2018 Deutschland Tour
Male Team 23 - 26 Aug

Deutschland-Tour

737 Kilometers 4 Stages
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Participants list

  1. Jorge Arcas
  2. Nuno Bico
  3. Rubén Fernández
  4. Antonio Pedrero
  5. Dayer Quintana
  6. Jasha Sütterlin
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TV

There will be live coverage on Eurosport, plus HR, SR, SWR, WDR / ZDF and ARD in Germany. World feed start times are as follows: 2.00pm CEST (Thu-Fri); 2.50pm (Sat); and 3.20pm (Sun).
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Timetable

The opening two stages will finish around 3.45pm CEST; stage three is scheduled to end around 4.35pm; and Sunday's showdown will be completed at 5.05pm circa.
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Bonus

Just like in the Tour de France (we must note the race is co-organised by ASO), the intermediate sprint only have points for the green jersey up for grabs - there will, in fact, be one bonus sprint per stage, usually near the finish, with 3-2-1″ awarded at each. The finishes will have the usual 10-6-4 seconds for the top three.
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Social Media

The race's official Twitter account is @DeineTour (literally, “Your Race”); the official hashtag will be #DeutschlandTour.
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Score

During its previous era and as part of the UCI ProTour, the Movistar Team snatched two stage wins, both at mountain ranges: one with Francisco Mancebo in 2004 (Fichtelberg) and the other with David López in 2007 (Sölden).

Stages

Analysis

01
Koblenz - Bonn (157km)
23 August
  1. 01 Álvaro Hodeg Quick Step 3h35'08"
  2. 02 Pascal Ackermann Bora-Hansgrohe "
  3. 03 Niccolò Bonifazio Bahrain-Merida "
  4. 21 Jasha Sütterlin Movistar Team "
  5. 50 Nuno Bico Movistar Team "
  6. 53 Rubén Fernández Movistar Team "
  7. 58 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team "
  8. 73 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team "
  9. 79 Dayer Quintana Movistar Team "
02
Bonn - Trier (196km)
24 August
  1. 01 Max Schachmann Quick Step 4h50'36"
  2. 02 Matej Mohoric Bahrain-Merida "
  3. 03 Tom Dumoulin Team Sunweb "
  4. 15 Rubén Fernández Movistar Team +12"
  5. 25 Jasha Sütterlin Movistar Team +32"
  6. 33 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team "
  7. 39 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team "
  8. 47 Dayer Quintana Movistar Team +2'40"
  9. 114 Nuno Bico Movistar Team +14'04"
03
Trier - Merzig (177km)
25 August
  1. 01 Matej Mohoric Bahrain-Merida 4h12'28"
  2. 02 Nils Politt Katusha-Alpecin "
  3. 03 Pieter Vanspeybrouck Wanty-Groupe Gobert "
  4. 04 Jasha Sütterlin Movistar Team "
  5. 28 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team "
  6. 30 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team "
  7. 32 Rubén Fernández Movistar Team "
  8. 68 Dayer Quintana Movistar Team +3'00"
  9. 101 Nuno Bico Movistar Team +11'10"
04
Lorsch - Stuttgart (207.5km)
26 August
  1. 01 Nils Politt Katusha-Alpecin 4h49'20"
  2. 02 Matej Mohoric Bahrain-Merida "
  3. 03 Damiano Caruso BMC Racing Team "
  4. 12 Rubén Fernández Movistar Team "
  5. 22 Jasha Sütterlin Movistar Team +27"
  6. 27 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team "
  7. 49 Dayer Quintana Movistar Team +2'30"
  8. 57 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team "
  9. 86 Nuno Bico Movistar Team +8'11"

Analysis

The Movistar Team will be present at a revived, historical race, which had spent an entire decade out of the calendar and will honour in 2018 the strong present and future of cycling in Germany.

The 33rd Deutschland Tour (UCI 2.1) will start from Koblenz, home of the Blues’ bike partner Canyon, and cover four days of racing really attractive and full of chances for different riders. Actually, the only day really suited for sprinters will be the inaugural stage to Bonn (Thursday 23rd), 157km with just one minor hill at fourty kilometers from the end.

All three other stages will be tricky, lumpy ones. Five climbs, including the Petrisberg -with a bonus sprint at its top, see ‘Bonuses’ section-, will be covered on day two to Trier (196km; Friday 24th); several difficult slopes plus the bonus Eller Weg are scheduled on stage three (177km; Saturday 25th); and the Herdweg hill in Stuttgart, featuring in the 2017 Worlds road race course, will decide the race’s outcome (207km, Sunday 26th).