Mallorca Challenge 2011

Mallorca Challenge 2011
Racing series	UCI Europe Tour -  Category 1.1
Host country	Spain
Competition period	6-10 February
Stages	5 one-day races
Starting field	200 in 21 teams
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The 20th Mallorca Challenge was a Spanish series of five one-day races that took place on the island of Mallorca from February 6 to 10, 2011 . The one-day races were each part of the UCI Europe Tour 2011 and were classified in category 1.1.

Attendees

The organizer invited a total of ten ProTeams as well as all other professional teams from Spain. The German NetApp team , two other UCI Professional Continental Teams as well as the Swiss Continental Team Price your Bike and the Spanish and German national track cycling teams also took part . Each driver from the 21 teams could take part in any number of the five races.

UCI ProTeams Team RadioShack Euskaltel-Euskadi Team Garmin-Cervélo	Omega Pharma Lotto Team Leopard Trek Quickstep Cycling Team	Katusha team Rabobank HTC highroad	Movistar team
UCI Professional Continental Teams Caja Rural Andalucía Caja Granada Geox-TMC	Skil-Shimano Team NetApp Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne
UCI Continental Teams Price your bike Orbea Continental Burgos 2016-Castilla y León	National teams Spanish national rail team German national railway team

run

Trofeo Palma

On February 6th, the first race of the series was held with the Trofeo Palma in the Mallorcan capital Palma . An 11.6 kilometer long, flat circuit had to be completed ten times (total length 116 kilometers). After the breakaway group of the day had been caught, the American Tyler Farrar from Team Garmin-Cervélo prevailed in the expected mass sprint . In third place, Marcel Kittel from Skil-Shimano was the best German-speaking professional. Because the participating teams protested against the radio ban introduced in the Europe Tour before the start , the UCI , the world cycling association, did not officially recognize the result.

Final score

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Tyler Farrar		Team Garmin-Cervélo	2:32:24 h
2.	Francisco Ventoso		Movistar team	same time
3.	Marcel Kittel		Skil-Shimano	same time
4th	José Joaquín Rojas Gil		Movistar team	same time
5.	Klaas Lodewyck		Omega Pharma Lotto	same time
6th	Óscar Gray		Burgos 2016-Castilla y León	same time
7th	Juan José Lobato		Andalucía Caja Granada	same time
8th.	Koldo Fernández		Euskaltel-Euskadi	same time
9.	Tony Gallopin		Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne	same time
10.	Dries Devenyns		Quickstep Cycling Team	same time

Trofeo Cala Millor

The second one-day race in Cala Millor also ran largely on flat terrain, but at 172.4 kilometers it was much longer. Again in the mass sprint with John Degenkolb from HTC-Highroad, a German driver was only narrowly beaten. Again it was Farrar who came out on top after his unofficial success the day before.

Final score

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Tyler Farrar		Team Garmin-Cervélo	4:04:11 h
2.	John Degenkolb		HTC highroad	same time
3.	Leigh Howard		HTC highroad	same time
4th	Klaas Lodewyck		Omega Pharma Lotto	same time
5.	Francisco Ventoso		Movistar team	same time
6th	Marcel Kittel		Skil-Shimano	same time
7th	Daniel Schorn		Team NetApp	same time
8th.	Robert Wagner		Team Leopard Trek	same time
9.	Giacomo Nizzolo		Team Leopard Trek	same time
10.	José Joaquín Rojas Gil		Movistar team	same time

Trofeo Inca

In the third race around Inca , which covered 157.2 kilometers, the Coll de Soller and especially the 14.4 kilometer long Coll de Puigmajor were two of the most difficult climbs on the island. The destination was after the departure from Puigmajor. Before the summit of Puigmajor, Ben Hermans , Arkaitz Durán and Xavier Tondo launched the decisive attack. In the descent, the three were able to extend their lead. The group's sprint was ultimately won by the Belgian Hermans, 45 seconds later the large group of pursuers rolled across the finish line.

Final score

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Ben Hermans		Team RadioShack	4:02:23 h
2.	Arkaitz Duran		Geox-TMC	same time
3.	Xavier Tondo		Movistar team	+ 0:01 min
4th	Murilo Fischer		Team Garmin-Cervélo	+ 0:45 min
5.	Sebastian Langeveld		Rabobank	same time
6th	Ryder Hesjedal		Team Garmin-Cervélo	same time
7th	Danilo Di Luca		Katusha team	same time
8th.	Juan José Cobo Acebo		Geox-TMC	same time
9.	Gorka Izagirre		Euskaltel-Euskadi	same time
10.	Tony Gallopin		Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne	same time

Trofeo Deià

The Trofeo in Deià ran over 143 kilometers . A total of four climbs were on the program, including again the Coll de Puigmajor, which was tackled that day via the Coll de Femenia. Despite a hill just before the finish line, a large field remained together as all attacks were thwarted, and after the descent towards the finish, José Joaquín Rojas Gil secured the first Spanish victory during the Mallorca Challenge. With Tony Martin , another German was classified among the top ten.

Final score

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	José Joaquín Rojas Gil		Movistar team	3:18:59 h
2.	Gorka Izagirre		Euskaltel-Euskadi	same time
3.	Juan José Cobo Acebo		Geox-TMC	same time
4th	Sebastian Langeveld		Rabobank	same time
5.	Tony Martin		HTC highroad	same time
6th	Francisco Ventoso		Movistar team	same time
7th	Ryder Hesjedal		Team Garmin-Cervélo	same time
8th.	Danilo Di Luca		Katusha team	same time
9.	Daniel Moreno		Katusha team	same time
10.	Dries Devenyns		Quickstep Cycling Team	same time

Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova

The final race from Magaluf to Palmanova over 158.5 kilometers again included five climbs, but here too no attacker was able to break away decisively. In the inevitable mass sprint, the Brazilian champion Murilo Fischer prevailed and thus took the third victory in five races for the Garmin-Cervélo team . The best German was John Degenkolb in tenth.

Final score

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Murilo Fischer		Team Garmin-Cervélo	4:09:49 h
2.	Óscar Freire		Rabobank	same time
3.	José Joaquín Rojas Gil		Movistar team	same time
4th	Francisco Ventoso		Movistar team	same time
5.	Giacomo Nizzolo		Team Leopard Trek	same time
6th	Tony Gallopin		Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne	same time
7th	Dario Cataldo		Quickstep Cycling Team	same time
8th.	Klaas Lodewyck		Omega Pharma Lotto	same time
9.	Tom Leezer		Rabobank	same time
10.	John Degenkolb		HTC highroad	same time

See also

• Mallorca

Web links

• Official website of the Mallorca Challenge

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LIVE cycling CH results
2. ↑ LIVE Radsport CH report on the Trofeo Cala Millor