2023 Volta ao Algarve

The 2023 Volta ao Algarve (English: Tour of the Algarve) was a road cycling stage race that took place between 15 and 19 February 2023 in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. The race was rated as a category 2.Pro event on the 2023 UCI ProSeries calendar, and was the 49th edition of the Volta ao Algarve.^[1]

2023 Volta ao Algarve

2023 UCI ProSeries
Race details
Dates	15–19 February 2023
Stages	5
Results
Winner  Daniel Martínez (COL) (Ineos Grenadiers)   Second  Filippo Ganna (ITA) (Ineos Grenadiers)   Third  Ilan Van Wilder (BEL) (Soudal–Quick-Step) Points  Magnus Cort (DEN) (EF Education–EasyPost) Mountains  Kasper Asgreen (DEN) (Soudal–Quick-Step) Youth  Oscar Onley (GBR) (Team DSM)   Team Ineos Grenadiers
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Teams

12 of the 18 UCI WorldTeams, four UCI ProTeams, and nine UCI Continental teams made up the 25 teams that participated in the race.^[2] Team Jumbo–Visma were the only team not to enter a full squad of seven riders.^[3]

UCI WorldTeams

• Arkéa–Samsic
• Alpecin–Deceuninck
• Bora–Hansgrohe
• EF Education–EasyPost
• Groupama–FDJ
• Ineos Grenadiers
• Intermarché–Circus–Wanty
• Soudal–Quick-Step
• Team Jumbo–Visma
• Team DSM
• Trek–Segafredo
• UAE Team Emirates

UCI ProTeams

• Caja Rural–Seguros RGA
• Human Powered Health
• Tudor Pro Cycling Team
• Uno-X Pro Cycling Team

UCI Continental Teams

• ABTF Betão–Feirense
• AP Hotels & Resorts–Tavira–SC Farense
• Aviludo–Louletano–Loulé Concelho
• Efapel Cycling
• Glassdrive–Q8–Anicolor
• Kelly / Simoldes / UDO
• Credibom / LA Alumínios / Marcos Car
• Rádio Popular–Paredes–Boavista
• Tavfer–Ovos Matinados–Mortágua

Route

Stage characteristics and winners^[4][5]

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Stage winner
1	15 February	Portimão to Lagos	200.2 km (124.4 mi)		Flat stage	Alexander Kristoff (NOR)
2	16 February	Sagres to Alto da Fóia	186.3 km (115.8 mi)		Mountain stage	Magnus Cort (DEN)
3	17 February	Faro to Tavira	203.1 km (126.2 mi)		Flat stage	Magnus Cort (DEN)
4	18 February	Albufeira to Alto do Malhão	177.9 km (110.5 mi)		Hilly stage	Tom Pidcock (GBR)
5	19 February	Lagoa to Lagoa	24 km (15 mi)		Individual time trial	Stefan Küng (SUI)
Total			754.7 km (468.9 mi)

Stages

Stage 1

15 February 2023 – Portimão to Lagos, 200.2 km (124.4 mi)^[6]

Stage 1 Result (1–10)[7][8] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Alexander Kristoff (NOR) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 4h 49' 25" 2  Jordi Meeus (BEL) Bora–Hansgrohe + 0" 3  Søren Wærenskjold (NOR) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team + 0" 4  Fabio Jakobsen (NED) Soudal–Quick-Step + 0" 5  Pavel Bittner (CZE) Team DSM + 0" 6  Paul Penhoët (FRA) Groupama–FDJ + 0" 7  Natnael Tesfatsion (ERI) Trek–Segafredo + 0" 8  Timo Kielich (BEL) Alpecin–Deceuninck + 0" 9  Edward Theuns (BEL) Trek–Segafredo + 0" 10  Tim van Dijke (NED) Team Jumbo–Visma + 0"

