35th Internationale Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt - 2.4Germany, September 13-17, 2000Main Page Results Previous stage Stage 4 - September 16: Bitburg - Pirmasens, 213.3 kmWauters keeps commandStage 4 of the Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt between Bitburg and Pirmasens was touted to be the toughest stage, with many mountains en route. However, the seven climbs failed to unseat race leader, Marc Wauters as the stage once again ended in a mass sprint. Winner of the day was Dane Bo Hamburger (Memory Card) who beat the usual suspects, Romans Vainsteins (Vini Caldirola) and Fred Rodriguez (Mapei) at the finish. There was no Erik Zabel in the top group though, as the German sprinter was saving a little for the plane trip to Australia. The stage passed through Udo Bölts' home town of Heltersberg, however the Telekom rider was not rewarded with a win today, although he did try and attack in the closing laps. The wind and the rain made things extra hard, and approximately half of the 51 finishers were within a minute of the winner. The race finishes tomorrow with a 185 km stage from Landau to Koblenz.
Results1 Bo Hamburger (Den) Memory Card 5.31.01 2 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 3 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Mapei-Quick Step 4 Markus Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 5 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Cologne 6 Andreas Kappes (Ger) Agro-Adler Brandenburg 7 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 8 Axel Merckx (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 9 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Cologne 10 Raymond Meijs (Ned) Team Cologne 11 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 12 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 13 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 14 Jens Zemke (Ger) Team Nürnberger 15 Jürge Van Roosbroek (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 16 Bert Dietz (Ger) Team Nürnberger 17 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 18 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 19 Raphael Schweda (Ger) Team Nürnberger 20 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 21 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Post Swiss Team 22 Gregory Rast (Swi) Post Swiss Team 23 Thomas Liese (Ger) Team Nürnberger 24 Rene Weissinger (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 25 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 26 Rolf Sörensen (Den) Rabobank 27 Jörn Reuss (Ger) Team Nürnberger 28 William Chann McRae (USA) Mapei-Quick Step 29 Wilfried Peeters (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 30 Torsten Carrier (Ger) Team Coast 31 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 32 Christian Werner (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 0.17 33 Björn Schröder (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 34 René Joergensen (Den) Memory Card 35 Jörn Reuss (Ger) Team Nürnberger 36 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 37 Artour Babaitsev (Rus) Team Nürnberger 38 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 39 Frank Corvers (Bel) Memory Card 40 David Chassot (Swi) Kia-Villiger 41 Jos Lucassen (Ned) Team Cologne 42 Andrei Mizourov (Kaz) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 43 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delker 44 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Memory Card 45 Udo Bölts (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 46 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Rabobank 47 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 48 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 0.42 49 Christian Heule (Swi) Post Swiss Team 50 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 51 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 0.59 52 Pietro Zucconi (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 53 Stephan Gottschling (Ger) Post Swiss Team 54 Christian Sidler (Swi) Post Swiss Team 55 Tom Stremersch (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 1.22 56 Karl Platt (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delker 2.41 57 Mikael Holst Kyneb (Den) Memory Card 3.05 58 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 59 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Team Cologne 60 Klaus Mutschler (Ger) Team Coast 6.50 61 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Cologne 62 Philipp Buschor (Swi) Post Swiss Team 63 Andreas Sauerborn (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 64 Jason Phillips (Aus) Team Coast 65 Mauro Radaelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 66 Antonio Rizzi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 67 Kris Gerits (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 68 Anastoupula Vasilis (Gre) Kia-Villiger 11.26 69 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Kia-Villiger 70 Coen Boermann (Ned) Rabobank 13.56 71 Dirk Baldinger (Ger) Team Nürnberger 13.56 72 Bjarke Nielsen (Den) Memory Card 14.40 73 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 74 Eric Baumann (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 75 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Post Swiss Team 76 Thomas Heidrich (Ger) Agro-Adler Brandenburg 77 Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den) Memory Card 78 Nicola Chesini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 79 Ronny Scholz (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 80 Stijn De Schoenmaecker (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 81 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Cologne 82 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) Rabobank Amateurs 83 Mario Bolz (Ger) Agro-Adler Brandenburg 84 Julien Vergères (Swi) Post Swiss Team 85 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 86 Kristof Trouve (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 87 