Europe > [1.1] Tro-Bro Léon 2012, 15th April

ram · « **on:** April 15, 2012, 08:27 »

The event was first run in 1984 as an amateur race, becoming a professional race since 2000. The race was established in 2005 as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe TourIt is often called Le Petit Paris–Roubaix due to its similarities with Paris–Roubaix, because Tro-Bro Léon includes 24 sections of dirt, cobblestones and gravel roads (making up to 29.7 km/18.5 mi) on the rolling and windy roads of Brittany.

The Tro Bro Léon is a kind of a bis repetita of Paris-Roubaix. Indeed, where the second part of the race route of the Hell of the North is full of cobble stones, in the Tro Bro Léon it's the ribins which make the race particular.

The ribins (pronounce: reebeens) or ribinous are small paths crossing a field, either a sand path but often with gravel, which are part of the race route of this race. No less than 22 ribins are on the race route, one of which will be done 4 times in the laps on the local circuit around the finish city, over a total distance of 33.4 kilometers.

The start and finish are in Lannilis, north of Brest. From there, the riders will first go towards the coast line to get to the real start of the race, in L'Aber Wrac'h. After the start they'll return to Lannilis and get to the intermediate sprint in Ploudalmézeau.

#	place	length	from	to	km done	km to do
01	Plouarzel	1,200 m	Langoulouman	Les Eoliennes	46	160.4
02	Milizac	1,700 m	Coatquennec	Route de Milizac-Keralan	59.5	146.9
03	Bourg-Blanc	2,100 m	Ty Douar	Kervalanoc	68.8	137.6
04	Plabennec	2,400 m	Lanorven	Traon Bihan	78.4	128
05	St. Thonan	1,000 m	Lanvelar-vihan	Mestallic / St. Thonan	89.2	117.2
06	St. Thonan	1,500 m	Dourguen	Creac'h Coadic	92.3	114.1
07	Ploudaniel	3,200 m	Kerbilbren	Kermahellan Braz	100.5	105.9
08	Lanarvily	800 m	Loscoat	Loscoat	113.3	93.1
09	Kernilis	700 m	Le Vern	Toul-Douar	116.3	90.1
10	Kernilis	1,600 m	Le Clos	Penmarc'h	119.8	86.6
11	Le Folgoët	1,200 m	Quiquelleau	Lannuchen	122.5	83.9
12	Plounéour-Trez	1,200 m	Route de Plounéour-Trez	Gare de Plounéour-Trez	135	71.4
13	Kerlouan	1,200 m	Neiz Vran	Treseny	147.2	59.2
14	Guissnény	1,500 m	Lanveur	Kervaro	160.8	45.6
15	Plouguerneau	1,800 m	Enez Inoc	Sainte Anne	163.7	42.7
16	Plouguerneau	1,000 m	Enez Cadec	Anteren	166.5	39.9
17	Plouguerneau	2,000 m	Kerdélant	Lanebeur	169	37.4
18	Plouguerneau	1,500 m	Lanebeur	Le Cosquer	171.3	35.1
19	Plouvien	700 m	Kerarédeau	Kerabo	175.7	30.7
20	Lannilis	1,400 m	Keradraon	Kerouartz	180.6	25.8
21	Lannilis	900 m	Pouldu	Mesmeur	183.3	23.1
22>25	Lannilis	700 m	Meshuel	Trouz ar c'hant	188.6	17.8

Provisional Startlist

TEAM EUROPCAR   
1     CHAVANEL Sébastien   France   
2     CHTIOUI Rafai   Tunisia   
3     CLAUDE Mathieu   France   
4     COUSIN Jerome   France   
5     HADDOU Saïd   France   
6     HUREL Tony   France   
7     PICHOT Alexandre   France   
8     QUEMENEUR Perrig   France   

   AG2R LA MONDIALE   
11     CASPER Jimmy   France   
12     GEORGES Sylvain   France   
13     GODDAERT Kristof   Belgium   
14     HINAULT Sébastien   France   
15     LEMARCHAND Romain   France   
16     MINARD Sébastien   France   
17     MONDORY Lloyd   France   
18     RAVARD Anthony   France   

   EQUIPE CYCLISTE FDJ-BIGMAT    
21     BOUCHER David   France   
22     BOUHANNI Nacer   France   
23     DEMARE Arnaud   France   
24     FEDRIGO Pierrick   France   
25     HUTAROVICH Yauheni   Belarus   
26     LADAGNOUS Matthieu   France   
27     MOUREY Francis   France   
28     ROY Jérémy   France   

