Thomas Vedel Kvist wins final stage of 2011 Rhone-Alpes Isere Tour: Cycling News
Glud and Marstrand team’s Thomas Vedel Kvist won the fourth and final stage from St. Maurice-l’Exil to Charvieu-Chavagneux, Rhone-Alpes Isere Tour 2011 on Sunday, 15 May.
Denmark's Thomas Vedel Kvist took a total of 4 hours, 41 minutes and 54 seconds to cover the distance of 180 kilometres.
FDJ team's Jeremey Roy was the runner-up with two seconds behind Thomas. Tony Hurel of the Europcar team finished third with the difference of three seconds.
Justin Jules, Daniel Foder and Jasper Bovenhuis were in fourth, fifth and sixth place, respectively.
This stage was difficult for the all riders because there were four sprints and seven mountains in the race.
In the first mountain, Cyril Bessy was in the first place, but after few kilometres, Christopher Juul-Jensen capitalised on the advantage of six minutes and took a lead over other riders. However, Bessy took the lead in the second climb.
The French cyclists Arnaud Courteille maintain his speed and cross the other riders in the third and fourth climb of the race.
However, in the final climb, Jeremey Roy of the FDJ team grabbed the only KOM of the day, ahead of Sebastien Duret and Thomas Vedel.
After numerous attacks in the race, the eight riders Christophe Laborie (Saur-Sojasun) Nicolas Baldo (Atlas Personal), Thomas Vedel Kvist (Glud and Marstrand), Arnaud Gerard Courteille (FDJ), Aurélien Ribet (AVC Aix-en-Provence), Arnaud and Wilco Kelderman
(Rabobank CT) and Sébastien Duret (Bretagne-Schuller) made break.
All of them never gained a maximum advantage of 1 minute and 30 seconds over the peloton. When the race entered in Lac De Fremenville, Jeremy Roy maintained his speed and took second and third sprint of the race.
In the final 18 kilometers Thomas Vedel Kvist was joined by Jeremy Roy. Both took the lead over the other riders, but in the last two kilometers, with the help of his team-mates, Thomas Vedel crossed the line ahead of Jeremy Roy.
The winner of stage one and three, Sylvain Georges took a lead in the overall classification with timing of 16 hours, 06 minutes and 56 seconds. FDJ team's Thibaut Pinot was in second place and just 49 seconds behind Sylvain.
Lasse Bochmann finished third with a difference of 1 minute and 28 seconds while stage two winners Gaeten Bille was in fourth place with 2 minute and 37 seconds behind.
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