General classification after Stage 1 (1–10)[7][8] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Alexander Kristoff (NOR) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 4h 49' 15" 2  Jordi Meeus (BEL) Bora–Hansgrohe + 4" 3  Søren Wærenskjold (NOR) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team + 6" 4  Fabio Jakobsen (NED) Soudal–Quick-Step + 10" 5  Pavel Bittner (CZE) Team DSM + 10" 6  Paul Penhoët (FRA) Groupama–FDJ + 10" 7  Natnael Tesfatsion (ERI) Trek–Segafredo + 10" 8  Timo Kielich (BEL) Alpecin–Deceuninck + 10" 9  Edward Theuns (BEL) Trek–Segafredo + 10" 10  Tim van Dijke (NED) Team Jumbo–Visma + 10"

Stage 2

16 February 2023 – Sagres to Alto da Fóia, 186.3 km (115.8 mi)^[9]

Stage 2 Result (1–10)[10] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Magnus Cort (DEN) EF Education–EasyPost 5h 07' 05" 2  Ilan Van Wilder (BEL) Soudal–Quick-Step + 0" 3  Rui Costa (POR) Intermarché–Circus–Wanty + 0" 4  Valentin Madouas (FRA) Groupama–FDJ + 0" 5  Jai Hindley (AUS) Bora–Hansgrohe + 0" 6  Rune Herregodts (BEL) Intermarché–Circus–Wanty + 2" 7  Nicola Conci (ITA) Alpecin–Deceuninck + 2" 8  Tom Pidcock (GBR) Ineos Grenadiers + 2" 9  Kevin Vermaerke (USA) Team DSM + 2" 10  Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek–Segafredo + 2"

General classification after Stage 2 (1–10)[10] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Magnus Cort (DEN) EF Education–EasyPost 9h 56' 20" 2  Ilan Van Wilder (BEL) Soudal–Quick-Step + 4" 3  Rui Costa (POR) Intermarché–Circus–Wanty + 6" 4  Jai Hindley (AUS) Bora–Hansgrohe + 10" 5  Valentin Madouas (FRA) Groupama–FDJ + 10" 6  Tobias Foss (NOR) Team Jumbo–Visma + 12" 7  Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek–Segafredo + 12" 8  Nicola Conci (ITA) Alpecin–Deceuninck + 12" 9  João Almeida (POR) UAE Team Emirates + 12" 10  Sergio Higuita (COL) Bora–Hansgrohe + 12"

Stage 3

17 February 2023 – Faro to Tavira, 203.1 km (126.2 mi)^[11]

Stage 3 Result (1–10)[12] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Magnus Cort (DEN) EF Education–EasyPost 5h 05' 14" 2  Filippo Ganna (ITA) Ineos Grenadiers + 0" 3  Jordi Meeus (BEL) Bora–Hansgrohe + 0" 4  Paul Penhoët (FRA) Groupama–FDJ + 0" 5  Valentin Madouas (AUS) Groupama–FDJ + 0" 6  Rui Oliveira (POR) UAE Team Emirates + 0" 7  Rui Costa (POR) Intermarché–Circus–Wanty + 0" 8  Tobias Foss (NOR) Team Jumbo–Visma + 0" 9  Edward Theuns (BEL) Trek–Segafredo + 0" 10  Lewis Askey (GBR) Groupama–FDJ + 0"

General classification after Stage 3 (1–10)[12] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Magnus Cort (DEN) EF Education–EasyPost 15h 01' 18" 2  Rui Costa (POR) Intermarché–Circus–Wanty + 18" 3  Ilan Van Wilder (BEL) Soudal–Quick-Step + 20" 4  Valentin Madouas (FRA) Groupama–FDJ + 26" 5  Jai Hindley (AUS) Bora–Hansgrohe + 26" 6  Tom Pidcock (GBR) Ineos Grenadiers + 26" 7  Filippo Ganna (ITA) Ineos Grenadiers + 27" 8  Tobias Foss (NOR) Team Jumbo–Visma + 28" 9  Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek–Segafredo + 28" 10  João Almeida (POR) UAE Team Emirates + 28"

