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2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge |
| image | USA Pro Cycling Stage6.jpg |
| image_caption | Stage 6 in Denver |
| image_size | 300px |
| series | 2010–2011 UCI America Tour |
| date | August 22–28, 2011 |
| stages | 7 |
| time | 20h 00' 24" |
| first | Levi Leipheimer |
| first_nat | USA |
| first_team | |
| first_color | yellow |
| second | Christian Vande Velde |
| second_nat | USA |
| second_team | |
| third | Tejay van Garderen |
| third_nat | USA |
| third_team | |
| mountains | Rafael Montiel |
| mountains_nat | COL |
| mountains_team | Gobernación de Antioquia |
| mountains_color | red |
| youth | Tejay van Garderen |
| youth_nat | USA |
| youth_team | |
| youth_color | light blue |
| sprints | Elia Viviani |
| sprints_nat | ITA |
| sprints_team | |
| sprints_color | green |
| team | |
| next | 2012 |
The 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge was the inaugural edition of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge stage race. The race was held from August 22–28, and was rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI America Tour. The race began with a short prologue time trial in Colorado Springs, wound its way through the Rocky Mountains at heights of up to 12,000 ft, and finished in the streets of downtown Denver.
Participating teams
Included in the participating team rosters were the top three 2011 Tour de France riders Cadel Evans, Andy Schleck and Fränk Schleck. The full team list included:
;UCI ProTeams
;UCI Professional Continental Teams
;UCI Continental Teams
Stages
| Stage | Date | Route | Terrain | Length | Winner | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | 22 August | Colorado Springs | [[Image:Time Trial.svg | alt= | link=Individual time trial | 22px]] Individual time trial | 8.34 km | Patrick Gretsch |
| 1 | 23 August | Salida - Crested Butte | [[Image:Mountainstage.svg | alt= | link= | 22px]] Mountain stage | 160 km | Levi Leipheimer |
| 2 | 24 August | Gunnison – Aspen | [[Image:Mountainstage.svg | alt= | link= | 22px]] Mountain stage | 211 km | George Hincapie |
| 3 | 25 August | Vail | [[Image:Time Trial.svg | alt= | link=Individual time trial | 22px]] Individual time trial | 16 km | Levi Leipheimer |
| 4 | 26 August | Avon – Steamboat Springs | [[Image:Mediummountainstage.svg | alt= | link= | 22px]] Medium mountain stage | 133 km | Elia Viviani |
| 5 | 27 August | Steamboat Springs – Breckenridge | [[Image:Mountainstage.svg | alt= | link= | 22px]] Mountain stage | 169 km | Elia Viviani |
| 6 | 28 August | Golden – Denver | [[Image:Mediummountainstage.svg | alt= | link= | 22px]] Medium mountain stage | 118.8 km | Daniel Oss |
Prologue
August 22, 2011 — Colorado Springs, 5.18 mi
The opening time trial for the race began in the Garden of the Gods national monument and followed a short downhill course that finished in downtown Colorado Springs.
| Rider | Team | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick Gretsch [[Image:Jersey yellow.svg | 20px | Yellow jersey]] | |
| 2 | Christian Vande Velde | |||
| 3 | Brent Bookwalter [[Image:Jersey yellow number.svg | 20px | Yellow-bibbed jersey]] | |
| 4 | Robert Förster | |||
| 5 | Jens Voigt |
Stage 1
August 23, 2011 — Salida to Crested Butte, 99.4 mi
The first stage of the race saw the riders ascending 11,315 ft over Monarch Pass and ending with a short mountaintop finish up to the resort municipality of Mount Crested Butte.
| Rider | Team | Time | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Levi Leipheimer [[Image:Jersey yellow.svg | 20px | Yellow jersey]][[Image:Jersey green.svg | 20px | Green jersey]] | |
| 2 | Sergio Henao | |||||
| 3 | Fränk Schleck | |||||
| 4 | Cadel Evans [[Image:Jersey yellow number.svg | 20px | Yellow-bibbed jersey]] | |||
| 5 | Christian Vande Velde |
Stage 2
August 24, 2011 — Gunnison to Aspen, 131.1 mi
The queen stage involved nearly 10,000 ft of climbing, bringing the riders over two of the highest passes in Colorado: the dirt road climb of 12,126 ft Cottonwood Pass, and 12,095 ft to Independence Pass.
| Rider | Team | Time | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Hincapie [[Image:Jersey yellow number.svg | 20px | Yellow-bibbed jersey]] | |||
| 2 | Tejay van Garderen [[Image:Jersey yellow.svg | 20px | Yellow jersey]][[Image:Jersey white.svg | 20px | Young rider classification]] | |
| 3 | Tom Danielson | |||||
| 4 | Edward Beltran | |||||
| 5 | Janier Acevedo |
Stage 3
August 25, 2011 — Vail, 10 mi
Contrasting with the prologue time trial, stage 3 was a steep uphill individual test with 1,783 ft of climbing over only 10 mi. The route was the same one used during time trials for the Coors Classic in the 80s. The record for the course, 25:48, was set in the 2008 Teva Mountain Games by Ben Day.
