Ian Boswell of Teamy Sky
American Ian Boswell of Team Sky won the Point d’Appui for the 2016 Vuelta a Espana, finishing 80th among the surviving 159 riders in the race.
Boswell’s placement had been 20 places above the fulcrum until Stage 16 when he finished dead last on the stage, which dropped in the overall standings closer to the middle of the pack. His former teammate, Joe Dombrowski, whom he had helped win the amateur Giro d’Italia back in 2012, held the GC Point d’Appui on Stage 17 and 18. Both Boswell and Dombrowski finished at the tail end of Stage 19, Drombowski slipping out of the fulcrum and Boswell slipping in.
He finished third on Stage 7 of last year’s Vuelta and seventh overall in the 2015 Tour of California. Back in 2012 when he was riding for Trek-Livestrong, he finished second in the Under-23 Baston-Liege-Baston race. But now he’s a workhorse for Team Sky, riding in support of Christopher Froome.
Asked what cycling has taught him, Boswell said, “You can get to where you want to get if you work at it. There’s more ups and downs in cycling than many other sports. It teaches you to be resilient.”
Nairo Quintana won the 2016 Vuelta, and Nikias Arndt of Team Giant-Alpecin was the Lanterne Rouge, some 5 hours adrift.
Zdenek Stybar of Etixx-Quick-Step had the time closest to the median time.
The general classification Point d’Appui after each stage:
- Stage 1 – No fulcrum
- Stage 2 – No fulcrum
- Stage 3 – Rudiger Selig of Bora-Argon 18
- Stage 4 – Silvio Herklotz of Bora-Argon 18
- Stage 5 – No fulcrum
- Stage 6 – No fulcrum
- Stage 7 – No fulcrum
- Stage 8 – No fulcrum
- Stage 9 – No fulcrum
- Stage 10 – Julien Bernard of Trek-Segafredo
- Stage 11 – No fulcrum
- Stage 12 – Thomas De Gendt of Lotto Soudal
- Stage 13 – No fulcrum
- Stage 14 – Tiago Machado of Team Katusha
- Stage 15 – No fulcrum
- Stage 16 – No fulcrum
- Stage 17 – Joe Dombrowski of Cannondale-Drapac
- Stage 18 – Joe Dombrowski of Cannondale-Drapac
- Stage 19 – Ian Boswell of Team Sky
- Stage 20 – Ian Boswell of Team Sky
- Stage 21 – Ian Boswell of Team Sky
Point d'Appui 