2023 ZLM Tour (2.1), Netherlands Formerly Ster ZLM Toer
34th edition: june 7 - 11, 2023.
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Sunday, June 11: 4th & final stage, Oosterhout - Oosterhout, 158.5 km
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Olav Kooij wins the final stage while wearing the GC leader's yellow Jersey.
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Weather at the start/finish city of Oosterhout at 2:00 PM, local time: 30C (86F), sunny, with the wind from the east at 19 km/hr (12 mph). There is just a 1% chance of rain.
The race: Here's the report from stage and final GC winner Olav Kooij's Team Jumbo-Visma:
Olav Kooij has won the final stage of the ZLM Tour. The 21-year-old sprinter of Team Jumbo-Visma was the fastest in a bunch sprint after a perfect lead-out. This makes Kooij the overall winner of the Dutch stage race for the second consecutive time.
The final stage took place in and around the town of Oosterhout. Kooij started as the overall leader. With a slight advantage over his main rivals in the general classification, the goal was clear: a stage win would ensure Kooij's overall victory.
After the start, a trio immediately attacked. The peloton kept the lead group well within reach. Apart from two final attacks, another bunch sprint was inevitable. After several missed sprint opportunities in the previous stages, the Jumbo-Visma train rode prominently at the front in the final kilometres. Tosh Van der Sande put his leader in a perfect position after a lot of preparation by his teammates. Kooij was no longer threatened as he raced to his fifth win of the season. Just like in 2022, he won the final stage of the ZLM Tour with the yellow jersey around his shoulders.
"I'm thrilled that I could finish it off today”, Kooij said. "We knew that my form was good. So we participated in the ZLM Tour to win a stage and the general classification. We had to wait until the last day for the stage win. I was second once, but I couldn't sprint in the following stages. It's nice that everything fell into place now.”
"We did well today. The sprint preparation was perfect this time. It gave me confidence to have a sprint train like that. The guys have been working hard for me all week. I am happy to be able to reward them because they deserve a stage win. We all knew we had to do better today than in the previous sprints. We kept believing in our qualities, and we once again showed how strong we are. This win means a lot for the team”, Kooij concluded.
This is Kooij's second consecutive overall victory in the ZLM Tour. He also took home the points and the junior jersey. For the 21-year-old Dutchman, the stage win was his 20th as a professional. Team Jumbo-Visma's season tally now stands at 37.
Complete results:
158.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.920 km/hr
- GC winner: Olav Kooij (Jumbo-Visma)
- Points classification winner: Olav Kooij (Jumbo-Visma)
- Best young rider: Olav Kooij (Jumbo-Visma)
- Teams classification winner: Team DSM
745.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.732 km/hr
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Saturday, June 10: Stage 3, Roosendaal - Roosendaal, 194.2 km
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Arvid De Kleijn takes the third stage.
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Weather at the start/finish city of Roosendaal at 2:00 PM, local time: 30C (86F), sunny, with the wind from the east at 21 km/hr (13 mph). There is just a 2% chance of rain.
The race: Here's the report from GC leader Olav Kooij's Team Jumbo-Visma.
Olav Kooij continues to lead the ZLM Tour. The 21-year-old sprinter of Team Jumbo-Visma did not get to sprint in the third stage and finished nineteenth. Tomorrow is the final stage of the Dutch five-day stage race.
The fourth stage of the ZLM Tour started and finished in Roosendaal. The day did not start well for Kooij, who crashed before the official start. "I fell on my shoulder, but luckily I only got a few abrasions”, the 21-year-old rider from the Dutch town of Numansdorp said.
A group of eight riders formed the early breakaway. Team Jumbo-Visma controlled the pace of the peloton on behalf of race leader Kooij. With about a hundred kilometres to go, the race broke open. A strong side wind on the Oesterdam caused the peloton to split. After several kilometres of echelons, the peloton finally came together.
"There was a lot of wind again, which is typical for a stage in the ZLM Tour”, Kooij said. "The peloton broke up for a while, but we knew it was impossible to create a decisive breakaway. Only Tosh (Van der Sande) and I were in the front. So it was good for us that everything came together again. Then we decided to put everything into the bunch sprint.”