| Rider | Team | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Levi Leipheimer [[Image:Jersey yellow.svg | 20px | Yellow jersey]] | |
| 2 | Christian Vande Velde [[Image:Jersey yellow number.svg | 20px | Yellow-bibbed jersey]] | |
| 3 | Rafael Infantino | |||
| 4 | Tom Danielson [[Image:Jersey yellow number.svg | 20px | Yellow-bibbed jersey]] | |
| 5 | Stef Clement |
Stage 4
August 26, 2011 — Avon to Steamboat Springs, 82.8 mi
This stage included one sprint point, 99.1 km into the stage.
| Rider | Team | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elia Viviani [[Image:Jersey green.svg | 20px | Green jersey]] | |
| 2 | Michael Mørkøv | |||
| 3 | Kenny Van Hummel | |||
| 4 | Robert Förster | |||
| 5 | Dennis van Winden |
Stage 5
August 27, 2011 — Steamboat Springs to Breckenridge, 105.2 mi
Immediately after leaving Steamboat Springs, the riders ascended Rabbit Ears Pass, a steep pass with about 15 mi of climbing and a false summit. After the descent, it's a long slow climb through some of Colorado's most popular ski resorts that culminated in a downhill finish into Breckenridge.
| Rider | Team | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elia Viviani [[Image:Jersey green.svg | 20px | Green jersey]] | |
| 2 | Jaime Castañeda | |||
| 3 | Daniel Oss | |||
| 4 | Dennis van Winden | |||
| 5 | Jeff Louder |
Stage 6
August 28, 2011 — Golden to Denver, 73.79 mi
The final stage of the race began under the "Howdy Folks!" sign on Golden's Main Street, as featured in the film American Flyers. Riders climbed Lookout Mountain, a short but steep climb in the foothills near Golden, and then descended into Denver. Once in the city, they completed six laps through downtown Denver, finishing on Broadway in front of the state capital building. The final day of the race was broadcast live on NBC.
| Rider | Team | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Oss | |||
| 2 | Elia Viviani [[Image:Jersey green.svg | 20px | Green jersey]] | |
| 3 | Fred Rodriguez | |||
| 4 | Daniel Summerhill [[Image:Jersey yellow number.svg | 20px | Yellow-bibbed jersey]] | |
| 5 | Frank Pipp |
Classification leadership
| Stage | Winner | General classification | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [[Image:Jersey yellow.svg | 25px | link=General classification in the Pro Cycling Challengee | alt=Yellow jersey]] | Sprints classification | ||||||||||||||||
| [[Image:Jersey green.svg | 25px]] | Mountains classification | ||||||||||||||||||
| [[Image:Jersey white dots on red.svg | 25px | link=Mountains classification in the Pro Cycling Challenge | alt=Polkadot jersey]] | Young rider classification | ||||||||||||||||
| [[Image:Jersey light blue.svg | 25px | link=Young rider classification | alt=Light blue jersey]] | Most Aggressive | ||||||||||||||||
| [[Image:Jersey orange.svg | 25px | link=Combativity award | alt=Orange Jersey]] | Team classification | P | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Final | Levi Leipheimer | Elia Viviani | Rafael Montiel | Tejay van Garderen | Timmy Duggan | |||
| Patrick Gretsch | Patrick Gretsch | no award | no award | Tejay van Garderen | Danny Pate | |||||||||||||||
| Levi Leipheimer | Levi Leipheimer | Levi Leipheimer | Eduard Beltran Suarez | Bradley White | ||||||||||||||||
| George Hincapie | Tejay van Garderen | Walter Pedraza | André Steensen | |||||||||||||||||
| Levi Leipheimer | Levi Leipheimer | |||||||||||||||||||
| Elia Viviani | Elia Viviani | Vladimir Efimkin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elia Viviani | Andy Schleck | |||||||||||||||||||
| Daniel Oss | Rafael Montiel | Timmy Duggan |
General classification
| Rider | Team | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Levi Leipheimer [[Image:Jersey yellow.svg | 20px]] | |
| 2 | Christian Vande Velde [[Image:Jersey yellow number.svg | 20px]] | |
| 3 | Tejay van Garderen [[Image:Jersey white.svg | 20px]] | |
| 4 | Tom Danielson [[Image:Jersey yellow number.svg | 20px]] | |
| 5 | George Hincapie | ||
| 6 | Rafael Infantino | ||
| 7 | Cadel Evans | ||
| 8 | Stef Clement | ||
| 9 | Bruno Pires | ||
| 10 | Rory Sutherland |
Notes
References
- Bruce Hildenbrand. (16 August 2011). "USA Pro Cycling Challenge: More than a climber's race". Cyclingnews.
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