I dag startede Nations Cup for U23-rytterne. GP Portugal åbnede ballet og allerede på 1. etape blev det kørt rigtig stærkt, og klassementet blev spredt godt og grundt ud. Første etape blev kørt fra Felgueiras til Lixa over 148.7 km.
Dagens løbet endte med en flot solo sejr til Vitor Rodrigues (Portugal), som kunne fejre triumfen på hjemmebanen. Bedste dansker blev Rasmus Guldhammer, som nummer 19 og danskeren fik dermed en flot debut på U23-landsholdet - trods han sluttede tre minutter efter dagens vinder. Guldhammer er efter 1. etape placeret som nummer to i ungdomskonkurrencen. Troels Vinther sad i samme gruppe, som Rasmus Guldhammer og blev nummer 24.
Resultat af 1. etape1 Vitor Rodrigues - Portugal A 3.59.09 (37.307 km/t)
2 Ben Gastauer -
Luxembourg 1.17
3 Antony Roux -
France 1.25
4 Pierpaolo De Negri -
Italy 1.28
5 Jacques Van Resnburg - Mixed 1.47
6 Gasper Svab - Slovenia 1.54
7 Marcel Fischer -
Germany 8 Andrey Kluvev -
Russia 9 Andrei Solomennikov - Russia 1.56
10 Pedro Merino -
Spain 11 Cyril Bessy - France
12 Salvatore Mancuso - Italy 1.59
13 Pavel Kochetkov - Russia
14
Rafael Valls - Spain
15 Simon Geschke - Germany
16 Arjen De Baat - Netherlands 2.57
17
Juraj Sagan -
Slovakia 3.00
18 Henrique Casimiro - Portugal B
19 Rasmus Guldhammer - Denmark 20 Sergiu Cioban - Mixed
21 Rafaa Chtioui - Mixed
22 Damien Branaa - France
23 Michael Franzl - Germany
24 Troels Vinter - Denmark 25 Egor Silin - Russia
26 Lars Vierhergen - Netherlands
27 Marcos Garcia - Spain
28 Marco Coelho - Portugal B
29
Rein Taaramae - Mixed 3.09
30 Ricardo Vilela - Portugal A
31 Esteban Plaza - Spain 7.08
32 Jakob Bering - Denmark 33 Dejan Bajt - Slovenia
34 Joäo Benta - Portugal A
35 Massimo Pirrera - Italy 7.33
36
Wout Poels - Netherlands 7.46
37 Dominik Nerz - Germany 9.05
38 Sergei Kolesnikov - Russia 9.34
39 Martin Haring - Slovakia
40 Salvador Guardiola - Spain
41 Florian Frohn - Germany
42 Bruno Silva - Portugal B 11.14
43 Ricardo Pereira - Portugal B
44 Marcio Barbosa - Portugal A
45 Sebastian Hans - Germany
46 Yvo Kusters - Netherlands
47 Thomas Kvist - Denmark
48 Andreas Frisch - Denmark
49 Jocelyn Bar - France
50 Jonathan Thire - France
51 Mario Contreras - Mixed
52 Luca Barla - Italy 13.58
53 Dmitry Sokolov - Russia 18.33
54 Carlo Kirsch - Luxembourg
55 Rob Ruijgh - Netherlands
56 Marco Hlebanja - Slovenia
57 Leonardo Pinizzoto - Italy
58
Andi Bajc - Slovenia
59 Luca Dodi - Italy
60 Alcides Almeida - Portugal A
61 Carlos Baltazar - Portugal B
62 Jozef Palcák - Slovakia
63 Bjorn Selander -
United States 64 Guy East - United States
65
Hayato Yoshida - Japan 18.41
66 Samuel Coelho - Portugal A 21.09
67 Brad Armstrong - United States
68 Daniel Mestre - Portugal B
69 Rok Grilc - Slovenia
70 Caleb Fairly - United States
71 Blaz Furdi - Slovenia
72 Seiichi Koshinomi - Japan 21.52
73 Kim Michely - Luxembourg 21.54
74 Cyrille Heymans - Luxembourg
75 Clinton Avery - Mixed 20.28
76 Joel Zangerle - Luxembourg 23.10
77 Patrik Tybor - Slovakia 22.16
78 Benjamin Bradshaw - United States 24.38
79 Kazushige Kuboki - Japan
80 Niki Østergaard - Denmark 28.06 81 Chris Barton - United States 29.10
82 Damien Robert - France 32.56
83 Niv Libner - Finland/Israel 38.21
84 Kohei Uchima - Japan 38.26
85 Masakazu Ito - Japan
86 Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka - Japan
Samlet stilling efter 1. etape1 Vitor Rodrigues - Portugal A 3.58.59
2 Ben Gastauer - Luxembourg 1.21
3 Antony Roux - France 1.31
4 Pierpaolo De Negri - Italy 1.38
5 Jacques Van Resnburg - Mixed 1.57
6 Marcel Fischer - Germany 1.58
7 Gasper Svab - Slovenia 2.04
8 Andrey Kluvev - Russia
9 Andrei Solomennikov - Russia 2.06
10 Pedro Merino - Spain
11 Cyril Bessy - France
12 Salvatore Mancuso - Italy 2.09
13 Pavel Kochetkov - Russia