After the breakaway, a new lead group emerged. Once again, the yellow and black formation kept the escape within reach. Ultimately, Kooij's lead-out proved too far away in the final kilometres to challenge for the day's win. "On courses like this, everyone rides close together. You know it can be over in a split second. Unfortunately, that was the case for us today. We were always in front on the local laps. We just lost too many positions in the crucial corners. I was too far behind, which prevented me from sprinting”, Kooij said.
Kooij will start the fourth and final stage of the ZLM Tour as the general classification leader. Tim van Dijke is still in sixth place. The final stage to and from Oosterhout is scheduled for Sunday.
194.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.412 km/hr.
- GC leader: Olav Kooij (Jumbo-Visma)
- Points classification leader: Jakub Mareczko (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
- Teams classification leader: Team DSM
587.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 45.672 km/hr.
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Friday, June 9: Stage 2, Schijndel - Buchten, 184.1 km
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Jakub Mareczko wins stage two. Photo: Peer Van Rooij
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Weather at the finish city of Buchten at 2:10 local time: 28C (83F), sunny, with the wind from the east at 19 km/hr (12 mph). There is just a 1% chance of rain.
The race: Here's the report from second-place and new GC leader Olav Kooij's Team Jumbo-Visma.
Olav Kooij has finished second in the second stage of the ZLM Tour. The 21-year-old Dutchman just missed out on the victory to Mareczko. His second place makes Kooij the new leader of the general classification.
The second stage of the ZLM Tour took place in the province of Limburg. Seven riders made an early breakaway. After the miscalculation in the first stage, the peloton kept the lead group within reach. With about 35 kilometres to go, the leaders were caught. The peloton then prepared for the first bunch sprint of the five-day race.
Kooij was boxed in several times on the winding roads leading into Buchten. As a result, the leader of Team Jumbo-Visma was not in the best position for the sprint. With a strong final jump, the young Dutchman held off several rivals. In the end, he was only beaten by the Italian Mareczko.
"Of course, you always want to win”, a disappointed Kooij said. "After the last corner, 800 metres from the finish, the peloton was stretched out. We knew we had to be at the front at that point, but we weren't. You try to stay calm, but somewhere you know it won't be easy. Ultimately, I still got close by starting my sprint early, but unfortunately, it wasn't enough.”
After finishing in the top ten in the prologue and the first stage, Kooij is the new leader of the ZLM Tour. He also leads the points and the youth classification. "It's always nice to wear the leader's jersey in a tour. We are certainly doing well this week, but we will do everything we can in the coming stages to get the stage win. Finishing second today is not nice, but being the leader of the general classification makes up for a lot.”
184.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.945 km/hr
- Points classification leader: Olav Kooij (Jumbo-Visma)
393.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 45.801 km/hr
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Thursday, June 8: Stage 1, Westkapelle - 's-Heerenhoek, 202.5 km
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Yentl Vandevelde wins stage one. Photo: George Deswijzen
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Weather at the finish city of 's-Heerenhoek at 2:15 PM, local time: 23C (73F), sunny, with the wind from the north at 21 km/hr (13 mph). No rain is forecast.
The race: Here is a machine-translation of the race organizer's stage one report.
The second stage of the ZLM Tour between Westkapelle and 's-Heerenhoek over 202.5 kilometers was surprisingly won by 22-year-old Belgian Yentl Vandevelde of TdT-Unibet. He was part of an early breakaway and managed to stay just out of the grasp of the sprinting peloton together with a few escape mates.
Alexander Konychev (Team Corratec – Selle Italia) and Bert-Jan Lindeman (VolkerWessels Cycling Team) finished second and third, ahead of Emiel Vermeulen (BEAT Cycling Club) and Martijn Rasenberg (ABLOC Cycling Team). Close behind, Team DSM rider Sam Welsford won the sprint of the peloton for sixth place, ahead of Arvid de Kleijn (Tudor Pro Cycling), Guillaume van Keirsbulck (Bingoal-WB) and Olav Kooij (Team Jumbo-Visma).
The stage was colored by a leading group of eight riders, who escaped after 25 kilometers. These eight were Thijs de Lange (Metec-Solarwatt), Martijn Rasenberg (ABLOC Cycling Team), Elmar Abma (Allinq Continental Cycling Team), Bert-Jan Lindeman (VolkerWessels Cycling Team), the Belgians Aaron van Poucke (Team Flanders – Baloise), Emiel Vermeulen (BEAT Cycling Club) and Yentle Vandevelde (TdT-Unibet) and the Italian Alexander Konychev (Corratec – Sella Italia).
