40th GP Denain, Cat 1.3

France, April 22, 1999


1998 Results     History     Riders

Report

The race was stages in rain and strong winds and the first attack came with 80 kms to go. 5 riders motivated by Stephane Barthe went away but were caught some 40 kms later. Inevitably it came down to a final sprint which Blijlevens won.

Race Distance - 189 kms:

 1. Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) TVM-Farm Frites		     4.28.00
 2. Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Casino
 3. Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Palmans-Ideal
 4. Stéphane Barthe (Fra) Casino
 5. Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Home Market-Charleroi
 6. Damien Nazon (Fra) La Française des Jeux
 7. Franky van Haesebroucke (Bel) Collstrop
 8. Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole
 9. Lars Michaelsen (Den) La Française des Jeux
10. Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Bianchi		s.t.

Complete Starting List

Casino				TVM Farm Frites

1 Jann Kirsipuu			11 Olivier Asmaker
2 Christophe Agnolutto		12 Jeroen Blijlevens
3 Lauri Aus			13 Sergey Ivanov
4 Stéphane Barthe		14 Michel Lafis
5 Andy Flickinger		15 Remco van der Ven
6 David Lefevre			16 Miquel van Kessel
7 Christophe Oriol		17 Martin Van Steen
8 Alexandre Vinokourov		18 Vries Peter

Lotto Mobistar			Cofidis

21 Koen Beekman			31 Jerôme Delbove
22 Sébastien Demarbaix		32 Laurent Desbiens
23 Christophe Detilloux		33 Grzegorz Gwiazdowski
24 Fabien Dewaele		34 Nicolas Jalabert
25 Wim Feys			35 Thierry Loder
26 Manu Lhoir			36 Francis Moreau
27 Jean-Denis Vandenbroucke	37 Arnaud Pretot
28 Paul van Hyfte		38 Janek Tombak

Crédit Agricole			Team Polti

41 Frederic Delalande		51 Rossano Brasi
42 Fréderic Finot		52 Enrico Cassani
43 Sébastien Hinault		53 Mirko Celestino
44 Anthony Langella		54 Leonardo Guidi
45 Frédéric Moncassin		55 Fabrizio Guidi
46 Jerôme Neuville		56 Denis Lunghi
47 Olivier Perraudeau		57 Mauro Zinetti
48 Henk Vogels			58 No rider

Mercatone Uno			La Française des Jeux

61 Marco Artunghi		71 Christophe Bassons
62 Sergio Barbero		72 Jimmy Casper
63 Ermanno Brignoli		73 Lars Michaelsen
64 Fabiano Fontanelli		74 Emmanuel Magnien
65 Dmitriy Konyshev		75 Brad McGee
66 Massimiliano Napolitano	76 Christophe Mengin
67 Gianmario Ortenzi		77 Jean Patrick Nazon
68 Marcello Siboni		78 Cyril Saugrain

Festina				Lampre Daikin

81 Florent Brard		91 Franco Ballerini
82 Patrice Halgand		92 Raivis Belohvociks
83 Jonathan Hall		93 Simone Bertoletti
84 André Korff			94 Marco Della Vedova
85 Laurent Lefevre		95 Ludo Diercksens
86 Andrea Dolci			96 Gabriele Missaglia
87 Marcel Wüst			97 Mariano Piccoli
88 Rolf Huser			98 Johan Verstrepen

Liquigas Patatine Pata		Mobilvetta Northwave

101 Fausto Dotti		111 Alessandro Bertolini
102 Cristiano Frattini		112 Alessandro Calzolari
103 Oscar Mazon			113 Leandro Fioroni
104 Rodolfo Massi		114 Sergey Lelekin
105 Nicola Miceli		115 Renzo Ragnetti
106 Rodolfo Ongarato		116 Pascal Richard
107 Ellis Rastelli		117 Massimo Strazzer
108 Andrei Teteriuk		118 Valerio Tebaldi

