64th GP des Nations - 1.1France, September 16, 20001999 Results Results Preview Start List Past Winners Armstrong and Kupfernagel too strongAmerican Lance Armstrong confirmed his favourite status for the Sydney Olympic time trial by winning the 64th edition of the Grand Prix des Nations in Yvetot. Armstrong rode 1:31.05 at an average of 49.4 km/h to beat Latvian Raivis Belohvosciks (Lampre) by 1:41, with Hungarian Laszlo Bodrogi (Mapei) another 53 seconds behind in third. This means that Armstrong will certainly be in Sydney for the Olympics. He made the final decision after the race, "I'm 100 percent fit in my legs and 90 percent in my neck. But it surprised me to see how well I rode today. It's been a long time since I rode such a long distance. I'm completely positive now," said Armstrong afterwards. Team director, Johan Bruyneel added that "his performance was good for his morale. Small things like a crash no longer unsettle him. He wants only to win the Olympic time trial, and he wants to win." Sixth placed Moreau was actually caught by Armstrong and he also suffered a puncture. Not the best of days for the Festina rider who was holding second position until the halfway point. He did have the consolation of being awarded a four year contract by Festina. Other Olympic hopefuls, Chris Boardman (Credit Agricole) and David Millar (Cofidis) finished 8th and 11th respectively. It was also a good day for the Germans, with Michael Rich (Gerolsteiner) finishing fourth and confirming his status as the second German Olympic time trialist, while Hanka Kupfernagel (Radteam Kupfernagel) won the women's 37.5 kilometre event. Kupfernagel rode 52:09 (43.15 km/h) to beat Frenchwomen Albine Caillie by 1:17 and Géraldine Loewenguth by 2:02. In the Espoirs race, American David Zabriskie put in a commanding ride to beat Swiss world champion, Fabian Cancellara by 1:23, with Florian Huber of Germany taking third in the same time. Results
Men - 75 km1. Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Sevice 1.31.05 (49.404 km/h) 2. Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Lampre-Daikin 1.41 3. Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Mapei-Quick Step 2.34 4. Michael Rich (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 2.36 5. Tyler Hamilton (USA) US Postal Service 2.37 6. Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 3.04 7. Frédéric Finot (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.40 8. Chris Boardman (GBr) Crédit Agricole 3.47 9. Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 3.51 10. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 3.58 11. David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 4.15 12. Daniele Nardello (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 4.16 13. Jean Nuttli (Swi) Phonak Hearing System 5.25 14. Arturas Kasputis (Lit) AG2R Prévoyance 5.25 15. Francisque Teyssier (Fra) Jean Delatour 5.31 16. Gilles Maignan (Fra) AG2R Prévoyance 5.49 17. Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskadi-Euskaltel 6.29 18. Fabrice Salanson (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 6.37 19. José-Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 6.54 20. Guillaume Auger (Fra) BigMat-Auber 93 7.00 21. Iker Flores (Spa) Euskadi-Euskaltel 7.28 22. Jacky Durand (Fra) Lotto-Adecco 7.41 23. Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 9.57 24. Michael Steen Nielsen (Den) Memory Card 14.08 Women - 37.5 km1. Hanka Kupfernagel (Ger) Radteam Kupfernagel 52.09 (43.145 km/h) 2. Albine Caillie (Fra) France 1.17 3. Géraldine Loewenguth (Fra) France 2.02 4. Ruth Martinez Gomez (Spa) Spain 2.21 5. Lisbeth Simper (Den) Team Lolland-Falster 2.27 6. Diana Rast (Swi) Luongo-Assos 2.55 7. Anouska Van Der Zee (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 3.43 8. Yvonne Brunen (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 6.28 9. Delphine Deschamps (Fra) UV Conches 9.14 10. Sophie Creux (Fra) Chambery CC 10.13 Espoirs - 37.5 km1 David Zabriskie (USA) 46.26 (48.45 km/h) 2 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) 1.23 3 Florian Huber (Ger) 4 Yan Tournier (Fra) 