   VACANSOLEIL - DCM PRO CYCLING TEAM   
31     FEILLU Romain   France   
32     DENIFL Stefan   Austria   
33     MARKUS Barry   Netherlands   
34     MORAJKO Jacek   Poland   
35     MORTENSEN Martin   Denmark   
36     PAVARIN Marcello   Italy   
37     SELVAGGI Mirko   Italy   
38     VAN HUMMEL Kenny Robert   Netherlands   
39     VEUCHELEN Frederik   Belgium   

   BRETAGNE - SCHULLER   
41     VACHON Florian   France   
42     BERTHOU Eric   France   
43     BLOT Guillaume   France   
44     DELPECH Jean-Luc   France   
45     DION Renaud   France   
46     HALLEGUEN Mathieu   France   
47     LE BON Johan   France   
48     PICHON Laurent   France   

   COFIDIS LE CREDIT EN LIGNE   
51     DEMARET Jean-Eudes   France   
52     DUQUE Leonardo   Colombia   
53     FOUCHARD Julien   France   
54     GARCIA ETXEGIBEL Egoitz   Spain   
55     GHYSELINCK Jan   Belgium   
56     LABBE Arnaud   France   
57     PETIT Adrien   France   
58     SARAMOTINS Aleksejs   Latvia   

   CHAMPION SYSTEM PRO CYCLING TEAM    
61     AVERY Clinton Robert   New Zealand   
62     CLARKE William   Australia   
63     FRIEDEMANN Matthias   Germany   
64     GARDEYN Gorik   Belgium   
65     JIANG Kun   China   
66     OJAVEE Mart   Estonia   
67     WONG Steven   Hong Kong   
68     XU Gang   China   

   LANDBOUWKREDIET - EUPHONY   
71     AMORISON Frédéric   Belgium   
72     BARBE Koen   Belgium   
73     BREYNE Jonathan   Belgium   
74     BUEKEN Joeri   Belgium   
75     CLAEYS Kevin   Belgium   
76     HOVELYNCK Kurt   Belgium   
77     PEETERS Kevin   Belgium   
78     PLANCKAERT Baptiste   Belgium   

   RUSVELO   
81     FIRSANOV Serguei   Russia   
82     KOZONTCHUK DmitrIy   Russia   
83     KRASNOV Leonid   Russia   
84     OVECHKIN Artem   Russia   
85     SAVITSKY Ivan   Russia   
86     VALYNIN Valerey   Russia   
87     ZHURKIN Nikolay   Russia   
88     ZUBOV Matvey   Russia   

   SAUR - SOJASUN   
91     ENGOULVENT Jimmy   France   
92     GALLAND Jérémie   France   
93     LABORIE Christophe   France   
94     LELAY David   France   
95     MANGEL Laurent   France   
96     MARTIAS Rony   France   
97     PAÏANI Jean Lou   France   
98     POULHIES Stéphane   France   

   SPIDERTECH POWERED BY C10   
101     BOIVIN Guillaume   Canada   
102     FAIRLY Caleb   United States   
103     GILBERT Martin   Canada   
104     HOULE Hugo   Canada   
105     LACOMBE Kevin   Canada   
106     LAMBERT-LEMAY Simon   Canada   
107     ROTH Ryan   Canada   
108     ROUTLEY Will   Canada   

   TEAM TYPE 1 - SANOFI   
111     BODROGI Laszlo   France   
112     CUSIN Rémi   France   
113     FORTIN Filippo   Italy   
114     ILESIC Aldo Ino   Slovenia   
115     KOCJAN Jure   Slovenia   
116     LAENGEN Vegard Stake   Norway   
117     SEREBRYAKOV Alexander   Russia   
118     VERSCHOOR Martijn   Netherlands   

   AUBER 93   
121     BACON Romain   France   
122     BACQUET Fabien   France   
123     BAZIN Nicolas   France   
124     DASSONVILLE Flavien   France   
125     DRUJON Mathieu   France   
126     DRUJON Benoit   France   
127     MOMBAERTS Johan   France   
128     RACAULT Ronan   France   

   ENDURA RACING   
131     BLAIN Alexandre   France   
132     BIBBY Ian   United Kingdom   
133     DEMPSTER Zakkari   Australia   
134     TIERNAN-LOCKE Jonathan   United Kingdom   
135     WETTERHALL Alexander   Sweden   
136     WILKINSON Ian   United Kingdom   
137     WINDSOR Dean   Australia   

   LA POMME MARSEILLE    
141     CAUQUIL Yohan   France   
142     DELAROZIERE Mathieu   France   
143     GIRAUD Benjamin   France   
144     KORETZKY Clément   France   
145     PERICHON Pierre-Luc   France   
146     SISKEVICIUS Evaldas   Lithuania   
147     SKUJINS Toms   Latvia   
148     VAUBOURZEIX Thomas   France   

