Tour Down Under - Cat. 2.3Australia, January 18 - 23, 2000Main Page Video Report Results Stage 4 - January 21, Unley to Modbury, 136 kmVideo FootageCourtesy of John Doggett-Williams The following clips are from stage 4 of the race, which was a very close finish. They'll take a few minutes to download (we recommend you save them first before playing). Again we welcome your feedback on these clips with respect to download time and quality
O'Grady edges closerCourtesy of John Doggett-Williams The conditions were once again cooler today as the peloton continued their journey around South Australia in the Tour Down Under. The 136 km course for stage 4 was fairly challenging, full of numerous short, steep climbs that were bound to split the bunch in pieces by the end of the stage. The current tour leader, Australian Michael Rogers (United Water-AIS) admitted that he'd struggled yesterday on the final climb up Old Willunga Hill: "It was touch and go there for a while," he said. "But I had some help from the other Aussies otherwise I think I'd still be coming," he said at the finish. After the first sprint at 49 km, won by Tristan Hoffman (Ned, MC-J&J), three riders split off the front of a rapidly dwindling bunch. These were stage 1 winner, Koos Moerenhout (Ned, Farm Frites), Joeg Ludewig (Ger, Saeco) and Ludovic Turpin (Fra, Ag2R). The three built a small gap, but managed to hold it at 30 seconds for a while to a group of 18 riders, containing Stuart O'Grady (Aus, CA), as well as most of the other members of the top 11 on GC. However, tour leader Michael Rogers (Aus, AIS) was struggling with the pace and could not hold on to this crucial group. The break of Moerenhout, Ludewig and Turpin cleaned up the rest of the sprints and KOM points on offer, before being caught with some 15 km to the finish. The pace was being kept high by the front group, now down to 10, while the majority of the bunch were losing significant time. The sun was now shining at it was hot and windy for the finish. In the final sprint for the line, it was Telekom rider, Steffen Weseman who prevailed (just), over Pascal Herve (Fra, Polti) and Stuart O'Grady. There were once more problems with picking the actual winner, although this was eventually sorted out by the organisers. With Rogers losing contact, this meant that there was a new leader of the tour. Gilles Maignan (Fra, Ag2R) now holds the jersey, just 15 seconds clear of O'Grady who may be able to pull something out in the next two stages to win the overall. 1 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Telekom 3.13.02 2 Pascal Herve (Fra) Polti 0.00 3 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 4 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 5 Brad Davidson (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 6 Gilles Maignan (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 0.03 7 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 0.05 8 Dominique Rault (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 9 Alexander Vinokourov (Kaz) Telekom 0.08 10 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Farm Frites 0.16 11 Joeg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco - Gaggia 1.21 12 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Polti 13 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 14 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco - Gaggia 1.25 15 Franck Pencole (Fra) Credit Agricole 16 Mathew Stephens (GBr) Linda McCartney 1.29 17 Rene Jorgensen (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 5.52 18 Ben Brooks (Aus) Linda McCartney 19 Philippe Bordenave (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 20 Christopher Jenner (NZ) Credit Agricole 21 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Farm Frites 9.30 22 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Saeco - Gaggia 16.45 23 Bradley McGee (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 21.30 24 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 25 Nic Brown (Aus) United Water - AIS 26 Baden Cooke (Aus) United Water - AIS 27 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 28 Cyril Saugrain (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 29 Yvon Ledanois (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 30 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Farm Frites 31 Gerben Loewik (Ned) Farm Frites 32 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 33 Michael Rogers (Aus) United Water - AIS 34 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 35 David McKenzie (Aus) Linda McCartney 36 Jamie Drew (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 37 Bjornar Vestol (Nor) Linda McCartney 38 Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 39 Cadel Evans (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 40 Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 41 Rolf Aldag (Ger) Telekom 42 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) Telekom 43 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger) Telekom 44 Mateos Perez (Spa) Polti 45 Andrei Mizourov (Kaz) Telekom 46 Corey Sweet (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 47 Laurent Estadieu (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 48 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 49 Thierry Bourguignon (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 50 Maurizio De Pascale (Ita) Linda McCartney 51 Pascal Richard (Swi) Linda McCartney 52 Martin Van Steen (Ned) Farm Frites 53 Jerome Neuville (Fra) Credit Agricole 54 Marcel Gono (Aus) Credit Agricole 55 Scott Davis (Aus) United Water - AIS 56 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Farm Frites 57 Torsten Nitsche (Ger) Saeco - Gaggia 58 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Credit Agricole 59 Brett Aitken (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 60 Mikael Kyneb (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 