2019 Volta ao Algarve (HC), Portugal
45th edition: February 20-24, 2019
Volta ao Algarve podium history | 2018 edition | 2020 edition | Start list
Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5
Sunday, February 24: 5th & final stage, Faro - Alto do Malhao (Loulé), 173.5 km
Zdenek Stybar has time to sit up and take a solo victory salute.
Weather at the finish at Malhao at 12:30 pm, local time: 21C (70F) , sunny, with the wind from the NE at 8 km/hr (5 mph). No rain is forecast.
The race: Here's the report from stage winner Zdenek Stybar's Deceuninck-Quick Step team.
Zdenek Stybar basked in his first win in almost two years, on the final day of Volta ao Algarve, which took the bunch from Faro to Alto do Malhão, the most iconic climb of the region, where for the fourth consecutive year hosted the last stage of the race. Stybar, who kickstarted his 2019 campaign in Portugal, thus became the seventh different rider of Deceuninck – Quick-Step to earn a victory in the two months that have passed since the start of the season.
“I am very happy, because in the past two years I have always been on the attack on this stage and in 2018 I was caught with one kilometer to go, but now I finally managed to finish it off and get my first victory of the season, which augurs well ahead of the Classics, where I hope to be in the best shape”, an ecstatic Zdenek said after the podium ceremony.
The winning move took shape on the penultimate climb of the day, Alto de Vermelhos, where the Czech responded to an attack of Soren Kragh Andersen (Team Sunweb). A lack of response from the yellow jersey or his team helped the two extend their gap to 30 seconds and soon bridge to the remnants of the huge breakaway group which had took off early in the stage and still contained Tim Declercq, who put in a solid stint at the front for his teammate, before the attacking duo went clear again.
On the run-in to Alto do Malhão (2.5 kilometers, 9.9%), Steven Cummings (Dimension Data) joined them, but the Brit was dropped on the lower slopes of the climb, where attacks started flying from the reduced group, which Enric Mas duly shut down, before launching a move of his own. In the meantime, at the front, Zdenek dispatched his companion with 300 meters to go and powered to Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s second win of the week in Portugal, after the one of Fabio Jakobsen in Lagos.
“I joined that attack because I felt there was a chance of going all the way, as I knew that the up and down parcours would favour such a move and make things difficult for the chasers. The victory is important because it serves as confirmation of the good winter preparation I’ve had and also a confidence boost. It was a perfect day for us, with me taking the victory, Tim in the breakaway and Enric showing his strong legs in the finale”, said Zdenek, sixth in the GC, after becoming the 12th different Deceuninck – Quick-Step rider to claim a stage at the Volta ao Algarve.
Enric Mas – who also made his season debut here – concluded the race a strong fourth in the general classification, just a few seconds shy off the overall podium, while the hard-working Tim Declercq – who throughout the week controlled the breakaways, be it on the flat or hills – spent the entire stage in the escape, picking up valuable KOM points (including at the first ascent of Malhão), a raid for which he was rewarded with the best climber jersey.
“Normally my job is to catch the breakaways and to help the team, but today I got green light to join the escape and do my own race”, a smiling Tim explained. “Taking the points on the climbs wasn’t the plan, but I began scoring them here and there and ended up going onto the podium after the stage. It’s not often that I win something, so I am very happy with this result and how our week went here.”
Complete Results
173.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.017 km/hr
| 1 | ŠTYBAR Zdeněk | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 4hr 13min 48sec |
| 2 | KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren | Team Sunweb | @ 3sec |
| 3 | POELS Wout | Sky | 0:09 |
| 4 | MAS Enric | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 0:12 |
| 5 | CUMMINGS Steve | Dimension Data | 0:17 |
| 6 | POGAČAR Tadej | UAE-Team Emirates | 0:18 |
| 7 | RODRIGUES João | W52/FC Porto | 0:24 |
| 8 | OOMEN Sam | Team Sunweb | 0:30 |
| 9 | GEOGHEGAN HART Tao | Sky | 0:31 |
| 10 | ANTUNES Amaro | CCC Team | 0:34 |
| 11 | BRAMBILLA Gianluca | Trek-Segafredo | 0:47 |
| 12 | FIGUEIREDO Frederico | Sporting-Tavira | 0:50 |
| 13 | MEURISSE Xandro | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | s.t. |
| 14 | HAGEN Carl Fredrik | Lotto-Soudal | 0:52 |
| 15 | POWLESS Neilson | Jumbo-Visma | 0:55 |
| 16 | HERRADA José | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 17 | ALARCÓN Raúl | W52/FC Porto | 1:01 |
| 18 | ŠPILAK Simon | Katusha-Alpecin | 1:03 |
| 19 | GUERREIRO Ruben | Katusha-Alpecin | 1:16 |
| 20 | KING Ben | Dimension Data | 1:30 |
| 21 | CLAEYS Dimitri | Cofidis | 1:32 |
| 22 | DE LA FUENTE David | Aviludo-Louletano | 1:37 |
| 23 | PETILLI Simone | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 24 | TEUNISSEN Mike | Jumbo-Visma | 1:41 |
| 25 | VALGREN Michael | Dimension Data | 1:55 |
| 26 | GOMES Luis | Radio Popular Boavista | 2:05 |
| 27 | GONÇALVES José | Katusha-Alpecin | 2:09 |
| 28 | CHERNETSKI Sergei | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 2:53 |
| 29 | DE LA CRUZ David | Sky | 3:09 |
| 30 | BENTA João | Radio Popular Boavista | s.t. |
| 31 | KÜNG Stefan | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 32 | VAN BAARLE Dylan | Sky | 3:49 |
| 33 | DECLERCQ Tim | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 3:57 |
| 34 | JANSEN Amund Grøndahl | Jumbo-Visma | 3:59 |
| 35 | LAMPAERT Yves | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 5:02 |
| 36 | CONTI Valerio | UAE-Team Emirates | 5:20 |
| 37 | SERRANO Gonzalo | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 5:29 |
| 38 | BARBIO António | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 5:34 |
| 39 | KOCH Jonas | CCC Team | 6:17 |
| 40 | BODNAR Maciej | Bora-hansgrohe | 6:48 |
| 41 | TEN DAM Laurens | CCC Team | 7:02 |
| 42 | POLITT Nils | Katusha-Alpecin | 7:21 |
| 43 | NAESEN Lawrence | Lotto-Soudal | 7:30 |
| 44 | DEL PINO Jesus | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 45 | HERNANDEZ Oscar | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 46 | MARQUE Alejandro | Sporting-Tavira | s.t. |
| 47 | CALDEIRA Samuel | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 48 | VEGA Sergio | Miranda-Mortágua | s.t. |
| 49 | BACKAERT Frederik | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | s.t. |
| 50 | MACHADO Tiago | Sporting-Tavira | s.t. |
| 51 | ARU Fabio | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 52 | WYSS Danilo | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 53 | MENDES José | Sporting-Tavira | s.t. |
| 54 | AMEZQUETA Julen | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 55 | BARBOSA João | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 56 | TUSVELD Martijn | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 57 | VAN DER HOORN Taco | Jumbo-Visma | 7:45 |
| 58 | ROOSEN Timo | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 59 | SILVA Rafael | Efapel | 8:00 |
| 60 | LE GAC Olivier | Groupama-FDJ | 8:02 |
| 61 | RODRIGUES David | Radio Popular Boavista | s.t. |
| 62 | DE GENDT Aimé | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 8:17 |
| 63 | HIRSCHI Marc | Team Sunweb | 8:23 |
| 64 | DEWULF Stan | Lotto-Soudal | 8:25 |
| 65 | VERVAEKE Louis | Team Sunweb | 8:40 |
| 66 | STANNARD Ian | Sky | 8:46 |
| 67 | SCHILLINGER Andreas | Bora-hansgrohe | 8:56 |
| 68 | DE BUYST Jasper | Lotto-Soudal | 9:07 |
| 69 | ZOIDL Riccardo | CCC Team | 9:26 |
| 70 | GARCÍA Vicente | Aviludo-Louletano | 9:50 |
| 71 | PEDERSEN Casper | Team Sunweb | 11:02 |
| 72 | PEDERSEN Mads | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 73 | KONOVALOVAS Ignatas | Groupama-FDJ | 11:16 |
| 74 | VANBILSEN Kenneth | Cofidis | 12:37 |
| 75 | LOURENCO Rafael | UD Oliveirense-InOutbuild | 13:17 |
| 76 | RIBEIRO David | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 14:09 |
| 77 | THEUNS Edward | Trek-Segafredo | 14:43 |
| 78 | MAES Nikolas | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 79 | WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads | Katusha-Alpecin | 15:14 |
| 80 | SANCHO Hugo | Miranda-Mortágua | 15:16 |
| 81 | DUARTE Emanuel | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 15:20 |
| 82 | PINHEIRO Ivo | Miranda-Mortágua | 15:40 |
| 83 | BAK Lars Ytting | Dimension Data | 15:48 |
| 84 | NUNES Hugo | Radio Popular Boavista | s.t. |
| 85 | SÉNÉCHAL Florian | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 15:50 |
| 86 | GUERRERO Pablo | Radio Popular Boavista | 15:53 |
| 87 | FREITAS Daniel | Miranda-Mortágua | 15:59 |
| 88 | FERNANDES Venceslau | UD Oliveirense-InOutbuild | 16:02 |
| 89 | KONRAD Patrick | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 90 | PHILIPSEN Jasper | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 91 | SINKELDAM Ramon | Groupama-FDJ | 16:29 |
| 92 | RAMALHO Andrè | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 16:37 |
| 93 | SELIG Rüdiger | Bora-hansgrohe | 16:41 |
| 94 | ACKERMANN Pascal | Bora-hansgrohe | 16:46 |
| 95 | ĐURASEK Kristijan | UAE-Team Emirates | 16:51 |
| 96 | IRISARRI Jon | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 97 | BARTA Will | CCC Team | 16:52 |
| 98 | TOFFALI Nicola | Sporting-Tavira | s.t. |
| 99 | DRUCKER Jempy | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 100 | MATHIS Marco | Cofidis | 16:57 |
| 101 | SCHWARZMANN Michael | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 102 | WAEYTENS Zico | Cofidis | 17:10 |
| 103 | VAN LERBERGHE Bert | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 104 | VAUGRENARD Benoît | Groupama-FDJ | 17:11 |
| 105 | MULLEN Ryan | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 106 | DEGENKOLB John | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 107 | MESTRE Ricardo | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 108 | KIRSCH Alex | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 109 | VAN GOETHEM Brian | Lotto-Soudal | 17:15 |
| 110 | GROENEWEGEN Dylan | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 111 | DEBUSSCHERE Jens | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 112 | FRISON Frederik | Lotto-Soudal | 17:39 |
| 113 | NOCENTINI Rinaldo | Sporting-Tavira | 17:40 |
| 114 | FERNANDES Luis | Aviludo-Louletano | 17:42 |
| 115 | SILVA Bruno | Efapel | s.t. |
| 116 | PAULINHO Pedro | Efapel | s.t. |
| 117 | GUARNIERI Jacopo | Groupama-FDJ | 17:46 |
| 118 | LOPES Pedro Jose | UD Oliveirense-InOutbuild | 18:15 |
| 119 | LOPES Pedro Miguel | UD Oliveirense-InOutbuild | 18:16 |
| 120 | OLIVEIRA Fabio | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 18:38 |
| 121 | JAKOBSEN Fabio | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 19:01 |
| 122 | BERNAS Paweł | CCC Team | 20:33 |
| 123 | ČERNÝ Josef | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 124 | COSTA Fabio | UD Oliveirense-InOutbuild | 21:06 |
| 125 | SOUSA José | UD Oliveirense-InOutbuild | s.t. |
| 126 | ANGULO Antonio | Efapel | 22:07 |
Final GC:
- Final GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE-Team Emirates)
- Mountains classification winner: Tim Declercq (Deceuninck-Quick Step)
- Points classification winner: Pasca Ackermann (Bora-hansgrohe)
- Best young rider: Tadej Pogacar (UAE-Team Emirates)
- Team classification winner: Team Sky
778.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.046 km/hr
| 1 | POGAČAR Tadej | UAE-Team Emirates | 19hr 26min 34sec |
| 2 | KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren | Team Sunweb | @ 14sec |
| 3 | POELS Wout | Sky | 0:21 |
| 4 | MAS Enric | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 0:25 |
| 5 | OOMEN Sam | Team Sunweb | 1:40 |
| 6 | ŠTYBAR Zdeněk | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 1:54 |
| 7 | POWLESS Neilson | Jumbo-Visma | 2:50 |
| 8 | ANTUNES Amaro | CCC Team | 2:52 |
| 9 | RODRIGUES João | W52/FC Porto | 3:27 |
| 10 | ŠPILAK Simon | Katusha-Alpecin | 3:47 |
| 11 | DE LA CRUZ David | Sky | 3:48 |
| 12 | HERRADA José | Cofidis | 4:07 |
| 13 | BRAMBILLA Gianluca | Trek-Segafredo | 4:16 |
| 14 | PETILLI Simone | UAE-Team Emirates | 4:18 |
| 15 | VALGREN Michael | Dimension Data | 4:48 |
| 16 | HAGEN Carl Fredrik | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 17 | KING Ben | Dimension Data | 6:12 |
| 18 | KÜNG Stefan | Groupama-FDJ | 6:13 |
| 19 | ALARCÓN Raúl | W52/FC Porto | 7:16 |
| 20 | CHERNETSKI Sergei | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 7:19 |
| 21 | FIGUEIREDO Frederico | Sporting-Tavira | 7:54 |
| 22 | CONTI Valerio | UAE-Team Emirates | 8:18 |
| 23 | CUMMINGS Steve | Dimension Data | 8:25 |
| 24 | DE LA FUENTE David | Aviludo-Louletano | 8:35 |
| 25 | GEOGHEGAN HART Tao | Sky | 8:49 |
| 26 | GOMES Luis | Radio Popular Boavista | 9:30 |
| 27 | GUERREIRO Ruben | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 28 | TUSVELD Martijn | Team Sunweb | 10:01 |
| 29 | ARU Fabio | UAE-Team Emirates | 10:21 |
| 30 | MEURISSE Xandro | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 10:25 |
| 31 | HIRSCHI Marc | Team Sunweb | 10:40 |
| 32 | TEN DAM Laurens | CCC Team | 11:26 |
| 33 | LAMPAERT Yves | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 11:42 |
| 34 | BENTA João | Radio Popular Boavista | 11:51 |
| 35 | BACKAERT Frederik | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 12:12 |
| 36 | CLAEYS Dimitri | Cofidis | 12:18 |
| 37 | GONÇALVES José | Katusha-Alpecin | 13:40 |
| 38 | AMEZQUETA Julen | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 13:51 |
| 39 | MACHADO Tiago | Sporting-Tavira | 14:09 |
| 40 | MARQUE Alejandro | Sporting-Tavira | 14:39 |
| 41 | TEUNISSEN Mike | Jumbo-Visma | 15:25 |
| 42 | WYSS Danilo | Dimension Data | 16:29 |
| 43 | VAN BAARLE Dylan | Sky | 17:04 |
| 44 | SILVA Rafael | Efapel | 18:12 |
| 45 | DECLERCQ Tim | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 18:42 |
| 46 | MENDES José | Sporting-Tavira | 18:55 |
| 47 | VERVAEKE Louis | Team Sunweb | 19:17 |
| 48 | DE GENDT Aimé | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 20:31 |
| 49 | BARBIO António | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 20:54 |
| 50 | DE BUYST Jasper | Lotto-Soudal | 20:59 |