Stage 4

18 February 2023 – Albufeira to Alto do Malhão, 177.9 km (110.5 mi)^[13]

Stage 4 Result (1–10)[14] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Tom Pidcock (GBR) Ineos Grenadiers 4h 28' 39" 2  João Almeida (POR) UAE Team Emirates + 1" 3  Ilan Van Wilder (BEL) Soudal–Quick-Step + 5" 4  Sergio Higuita (COL) Bora–Hansgrohe + 5" 5  Jai Hindley (AUS) Bora–Hansgrohe + 11" 6  Daniel Martínez (COL) Ineos Grenadiers + 11" 7  Oscar Onley (GBR) Team DSM + 14" 8  Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek–Segafredo + 20" 9  Tobias Foss (NOR) Team Jumbo–Visma + 21" 10  Filippo Ganna (ITA) Ineos Grenadiers + 21"

General classification after Stage 4 (1–10)[14] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Tom Pidcock (GBR) Ineos Grenadiers 19h 30' 13" 2  Ilan Van Wilder (BEL) Soudal–Quick-Step + 5" 3  João Almeida (POR) UAE Team Emirates + 7" 4  Sergio Higuita (COL) Bora–Hansgrohe + 17" 5  Jai Hindley (AUS) Bora–Hansgrohe + 21" 6  Rui Costa (POR) Intermarché–Circus–Wanty + 23" 7  Daniel Martínez (COL) Ineos Grenadiers + 23" 8  Magnus Cort (DEN) EF Education–EasyPost + 27" 9  Filippo Ganna (ITA) Ineos Grenadiers + 32" 10  Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek–Segafredo + 32"

Stage 5

19 February 2023 – Lagoa to Lagoa, 24 km (15 mi) (ITT)^[15]

Stage 5 Result (1–10)[16] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Stefan Küng (SUI) Groupama–FDJ 29' 34" 2  Rémi Cavagna (FRA) Soudal–Quick-Step + 4" 3  Filippo Ganna (ITA) Ineos Grenadiers + 10" 4  Daniel Martínez (COL) Ineos Grenadiers + 16" 5  Tobias Foss (NOR) Team Jumbo–Visma + 29" 6  Thymen Arensman (NED) Ineos Grenadiers + 32" 7  Ilan Van Wilder (BEL) Soudal–Quick-Step + 49" 8  Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek–Segafredo + 56" 9  Nils Politt (GER) Bora–Hansgrohe + 1' 03" 10  Rune Herregodts (BEL) Intermarché–Circus–Wanty + 1' 03"

General classification after Stage 5 (1–10)[16] Rank Rider Team Time 1  Daniel Martínez (COL) Ineos Grenadiers 20h 00' 26" 2  Filippo Ganna (ITA) Ineos Grenadiers + 2" 3  Ilan Van Wilder (BEL) Soudal–Quick-Step + 15" 4  Tobias Foss (NOR) Team Jumbo–Visma + 22" 5  Stefan Küng (SUI) Groupama–FDJ + 26" 6  João Almeida (POR) UAE Team Emirates + 40" 7  Tom Pidcock (GBR) Ineos Grenadiers + 48" 8  Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek–Segafredo + 49" 9  Magnus Cort (DEN) EF Education–EasyPost + 55" 10  Rui Costa (POR) Intermarché–Circus–Wanty + 1' 06"

Classification leadership table

Classification leadership by stage

Stage	Winner	General classification	Points classification	Mountains classification	Young rider classification	Team classification
1	Alexander Kristoff	Alexander Kristoff	Alexander Kristoff	António Ferreira	Pavel Bittner	Trek–Segafredo
2	Magnus Cort	Magnus Cort			Frederik Wandahl	EF Education–EasyPost
3	Magnus Cort		Magnus Cort
4	Tom Pidcock	Tom Pidcock		Kasper Asgreen	Oscar Onley	Ineos Grenadiers
5	Stefan Küng	Daniel Martínez
Final		Daniel Martínez	Magnus Cort	Kasper Asgreen	Oscar Onley	Ineos Grenadiers

Final classification standings

Legend[17]
	Denotes the winner of the general classification		Denotes the winner of the mountains classification
	Denotes the winner of the points classification		Denotes the winner of the young rider classification

General classification

Final general classification (1–10)^[16]