   ROUBAIX LILLE METROPOLE   
151     BOULO Matthieu   France   
152     COLIN Anthony   France   
153     DESRIAC Loïc   France   
154     FLAHAUT Denis   France   
155     KNEISKY Morgan   France   
156     LE CORRE Florian   France   
157     SCHMIDT Fabien   France   
158     ZIMINE Boris   France   

   START CYCLING TEAM - ATACAMA FLOWERY DESERT   
161     FRAZER Mauricio   Argentina   
162     GIL Tomas Enrique   Argentina   
163     LOPEZ Gustavo Alberto   Argentina   
164     MENENDEZ VELASCO Ruben   Spain   
165     MIRANDA VERGARA Manuel   Chile   
166     TANOVITCHII Nicolae   Moldavia   
167     ZUGASTI ARRESE Ibon   Spain   

   VERANDA RIDEAU - SUPER U    
171     CUMONT Gaylord   France   
172     JARRIER Benoit   France   
173     LE MONTAGNER Maxime   France   
174     MATHÉOU Romain   France   
175     MOLMY Arnaud   France   
176     OLEJNIK Mickael   Poland   
177     OLEJNICK Tomasz   Poland   
178     VERMEULEN Franck   France   

   GEOFCO - VILLE D'ALGER   
181     BURTON Jérémy   Belgium   
182     SCHEIRLINCKX Bert   Belgium   
183     SUUR Ivo   Estonia   
184     TOMBAK Janek   Estonia   
185     VERNAECKT Thomas   Belgium

Past winners


2000      Jo Planckaert (BEL)   Cofidis
2001      Jacky Durand (FRA)   Française des Jeux
2002      Baden Cooke (AUS)   Française des Jeux
2003      Samuel Dumoulin (FRA)   Jean Delatour
2004      Samuel Dumoulin (FRA)   AG2R Prévoyance
2005      Tristan Valentin (FRA)   Auber 93
2006      Mark Renshaw (AUS)   Crédit Agricole
2007      Saïd Haddou (FRA)   Bouygues Télécom
2008      Frédéric Guesdon (FRA)   Française des Jeux
2009      Saïd Haddou (FRA)   Bbox Bouygues Telecom
2010      Jérémy Roy (FRA)   Française des Jeux
2011      Vincent Jérôme (FRA)   Team Europcar

If there are any mistakes in the facts, sue velowire and wikipedia, all I've done is a monumental amount of copying and pasting
Let's not be blind fans here, Tiernan Locke isn't going to win, it's definitely Ian Bibby.

Dr. Horrible the Mad Elephant Man · « **Reply #1 on:** April 15, 2012, 08:59 »

Demare or Saramotins

nobilis · « **Reply #2 on:** April 15, 2012, 09:12 »

I don't think it's a race for Démare.
But it should be a rider from Europcar or FdJ-Bigmat. I'll go with Saïd Haddou or Francis Mourey.

ram · « **Reply #3 on:** April 15, 2012, 09:20 »

Well flip me

May have to open images in new tabs to comprehend it.

Course and profile

Departure- have no idea what use this is, just populating the thread

Finishing circuit

Prize money-
Winner 7700 Euros
Second 4600 Euros
Third 3100 Euros
Fourth 2300 Euros
Fifth 1600 Euros
Best Young rider 3100 Euros
Best team 7500 Euros

That's 26,000 Euros for Endura racing then.

ram · « **Reply #4 on:** April 15, 2012, 10:13 »

Much arse grating later
http://video-direct.france3.fr/player.php?id=1349

Some photographs for thee-

Image search engines are answerable for any photographic errors

How grouse is this, past results chart-

AG · « **Reply #5 on:** April 15, 2012, 10:19 »

pretty crap prize money for such a hard race ...

good work on the info though :tu

ram · « **Reply #6 on:** April 15, 2012, 10:34 »

Cheers AG

Final kilometres from last year's edition

Apparently ewetube has a one and a half hour highlights video of 2008

ram · « **Reply #7 on:** April 15, 2012, 10:36 »

And here it is

I'm definitely not watching all of that though.

benotti69 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 15, 2012, 10:41 »

Please no more mention of JTL. His year has been questionable in more ways than one. >

This is great race. Another race with loads of character.

ram · « **Reply #9 on:** April 15, 2012, 10:45 »

Up for Alex Blain, ninth last year and 36" off the winning time, could be him, if not Bibby O0

No FDJ? ???

ram · « **Reply #10 on:** April 15, 2012, 12:44 »

206,400km- seems a bit long.

ram · « **Reply #11 on:** April 15, 2012, 16:17 »

All the hype for no working stream. sh**e
Geo bloody restricted

benotti69 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 15, 2012, 16:30 »

Quote from: ram on April 15, 2012, 16:17

All the hype for no working stream. sh**e
Geo bloody restricted

Not working for me either. Strange to make them geo restricted when no other country has bought broadcasting rights. >

ram · « **Reply #13 on:** April 15, 2012, 16:31 »

Exactly, laughable really.

benotti69 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 15, 2012, 16:34 »

Quote from: ram on April 15, 2012, 16:31

Exactly, laughable really.

