Four days of Dunkirk 2011
| Four days of Dunkirk 2011 | |
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| Host country |
 France
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| Competition period | May 4th to 8th |
| Stages | 5 stages |
| overall length | 882.4 km |
| Starting field | 140 in 18 teams (109 of them arrived at the finish) |
| winner | |
| Overall rating | 1. Thomas Voeckler 20:36:01 h 2. Laurent Pichon + 01:50 min 3. Zdeněk Štybar + 01:52 min 
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| Team evaluation |
Brittany-Schuller 61:54:35 h
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| Scoring jerseys | |
 total
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Thomas Voeckler
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 Points
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 Marcel Kittel
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 mountain
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Anthony Colin
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 offspring
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Laurent Pichon
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| ← Four days of Dunkirk 2010 | Four days of Dunkirk 2012 → |
The 57th Four Days of Dunkirk was a cycling stage race that took place from April 4 to 8, 2011 in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of northern France . It was held in five stages over a total distance of 882 kilometers. The race was part of the UCI Europe Tour and was classified in the highest category 2nd HC.
Attendees
There were 18 professional teams at the start, six of them with ProTeam licenses ( Ag2r La Mondiale , Katjuscha , Leopard Trek , Quickstep , Saxo Bank SunGard and Vacansoleil-DCM ) and 10 UCI Professional Continental Teams as well as two Continental teams from France .
route
The first stage led the field from Dunkirk on the coast to Orchies , with two mountain classifications and three intermediate sprints on the program.
The next part of the day ended in Iwuy and again had two mountain ratings. As in the previous stages, the third one had a flat profile, the finish was in Le Cateau-cambrésis, where two finish laps were completed.
The king's stage was completed on the fourth day and, at 189 kilometers, was also the longest section. At the finish in Cassel , a finish lap had to be driven nine times, on which there were two mountain ratings that each had to be climbed three times.
The last, flat section began in Grande-Synthe, a few kilometers from Dunkirk, then led inland to finally end in Dunkirk , where nine laps of seven kilometers were on the program.
Stages
| stage | Day | Start finish | Type | km | Stage winner | Overall rating |
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| 1. | May 4th | Dunkirk > Orchies |  |
180.6 |
Marcel Kittel
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Marcel Kittel
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| 2. | 5th of May | Agglo > Iwuy | |
166.0 |
Marcel Kittel
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| 3. | May 6th | Caudry > Le Cateau-Cambrésis | |
171.2 |
Marcel Kittel
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| 4th | May 7th | Hazebrouck > Cassel |  |
189.6 |
Thomas Voeckler
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Thomas Voeckler
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| 5. | 8th of May | Grande-Synthe > Dunkirk | |
175 |
Marcel Kittel
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Race course
The four flat stages each ended in a mass sprint, which the German new professional Marcel Kittel from Skil-Shimano dominated at will. The Thuringian was the first to finish all sprint arrivals and easily won the points classification. Neither the two-time runner-up Jauheni Hutarowitsch or Denis Galimsyanow - once second and once third - got past Kittel.
As expected, the overall ranking was decided on the hilly 4th stage. On the final laps the field was divided into several groups, the French champion Thomas Voeckler from Team Europcar attacked from the top group and confidently secured the day's victory and the pink jersey that had previously worn Kittel with a lead of over one and a half minutes.
Scoring jerseys in the course of the race
| stage |
total
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Points
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mountain
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offspring
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 team
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| 1. | Marcel Kittel | Marcel Kittel | Anthony Colin | Marcel Kittel | Katusha team |
| 2. | Sylvain Georges | ||||
| 3. | Anthony Colin | ||||
| 4th | Thomas Voeckler | Laurent Pichon | Brittany Schuller | ||
| 5. |
Web links
- Four days of Dunkirk 2011 in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Strassenradsport.com Results ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
