2019 Volta ao Algarve

The 2019 Volta ao Algarve is a road cycling stage race that took place in the Algarve region of Portugal between 20 and 24 February 2019. It was the 45th edition of the Volta ao Algarve and was rated as a 2.HC event as part of the UCI Europe Tour.^[2]

2019 Volta ao Algarve

2019 UCI Europe Tour
Race details
Dates	20–24 February 2019
Stages	5
Distance	778.6[1] km (483.8 mi)
Winning time	19h 26' 34"
Results
Winner  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) (UAE Team Emirates)   Second  Søren Kragh Andersen (DEN) (Team Sunweb)   Third  Wout Poels (NED) (Team Sky) Points  Pascal Ackermann (GER) (Bora–Hansgrohe) Mountains  Tim Declercq (BEL) (Deceuninck–Quick-Step) Youth  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) (UAE Team Emirates)   Team Team Sky
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Teams

Twenty-four teams started the race. Each team had a maximum of seven riders:^[3]

UCI WorldTeams

• Bora–Hansgrohe
• Deceuninck–Quick-Step
• Team Jumbo–Visma
• Team Katusha–Alpecin
• Team Sunweb
• UAE Team Emirates
• CCC Team
• Groupama–FDJ
• Team Dimension Data
• Trek–Segafredo
• Lotto–Soudal
• Team Sky

UCI Professional teams

• Caja Rural–Seguros RGA
• W52 / FC Porto
• Cofidis
• Wanty–Gobert

UCI Continental teams

• Ludofoods–Louletano
• LA Alumínios / LA Sport
• Rádio Popular–Boavista
• UD Oliveirense–InOutBuild
• Efapel
• Miranda–Mortágua
• Sporting / Tavira
• Vito–Feirense–PNB

Route

Stage characteristics and winners^[4][5]

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Stage winner
1	20 February	Portimão to Lagos	199.1 km (123.7 mi)		Flat stage	Fabio Jakobsen (NED)
2	21 February	Almodôvar to Fóia	187.4 km (116.4 mi)		Mountain stage	Tadej Pogačar (SLO)
3	22 February	Lagoa to Lagoa	20.3 km (12.6 mi)		Individual time trial	Stefan Küng (SUI)
4	23 February	Albufeira to Tavira	198.3 km (123.2 mi)		Flat stage	Dylan Groenewegen (NED)
5	24 February	Faro to Alto do Malhão	173.5 km (107.8 mi)		Medium mountain stage	Zdeněk Štybar (CZE)

Stages

Stage 1

Stage 1 result[4][6] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Fabio Jakobsen (NED) Deceuninck–Quick-Step 4h 52' 59" 2  Arnaud Démare (FRA) Groupama–FDJ s.t. 3  Pascal Ackermann (GER) Bora–Hansgrohe s.t. 4  Simone Consonni (ITA) UAE Team Emirates s.t. 5  Jasper De Buyst (BEL) Lotto–Soudal s.t. 6  Søren Kragh Andersen (DEN) Team Sunweb s.t. 7  Edward Theuns (BEL) Trek–Segafredo s.t. 8  Jon Aberasturi (ESP) Caja Rural–Seguros RGA s.t. 9  Christophe Laporte (FRA) Cofidis s.t. 10  Neilson Powless (USA) Team Jumbo–Visma s.t.

General classification after Stage 1[4][6] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Fabio Jakobsen (NED) Deceuninck–Quick-Step 4h 52' 59" 2  Arnaud Démare (FRA) Groupama–FDJ s.t. 3  Pascal Ackermann (GER) Bora–Hansgrohe s.t. 4  Simone Consonni (ITA) UAE Team Emirates s.t. 5  Jasper De Buyst (BEL) Lotto–Soudal s.t. 6  Søren Kragh Andersen (DEN) Team Sunweb s.t. 7  Edward Theuns (BEL) Trek–Segafredo s.t. 8  Jon Aberasturi (ESP) Caja Rural–Seguros RGA s.t. 9  Christophe Laporte (FRA) Cofidis s.t. 10  Neilson Powless (USA) Team Jumbo–Visma s.t.