They should be selling advertising based on european wide numbers watching. stupid really.

benotti69 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 15, 2012, 16:47 »

try this stream

http://max-tv.be/fr/play.html?channel=France_3_Bretagne

not working for me but might for you if the race is not finished!

nobilis · « **Reply #16 on:** April 15, 2012, 16:55 »

Team spidertech dominating this race, with Roth winning the race and i think Will Routley in 3rd.

Edit :
1. Ryan Roth (Spidertech)
2. Benoît Jarrier (Véranda Rideau)
3. Guillaume Boivin (Spidertech)

mc_mountain · « **Reply #17 on:** April 15, 2012, 17:00 »

1. Ryan Roth (SPI)
2. Benoît Jarrier (VRU)
3. Guillaume Boivin (SPI)

(from CN thread, suggests was Boivin not Routley who 3rd, he was 2nd last year)

ram · « **Reply #18 on:** April 15, 2012, 17:45 »

Spidertech on fire, podiumming last year and near sweeping this time.

Dr. Horrible the Mad Elephant Man · « **Reply #19 on:** April 15, 2012, 23:49 »

Quote from: CEM on April 15, 2012, 08:59

Demare or Saramotins

4th and 7th

ram · « **Reply #20 on:** April 16, 2012, 03:52 »

Alex Blain 22nd and 37" behind the winner. He's got some timing has Blain, was 36" behind the winner last year.

just some guy · « **Reply #21 on:** April 16, 2012, 07:39 »

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/11635/Ryan-Roth-solos-to-Tro-Bro-Leon-victory.aspx

mc_mountain · « **Reply #22 on:** April 16, 2012, 09:52 »

Quote from: ram on April 16, 2012, 03:52

Alex Blain 22nd and 37" behind the winner. He's got some timing has Blain, was 36" behind the winner last year.

Did you see Endura reported he had a late puncture...

jimmythecuckoo · « **Reply #23 on:** April 16, 2012, 11:47 »

Why all the cynicism of J T-L ?

Its not out of the blue this level of performance, he started last summer and has been strong ever since.

Could it be that he hasn't got better and others the playing field has levelled?

ram · « **Reply #24 on:** April 16, 2012, 11:50 »

Nup, I like JTL and Endura. It's just that I thought the race would suit Bibby, who didn't start. or Blain more than Tiernan Locke.

Quote from: mc_mountain on April 16, 2012, 09:52

Did you see Endura reported he had a late puncture...

I did not and it gives me the perfect excuse to sook about bad tyres. He would've won O0

benotti69 · « **Reply #25 on:** April 16, 2012, 12:33 »

Quote from: ram on April 16, 2012, 11:50

Nup, I like JTL and Endura. It's just that I thought the race would suit Bibby, who didn't start. or Blain more than Tiernan Locke.
I did not and it gives me the perfect excuse to sook about bad tyres. He would've won O0

Re JTL. Why was he not in Tro-Bro_Leon?

I find it a beat strange that riders are sick too often. They dont race a full calendar like years ago when they started in March and race through to Oct. There is a lot of picking and choosing so surely their bodies don't take that much of a hammering that the slightest snowflake has them running or the team bus. No one has race a GT yet. I dont think many riders in the last few even competed in more than of the week long races before may so why all the sickness stories? Now the TDU starts in January we have an early start to the season but lots still get breaks all during the season. I think Gerrans has been going pretty much since Jan and has not been doing too badly!

mc_mountain · « **Reply #26 on:** April 16, 2012, 16:16 »

JTL and Endura may have never intended he ride this race, and was perhaps on the startlist just as filler. As Ram pointed out if he hadnt DNF in snowy Spain, he wouldnt be available anyway.

Endura are likely to be much less able to fly riders around at the last minute than WT or ProConti teams.

re: illness - low body fat and freezing wet conditions can't be ideal.

brassyn · « **Reply #27 on:** April 16, 2012, 22:29 »

So, who got the piglet?

ram · « **Reply #28 on:** April 19, 2012, 19:44 »

Without any degree of certainty, I say Laurent Pichon won the piglet.

brassyn · « **Reply #29 on:** April 21, 2012, 19:18 »

Quote from: ram on April 19, 2012, 19:44

Without any degree of certainty, I say Laurent Pichon won the piglet.

That's good enough for me. Thank you! I've completely failed to find any photographs of the piglet moment and it's the trivial sort of podium business that I really enjoy.

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