For a long time they rode ahead of the peloton for a few minutes, but never got a very big lead. It seemed only a matter of time before the sprinter teams would catch them in the final of the stage, but Yente Vandevelde thought otherwise. He jumped away from his fellow escapees in the final kilometers and crossed the finish line cheering as the winner.
After the finish, the young Belgian could hardly believe that he had won. “In my life I have only won small races. And now I win a Pro race," said Vandevelde. "You only dream about this. This is a really big fish for our team.”
Olav Kooij spoke of a missed opportunity after the finish. “This is disappointing,” says Kooij. “We have taken our responsibility as a team and the boys have worked hard. Too bad we couldn't finish that. There were a lot of teams watching us in the chase, but it was also a strong leading group. Then joint forces are needed to close the gap.'
Team DSM rider Nils Eekhoff will continue to wear the yellow ZLM leader's jersey and Olav Kooij will keep the Shimano white jersey for the best youngster. Yentl Vandevelde will wear the Skoda green jersey for the points classification in the coming stage.
202.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 46.398 km/hr
- GC leader: Nils Eekhoff (Team DSM)
- Points classification leader: Nils Eekhoff (Team DSM)
- Best young rinder: Olav Kooij (Jumbo-Visma)
209.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 46.567 km/hr
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Wednesday, June 7: Heinkenszand 6.6 km prologue individual time trial.
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Nils Eekhoff on his way to winning the prologue time trial.
Weather at the race city of Heinkenszand at 4:15 PM, local time: 22C (71F), fair, with the wind from the north at 21 km/hr (13 mph). No rain is forecast.
The race: First rider was scheduled to start at 4:30 PM.
Here's the report from winner Nils Eekhoff's Team DSM:
Nils Eekhoff has crowned a strong performance from Team DSM at the opening prologue of the ZLM Tour, storming to his first professional victory. The entire team showed their speed on the 6.6 kilometre long parcours around Heinkenszand, with four riders finishing in the top 10 of the day. Alex Edmondson was second behind his teammate Eekhoff, Sam Welsford in fifth and Development Team DSM rider Patrick Eddy rounded off the strong team performance in ninth place on the first evening of the race.
The team left their mark from the beginning on with Development Team DSM rider Patrick Eddy moving into provisional second place. A few moments later, Nils Eekhoff was able to move into the hot seat with a time of 7 minutes and 27 seconds. After that, Sam Welsford and Alex Edmonson came close to the time of the Dutch rider, but nobody was faster on the technical parcours and Eekhoff could secure a fantastic win.
After taking his first pro win, Nils Eekhoff said: “I waited quite a long time for my first pro win, so I’m really happy. I went pretty deep. There was tailwind so I went super fast, but near the finish there was a headwind. That made it quite tough, but I pulled through it well. I trained hard the last weeks and felt good – and prologues suit me. But super happy to take it home.”
Team DSM coach Roy Curvers added: “We saw a dedicated team today who were all determined to go full; but a TT is a complicated thing when it comes to the science behind it, and knowing we have a lot of people putting in big efforts on this side, bringing a result home like this is a big compliment for all involved.”
6.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 53.154 km/hr
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Welsford second and Mareczko third in final bunch sprint
Race leader Olav Kooij of Jumbo-Visma sprinted to victory on the fourth and final stage of the ZLM Tour and won the race overall. Led by two teammates through the final corner, Kooij crossed the line ahead of Sam Welsford (DSM) and Jakub Mareczko (Alpecin-Deceuninck).
Even though Kooij had to change his bike twice in the stage, he successfully defended his lead to win his first stage at the four-day race, after claiming the leader’s jersey on stage 2 by finishing second to Mareczko.
"We came with three guys through the last corner, then it was full gas for one last pull and then it was up to me," Kooij said.
“We came with the goal to win a stage and the GC and we had to wait until today [to win a stage]. It’s still sprinting and sometimes things don’t go to plan."
Kooij won the ZLM Tour for the second year in a row, finishing with a 13-second lead on Welsford. Nils Eekhoff (DSM) dropped one spot to third overall, a further two seconds back.
