41st Grand Prix Denain - Cat. 1.2

France, April 20, 2000

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Leoni again

Endrio Leoni (Alessio) took his second victory in two days Thursday by winning GP de Denain in front of young Norwegian Thor Hushovd. Yesterday, Leoni won the Grote Scheldeprijs in Belgium in a bunch sprint, this time he won in the same manner.

The first escape of the day came after 10 kilometers by Laurent Pillon (Charleroi) who rode in front for some 40 kilometers. When he was caught, eleven riders went off, gaining two and a half minutes on the peloton. In the group were, among others Jeroen Blijlevens (Polti), Lauri Aus (Ag2R), Nico Eeckhout (Palmans), Janek Tombak (Cofidis), Christophe Mengin (FDJ) and Emmanuel Magnien (FDJ). However, at only five kilometres to go the group was caught and in the mass sprint Leoni had no problems in repeating the success from the day before.

Laurent Brochard (Jean Delatour) maintained his lead in the coupe de France.

Results - 196 km

1 Endrio Leoni (Ita) Alessio                      4.28.20 (43.87 km/h)
2 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole                      
3 Leonadro Guidi (Ita) Alessio  
4 Jo Planckaert (Bel) Cofidis                                
5 Lars Michaelsen (Den) La Française des Jeux                
6 Marcel Wüst (Ger) Festina-Lotus                            
7 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Ville de Charleroi  
8 Martin Van Steen (Ned) Farm Frites  
9 Jan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance                         
10 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Palmans-Ideal 
11 Oleg Pankov (Ukr) Collstrop-De Federale 
12 Jens Voigt (Ger) Crédit Agricole                          
13 Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) Farm Frites 
14 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour-Tourpargel               
15 Saulius Ruskis (Lit) St-Quentin-Oktos                     
16 Andy Vidts (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 
17 Tom Flammang (Lux) Cofidis 
18 Christophe Capelle (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 
19 Mindaugas Goncaras (Lit) St-Quentin-Oktos 
20 Maxim Smirnov (Lit) Palmans-Ideal 
21 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Cantina Tollo 
22 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Farm Frites 
23 Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 
24 Médéric Clain (Fra) Besson Chaussures 
25 Jay Sweet (Aus) Big Mat - Auber 93 
26 Jimmy Casper (Fra) La Française des Jeux 
27 Cesary Zamana (Pol) Mat Ceresit CCC 
28 Lauri Aus (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 
29 Franck Renier (Fra) Bonjour-Tourpargel 
30 Sergey Belousov (Kaz) Besson Chaussures 
31 Bruno Thibout (Fra) Jean Delatour 
32 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 
33 Christophe Faudot (Fra) Bonjour-Tourpargel 
34 Jeremy Hunt (Gbr) Big Mat - Auber 93 
35 Angel Sainz De La Maza (Spa) Festina-Lotus 
36 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 
37 Takehiro Mizutani (Jap) Besson Chaussures 
38 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 
39 Raffaele Bosi (Ita) Mobilvetta Design-Rossin 
40 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Mobilvetta Design-Rossin 
41 Dimitri Fofonov (Kaz) Besson Chaussures 
42 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Crédit Agricole 
43 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 
44 Fabien De Waele (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 
45 Tom Stremersch (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 
46 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) Jean Delatour 
47 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 
48 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Farm Frites 
49 Bram Schmitz (Ned) Farm Frites 
50 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Crédit Agricole 
51 Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 
52 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) La Française des Jeux 
53 Ludovic Auger (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 
54 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) La Française des Jeux 
55 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 
56 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) Jean Delatour 
57 Manu L'hoir (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 
58 Eddy Lembo (Fra) Jean Delatour 
59 Serge Baguet (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 
60 Kristof Trouve (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 
61 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Festina-Lotus 
62 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Lit) Palmans-Ideal 
63 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 
64 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 
65 Olivier Trastour (Fra) Jean Delatour 
66 Robert Sassone (Fra) Cofidis 
67 Michele Colleoni (Ita) Polti 
68 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Farm Frites 
69 Marbin Johansson (Swe) Collstrop-De Federale 
70 Ole-Sigurd Simensen (Nor) St-Quentin-Oktos 
71 Jean-Michel Thilloy (Fra) St-Quentin-Oktos 
72 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour-Tourpargel 
73 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Collstrop-De Federale 
74 Piotr Przydzial (Pol) Mat Ceresit CCC 
75 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Collstrop-De Federale 
76 Jurgen Vermeersch (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 
77 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 
78 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Farm Frites 
79 Kurt Van Lancker (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 
80 Slawomir Chrzanowski (Pol) Mat Ceresit CCC 
81 Pascal Herve (Fra) Polti 
82 Kees Hopmans (Ned) Tönissteiner 
83 Marcel Gono (Aus) Crédit Agricole 
84 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Besson Chaussures 
85 Davide Casarotto (Ita) Alessio 
86 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Polti 
87 Philip Vereecke (Bel) Ville de Charleroi 
88 Alberto Vinale (Ita) Alessio 
89 Laurent Desbiens (Fra) Cofidis 
90 Germano Pierdomenico (Ita) Cantina Tollo              0.33
91 Enrico Cassani (Ita) Polti 
92 Arnaud Pretot (Fra) Cofidis                           0.43
93 Damien Nazon (Fra) Bonjour-Tourpargel 
94 Christophe Gauthier (Fra) Besson Chaussures 
95 Franck Perque (Fra) La Française des Jeux 
96 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis 
97 Massimo Cigana (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 
98 Renaud Boxus (Bel) Ville de Charleroi 
99 Peter Lernout (Bel) Palmans-Ideal 
100 Oleg Kozlitine (Kaz) St-Quentin-Oktos
101 Davy Daniels (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002                   0.45
102 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Polti
103 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Polti
104 Rossano Brasi (Ita) Polti
105 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Festina-Lotus                    1.00
106 Sascha Henrix (Ger) Festina-Lotus
107 Innar Mandoja (Est) AG2R Prevoyance                  2.01
108 Grégory Barbier (Fra) Ville de Charleroi
109 Laurent Pillon (Fra) Ville de Charleroi
110 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Française des Jeux        4.04
111 Masahiko Mifune (Jap) Tonissteiner
112 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) Festina-Lotus                  6.11
113 Pauly Burke (USA) Tonissteiner                       6.36