61 Innar Mandoja (Est) Ag2R - Prevoyance 62 Bjarke Nielsen (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 63 Sean Sullivan (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 64 Allan Davis (Aus) United Water - AIS 65 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2R - Prevoyance 66 Andre Kivilev (Kaz) Ag2R - Prevoyance 67 Nick Gates (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 68 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Big Mat-Auber93 69 Maximilian Sciandri (GBr) Linda McCartney 70 Scott Sunderland (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 71 Jesper Skibby (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 72 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Telekom 73 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Saeco - Gaggia 74 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Polti 75 Anthony Langella (Fra) Credit Agricole 76 Stephane Berges (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 77 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 78 Frederic Finot (Fra) Credit Agricole 79 Allan Johansen (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 80 Tayeb Braikia (Den) Linda McCartney 81 Michele Colleoni (Ita) Polti 82 Rassano Brasi (Ita) Polti 83 Luke Roberts (Aus) United Water - AIS 31.22 84 Jay Sweet (Aus) Big Mat-Auber93 85 Mirko Crepaldi (Ita) Polti 86 Alessandro Guerra (Ita) Saeco - Gaggia 87 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 88 Graham Brown (Aus) United Water - AIS 44.05 89 Brett Lancaster (Aus) United Water - AIS 90 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Farm Frites DNF 91 Michael Sandstod (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones DNF 92 Johan Capiot (Bel) Farm Frites DNF Sprints: 1st TAB Sprints (Echunga) - 49 km 1 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 6 pts 2 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Polti 4 3 Tayeb Braikia (Den) Linda McCartney 2 2nd TAB Sprints (Lobethal) - 93 km 1 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 6 pts 2 Joeg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco - Gaggia 4 3 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Farm Frites 2 1st Motrex King of the Mountain (Forrest Range) - 82 km 1 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Farm Frites 16 pts 2 Joeg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco - Gaggia 12 3 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 8 4 Christopher Jenner (NZ) Credit Agricole 4 5 Franck Pencole (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 2nd Motrex King of the Mountain (Torrens Hill) - 109 km 1 Alexander Vinokourov (Kaz) Telekom 16 pts 2 Dominique Rault (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 12 3 Pascal Herve (Fra) Polti 8 4 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 6 5 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Telekom 4 Century 21 Most Agressive Rider: Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole General Classification after stage 4: 1 Gilles Maignan (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 13.04.26 2 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 0.14 3 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Telekom 4 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 0.18 5 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 0.24 6 Dominique Rault (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 0.25 7 Alexander Vinokourov (Kaz) Telekom 0.28 8 Mathew Stephens (GBr) Linda McCartney 1.49 9 Rene Jorgensen (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 5.46 10 Michael Rogers (Aus) United Water - AIS 21.21 11 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 21.48 12 Pascal Herve (Fra) Polti 26.40 13 Brad Davidson (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 26.44 14 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Farm Frites 26.59 15 Joeg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco - Gaggia 28.03 16 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 28.04 17 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco - Gaggia 28.09 18 Franck Pencole (Fra) Credit Agricole 19 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Polti 32.13 20 Ben Brooks (Aus) Linda McCartney 32.36 21 Philippe Bordenave (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 22 Christopher Jenner (NZ) Credit Agricole 23 Jamie Drew (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 38.37 24 Cadel Evans (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 25 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Farm Frites 42.34 26 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Saeco - Gaggia 43.29 27 Stephane Berges (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 46.19 28 Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 48.10 29 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 48.11 30 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Polti 48.12 31 Tayeb Braikia (Den) Linda McCartney 48.13 32 Bradley McGee (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 48.14 33 Nic Brown (Aus) United Water - AIS 34 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 35 Cyril Saugrain (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 36 Yvon Ledanois (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 37 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Farm Frites 38 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 39 David McKenzie (Aus) Linda McCartney 40 Bjornar Vestol (Nor) Linda McCartney 41 Rolf Aldag (Ger) Telekom 42 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) Telekom 43 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger) Telekom 44 Mateos Perez (Spa) Polti 45 Andrei Mizourov (Kaz) Telekom 46 Corey Sweet (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 47 Maurizio De Pascale (Ita) Linda McCartney 48 Pascal Richard (Swi) Linda McCartney 