| 51 | SERRANO Gonzalo | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 21:57 |
| 52 | POLITT Nils | Katusha-Alpecin | 22:32 |
| 53 | NAESEN Lawrence | Lotto-Soudal | 22:42 |
| 54 | KONOVALOVAS Ignatas | Groupama-FDJ | 23:34 |
| 55 | DRUCKER Jempy | Bora-hansgrohe | 23:53 |
| 56 | DEL PINO Jesus | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 24:07 |
| 57 | PEDERSEN Casper | Team Sunweb | 25:01 |
| 58 | NUNES Hugo | Radio Popular Boavista | 25:38 |
| 59 | PHILIPSEN Jasper | UAE-Team Emirates | 26:16 |
| 60 | KONRAD Patrick | Bora-hansgrohe | 26:34 |
| 61 | KOCH Jonas | CCC Team | 27:05 |
| 62 | VAN DER HOORN Taco | Jumbo-Visma | 28:18 |
| 63 | VEGA Sergio | Miranda-Mortágua | 28:26 |
| 64 | ZOIDL Riccardo | CCC Team | 28:51 |
| 65 | MAES Nikolas | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 66 | WAEYTENS Zico | Cofidis | 29:03 |
| 67 | ROOSEN Timo | Jumbo-Visma | 29:21 |
| 68 | BODNAR Maciej | Bora-hansgrohe | 30:34 |
| 69 | STANNARD Ian | Sky | 30:38 |
| 70 | ĐURASEK Kristijan | UAE-Team Emirates | 30:58 |
| 71 | DEWULF Stan | Lotto-Soudal | 31:11 |
| 72 | LE GAC Olivier | Groupama-FDJ | 31:13 |
| 73 | CALDEIRA Samuel | W52/FC Porto | 31:24 |
| 74 | MULLEN Ryan | Trek-Segafredo | 31:35 |
| 75 | RODRIGUES David | Radio Popular Boavista | 32:19 |
| 76 | PEDERSEN Mads | Trek-Segafredo | 33:18 |
| 77 | DUARTE Emanuel | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 33:24 |
| 78 | BARBOSA João | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 33:29 |
| 79 | FERNANDES Luis | Aviludo-Louletano | 33:51 |
| 80 | SCHILLINGER Andreas | Bora-hansgrohe | 34:20 |
| 81 | JANSEN Amund Grøndahl | Jumbo-Visma | 34:40 |
| 82 | LOURENCO Rafael | UD Oliveirense-InOutbuild | 34:56 |
| 83 | VANBILSEN Kenneth | Cofidis | 35:02 |
| 84 | DEBUSSCHERE Jens | Katusha-Alpecin | 35:06 |
| 85 | HERNANDEZ Oscar | Aviludo-Louletano | 35:53 |
| 86 | GARCÍA Vicente | Aviludo-Louletano | 36:32 |
| 87 | THEUNS Edward | Trek-Segafredo | 37:41 |
| 88 | FRISON Frederik | Lotto-Soudal | 38:11 |
| 89 | BARTA Will | CCC Team | 38:28 |
| 90 | ANGULO Antonio | Efapel | 38:30 |
| 91 | GUERRERO Pablo | Radio Popular Boavista | 39:03 |
| 92 | SÉNÉCHAL Florian | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 39:09 |
| 93 | SANCHO Hugo | Miranda-Mortágua | 39:54 |
| 94 | PINHEIRO Ivo | Miranda-Mortágua | 40:11 |
| 95 | SINKELDAM Ramon | Groupama-FDJ | 40:15 |
| 96 | VAN LERBERGHE Bert | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 97 | SELIG Rüdiger | Bora-hansgrohe | 41:03 |
| 98 | ACKERMANN Pascal | Bora-hansgrohe | 41:15 |
| 99 | KIRSCH Alex | Trek-Segafredo | 41:36 |
| 100 | VAN GOETHEM Brian | Lotto-Soudal | 41:39 |
| 101 | SCHWARZMANN Michael | Bora-hansgrohe | 41:42 |
| 102 | GUARNIERI Jacopo | Groupama-FDJ | 42:27 |
| 103 | FREITAS Daniel | Miranda-Mortágua | 42:40 |
| 104 | FERNANDES Venceslau | UD Oliveirense-InOutbuild | 44:04 |
| 105 | JAKOBSEN Fabio | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 44:24 |
| 106 | LOPES Pedro Jose | UD Oliveirense-InOutbuild | 44:40 |
| 107 | LOPES Pedro Miguel | UD Oliveirense-InOutbuild | 44:53 |
| 108 | MATHIS Marco | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 109 | NOCENTINI Rinaldo | Sporting-Tavira | s.t. |
| 110 | MESTRE Ricardo | W52/FC Porto | 44:58 |
| 111 | WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads | Katusha-Alpecin | 45:33 |
| 112 | TOFFALI Nicola | Sporting-Tavira | 46:01 |
| 113 | SILVA Bruno | Efapel | 46:10 |
| 114 | RAMALHO Andrè | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 46:19 |
| 115 | OLIVEIRA Fabio | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 47:33 |
| 116 | BERNAS Paweł | CCC Team | 47:46 |
| 117 | VAUGRENARD Benoît | Groupama-FDJ | 47:52 |
| 118 | GROENEWEGEN Dylan | Jumbo-Visma | 48:19 |
| 119 | SOUSA José | UD Oliveirense-InOutbuild | 50:02 |
| 120 | DEGENKOLB John | Trek-Segafredo | 50:46 |
| 121 | BAK Lars Ytting | Dimension Data | 51:34 |
| 122 | RIBEIRO David | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 51:45 |
| 123 | ČERNÝ Josef | CCC Team | 52:56 |
| 124 | IRISARRI Jon | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 55:59 |
| 125 | PAULINHO Pedro | Efapel | 57:34 |
| 126 | COSTA Fabio | UD Oliveirense-InOutbuild | 1:03:17 |
Stage 5 map
Stage 5 profile
Saturday, February 23: Stage 4, Albufeira - Tavira, 198.3 km
Dylan Groenewegen takes stage four.
Weather at the finish city of Tavira at 13:30 PM, local time: 19C (66F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the east at 11 km/hr (7 mph). No rain is forecast.
The race: Here's the organizer's stage four summary.
The Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jumbo-Visma) won today, with authority, the fourth stage of the Volta ao Algarve. The Slovenian Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) kept the yellow jersey, although he lost 7 seconds in the general classification.
Dylan Groenewegen was delayed due to a mechanical problem, about 5 kilometres from the finish line. Helped by his team, the Dutchman returned to his position and won for the second time in a row in Tavira.
Dylan Groenewegen took off at 200 metres from the finish line and imposed himself with authority after 198,3 km. Frenchman Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ) entered the last meters poorly placed and sprinted from the rear, finishing in second place. The third was the young Belgian prodigy Jasper Philipsen (UAE Team Emirates).
“In the final part I had some mechanical problems, but the team quickly brought me to the front of the peloton. My colleagues were excellent at the sprint launch, it was a real black and yellow train that we saw here today. If we do the same in all races I think we will get along very well. It’s always a joy to win. For a sprinter it is important to win and so I am very satisfied. I felt very strong at the end, but the credit goes to the team that positioned me very well. On the first day we had bad luck but today we made the difference. We worked the whole stage and I’m very proud. I like racing in the Algarve very much, it’s always a crowded race and many are Dutch, it’s a very nice race”, said Dylan Groenewegen.
Unexpectedly, the fight for the Yellow Jersey Turismo do Algarve also went through today’s stage. Badly placed on arrival, Slovenian Tadej Pogačar was caught in the 7-second “cut”, as was Spanish Enric Mas (Deceuninck-Quick Step). The UAE Team Emirates youngster remained in charge, but saw the Danish Søren Kragh Andersen (Team Sunweb) rise to second place, reducing the gap to 29 seconds. The third is Wouter Poels (Team Sky), now 30 seconds away. Enric Mas went down to fourth with 31 seconds.
“Today was a normal day and the team [UAE Team Emirates] kept everything under control. I am very confident and motivated. Only later will we decide our strategy, but surely we will work and do everything in our power to defend the lead. Tomorrow we will face a lot of climbs before the end and every kilometre will count. We will have to be very careful, but the decisive moment will be the final climb,” said Tadej Pogačar.
The stage was boosted by the attack of Luís Fernandes (Aviludo-Louletano), Nikolay Mihaylov (Efapel), Jesús Nanclares (Miranda-Mortágua), Fábio Costa (UD Oliveirense/InOutBuild) and Oscar Pelegri (Vito-Feirense-PNB), which faded in the last 20 kilometers.
The tension of the final kilometres was overcome without accidents and the thousands of spectators from Tavira watched a phenomenal sprint.
Tadej Pogačar goes to the final stage in possession of the Yellow Jersey Turismo do Algarve. The Slovenian is also the leader of the mountains classification (Águas do Algarve) and the best youngster of the race. The Frenchman Arnaud Démare is the owner of the Red Cofidis jersey, the leader of the points classification.
The Volta ao Algarve ends this Sunday with the fifth stage, with 173,5 km. The start is in Faro, at 12h30, and ends at the top of Malhão, municipality of Loulé, about 17h00, in the second ascent to that already mythical climb of Portuguese cycling.
Complete results:
198.3 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.180 km/hr
| 1 | Dylan Groenewegen | Jumbo-Visma | 4hr 56min 7sec |
| 2 | Arnaud Démare | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 3 | Jasper Philipsen | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 4 | Pascal Ackermann | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 5 | Simone Consonni | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 6 | Jasper De Buyst | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 7 | Timothy Dupont | Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 8 | Jens Debusschere | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 9 | Mike Teunissen | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 10 | Jon Aberasturi | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 11 | Fabio Jakobsen | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 12 | Rüdiger Selig | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 13 | Bert Van Lerberghe | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 14 | Tom Devriendt | Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 15 | Samuel Caldeira | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 16 | Jonas Koch | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 17 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 18 | Jempy Drücker | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 19 | Amaro Antunes | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 20 | John Degenkolb | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 21 | Søren Kragh | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 22 | João Matias | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 23 | Wout Poels | Sky | s.t. |
| 24 | Michael Valgren | Dimension Data | @ 7sec |
| 25 | Zdenek Štybar | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 26 | Ruben Guerreiro | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 27 | Rafael Silva | Efapel | s.t. |
| 28 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 29 | Nicola Toffali | Sporting-Tavira | s.t. |
| 30 | João Rodrigues | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 31 | Zico Waeytens | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 32 | David De La Cruz | Sky | s.t. |
| 33 | Daniel Freitas | Miranda-Mortágua | s.t. |
| 34 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 35 | António Barbio | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 36 | Tadej Pogacar | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 37 | Alejandro Marque | Sporting-Tavira | s.t. |
| 38 | Casper Pedersen | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 39 | Óscar Hernández | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 40 | Marc Hirschi | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 41 | José Sousa | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | s.t. |
| 42 | Carl Fredrik Hagen | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 43 | Francisco García | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 44 | Frederik Backaert | Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 45 | Antonio Angulo | Efapel | s.t. |
| 46 | Gianluca Brambilla | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 47 | Stefan Küng | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 48 | Benjamin King | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 49 | Ricardo Mestre | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 50 | Simone Petilli | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 51 | José Gonçalves | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 52 | Josef Cerný | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 53 | Tiago Machado | Sporting-Tavira | s.t. |
| 54 | Julen Amezqueta | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 55 | Fabio Aru | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 56 | João Benta | Rádio Popular-Boavista | s.t. |
| 57 | Laurens ten Dam | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 58 | José Herrada | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 59 | Sergey Chernetsky | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 60 | Simon Špilak | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 61 | Vicente García de Mateos | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 62 | Raúl Alarcón | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 63 | Federico Figueiredo | Sporting-Tavira | s.t. |
| 64 | Rafael Lourenço | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | s.t. |
| 65 | Gonzalo Serrano | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 66 | Nils Politt | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 67 | Hugo Sancho | Miranda-Mortágua | s.t. |
| 68 | Ivo Pinheiro | Miranda-Mortágua | s.t. |
| 69 | Valerio Conti | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 70 | Ian Stannard | Sky | s.t. |
| 71 | Kristijan Ðurasek | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 72 | Fábio Oliveira | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 73 | André Ramalho | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 74 | Filipe Cardoso | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 75 | Michael Schwarzmann | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 76 | João Leite | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 77 | Lawrence Naesen | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 78 | Brian van Goethem | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 79 | Neilson Powless | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 80 | Danilo Wyss | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 81 | Luís Gomes | Rádio Popular-Boavista | s.t. |
| 82 | Domingos Gonçalves | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 83 | Daniel Mestre | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 84 | Ramon Sinkeldam | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 85 | Rafael Reis | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 86 | Jon Irisarri | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 87 | Venceslau Fernandes | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | s.t. |
| 88 | Mads Pedersen | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 89 | Ryan Mullen | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 90 | Nuno Meireles | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 91 | Nikolas Maes | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 92 | Aimé De Gendt | Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 93 | Emanuel Duarte | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 94 | Hugo Nunes | Rádio Popular-Boavista | s.t. |