Rank	Rider	Team	Time
1	Daniel Martínez (COL)	Ineos Grenadiers	20h 00' 26"
2	Filippo Ganna (ITA)	Ineos Grenadiers	+ 2"
3	Ilan Van Wilder (BEL)	Soudal–Quick-Step	+ 15"
4	Tobias Foss (NOR)	Team Jumbo–Visma	+ 22"
5	Stefan Küng (SUI)	Groupama–FDJ	+ 26"
6	João Almeida (POR)	UAE Team Emirates	+ 40"
7	Tom Pidcock (GBR)	Ineos Grenadiers	+ 48"
8	Bauke Mollema (NED)	Trek–Segafredo	+ 49"
9	Magnus Cort (DEN)	EF Education–EasyPost	+ 55"
10	Rui Costa (POR)	Intermarché–Circus–Wanty	+ 1' 06"

Points classification

Final points classification (1–10)^[16]

Rank	Rider	Team	Time
1	Magnus Cort (DEN)	EF Education–EasyPost	46
2	Jordi Meeus (BEL)	Bora–Hansgrohe	36
3	Alexander Kristoff (NOR)	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team	25
4	Ilan Van Wilder (BEL)	Soudal–Quick-Step	22
5	Filippo Ganna (ITA)	Ineos Grenadiers	21
6	Paul Penhoët (FRA)	Groupama–FDJ	21
7	Rui Costa (POR)	Intermarché–Circus–Wanty	20
8	Tom Pidcock (GBR)	Ineos Grenadiers	14
9	Fabio Jakobsen (NED)	Soudal–Quick-Step	13
10	João Almeida (POR)	UAE Team Emirates	12

Mountains classification

Final mountains classification (1–10)^[16]

Rank	Rider	Team	Time
1	Kasper Asgreen (DEN)	Soudal–Quick-Step	18
2	Ilan Van Wilder (BEL)	Soudal–Quick-Step	13
3	António Ferreira (POR)	Kelly / Simoldes / UDO	12
4	Rafael Lourenço (POR)	AP Hotels & Resorts–Tavira–SC Farense	11
5	Magnus Cort (DEN)	EF Education–EasyPost	10
6	Tom Pidcock (GBR)	Ineos Grenadiers	6
7	Kobe Goossens (BEL)	Intermarché–Circus–Wanty	6
8	Rui Costa (POR)	Intermarché–Circus–Wanty	6
9	Mathias Vacek (CZE)	Trek–Segafredo	6
10	João Almeida (POR)	UAE Team Emirates	4

Young rider classification

Final young rider classification (1–10)^[16]

Rank	Rider	Team	Time
1	Oscar Onley (GBR)	Team DSM	20h 01' 50"
2	Frederik Wandahl (DEN)	Bora–Hansgrohe	+ 1' 17"
3	Finn Fisher-Black (NZL)	UAE Team Emirates	+ 1' 44"
4	Mathias Vacek (CZE)	Trek–Segafredo	+ 23' 50"
5	Paul Penhoët (FRA)	Groupama–FDJ	+ 28' 54"
6	Lewis Askey (GBR)	Groupama–FDJ	+ 32' 06"
7	Pavel Bittner (CZE)	Team DSM	+ 35' 00"
8	Madis Mihkels (EST)	Intermarché–Circus–Wanty	+ 36' 29"
9	Roel van Sintmaartensdijk (NED)	Intermarché–Circus–Wanty	+ 40' 53"
10	Pedro Silva (POR)	Glassdrive–Q8–Anicolor	+ 45' 22"

Team classification

Final team classification (1–10)^[16]

Rank	Team	Time
1	Ineos Grenadiers	60h 01' 31"
2	Bora–Hansgrohe	+ 4' 25"
3	Intermarché–Circus–Wanty	+ 8' 54"
4	EF Education–EasyPost	+ 9' 24"
5	Trek–Segafredo	+ 12' 49"
6	Arkéa–Samsic	+ 12' 50"
7	Soudal–Quick-Step	+ 17' 01"
8	Alpecin–Deceuninck	+ 18' 29"
9	Groupama–FDJ	+ 21' 40"
10	UAE Team Emirates	+ 25' 06"