2016 Rund um Köln (1.1), Germany
(Tour of Cologne)
100th Edition: Sunday, June 12, 2016
Rund um Köln podium history | 2015 edition | 2017 edition | Race profile
Köln - Köln, 205.8 km
Dylan Groenewegen wins the 2016 Rund um Köln
The Race: Here's the report from LottoNL-Jumbo.
LottoNL-Jumbo's Dylan Groenewegen sprinted to win the 100th edition of Rund um Köln today in Germany. After 205.8 kilometres, he topped Germans André Greipel (Lotto-Soudal) and Nikias Arndt (Giant-Alpecin).
After the peloton caught the early break, American Taylor Phinney tried to escape in the final. LottoNL-Jumbo and Lotto-Soudal worked for a bunch sprint, and Groenewegen was put perfect in position by his team-mates and won by a bike length.
"It was a great day for me, and for the team,” Groenewegen said. "Such sprints give you a lot of confidence, we worked hard on the lead-out train. At six kilometres to go, we began the lead-out and in the last hundred metres, I went all out. I was put into place perfectly. The sprint was actually perfect, this is something that we worked on all year, to deliver these sprints. We have great photo now, with me next to Greipel on the podium."
“Like last week in Belgium, this was one of those days were everything went according to plan,” said Sports Director Nico Verhoeven. "In the last metres, the team put Dylan perfect in position so could begin his sprint ideally. Then beating Greipel, that’s absolutely beautiful.”
Early in the race, a break-away went with not one LottoNL-Jumbo rider involved. That was according to plan. "As soon as you send a rider to join, the other teams will do the same and you get a very different situation,” Verhoeven added. “When the group was away, we knew it was going to be a controlled race."
The difference to the leaders never went more than four minutes. "We did not lead the chase always, but we had a rider in front of the peloton at all times."
Complete Results:
205.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.67 km/hr
| 1 | Groenewegen, Dylan | LottoNL-Jumbo | 4hr 42min 45sec |
| 2 | Greipel, André | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 3 | Arndt, Nikias | Giant-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 4 | Sbaragli, Kristian | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 5 | Renshaw, Mark | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 6 | Ciolek, Gerald | Stölting Service Group | s.t. |
| 7 | Ackermann, Pascal | Rad Net Rose | s.t. |
| 8 | Bauhaus, Phil | Bora-Argon 18 | s.t. |
| 9 | Vanspeybrouck, Pieter | Topsport Vlaanderen | s.t. |
| 10 | Von Hoff, Steele | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 11 | Krieger, Alexander | Leopard Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 12 | Duque, Leonardo | Delko Marseille Provence | s.t. |
| 13 | Zabel, Rick | BMC | s.t. |
| 14 | Van Lerberghe, Bert | Topsport Vlaanderen | s.t. |
| 15 | Thwaites, Scott | Bora-Argon 18 | s.t. |
| 16 | Meijers, Jeroen | Rabobank Development | s.t. |
| 17 | Holler, Nikodemus | Stradalli-Bike Aid | s.t. |
| 18 | De Buyst, Jasper | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 19 | Schelling, Patrick | Vorarlberg | s.t. |
| 20 | Grosser, Aaron | Team Sauerland NRW | s.t. |
| 21 | Gunst, Davy | Rabobank Development | s.t. |
| 22 | Müller, Robert | Heizomat | s.t. |
| 23 | Pfingsten, Christoph | Bora-Argon 18 | s.t. |
| 24 | Wagner, Robert | LottoNL-Jumbo | s.t. |
| 25 | Hunt, Joshua | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 26 | Frahm, Jasper | LKT Team Brandenburg | s.t. |
| 27 | Jäger, Patrick | Vorarlberg | s.t. |
| 28 | Der, Zsolt | Vorarlberg | s.t. |
| 29 | Mathis, Marco | Rad Net Rose | s.t. |
| 30 | Tusveld, Martijn | Rabobank Development | s.t. |
| 31 | Preidler, Georg | Giant-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 32 | McCormick, Hayden | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 33 | Van Hoecke, Gijs | Topsport Vlaanderen | s.t. |
| 34 | Velits, Peter | BMC | s.t. |
| 35 | Selig, Rüdiger | Bora-Argon 18 | s.t. |
| 36 | Fußnegger, Moritz | Christina Jewelry | s.t. |
| 37 | Hrinkow, Dominik | Hrinkow Advarics | s.t. |
| 38 | Rosskopf, Joey | BMC | s.t. |
| 39 | Gerdemann, Linus | Stölting Service Group | s.t. |
| 40 | Farazijn, Maxime | Topsport Vlaanderen | s.t. |
| 41 | Eisel, Bernhard | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 42 | Vanmarcke, Sep | LottoNL-Jumbo | + 00' 13'' |
| 43 | De Backer, Bert | Giant-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 44 | Kanter, Max | LKT Team Brandenburg | s.t. |