| 95 | Jasper Stuyven | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 96 | José Mendes | Sporting-Tavira | s.t. |
| 97 | Maarten Wynants | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 98 | Roy Curvers | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 99 | Edward Theuns | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 100 | William Barta | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 101 | David Rodrigues | Rádio Popular-Boavista | s.t. |
| 102 | Joaquim Silva | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 103 | Stan Dewulf | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 104 | Marvin Scheulen | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 105 | Louis Vervaeke | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 106 | Gaspar Gonçalves | Miranda-Mortágua | s.t. |
| 107 | Alex Kirsch | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 108 | Marco Mathis | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 109 | David De La Fuente | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 110 | Pablo Guerrero | Rádio Popular-Boavista | s.t. |
| 111 | Xandro Meurisse | Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 112 | Frederik Frison | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 113 | Timo Roosen | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 114 | Jesús Del Pino | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 115 | Dylan van Baarle | Sky | s.t. |
| 116 | Hélder Gonçalves | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | s.t. |
| 117 | Matteo Malucelli | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 118 | Lars Bak | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 119 | Mads Würtz | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 120 | Pedro Paulinho | Efapel | s.t. |
| 121 | João Barbosa | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 122 | Pedro José Lopes | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | s.t. |
| 123 | Tao Geoghegan Hart | Sky | s.t. |
| 124 | Patrick Konrad | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 125 | Maciej Bodnar | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 126 | Sergio Vega | Miranda-Mortágua | s.t. |
| 127 | António Ferreira | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 128 | Pedro Miguel Lopes | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | s.t. |
| 129 | Luke Rowe | Sky | s.t. |
| 130 | Sérgio Paulinho | Efapel | s.t. |
| 131 | Daniel Silva | Rádio Popular-Boavista | s.t. |
| 132 | Rinaldo Nocentini | Sporting-Tavira | s.t. |
| 133 | Steve Cummings | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 134 | Amund Grøndahl | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 135 | Andreas Schillinger | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 136 | Riccardo Zoidl | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 137 | Bruno Silva | Efapel | s.t. |
| 138 | Yves Lampaert | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 32'' |
| 139 | Pawel Bernas | CCC Team | 36'' |
| 140 | Ignatas Konovalovas | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 141 | Florian Sénéchal | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 39'' |
| 142 | Olivier Le Gac | Groupama-FDJ | 1' 10'' |
| 143 | Loïc Vliegen | Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 144 | Luís Fernandes | Aviludo-Louletano | 1' 21'' |
| 145 | Kenneth Vanbilsen | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 146 | Dmitriy Strakhov | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 147 | Nikolay Mihaylov | Efapel | s.t. |
| 148 | Tim Declercq | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 149 | André Crispim | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 150 | Dimitri Claeys | Cofidis | 1' 24'' |
| 151 | Tiago Leal | Miranda-Mortágua | 1' 56'' |
| 152 | Martijn Tusveld | Team Sunweb | 7'' |
| 153 | Taco van der Hoorn | Jumbo-Visma | 2' 06'' |
| 154 | Óscar Pelegrí | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 2' 19'' |
| 155 | Benoît Vaugrenard | Groupama-FDJ | 2' 20'' |
| 156 | Fábio Costa | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | 7' 07'' |
| 157 | David Ribeiro | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 158 | Jesús Nanclares | Miranda-Mortágua | 13' 38'' |
GC after stage 4:
605.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 39.789 km/hr
| 1 | Tadej Pogacar | UAE-Team Emirates | 15hr 12min 28sec |
| 2 | Søren Kragh | Team Sunweb | @ 29sec |
| 3 | Wout Poels | Sky | 30'' |
| 4 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 31'' |
| 5 | David De La Cruz | Sky | 57'' |
| 6 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | 1' 28'' |
| 7 | Zdenek Štybar | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 2' 12'' |
| 8 | Neilson Powless | Jumbo-Visma | 2' 13'' |
| 9 | Marc Hirschi | Team Sunweb | 2' 35'' |
| 10 | Amaro Antunes | CCC Team | 2' 36'' |
| 11 | Martijn Tusveld | Team Sunweb | 2' 49'' |
| 12 | Simone Petilli | UAE-Team Emirates | 2' 59'' |
| 13 | Simon Špilak | Katusha-Alpecin | 3' 02'' |
| 14 | Fabio Aru | UAE-Team Emirates | 3' 09'' |
| 15 | Michael Valgren | Dimension Data | 3' 11'' |
| 16 | Valerio Conti | UAE-Team Emirates | 3' 16'' |
| 17 | João Rodrigues | W52/FC Porto | 3' 21'' |
| 18 | Stefan Küng | Groupama-FDJ | 3' 22'' |
| 19 | José Herrada | Cofidis | 3' 30'' |
| 20 | Gianluca Brambilla | Trek-Segafredo | 3' 47'' |
| 21 | Carl Fredrik Hagen | Lotto-Soudal | 4' 14'' |
| 22 | Joaquim Silva | W52/FC Porto | 4' 28'' |
| 23 | Laurens ten Dam | CCC Team | 4' 42'' |
| 24 | Sergey Chernetsky | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 4' 44'' |
| 25 | Benjamin King | Dimension Data | 5' 00'' |
| 26 | Frederik Backaert | Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 27 | Raúl Alarcón | W52/FC Porto | 6' 33'' |
| 28 | Julen Amezqueta | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 6' 39'' |
| 29 | Arnaud Démare | Groupama-FDJ | 6' 42'' |
| 30 | Tiago Machado | Sporting-Tavira | 6' 57'' |
| 31 | Yves Lampaert | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 6' 58'' |
| 32 | Loïc Vliegen | Wanty-Gobert | 7' 04'' |
| 33 | David De La Fuente | Aviludo-Louletano | 7' 16'' |
| 34 | Jempy Drücker | Bora-hansgrohe | 7' 19'' |
| 35 | Federico Figueiredo | Sporting-Tavira | 7' 22'' |
| 36 | Alejandro Marque | Sporting-Tavira | 7' 27'' |
| 37 | Luís Gomes | Rádio Popular-Boavista | 7' 43'' |
| 38 | Steve Cummings | Dimension Data | 8' 26'' |
| 39 | Ruben Guerreiro | Katusha-Alpecin | 8' 32'' |
| 40 | Tao Geoghegan Hart | Sky | 8' 36'' |
| 41 | João Benta | Rádio Popular-Boavista | 9' 00'' |
| 42 | Danilo Wyss | Dimension Data | 9' 17'' |
| 43 | Xandro Meurisse | Wanty-Gobert | 9' 53'' |
| 44 | Hugo Nunes | Rádio Popular-Boavista | 10' 08'' |
| 45 | Rafael Silva | Efapel | 10' 30'' |
| 46 | Jasper Philipsen | UAE-Team Emirates | 10' 32'' |
| 47 | Patrick Konrad | Bora-hansgrohe | 10' 50'' |
| 48 | Louis Vervaeke | Team Sunweb | 10' 55'' |
| 49 | Dimitri Claeys | Cofidis | 11' 04'' |
| 50 | Maarten Wynants | Jumbo-Visma | 11' 41'' |
| 51 | José Mendes | Sporting-Tavira | 11' 43'' |
| 52 | José Gonçalves | Katusha-Alpecin | 11' 49'' |
| 53 | Jasper De Buyst | Lotto-Soudal | 12' 10'' |
| 54 | Zico Waeytens | Cofidis | 12' 11'' |
| 55 | Aimé De Gendt | Wanty-Gobert | 12' 32'' |
| 56 | Ignatas Konovalovas | Groupama-FDJ | 12' 36'' |
| 57 | Dylan van Baarle | Sky | 13' 33'' |
| 58 | Mike Teunissen | Jumbo-Visma | 14' 02'' |
| 59 | Casper Pedersen | Team Sunweb | 14' 17'' |
| 60 | Kristijan Ðurasek | UAE-Team Emirates | 14' 25'' |
| 61 | Nikolas Maes | Lotto-Soudal | 14' 26'' |
| 62 | Ryan Mullen | Trek-Segafredo | 14' 42'' |
| 63 | Tim Declercq | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 15' 03'' |
| 64 | Nils Politt | Katusha-Alpecin | 15' 29'' |
| 65 | Lawrence Naesen | Lotto-Soudal | 15' 30'' |
| 66 | António Barbio | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | 15' 38'' |
| 67 | Luís Fernandes | Aviludo-Louletano | 16' 27'' |
| 68 | Domingos Gonçalves | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 16' 40'' |
| 69 | Antonio Angulo | Efapel | 16' 41'' |
| 70 | Gonzalo Serrano | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 16' 46'' |
| 71 | Daniel Silva | Rádio Popular-Boavista | 16' 48'' |
| 72 | Simone Consonni | UAE-Team Emirates | 16' 54'' |
| 73 | Jesús Del Pino | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 16' 55'' |
| 74 | Luke Rowe | Sky | 18' 09'' |
| 75 | Jens Debusschere | Katusha-Alpecin | 18' 09'' |
| 76 | Emanuel Duarte | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | 18' 22'' |
| 77 | Riccardo Zoidl | CCC Team | 19' 43'' |
| 78 | Frederik Frison | Lotto-Soudal | 20' 50'' |
| 79 | Taco van der Hoorn | Jumbo-Visma | 20' 51'' |
| 80 | Jonas Koch | CCC Team | 21' 06'' |
| 81 | Sergio Vega | Miranda-Mortágua | 21' 14'' |
| 82 | Timo Roosen | Jumbo-Visma | 21' 54'' |
| 83 | William Barta | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 84 | Rafael Lourenço | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | 21' 57'' |
| 85 | Ian Stannard | Sky | 22' 10'' |
| 86 | Mads Pedersen | Trek-Segafredo | 22' 34'' |
| 87 | Kenneth Vanbilsen | Cofidis | 22' 43'' |
| 88 | Stan Dewulf | Lotto-Soudal | 23' 04'' |
| 89 | Daniel Mestre | W52/FC Porto | 23' 08'' |
| 90 | Edward Theuns | Trek-Segafredo | 23' 16'' |
| 91 | Bert Van Lerberghe | Cofidis | 23' 23'' |
| 92 | Pablo Guerrero | Rádio Popular-Boavista | 23' 28'' |
| 93 | Olivier Le Gac | Groupama-FDJ | 23' 29'' |
| 94 | Florian Sénéchal | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 23' 37'' |
| 95 | Ramon Sinkeldam | Groupama-FDJ | 24' 04'' |
| 96 | Maciej Bodnar | Bora-hansgrohe | 24' 04'' |
| 97 | Samuel Caldeira | W52/FC Porto | 24' 12'' |
| 98 | Gaspar Gonçalves | Miranda-Mortágua | 24' 30'' |
| 99 | David Rodrigues | Rádio Popular-Boavista | 24' 35'' |
| 100 | Rüdiger Selig | Bora-hansgrohe | 24' 40'' |
| 101 | Brian van Goethem | Lotto-Soudal | 24' 42'' |
| 102 | Alex Kirsch | Trek-Segafredo | 24' 43'' |
| 103 | Pascal Ackermann | Bora-hansgrohe | 24' 47'' |
| 104 | Ivo Pinheiro | Miranda-Mortágua | 24' 49'' |
| 105 | Hugo Sancho | Miranda-Mortágua | 24' 56'' |
| 106 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Groupama-FDJ | 24' 59'' |
| 107 | Michael Schwarzmann | Bora-hansgrohe | 25' 03'' |
| 108 | Roy Curvers | Team Sunweb | 25' 05'' |
| 109 | Jon Aberasturi | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 25' 12'' |
| 110 | Rafael Reis | W52/FC Porto | 25' 29'' |
| 111 | Timothy Dupont | Wanty-Gobert | 25' 38'' |
| 112 | Fabio Jakobsen | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 25' 41'' |
| 113 | Andreas Schillinger | Bora-hansgrohe | 25' 42'' |
| 114 | António Ferreira | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 25' 49'' |
| 115 | Tom Devriendt | Wanty-Gobert | 25' 58'' |
| 116 | João Barbosa | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 26' 17'' |
| 117 | Pedro José Lopes | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | 26' 43'' |
| 118 | Pedro Miguel Lopes | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | 26' 55'' |
| 119 | Daniel Freitas | Miranda-Mortágua | 26' 59'' |
| 120 | Vicente García de Mateos | Aviludo-Louletano | 27' 00'' |
| 121 | Pawel Bernas | CCC Team | 27' 31'' |
| 122 | Rinaldo Nocentini | Sporting-Tavira | s.t. |
| 123 | Ricardo Mestre | W52/FC Porto | 28' 05'' |
| 124 | Filipe Cardoso | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 28' 07'' |
| 125 | Marco Mathis | Cofidis | 28' 14'' |
| 126 | Nikolay Mihaylov | Efapel | 28' 16'' |
| 127 | Venceslau Fernandes | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | 28' 20'' |
| 128 | Francisco García | Aviludo-Louletano | 28' 32'' |
| 129 | Óscar Hernández | Aviludo-Louletano | 28' 41'' |
| 130 | Bruno Silva | Efapel | 28' 46'' |
| 131 | Hélder Gonçalves | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | 28' 50'' |
| 132 | Fábio Oliveira | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | 29' 13'' |
| 133 | José Sousa | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | 29' 14'' |
| 134 | Nicola Toffali | Sporting-Tavira | 29' 27'' |
| 135 | Marvin Scheulen | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | 29' 50'' |
| 136 | André Crispim | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | 29' 58'' |
| 137 | André Ramalho | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | 30' 00'' |
| 138 | Mads Würtz | Katusha-Alpecin | 30' 37'' |
| 139 | João Leite | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 30' 42'' |
| 140 | Óscar Pelegrí | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 141 | Sérgio Paulinho | Efapel | 30' 54'' |
| 142 | Benoît Vaugrenard | Groupama-FDJ | 30' 59'' |
| 143 | Amund Grøndahl | Jumbo-Visma | 30' 59'' |
| 144 | Dylan Groenewegen | Jumbo-Visma | 31' 22'' |
| 145 | Nuno Meireles | Aviludo-Louletano | 31' 24'' |
| 146 | Dmitriy Strakhov | Katusha-Alpecin | 31' 55'' |
| 147 | Josef Cerný | CCC Team | 32' 41'' |
| 148 | João Matias | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 33' 16'' |
| 149 | Tiago Leal | Miranda-Mortágua | 33' 42'' |
| 150 | John Degenkolb | Trek-Segafredo | 33' 53'' |
| 151 | Jasper Stuyven | Trek-Segafredo | 34' 11'' |
| 152 | Lars Bak | Dimension Data | 36' 04'' |
| 153 | David Ribeiro | LA Alumínios-LA Sport | 37' 54'' |
| 154 | Jon Irisarri | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 39' 26'' |
| 155 | Matteo Malucelli | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 39' 45'' |
| 156 | Pedro Paulinho | Efapel | 40' 10'' |
| 157 | Fábio Costa | UD Oliveirense-InOutBuild | 42' 29'' |
| 158 | Jesús Nanclares | Miranda-Mortágua | 44' 02' |
Stage 4 map
Stage 4 profile
Friday, February 22: Stage 3, Lagoa 20.3 km individual time trial
Stefan Küng won on a highly technical course.
Weather at neaby Carvoeiro at 12:30 PM, local time: 17C (62F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the ESE at 29 km/hr (18 mph). No rain is forecast.
The race: Here's the organizer's report.
The Swiss Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ) won today the third stage of the Algarve Tour, a 20.3 km time trial, in Lagoa. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) reinforced the command of the general classification with the fifth place in the stage.
The fight for the stage was exciting, with the first four finishing separated by less than ten seconds. The Swiss time trial champion, Stefan Küng, was the strongest of all, concluding the demanding race in 24m33s in a technical and windy terrain.