Coupe de France standings after round 6:

1 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour                   101 pts
2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Crédit Agricole                        87
3 Jan Kirsipuu (Est) AG2R Prevoyance                      60
4 Marcel Wust (Ger) Festina-Lotus                         51
5 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) AG2R Prevoyance                    35
5 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis                           35
5 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole                      35
8 Damien Nazon (Fra) Bonjour-Tourpargel                   30
9 Jo Planckaert (Bel) Cofidis                             23
10 Saulius Ruskis (Lit) Saint-Quentin-Oktos               21
11 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Crédit Agricole                   18
11 Lars Michaelsen (Den) La Française des Jeux            18
13 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole                14
14 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis                             13
15 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) La Française des Jeux           12
15 Anthony Morin (Fra) Crédit Agricole                    12
17 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour-Tourpargel            11
17 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Jean Delatour                     11
17 Stéphane Heulot (Fra) La Française des Jeux            11
20 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance                   8
21 Fabrice Gougot (Fra) Crédit Agricole                    6
22 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour-Tourpargel                 5
23 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93                3
23 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93              3
23 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour-Tourpargel                    3
23 Francis Moreau (Fra) Cofidis                            3
23 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) La Française des Jeux            3
23 Cyril Saugrain (Fra) La Française des Jeux              3

Thanks to Velomania for complete results

Preview

After his second placing in the Grote Scheldeprijs (GP de l'Escaut) in Belgium, Polti's Jeroen Blijlevens will have no time to relax as he fronts up for the GP Denain, in France. The winner of the both events last year will not be able to achieve that this year, although a win and a second would certainly not be a bad thing.

