Vodacom Rapport Toer - Cat. 2.4

South Africa, February 11 - 19, 2000

Prologue - February 11: Sea Point, 1.6 km
Stage 1 - February 12: Bellville - Paarl, 190 km
Stage 2 - February 13: Cape Town - Signal Hill, 112 km
Stage 3 - February 14: ITT: Mossel Bay, 30 km
Stage 4 - February 15: George - Mosselbay - Oudtshoon, 155 km
Stage 5 - February 16: Calitzdorp - Montagu, 190 km
Stage 6 - February 17: Montagu - Koo Valley - Ceres, 165 km
Stage 7 - February 18: Paarl - Milnerton - Atlantis, 110 km
Stage 8 - February 19: Criterium: Green Point, 60 km

Start List

Gerolsteiner

1 Michael Rich (Ger)
2 Uwe Peschel (Ger)
3 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger)
4 Olaf Pollack (Ger)
5 Torsten Schmidt (Ger)
6 Volker Ordowski (Ger)

Deutsche Telekom

7 Jan Ullrich (Ger)
8 Udo Bölts (Ger)
9 Ralf Grabsch (Ger)
10 Alberto Elli (Ita)
11 Danilo Hondo (Ger)
12 Jens Heppner (Ger)

Team IBM/Lotus

13 Douglas Ryder (SAf)
14 Tiaan Kannemeyer (SAf)
15 Kosie Loubser (SAf)
16 Daniel Spence (SAf)
17 Owen Hannie (SAf)
18 James Perry (SAf)

Saeco-Valli&Valli

19 Salvatore Commesso (Ita)
20 Alessandro Guerra (Ita)
21 Massimiliano Mori (Ita)
22 Valentino China (Ita)
23 Christian Wegmann (Ger)
24 Torsten Nitsche (Ger)

Post Swiss

25 Philipp Buschor (Swi)
26 Reto Bergmann (Swi)
27 Christian Heule (Swi)
28 Martin Cotar (Cro)
29 Dirk Müller (Aut)
30 Marcel Strauss (Swi)

Cologne

31 Raimond Meijs (Ger)
32 Michael Schlikau (Ger)
33 Bert Grabsch (Ger)
34 Soeren Petersen (Den)
35 Martin Mueller (Ger)
36 Bert Hiemstra (Ned)

Minolta

37 Marco Von Dommelen (SAf)
38 Adrian De Beer (SAf)
39 Jaques Le Roux (SAf)
40 Simon Kessler (SAf)
41 Rudolf Wentzel (SAf)
42 Florian Weisinger (SAf)

Linda McCartney

43 Max Sciandri (GBr)
44 Pascal Richard (Swi)
45 Maurizio De Pasquale 
46 Tayeb Braikia (Den)
47 Björnar Vestöl (Nor)
48 Ciaran Power (Irl)

Team Pro Mix

49 Robert Hunter (SAf)
50 David George (SAf)
51 Frank Schink (SAf)
52 Stefan Gottschling (Ger)
53 Bert Dietz (Ger)
54 Thomas Liese (Ger)

Team HSBC

55 Malcolm Lange (SAf)
56 Nicolas White (SAf)
57 Jac-Louis Van Wyk (SAf)
58 Jock Green (SAf)
59 Neil Macdonald (SAf)
60 Jaques Fullard (SAf)

South African Development Squad

61 Alistair Andrews (SAf)
62 Brian Loff (SAf)
63 Paul Minnaar (SAf)
64 Lorenzo Cupido (SAf)
65 Peter Wheeler (SAf)
66 Ahmed Khatieb (SAf)

Farm Frites

67 Jans Koerts (Ned)
68 Johan Capiot (Bel)
69 Gerben Lowik (Ned)
70 Martin Van Steen (Ned)
71 Steven Kleynen (Ned)
72 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus)

Eritrea

73 Mehretab Kibreab (Eri)
74 Senai Tsegay (Eri)
75 Kiflai Goitom (Eri)
76 Emanuel Berhe (Eri)
77 Yohanes Bekuretsion (Eri)

Australia

79 Jason Phillips (Aus)
80 Bart Hickson (Aus)
81 Cameron Hughes (Aus)
82 Chris White (Aus)
83 Kelvin Martin (Aus)
84 Cameron Jennings (Aus)

Française des Jeux

85 Lars Michaelsen (Den)
86 Stephane Heulot (Fra)
87 Sven Montgomery (Swi)
88 Yvon Ledanois (Fra)
89 Xavier Jan (Fra)
90 Frank Höj (Den)

Previous Winners:

1973 Pierre-Luigi Tagliavini (Ita)
1974 Arthur Metcalfe (Gbr)
1975 Fernando Mendes (Por)
1976 Venceslau Fernandes (Por)
1977 Robbie McIntosh (Rsa)
1978 Marco Chagas (Por)
1979 Alan Dipple (Rsa)
1980 Jannie vd Berg (Rsa)
1981 Robbie McIntosh (Rsa)
1982 Alan v Heerden (Rsa)
1983 Robbie McIntosh (Rsa)
1984 Ertjies Bezuidenhout (Rsa)
1985 Mark Beneke (Rsa)
1986 Robbie McIntosh (Rsa)
1987 Alan v Heerden (Rsa)
1988 Gary Beneke (Rsa)
1989 Lourens Smit (Rsa)
1990 Willie Engelbrecht (Rsa)
1991 Mark Beneke (Rsa)
1993 Stephan Gottschling (Ger)
1994 Michael Rich (Ger)
1995 Michael Andersson (Swe)
1996 Scott Mercier (USA)
1999 Michael Rich (Ger)

Courtesy of Mario Steihl