Stage 2

Stage 2 result[4][7] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) UAE Team Emirates 4h 58' 25" 2  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 1" 3  Enric Mas (ESP) Deceuninck–Quick-Step + 3" 4  Sam Oomen (NED) Team Sunweb + 5" 5  Amaro Antunes (POR) CCC Team + 7" 6  David de la Cruz (ESP) Team Sky + 21" 7  João Rodrigues (POR) W52 / FC Porto + 24" 8  Simone Petilli (ITA) UAE Team Emirates + 27" 9  José Herrada (ESP) Cofidis s.t. 10  Michael Valgren (DEN) Team Dimension Data + 49"

General classification after Stage 2[4][7] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) UAE Team Emirates 9h 51' 24" 2  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 1" 3  Enric Mas (ESP) Deceuninck–Quick-Step + 3" 4  Sam Oomen (NED) Team Sunweb + 5" 5  David de la Cruz (ESP) Team Sky + 21" 6  Søren Kragh Andersen (DEN) Team Sunweb + 51" 7  João Rodrigues (POR) W52 / FC Porto + 1' 29" 8  Amaro Antunes (POR) CCC Team + 1' 42" 9  Neilson Powless (USA) Team Jumbo–Visma + 1' 46" 10  Marc Hirschi (SUI) Team Sunweb s.t.

Stage 3

Stage 3 result[4][8] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Stefan Küng (SUI) Groupama–FDJ 24' 33" 2  Søren Kragh Andersen (DEN) Team Sunweb + 2" 3  Yves Lampaert (BEL) Deceuninck–Quick-Step + 5" 4  Ryan Mullen (IRL) Trek–Segafredo + 8" 5  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) UAE Team Emirates + 17" 6  Arnaud Démare (FRA) Groupama–FDJ + 31" 7  Mads Pedersen (DEN) Trek–Segafredo + 36" 8  Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBR) Team Sky s.t. 9  Nils Politt (GER) Team Katusha–Alpecin + 42" 10  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) Deceuninck–Quick-Step + 43"

General classification after Stage 3[4][8] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) UAE Team Emirates 10h 16' 14" 2  Enric Mas (ESP) Deceuninck–Quick-Step + 31" 3  Søren Kragh Andersen (DEN) Team Sunweb + 36" 4  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 37" 5  David de la Cruz (ESP) Team Sky + 57" 6  Sam Oomen (NED) Team Sunweb + 1' 08" 7  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) Deceuninck–Quick-Step + 2' 12" 8  Neilson Powless (USA) Team Jumbo–Visma + 2' 13" 9  Marc Hirschi (SUI) Team Sunweb + 2' 35" 10  Amaro Antunes (POR) CCC Team + 2' 43"

Stage 4

Stage 4 result[4][9] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Dylan Groenewegen (NED) Team Jumbo–Visma 4h 56' 07" 2  Arnaud Démare (FRA) Groupama–FDJ s.t. 3  Jasper Philipsen (BEL) UAE Team Emirates s.t. 4  Pascal Ackermann (GER) Bora–Hansgrohe s.t. 5  Simone Consonni (ITA) UAE Team Emirates s.t. 6  Jasper De Buyst (BEL) Lotto–Soudal s.t. 7  Timothy Dupont (BEL) Wanty–Gobert s.t. 8  Jens Debusschere (BEL) Team Katusha–Alpecin s.t. 9  Mike Teunissen (NED) Team Jumbo–Visma s.t. 10  Jon Aberasturi (ESP) Caja Rural–Seguros RGA s.t.