49 Martin Van Steen (Ned) Farm Frites 50 Marcel Gono (Aus) Credit Agricole 51 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Farm Frites 52 Torsten Nitsche (Ger) Saeco - Gaggia 53 Innar Mandoja (Est) Ag2R - Prevoyance 54 Sean Sullivan (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 55 Andre Kivilev (Kaz) Ag2R - Prevoyance 56 Maximilian Sciandri (GBr) Linda McCartney 57 Scott Sunderland (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 58 Jesper Skibby (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 59 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Saeco - Gaggia 60 Anthony Langella (Fra) Credit Agricole 61 Allan Johansen (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 62 Baden Cooke (Aus) United Water - AIS 52.22 63 Gerben Loewik (Ned) Farm Frites 64 Laurent Estadieu (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 65 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 66 Thierry Bourguignon (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 67 Mikael Kyneb (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 68 Bjarke Nielsen (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 69 Allan Davis (Aus) United Water - AIS 70 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Big Mat-Auber93 71 Brett Aitken (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 54.33 72 Rassano Brasi (Ita) Polti 54.34 73 Jerome Neuville (Fra) Credit Agricole 57.31 74 Frederic Finot (Fra) Credit Agricole 75 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Credit Agricole 76 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2R - Prevoyance 77 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 78 Scott Davis (Aus) United Water - AIS 79 Michele Colleoni (Ita) Polti 80 Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 81 Nick Gates (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 82 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Telekom 83 Alessandro Guerra (Ita) Saeco - Gaggia 1.02.14 84 Jay Sweet (Aus) Big Mat-Auber93 1.04.26 85 Luke Roberts (Aus) United Water - AIS 1.04.26 86 Mirko Crepaldi (Ita) Polti 87 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 1.07.23 88 Graham Brown (Aus) United Water - AIS 1.20.04 89 Brett Lancaster (Aus) United Water - AIS 1.20.06 Under 23 1 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 13.04.50 2 Michael Rogers (Aus) United Water - AIS 20.57 3 Brad Davidson (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 26.20 4 Ben Brooks (Aus) Linda McCartney 32.12 5 Nic Brown (Aus) United Water - AIS 47.50 6 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 7 Innar Mandoja (Est) Ag2R - Prevoyance 8 Sean Sullivan (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 9 Baden Cooke (Aus) United Water - AIS 51.58 10 Allan Davis (Aus) United Water - AIS 11 Scott Davis (Aus) United Water - AIS 57.07 12 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 1.06.59 13 Graham Brown (Aus) United Water - AIS 1.19.40 14 Brett Lancaster (Aus) United Water - AIS 1.19.42 King Of the Mountain 1 Rene Jorgensen (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 38 pts 2 Dominique Rault (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 32 3 Stephane Berges (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 32 4 Corey Sweet (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 24 5 Alexander Vinokourov (Kaz) Telekom 16 6 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Farm Frites 16 7 Luke Roberts (Aus) United Water - AIS 16 8 Pascal Herve (Fra) Polti 14 9 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 12 10 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 12 11 Joeg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco - Gaggia 12 12 Andre Kivilev (Kaz) Ag2R - Prevoyance 12 13 Gilles Maignan (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 8 14 Christopher Jenner (NZ) Credit Agricole 6 15 Michael Rogers (Aus) United Water - AIS 6 16 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Telekom 4 17 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 4 18 Franck Pencole (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 19 Nic Brown (Aus) United Water - AIS 4 20 Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 4 Overall Sprint Classification 1 Stephane Berges (Fra) Big Mat-Auber93 20 pts 2 Michael Rogers (Aus) United Water - AIS 14 3 Rene Jorgensen (Den) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 14 4 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 12 5 Brett Aitken (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 12 6 Graham Brown (Aus) United Water - AIS 12 7 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 10 8 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Farm Frites 10 9 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Telekom 7 10 Pascal Herve (Fra) Polti 7 11 Bradley McGee (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 6 12 Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 6 13 Scott Sunderland (Aus) Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 6 14 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Memory Card-Jack & Jones 6 15 Gilles Maignan (Fra) Ag2R - Prevoyance 4 16 Joeg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco - Gaggia 4 17 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 4 18 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Polti 4 19 Jay Sweet (Aus) Big Mat-Auber93 4 20 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2 21 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2 22 Tayeb Braikia (Den) Linda McCartney 2 Team classification after stage 4: 1 Ag2R - Prevoyance 53.38.59 2 Team Deutsche Telekom 16.01 3 La Francaise Des Jeux 17.19 4 Credit Agricole 28.04 5 Team Linda Mccartney 49.38 6 Big Mat - Auber93 1.06.17 7 Saeco - Gaggia 1.06.42 8 Memory Card - Jack & Jones 1.09.21 9 Sunsmart - Mitsubishi 1.10.57 10 Polti 1.14.10 11 Farm Frites 1.24.47 12 United Water - Ais 1.33.13 |