Vattenfall Cyclassics

The Vattenfall cyclassics ( up to and including 2005: HEW - cyclassics ) are a German cycling day races and every year in July, August or September in Hamburg.

History

The race has been held since 1996, from 1998 to 2004 it belonged to the cycling World Cup. With the end of which it became part of the newly introduced UCI ProTour, a series of the most important bike race of the year, and also part of the new German Championship (TUI Cup). After 2009, the Germany tour was discontinued for financial reasons, it was the only ProTour races on German soil. Since 2011, the race is part of the follow-up series UCI World Tour. Sponsor and namesake is Vattenfall Europe Hamburg, who took over the Hamburg Electricitäts -Werke ( HEW ). In March 2012, extended the International Cycling Union Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI ), the World Tour license of the race until 2016.

Route

The route is slightly different from year to year. Some prominent landmarks such as the start on the stone road and the destination on Moenckebergstraße or Waseberg are always included. The route is mostly long around 250 km.

The track led up to the race in 2004 (except for the first held in 1996 ) first in a southeasterly direction on the north bank of the river Elbe in Geesthacht. There the Elbe was crossed and the route then led back to the center. Since 2005, this first loop results in a southerly direction to the northern Lüneburg Heath.

The highest point of the route is in the town Langenrehm. Another survey, the Köhlbrandbrücke be crossed. Due to the free port and the main train station by a large loop in a northwesterly direction ( turning point in Holm Schleswig -Holstein) is driven now. On the way back towards downtown, head for the first time in the Waseberg Blankenese. Subsequently, several smaller rounds are rotated by the west of Hamburg, whereby the first Waseberg is crossed. In 2004, the Waseberg was climbed for the first time five times. Previously this was only three times the case. The goal is always in the most famous shopping street of Hamburg, Moenckebergstraße. The cyclassics are thus the only World Cup one-day race that ends in the center of a large metropolis.

To have on the nearly continuous flat stretch of cyclassics a point at which tears apart the field, so as to give the best riders in the peloton the opportunity to settle from the field, the Waseberg was incorporated as an important element in the route. The Waseberg is an increase in Blankenese from the River Elbe up to the center of Blankenese. It has a length of about 700 m and an almost continuous gradient of 16 %. Its main difficulty is that the increase starts immediately after a sharp right turn and thus no impetus for the driveway is available. Because the road is very narrow before the rise, the teams are already starting kilometers before the rise to bring their top drivers in a good starting position. Since the Waseberg during the race must be climbed several times and very late (after about 180 km for the first time ), can drivers who could not keep up on the slope, not restore the connection to the field often. At this point, often there will be a preliminary round of the race, since one of the few options is to tear.

List of winners

The top group in Finals ( 2005)

Óscar Freire in his honor after the race (2006)

The peloton on Waseberg (2005)

Every man field (2010)

Every man race

Apart from the actual professional race the cyclassics consist mainly of the various so-called everyman's race over a distance of 55 km, 100 km and 155 km. To a place at these races can apply each. Here then walk alongside well-equipped amateurs and " semi-professionals " tandems or Bonanza wheels on the track. In 2005, the number of starting positions was for this Every man race 20,000, in 2006 it was 22,500. The places are often fully booked early. Registration usually begins in late January, 2008, 15,000 of the 22,000 Start places according to the organizers begin within 24 hours. In the accreditation in the days before the race, participants will receive their bib numbers and times. On the eve of the start of every man race takes place a so-called pasta party where all participants can jointly eat pasta dishes.

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