Paris – Nice 2011

Paris – Nice 2011
Host country	France
Competition period	March 6-13, 2011
Stages	8 stages
overall length	1,307 kilometers
Starting field	176 in 22 teams (of which 89 arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Tony Martin 34:03:37 h 2. Andreas Klöden + 0:36 3. Bradley Wiggins + 0:41
Team evaluation	Team RadioShack 102: 17: 47 h
Scoring jerseys
Overall rating	Tony Martin
Scoring	Heinrich Haussler
Mountain scoring	Rémi Pauriol
Young talent evaluation	Purely Taaramae
course
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The 69th long-distance cycle trip Paris – Nice took place from March 6th to 13th, 2011. It belonged to the UCI World Tour and was within this the second race after the Tour Down Under . The total distance of the race was 1,307 kilometers.

The participants

Participating teams

ProTeams Quickstep Omega Pharma Lotto Saxo Bank SunGard ag2r La Mondiale Lampre ISD Liquigas-Cannondale Pro team Astana Leopard Trek Rabobank Vacansoleil DCM Katyusha Euskaltel-Euskadi Movistar team Sky ProCycling BMC Racing Team Garmin-Cervélo HTC highroad Team RadioShack Professional Continental Teams Brittany Schuller FDJ Cofidis Team Europcar

The 18 ProTeams as well as the French Professional Continental teams Cofidis , Team Europcar , FDJ and Bretagne-Schuller , who received a wildcard from the organizer Amaury Sport Organization , were entitled to start.

The stages

The route was presented on February 1, 2011.

In 2011, the organizers waived the traditional prologue and instead opened the race with a regular stage in the village of Houdan , west of Paris . The first three stages ran over largely flat terrain, then we went into the mountains. The 5th stage comprised seven mountain evaluations. A long time trial over 27 kilometers followed for the first time in 43 years . The seventh part of the day also had a demanding profile with five mountain ratings. As usual, the “ride to the sun” ended with a course around Nice , including the Col d'Eze, before the race ended on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Overall, the long-distance journey was considered more difficult than in previous years.

Stage overview

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Type	Stage winner	Yellow jersey
1st stage	6th March	Houdan - Houdan	154.5		Thomas De Gendt	Thomas De Gendt
2nd stage	7th March	Montfort-l'Amaury - Amilly	198.5		Greg Henderson
3rd stage	8th of March	Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire - Nuits-Saint-Georges	202.5		Matthew Goss	Matthew Goss
4th stage	9th March	Crêches-sur-Saône - Belleville	191		Thomas Voeckler	Thomas De Gendt
5th stage	March 10th	Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise - Vernoux-en-Vivarais	194		Andreas Klöden	Andreas Klöden
6th stage	March 11	Rognes - Aix-en-Provence	27		Tony Martin	Tony Martin
7th stage	March 12th	Brignoles - Biot Sofia-Antipolis	215.5		Rémy Di Gregorio
8th stage	March 13th	Nice - Nice	124		Thomas Voeckler

1st stage, Houdan - Houdan

Result 1st stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Thomas De Gendt		Vacansoleil DCM	4:05:06 h
2.	Jérémy Roy		FDJ	same time
3.	Heinrich Haussler		Garmin-Cervélo	same time
4th	Peter Sagan		Liquigas-Cannondale	same time
5.	Greg Henderson		Sky ProCycling	same time

Overall ranking after the 1st stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Thomas De Gendt		Vacansoleil DCM	4:05:06 h
2.	Jérémy Roy		FDJ	+ 0:06
3.	Heinrich Haussler		Garmin-Cervélo	+ 0:09
4th	Damien Gaudin		Team Europcar	+ 0:10
5.	Jens Voigt		Leopard Trek	+ 0:11

2nd stage, Montfort-l'Amaury - Amilly

Result 2nd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Greg Henderson		Sky ProCycling	5:00:56 h
2.	Matthew Goss		HTC highroad	same time
3.	Denis Galimzyanov		Katyusha	same time
4th	Heinrich Haussler		Garmin-Cervélo	same time
5.	Peter Sagan		Liquigas-Cannondale	same time

Overall ranking after the 2nd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Thomas De Gendt		Vacansoleil DCM	9:05:48 h
2.	Greg Henderson		Sky ProCycling	+ 0:04
3.	Jérémy Roy		FDJ	+ 0:07
4th	Matthew Goss		HTC highroad	+ 0:08
5.	Tony Gallopin		Cofidis	+ 0:08

3rd stage, Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire - Nuits-Saint-Georges

Result 3rd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Matthew Goss		HTC highroad	5:16:48 h
2.	Heinrich Haussler		Garmin-Cervélo	same time
3.	Denis Galimzyanov		Katyusha	same time
4th	José Joaquín Rojas Gil		Movistar team	same time
5.	Geraint Thomas		Sky ProCycling	same time

Overall ranking after the 3rd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Matthew Goss		HTC highroad	14:22:34 h
2.	Thomas De Gendt		Vacansoleil DCM	+ 0:02
3.	Heinrich Haussler		Garmin-Cervélo	+ 0:06
4th	Greg Henderson		Sky ProCycling	+ 0:06
5.	Denis Galimzyanov		Katyusha	+ 0:08

4th stage, Crêches-sur-Saône - Belleville

Result 4th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Thomas Voeckler		Team Europcar	5:04:20 h
2.	Rémi Pauriol		FDJ	same time
3.	Thomas De Gendt		Vacansoleil DCM	same time
4th	Rémy Di Gregorio		Pro team Astana	same time
5.	Heinrich Haussler		Garmin-Cervélo	+ 0:13