1.26 5 Sandro Guttinger (Swi) 2.15 6 Stefano Guerrini (Ita) 2.19 7 Roel Egelmeers (Ned) 2.30 8 Sébastien Fournier (Fra) 2.33 9 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) 2.34 10 Jean Zen (Fra) 3.05 11 Kevin van Impe (Bel) 3.32 12 Christophone Edaleine (Fra) 3.36 13 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) 3.39 14 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) 3.40 15 Christophe Kern (Fra) 3.52 16 Aaron Olson (USA) 3.54 17 Juan Gomis Lopez (Spa) 3.57 18 David Herrero Llorente (Spa) 4.03 19 Thomas van der Weiden (Ned) 4.40 20 Guillaume Canet (Fra) 4.41 21 Eric Trokimo (Fra) 4.44 22 Thue Houlberg Hansen (Den) 4.47 23 Nicolas Boulenger (Fra) 4.55 24 Fabien Fleury (Fra) 5.12 Juniors1 Romain Genter (Fra) 49.23 2 David Muntaner (Spa) 0.21 3 Jurgen van den Broeck (Bel) 0.28 4 Kilian Patour (Fra) 0.33 5 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) 0.46 6 Angel Garcia de Castro (Spa) 0.50 7 Rémy Quignon (Fra) 1.00 8 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) 1.25 9 Gilbert Obrist (Swi) 1.34 10 Tristan Valentin (Fra) 1.50 11 William Bonnet (Fra) 1.57 12 Kevin Enfert (Fra) 1.59 13 Igor Stevens (Bel) 2.02 14 Carlos Saiz (Spa) 2.03 15 David Saiz (Spa) 2.36 16 Wilfried Marget (Fra) 2.40 17 Nicolas Fontaine (Fra) 2.56 18 Nicolas Wittmann (Fra) 4.01 19 Julien Chazottes (Fra) 4.02 20 Cyril Miletto (Fra) 4.08 PreviewBy Tomas Nilsson, cyclingnews.com correspondent Saturday's GP des Nations used to be the most important ITT on the pro calendar before there was a World Championship in this discipline. Now it is is a final test for Lance Armstrong and several other favourites before the Olympic Games. In addition to Armstrong, the starting list features ex World Champions Laurent Jalabert and Chris Boardman, as well as Tour de France TT stage winner David Millar. It will be interesting to see if the young Millar is able to dethrone Boardman who is doing his last season. The distance however, 70 kms, is far from that on which Millar won the Tour stage and also far longer than the Olympic race (46.5 kms). Some other young riders to watch: Hungarian Lazslo Bodrogi, Latvian Raivis Belohvosciks and Spanish José-Ivan Gutierrez. Home hopes go to Christophe Moreau who probably manages this distance better than Jalabert. Start ListMen 1 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal 2 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 3 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 4 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 5 Tyler Hamilton (USA) US Postal 6 Francisque Teyssier (Fra) Jean Delatour 7 Chris Boardman (GBr) Credit Agricole 8 Gilles Maignan (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 9 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Lampre-Daikin 10 Frédéric Finot (Fra) Credit Agricole 11 Laszlo Bodrogi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 12 Jacky Durand (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 13 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 14 Fabrice Salanson (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 15 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 16 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 17 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 18 Daniele Nardello (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 19 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 20 Michael Rich (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 21 Arturas Kasputis (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 22 Michael Steen Nielsen (Den) Memory Card 23 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 24 Jean Nuttli (Swi) PhonakWomen 1 Hanka Kupfernagel (Ger) Radteam Kupfernagel 2 Géraldine Loewenguth (Fra) France 3 Diana Rast (Swi) Switzerland 4 Albine Caillie (Fra) France 5 Arenda Grimberg (Ned) Netherlands 6 Lisbeth Simper (Den) Team Lolland-Falster 7 Anouska Van Der Zee (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 8 Ghita Beltman (Ned) Netherlands 9 Delphine Deschamps (Fra) UV Conches 10 Yvonne Brunen (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 11 Ruth Martinez