19th International Hessen Rundfahrt - 2.4

Germany, October 4-8, 2000

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The stages:

  • Stage 1 - October 4: Wiesbaden - Schotten, 160.0 km
  • Stage 2 - October 5: Schotten - Wetzlar, 184.0 km
  • Stage 3 - October 6: Wetzlar - Korbach, 192.5 km
  • Stage 4a - October 7: Korbach - Marburg, 129.0 km
  • Stage 4b - October 7: Marburg - Marburg ITT, 29.0 km
  • Stage 5 - October 8: Marburg - Frankfurt am Main 164.0 km

Preview

The 19th edition of the International Hessen Rundfahrt is the last major German race on the calendar, and many will be using it as preparation for the World's next week. Despite the absence of the Telekom team who will race in Paris-Tours on Sunday, the 19 enrolled squads are full of top riders and the tour has been upgraded to 2.4 from last year.

Last year's winner, Jens Zemke will be there with his Nürnberger team to support him, but there will be strong challenges from riders like Axel Merckx and Max van Heeswijk (both Mapei), Jean-Cyril Robin (Bonjour), Michael Rich and Tobias Steinhauser (Gerolsteiner), as well as the world record breaking German track team (Robert Bartko, Guido Fulst, Daniel Becke, and Jens Lehmann).

The race is over five days and is 850 kilometres in length, with a 29 kilometre time trial as the penultimate stage in Marburg.

Start list

TEAM NÜRNBERGER                  MAPEI-QUICK STEP

1 Jens Zemke (Ger)               11 Wilfried Peeters (Bel)
2 Thomas Liese (Ger)             12 William Chann McRae (USA)
3 Bert Dietz (Ger)               13 Axel Merckx (Bel)
4 Artour Babaitsev (Rus)         14 Andrea Noé (Ita)
5 Harald Morscher (Aut)          15 
6 Holger Sievers (Ger)           16 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned)

RABOBANK                         COFIDIS

21 Coen Boerman (Ned)            31 Thierry Loder (Fra)
22 Marcel Duijn (Ned)            32 Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita)
23 Matthé Pronk (Ned)            33 Francis Moreau (Fra)
24 Addy Engels (Ned)             34 Damien Pommereau (Fra)
25 Grischa Niermann (Ger)        35 Robert Sassone (Fra)
26 Karsten Kroon (Ned)           36 Janek Tombak (Est)

MEMORYCARD                       BONJOUR

41                               51 Walter Bénéteau (Fra)
42 Michael Blaudzun (Den)        52 Charles Guilbert (Fra)
43 Jakob  Piil (Den)             53 Noan Lelarge (Fra)
44 René Jørgensen (Den)          54 Mickael Pichon (Fra)
45 Christian Andersen (Den)      55 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra)
46 Frédéric Ruberti (Fra)        56 

TEAM GEROLSTEINER                TEAM FAKTA

61 Uwe Peschel (Ger)             71 Nicki Sørensen (Den)
62 Olaf Pollack (Ger)            72 Peter Meinert-Nielsen (Den)
63 Michael Rich (Ger)            73 Morten Sonne (Den)
64 Torsten Schmidt (Ger)         74 Lennie Kristensen (Den)
65 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger)      75 Danny Jonasson (Den)
66 Sven Teutenberg (Ger)         76 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe)

PHONAK HEARING SYSTEMS           POST SWISS TEAM

81 Pierre Bourquenoud (Swi)      91 Roger Beuchat (Swi)
82 Jean Nuttli (Swi)             92 Stephan Gottschling (Ger)
83 Domonique Perras (Can)        93 Christian Heule (Swi)
84 René Stadelmann (Swi)         94 Dirk Mueller (Ger)
85 Jochen Summer (Aut)           95 Christian Poos (Lux)
86 Lukas Zumsteg (Swi)           96 Marcel Strauss (Swi)

TEAM COLOGNE                     BESSON CHAUSSURES

101 Raymond Meijs (Ned)          111 Sébastien Laroche (Fra)
102 Michael Schlickau (Ger)      112 Dmitri Fofonov (Kaz)
103 Sören Petersen (Den)         113 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz)
104 Björn Glasner (Ger)          114 Nicolas Dumont (Fra)
105 Jos Lucassen (Ned)           115 Christophe Gauthier (Fra)
106 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA)       116 Sergey Belousov (Kaz)

TEAM COAST                       AGRO-ADLER BRANDENBURG

121 Simone Mori (Ita)            131 Andreas Kappes (Ger)
122 Anton Chantyr (Rus)          132 Andreas Beikirch (Ger)
123 Klaus Mutschler (Ger)        133 Roberto Lochowski (Ger)
124 Michael Giebelmann (Ger)     134 Christian Lademann (Ger)
125 Jason Phillips (Aus)         135 Enrico Nikolai (Ger)
126 Jan Bratkowski (Ger)         136 Ronny Lauke (Ger)

GERMAN ROAD TEAM                 GERMAN TRACK TEAM

141 Ronny Scholz (Ger)           151 Jens Lehmann (Ger)
142 Fabian Wegmann (Ger)         152 Robert Bartko (Ger)
143 Christan Werner (Ger)        153 Daniel Becke (Ger)
144 Björn Schröder (Ger)         154 Torsten Rund (Ger)
145 Thilo Schüler (Ger)          155 Guido Fulst (Ger)
146 Robert Förster (Get)         156 Stefan Steinweg (Ger)

AUSTRIA                          RABOBANK AMATEUR TEAM

161 Franz Stocher (Aut)          171 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned)
162 Werner Reibenbauer (Aut)     172 Vincent van der Kooÿ (Ned)
163 Christian Pfannberger (Aut)  173 Coen Loos (Ned)
164 Ralf Scherzer (Aut)          174 Mart Louwers (Ned)
165 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut)      175 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned)
166 Hannes Hempel (Aut)          176 Mark Vlijm (Ned)

TEAM SPARKASSEN VERSICHERUNG LV HESSEN

181 Jan-Nicolas Starosta (Ger)
182 Jonas Hudalla (Ger)
183 Thomas Fülberth (Ger)
184 Bernhard Wächter (Ger)
185 Kai Wiesenbach (Ger)
186 Jan Deutschmann (Ger)

Past Winners

1995 Pavel Padranos (Cze)
1996 Ralf Grabsch (Ger)
1997 Christian Henn (Ger) Telekom
1998 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Continentale
1999 Jens Zemke (Ger) Nurnberger

Past winners by Mario Stiehl, Berlin