Tour du Faso - 2.5

Burkina Faso, December 1 - 12, 1999

Stages

• Prologue - December 1: Banfora, 1.8 kms
• Stage 1 - December 2: 110.5 kms
• Stage 2a - December 3: 105 kms
• Stage 2b - December 3: 77 kms
• Stage 3 - December 4: 164 kms
• Stage 4 - December 5: Ouagadougou - Ouahigouya, 185 kms
• Stage 5 - December 7: Ouahigouya - Yako, 72 kms
• Stage 6a - December 8: Ouagadougou - Kaya, 96 kms
• Stage 6b - December 8: Kaya - Ziniaré, 67 kms
• Stage 7a - December 9: Ouagadougou - Zorgho, 106 kms
• Stage 7b - December 9: Zorgho - Fada N'Gourma, 114 kms
• Stage 8 - December 10: Fada n'Gourma - Tenkodogo, 127 kms
• Stage 9 - December 11: Carrefour Manga - Po, 69 kms
• Stage 10 - December 12: 168 kms

Preview

By Tomas Nilsson

The only international cycle race in Africa between the Sahara and the Zambezi takes place in Burkina Faso, once known as Upper Volta. The country has its own place in the history of cycling. It was here, on the 15th of December 1959, that the legendary Fausto Coppi rode his last race, he came in second in a criterium of the streets of the capital Ougadougo. He came home from this African tour with a virus, some sources say malaria, that took his life with pneumonia on the 2nd of January, 1960, two days into what should have been his fourth decade in top cycling.

Today Burkina Faso is ranked as the 46th nation in the world, with 99 points, most of them from the Tour du Faso and the national championships. Individually, 25 year old Hamado Pafadnam is ranked 833rd with 24 points, 32 year old Karim Kaboré is the national champion, ranked 995th with the 15 points his championship is worth. In the All-Africa Games in 1999 Rabakie Quedraogo came in 27th of 36 finishing riders in the 40 km ITT, twelve minutes after the winner, James Perry of South Africa. None of Burkina Faso's riders finished the road race however.

Results

Prologue - Banfora, 1.8 kms

Martin Dvorcik of Slovakia won the prologue of Tour du Faso in Burkina Faso. The race will go on for ten days, comprising 14 stages.

1. Martin Dvorcik (Svk)          2.10
2. Marc van Duyse (Bel)          0.02
3. Danny In't Veld (Bel)         0.03
4. D. Brugerow (Fra)             0.03
5. Said Mosry (Egy)              0.03

1. Slobodnik (Svk)

General classification:

1. Slobodnik (Svk)

1. Rivera (Bel)
2. Dvorscik (Svk)

1. Nasry Said (Egy)

General Classification:

1. Sipeky (Svk)

Stage 4 - Ouagadougou - Ouahigouya, 185 kms

1. Ondrej Slobodník (Svk)    	     4.36.57
2. Fatah Abdel (Egypt)        	        0.18
3. Hamado Pafadnam (Burkina Faso)

General classification:

1. Ján Sipeky (Svk)                 13.35.19
2. Nasry Said (Egypt)              	0.21
3. Milan Dvorscík (SR)             	0.48

Stage 5 - Ouahigouya - Yako, 72 kms

A group of eight riders broke away and finished 2.20 in front of the peloton Slovakian rider, Sipeky still holds the overall lead.

1. Carre (France)
2. Kholafy (Egypt)
3. Pafandam (Burkina Faso

General Classification

1. Sipeky (Svk)
2. Said (Egypt)
3. Dvorscik (Svk)

Teams

1. Slovak republik
2. Egypt

Stage 6a - Ouagadougou - Kaya, 96 kms

1. Mohamed Kholefi (Egy)  2.38.17
2. Laurent Zongo (Bur)
3. Amor El Nadi (Egy)
4. Oudrey Slobodnik (Svk)
5. Khaled Saad (Egy)

General classification:

1. Jan Sipeky (Svk)

Stage 6b - Kaya - Ziniaré, 67 kms

1. Gianni Rivera (Bel)
2. Amado Pafadnam (Bur)
3. Jacques Castan (Fra)
4. Math Stoffels (Ned)
5. Khaled Saad Team (Egy)

General Classification

1. Said Nasry Said (Egy)
2. Amado Pafadnam (Bur)
3. Lavergne (Fra)
4. Slobodnik (Svk)

Stage 7a - Ouagadougou - Zorgho, 106 kms

1. Amr El Nadi (Egy)                3.16.01

General classification:

1. Said Nasry Said (Egy) 

Stage 7b - Zorgho - Fada N'Gourma, 114 kms

1. Saďdou Sanfo (Bur)      3.45.51
2. Gianni Rivera (Bel)
3. Oudrej Slobodnik (Svk)
4. Jan Sipeky (Svk)
5. Jacques Castan (Fra)

General Classification

1. Said Nasry Said (Egy)
2. Amado Pafadnam (Bur)

*General classification under protest from Burkina Faso
since Pafadnam crashed in the sprint, a crash allegedly
caused deliberately by Said Nasry Said.

Stage 8 - Fada n'Gourma - Tenkodogo, 127 kms

1. Nasry Said (Egypt)
2. Fouillart (France)
3. Slobodnik (Svk)

Stage 9 - Carrefour Manga - Po, 69 kms

1. Said Nasry Said (Egy)
2. Mohamed Kholefi (Egy) 
3. Ondrej Slobodnik (Svk)

Stage 10 - 168 kms

1. Pascal Sawadogo (Bur)
2. Ton Hillen (Ned)
3. Siaka Diallo (Mali)
4. Saďdou Sanfo (Bur)
5. Emmamuel Jaulent (Fra)
6. Hamado Pafadnam (Bur)
7. Pascal Beyt (Bel)
8. Jacques Castan (Fra)
9. Remy Cudorge (Fra)
10. Dominique Nikiéma (Bur)

Final General Classification:

1. Nasry Said (Egypt) 		36.34.08
2. Slobodnik (Slovakia) 	    2.38
3. Kholafy (Egypt) 		    2.49
4. Lavergne (France) 		    2.57
5. Pafandam (Burkina Faso)
6. Khaled Said (Egypt)
7. Castan (France)
8. El Nady (Egypt)

All results courtesy Cycling4All/Ludovit Lucanic