40th Vuelta Ciclista a la Rioja - 2.4Spain, April 28 - May 1, 2000Main Page ResultsStage 1 - April 28: Autol - Calahorra, 168 kmVogels jets to victoryNew father, Mercury's Henk Vogels (Aus), took a cue from his new son's name, Jet and flew to Victory in today's stage 1 of the Tour of Rioja. Although the team were without their number one sprinter, Gord Fraser, they were still able to manage the leadout train to propel one of their riders to the win. In doing so, Vogels surprised Candido Barbosa (Por, Banesto) and Miguel Perdiguero (Spa, Vitalicio) who were highly favoured to win the stage. The 168 kilometre stage from Autol to Calahorra saw 124 cyclists take to the roads for the 40th eidtion of this race. It was sunny, not too much wind and the parcours was not too challenging. An average speed of 40.2 km/h enabled a break by Euskaltel's Aitor Silloniz to gain up to 3.25" at the 49 kilometre point, but this was too hard and too early to succeed. He managed to take the intermediate sprint at kilometre 66, but his lead was then halved 10 kilometres later. He was caught before the first mountain prime, category 3 at kilometre 88, won by Fuenlabrada's Nacor Burgos. The following climb (Cat. 3, 110.4 km) was won by Roberto Laiseka (Euskaltel), but there were no more serious attempts to break, as the peloton knew they had a tough day tomorrow. The riders maintained their steady 40.1 km/h average until the last 15 kilometres of the stage, when Mercury and Euskaltel upped the pace. The lead out went perfectly for the US squad - Australian Jamie Drew was able to help Vogels in the final few hundred metres to position himself perfectly for the sprint, and he took full advantage to beat Barbosa and Perdiguero. This is the 3rd year that the team has come to Spain and its first win in Rioja. This is the start of the team's major preparation for the USPRO race in Philly. The Fraser led team is in Atlanta for the Shelby Criterium and the famous Athens Twilight. Vogels' GC and points lead after stage one is not likely to last however, as tomorrow the riders have three category 1 mountains and one category 3 to tackle tomorrow - 192 kilometres from Albelda de Iregua to Logroño. In the mountain category, Pedro Jiménez (Fuenlabrada) leads after his efforts today.
Results1 Henk Vogels (Aus) Mercury 3.59.20 (42.11 km/h) 2 Candido Barbosa (Por) Banesto 3 Miguel A. M.Perdiguero (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 4 Raffaele Bosi (Ita) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 5 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 6 David Fernandez (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 7 Milan Erzen (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 8 Bjorn Leukemans (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 9 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 10 Enrique Riera (Spa) Spanish National Team 11 Eleuterio Anguita (Spa) Costa De Almeria 12 Sergei Lelekin (Rus) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 13 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 14 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Banesto 15 Orlando Rodrigues (Por) Banesto 16 Wesley Huvaere (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 17 Ruben Orbeascoa (Spa) Benfica/La Pecol (MX2) 18 Jorge Capitan (Spa) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 19 Bostjan Mervar (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 20 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21 Juan Carlos Vicario (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 22 Carlos Ramon Golbano (Spa) Costa De Almeria 23 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 24 Roberto Heras (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 25 Santiago Blanco (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 26 Iñigo Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 27 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 28 David Cañada (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 29 Devis Miorin (Ita) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 30 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Banesto 31 Francisco Javier Cerezo (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 32 Marcos A. Serrano (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 33 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Vitalicio Seguros 34 Daniel Loprais (Cze) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 35 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel 36 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 37 David Garcia (Spa) Costa De Almeria 38 Ruben Diaz De Ceiro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 39 Jamie Drew (Aus) Mercury 40 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 41 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 42 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Banesto 43 José Maria Jimenez (Spa) Banesto 44 Tanger (Cze) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 45 Jose Garrido (Spa) Benfica/La Pecol (MX2) 46 Cristobal Forcadell (Spa) Spanish National Team 47 Hector Pelegrin-Video Porteros (Spa) Tegu 48 Gonzalo Bayarri (Spa) Costa De Almeria 49 Joona Laukka (Fin) Benfica/La Pecol (MX2) 50 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) Benfica/La Pecol (MX2) 51 Tom Stremersch (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 52 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 53 Floyd Landis (USA) Mercury 54 Daniele Gadenz (Ita) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 55 Jurgen Van Roosbroeck (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 56 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) KRKA-Telecom 57 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 58 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 59 Gaizka Lejarreta (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 60 José Joachim Castelblanco (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 61 Daniel Fernandez (Spa) Tegu 62 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 63 Pedro Jimenez (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 64 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 65 Geoffrey De Meyere (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 66 Francisco Leon (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 67 Juan Llaneras (Spa) Spanish National Team 68 Jose A. Pecharroman (Spa) Costa De Almeria 69 Cristopher Horner (USA) Mercury 70 Santiago Segu (Spa) Tegu 71 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) Vitalicio Seguros 72 Jesus M. Grijalba (Spa) Tegu 73 Marcelino Garcia (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 74 Francisco Toma Garcia (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 75 Davy Daniels (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 76 German Nieto (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 77 Jose Francesco Jarque (Spa) Spanish National Team 78 Carlos Albe