The Danish Søren Kragh Andersen (Team Sunweb) confirmed the expectations that he would be in the discussion of the time trial, getting the second best time, just 2 seconds from the winner. The Belgian champion in the background, Yves Lampaert (Deceuninck-Quick Step) closed the podium of the day, with 5 seconds more than the winner. 8 seconds away from Küng was the Irish time trial champion, Ryan Müllen (Trek-Segafredo).
The Slovenian Tadej Pogačar showed consistency to be considered the most serious candidate for victory in the 45th Volta ao Algarve. He completed the time trial in 24m50s, in fifth place, gaining time from all direct competition in the fight for the Camisola Amarela Turismo do Algarve.
Tadej Pogačar remains at the top of the standings, but now with a comfortable margin of 31 seconds over Enric Mas (Deceuninck-Quick Step) and 36 seconds ahead of Søren Kragh Andersen, second and third, respectively. The battle for the podium is expected to be lively until the final stage, as there are two more men, both from Team Sky, less than a minute from the commander, Wouter Poels, 37 seconds away, and David de la Cruz, 57. Amaro Antunes (CCC Team), tenth of the overall, at 2m43s, is the best Portuguese.
The Blue Jersey Águas do Algarve, for the best climber, and the White Jersey 120 Years FPC, for the best young rider, are also worn by the Slovenian Tadej Pogačar, 20 years old. Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck-Quick Step) is still in possession of the Red Cofidis jersey, the points.
The fourth stage of the Algarve Tour will take place this Saturday. The sprinters are expected in Tavira after the 198.3 kilometres.The start will be in Albufeira at 12h00.
Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ) – Stage winner:
I did this time trial on last year’s Volta ao Algarve and that gave me some advantage, as I knew the route and knew where to make the most effort. I had a somewhat conservative start, but after setting my pace, I insisted and ended up making a difference at the end. It’s the first race of the year, so it’s the first time we’ve compared ourselves to the others. It’s a time for adjustments. I’m in a new team and during the winter we worked hard to adjust all the details, so it’s very positive to win this first test.
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) – General classification leader:
I’m very satisfied. I felt confident but I didn’t expect to strengthen the lead. I did a good time trial, was well guided in my effort by my sports director and achieved an excellent result. Now I’m wearing the yellow jersey and with the support of my team we will try to protect it until the end.
Complete results:
20.3 kilometers raced at an average speed of 49.613 km/hr
| 1 | KÜNG Stefan | Groupama-FDJ | 24min 33sec |
| 2 | KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren | Team Sunweb | @ 2sec |
| 3 | LAMPAERT Yves | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 0:05 |
| 4 | MULLEN Ryan | Trek-Segafredo | 0:08 |
| 5 | POGACAR Tadej | UAE-Team Emirates | 0:17 |
| 6 | DÉMARE Arnaud | Groupama-FDJ | 0:31 |
| 7 | PEDERSEN Mads | Trek-Segafredo | 0:36 |
| 8 | GEOGHEGAN HART Tao | Sky | s.t. |
| 9 | POLITT Nils | Katusha-Alpecin | 0:42 |
| 10 | ŠTYBAR Zdeněk | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 0:43 |
| 11 | POWLESS Neilson | Jumbo-Visma | 0:44 |
| 12 | MAS Enric | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 0:45 |
| 13 | CUMMINGS Steve | Dimension Data | 0:46 |
| 14 | GONÇALVES José | Katusha-Alpecin | 0:50 |
| 15 | TUSVELD Martijn | Team Sunweb | 0:51 |
| 16 | VAN BAARLE Dylan | Sky | s.t. |
| 17 | DE LA CRUZ David | Sky | 0:53 |
| 18 | POELS Wout | Sky | s.t. |
| 19 | ARU Fabio | UAE-Team Emirates | 1:02 |
| 20 | PEDERSEN Casper | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 21 | ČERNÝ Josef | CCC Team | 1:06 |
| 22 | HIRSCHI Marc | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 23 | SÉNÉCHAL Florian | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 1:07 |
| 24 | FRISON Frederik | Lotto-Soudal | 1:08 |
| 25 | CONTI Valerio | UAE-Team Emirates | 1:09 |
| 26 | VALGREN Michael | Dimension Data | 1:11 |
| 27 | PHILIPSEN Jasper | UAE-Team Emirates | 1:12 |
| 28 | VERVAEKE Louis | Team Sunweb | 1:15 |
| 29 | BODNAR Maciej | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 30 | WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads | Katusha-Alpecin | 1:16 |
| 31 | BACKAERT Frederik | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 1:17 |
| 32 | ANTUNES Amaro | CCC Team | 1:18 |
| 33 | THEUNS Edward | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 34 | OOMEN Sam | Team Sunweb | 1:20 |
| 35 | PETILLI Simone | UAE-Team Emirates | 1:21 |
| 36 | BARTA Will | CCC Team | 1:23 |
| 37 | ŠPILAK Simon | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 38 | ZOIDL Riccardo | CCC Team | 1:24 |
| 39 | TEUNISSEN Mike | Jumbo-Visma | 1:27 |
| 40 | MEURISSE Xandro | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 1:29 |
| 41 | KONOVALOVAS Ignatas | Groupama-FDJ | 1:35 |
| 42 | BERNAS Paweł | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 43 | VAN GOETHEM Brian | Lotto-Soudal | 1:39 |
| 44 | KIRSCH Alex | Trek-Segafredo | 1:40 |
| 45 | KING Ben | Dimension Data | 1:43 |
| 46 | DRUCKER Jempy | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 47 | SINKELDAM Ramon | Groupama-FDJ | 1:48 |
| 48 | STANNARD Ian | Sky | 1:52 |
| 49 | HERRADA José | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 50 | GONÇALVES Domingos | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 1:53 |
| 51 | REIS Rafael | W52/FC Porto | 1:56 |
| 52 | BRAMBILLA Gianluca | Trek-Segafredo | 1:59 |
| 53 | DE GENDT Aimé | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 2:00 |
| 54 | WYSS Danilo | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 55 | DEVRIENDT Tom | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 2:01 |
| 56 | MIHAYLOV Nikolay | Efapel | 2:02 |
| 57 | TEN DAM Laurens | CCC Team | 2:03 |
| 58 | MATHIS Marco | Cofidis | 2:05 |
| 59 | VLIEGEN Loïc | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 2:06 |
| 60 | SILVA Joaquim | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 61 | SERRANO Gonzalo | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 2:07 |
| 62 | MARQUE Alejandro | Sporting/Tavira | 2:09 |
| 63 | RODRIGUES João | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 64 | JANSEN Amund Grøndahl | Jumbo-Visma | 2:11 |
| 65 | HAGEN Carl Fredrik | Lotto-Soudal | 2:13 |
| 66 | ALARCÓN Raúl | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 67 | WYNANTS Maarten | Jumbo-Visma | 2:14 |
| 68 | VERMOTE Julien | Dimension Data | 2:17 |
| 69 | CHERNETSKI Sergei | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 2:21 |
| 70 | DECLERCQ Tim | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 2:22 |
| 71 | GUERREIRO Ruben | Katusha-Alpecin | 2:25 |
| 72 | DEGENKOLB John | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 73 | VANBILSEN Kenneth | Cofidis | 2:26 |
| 74 | MARTINELLI Davide | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 2:28 |
| 75 | KONRAD Patrick | Bora-hansgrohe | 2:30 |
| 76 | CALDEIRA Samuel | W52/FC Porto | 2:31 |
| 77 | SCHWARZMANN Michael | Bora-hansgrohe | 2:33 |
| 78 | WAEYTENS Zico | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 79 | MAES Nikolas | Lotto-Soudal | 2:35 |
| 80 | VAN DER HOORN Taco | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 81 | STUYVEN Jasper | Trek-Segafredo | 2:36 |
| 82 | DEWULF Stan | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 83 | VAN LERBERGHE Bert | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 84 | VAUGRENARD Benoît | Groupama-FDJ | 2:37 |
| 85 | MESTRE Ricardo | W52/FC Porto | 2:38 |
| 86 | SCHILLINGER Andreas | Bora-hansgrohe | 2:39 |
| 87 | GROENEWEGEN Dylan | Jumbo-Visma | 2:41 |
| 88 | DUARTE Emanuel | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 2:42 |
| 89 | DUPONT Timothy | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | s.t. |
| 90 | LE GAC Olivier | Groupama-FDJ | 2:44 |
| 91 | AMEZQUETA Julen | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 2:45 |
| 92 | CURVERS Roy | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 93 | BENTA João | Radio Popular Boavista | 2:47 |
| 94 | GUARNIERI Jacopo | Groupama-FDJ | 2:48 |
| 95 | SELIG Rüdiger | Bora-hansgrohe | 2:49 |
| 96 | SILVA Rafael | Efapel | 2:50 |
| 97 | DE BUYST Jasper | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 98 | BARBIO António | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 2:51 |
| 99 | GOMES Luis | Radio Popular Boavista | 2:52 |
| 100 | NOCENTINI Rinaldo | Sporting/Tavira | s.t. |
| 101 | CONSONNI Simone | UAE-Team Emirates | 2:53 |
| 102 | NAESEN Lawrence | Lotto-Soudal | 2:56 |
| 103 | DEBUSSCHERE Jens | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 104 | MESTRE Daniel | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 105 | ACKERMANN Pascal | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 106 | ANGULO Antonio | Efapel | 3:03 |
| 107 | GONCALVES Gaspar | Miranda-Mortágua | 3:04 |
| 108 | ĐURASEK Kristijan | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 109 | MENDES José | Sporting/Tavira | 3:05 |
| 110 | MATIAS Joao | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 3:08 |
| 111 | LOPES Pedro Miguel | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 3:09 |
| 112 | HERNANDEZ Oscar | Aviludo-Louletano | 3:14 |
| 113 | GUERRERO Pablo | Radio Popular Boavista | 3:16 |
| 114 | PAULINHO Sérgio | Efapel | 3:18 |
| 115 | TOFFALI Nicola | Sporting/Tavira | s.t. |
| 116 | ROWE Luke | Sky | 3:21 |
| 117 | ABERASTURI Jon | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 118 | FIGUEIREDO Frederico | Sporting/Tavira | 3:23 |
| 119 | GARCÍA Vicente | Aviludo-Louletano | 3:27 |
| 120 | SILVA Daniel | Radio Popular Boavista | 3:31 |
| 121 | PAULINHO Pedro | Efapel | 3:36 |
| 122 | ROOSEN Timo | Jumbo-Visma | 3:38 |
| 123 | LOURENCO Rafael | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | s.t. |
| 124 | KOCH Jonas | CCC Team | 3:39 |
| 125 | PINHEIRO Ivo | Miranda-Mortágua | 3:42 |
| 126 | MACHADO Tiago | Sporting/Tavira | 3:44 |
| 127 | SILVA Bruno | Efapel | 3:46 |
| 128 | SANCHO Hugo | Miranda-Mortágua | 3:49 |
| 129 | JAKOBSEN Fabio | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 3:50 |
| 130 | DEL PINO Jesus | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 3:51 |
| 131 | NUNES Hugo | Radio Popular Boavista | 3:53 |
| 132 | LOPES Pedro Jose | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 3:55 |
| 133 | CLAEYS Dimitri | Cofidis | 4:02 |
| 134 | RODRIGUES David | Radio Popular Boavista | 4:10 |
| 135 | FERNANDES Luis | Aviludo-Louletano | 4:11 |
| 136 | VEGA Sergio | Miranda-Mortágua | 4:16 |
| 137 | COSTA Fabio | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 4:19 |
| 138 | SCHEULEN Marvin | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 139 | IRISARRI Jon | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 140 | CARDOSO Filipe | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 4:21 |
| 141 | NANCLARES Jesus | Miranda-Mortágua | 4:28 |
| 142 | BAK Lars Ytting | Dimension Data | 4:29 |
| 143 | SAAVEDRA Bernardo | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 4:33 |
| 144 | DE LA FUENTE David | Aviludo-Louletano | 4:37 |
| 145 | PELEGRÍ Óscar | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 4:38 |
| 146 | FREITAS Daniel | Miranda-Mortágua | 4:39 |
| 147 | FERREIRA Antonio | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 4:42 |
| 148 | GONÇALVES Hélder | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 4:43 |
| 149 | RIBEIRO David | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 4:45 |
| 150 | BARBOSA João | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 151 | GARCÍA Francisco | Aviludo-Louletano | 4:46 |
| 152 | FERNANDES Venceslau | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 4:47 |
| 153 | CRISPIM André | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 4:49 |
| 154 | RAMALHO Andrè | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 4:51 |
| 155 | MEIRELES Nuno | Aviludo-Louletano | 5:15 |
| 156 | OLIVEIRA Fabio | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 5:21 |
| 157 | STRAKHOV Dmitry | Katusha-Alpecin | 5:32 |
| 158 | SOUSA José | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 5:41 |
| 159 | LEAL Tiago | Miranda-Mortágua | 5:44 |
| 160 | MALUCELLI Matteo | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 5:56 |
GC after stage 3:
406.8 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 39.608 km/hr
| 1 | POGACAR Tadej | UAE-Team Emirates | 10hr 16min 14sec |
| 2 | MAS Enric | Deceuninck-Quick Step | @ 31sec |