Gomez (Spa) Spain 12 Sophie Creux (Fra) Chambery CC 13 Madeleine Lindberg (Ned) Farm Frites-HartolEspoirs 1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Switzerland 2 Yan Tournier (Fra) GSC Blagnac 3 Stefano Guerrini (Ita) Italy 4 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) VC Lyon Vaulx-En-Velin 5 Aaron Olson (USA) United States 6 Jean Zen (Fra) Lavaur VC 7 Florian Huber (Ger) Team Bavarian Lions 8 Nicolas Boulenger (Fra) CC Nogent Sur Oise 9 Thue Houlberg Hansen (Den) Denmark 10 Christophe Kern (Fra) VC Nord Alsace 11 Roel Egelmeers (Ned) Rabobank 12 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 13 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Belgium 14 Guillaume Canet (Fra) Cours-La-Ville Cyclisme 15 David Herrero Llorente (Spa) Spain 16 Eric Trokimo (Fra) CC Nogent Sur Oise 17 Thomas Van Der Weiden (Ned) Netherlands 18 Sébastien Fournier (Fra) UC Chateauroux 19 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Belgium 20 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Vendee U-Pays De La Loire 21 Juan Gomis Lopez (Spa) Spain 22 Fabien Fleury (Fra) VC Aiglon 23 David Zabriskie (USA) United States 24 Sandro Guttinger (Swi) Switzerland 25 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) RabobankJuniors 1 William Bonnet (Fra) France 2 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Switzerland 3 Rémy Quignon (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 4 David Martin Velasco (Spa) Spain 5 Kilian Patour (Fra) France 6 David Saiz (Fra) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 7 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) France 8 Gilbert Obrist (Swi) Switzerland 9 Romain Genter (Fra) France 10 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Belgium 11 Julien Chazottes (Fra) VS Chartres 12 David Muntaner Juaneda (Spa) Spain 13 Wilfried Marget (Fra) Charvieu-Chavagneux IC 14 Carlos Saiz (Fra) ONCE-Deutsche Bank 15 Tristan Valentin (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 16 Igor Stevens (Bel) Belgium 17 Nicolas Fontaine (Fra) VC Roubaix 18 Kevin Enfert (Fra) UVCA Troyes 19 Nicolas Wittmann (Fra) CS Thionville 20 Cyril Miletto (Fra) Chambery CC 21 Manuel Widmer (Swi) Switzerland Past WinnersMen 1932 Maurice Archambaud (Fra) 1933 Raymond Louviot (Fra) 1934 Antoine Magne (Fra) 1935 Antoine Magne (Fra) 1936 Antoine Magne (Fra) 1937 Pierre Cogan (Fra) 1938 Louis Aimar (Fra) 1941 (a) Jules Rossi (Ita) (b) Louis Aimar (Fra) 1942 (a) Jean-Marie Goasmat (Fra) (b) Emile Idee (Fra) 1943 Jozef Somers (Bel) 1944 Emile Carrara (Fra) 1945 Eloi Tassin (Fra) 1946 Fausto Coppi (Ita) 1947 Fausto Coppi (Ita) 1948 René Berton (Fra) 1949 Charles Coste (Fra) 1950 Maurice Blomme (Bel) 1951 Hugo Koblet (Swi) 1952 Louison Bobet (Fra) 1953 Jacques Anquetil (Fra) 1954 Jacques Anquetil (Fra) 1955 Jacques Anquetil (Fra) 1956 Jacques Anquetil (Fra) 1957 Jacques Anquetil (Fra) 1958 Jacques Anquetil (Fra) 1959 Aldo Moser (Ita) 1960 Ercole Baldini (Ita) 1961 Jacques Anquetil (Fra) 1962 Ferdinand Bracke (Bel) 1963 Raymond Poulidor (Fra) 1964 Walter Boucauet (Fra) 1965 Jacques Anquetil (Fra) 1966 Jacques Anquetil (Fra) 1967 Felice Gimondi (Ita) 1968 Felice Gimondi (Ita) 1969 Herman Vanspringel (Bel) 1970 Herman Vanspringel (Bel) 1971 Luis Ocana (Spa) 1972 Roger Swerts (Bel) 1973 Eddy Merckx (Bel) 1974 Roy Schuiten (Ned) 1975 Roy Schuiten (Ned) 1976 Freddy Maertens (Bel) 1977 Bernard Hinault (Fra) 1978 Bernard Hinault (Fra) 1979 Bernard Hinault (Fra) 1980 Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke (Bel) 1981 Daniel Gisiger (Swi) 1982 Bernard Hinault (Fra) 1983 Dan. Gisiger (Swi) 1984 Bernard Hinault (Fra) 1985 Charly Mottet (Fra) 1986 Sean Kelly (Ire) 1987 Charly Mottet (Fra) 1988 Charly Mottet (Fra) 1989 Laurent Fignon (Fra) 1990 Thomas Wegmüller (Swi) 1991 Tony Rominger (Swi) 1993 Armand De las Cuevas (Fra) 1994 Tony Rominger (Swi) 1996 Chris Boardman (GB) 1997 Uwe Peschel (Ger) 1998 Franciscque Teyssier (Fra) 1999 Serguei Honchar (Ukr)Women 1996 Jeannie Longo (Fra) 1997 Jeannie Longo (Fra) 1998 Zoulfia Zabirova (Rus) 1999 Anna Wilson (Aus) Past Winners by Mario Stiehl, Berlin |