It is the sixth round of the Coupe de France, currently led by Laurent Brochard who rides for French team Jean Delatour. The competition is open to French riders and French teams, so Blijlevens will not be racing for points. Kirsipuu will be amongst his chief rivals though, along with Robbie McEwen (Farm Frites), Fabrizio Guidi (FdJ), Jeremy Hunt and Jay Sweet (Big Mat) and Scheldeprijs winner, Enrico Leoni (Alessio).

The 196 kilometre race is favourable to sprinters, but others such as Blijlevens' teammate, Mirko Celestino, or Laurent Desbiens (Cofidis) have a chance.

Start list

POLTI                             AG2R PREVOYANCE

1 Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned)         11 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra)
2 Rossano Brasi (Ita)             12 Lauri Aus (Est)
3 Enrico Cassani (Ita)            13 Stéphane Barthe (Fra)
4 Michele Colleoni (Ita)          14 Pascal Chanteur (Fra)
5 Pascal Herve (Fra)              15 
6 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita)            16 Jann Kirsipuu (Est)
7 Fabio Sacchi (Ita)              17 Innar Mandoja (Est)
8 Bart Voskamp (Ned)              18 Ludovic Turpin (Fra)

ALESSIO                           BESSON CHAUSSURES

21 Stefano Casagranda (Ita)       31 Serguei Belousov (Kaz)
22 Davide Casarotto (Ita)         32 Médéric Clain (Fra)
23 Sasa Gajicic (Yug)             33 Dmitri Fofonov (Kaz)
24 Leonardo Guidi (Ita)           34 Christophe Gauthier (Fra)
25 Alberto Vinale (Ita)           35 Sébastien Laroche (Fra)
26 Endrio Leoni (Ita)             36 Takehiro Mizutani (Jpn)
27                                37 Lorenzo Di Silvestro (Ita)
28                                38 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz)

BIGMAT                            BONJOUR

41 Ludovic Auger (Fra)            51 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra)
42 Guillaume Auger (Fra)          52 Pascal Deramé (Fra
43 Stéphane Berges (Fra)          53 Christophe Faudot (Fra)
44 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra)        54 Sébastien Joly (Fra)
45 Carlos Dacruz (Fra)            55 Frédéric Mainguenaud (Fra)
46 Christophe Capelle (Fra)       56 Damien Nazon (Fra)
47 Jeremy Hunt (GBr)              57 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra
48 Jay Sweet (Aus)                58 Franck Renier (Fra)

CREDIT AGRICOLE                   COFIDIS

61 Magnus Backstedt (Swe)         71 Laurent Desbiens (Fra)
62 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra)         72 Tom Flammang (Lux)
63 Marcel Gono (Aus)              73 David Lefevre (Fra)
64 Sébastien Hinault (Fra)        74 Francis Moreau (Fra)
65 Thor Hushovd (Nor)             75 Jo Planckaert (Bel)
66 Jens Voigt (Ger)               76 Robert Sassonne (Fra)
67 Jérôme Neuville (Fra)          77 Arnaud Pretot (Fra)
68 Franck Pencole (Fra)           78 Janek Tombak (Est)

COLLSTROP FEDERALE                CANTINO TOLLO

81 Dirk Arnouts (Bel)             91 Alessandro Baronti (Ita)
82 Tony Bracke (Bel)              92 Paolo Bossoni (Ita)
83 Oleg Pankov (Ukr)              93 Federico Colonna (Ita)
84 Koen Deschuytter (Bel)         94 Cristian Pepoli (Ita)
85 Henrik Redant (Bel)            95 Marco Di Renzo (Ita)
86 Donatus Virbickas (Lit)        96 Gianpaolo Mondini (Ita)
87 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel         97 Germano Pierdomenico (Ita)
88 Bart Scheirlinckx (Bel         98 Emanuele Negrini (Ita)

JEAN DELATOUR                     FARM FRITES

101 Jérôme Bernard (Fra)          111 Steven Kleynen (Bel)
102 Cyril Dessel (Fra)            112 Dirk Ronellenfitsch (Ger)
103 Grégory Lapalud (Fra)         113 Gerben Löwik (Ned)
104 Eddy Lembo (Fra)              114 Robbie McEwen (Aus
105 Eddy Seigneur (Fra)           115 Martin van Steen (Bel)
106 Gilles Bouvard (Fra)          116 Remco Van der Ven (Ned)
107 Bruno Thibout (Fra)           117 Bram Schmitz (Ned)
108 Olivier Trastour (Fra)        118 Wim Vansevenant (Bel)