| 45 | Maas, Jan | Rabobank Development | s.t. |
| 46 | Haller, Patrick | Rad Net Rose | s.t. |
| 47 | Lenderink, Peter | Rabobank Development | s.t. |
| 48 | Vingerling, Michael | Team 3M | s.t. |
| 49 | Wegmann, Fabian | Stölting Service Group | s.t. |
| 50 | Lietaer, Eliot | Topsport Vlaanderen | s.t. |
| 51 | Roosen, Timo | LottoNL-Jumbo | s.t. |
| 52 | Šiškevičius, Evaldas | Delko Marseille Provence | s.t. |
| 53 | Kirsch, Alex | Stölting Service Group | s.t. |
| 54 | Nõmmela, Aksel | Leopard Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 55 | Meisen, Marcel | Team Kuota-Lotto | s.t. |
| 56 | Kämna, Lennard | Stölting Service Group | s.t. |
| 57 | Meier, Alexander | Hrinkow Advarics | s.t. |
| 58 | Tschernoster, Jan | Rad Net Rose | s.t. |
| 59 | Winter, Nicolas | Vorarlberg | s.t. |
| 60 | Declercq, Tim | Topsport Vlaanderen | s.t. |
| 61 | Dongen, Ricardo van | Team 3M | s.t. |
| 62 | Drücker, Jempy | BMC | + 00' 20'' |
| 63 | Gerts, Floris | BMC | s.t. |
| 64 | Mager, Christian | Stölting Service Group | s.t. |
| 65 | Sieberg, Marcel | Lotto-Soudal | + 00' 25'' |
| 66 | Andersen, Søren | Giant-Alpecin | + 00' 28'' |
| 67 | De Bie, Sean | Lotto-Soudal | + 00' 30'' |
| 68 | Bichlmann, Daniel | Stradalli-Bike Aid | + 00' 32'' |
| 69 | Janssen, Dick | Team 3M | s.t. |
| 70 | Vogt, Mario | Rad Net Rose | s.t. |
| 71 | Intra, Felix | Team Sauerland NRW | s.t. |
| 72 | Pacher, Quentin | Delko Marseille Provence | s.t. |
| 73 | Foti, Carmelo | Leopard Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 74 | Winter, Laurin | Heizomat | s.t. |
| 75 | Rapp, Jonas | Heizomat | s.t. |
| 76 | Wouters, Sieben | Rabobank Development | s.t. |
| 77 | Vliegen, Loïc | BMC | + 00' 34'' |
| 78 | Reutter, Sven | Stölting Service Group | s.t. |
| 79 | Lübbers, Dorian | Heizomat | s.t. |
| 80 | Koep, Thomas | Stölting Service Group | s.t. |
| 81 | Mortensen, Martin | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 82 | Herklotz, Silvio | Bora-Argon 18 | s.t. |
| 83 | Hupond, Thierry | Delko Marseille Provence | s.t. |
| 84 | Degreve, Martijn | Team 3M | s.t. |
| 85 | Hofstede, Lennard | Rabobank Development | + 00' 37'' |
| 86 | Stamsnijder, Tom | Giant-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 87 | Bouwmans, Dylan | Rabobank Development | s.t. |
| 88 | Schillinger, Andreas | Bora-Argon 18 | s.t. |
| 89 | Knaup, Tobias | Team Kuota-Lotto | s.t. |
| 90 | Freienstein, Raphael | Team Kuota-Lotto | + 00' 43'' |
| 91 | Zijl, Melvin van | Team 3M | + 00' 01'' |
| 92 | Nowak, Florian | Christina Jewelry | + 01' 02'' |
| 93 | Meiler, Lukas | Vorarlberg | s.t. |
| 94 | Müller, Nathan | Heizomat | s.t. |
| 95 | Wynants, Maarten | LottoNL-Jumbo | s.t. |
| 96 | Walscheid, Max | Giant-Alpecin | + 01' 05'' |
| 97 | Retschke, Robert | Team Kuota-Lotto | s.t. |
| 98 | Vandenbak, Laurent | Leopard Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 99 | Dombrowski, Frederik | Team Kuota-Lotto | s.t. |
| 100 | Smith, Dion | One Pro Cycling | + 01' 07'' |
| 101 | Venter, Jaco | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 102 | Stork, Florian | Team Sauerland NRW | + 01' 20'' |
| 103 | Leinau, Joann | Team Sauerland NRW | s.t. |
| 104 | Hansen, Adam | Lotto-Soudal | + 01' 23'' |
| 105 | Van Meirhaeghe, Jef | Topsport Vlaanderen | + 01' 25'' |
| 106 | Pöstlberger, Lukas | Bora-Argon 18 | + 01' 26'' |
| 107 | Schwarzmann, Michael | Bora-Argon 18 | s.t. |
| 108 | Weinzheimer, Richard | Team Kuota-Lotto | + 01' 43'' |
| 109 | Härtig, Jonas | Team Sauerland NRW | s.t. |
| 110 | Leezer, Tom | LottoNL-Jumbo | + 01' 48'' |
| 111 | Emden, Jos van | LottoNL-Jumbo | + 02' 04'' |
| 112 | Tjallingii, Maarten | LottoNL-Jumbo | s.t. |
| 113 | Koretzky, Clément | Vorarlberg | + 02' 10'' |
| 114 | Laas, Martin | Delko Marseille Provence | s.t. |
| 115 | Treubel, Pascal | Heizomat | s.t. |
| 116 | Huppertz, Joshua | Team Kuota-Lotto | + 03' 08'' |
| 117 | Phinney, Taylor | BMC | + 03' 13'' |
| 118 | Kessler, Robert | LKT Team Brandenburg | s.t. |
| 119 | Senni, Manuel | BMC | + 03' 32'' |
| 120 | Benetseder, Josef | Hrinkow Advarics | s.t. |
| 121 | Soballa, Carl | LKT Team Brandenburg | s.t. |
| 122 | De Vos, Gertjan | Team 3M | s.t. |
| 123 | Liß, Lucas | Rad Net Rose | s.t. |
| 124 | Stritzinger, Joshua | Christina Jewelry | s.t. |
| 125 | Schulze, Julian | Christina Jewelry | + 03' 36'' |
| 126 | Olesen, Patrick | Leopard Pro Cycling | + 03' 47'' |
