September 30, 2010 (Geelong, Australia) – The Espoir men’s road race is now underway here in Geelong Australia. It’s overcast and rains are threatening to come down later in the race. There are 122 riders on the start line who will contest 10 laps of a 15.9km circuit for a total of 159km.

We caught up with CCA road cycling coach Vincent Jourdain minutes before the start for his thoughts on today’s race. He expects the Columbian riders to split the field open on the two steep climbs early in the race then be chased back by other teams later on the straight downhill and windy sections.

Canada has four riders, all from la Belle Provence, starting today’s race including David Boiley, Guillaume Boivin, Hugo Houle and Arnaud Papillon. Boivin is the team’s strong option if race stays together and ends in a bunch sprint while Boiley is the big hope to get into a late race break.

Jourdain sees the French team as the strongest in the peloton with Johan Le Bon their top rider. Other contenders showing recent form are John Degenkold of Germany having won two stages at the Tour of L’Avenir and the American duo of Ben King and Taylor Phinney – start list here.

Lap 1
There was a crash after only three km – American Conor Jones and a Slovenian rider went down. Ben King (USA) of Trek Livestrong was off the front solo at the start and was pursued by Ben King of Australia at 55 sec and the peloton behind. All Canadians are in the main field.

Lap 3
The USA’s King is still leading and with Australia’s King at 1:15 with the peloton at 4 min.

Sorry we had technical problems.

Results

1. Michael Matthews (Australia) 4:01:23
2. John Degenkolb (Germany)
3. Taylor Phinney (United States Of America)
3. Guillaume Boivin (Canada)
5. Arnaud Demare (France)
6. Sonny Colbrelli (Italy)
7. Laurens De Vreese (Belgium)
8. Sebastian Lander (Denmark)
9. Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Spain)
10. Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Russian Federation)
11. Luke Rowe (Great Britain)
12. Siarhei Papok (Belarus)
13. Blaz Jarc (Slovenia)
14. Ramunas Navardauskas (Lithuania)
15. Stefano Agostini (Italy)
16. David Boily (Canada)
17. Sylwester Janiszewski (Poland)
18. Mikel Landa Meana (Spain)
19. Yonathan Monsalve (Venezuela)
20. Egidijus Juodvalkis (Lithuania)
21. Arnaud Papillon (Canada)
22. Yannick Eijssen (Belgium)
23. Nélson Oliveira (Portugal)
24. Georg Preidler (Austria)
25. Massimo Graziato (Italy)
26. Rafal Majka (Poland)
27. George Bennett (New Zealand)
28. Dmitriy Ignatyev (Russian Federation)
29. Sebastian Balck (Sweden)
30. Vegard Stake Laengen (Norway)
31. Joel Zangerle (Luxembourg)
32. Blaz Furdi (Slovenia)
33. Arkimedes Arguelyes Rodriges (Russian Federation)
34. Ki Ho Choi (Hong Kong, China)
35. Tom Jelte Slagter (Netherlands)
36. Andi Bajc (Slovenia)
37. Daniel Schorn (Austria)
38. Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez (Colombia)
39. Tobias Ludvigsson (Sweden)
40. Jesus Herrada Lopez (Spain)
41. Piotr Gawronski (Poland)
42. Eduard Alexander Beltran Suarez (Colombia)
43. Adrian Honkisz (Poland)
44. Higinio Fernandez (Spain)
45. Romain Hardy (France)
46. Ho Ting Kwok (Hong Kong, China)
47. Kanstantsin Klimiankou (Belarus) 0:28
48. Ying Hon Yeung (Hong Kong, China)
49. Enrico Battaglin (Italy) 0:42
50. Tony Gallopin (France) 0:46
51. Jimmi Sorensen (Denmark) 1:04
52. Malcom Rudolph (Australia)
53. Pawel Poljanski (Poland)
54. Javier Eduardo Gomez Pineda (Colombia)
55. Vegard Robinson Bugge (Norway)
56. Jonathan Mcevoy (Great Britain)
57. Sébastien Reichenbach (Switzerland)
58. Chris Butler (United States Of America)
59. Julien Vermote (Belgium)
60. Jelle Wallays (Belgium)
61. Daniel Teklehaymanot (Eritrea)
62. Christopher Juul Jensen (Denmark) 2:01
63. Joseph Lewis (Australia) 2:22
64. Alex Howes (United States Of America)
65. Shem Rodger (New Zealand) 2:40
66. Arman Kamyshev (Kazakhstan)
67. Vladislav Gorbunov (Kazakhstan)
68. Daniil Fominykh (Kazakhstan)
69. Jean-Lou Paiani (France)
70. Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka (Japan)
71. Ronan Van Zandbeek (Netherlands) 2:50
72. Julian David Arredondo Moreno (Colombia) 3:07
73. Andreas Hofer (Austria) 3:13
74. Michel Koch (Germany)
75. Alexei Tsatevitch (Russian Federation)
76. Rohan Dennis (Australia)
77. Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland)
78. Philipp Ries (Germany)
79. Boy Van Poppel (Netherlands) 5:30
80. Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands)
81. Marko Kump (Slovenia)
82. Matthias Krizek (Austria) 5:35
83. Enzo Moyano (Argentina) 5:39
84. Silver Schultz (Estonia) 5:40
85. Moreno Moser (Italy) 5:46
86. Geoffrey Soupe (France) 6:04
87. Jovan Zekavica (Serbia) 8:52
88. Andrei Krasilnikau (Belarus) 0:17
89. Marco Sérgio Dias Coelho (Portugal)
90. Domingos André Maciel Gonçalves (Portugal)
91. Luka Mezgec (Slovenia)
92. Arthur Van Overberghe (Belgium)
93. Hugo Houle (Canada) 0:12:38
94. Recep Unalan (Turkey) 0:16:40
95. Evaldas Siskevicius (Lithuania) 0:17:12
96. Daniel Egeland Jarstø (Norway) 0:21:32
97. King Lok Cheung (Hong Kong, China)
DNF David Hesselbarth (Germany)
DNF Maximilian May (Germany)
DNF Luke Durbridge (Australia)
DNF Coen Vermeltfoort (Netherlands)
DNF Pim Ligthart (Netherlands)
DNF Benjamin King (Australia)
DNF Fábio Silvestre (Portugal)
DNF Ryohei Komori (Japan)
DNF Kohei Uchima (Japan)
DNF Daniel Diaz (Argentina)
DNF Jan Tratnik (Slovenia)
DNF Alex Dowsett (Great Britain)
DNF Andrew Fenn (Great Britain)
DNF Benjamin King (United States Of America)
DNF Johan Le Bon (France)
DNF Oystein Stake Laengen (Norway)
DNF Rasmus Christian Quaade (Denmark)
DNF Silvan Dillier (Switzerland)
DNF Michaël Baer (Switzerland)
DNF Michael Vink (New Zealand)
DNF Andrew Talansky (United States Of America)
DNF Nikita Novikov (Russian Federation)
DNF Ariel Sivori (Argentina)
DNF Martin Mahdar (Slovakia)
DNF Carter Jones (United States Of America)