Overall ranking after the 4th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Thomas De Gendt		Vacansoleil DCM	19:26:46 h
2.	Thomas Voeckler		Team Europcar	+ 0:10
3.	Rémi Pauriol		FDJ	+ 0:16
4th	Matthew Goss		HTC highroad	+ 0:21
5.	Rémy Di Gregorio		Pro team Astana	+ 0:24

5th stage, Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise - Vernoux-en-Vivarais

Result 5th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Andreas Klöden		Team RadioShack	4:59:00 h
2.	Samuel Sánchez		Euskaltel-Euskadi	same time
3.	Matteo Carrara		Vacansoleil DCM	same time
4th	Tony Martin		HTC highroad	same time
5.	Purely Taaramae		Cofidis	same time

Overall ranking after the 5th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Andreas Klöden		Team RadioShack	24:26:13 h
2.	Samuel Sánchez		Euskaltel-Euskadi	+ 0:04
3.	Matteo Carrara		Vacansoleil DCM	+ 0:06
4th	Tony Martin		HTC highroad	+ 0:10
5.	Robert Kišerlovski		Pro team Astana	+ 0:10

6th stage, Rognes - Aix-en-Provence (EZF)

Result 6th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Tony Martin		HTC highroad	33:24 min
2.	Bradley Wiggins		Sky ProCycling	+ 0:20
3.	Richie Porte		Saxo Bank SunGard	+ 0:29
4th	Andreas Klöden		Team RadioShack	+ 0:46
5.	Jean-Christophe Péraud		ag2r La Mondiale	+ 0:55

Overall ranking after the 6th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Tony Martin		HTC highroad	24:59:47 h
2.	Andreas Klöden		Team RadioShack	+ 0:36
3.	Bradley Wiggins		Sky ProCycling	+ 0:39
4th	Purely Taaramae		Cofidis	+ 1:10
5.	Jean-Christophe Péraud		ag2r La Mondiale	+ 1:14

7th stage, Brignoles - Biot Sofia-Antipolis

Result 7th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Rémy Di Gregorio		Pro team Astana	5:46:23 h
2.	Samuel Sánchez		Euskaltel-Euskadi	+ 0:05
3.	Rigoberto Urán		Sky ProCycling	+ 0:05
4th	Andreas Klöden		Team RadioShack	+ 0:07
5.	Tony Martin		HTC highroad	+ 0:07

Overall ranking after the 7th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Tony Martin		HTC highroad	30:46:17 h
2.	Andreas Klöden		Team RadioShack	+ 0:36
3.	Bradley Wiggins		Sky ProCycling	+ 0:41
4th	Purely Taaramae		Cofidis	+ 1:10
5.	Jean-Christophe Péraud		ag2r La Mondiale	+ 1:21

8th stage, Nice - Nice

Result 8th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Thomas Voeckler		Team Europcar	3:15:58 h
2.	Diego Ulissi		Lampre ISD	+ 0:23
3.	Julien El-Fares		Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne	+ 1:06
4th	Samuel Sánchez		Euskaltel-Euskadi	same time
5.	David López García		Euskaltel-Euskadi	same time

Overall ranking after the 8th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Tony Martin		HTC highroad	34:03:37 h
2.	Andreas Klöden		Team RadioShack	+ 0:36
3.	Bradley Wiggins		Sky ProCycling	+ 0:41
4th	Purely Taaramae		Cofidis	+ 1:10
5.	Samuel Sánchez		Euskaltel-Euskadi	+ 1:13

Ratings

The point distribution was as follows:

Intermediate sprints

1: 3 seconds, 3 points

2: 2 seconds, 2 points

3: 1 seconds, 1 point

Finish sprint

1: 10 seconds, 25 points

2: 06 seconds, 22 points

3: 04 seconds, 18 points

4 - 20: 16 - 15 - 14 - 13 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1

Mountain ratings

1st category

1: 10 points

2: 8 points

3: 6 points

4: 4 points

5: 3 points

6: 2 points

7: 1 points

2nd category

1: 7 points

2: 5 points

3: 3 points

4: 2 points

5: 1 points

3rd category

1: 4 points

2: 2 points

3: 1 points

Ratings in the course of the tour

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

	Overall rating	Sprint scoring	Mountain scoring	Young talent evaluation	Team evaluation
1st stage	Thomas De Gendt	Thomas De Gendt	Damien Gaudin	Thomas De Gendt	Vacansoleil DCM
2nd stage		Greg Henderson
3rd stage	Matthew Goss	Heinrich Haussler	Jussi Veikkanen	Matthew Goss
4th stage	Thomas De Gendt		Rémi Pauriol	Thomas De Gendt
5th stage	Andreas Klöden			Robert Kišerlovski	Team RadioShack
6th stage	Tony Martin			Purely Taaramae
7th stage
8th stage

Final score

For the first time in the history of the Paris-Nice long-distance journey, the "Journey to the Sun" ended with a German double victory. It was Tony Martin of HTC-Highroad his favorite role justice that had been assigned to him after his success at the Volta ao Algarve. He achieved one of his biggest goals of the season and won the third round of his professional career. Like Klöden, winner of the 2000 edition, he celebrated a stage win and was the fourth German to win Paris-Nice. Martin presented himself confidently in the individual time trial as well as in the mountains. But Klöden also showed a good performance with a stage win and a day as the overall leader.

For the German-Australian Heinrich Haussler , the race was also a success. Although he did not win a stage despite several top 10 placements, despite a fall on the penultimate section he was able to win the points classification.

The French drivers celebrated a total of three stage successes thanks to Rémy Di Gregorio from Pro Team Astana , who won his first professional victory, and national champion Thomas Voeckler from Team Europcar , who got the upper hand twice. In addition, Rémi Pauriol was able to win the mountain classification and, as expected, the French were increasingly in breakaway groups.

Web links

• Paris – Nice 2011 on the OSA website