| 3 | KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren | Team Sunweb | 0:36 |
| 4 | POELS Wout | Sky | 0:37 |
| 5 | DE LA CRUZ David | Sky | 0:57 |
| 6 | OOMEN Sam | Team Sunweb | 1:08 |
| 7 | ŠTYBAR Zdeněk | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 2:12 |
| 8 | POWLESS Neilson | Jumbo-Visma | 2:13 |
| 9 | HIRSCHI Marc | Team Sunweb | 2:35 |
| 10 | ANTUNES Amaro | CCC Team | 2:43 |
| 11 | TUSVELD Martijn | Team Sunweb | 2:49 |
| 12 | PETILLI Simone | UAE-Team Emirates | 2:59 |
| 13 | ŠPILAK Simon | Katusha-Alpecin | 3:02 |
| 14 | ARU Fabio | UAE-Team Emirates | 3:09 |
| 15 | VALGREN Michael | Dimension Data | 3:11 |
| 16 | CONTI Valerio | UAE-Team Emirates | 3:16 |
| 17 | RODRIGUES João | W52/FC Porto | 3:21 |
| 18 | KÜNG Stefan | Groupama-FDJ | 3:22 |
| 19 | HERRADA José | Cofidis | 3:30 |
| 20 | BRAMBILLA Gianluca | Trek-Segafredo | 3:47 |
| 21 | HAGEN Carl Fredrik | Lotto-Soudal | 4:14 |
| 22 | SILVA Joaquim | W52/FC Porto | 4:28 |
| 23 | TEN DAM Laurens | CCC Team | 4:42 |
| 24 | CHERNETSKI Sergei | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 4:44 |
| 25 | KING Ben | Dimension Data | 5:00 |
| 26 | BACKAERT Frederik | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | s.t. |
| 27 | VLIEGEN Loïc | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 6:01 |
| 28 | LAMPAERT Yves | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 6:33 |
| 29 | ALARCÓN Raúl | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 30 | AMEZQUETA Julen | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 6:39 |
| 31 | DÉMARE Arnaud | Groupama-FDJ | 6:49 |
| 32 | MACHADO Tiago | Sporting/Tavira | 6:57 |
| 33 | DE LA FUENTE David | Aviludo-Louletano | 7:16 |
| 34 | FIGUEIREDO Frederico | Sporting/Tavira | 7:22 |
| 35 | DRUCKER Jempy | Bora-hansgrohe | 7:26 |
| 36 | MARQUE Alejandro | Sporting/Tavira | 7:27 |
| 37 | GOMES Luis | Radio Popular Boavista | 7:43 |
| 38 | CUMMINGS Steve | Dimension Data | 8:26 |
| 39 | GUERREIRO Ruben | Katusha-Alpecin | 8:32 |
| 40 | GEOGHEGAN HART Tao | Sky | 8:36 |
| 41 | BENTA João | Radio Popular Boavista | 9:00 |
| 42 | VERMOTE Julien | Dimension Data | 9:14 |
| 43 | WYSS Danilo | Dimension Data | 9:17 |
| 44 | CLAEYS Dimitri | Cofidis | 9:47 |
| 45 | MEURISSE Xandro | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 9:53 |
| 46 | NUNES Hugo | Radio Popular Boavista | 10:08 |
| 47 | SILVA Rafael | Efapel | 10:30 |
| 48 | VERVAEKE Louis | Team Sunweb | 10:35 |
| 49 | PHILIPSEN Jasper | UAE-Team Emirates | 10:39 |
| 50 | KONRAD Patrick | Bora-hansgrohe | 10:50 |
| 51 | WYNANTS Maarten | Jumbo-Visma | 11:41 |
| 52 | MENDES José | Sporting/Tavira | 11:43 |
| 53 | GONÇALVES José | Katusha-Alpecin | 11:49 |
| 54 | KONOVALOVAS Ignatas | Groupama-FDJ | 12:07 |
| 55 | WAEYTENS Zico | Cofidis | 12:11 |
| 56 | DE BUYST Jasper | Lotto-Soudal | 12:17 |
| 57 | DE GENDT Aimé | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 12:32 |
| 58 | VAN BAARLE Dylan | Sky | 13:33 |
| 59 | DECLERCQ Tim | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 13:49 |
| 60 | TEUNISSEN Mike | Jumbo-Visma | 14:09 |
| 61 | PEDERSEN Casper | Team Sunweb | 14:17 |
| 62 | ĐURASEK Kristijan | UAE-Team Emirates | 14:25 |
| 63 | MAES Nikolas | Lotto-Soudal | 14:26 |
| 64 | MULLEN Ryan | Trek-Segafredo | 14:42 |
| 65 | FERNANDES Luis | Aviludo-Louletano | 15:13 |
| 66 | POLITT Nils | Katusha-Alpecin | 15:29 |
| 67 | NAESEN Lawrence | Lotto-Soudal | 15:30 |
| 68 | BARBIO António | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 15:38 |
| 69 | GONÇALVES Domingos | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 16:40 |
| 70 | ANGULO Antonio | Efapel | 16:41 |
| 71 | SERRANO Gonzalo | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 16:46 |
| 72 | SILVA Daniel | Radio Popular Boavista | 16:48 |
| 73 | DEL PINO Jesus | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 16:55 |
| 74 | CONSONNI Simone | UAE-Team Emirates | 17:01 |
| 75 | ROWE Luke | Sky | 18:09 |
| 76 | DEBUSSCHERE Jens | Katusha-Alpecin | 18:16 |
| 77 | DUARTE Emanuel | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 18:22 |
| 78 | VAN DER HOORN Taco | Jumbo-Visma | 18:52 |
| 79 | ZOIDL Riccardo | CCC Team | 19:43 |
| 80 | FRISON Frederik | Lotto-Soudal | 20:50 |
| 81 | KOCH Jonas | CCC Team | 21:13 |
| 82 | VEGA Sergio | Miranda-Mortágua | 21:14 |
| 83 | VANBILSEN Kenneth | Cofidis | 21:29 |
| 84 | ROOSEN Timo | Jumbo-Visma | 21:54 |
| 85 | BARTA Will | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 86 | LOURENCO Rafael | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 21:57 |
| 87 | STANNARD Ian | Sky | 22:10 |
| 88 | LE GAC Olivier | Groupama-FDJ | 22:26 |
| 89 | PEDERSEN Mads | Trek-Segafredo | 22:34 |
| 90 | DEWULF Stan | Lotto-Soudal | 23:04 |
| 91 | SÉNÉCHAL Florian | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 23:05 |
| 92 | MESTRE Daniel | W52/FC Porto | 23:08 |
| 93 | THEUNS Edward | Trek-Segafredo | 23:16 |
| 94 | GUERRERO Pablo | Radio Popular Boavista | 23:28 |
| 95 | VAN LERBERGHE Bert | Cofidis | 23:30 |
| 96 | SINKELDAM Ramon | Groupama-FDJ | 24:04 |
| 97 | BODNAR Maciej | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 98 | CALDEIRA Samuel | W52/FC Porto | 24:19 |
| 99 | GONCALVES Gaspar | Miranda-Mortágua | 24:30 |
| 100 | RODRIGUES David | Radio Popular Boavista | 24:35 |
| 101 | VAN GOETHEM Brian | Lotto-Soudal | 24:42 |
| 102 | KIRSCH Alex | Trek-Segafredo | 24:43 |
| 103 | SELIG Rüdiger | Bora-hansgrohe | 24:47 |
| 104 | PINHEIRO Ivo | Miranda-Mortágua | 24:49 |
| 105 | ACKERMANN Pascal | Bora-hansgrohe | 24:54 |
| 106 | SANCHO Hugo | Miranda-Mortágua | 24:56 |
| 107 | SCHWARZMANN Michael | Bora-hansgrohe | 25:03 |
| 108 | CURVERS Roy | Team Sunweb | 25:05 |
| 109 | GUARNIERI Jacopo | Groupama-FDJ | 25:06 |
| 110 | ABERASTURI Jon | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 25:19 |
| 111 | REIS Rafael | W52/FC Porto | 25:29 |
| 112 | MARTINELLI Davide | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 25:31 |
| 113 | SCHILLINGER Andreas | Bora-hansgrohe | 25:42 |
| 114 | DUPONT Timothy | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 25:45 |
| 115 | JAKOBSEN Fabio | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 25:48 |
| 116 | FERREIRA Antonio | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 25:49 |
| 117 | DEVRIENDT Tom | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 26:05 |
| 118 | BARBOSA João | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 26:17 |
| 119 | LOPES Pedro Jose | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 26:43 |
| 120 | LOPES Pedro Miguel | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 26:55 |
| 121 | FREITAS Daniel | Miranda-Mortágua | 26:59 |
| 122 | GARCÍA Vicente | Aviludo-Louletano | 27:00 |
| 123 | MIHAYLOV Nikolay | Efapel | 27:02 |
| 124 | BERNAS Paweł | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 125 | NOCENTINI Rinaldo | Sporting/Tavira | 27:31 |
| 126 | MESTRE Ricardo | W52/FC Porto | 28:05 |
| 127 | CARDOSO Filipe | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 28:07 |
| 128 | MATHIS Marco | Cofidis | 28:14 |
| 129 | FERNANDES Venceslau | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 28:20 |
| 130 | PELEGRÍ Óscar | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 28:30 |
| 131 | GARCÍA Francisco | Aviludo-Louletano | 28:32 |
| 132 | HERNANDEZ Oscar | Aviludo-Louletano | 28:41 |
| 133 | CRISPIM André | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 28:44 |
| 134 | VAUGRENARD Benoît | Groupama-FDJ | 28:46 |
| 135 | SILVA Bruno | Efapel | s.t. |
| 136 | GONÇALVES Hélder | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 28:50 |
| 137 | OLIVEIRA Fabio | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 29:13 |
| 138 | SOUSA José | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 29:14 |
| 139 | TOFFALI Nicola | Sporting/Tavira | 29:27 |
| 140 | SCHEULEN Marvin | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 29:50 |
| 141 | RAMALHO Andrè | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 30:00 |
| 142 | NANCLARES Jesus | Miranda-Mortágua | 30:31 |
| 143 | WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads | Katusha-Alpecin | 30:37 |
| 144 | STRAKHOV Dmitry | Katusha-Alpecin | 30:41 |
| 145 | SAAVEDRA Bernardo | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 30:42 |
| 146 | RIBEIRO David | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 30:54 |
| 147 | PAULINHO Sérgio | Efapel | s.t. |
| 148 | JANSEN Amund Grøndahl | Jumbo-Visma | 30:59 |
| 149 | MEIRELES Nuno | Aviludo-Louletano | 31:24 |
| 150 | GROENEWEGEN Dylan | Jumbo-Visma | 31:29 |
| 151 | LEAL Tiago | Miranda-Mortágua | 31:53 |
| 152 | ČERNÝ Josef | CCC Team | 32:41 |
| 153 | MATIAS Joao | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 33:23 |
| 154 | DEGENKOLB John | Trek-Segafredo | 34:00 |
| 155 | STUYVEN Jasper | Trek-Segafredo | 34:11 |
| 156 | COSTA Fabio | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 35:29 |
| 157 | BAK Lars Ytting | Dimension Data | 36:04 |
| 158 | IRISARRI Jon | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 39:26 |
| 159 | MALUCELLI Matteo | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 39:45 |
| 160 | PAULINHO Pedro | Efapel | 40:10 |
Stage 3 map
Stage 3 profile
Thursday, February 21: Stage 2, Almodovar - Alta da Foia, 187.4 km
Tadej Pogacar wins the second stage.
Weather at nearby Albufeira at 13:30 PM, local time: 17C (63F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the ESE at 31 km/hr (19 mph). No rain is forecast.
The race: Here's the organizer's stage summary.
Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) is the new leader of the Volta ao Algarve, after the win in the second stage, in the Fóia
The last 40 kilometres of the stage were filled with multiple attacks, but it was Pogacar’s offensive, in the last hundred metres, that decided the shot. The winner of the 2018 Tour de L’Avenir won in the face of the strong and icy wind from the highest point of the Algarve, after 187,4 km from Almodôvar.
The big favourite to win the Volta ao Algarve, Dutchman Wouter Poels (Team Sky) was the second to cross the finish line, spending 1 second more than Pogacar. The third, 3 seconds away, was Spainiard Enric Mas (Deceuninck-Quick Step). The general has the same order, with equal time differences.
The most serious movements started in the second category climb to the alto de Pomba, 40 kilometers from the end. Amaro Antunes and Riccardo Zoidl (CCC Team) isolated themselves and were two minutes ahead of the field. João Rodrigues and Raúl Alarcón (W52-FC Porto), Domingos Gonçalves (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) and João Benta (Rádio Popular-Boavista) were in intermediate position.
Realizing the danger, Team Sky and Deceuninck-Quick Step imposed a strong rhythm, ending the escape of two CCC Team men 16 kilometers from the arrival. The climb to Fóia was made according to the rhythm of Tao Geogheghan Hart (Team Sky), who only dropped the lead of the group near the final kilometer.
The Algarvian Amaro Antunes returned to the load and isolated himself in the last thousand meters, but Wouter Poels responded to try to win the stage, being, however, surprised by the counterattack of Tadej Pogacar, who owned all the shirts except the red, still in possession of Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck-Quick Step).
The fight for the Yellow Jersey Turismo do Algarve is under way and Friday’s time trial, 20.3 kilometres in Lagoa, will be instrumental in better defining the GC candidates.
Wouter Poels, 1 second behind, Enric Mas, 3 seconds, Sam Oomen (Team Sunweb), 5 seconds, and David de la Cruz (Team Sky), 21 seconds, are among the contenders. However, Denmark’s Soren Kragh Andersen (Team Sunweb), sixth with 51 seconds to spare, could take a favourable position. Injured by the time lost in the fall of the first stage, the Portuguese João Rodrigues (W52-FC Porto), seventh, at 1m29s, and Amaro Antunes, eighth, at 1m42s, are a little further away.
Tadej Pogacar, stage winner and leader of the general classification:
My teammates did an excellent job to protect me and in the final climb, I followed the attacks and in the last 100 meters, I took over the sprint and managed to win. It’s my first victory as a professional and I won it here in the Algarve. Tomorrow is the time trial and all the effort will depend on me, I’m not a super specialist but I’ll do my best and we’ll see how it goes. The team’s first strategy was for Fabio Aru, but yesterday he lost time in the crash and the team decided to give me an opportunity for the general classification. I’m doing my best as a professional cyclist and from now on I hope you will see more of me.
