California Tour 2011

California Tour 2011
Host country	United States
Competition period	May 15-22, 2011
Stages	7 stages
overall length	949.2 km (planned 1231.8 km)
Starting field	144 in 18 teams (126 of which arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Christopher Horner 23:46:41 h 2. Levi Leipheimer + 0:38 min 3. Tom Danielson + 2:45 min
Team evaluation	Team Garmin-Cervélo 71:29:37 h
Scoring jerseys
total	Christopher Horner
offspring	Tejay van Garderen
mountain	Jonathan Patrick McCarty
Points	Peter Sagan
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Final score

winner	Christopher Horner	23:46:41 h
Second	Levi Leipheimer	+ 0:38 min
Third	Tom Danielson	+ 2:45 min
Fourth	Christian Vande Velde	+ 3:18 min
fifth	Tejay van Garderen	+ 3:23 min
Sixth	Laurens ten Dam	+ 3:26 min
seventh	Rory Sutherland	+ 4:12 min
Eighth	Andy Schleck	+ 4:33 min
Ninth	Steve Morabito	+ 4:50 min
Tenth	Ryder Hesjedal	+ 6:16 min
Scoring	Peter Sagan	46 P.
Second	Greg Henderson	25 p.
Third	Ben Swift	25 p.
Mountain scoring	Jonathan Patrick McCarty	39 P.
Second	Levi Leipheimer	24 p.
Third	Christopher Horner	20 p.
Young talent evaluation	Tejay van Garderen	23:50:04 h
Second	Andrew Talansky	+ 5:58 min
Third	Rafał Majka	+ 14:20 min
Team evaluation	Team Garmin-Cervélo	71:29:37 h
Second	Team RadioShack	+ 01:41 min
Third	BMC Racing Team	+ 13:03 min

The 6th California Tour took place May 15-22, 2011. This bike race was held for the second time in May. The stage race was divided into eight stages and a distance of 1,231.8 kilometers. The tour was part of the UCI America Tour 2010 and classified there in the highest category 2nd HC.

Participating teams

Participating teams

UCI ProTeams BMC Racing Team Garmin-Cervélo HTC highroad Leopard Trek Liquigas-Cannondale Rabobank Cycling Team Team RadioShack Team Saxo Bank SunGard Team Sky UCI Professional Continental Teams Team SpiderTech-C10 Team NetApp Team Type 1 UnitedHealthcare UCI Continental Teams Bissell Jamis-Sutter Home Jelly Belly Cycling Kelly Benefit Strategies-OptumHealth Kenda-Gear Grinder

At the start were 18 international cycling teams , nine of them in the highest international category, the ProTeams . In addition, four Professional Continental Teams and five American Continental Teams were invited by the organizer.

route

The 1st leg of the Lake Tahoe tour was canceled due to snowfall after the organizers had originally shortened the leg. The 2nd stage was therefore cut by around half, the start was moved from Squaw Valley to Nevada City. Therefore the total race distance was shortened to 949.2 km. After the first two flat sections, on the fourth stage, which was only 131 kilometers long, there was a mountain finish in San José (1st category). Before that, a mountain classification of the "hors catégorie" had already been passed with Mount Hamilton.

After the fifth, undulating stage, the traditional 24-kilometer individual time trial in Solvang was another preliminary decision about the overall victory, which had emerged at the latest after the following mountain finish on Mount Baldy (hors catégorie). The tour ended with a flat stage in Thousand Oaks .

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Leader
1st stage	May 15	South Lake Tahoe - Northstar at Tahoe	191.0	called off
2nd stage	May 16	Nevada City - Sacramento	122.8	Ben Swift	Ben Swift
3rd stage	17th of May	Auburn - Modesto	196.2	Greg Henderson	Greg Henderson
4th stage	May 18	Livermore - San José	131.6	Christopher Horner	Christopher Horner
5th stage	May 19th	Seaside - Paso Robles	223.6	Peter Sagan
6th stage	May 20th	Solvang –Solvang ( EZF )	24.0	David Zabriskie
7th stage	May 21	Claremont - Mount Baldy	121.9	Levi Leipheimer
8th stage	May 22	Santa Clarita - Thousand Oaks	129.1	Matthew Goss

2nd stage

Result 2nd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Ben Swift		SKY	2:47:12 h
2.	Peter Sagan		LIQ	equal time
3.	Matthew Goss		THR	equal time
4th	Kevin Lacombe		CSM	equal time
5.	Juan José Haedo		SBS	equal time

Overall ranking after the 3rd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Ben Swift		SKY	2:47:02 h
2.	Peter Sagan		LIQ	+ 0:04 min
3.	Matthew Goss		THR	+ 0:06 min
4th	Kevin Lacombe		CSM	+ 0:10 min
5.	Juan José Haedo		SBS	equal time

3rd stage

Result 3rd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Greg Henderson		SKY	5:14:29 h
2.	Juan José Haedo		SBS	equal time
3.	Thor Hushovd		GRM	equal time
4th	Peter Sagan		LIQ	equal time
5.	Leigh Howard		THR	equal time

