Lukas Bauer beat them all up Alpe Cermis! It was enough to bring Bauer up from the 10th spot to the podium – but nobody could beat Cologna and Northug in the overall. The above illustration shows a splits analysis of the development in the final Tour de Ski stage up Alpe Cermis for the men – highlighting how Lukas Bauer did a fantastic race – crushing all of the other skiers.

The illustration shows how Northug gained a lot of time in the flat part of the race, taking nearly half of the gap up to Cologna – and also increasing the gap down to Bauer and the other chasing behind. From the start of the climb, Bauer accelerated past the group, and gained a lot of time on Cologna and Northug.

Lukas Bauer had the best split time in all splits in the climb – except for the last climb where Ivan Babikov was fastest.

Gaillard obviously tried too hard to keep the speed of Bauer at the start of the climb, and lost a lot of time on the second last split after trying to stick to Bauer. This might have cost him the 4th spot – as Curdin Perl and Roland Clara passed him afterwards.

Stage results

1	10	1217350	BAUER Lukas	CZE	30:28.3
2	9	3290016	CLARA Roland	ITA	31:00.7
3	5	1362947	PERL Curdin	SUI	31:02.1
4	14	1100077	VITTOZ Vincent	FRA	31:03.3
5	2	3420239	NORTHUG Petter jr.	NOR	31:07.3
6	25	3100190	BABIKOV Ivan	CAN	31:15.4
7	33	1285347	FREEMAN Kris	USA	31:22.2
8	21	1297957	MORIGGL Thomas	ITA	31:26.3
9	6	1345875	GAILLARD Jean Marc	FRA	31:29.7
10	13	3200015	REICHELT Tom	GER	31:31.5

Split 2

1.	03:51		Petter NORTHUG	NOR
2.	03:57	+00:06	Tord Asle GJERDALEN	NOR
3.	03:58	+00:07	Roland CLARA	ITA
4.	03:58	+00:07	Alex HARVEY	CAN
5.	03:58	+00:08	Daniel RICKARDSSON	SWE
6.	03:58	+00:08	Giorgio DI CENTA	ITA
7.	03:59	+00:08	Devon KERSHAW	CAN
8.	03:59	+00:08	Tom REICHELT	GER
9.	03:59	+00:08	Vincent VITTOZ	FRA
10.	03:59	+00:08	Curdin PERL	SUI
11.	04:00	+00:09	Jean Marc GAILLARD	FRA
13.	04:02	+00:11	Lukas BAUER	CZE
32.	04:09	+00:18	Dario COLOGNA	SUI

Split 3

1.	05:28		Petter NORTHUG	NOR
2.	05:39	+00:10	Lukas BAUER	CZE
3.	05:39	+00:10	Tord Asle GJERDALEN	NOR
4.	05:41	+00:12	Jean Marc GAILLARD	FRA
5.	05:41	+00:13	Giorgio DI CENTA	ITA
6.	05:42	+00:13	Roland CLARA	ITA
7.	05:42	+00:14	Curdin PERL	SUI
8.	05:43	+00:14	Vincent VITTOZ	FRA
9.	05:43	+00:15	Alex HARVEY	CAN
10.	05:43	+00:15	Devon KERSHAW	CAN
11.	05:43	+00:15	Martin JAKS	CZE
13.	05:44	+00:16	Dario COLOGNA	SUI

Split 4

1.	02:47		Lukas BAUER	CZE
2.	02:50	+00:03	Dmitriy JAPAROV	RUS
3.	02:51	+00:04	Curdin PERL	SUI
4.	02:51	+00:04	Marcus HELLNER	SWE
5.	02:51	+00:04	Vincent VITTOZ	FRA
6.	02:51	+00:04	Jean Marc GAILLARD	FRA
7.	02:52	+00:04	Dario COLOGNA	SUI
8.	02:52	+00:05	Tom REICHELT	GER
9.	02:52	+00:05	Robin DUVILLARD	FRA
10.	02:52	+00:05	Remo FISCHER	SUI
11.	02:52	+00:05	Thomas MORIGGL	ITA
26.	02:58	+00:11	Roland CLARA	ITA
28.	02:59	+00:12	Petter NORTHUG	NOR

Split 5

1.	05:38		Lukas BAUER	CZE
2.	05:48	+00:10	Giorgio DI CENTA	ITA
3.	05:48	+00:11	Jean Marc GAILLARD	FRA
4.	05:50	+00:13	Vincent VITTOZ	FRA
5.	05:51	+00:14	Curdin PERL	SUI
6.	05:52	+00:14	Robin DUVILLARD	FRA
7.	05:52	+00:14	Ivan BABIKOV	CAN
8.	05:53	+00:15	Thomas MORIGGL	ITA
9.	05:53	+00:16	Tom REICHELT	GER
10.	05:54	+00:16	Dario COLOGNA	SUI
11.	05:54	+00:17	Roland CLARA	ITA
13.	05:57	+00:20	Petter NORTHUG	NOR