Results:
187.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 37.679 km/hr
| 1 | POGACAR Tadej | UAE-Team Emirates | 4hr 58min 25sec |
| 2 | POELS Wout | Sky | 0:01 |
| 3 | MAS Enric | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 0:03 |
| 4 | OOMEN Sam | Team Sunweb | 0:05 |
| 5 | ANTUNES Amaro | CCC Team | 0:07 |
| 6 | DE LA CRUZ David | Sky | 0:21 |
| 7 | RODRIGUES João | W52/FC Porto | 0:24 |
| 8 | PETILLI Simone | UAE-Team Emirates | 0:27 |
| 9 | HERRADA José | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 10 | VALGREN Michael | Dimension Data | 0:49 |
| 11 | ŠPILAK Simon | Katusha-Alpecin | 0:51 |
| 12 | SILVA Joaquim | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 13 | KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 14 | BRAMBILLA Gianluca | Trek-Segafredo | 1:00 |
| 15 | FIGUEIREDO Frederico | Sporting/Tavira | 1:05 |
| 16 | CHERNETSKI Sergei | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 17 | TUSVELD Martijn | Team Sunweb | 1:10 |
| 18 | MEURISSE Xandro | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 1:18 |
| 19 | ARU Fabio | UAE-Team Emirates | 1:19 |
| 20 | CONTI Valerio | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 21 | GEOGHEGAN HART Tao | Sky | 1:27 |
| 22 | POWLESS Neilson | Jumbo-Visma | 1:46 |
| 23 | KING Ben | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 24 | ŠTYBAR Zdeněk | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 25 | HIRSCHI Marc | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 26 | TEN DAM Laurens | CCC Team | 1:51 |
| 27 | CLAEYS Dimitri | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 28 | DE LA FUENTE David | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 29 | MACHADO Tiago | Sporting/Tavira | 1:55 |
| 30 | HAGEN Carl Fredrik | Lotto-Soudal | 2:18 |
| 31 | MARQUE Alejandro | Sporting/Tavira | 2:24 |
| 32 | BACKAERT Frederik | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 2:25 |
| 33 | AMEZQUETA Julen | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 2:36 |
| 34 | ALARCÓN Raúl | W52/FC Porto | 3:02 |
| 35 | GUERREIRO Ruben | Katusha-Alpecin | 3:13 |
| 36 | GONÇALVES Domingos | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 37 | KÜNG Stefan | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 38 | GOMES Luis | Radio Popular Boavista | 3:33 |
| 39 | VLIEGEN Loïc | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 4:12 |
| 40 | GONÇALVES José | Katusha-Alpecin | 4:26 |
| 41 | KONRAD Patrick | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 42 | NUNES Hugo | Radio Popular Boavista | 4:44 |
| 43 | MENDES José | Sporting/Tavira | s.t. |
| 44 | VAN BAARLE Dylan | Sky | s.t. |
| 45 | BENTA João | Radio Popular Boavista | 4:55 |
| 46 | VERVAEKE Louis | Team Sunweb | 5:26 |
| 47 | DRUCKER Jempy | Bora-hansgrohe | 5:49 |
| 48 | VERMOTE Julien | Dimension Data | 6:09 |
| 49 | LAMPAERT Yves | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 50 | SILVA Rafael | Efapel | s.t. |
| 51 | WYSS Danilo | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 52 | TEUNISSEN Mike | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 53 | CUMMINGS Steve | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 54 | PEDERSEN Casper | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 55 | DÉMARE Arnaud | Groupama-FDJ | 6:35 |
| 56 | POLITT Nils | Katusha-Alpecin | 8:14 |
| 57 | DEBUSSCHERE Jens | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 58 | KOCH Jonas | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 59 | BARBIO António | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 8:53 |
| 60 | DE BUYST Jasper | Lotto-Soudal | 9:44 |
| 61 | WYNANTS Maarten | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 62 | VAN DER HOORN Taco | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 63 | ROOSEN Timo | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 64 | PHILIPSEN Jasper | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 65 | WAEYTENS Zico | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 66 | DECLERCQ Tim | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 67 | DE GENDT Aimé | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | s.t. |
| 68 | ANGULO Antonio | Efapel | s.t. |
| 69 | KONOVALOVAS Ignatas | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 70 | FERNANDES Luis | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 71 | ĐURASEK Kristijan | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 72 | LOURENCO Rafael | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 11:46 |
| 73 | NAESEN Lawrence | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 74 | MAES Nikolas | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 75 | DEL PINO Jesus | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 76 | SILVA Daniel | Radio Popular Boavista | s.t. |
| 77 | CASIMIRO Henrique | Efapel | s.t. |
| 78 | DUARTE Emanuel | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 79 | STANNARD Ian | Sky | s.t. |
| 80 | ZOIDL Riccardo | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 81 | SERRANO Gonzalo | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 13:21 |
| 82 | MULLEN Ryan | Trek-Segafredo | 14:25 |
| 83 | CONSONNI Simone | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 84 | ROWE Luke | Sky | 14:39 |
| 85 | VEGA Sergio | Miranda-Mortágua | 15:21 |
| 86 | MESTRE Ricardo | W52/FC Porto | 18:54 |
| 87 | CALDEIRA Samuel | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 88 | MESTRE Daniel | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 89 | HERNANDEZ Oscar | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 90 | FRISON Frederik | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 91 | VANBILSEN Kenneth | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 92 | GUERRERO Pablo | Radio Popular Boavista | s.t. |
| 93 | LOPES Pedro Jose | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | s.t. |
| 94 | OFFREDO Yoann | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | s.t. |
| 95 | LE GAC Olivier | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 96 | BARTA Will | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 97 | RODRIGUES David | Radio Popular Boavista | s.t. |
| 98 | SANCHO Hugo | Miranda-Mortágua | 19:49 |
| 99 | GONCALVES Gaspar | Miranda-Mortágua | s.t. |
| 100 | BARBOSA João | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 101 | PINHEIRO Ivo | Miranda-Mortágua | s.t. |
| 102 | FERREIRA Antonio | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 103 | VAN LERBERGHE Bert | Cofidis | 20:45 |
| 104 | DEWULF Stan | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 105 | NOCENTINI Rinaldo | Sporting/Tavira | s.t. |
| 106 | STUYVEN Jasper | Trek-Segafredo | 22:15 |
| 107 | THEUNS Edward | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 108 | WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 109 | BAK Lars Ytting | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 110 | MATHIS Marco | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 111 | JAKOBSEN Fabio | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 112 | MARTINELLI Davide | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 113 | GONÇALVES Hélder | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | s.t. |
| 114 | DEGENKOLB John | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 115 | CURVERS Roy | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 116 | SINKELDAM Ramon | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 117 | OLIVEIRA Fabio | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 118 | RAMALHO Andrè | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 119 | REIS Rafael | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 120 | JANSEN Amund | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 121 | SAAVEDRA Bernardo | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 122 | FREITAS Daniel | Miranda-Mortágua | s.t. |
| 123 | STRAKHOV Dmitry | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 124 | GROENEWEGEN Dylan | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 125 | RIBEIRO David | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 126 | FERNANDES Venceslau | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | s.t. |
| 127 | SÉNÉCHAL Florian | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 128 | ACKERMANN Pascal | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 129 | SCHEULEN Marvin | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 130 | SCHILLINGER Andreas | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 131 | MALUCELLI Matteo | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 132 | SCHWARZMANN Michael | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 133 | VAUGRENARD Benoît | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 134 | CRISPIM André | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 135 | KIRSCH Alex | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 136 | BERNAS Paweł | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 137 | ABERASTURI Jon | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 138 | CARDOSO Filipe | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 139 | LOPES Pedro Miguel | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | s.t. |
| 140 | BODNAR Maciej | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 141 | GARCÍA Vicente | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 142 | BARBOSA Márcio | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 143 | GARCÍA Francisco | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 144 | PELEGRÍ Óscar | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 145 | IRISARRI Jon | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 146 | LEAL Tiago | Miranda-Mortágua | s.t. |
| 147 | MEIRELES Nuno | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 148 | VAN GOETHEM Brian | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 149 | DUPONT Timothy | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | s.t. |
| 150 | SELIG Rüdiger | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 151 | SOUSA José | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | s.t. |
| 152 | DEVRIENDT Tom | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | s.t. |
| 153 | ČERNÝ Josef | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 154 | TOFFALI Nicola | Sporting/Tavira | s.t. |
| 155 | GUARNIERI Jacopo | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 156 | PEDERSEN Mads | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 157 | SILVA Bruno | Efapel | 23:42 |
| 158 | MIHAYLOV Nikolay | Efapel | s.t. |
| 159 | MATIAS Joao | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 160 | PAULINHO Pedro | Efapel | s.t. |
| 161 | PAULINHO Sérgio | Efapel | s.t. |
| 162 | NANCLARES Jesus | Miranda-Mortágua | 24:36 |
| 163 | BOASSON HAGEN Edvald | Dimension Data | 26:59 |
| 164 | COSTA Fabio | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 27:16 |
GC after stage 2:
386.5 kilometers raced so far at an aveage speed of 39.212 km/hr
| 1 | POGACAR Tadej | UAE-Team Emirates | 9hr 51min 24sec |
| 2 | POELS Wout | Sky | @ 1sec |
| 3 | MAS Enric | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 0:03 |
| 4 | OOMEN Sam | Team Sunweb | 0:05 |
| 5 | DE LA CRUZ David | Sky | 0:21 |
| 6 | KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren | Team Sunweb | 0:51 |
| 7 | RODRIGUES João | W52/FC Porto | 1:29 |
| 8 | ANTUNES Amaro | CCC Team | 1:42 |
| 9 | POWLESS Neilson | Jumbo-Visma | 1:46 |
| 10 | HIRSCHI Marc | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 11 | ŠTYBAR Zdeněk | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 12 | PETILLI Simone | UAE-Team Emirates | 1:55 |
| 13 | HERRADA José | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 14 | ŠPILAK Simon | Katusha-Alpecin | 1:56 |
| 15 | BRAMBILLA Gianluca | Trek-Segafredo | 2:05 |
| 16 | TUSVELD Martijn | Team Sunweb | 2:15 |
| 17 | VALGREN Michael | Dimension Data | 2:17 |
| 18 | HAGEN Carl Fredrik | Lotto-Soudal | 2:18 |
| 19 | ARU Fabio | UAE-Team Emirates | 2:24 |
| 20 | CONTI Valerio | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 21 | SILVA Joaquim | W52/FC Porto | 2:39 |
| 22 | CHERNETSKI Sergei | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 2:40 |
| 23 | TEN DAM Laurens | CCC Team | 2:56 |
| 24 | DE LA FUENTE David | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 25 | MACHADO Tiago | Sporting/Tavira | 3:30 |
| 26 | KING Ben | Dimension Data | 3:34 |
| 27 | KÜNG Stefan | Groupama-FDJ | 3:39 |
| 28 | BACKAERT Frederik | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 4:00 |
| 29 | AMEZQUETA Julen | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 4:11 |
| 30 | VLIEGEN Loïc | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 4:12 |
| 31 | FIGUEIREDO Frederico | Sporting/Tavira | 4:16 |
| 32 | ALARCÓN Raúl | W52/FC Porto | 4:37 |
| 33 | GOMES Luis | Radio Popular Boavista | 5:08 |
| 34 | MARQUE Alejandro | Sporting/Tavira | 5:35 |
| 35 | DRUCKER Jempy | Bora-hansgrohe | 6:00 |
| 36 | CLAEYS Dimitri | Cofidis | 6:02 |
| 37 | GUERREIRO Ruben | Katusha-Alpecin | 6:24 |
| 38 | BENTA João | Radio Popular Boavista | 6:30 |
| 39 | NUNES Hugo | Radio Popular Boavista | 6:32 |
| 40 | DÉMARE Arnaud | Groupama-FDJ | 6:35 |
| 41 | LAMPAERT Yves | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 6:45 |
| 42 | VERMOTE Julien | Dimension Data | 7:14 |
| 43 | WYSS Danilo | Dimension Data | 7:34 |
| 44 | CUMMINGS Steve | Dimension Data | 7:57 |
| 45 | SILVA Rafael | Efapel | s.t. |
| 46 | GEOGHEGAN HART Tao | Sky | 8:17 |
| 47 | KONRAD Patrick | Bora-hansgrohe | 8:37 |
| 48 | MEURISSE Xandro | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 8:41 |
| 49 | MENDES José | Sporting/Tavira | 8:55 |
| 50 | VERVAEKE Louis | Team Sunweb | 9:37 |
| 51 | DE BUYST Jasper | Lotto-Soudal | 9:44 |
| 52 | WYNANTS Maarten | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 53 | PHILIPSEN Jasper | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 54 | WAEYTENS Zico | Cofidis | 9:55 |
| 55 | KONOVALOVAS Ignatas | Groupama-FDJ | 10:49 |
| 56 | DE GENDT Aimé | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | s.t. |
| 57 | GONÇALVES José | Katusha-Alpecin | 11:16 |
| 58 | FERNANDES Luis | Aviludo-Louletano | 11:19 |
| 59 | ĐURASEK Kristijan | UAE-Team Emirates | 11:38 |
| 60 | DECLERCQ Tim | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 11:44 |
| 61 | MAES Nikolas | Lotto-Soudal | 12:08 |
| 62 | NAESEN Lawrence | Lotto-Soudal | 12:51 |
| 63 | TEUNISSEN Mike | Jumbo-Visma | 12:59 |
| 64 | VAN BAARLE Dylan | Sky | s.t. |
| 65 | BARBIO António | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 13:04 |
| 66 | DEL PINO Jesus | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 13:21 |
| 67 | PEDERSEN Casper | Team Sunweb | 13:32 |
| 68 | CASIMIRO Henrique | Efapel | 13:34 |
| 69 | SILVA Daniel | Radio Popular Boavista | s.t. |
| 70 | ANGULO Antonio | Efapel | 13:55 |
| 71 | CONSONNI Simone | UAE-Team Emirates | 14:25 |
| 72 | MULLEN Ryan | Trek-Segafredo | 14:51 |
| 73 | SERRANO Gonzalo | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 14:56 |
| 74 | POLITT Nils | Katusha-Alpecin | 15:04 |
| 75 | GONÇALVES Domingos | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 76 | ROWE Luke | Sky | 15:05 |
| 77 | DEBUSSCHERE Jens | Katusha-Alpecin | 15:37 |
| 78 | DUARTE Emanuel | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 15:57 |
| 79 | VAN DER HOORN Taco | Jumbo-Visma | 16:34 |
| 80 | VEGA Sergio | Miranda-Mortágua | 17:15 |
| 81 | KOCH Jonas | CCC Team | 17:51 |
| 82 | ROOSEN Timo | Jumbo-Visma | 18:33 |
| 83 | LOURENCO Rafael | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 18:36 |
| 84 | ZOIDL Riccardo | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 85 | VANBILSEN Kenneth | Cofidis | 19:20 |
| 86 | FRISON Frederik | Lotto-Soudal | 19:59 |
| 87 | LE GAC Olivier | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 88 | OFFREDO Yoann | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | s.t. |
| 89 | MESTRE Daniel | W52/FC Porto | 20:29 |
| 90 | GUERRERO Pablo | Radio Popular Boavista | s.t. |
| 91 | STANNARD Ian | Sky | 20:35 |
| 92 | RODRIGUES David | Radio Popular Boavista | 20:42 |
| 93 | DEWULF Stan | Lotto-Soudal | 20:45 |
| 94 | BARTA Will | CCC Team | 20:48 |
| 95 | VAN LERBERGHE Bert | Cofidis | 21:11 |
| 96 | PINHEIRO Ivo | Miranda-Mortágua | 21:24 |
| 97 | FERREIRA Antonio | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 98 | SANCHO Hugo | Miranda-Mortágua | s.t. |
| 99 | GONCALVES Gaspar | Miranda-Mortágua | 21:43 |
| 100 | BARBOSA João | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 21:49 |
| 101 | CALDEIRA Samuel | W52/FC Porto | 22:05 |
| 102 | JAKOBSEN Fabio | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 22:15 |
| 103 | THEUNS Edward | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 104 | ACKERMANN Pascal | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 105 | ABERASTURI Jon | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 106 | SÉNÉCHAL Florian | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 107 | SELIG Rüdiger | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 108 | PEDERSEN Mads | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 109 | SINKELDAM Ramon | Groupama-FDJ | 22:33 |
| 110 | GUARNIERI Jacopo | Groupama-FDJ | 22:35 |
| 111 | CURVERS Roy | Team Sunweb | 22:37 |
| 112 | FREITAS Daniel | Miranda-Mortágua | s.t. |
| 113 | SCHWARZMANN Michael | Bora-hansgrohe | 22:47 |
| 114 | LOPES Pedro Jose | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 23:05 |
| 115 | BODNAR Maciej | Bora-hansgrohe | 23:06 |
| 116 | MARTINELLI Davide | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 23:20 |
| 117 | SCHILLINGER Andreas | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 118 | KIRSCH Alex | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 119 | VAN GOETHEM Brian | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 120 | DUPONT Timothy | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | s.t. |
| 121 | FERNANDES Venceslau | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 23:50 |
| 122 | REIS Rafael | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 123 | GARCÍA Vicente | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 124 | SOUSA José | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | s.t. |
| 125 | CARDOSO Filipe | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 24:03 |
| 126 | LOPES Pedro Miguel | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | s.t. |
| 127 | GARCÍA Francisco | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 128 | OLIVEIRA Fabio | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 24:09 |
| 129 | PELEGRÍ Óscar | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 130 | CRISPIM André | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 24:12 |
| 131 | DEVRIENDT Tom | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 24:21 |
| 132 | GONÇALVES Hélder | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 24:24 |
| 133 | NOCENTINI Rinaldo | Sporting/Tavira | 24:56 |
| 134 | SILVA Bruno | Efapel | 25:17 |
| 135 | MIHAYLOV Nikolay | Efapel | s.t. |
| 136 | RAMALHO Andrè | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 25:26 |
| 137 | STRAKHOV Dmitry | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 138 | HERNANDEZ Oscar | Aviludo-Louletano | 25:44 |
| 139 | MESTRE Ricardo | W52/FC Porto | s.t. |
| 140 | BERNAS Paweł | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 141 | SCHEULEN Marvin | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | 25:48 |
| 142 | NANCLARES Jesus | Miranda-Mortágua | 26:20 |
| 143 | MATHIS Marco | Cofidis | 26:26 |
| 144 | SAAVEDRA Bernardo | Vito-Feirense-PNB | s.t. |
| 145 | RIBEIRO David | LA Aluminios-LA Sport | s.t. |
| 146 | VAUGRENARD Benoît | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 147 | LEAL Tiago | Miranda-Mortágua | s.t. |
| 148 | MEIRELES Nuno | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 149 | TOFFALI Nicola | Sporting/Tavira | s.t. |
| 150 | PAULINHO Sérgio | Efapel | 27:53 |
| 151 | BOASSON HAGEN Edvald | Dimension Data | 28:04 |
| 152 | JANSEN Amund | Jumbo-Visma | 29:05 |
| 153 | GROENEWEGEN Dylan | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 154 | WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads | Katusha-Alpecin | 29:38 |
| 155 | BARBOSA Márcio | Aviludo-Louletano | s.t. |
| 156 | MATIAS Joao | Vito-Feirense-PNB | 30:32 |
| 157 | COSTA Fabio | UD Oliveirense/InOutbuild | 31:27 |
| 158 | STUYVEN Jasper | Trek-Segafredo | 31:52 |
| 159 | BAK Lars Ytting | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 160 | DEGENKOLB John | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 161 | ČERNÝ Josef | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 162 | MALUCELLI Matteo | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 34:06 |
| 163 | IRISARRI Jon | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 35:24 |
| 164 | PAULINHO Pedro | Efapel | 36:51 |
Stage 2 map
Stage 2 profile
Wednesday, February 20: Stage 1, Portimao-Lagos, 199.1 km
Fabio Jakobsen takes the Algarve's first stage.