Contreras (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 79 Luis Oran Castaneda (Col) Vitalicio Seguros 80 Ruben Alvarez (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 81 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 82 Pablo Soler (Spa) Costa De Almeria 83 Martin Derganc (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 84 Timothy Jones (Zim) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 85 Jesus Zarate (Mex) Mercury 86 Imanol Ayestaran (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 87 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 88 Jesus Lopez (Spa) Tegu 89 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 90 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 91 Boris Premuzic (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 92 Daniel Bayes (Spa) Benfica/La Pecol (MX2) 93 Jaroslav Bilek (Cze) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 94 Cesar Solaun (Spa) Banesto 95 Luis J. Castellano (Spa) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 96 Stijn De Schoenmacker (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 97 Kristjan Mugerli (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 98 Scott Moninger (USA) Mercury 99 Fernando Serrano (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 100 Diego Rodriguez (Spa) Spanish National Team 101 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 102 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 103 Mat Anand (Can) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 104 Martin Garrido (Arg) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 105 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 106 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Mercury 107 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) Banesto 108 Rene Andrle (Cze) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 109 Kirk Willett (USA) Mercury 0.21 110 Wesley Theunis (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 111 Asier Meztu (Spa) Spanish National Team 112 Iñaki Gonzalez (Spa) Tegu . 0.49 113 Sergio Escobar (Spa) Spanish National Team 1.05 114 Javier Villar (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 115 Czeslaw Lukaszewich (Can) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 116 Diego Luis Prior (Spa) Costa De Almeria 1.35 117 Israel Castañeda (Spa) Tegu 1.38 118 Ricardo Valdes (Spa) Costa De Almeria 1.47 119 Roger Lucia (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 2.31 120 Gustavo Toledo (Arg) Tegu 2.37 121 Ramon Zaragoza (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 3.02 122 Fabio Quercioli (Ita) Benfica/La Pecol (MX2) 123 Raul Portilla (Spa) Spanish National Team 3.20 Points: 1 Henk Vogels (Aus) Mercury 25 pts 2 Candido Barbosa (Por) Banesto 20 3 Miguel A. M.Perdiguero (Spa) Vitalicio Segu 16 4 Raffaele Bosi (Ita) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 14 5 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 12 6 David Fernandez (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenl 10 7 Milan Erzen (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 9 8 Bjorn Leukemans (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 8 9 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 7 10 Enrique Riera (Spa) Spanish National Team 6 11 Eleuterio Anguita (Spa) Costa De Almeria 5 12 Sergei Lelekin (Rus) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 4 13 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabr 3 14 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Banesto 2 15 Orlando Rodrigues (Por) Banesto 1 Climbs: Alto De Villarroya - Cat. 3, Km 91.5 1 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabr 6 pts 2 Pedro Jimenez (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlab 4 3 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Vitalicio Seguros 2 4 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) Banesto 1 Alto De Las Tres Tetas - Cat. 3, km 110.4 1 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 pts 2 Pedro Jimenez (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlab 4 3 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Colchones Relax-F 2 4 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabr 1 Metas volantes Alfaro - km 24.6 1 Milan Erzen (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 3 pts 2 David Fernandez (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 2 3 German Nieto (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 1 Arnedo - km 107.2 1 David Fernandez (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 3 pts 2 Milan Erzen (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 2 3 Kirk Willett (USA) Mercury 1 General classification after stage 1: 1 Henk Vogels (Aus) Mercury 3.59.20 2 Candido Barbosa (Por) Banesto 3 Miguel A. M.Perdiguero (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 4 Raffaele Bosi (Ita) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 5 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 6 David Fernandez (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 7 Milan Erzen (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 8 Bjorn Leukemans (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 9 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 10 Enrique Riera (Spa) Spanish National Team 11 Eleuterio Anguita (Spa) Costa De Almeria 12 Sergei Lelekin (Rus) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 13 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 14 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Banesto 15 Orlando Rodrigues (Por) Banesto 16 Wesley Huvaere (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 17 Ruben Orbeascoa (Spa) Benfica/La Pecol (MX2) 18 Jorge Capitan (Spa) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 19 Bostjan Mervar (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 20 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21 Juan Carlos Vicario (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 22 Carlos Ramon Golbano (Spa) Costa De Almeria 23 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 24 Roberto Heras (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 25 Santiago Blanco (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 26 Iñigo Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 27 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 28 David Cañada (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 29 Devis Miorin (Ita) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 30 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Banesto 31 Francisco Javier Cerezo (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 32 Marcos A. Serrano (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 33 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Vitalicio Seguros 34 Daniel Loprais (Cze) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 35 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel 36 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 