Herald Sun Tour 2011
Herald Sun Tour 2011 | |
Racing series | UCI Oceania Tour - Category 2.1 |
Host country | Australia |
Competition period | October 12th to 16th |
Stages | 5 stages |
overall length | 680.8 km |
Starting field | 103 drivers from 14 nations in 18 teams (67 of them arrived at the finish) |
winner | |
Overall rating | 1. Nathan Haas 39: 39: 0 h 2. Jack Bobridge + 00:17 min 3. Jonas Aaen Jörgensen + 00:26 min |
Team evaluation | Genesys Wealth Advisers 50:19:20 h |
Scoring jerseys | |
Overall rating | Nathan Haas |
Scoring | Nathan Haas |
Mountain scoring | Cameron Peterson |
Young talent evaluation | Nathan Haas |
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The 59th Herald Sun Tour (officially Jayco Herald Sun Tour ) was an Australian cycle stage race that took place October 12-16, 2011. It was held in five stages over a total distance of 680.9 kilometers in the Victoria region around the city of Melbourne . The race was part of the UCI Oceania Tour 2012 , classified there in category 2.1 and the first competition in the racing series.
The overall winner was the Australian Nathan Haas ( Genesys Wealth Advisers ), who also won the points and junior ranking. He relegated his compatriot Jack Bobridge from the American team Garmin-Cervélo and the Danes Jonas Aaen Jörgensen ( Saxo Bank-SunGard ) to the places with a few seconds gap.
Attendees
The organizer USM Events invited 18 teams. All internationally licensed Australian teams and four ProTeams were there . In addition to three Professional Continental Teams , there were also teams from Japan or South Africa and a Russian and an Australian national team. Each team consisted of six drivers.
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Stages and course of the race
All five stages of the race ran over largely flat terrain and therefore offered the sprinters in particular a chance of victory. Nonetheless, on the first day on the way to Ballarat, a fifteen-man breakaway group pulled away from the field and finally reached the finish line with a lead of about ten minutes, so that practically only these fifteen riders were fighting for the overall victory. The breakaway group decimated further and further in the course of the stage, ultimately six riders remained in the lead. The Australian Rhys Pollock ( Drapac ) attacked three kilometers from the finish and saved a thirteen-second lead over the finish line, taking on the yellow jersey of the overall leader and taking his first international win.
On the second part of the day there was a mass sprint on an uphill last kilometer, which the South African Reinardt Janse van Rensburg , who had already belonged to the decisive breakaway group the day before, won. The third stage ended again with a mass sprint, but this time with a flat finish. The German Marcel Kittel from the Skil-Shimano team triumphed here . On the fourth day there was a small mountain finish on the approximately four-kilometer-long Arthurs Seat, which had to be driven several times on some final laps . The Russian Yegor Silin from the Katusha team prevailed here as a soloist after attacking two kilometers from the finish. The wearer of the yellow jersey, Rhys Pollock, lost more than a minute on the final climb and had to hand over the overall lead to the day runner-up Nathan Haas from Genesys Wealth Advisers , who also defended first place in the overall classification in the final criterion in Melbourne , again in the mass sprint of Marcel Kittel, who won his 17th and final victory in 2011.
stage | Day | Start finish | Type | km | Stage winner | Overall rating |
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1. | October 12th | Whittlesea > Ballarat | 174.6 | Rhys Pollock | Rhys Pollock | |
2. | October 13th | Ballarat > Geelong | 140.6 | Reinardt Janse van Rensburg | ||
3. | October 14th | Geelong > Drysdale | 172.6 | Marcel Kittel | ||
4th | 15th October | Sorrento > Arthur's Seat | 131.6 | Yegor Silin | Nathan Haas | |
5. | October, 16th | Melbourne ( Carlton ) | 61.5 | Marcel Kittel |