Weather at the finish city of Lagos at 2:00 PM, local time: (17C) 62F, partly cloudy, with the wind from the ESE at 21 km/hr (13 mph). No rain is forecast.
The race: Here's the report from winner Fabio Jakobsen's Deceuninck-Quick Step team.
He came, he saw, and helped by an incredible team, he conquered! Fabio Jakobsen didn’t waste any time on stage 1 of the Volta ao Algarve – at 199.1 kilometers, the longest of this edition, which took the peloton from Portimão to Lagos – notching up his maiden victory of the season, and the ninth of the team since January, following a spectacular sprint.
“It’s amazing to win my first race of the season after all the training in the winter, it’s a perfect start to the year. Both my family and the team supported me, I worked hard for this and it feels great to get a victory against so many strong sprinters and don the first leader’s jersey”, a delighted Fabio said before heading to the podium ceremony, where he collected two more jerseys – red (points classification) and white (best young rider standings).
As soon as the peloton rolled through the neutralised zone on Wednesday, five riders from local Portuguese Continental teams sparked a move and put around three and a half minutes between them and the pack, which was headed by Tim Declercq, who confirmed his “El Tractor” nickname, pulling for dozens and dozens of kilometres and making sure the gap remained a stable one.
With two insignificant climbs featuring in the first part of the course, the stage was never going to be a problem for the sprinters’ teams, who slowly made their way to the front of the bunch, bringing back both the original breakaway and the duo who attacked inside the final 40 kilometers, when it became clear that the first move of the day was all but doomed.
A big pile-up in the bunch, which occurred with seven kilometers to go, left only 30-40 riders at the front, Deceuninck – Quick-Step being well-represented there, with the likes of Yves Lampaert and Davide Martinelli, who organised the sprint train and stretched out the field going into the last kilometers. Under the flamme rouge, former Czech Champion Zdenek Stybar ramped up the pace, before Florian Sénéchal took over and provided a flawless lead-out for Fabio Jakobsen.
The Dutchman accelerated some 150 meters from the line, going past Simone Consonni (UAE Team Emirates) and easily holding off the charges of Arnaud Demare (Groupama-FDJ) and Pascal Ackermann (Bora-hansgrohe), who rounded out the podium in Lagos, which hosted a stage finish for the third consecutive year. The small group that arrived to the line together with Jakobsen contained also Vuelta a España runner-up Enric Mas, who just like his teammate, kickstarted the season in Algarve.
“We trained here in the region this year and did a recon of the stage, so we knew the roads and that the small climb inside the final three kilometers was going to be hard and quite crucial. The boys kept the pace high there and protected me, before putting me in a perfect position for the sprint. This result motivates us even more and hopefully our great week will continue”, concluded Fabio, the 11th different Deceuninck – Quick-Step rider to win a stage at the Portuguese race since 2007.
Complete results and GC after stage 1:
199.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.774 km/hr
| 1 | JAKOBSEN Fabio | DECEUNINCK-QUICK STEP | 4hr 52min 59sec | |
| 2 | DEMARE Arnaud | GROUPAMA-FDJ | s.t. | |
| 3 | ACKERMANN Pascal | BORA-HANSGROHE | s.t. | |
| 4 | CONSONNI Simone | UAE TEAM EMIRATES | s.t. | |
| 5 | DE BUYST Jasper | LOTTO SOUDAL | s.t. | |
| 6 | KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren | TEAM SUNWEB | s.t. | |
| 7 | THEUNS Edward | TREK-SEGAFREDO | s.t. | |
| 8 | ABERASTURI Jon | CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA | s.t. | |
| 9 | LAPORTE Christophe | COFIDIS | s.t. | |
| 10 | POWLESS Neilson | TEAM JUMBO-VISMA | s.t. | |
| 11 | POELS Wout | TEAM SKY | s.t. | |
| 12 | DEWULF Stan | LOTTO SOUDAL | s.t. | |
| 13 | POGAAR Tadej | UAE TEAM EMIRATES | s.t. | |
| 14 | OOMEN Sam | TEAM SUNWEB | s.t. | |
| 15 | MAS NICOLAU Enric | DECEUNINCK-QUICK STEP | s.t. | |
| 16 | VLIEGEN Loïc | WANTY-GOBERT | s.t. | |
| 17 | WYNANTS Maarten | TEAM JUMBO-VISMA | s.t. | |
| 18 | HAGEN Carl Fredrik | LOTTO SOUDAL | s.t. | |
| 19 | DE LA CRUZ David | TEAM SKY | s.t. | |
| 20 | HIRSCHI Marc | TEAM SUNWEB | s.t. | |
| 21 | SENECHAL Florian | DECEUNINCK-QUICK STEP | s.t. | |
| 22 | STYBAR Zdenek | DECEUNINCK-QUICK STEP | s.t. | |
| 23 | PEDERSEN Mads | TREK-SEGAFREDO | s.t. | |
| 24 | SELIG Rüdiger | BORA-HANSGROHE | s.t. | |
| 25 | PHILIPSEN Jasper | UAE TEAM EMIRATES | s.t. | |
| 26 | DRUCKER Jean-Pierre | BORA-HANSGROHE | @ 11sec | |
| 27 | WAEYTENS Zico | COFIDIS | s.t. | |
| 28 | SINKELDAM Ramon | GROUPAMA-FDJ | @ 18 | |
| 29 | GUARNIERI Jacopo | GROUPAMA-FDJ | @ 20 | |
| 30 | FREITAS Daniel | MIRANDA-MORTÁGUA | @ 22 | |
| 31 | CURVERS Roy | TEAM SUNWEB | s.t. | |
| 32 | MAES Nikolas | LOTTO SOUDAL | s.t. | |
| 33 | VAN LERBERGHE Bert | COFIDIS | @ 26 | |
| 34 | MULLEN Ryan | TREK-SEGAFREDO | s.t. | |
| 35 | KÜNG Stefan | GROUPAMA-FDJ | s.t. | |
| 36 | ROWE Luke | TEAM SKY | s.t. | |
| 37 | VANBILSEN Kenneth | COFIDIS | s.t. | |
| 38 | SCHWARZMANN Michael | BORA-HANSGROHE | @ 32 | |
| 39 | LAMPAERT Yves | DECEUNINCK-QUICK STEP | @ 36 | |
| 40 | BODNAR Maciej | BORA-HANSGROHE | @ 51 | |
| 41 | BRAMBILLA Gianluca | TREK-SEGAFREDO | @ 1:05 | |
| 42 | ARU Fabio | UAE TEAM EMIRATES | s.t. | |
| 43 | LOURENÇO João | W52/FC PORTO | s.t. | |
| 44 | HAGEN Edvald Boasson | TEAM DIMENSION DATA | s.t. | |
| 45 | SPILAK Simon | TEAM KATUSHA ALPECIN | s.t. | |
| 46 | MARTINELLI Davide | DECEUNINCK-QUICK STEP | s.t. | |
| 47 | VERMOTE Julien | TEAM DIMENSION DATA | s.t. | |
| 48 | KONOVALOVAS Ignatas | GROUPAMA-FDJ | s.t. | |
| 49 | TEN DAM Laurens | CCC TEAM | s.t. | |
| 50 | LE GAC Olivier | GROUPAMA-FDJ | s.t. | |
| 51 | SCHILLINGER Andreas | BORA-HANSGROHE | s.t. | |
| 52 | FRISON Frederik | LOTTO SOUDAL | s.t. | |
| 53 | CONTI Valerio | UAE TEAM EMIRATES | s.t. | |
| 54 | VAN GOETHEM Brian | LOTTO SOUDAL | s.t. | |
| 55 | KIRSCH Alex | TREK-SEGAFREDO | s.t. | |
| 56 | NAESEN Lawrence | LOTTO SOUDAL | s.t. | |
| 57 | DUPONT Timothy | WANTY-GOBERT | s.t. | |
| 58 | DE GENDT Aime | WANTY-GOBERT | s.t. | |
| 59 | OFFREDO Yoann | WANTY-GOBERT | s.t. | |
| 60 | DE LA FUENTE David | AVILUDO-LOULETANO | s.t. | |
| 61 | TUSVELD Martijn | TEAM SUNWEB | s.t. | |
| 62 | WYSS Danilo | TEAM DIMENSION DATA | @ 1:25 | |
| 63 | PETILLI Simone | UAE TEAM EMIRATES | @ 1:28 | |
| 64 | ANDERSEN Michael Valgren | TEAM DIMENSION DATA | s.t. | |
| 65 | HERRADA Jose | COFIDIS | s.t. | |
| 66 | ANTUNES Amaro | CCC TEAM | @ 1:35 | |
| 67 | AMEZQUETA Julen | CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA | s.t. | |
| 68 | FERNANDES Luís | AVILUDO-LOULETANO | s.t. | |
| 69 | PINHEIRO Ivo | MIRANDA-MORTÁGUA | s.t. | |
| 70 | BACKAERT Frederik | WANTY-GOBERT | s.t. | |
| 71 | FERREIRA Antonio | VITO-FEIRENSE-PNB | s.t. | |
| 72 | PINTO Tiago | SPORTING/TAVIRA | s.t. | |
| 73 | GARCIA Vicente | AVILUDO-LOULETANO | s.t. | |
| 74 | FERNANDES Venceslau | UD OLIVEIRENSE/INOUTBUILD | s.t. | |
| 75 | CHERNETSKII Sergei | CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA | s.t. | |
| 76 | SILVA Bruno | EFAPEL | s.t. | |
| 77 | DEL PINO Jesus | VITO-FEIRENSE-PNB | s.t. | |
| 78 | ALARCON Raul | W52/FC PORTO | s.t. | |
| 79 | SERRANO Gonzalo | CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA | s.t. | |
| 80 | BENTA João | RADIO POPULAR-BOAVISTA | s.t. | |
| 81 | SOUSA José | UD OLIVEIRENSE/INOUTBUILD | s.t. | |
| 82 | REIS Rafael | W52/FC PORTO | s.t. | |
| 83 | GUERRERO Pablo | RADIO POPULAR-BOAVISTA | s.t. | |
| 84 | PEREIRA Daniel | W52/FC PORTO | s.t. | |
| 85 | SANCHO Hugo | MIRANDA-MORTÁGUA | s.t. | |
| 86 | MIHAYLOV Nikolay | EFAPEL | s.t. | |
| 87 | SILVA Luís | RADIO POPULAR-BOAVISTA | s.t. | |
| 88 | NANCLARES Jesus | MIRANDA-MORTÁGUA | @ 1:44 | |
| 89 | KING Benjamin | TEAM DIMENSION DATA | @ 1:48 | |
| 90 | CASIMIRO Henrique | EFAPEL | s.t. | |
| 91 | RODRIGUES David | RADIO POPULAR-BOAVISTA | s.t. | |
| 92 | NUNES Hugo | RADIO POPULAR-BOAVISTA | s.t. | |
| 93 | CUMMINGS Stephen | TEAM DIMENSION DATA | s.t. | |
| 94 | SOARES Joaquim | W52/FC PORTO | s.t. | |
| 95 | SOUSA Filipe | VITO-FEIRENSE-PNB | s.t. | |
| 96 | LOPES Pedro M. | UD OLIVEIRENSE/INOUTBUILD | s.t. | |
| 97 | SILVA Daniel | RADIO POPULAR-BOAVISTA | s.t. | |
| 98 | MAGALHÃES Rafael | EFAPEL | s.t. | |
| 99 | GARCIA Francisco | AVILUDO-LOULETANO | s.t. | |
| 100 | OLIVEIRA Fábio | LA ALUMINIOS-LA SPORT | @ 1:54 | |
| 101 | DURASEK Kristijan | UAE TEAM EMIRATES | s.t. | |
| 102 | PELEGRI Oscar | VITO-FEIRENSE-PNB | s.t. | |
| 103 | GONÇALVES Gaspar | MIRANDA-MORTÁGUA | s.t. | |
| 104 | BARTA William | CCC TEAM | s.t. | |
| 105 | VEGA Sergio | MIRANDA-MORTÁGUA | s.t. | |