Overall ranking after the 3rd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Greg Henderson		SKY	8:01:31 h
2.	Ben Swift		SKY	equal time
3.	Peter Sagan		LIQ	+ 0:04 min
4th	Juan José Haedo		SBS	equal time
5.	Thor Hushovd		GRM	+ 0:06 min

4th stage

Result 4th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Christopher Horner		RSH	3:27:51 h
2.	Andy Schleck		LEO	+ 1:15 min
3.	Rory Sutherland		UHC	equal time
4th	Levi Leipheimer		RSH	equal time
5.	Tom Danielson		GRM	+ 1:22 min

Overall ranking after the 4th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Christopher Horner		RSH	11:29:32 h
2.	Levi Leipheimer		RSH	+ 1:15 min
3.	Tom Danielson		GRM	+ 1:22 min
4th	Christian Vande Velde		GRM	+ 1:29 min
5.	Rory Sutherland		UHC	+ 1:30 min

5th stage

Result 5th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Peter Sagan		LIQ	5:16:03 h
2.	Leigh Howard		THR	equal time
3.	Ben Swift		SKY	equal time
4th	Paul Martens		RAB	equal time
5.	Alex Candelario		KBS	equal time

Overall ranking after the 5th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Christopher Horner		RSH	16:45:35 h
2.	Levi Leipheimer		RSH	+ 1:15 min
3.	Tom Danielson		GRM	+ 1:22 min
4th	Christian Vande Velde		GRM	+ 1:29 min
5.	Rory Sutherland		UHC	+ 1:30 min

6th stage

Result 6th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	David Zabriskie		GRM	30:35 min
2.	Levi Leipheimer		RSH	+ 0:14 min
3.	Tejay van Garderen		THR	+ 0:40 min
4th	Peter Velits		THR	+ 0:48 min
5.	Maarten Tjallingii		RAB	+ 0:49 min

Overall ranking after the 6th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Christopher Horner		RSH	17:17:01 h
2.	Levi Leipheimer		RSH	+ 0:38 min
3.	Rory Sutherland		UHC	+ 1:38 min
4th	Christian Vande Velde		GRM	+ 1:39 min
5.	Tom Danielson		GRM	+ 1:44 min

7th stage

Result 7th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Levi Leipheimer		RSH	3:33:01 h
2.	Christopher Horner		RSH	equal time
3.	Laurens ten Dam		RAB	+ 0:43 min
4th	Tom Danielson		GRM	+ 1:01 min
5.	Steve Morabito		BMC	+ 1:21 min

Overall ranking after the 7th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Christopher Horner		RSH	20:50:02 h
2.	Levi Leipheimer		RSH	+ 0:38 min
3.	Tom Danielson		GRM	+ 2:45 min
4th	Christian Vande Velde		GRM	+ 3:18 min
5.	Tejay van Garderen		THR	+ 3:23 min

8th stage

Result 8th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Matthew Goss		THR	2:56:39 h
2.	Peter Sagan		LIQ	equal time
3.	Greg Henderson		SKY	equal time
4th	Óscar Freire		RAB	equal time
5.	Kevin Lacombe		CSM	equal time

Overall ranking after the 8th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Christopher Horner		RSH	23:46:41 h
2.	Levi Leipheimer		RSH	+ 0:38 min
3.	Tom Danielson		GRM	+ 2:45 min
4th	Christian Vande Velde		GRM	+ 3:18 min
5.	Tejay van Garderen		THR	+ 3:23 min

Race course

After the British team Sky won the first two mass sprints, Christopher Horner from Team RadioShack won the first mountain finish and was able to maintain the lead in the Solvang time trial against his teammate and three-time winner of the race, Levi Leipheimer . The two also dominated the mountain finish on the penultimate day when they crossed the finish line together.

Peter Sagan from Liquigas-Cannondale , who won the hilly fifth stage and won the points classification, was also able to convince . While Jonathan Patrick McCarty secured the mountain classification, the German team NetApp was repeatedly represented in breakaway groups, which gave Jan Bárta the jersey of the most combative driver twice. Finally, Matthew Goss brought the American team HTC-Highroad one more day win.

Ratings in the course of the tour

The table shows the leader in the respective classification after the respective stage.

	Stage winner	Overall rating	Young talent evaluation	Mountain scoring	Scoring	Most combative driver	Team evaluation
2	Ben Swift	Ben Swift	Peter Sagan	not forgiven	Ben Swift	James Driscoll	Team Sky
3	Greg Henderson	Greg Henderson			Peter Sagan	Jan Bárta
4th	Christopher Horner	Christopher Horner	Andrew Talansky	Jonathan Patrick McCarty		Ryder Hesjedal	Garmin-Cervélo
5	Peter Sagan		Tejay van Garderen			Óscar Freire
6th	David Zabriskie					Tejay van Garderen
7th	Levi Leipheimer					Alexander Yefimkin
8th	Matthew Goss					Jan Bárta

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Radsport-news.com: 1st stage of the California tour canceled
2. ↑ Radsport-news.com: Swift sprints to victory in Sacramento

Web links

• Official website