2016 season, Final KM

Final KM: Paris Nice prologue

March 7, 2016 Midge 1 Comment

WorldTour racing kicks off Europe with Paris Nice which sees the peloton ‘Race to the Sun’ over seven stages.

Orica-GreenEDGE’s Michael Matthews blasted around the 6.1km prologue in a time of 7:39 minutes, one second faster than pre-race favourite Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin). Kiwi time trial champion Patrick Bevin (Cannondale) took an excellent third place.

Plushie haul for Mr Matthews!!

Nice start to the season, thank you everyone for all your support @ParisNice @ORICA_GreenEDGE #NOSHORTCUTS pic.twitter.com/1MSPkIqLZU

— michael matthews (@blingmatthews) March 6, 2016

LOVE the grand tour victory detail on the side of Baby Blackbird’s helmet.

Strong start to #ParisNice for Tinkoff with @majkaformal & @albertocontador in the GC mix: https://t.co/rpV13pOSJr pic.twitter.com/p2eEHEydc2

— Tinkoff (@tinkoff_team) March 6, 2016

Here’s the video

1ère course & 1ère victoire pour @blingmatthews regardez le résumé du Prologue / 1st race & 1st victory for Matthewshttps://t.co/Xcb1MEAqGk

— Paris-Nice (@ParisNice) March 6, 2016

Links: Official site for Paris Nice, Twitter #ParisNice