Tönissteiner			Vlaanderen 2002

121 Nicolas Coudray		131 Davy Daniels
122 Franky Debuyst		132 Jürgen Guns
123 Johan Degeyter		133 Wesley Huvaere
124 Davy Delme			134 Kurt Van Lancker
125 Kees Hopmans		135 Jürgen Van Roosbroeck
126 Bert Roesems		136 Karel Vereecke
127 Eddy Torrekens		137 Stive Vermaut
128 Michel Vanhaecke		138 Andy Vidt

Palmans Ideal			Big Mat Auber 93

141 Brett Aitken		151 Guillaume Auger
142 Dave Bruylandts		152 Ludovic Auger
143 Hans Declercq		153 Christophe Capelle
144 Nico Eeckhout		154 Carlos Dacruz
145 Roger Hammond		155 Laurent Genty
146 ?				156 Oleg Joukov
147 Jürgen Van de walle		157 Alexei Sivakov
148 Jürgen Vermeersch		158 Jay Sweet

Home Market Charleroi		Collstrop De Federale

161 Ronny Assez			171 Danny Baeyens
162 Ludovic Capêlle		172 Erwin Bollen
163 Stéphane Cueff		173 Tony Bracke
164 Jürgen Debuysschere		174 Danny Daelman
165 Fréderic Gabriel		175 Eric Declercq
166 Charles Guilbert		176 Koen Deschuytter
167 Stéphane Hennebert		177 Tom Desmet
168 Laurent Pillon		178 Franky Vanhaesebroucke

Mroz				VC St Quentin Oktos MBK

181 Tomasz Brozyna		191 Linas Balciunas
182 Marcin Gebka		192 Grégory Barbier
183 Zbigniew Piatek		193 Miika Hietanen
184 Piotr Przydzial		194 Oleg Kozlitine
185 Raimondas Rumsas		195 Nicolas L'Hote
186 Piotr Wadecki		196 Saulius Ruskys
187 Grzegorz Wajs		197 Eddy Seigneur
188 Cezary Zamana		198 Jean Michel Thilloy

Team Besson Nippon Hodo

201 Stéphane Auroux
202 Christophe Gauthier
203 Tony Jousset
204 Sébastien Laroche
205 Benoît Luminet
206 Philippe Mauduit
207 Takehiro Mizutani
208 Sergey Yakovlev
Thanks to Daniel Schamps, Paris

Past Winners

1959    Seamus Elliott (Ire)
1960    Borra (Bel)
1961    Arthur De Cabooter (Bel)
1962    Schepens (Bel)
1963    Desmet (Bel)
1964    Wright (GB)
1965    Janssens (Bel)
1966    Vrancken (Bel)
1967    José Samyn (Bel)
1968    Jean Stablinski (Fra)
1969    Mathy (Bel)
1970    Callens (Bel)
1971    André Dierickx (Bel)
1972    G. Van Roosbroeck (Bel)
1973    Marc Demeyer (Bel)
1974    Willy Teirlinck (Bel)
1975    Loysch (Bel)
1976    Walter Planckaert (Bel)
1977    Robert Mintkiewicz (Fra)
1978    Frank Hoste (Bel)
1979    Pipart (Ned)
1980    Van Thielen (Bel)
1981    Ferdinand Vandenhaute (Bel) 
1982    Vanhaerens (Bel)
1983    Paul Sherwen (GB)
1984    Godimus (Bel)
1985    Patrick Versluys (Bel)
1986    Bruno Wojtinek (Fra)
1987    Bruno Wojtinek (Fra)
1988    Pascal Poisson (Fra)
1989    Edwig Van Hooydonck (Bel)
1990    Frédéric Moncassin (Fra)
1991    Frédéric Moncassin (Fra)
1992    Edwig Van Hooydonck (Bel)
1993    Marcel Wüst (Ger)
1994    Jans Koerts (Ned)
1995    Jo Planckaert (Bel)
1996    Jan Svorada (Slo)
1997    Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel)
1998    Jann Kirsipuu (Est) Casino 189 kms in 4.18.25
Past winners from Mario Stiehl in Berlin