SILVER GERRANS Kwiatkowski surprised at World Cup, Dutch disappoint – NUsport.nl

The Pole Michal Kwiatkowski Sunday has captured the title at the World Championships in the Spanish Ponferrada.

The 24-year-old Pole escaped in the final round of a peloton and soloist for the triumph.

The Australian Simon Gerrans laid on just one second attachment on the silver medal, the Spaniard Alejandro Valverde. It is the sixth time that Valverde on the podium finish at a World Cup without even winning once.

The Dane Matti Breschel passed as the fourth stripe, the Belgian Greg Van Avermaet and Frenchman Tony Gallopin. On the eighteenth Bauke Mollema was the best Dutchman. Tom Dumoulin was 22nd. <- Block! | Slideshow start ->

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What was noticed that the whole day no Dutchman was part of a breakaway .

The best Dutch ended seven seconds of Kwiatkowski, who obviously achieved the most important victory of his still fledgling career. Earlier this year, won the Pole the Tour of Algarve, the overnight rate Strade Bianche and he finished second in the Tour of the Basque Country.

Rain

The 254.8-kilometer course was held under varying weather conditions. The riders had braved rain in Ponferrada, but in the final it was dry.

As in almost every World Cup fireworks were chipped in the final round. The Croatian Matija Kvasina, Colombian Carlos Quintero, Lithuanian Zydrunas Savickas and Oleksandr Polivoda from Ukraine were in the early break, which was already formed. During the first round of fourteen rounds

The peloton allowed the breakaway committed , which becomes quickly rose to fifteen minutes. That margin remained intact kilometers long.

Chaotic

With sixty kilometers to go was the predictable fusion a reality, especially after the work of Poland. What followed was a chaotic phase with a lot of breakaways even big names.

eventually ended up with a group, among others, Tony Martin, Giovanni Visconti, Edvald Boasson Hagen and Sep Vanmarcke the lead.

Martin and his associates were given the space, so there was still a half lap to go of regrouping. At that time the peloton was considerably thinned; among others, former Tour winner Chris Froome stopped relatively early battle

Decision

At the start of the last lap there was a leading group of four riders emerged:. Dane Michael Valgren, the Italian Alessandro De Marchi, Frenchman Cyril Gautier and Vasil Kirjienka from Belarus.

The drivers did not stand a chance as the favorites once their devils dissolved. Kwiatkowski opened the ball. Also put on the last climb Joaquim Rodriguez, Valverde and Gerrans, but it was the Pole who first went into the descent to the finish.

Behind Kwiatkowski created a group of six riders in pursuit, Dutch. The rider from Omega Pharma-QuickStep held several bike lengths on the first Polish World

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By: NU.nl

Picture: Reuters