14th Nikolai Trusov Russia Tinkoff + 0 s 15th Michael Valgren Denmark Tinkoff + 0 s 16. Roy Curvers Netherlands Giant Alpecin + 0 s 17th Hugo Houle Canada AG2R La Mondiale + 0 s 18th Heinrich Haussler Australia I AM + 0 s 19th Jordi Simón Spain Verva ActiveJet + 0 s 20th Sacha Modolo Italy Lampre-Merida + 0 s

Sources: ProCyclingStats Cycling Quotient

Web links

• Official website
• EuroEyes Cyclassics 2016 in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EuroEyes Cyclassics: Wildcards for Bora-Argon 18 and Stölting. radsport-news.com, August 11, 2016, accessed on August 27, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Bouhanni is deprived of victory, Ewan moves up. radsport-news.com, August 21, 2016, accessed on August 27, 2016 .