{"id":85075,"date":"2019-01-27T14:01:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T19:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/?p=85075"},"modified":"2019-01-27T14:01:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T19:01:04","slug":"2019-cadel-evans-great-ocean-road-race-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/2019\/01\/27\/2019-cadel-evans-great-ocean-road-race-results\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elia Viviani bettered his runner-up spot from twelve months ago and won the fifth edition of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race \u2013 the season\u2019s second World Tour appointment \u2013 thus capping off a tremendous effort of his Deceuninck \u2013 Quick-Step teammates, who kept everything together in the last kilometers with the likes of Dries Devenyns and James Knox, before Michael M\u00f8rk\u00f8v took the front and delivered the Italian Champion in a perfect position.<\/p>\n<p>With the finish line in sight on the Geelong waterfront, Viviani hit a top speed of 75.2km\/h in the 16-second sprint, which saw him edge out Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) for his second win of the year, after the one he notched up last week on the opening day of the Tour Down Under.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were two second places of last year that I wanted to improve in 2019, and this was one of them. We were really committed today, had a plan and followed it accordingly. I knew that some were interested in dropping me and pushed a hard tempo on the climbs, but we played it smart and each time came back thanks to the best team in the world, who worked tirelessly and gave me a perfect lead-out\u201d, said Viviani after taking his 20th victory in the Deceuninck \u2013 Quick-Step jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The main difficulty of the 163.3km-long race was the Challambra climb (900 meters, 10%), where several teams upped the pace on the final two laps and brought back the three-man breakaway before sending their riders on the attack, hoping the sprinters will be dispatched. But Deceuninck \u2013 Quick-Step rode a textbook perfect race, countering all these moves before the bunch finish, where our team left nothing to chance and Elia sealed another impressive win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like this race a lot, I like the course because it gives a chance to every type of riders, so I was really keen on winning here. We were in four riders going into the final kilometers, which was very important. Also, having Michael by my side under the red kite gave me a lot of confidence, as he was crucial today. As I said, I wanted to rectify last year\u2019s runner-up place and having achieved that gives me a lot of joy\u201d, explained Elia after the 70th pro win of his career.<\/p>\n<p>2019 Brief Results:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Elia Viviani (Deceuninck-QuickStep) in\u00a03h54&#8217;35&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) s.t.<\/li>\n<li>Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-Scott) s.t.<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Gibbons (Dimension Data) s.t.<\/li>\n<li>Jens Debusschere (Katusha-Alpecin) s.t.<\/li>\n<li>Luke Rowe (Team Sky) s.t.<\/li>\n<li>Michael M\u00f8rk\u00f8v (Deceuninck-QuickStep) s.t.<\/li>\n<li>Jay McCarthy (Bora-Hansgrohe) s.t.<\/li>\n<li>Owain Doull (Team Sky)\u00a0 s.t.<\/li>\n<li>Luis Le\u00f3n Sanchez (Astana Pro Team) s.t.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elia Viviani bettered his runner-up spot from twelve months ago and won the fifth edition of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":85076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6482],"tags":[151,161,16373,5397,20305,18912,16523,8856,8260,21507,20745,16294,16185,15870,22890,20742,20643,18333,21209,6388,544],"class_list":["post-85075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-race-results","tag-astana","tag-cadel-evans","tag-caleb-ewan","tag-daryl-impey","tag-deceuninck","tag-deceuninck-quick-step","tag-dimension-data","tag-dries-devenyns","tag-elia-viviani","tag-gibbons","tag-james-knox","tag-jay-mccarthy","tag-jens-debusschere","tag-lotto-soudal","tag-luis-sanchez","tag-luke-rowe","tag-michael","tag-mitchelton-scott","tag-owain-doull","tag-team-sky","tag-tour-of-flanders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/elia-viviani-cadel-evans-great-ocean.png?fit=652%2C434&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}