52nd Criterium du Dauphiné Libére - 2.HC

France, June 4 - 11, 2000

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The Stages

  • Prologue - June 4: Montée de La Bastille, ITT 3.6 km
  • Stage 1 - June 5: Grenoble - Lyon, 189 km
  • Stage 2 - June 6: Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne - Saint-Etienne, 210 km
  • Stage 3 - June 7: Saint-Etienne - Saint-Chamond, ITT 35.7 km
  • Stage 4 - June 8: Romans-sur-Isère - Mont Ventoux, 159 km
  • Stage 5 - June 9: Beaumes-de-Venise - Dignes-les-Bains, 201 km
  • Stage 6 - June 10: Dignes-les-Bains - Briançon, 218 km
  • Stage 7 - June 11: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne - Sallanches, 147 km

Preview

Only 14 teams of 8 riders will start in the Criterium Dauphiné Libéré, June 4 - 11, the smallest start list in history of the race. One of the most important preparation races for the Tour de France lost its French head sponsor Lotto, who were worth $US250,000 to the race. The start list is therefore mostly French. A total of eight French teams will be accompanied by Lotto-Adecco (Bel) and the Spanish teams ONCE, Banesto, Kelme and Euskaltel-Euskadi as well as US Postal.

The Lotto team: Sébastien Demarbaix, Glenn D'Hollander, Manu Lhoir, Kurt Van de Wouwer, Paul Van Hyfte, Kurt Van Lancker, Rik Verbrugghe, Geert Verheyen are similar to their Tour line up. Manu Lhoir is the only one of these who won't be riding the Tour. Other candidates for the 9 places include Mario Aerts, Serge Baguet, Jacky Durand and Thierry Marichal who are training in Luxembourg at the moment.

Second last year, Jonathan Vaughters (Credit Agricole) will be trying to go one better this year in the absence of last year's winner, Alexandre Vinokourov (Telekom). He will be up against his former teammates from US Postal though, including Tyler Hamilton, Kevin Livingston and Lance Armstrong. Stronger competition is likely from Jean Delatour's Laurent Brochard and Bonjour's Didier Rous. Also, Euskaltel's Haimar Zubeldia is in good form after winning the Euskal Bizikleta last weekend.

Start list 

O.N.C.E DEUTSCHE BANK             US POSTAL SERVICE

1 Laurent Jalabert (Fra)          11 Lance Armstrong (USA)
2 Inigo Cuesta (Spa)              12 Jamie Burrow (GBr)
3 David Etxebarria (Spa)          13 Viatchevlav Ekimov (Rus)
4 Peter Luttenberger (Aut)        14 Tyler Hamilton (USA)
5 Abraham Olano (Spa)             15 Patrick Jonker (Ned)
6 Angel Pena (Spa)                16 Kevin Livingston (USA)
7 Carlos Sastre (Spa)             17 Cedric Vasseur (Fra)
8 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa)         18 Stive Vermaut (Bel)

FESTINA                           EUSKALTEL-EUSKADI

21 Josepha Beloki (Spa)           31 Angel Castresana (Spa)
22 Florent Brard (Fra)            32 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa)
23 Andy Flickinger (Fra)          33 Bingen Fernandez (Spa)
24 Giuseppe Di Grande (Ita)       34 Iker Flores (Spa)
25 Fabian Jeker (Swi)             35 Ramon Gonzalez (Spa)
26 Pascal Lino (Fra)              36 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa)
27 Laurent Madouas (Fra)          37 Mikel Pradera (Spa)
28 Christophe Moreau (Fra)        38 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa)

LA FRANCAISE DES JEUX             BANESTO

41 Stéphane Heulot (Fra)          51 Alex Zuelle (Swi)
42 Sandy Casar (Fra)              52 José Luis Arrieta (Spa)
43 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra)          53 Vicent Garcia Acosta (Spa)
44 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra)         54 Aitor Garmendia (Spa)
45 Xavier Jan (Fra)               55 José Maria Jimenez (Spa)
46 Christophe Mengin (Fra)        56 David Navas (Spa)
47 Jean Patrick Nazon (Fra)       57 Jon Odriozola (Spa)
48 Cyril Saugrain (Fra)           58 César Solaun (Spa)

CREDIT AGRICOLE                   LOTTO ADECCO

61 Bobby Julich (USA)             71 Mario Aerts (Bel)
62 Fabrice Gougot (Fra)           72 Serge Baguet (Bel)
63 Sébastien Hinault (Fra)        73 Sébastien Demarbaix (Bel)
64 Thor Hushovd (Nor)             74 Kurt Van De Wouver (Bel
65 Christopher Jenner (Nzl)       75 Kurt Van Lancker (Bel)
66 Anthony Morin (Fra)            76 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel)
67 Jonathan Vaughters (USA)       77 Geert Verheyen (Bel)
68 Jens Voigt (Ger)               78 Peter Wuyts (Bel)

BIGMAT AUBER 93                   COFIDIS

81 Thierry Bourguignon (Fra)      91 David Moncoutie (Fra)
82 Ludovic Auger (Fra)            92 Laurent Desbiens (Fra)
83 Christophe Capelle (Fra)       93 Philippe Gaumont (Fra)
84 Thierry Gouvenou (Fra)         94 Claude Lamour (Fra)
85 Lylian Lebreton (Fra)          95 David Lefevre (Fra)
86 Denis Leproux (Fra)            96 Laurent Lefevre (Fra)
87 Dominique Rault (Fra)          97 David Millar (GBr)
88 Alexei Sivakov (Rus)           98 Francis Moreau (Fra)

AG2R PREVOYANCE                   BONJOUR-TOURPARGEL

101 Benoît Salmon (Fra)           111 François Simon (Fra)
102 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra)    112 Franck Bouyer (Fra)
103 Philippe Bordenave (Fra)      113 Pascal Derame (Fra)
104 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus)     114 Damien Nazon (Fra)
105 Pascal Chanteur (Fra)         115 Mickael Pichon (Fra)
106 David Delrieu (Fra)           116 Franck Renier (Fra)
107 Arturas Kasputis (Ltu)        117 Jean Cyril Robin (Fra
108 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz)          118 Didier Rous (Fra)

JEAN DELATOUR                     KELME COSTA BLANCA

121 Laurent Brochard (Fra)        131 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa)
122 Christophe Bassons (Fra)      132 Santiago Botero (Col)
123 Frédéric Bessy (Fra)          133 Alberto Contreras (Col)
124 Gilles Bouvard (Fra)          134 Alvaro Forner (Spa)
125 Patrice Halgand (Fra)         135 Ruben Galvan (Spa)
126 Christophe Oriol (Fra)        136 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa)
127 Eddy Seigneur (Fra)           137 Jesus Manzano (Spa)
128 Francisque Teyssier (Fra)     138 Javier Ochoa (Spa)