37 David Garcia (Spa) Costa De Almeria 38 Ruben Diaz De Ceiro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 39 Jamie Drew (Aus) Mercury 40 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 41 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 42 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Banesto 43 José Maria Jimenez (Spa) Banesto 44 Tanger (Cze) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 45 Jose Garrido (Spa) Benfica/La Pecol (MX2) 46 Cristobal Forcadell (Spa) Spanish National Team 47 Hector Pelegrin-Video Porteros (Spa) Tegu 48 Gonzalo Bayarri (Spa) Costa De Almeria 49 Joona Laukka (Fin) Benfica/La Pecol (MX2) 50 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) Benfica/La Pecol (MX2) 51 Tom Stremersch (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 52 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 53 Floyd Landis (USA) Mercury 54 Daniele Gadenz (Ita) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 55 Jurgen Van Roosbroeck (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 56 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) KRKA-Telecom 57 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 58 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 59 Gaizka Lejarreta (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 60 José Joachim Castelblanco (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 61 Daniel Fernandez (Spa) Tegu 62 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 63 Pedro Jimenez (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 64 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 65 Geoffrey De Meyere (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 66 Francisco Leon (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 67 Juan Llaneras (Spa) Spanish National Team 68 Jose A. Pecharroman (Spa) Costa De Almeria 69 Cristopher Horner (USA) Mercury 70 Santiago Segu (Spa) Tegu 71 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) Vitalicio Seguros 72 Jesus M. Grijalba (Spa) Tegu 73 Marcelino Garcia (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 74 Francisco Toma Garcia (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 75 Davy Daniels (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 76 German Nieto (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 77 Jose Francesco Jarque (Spa) Spanish National Team 78 Carlos Albe Contreras (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 79 Luis Oran Castaneda (Col) Vitalicio Seguros 80 Ruben Alvarez (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 81 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 82 Pablo Soler (Spa) Costa De Almeria 83 Martin Derganc (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 84 Timothy Jones (Zim) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 85 Jesus Zarate (Mex) Mercury 86 Imanol Ayestaran (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 87 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 88 Jesus Lopez (Spa) Tegu 89 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 90 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 91 Boris Premuzic (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 92 Daniel Bayes (Spa) Benfica/La Pecol (MX2) 93 Jaroslav Bilek (Cze) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 94 Cesar Solaun (Spa) Banesto 95 Luis J. Castellano (Spa) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 96 Stijn De Schoenmacker (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 97 Kristjan Mugerli (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 98 Scott Moninger (USA) Mercury 99 Fernando Serrano (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 100 Diego Rodriguez (Spa) Spanish National Team 101 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 102 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 103 Mat Anand (Can) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 104 Martin Garrido (Arg) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 105 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 106 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Mercury 107 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) Banesto 108 Rene Andrle (Cze) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 109 Kirk Willett (USA) Mercury 0.21 110 Wesley Theunis (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 111 Asier Meztu (Spa) Spanish National Team 112 Iñaki Gonzalez (Spa) Tegu . 0.49 113 Sergio Escobar (Spa) Spanish National Team 1.05 114 Javier Villar (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 115 Czeslaw Lukaszewich (Can) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 116 Diego Luis Prior (Spa) Costa De Almeria 1.35 117 Israel Castañeda (Spa) Tegu 1.38 118 Ricardo Valdes (Spa) Costa De Almeria 1.47 119 Roger Lucia (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 2.31 120 Gustavo Toledo (Arg) Tegu 2.37 121 Ramon Zaragoza (Spa) Pinturas Banaka 3.02 122 Fabio Quercioli (Ita) Benfica/La Pecol (MX2) 123 Raul Portilla (Spa) Spanish National Team 3.20 Points classification: 1 Henk Vogels (Aus) Mercury 25 pts 2 Candido Barbosa (Por) Banesto 20 3 Miguel A. M.Perdiguero (Spa) Vitalicio Segu 16 4 Raffaele Bosi (Ita) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 14 5 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 12 6 David Fernandez (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenl 10 7 Milan Erzen (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 9 8 Bjorn Leukemans (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 8 9 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Wustenrot-ZVVZ 7 10 Enrique Riera (Spa) Spanish National Team 6 11 Eleuterio Anguita (Spa) Costa De Almeria 5 12 Sergei Lelekin (Rus) Mobilvetta/Troia (MX1) 4 13 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 3 14 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Banesto 2 15 Orlando Rodrigues (Por) Banesto 1 Mountains classification: 1 Pedro Jimenez (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 8 pts 2 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 7 3 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 4 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Vitalicio Seguros 2 5 Juan A. Flecha (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 2 6 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) Banesto 1 Metas Volantes classification: 1 David Fernandez (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 5 pts 2 Milan Erzen (Slo) KRKA-Telecom 5 3 German Nieto (Spa) Colchones Relax-Fuenlabr 1 4 Kirk Willett (USA) Mercury 1 Teams classification: 1 Banesto 11.58.00 2 Movilvetta/Troia (MX1) 3 Vitalicio Seguros 4 Costa De Almeria 5 Vlaanderen 2002 6 Colchones Relax-Fuenlabrada 7 ONCE-Deutsche Bank 8 Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 Krka-Telecom 10 Wustenrot-ZVVZ 11 Kelme-Costa Blanca 12 Mercury 13 Spanish National Team 15 Tegui-Video Porteros 16 Pinturas Banaka |