Split 6

1.	04:44		Lukas BAUER	CZE
2.	04:57	+00:13	Roland CLARA	ITA
3.	04:58	+00:14	Curdin PERL	SUI
4.	05:00	+00:16	Vincent VITTOZ	FRA
5.	05:01	+00:17	Ivan BABIKOV	CAN
6.	05:01	+00:17	Thomas MORIGGL	ITA
7.	05:01	+00:17	Robin DUVILLARD	FRA
8.	05:06	+00:22	Tom REICHELT	GER
9.	05:06	+00:22	Remo FISCHER	SUI
10.	05:06	+00:22	Devon KERSHAW	CAN
11.	05:06	+00:22	Tord Asle GJERDALEN	NOR
14.	05:12	+00:28	Petter NORTHUG	NOR
15.	05:14	+00:30	Dario COLOGNA	SUI
21.	05:21	+00:37	Jean Marc GAILLARD	FRA

Split 7

1.	03:39		Ivan BABIKOV	CAN
2.	03:46	+00:07	Thomas MORIGGL	ITA
3.	03:47	+00:08	Curdin PERL	SUI
4.	03:48	+00:09	Roland CLARA	ITA
5.	03:49	+00:10	Vincent VITTOZ	FRA
6.	03:52	+00:13	Lukas BAUER	CZE
7.	03:52	+00:14	Roger Aa DJUPVIK	NOR
8.	03:54	+00:15	Roman LEYBYUK	UKR
9.	03:55	+00:16	Remo FISCHER	SUI
10.	03:55	+00:16	Christophe PERRILLAT	FRA
11.	03:55	+00:17	Tom REICHELT	GER
13.	03:56	+00:17	Petter NORTHUG	NOR
16.	03:57	+00:18	Jean Marc GAILLARD	FRA
28.	04:17	+00:38	Dario COLOGNA	SUI

Overall (unofficial results from live timing)

1.	31:58		Dario COLOGNA	SUI
2.	32:25	+00:27	Petter NORTHUG	NOR
3.	33:42	+01:44	Lukas BAUER	CZE
4.	33:56	+01:58	Curdin PERL	SUI
5.	34:05	+02:07	Roland CLARA	ITA
6.	34:26	+02:28	Jean Marc GAILLARD	FRA
7.	34:30	+02:32	Devon KERSHAW	CAN
8.	34:38	+02:40	Martin JAKS	CZE
9.	34:58	+03:00	Daniel RICKARDSSON	SWE
10.	35:07	+03:09	Alex HARVEY	CAN
11.	35:31	+03:33	Vincent VITTOZ	FRA
12.	35:49	+03:51	Tom REICHELT	GER
13.	36:17	+04:19	Giorgio DI CENTA	ITA
14.	36:29	+04:31	Marcus HELLNER	SWE
15.	36:58	+05:00	Jens FILBRICH	GER
16.	37:53	+05:55	Tord Asle GJERDALEN	NOR
17.	38:04	+06:06	Maurice MANIFICAT	FRA
18.	39:15	+07:17	Thomas MORIGGL	ITA
19.	39:40	+07:42	Roger Aa DJUPVIK	NOR
20.	39:42	+07:44	Robin DUVILLARD	FRA
21.	39:47	+07:49	Ivan BABIKOV	CAN
22.	40:32	+08:33	Remo FISCHER	SUI
23.	40:46	+08:48	Dmitriy JAPAROV	RUS
24.	41:42	+09:44	Sergey TURYCHEV	RUS
25.	42:23	+10:25	Alexander BESSMERTNYKH	RUS
26.	42:27	+10:29	Kristian Tettli RENNEMO	NOR
27.	45:30	+13:32	Jaak MAE	EST
28.	46:22	+14:24	Christophe PERRILLAT	FRA
29.	47:31	+15:33	Snorri EINARSSON	NOR
30.	50:17	+18:19	Maciej KRECZMER	POL
31.	51:04	+19:06	Roman LEYBYUK	UKR
32.	52:39	+20:41	Mariusz MICHALEK	POL
33.	52:53	+20:55	Benoit-Gilles DUFOURD	FRA
34.	10:43	+38:45	Francesc SOULIE	AND
35.	06:27	+34:29	Callum WATSON	AUS

2011: Splits analysis women Final Climb Alpe Cermis