After heading from the start in Oosterhout for two intermediate sprints, the flat 158.5km route returned to Oosterhout for three laps of the 13km finishing circuit.
Three riders - Léo Bouvier (Bike Aid), Guillaume Visser (BEAT) and Sam Gademan (Allinq) - attacked in the first 30 kilometres to form the breakaway but they were given a short leash by the peloton. Their lead never went above the two-minute mark, with the inevitable bunch sprint looming at the end of the day.
The trio was reeled back in by the peloton with 25km to go, giving way to multiple short-lived counterattacks. First, it was Vinzent Dorn (Bike Aid) that tried his luck, followed by Tim Bierkens (Allinq) and finally Rick Ottema (Allinq) but the solo riders were very quickly swallowed by the charging peloton.
The trains organized in the final kilometres with Jumbo-Visma, Alpecin-Deceuninck and Team DSM fighting to control the front. In the end, Jumbo-Visma managed to launch Kooij to victory.
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- Date: 09 June 2023
- Start time: 12:38
- Avg. speed winner: 44.945 km/h
- Classification: 2.Pro
- Race category: ME - Men Elite
- Distance: 184.1 km
- Points scale: 2.PRO.Stage
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It was a great experience - Treasures of Two Capitals (5 star), June 2017
It was a great experience. The guides were knowledgeable and spot on time. Especially the guide in St. Petersburg seemed to get us to places with great timing. We beat the majority of crowds. Maybe that’s partly a result of being a small group, being that we didn’t have to wait for stragglers. The weather cooperated and we didn’t get caught in any rain storms.
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Kazan Cathedral
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If you walk slowly along the embankment of the Griboedov canal towards the Nevsky prospect, you will soon see the counterpart of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome – the Kazan Cathedral.
The Cathedral looks fascinating due to its monumentality on the outside and the amazing beauty inside. The Kazan Cathedral was built and named in honor of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God, which Is placed inside the temple and is considered to be one of the most revered icons in Russia. So the queue of people wishing to touch the shrine is a common thing here.
Andrey Voronikhin
The Cathedral was created by the talented Russian architect, the former serf, Andrey Voronikhin. According to a legend he created the design of the cathedral at will of emperor Paul I, who said, “I want a cathedral in Saint Petersburg that will comprise a bit of St. Peter’s Cathedral and a bit of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.”
However, the construction works on the site of the old Kazan church began after the murder of the emperor. Voronikhin confronted a difficult task. Construction of the new cathedral was planned on the section of the Nevsky Prospect which extended from the West to the East. In orthodox churches the altar should always face East and the main facade with the entrance should face West, though Nevsky Prospect was on the North side of the future temple. Voronikhin found an elegant solution — side facade was visually turned into the main facade by building a semicircular colonnade, which unfolded toward the main alley of the city. Grand 96 columns in four rows! This solution not only helped to avoid violation of basic rules of the construction of an orthodox church, but retained the symmetry and harmony of the cathedral with Nevsky Prospect and everything that surrounded this piece of architectural art.
“After the defeat of Napoleon’s army by Kutuzov, military banners and keys of the French fortresses were brought here and placed on the walls of the cathedral”
After the defeat of Napoleon’s army by Kutuzov, military banners and keys of the French fortresses were brought here and placed on the walls of the cathedral. Nowadays most of the trophies are kept in the Historical Museum in Moscow and the Kazan Cathedral keeps only six trophy banners and keys in twenty-six bundles beside the tomb of field marshal Mikhail Kutuzov, who was buried in the North aisle of the Cathedral in 1813. And in 1837 the monuments of the 1812 war heroes – Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly – were erected on the square in front of the Cathedral .
Kutuzov monument
Today the Kazan Cathedral is an operating church with daily divine service and free admission. The Cathedral is always crowded and there is a little light inside, the absence of which creates a feeling of tranquility when you are in the temple.
Inside the temple is divided by granite columns to three so-called hall-corridors, whose ceilings are decorated with painting of flowers, and on the floor there is a mosaic of the Karelian marble in pink and grey shades.
No doubts that the Kazan Cathedral alongside with the Cathedral of the Savior on Spilled Blood and St. Isaac’s Cathedral, is the main church of St. Petersburg. It possesses a great historical value and is considered to be an architecture masterpiece, visited by thousands of tourists and city residents every year.
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