FRANCAISE DES JEUX                FESTINA

121 Jimmy Casper (Fra)            131 Olivier Asmaker (Fra)
122 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita)          132 Stefane Augé (Fra
123 Frederic Guesdon (Fra)        133 Florent Brard (Fra)
124 Cristophe Mengin (Fra)        134 Andy Flickinger (Fra)
125 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra)        135 Angel Sainz De La Maza (Spa)
126 Lars Michaelsen (Den)         136 Sascha Henrix (Ger)
127 Jean Patrick Nazon (Fra       137 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra)
128 Franck Perque (Fra)           138 Marcel Wüst (Ger)

LOTTO ADECCO                      MAT CERESIT CCC

141 Serge Baguet (Bel)            151 Slawomir Chrzanowski (Pol)
142 Paul van Hyfte (Bel)          152 Marcin Gebka (Pol)
143 Fabian Dewaele (Bel)          153 Piotr Przydzial (Pol)
144 Sébastien Demarbaix (Bel)     154 Dainis Ozols (Lat)
145 Wim Heselmans (Bel)           155 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol)
146 Manuel L’Hoir (Bel            156 Dmitrij Sedun (Rus)
147 Kurt Van Lancker (Bel)        157 
148 Christophe Detilloux (Bel)    158 Cezary Zamana (Pol)

MOBILVETTA ROSSIN                 MERCATONE-UNO ALBACOM

161 Eugeni Berzin (Rus)           171 Marco Artunghi (Ita)
162 Mirko Gualdi (Ita)            172 Igor Astarloa Askasibar (Spa)
163 Alberto Ongarato (Ita)        173 
164 Ivan Quaranta (Ita)           174 Maurizio Caravaggio (Ita)
165 Graziano Recinella (Ita)      175 Massimo Cigana (Ita)
166 Raffaele Bosi (Ita)           176 Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita)
167                               177 
168 Paolo Valoti (Ita)            178 

PALMANS IDEAL                     ST QUENTIN OKTOS

181 Gianni David (Bel)            191 Linas Balciunas (Lit)
182 Stijn De Peuter (Bel)         192 Mindaugas Goncaras (Lit
183 Nico Eeckhout (Bel)           193 Oleg Kozlitine (Kaz)
184 Peter Lernout (Bel)           194 
185 Vladimiras Smirnov (Lit)      195 Saulius Ruskys (Lit)
186 Darius Strole (Lit)           196 Ole Sigurd Simensen (Nor
187 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Lit)    197 Vincent Templier (Fra)
188 Jürgen Vermeersch (Bel)       198 Jean Michel Thilloy (Fra)

TÖNISSTEINER                      VILLE DE CHARLEROI

201 Marc Chanoine (Bel)           211 Grégory Barbier (Fra)
202 Davy Delme (Bel)              212 Renaud Boxus (Bel)
203 Tom Desmet (Bel)              213 Geoffrey Gremelpoint (Bel)
204 Masahiro Mifune (Jpn)         214 Ludovic Capelle (Bel)
205 Kees Hopmans (Ned)            215 Stéphane Hennebert (Bel)
206 Jeff Louder (USA)             216 Filip Vereecke (Bel)
207 Pauly Burke (USA)             217 Laurent Pillon (Fra)
208 J. Emmanuelson (Bel)          218 Marc Streel (Bel)

VLAANDEREN 2002

221 Davy Daniels (Bel)
222 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel)
223 Kris Gerits (Bel) 
224 Wesley Huvaere (Bel)
225 Karel Vereecke (Bel)
226 Tom Stremersch (Bel)
227 Kristof Trouvé (Fra)
228 Andy Vidts (Bel)

Start list courtesy of Daniel Schamps

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    Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Casino 189 kms in 4.18.25
1999    Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) TVM-Farm Frites 189 kms in 4.28.00
Past winners from Mario Stiehl in Berlin