General classification after Stage 4[4][9] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) UAE Team Emirates 15h 12' 28" 2  Søren Kragh Andersen (DEN) Team Sunweb + 29" 3  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 30" 4  Enric Mas (ESP) Deceuninck–Quick-Step + 31" 5  David de la Cruz (ESP) Team Sky + 57" 6  Sam Oomen (NED) Team Sunweb + 1' 28" 7  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) Deceuninck–Quick-Step + 2' 12" 8  Neilson Powless (USA) Team Jumbo–Visma + 2' 13" 9  Marc Hirschi (SUI) Team Sunweb + 2' 35" 10  Amaro Antunes (POR) CCC Team + 2' 36"

Stage 5

Stage 5 result[4][10] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) Deceuninck–Quick-Step 4h 13' 48" 2  Søren Kragh Andersen (DEN) Team Sunweb + 3" 3  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 9" 4  Enric Mas (ESP) Deceuninck–Quick-Step + 12" 5  Steve Cummings (GBR) Team Dimension Data + 17" 6  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) UAE Team Emirates + 18" 7  João Rodrigues (POR) W52 / FC Porto + 24" 8  Sam Oomen (NED) Team Sunweb + 30" 9  Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBR) Team Sky + 31" 10  Amaro Antunes (POR) CCC Team + 34"

Final classifications

Final general classification[10] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) UAE Team Emirates 19h 26' 34" 2  Søren Kragh Andersen (DEN) Team Sunweb + 14" 3  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky + 21" 4  Enric Mas (ESP) Deceuninck–Quick-Step + 25" 5  Sam Oomen (NED) Team Sunweb + 1' 40" 6  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) Deceuninck–Quick-Step + 1' 54" 7  Neilson Powless (USA) Team Jumbo–Visma + 2' 50" 8  Amaro Antunes (POR) CCC Team + 2' 52" 9  João Rodrigues (POR) W52 / FC Porto + 3' 27" 10  Simon Špilak (SLO) Team Katusha–Alpecin + 3' 47"

Final points classification[10] Rank Rider Team Points 1  Pascal Ackermann (GER) Bora–Hansgrohe 29 2  Fabio Jakobsen (NED) Deceuninck–Quick-Step 25 3  Dylan Groenewegen (NED) Team Jumbo–Visma 25 4  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky 22 5  Jasper De Buyst (BEL) Lotto–Soudal 21 6  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) UAE Team Emirates 20 7  Søren Kragh Andersen (DEN) Team Sunweb 20 8  Enric Mas (ESP) Deceuninck–Quick-Step 18 9  Jasper Philipsen (BEL) UAE Team Emirates 16 10  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) Deceuninck–Quick-Step 15

Final mountains classification[10] Rank Rider Team Points 1  Tim Declercq (BEL) Deceuninck–Quick-Step 15 2  Wout Poels (NED) Team Sky 11 3  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) UAE Team Emirates 10 4  Amaro Antunes (POR) CCC Team 8 5  Vicente García de Mateos (ESP) Ludofoods–Louletano 8 6  David Ribeiro (POR) LA Alumínios / LA Sport 8 7  Enric Mas (ESP) Deceuninck–Quick-Step 8 8  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) Deceuninck–Quick-Step 6 9  Stefan Küng (SUI) Groupama–FDJ 6 10  Jonas Koch (GER) CCC Team 6

Final young rider classification[10] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) UAE Team Emirates 19h 26' 34" 2  Neilson Powless (USA) Team Jumbo–Visma + 2' 50" 3  Marc Hirschi (SUI) Team Sunweb + 10' 40" 4  Casper Pedersen (DEN) Team Sunweb + 25' 01" 5  Hugo Nunes (POR) Miranda–Mortágua + 25' 38" 6  Jasper Philipsen (BEL) UAE Team Emirates + 26' 16" 7  Stan Dewulf (BEL) Lotto–Soudal + 31' 11" 8  Emanuel Duarte (POR) LA Alumínios / LA Sport + 33' 24" 9  João Barbosa (POR) Vito–Feirense–PNB + 33' 29" 10  Rafael Lourenço (POR) UD Oliveirense–InOutBuild + 34' 56"