| 106 | CRISPIM André | LA ALUMINIOS-LA SPORT | @ 1:57 | |
| 107 | DECLERCQ Tim | Deceuninck-Quick Step | @ 2:00 | |
| 108 | BARBOSA João | VITO-FEIRENSE-PNB | s.t. | |
| 109 | DEVRIENDT Tom | WANTY-GOBERT | @ 2:06 | |
| 110 | GONÇALVES Helder | UD OLIVEIRENSE/INOUTBUILD | @ 2:09 | |
| 111 | STRAKHOV Dmitrii | TEAM KATUSHA ALPECIN | @ 3:11 | |
| 112 | GUERREIRO Ruben | TEAM KATUSHA ALPECIN | s.t. | |
| 113 | RODRIGUES Samuel | W52/FC PORTO | s.t. | |
| 114 | MARQUE Alejandro | SPORTING/TAVIRA | s.t. | |
| 115 | OLIVEIRA Frederico | SPORTING/TAVIRA | s.t. | |
| 116 | RAMALHO Andre | LA ALUMINIOS-LA SPORT | s.t. | |
| 117 | BERNAS Pawel | CCC TEAM | @ 3:29 | |
| 118 | MARTINS Marvin | LA ALUMINIOS-LA SPORT | @ 3:33 | |
| 119 | DUARTE Emanuel | LA ALUMINIOS-LA SPORT | @ 4:11 | |
| 120 | COSTA José | SPORTING/TAVIRA | s.t. | |
| 121 | LEITE João | VITO-FEIRENSE-PNB | s.t. | |
| 122 | LOPES Pedro | UD OLIVEIRENSE/INOUTBUILD | s.t. | |
| 123 | LEAL Tiago | MIRANDA-MORTÁGUA | s.t. | |
| 124 | KONRAD Patrick | BORA-HANSGROHE | s.t. | |
| 125 | RIBEIRO David | LA ALUMINIOS-LA SPORT | s.t. | |
| 126 | NOCENTINI Rinaldo | SPORTING/TAVIRA | s.t. | |
| 127 | TOFFALI Nicola | SPORTING/TAVIRA | s.t. | |
| 128 | MATHIS Marco | COFIDIS | s.t. | |
| 129 | VERVAEKE Louis | TEAM SUNWEB | s.t. | |
| 130 | BARBIO António | LA ALUMINIOS-LA SPORT | s.t. | |
| 131 | PAULINHO Sérgio | EFAPEL | s.t. | |
| 132 | ANGULO Antonio | EFAPEL | s.t. | |
| 133 | MEIRELES Nuno | AVILUDO-LOULETANO | s.t. | |
| 134 | CLAEYS Dimitri | COFIDIS | s.t. | |
| 135 | FERNANDES Fábio | UD OLIVEIRENSE/INOUTBUILD | s.t. | |
| 136 | VAUGRENARD Benoit | GROUPAMA-FDJ | s.t. | |
| 137 | JANSEN Amund | TEAM JUMBO-VISMA | @ 6:50 | |
| 138 | POLITT Nils | TEAM KATUSHA ALPECIN | s.t. | |
| 139 | HERNANDEZ Oscar | AVILUDO-LOULETANO | s.t. | |
| 140 | GEOGHEGAN HART Tao | TEAM SKY | s.t. | |
| 141 | TEUNISSEN Mike | TEAM JUMBO-VISMA | s.t. | |
| 142 | GROENEWEGEN Dylan | TEAM JUMBO-VISMA | s.t. | |
| 143 | VAN DER HOORN Taco | TEAM JUMBO-VISMA | s.t. | |
| 144 | ZOIDL Riccardo | CCC TEAM | s.t. | |
| 145 | ARAÚJO João | VITO-FEIRENSE-PNB | s.t. | |
| 146 | MACIEL José | TEAM KATUSHA ALPECIN | s.t. | |
| 147 | LOURENÇO Rafael | UD OLIVEIRENSE/INOUTBUILD | s.t. | |
| 148 | CORREIA Ricardo | W52/FC PORTO | s.t. | |
| 149 | PEDERSEN Casper | TEAM SUNWEB | @ 7:23 | |
| 150 | SCHMIDT Mads | TEAM KATUSHA ALPECIN | s.t. | |
| 151 | MEURISSE Xandro | WANTY-GOBERT | s.t. | |
| 152 | DEBUSSCHERE Jens | TEAM KATUSHA ALPECIN | s.t. | |
| 153 | SANTOS Márcio | AVILUDO-LOULETANO | s.t. | |
| 154 | MENDONÇA Luís | RADIO POPULAR-BOAVISTA | @ 7:39 | |
| 155 | VAN BAARLE Dylan | TEAM SKY | @ 8:15 | |
| 156 | ROOSEN Timo | TEAM JUMBO-VISMA | @ 8:49 | |
| 157 | STANNARD Ian | TEAM SKY | s.t. | |
| 158 | GRIGOREV Aleksandr | SPORTING/TAVIRA | s.t. | |
| 159 | BAK YTTING Lars | TEAM DIMENSION DATA | @ 9:37 | |
| 160 | STUYVEN Jasper | TREK-SEGAFREDO | s.t. | |
| 161 | DEGENKOLB John | TREK-SEGAFREDO | s.t. | |
| 162 | CERNÝ Josef | CCC TEAM | s.t. | |
| 163 | KOCH Jonas | CCC TEAM | s.t. | |
| 164 | MALUCELLI Matteo | CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA | @ 11:51 | |
| 165 | GONÇALVES Domingos | CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA | s.t. | |
| 166 | MOREIRA Pedro | EFAPEL | @ 13:09 | |
| 167 | IRISARRI RICON Jon | CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA | s.t. | |
Stage 1 map
Stage 1 profile
Start list with back numbers, February 19, 2019:
| BORA-HANSGROHE | |
| Dir: | Christian Pomer |
| 1 | ACKERMANN Pascal |
| 2 | BODNAR Maciej |
| 3 | DRUCKER Jean Pierre |
| 4 | KONRAD Patrick |
| 5 | SCHILLINGER Andreas |
| 6 | SCHWARZMANN Michael |
| 7 | SELIG Rüdiger |
| CCC TEAM | |
| Dir: | Gabriele Missaglia |
| 11 | ANTUNES Manuel Amaro |
| 12 | BARTA William |
| 13 | BERNAS Pawel |
| 14 | CERNY Josef |
| 15 | KOCH Jonas |
| 16 | TEN DAM Laurens |
| 17 | ZOIDL Riccardo |
| Deceuninck-Quick Step | |
| Dir: | Tom Steels |
| 21 | DECLERCQ Tim |
| 22 | JAKOBSEN Fabio |
| 23 | LAMPAERT Yves |
| 24 | MARTINELLI Davide |
| 25 | MAS NICOLAU Enric |
| 26 | SENECHAL Florian |
| 27 | STYBAR Zdenek |
| GROUPAMA-FDJ | |
| Dir: | Frederic Guesdon |
| 31 | DEMARE Arnaud |
| 32 | GUARNIERI Jacopo |
| 33 | KONOVALOVAS Ignatas |
| 34 | KÜNG Stefan |
| 35 | LE GAC Olivier |
| 36 | SINKELDAM Ramon |
| 37 | VAUGRENARD Benoît |
| LOTTO-SOUDAL | |
| Dir: | Frederik Willems |
| 41 | DE BUYST Jasper |
| 42 | DE WULF Stan |
| 43 | FRISON Frederik |
| 44 | HAGEN Carl Fredrik |
| 45 | MAES Nikolas |
| 46 | NAESEN Lawrence |
| 47 | VAN GOETHEM Brian |
| TEAM DIMENSION DATA | |
| Dir: | Bingen Fernandez |
| 51 | VALGREN ANDERSEN Michael |
| 52 | BAK Lars Ytting |
| 53 | BOASSON HAGEN Edvald |
| 54 | CUMMINGS Stephen |
| 55 | KING Benjamin |
| 56 | VERMOTE Julien |
| 57 | WYSS Danilo |
| TEAM JUMBO-VISMA | |
| Dir: | Nico Verhoeven |
| 61 | GROENEWEGEN Dylan |
| 62 | JANSEN Amund Grøndahl |
| 63 | VAN DER HOORN Taco |
| 64 | POWLESS Neilson |
| 65 | ROOSEN Timo |
| 66 | TEUNISSEN Mike |
| 67 | WYNANTS Maarten |
| TEAM KATUSHA-ALPECIN | |
| Dir: | Dirk Demol |
| 71 | DEBUSSCHERE Jens |
| 72 | GONCALVES Jose |
| 73 | GUERREIRO Ruben |
| 74 | POLITT Nils |
| 75 | SPILAK Simon |
| 76 | STRAKHOV Dmitrii |
| 77 | WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads |
| TEAM SKY | |
| Dir: | Ole Rasch |
| 81 | DE LA CRUZ David |
| 82 | DUNBAR Eddie |
| 83 | GEOGHEGAN HART Tao |
| 84 | POELS Wouter |
| 85 | ROWE Luke |
| 86 | STANNARD Ian |
| 87 | VAN BAARLE Dylan |
| TEAM SUNWEB | |
| Dir: | Michiel Elijzen |
| 91 | KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren |
| 92 | CURVERS Roy |
| 93 | HIRSCHI Marc |
| 94 | OOMEN Sam |
| 95 | PEDERSEN Casper Phillip |
| 96 | TUSVELD Martijn |
| 97 | VERVAEKE Louis |
| TREK-SEGAFREDO | |
| Dir: | Steven De Jongh |
| 101 | BRAMBILLA Gianluca |
| 102 | DEGENKOLB John |
| 103 | KIRSCH Alex |
| 104 | MULLEN Ryan |
| 105 | PEDERSEN Mads |
| 106 | STUYVEN Jasper |
| 107 | THEUNS Edward |
| UAE-TEAM EMIRATES | |
| Dir: | Aurelio Corral |
| 111 | ARU Fabio |
| 112 | CONSONNI Simone |
| 113 | CONTI Valerio |
| 114 | DURASEK Kristijan |
| 115 | PETILLI Simone |
| 116 | PHILIPSEN Jasper |
| 117 | POGACAR Tadej |
| CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA | |
| Dir: | Jose Fernandez |
| 121 | GONCALVES Andre Maciel |
| 122 | ABERASTURI Jon |
| 123 | MALUCELLI Matteo |
| 124 | IRISARRI Jon |
| 125 | CHERNETSKY Sergey |
| 126 | AMEZQUETA Julen |
| 127 | SERRANO Gonzalo |
| COFIDIS | |
| Dir: | Christian Guiberteau |
| 131 | LAPORTE Christophe |
| 132 | CLAEYS Dimitri |
| 133 | HERRADA LOPEZ José |
| 134 | MATHIS Marco |
| 135 | VANBILSEN Kenneth |
| 136 | VAN LERBERGHE Bert |
| 137 | WAEYTENS Zico |
| W52/FC PORTO | |
| Dir: | Nuno Gaspar |
| 141 | ALARCON Raul |
| 142 | SILVA Joaquim |
| 143 | REIS Rafael Ferreira |
| 144 | RODRIGUES João |
| 145 | MESTRE Ricardo |
| 146 | MESTRE Daniel |
| 147 | CALDEIRA Samuel |
| WANTY–GROUPE GOBERT | |
| Dir | Jean-Marc Rossignon |
| 151 | BACKAERT Frederik |
| 152 | DE GENDT Aimé |
| 153 | DEVRIENDT Tom |
| 154 | DUPONT Timothy |
| 155 | MEURISSE Xandro |
| 156 | OFFREDO Yoann |
| 157 | VLIEGEN Loïc |
| AVILUDO-LOULETANO | |
| Dir: | Jorge Piedade |
| 161 | RUBIO Vicente |
| 162 | DE LA FUENTE David |
| 163 | FERNANDES Luis |
| 164 | HERNÁNDEZ Óscar |
| 165 | GARCIA RUS Francisco |
| 166 | SANTOS Marcio |
| 167 | MEIRELES Nuno |
| EFAPEL | |
| Dir: | Americo Silva |
| 171 | PAULINHO Sergio |
| 172 | CASIMIRO Henrique |
| 173 | MAGALHÃES Rafael |
| 174 | SILVA Bruno |
| 175 | PAULINHO Pedro |
| 176 | ANGULO Antonio |
| 177 | MIHAYLOV Nikolay |
| L. A. ALUMINIOS-L. A. SPORT | |
| Dir: | Hernani Broco |
| 181 | BARBIO António |
| 182 | DUARTE Emanuel |
| 183 | CRISPIM André |
| 184 | RIBEIRO David |
| 185 | RAMALHO André |
| 186 | OLIVEIRA Fábio |
| 187 | SCHEULEN Marvin |
| MIRANDA-MORTÁGUA | |
| Dir: | Pedro Silva |
| 191 | FREITAS Daniel |
| 192 | DE MATOS Hugo |
| 193 | GONÇALVES Gaspar |
| 194 | NANCLARES Jesús |
| 195 | VEGA Sergio |
| 196 | LEAL Tiago |
| 197 | PINHEIRO Ivo |
| RADIO POPULAR-BOAVISTA | |
| Dir | Jose Santos |
| 201 | MENDONÇA Luís |
| 202 | SILVA Daniel |
| 203 | BENTA Joao |
| 204 | GOMES Luís |
| 205 | GUERRERO Pablo |
| 206 | NUNES Hugo |
| 207 | SALGADO João |
| SPORTING-TAVIRA | |
| Dir: | Vidal Fitas |
| 211 | MACHADO Tiago |
| 212 | FIGUEIREDO Federico |
| 213 | GRIGORIEV Alexander |
| 214 | PIMENTA José |
| 215 | TOFFALI Nicola |
| 216 | NOCENTINI Rinaldo |
| 217 | MARQUE Alejandro |
| UD OLIVEIRENSE-INOUTBUILD | |
| Dir: | Mauel Correia |
| 221 | CARNEIRO João |
| 222 | FERNANDES Fábio |
| 223 | FERNANDES Venceslau |
| 224 | LOPES Pedro Miguel |
| 225 | LOPES Pedro José |
| 226 | LOURENÇO Rafael |
| 227 | SOUSA José |
| VITO-FEIRENSE-PNB | |
| Dir: | Joaquim Andrade |
| 231 | ARAÚJO João |
| 232 | THURAU Bjorn |
| 233 | DEL PINO Jesus |
| 234 | PELEGRÍ Óscar |
| 235 | BARBOSA Joao |
| 236 | CASTRO Rui |
| 237 | SOUSA Filipe |