The 2019 ZLM Tour was the 32nd edition of the ZLM Tour cycling

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. It started on 19 June in

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and ended on 23 June in

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and was a part of the 2019 UCI Europe Tour as a 2.1-ranked event. The race was won by

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of . Teammate

Amund Grøndahl Jansen Amund Grøndahl Jansen (born 11 February 1994) is a Norwegian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championships in 2019.(dutch) Career In July 2018, he was named in the start list for the 2018 ...

finished second, and

Mads Würtz Schmidt Mads Würtz Schmidt (born 31 March 1994) is a Danish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He rode at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia. In July 2019, he ...

of Katusha–Alpecin rounded out the podium.

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of took the points classification,

Rasmus Byriel Iversen Rasmus Byriel Iversen (born 16 September 1997) is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for Danish amateur team Herning CK Herning Cykle Klub (or Herning CK) is an amateur road bicycle racing club, located in Herning, Denmark, and founded April 1 ...

of took the young rider classification, and took the teams classification.

Teams

Seventeen teams, which consisted of four

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s, six Professional Continental Teams, and seven

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Teams, competed in the race. Each team entered seven riders, except for and , who each entered six riders, and , who entered five riders. Of the 115 riders who started the race, only 101 riders finished the race. UCI WorldTeams * * * * UCI Professional Continental Teams * * * * * * UCI Continental Teams * * *

Monkey Town Continental Team Parkhotel Valkenburg CT is a Dutch UCI Continental cycling team founded in 2014. After 3 years of Parkhotel Valkenburg as the name-sponsor, the men's team switched to Monkey Town as their name-sponsor, while the Parkhotel Valkenburg Cycling Team, ...

* * * * Vlasman CT

Route

Stages

Prologue

;19 June 2019 –

to Yerseke,

Stage 1

;20 June 2019 –

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Stage 2

;21 June 2019 – Etten-Leur to Buchten,

Stage 3

;22 June 2019 – Buchten to

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, The stage was shortened after the race jury decided to finish the race a lap early after the police raised concerns about the level of traffic on the finishing circuit.

Stage 4

;23 June 2019 –

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Classification leadership table

In the 2019 ZLM Tour, three jerseys were awarded. The

general classification The general classification (or the GC) in road bicycle racing is the category that tracks overall times for riders in multi- stage races. Each stage will have a stage winner, but the overall winner in the GC is the rider who has the fastest cumula ...

was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages except for the individual time trial: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints – three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The leader of the general classification received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2019 ZLM Tour, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race. The second classification was the

points classification The points classification is a secondary award category in road bicycle racing. Points are given for high finishes and, in some cases, for winning sprints at certain places along the route, most often called ''intermediate sprints''. The points cl ...

. Riders were awarded points for finishing in the top ten in a stage. Unlike in the

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, the winners of all stages were awarded the same number of points. Points were also won in intermediate sprints; three points for crossing the sprint line first, two points for second place, and one for third. The leader of the points classification was awarded a blue jersey. The third jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. Only riders born after 1 January 1997 were eligible; the young rider best placed in the general classification was the leader of the young rider classification.

Final classifications

General classification

Points classification

Young rider classification

Teams classification

References

Sources

External links

*{{official website, https://zlmtour.nl/ Ster ZLM Toer Zlm Tour Zlm Tour Zlm Tour Cycling in Limburg (Netherlands) Cycling in North Brabant Cycling in Zeeland Cycling in Borsele Cycling in Eindhoven Cycling in Sittard-Geleen Sports competitions in Tilburg Sport in West Flanders Sport in Etten-Leur Sport in Landgraaf Sport in Reimerswaal Bredene