14 Rafael Valls - Spain
15 Simon Geschke - Germany
16 Damien Branaa - France 3.05
17 Arjen De Baat - Netherlands 3.07
18 Juraj Sagan - Slovakia 3.10
19 Henrique Casimiro - Portugal B
20 Rasmus Guldhammer - Denmark 21 Sergiu Cioban - Mixed
22 Rafaa Chtioui - Mixed
23 Michael Franzl - Germany
24 Troels Vinter - Denmark
25 Egor Silin - Russia
26 Lars Vierhergen - Netherlands
27 Marcos Garcia - Spain
28 Marco Coelho - Portugal B
29 Rein Taaramae - Mixed 3.19
30 Ricardo Vilela - Portugal A
31 Joäo Benta - Portugal A 7.17
32 Esteban Plaza - Spain 7.18
33 Jakob Bering - Denmark 34 Dejan Bajt - Slovenia
35 Massimo Pirrera - Italy 7.43
36 Wout Poels - Netherlands 7.56
37 Dominik Nerz - Germany 9.15
38 Florian Frohn - Germany 9.42
39 Sergei Kolesnikov - Russia 9.44
40 Martin Haring - Slovakia
41 Salvador Guardiola - Spain
42 Andreas Frisch - Denmark 11.23 43 Bruno Silva - Portugal B 11.24
44 Ricardo Pereira - Portugal B
45 Marcio Barbosa - Portugal A
46 Sebastian Hans - Germany
47 Yvo Kusters - Netherlands
48 Thomas Kvist - Denmark
49 Jocelyn Bar - France
50 Jonathan Thire - France
51 Mario Contreras - Mixed
52 Luca Barla - Italy 14.08
53 Dmitry Sokolov - Russia 18.43
54 Carlo Kirsch - Luxembourg
55 Rob Ruijgh - Netherlands
56 Marco Hlebanja - Slovenia
57 Leonardo Pinizzoto - Italy
58 Andi Bajc - Slovenia
59 Luca Dodi - Italy
60 Alcides Almeida - Portugal A
61 Carlos Baltazar - Portugal B
62 Jozef Palcák - Slovakia
63 Bjorn Selander - United States
64 Guy East - United States
65 Hayato Yoshida - Japan 18.51
66 Clinton Avery - Mixed 20.38
67 Samuel Coelho - Portugal A 21.19
68 Brad Armstrong - United States
69 Daniel Mestre - Portugal B
70 Rok Grilc - Slovenia
71 Caleb Fairly - United States
72 Blaz Furdi - Slovenia
73 Seiichi Koshinomi - Japan 22.02
74 Kim Michely - Luxembourg 22.04
75 Cyrille Heymans - Luxembourg
76 Patrik Tybor - Slovakia 22.26
77 Joel Zangerle - Luxembourg 23.20
78 Benjamin Bradshaw - United States 24.48
79 Kazushige Kuboki - Japan
80 Niki Østergaard - Denmark 28.16
81 Chris Barton - United States 29.18
82 Damien Robert - France 33.06
83 Niv Libner - Finland/Israel 38.30
84 Kohei Uchima - Japan 38.36
85 Masakazu Ito - Japan
86 Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka - Japan
Pointkonkurrencen efter 1. etape1 Vitor Rodrigues - Portugal A 25 pts
2 Ben Gastauer - Luxembourg 20
3 Antony Roux - France 16
4 Pierpaolo De Negri - Italy 13
5 Marcel Fischer - Germany 12
6 Jacques Van Resnburg - Mixed 10
7 Gasper Svab - Slovenia 8
8 Damien Branaa - France 5
9 Andrey Kluvev - Russia 4
10 Andrei Solomennikov - Russia 2
11 Florian Frohn - Germany 2
12 Chris Barton - United States 2
13 Pedro Merino - Spain 1
14 Joäo Benta - Portugal A 1
15 Andreas Frisch - Denmark 1 16 Niv Libner - Finland/Israel 1
Bjergkonkurrencen efter 1. etape
1 Simon Geschke - Germany 21 pts
2 Jacques Van Resnburg - Mixed 21
3 Damien Branaa - France 10
4 Vitor Rodrigues - Portugal A 8
5 Florian Frohn - Germany 8
6 Egor Silin - Russia 6
7 Andreas Frisch - Denmark 6 8 Ben Gastauer - Luxembourg 4
9 Gasper Svab - Slovenia 4
10 Andrey Kluvev - Russia 4
11 Pedro Merino - Spain 4
Ungdomskonkurrencen efter 1. etape1 Juraj Sagan - Slovakia
2 Rasmus Guldhammer - Denmark 3 Sergiu Cioban - Mixed
4 Egor Silin - Russia
5 Lars Vierhergen - Netherlands
6 Marco Coelho - Portugal B
7 Jakob Bering - Denmark 8 Dominik Nerz - Germany
9 Salvador Guardiola - Spain
10 Bruno Silva - Portugal B
11 Jocelyn Bar - France
Holdkonkurrencen efter 1. etape1 Russian Federation 12.03.16
2 France 0.32
3 Germany 1.04
4 Spain 1.06
5 Mixed 2 1.58
6 Portugal 1 4.28
7 Italy 5.11
8 Denmark 7.19 9 Netherlands 7.54
10 Portugal 2 11.25
11 Slovenia 21.46
12 Slovakia 25.18
13 Luxembourg 35.55
14 United States Of America 52.26
15 Japan 59.22