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 88 Michael Giebelmann (Ger) Team Coast 89 Andreas Beikirch (Ger) Agro-Adler Brandenburg 90 Thomas Kaufmann (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 91 Stefan Ruetimann (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 92 Andreas Walzer (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 93 Michael Schlickau (Ger) Team Cologne 94 Uwe Nepp (Ger) Team Coast 17.10 95 Timo Brewi (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delker 96 Michael Diether (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delker 97 Jan Hollitzer (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delker 98 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Kia-Villiger 99 Philipp Schnyder (Swi) Kia-Villiger 100 Hansjörg Weber (Swi) Kia-Villiger 101 Stefan Steinweg (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delker Sprints: Sprint, km 32.7 1 Stefan Steinweg (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delke 5 pts 2 Andreas Kappes (Ger) Agro-Adler Brandenburg 3 3 Eric Baumann (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 2 Sprint, km 157.2 1 Bjarke Nielsen (Den) Memory Card 5 pts 2 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Cologne 3 3 Andreas Kappes (Ger) Agro-Adler Brandenburg 2 4 Eric Baumann (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 1 Sprint, km 197.5 1 Udo Bölts (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 5 pts 2 Christian Heule (Swi) Post Swiss Team 3 3 William Chann McRae (USA) Mapei-Quick Step 2 4 Rolf Sörensen (Den) Rabobank 1 Mountains: Mountain - Cat. 3, km 45.9 1 Bert Dietz (Ger) Team Nürnberger 3 2 Philipp Schnyder (Swi) Kia-Villiger 2 3 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Memory Card 1 Mountain - Cat. 2, km 65.9 1 Bert Dietz (Ger) Team Nürnberger 5 pts 2 Tom Stremersch (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 3 3 Andreas Sauerborn (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 2 4 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 1 Mountain - Cat. 2, 76.5 1 Bert Dietz (Ger) Team Nürnberger 5 pts 2 Philipp Schnyder (Swi) Kia-Villiger 3 3 Tom Stremersch (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 2 4 Jens Zemke (Ger) Team Nürnberger 1 Mountain - Cat. 3, km 158.9 1 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Cologne 3 pts 2 Bjarke Nielsen (Den) Memory Card 2 3 Andreas Kappes (Ger) Agro-Adler Brandenburg 1 Mountain - Cat. 3, km 174.2 1 Udo Bölts (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 3 pts 2 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 2 3 Rolf Sörensen (Den) Rabobank 1 Mountain - Cat. 3, km 136.6 1 Udo Bölts (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 3 pts 2 Bert Dietz (Ger) Team Nürnberger 2 3 Wilfried Peeters (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 1 Mountain - Cat. 3, km 196 1 Udo Bölts (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 3 pts 2 Axel Merckx (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 2 3 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 1 General classification after stage 4: 1 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 16.40.35 2 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 0.32 3 Markus Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 0.44 4 Axel Merckx (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 0.47 5 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 1.09 6 Bo Hamburger (Den) Memory Card 1.19 7 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Cologne 1.20 8 Raphael Schweda (Ger) Team Nürnberger 1.27 9 Jörn Reuss (Ger) Team Nürnberger 1.38 10 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Post Swiss Team 1.40 11 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 2.38 12 Thomas Liese (Ger) Team Nürnberger 2.42 13 René Joergensen (Den) Memory Card 2.47 14 Jürge Van Roosbroek (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy M 2.57 15 Udo Bölts (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 3.00 16 Jens Zemke (Ger) Team Nürnberger 3.04 17 William Chann McRae (USA) Mapei-Quick Step 3.09 18 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 3.11 19 Andreas Kappes (Ger) Agro-Adler Brandenburg 3.18 20 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Cologne 3.18 21 Rolf Sörensen (Den) Rabobank 3.25 22 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 3.26 23 Artour Babaitsev (Rus) Team Nürnberger 3.38 24 Rene Weissinger (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 3.55 25 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Mapei-Quick Step 3.58 26 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 4.05 27 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 4.09 28 Andrei Mizourov (Kaz) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 4.22 29 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 4.24 30 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 4.33 31 Bert Dietz (Ger) Team Nürnberger 5.10 32 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 5.24 33 Christian Werner (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 5.24 34 Björn Schröder (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 5.27 35 Torsten Carrier (Ger) Team Coast 5.27 36 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 5.41 37 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 5.49 38 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Rabobank 6.03 39 Jörn Reuss (Ger) Team Nürnberger 6.13 40 Frank Corvers (Bel) Memory Card 6.14 41 David Chassot (Swi) Kia-Villiger 6.21 42 Christian Sidler (Swi) Post Swiss Team 7.12 43 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Me 7.19 44 Mikael Holst Kyneb (Den) Memory Card 7.33 45 Karl Platt (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delker 7.45 46 Tom Stremersch (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 8.02 47 Raymond Meijs (Ned) Team Cologne 8.04 48 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delke 10.30 49 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Memory Card 10.41 50 Jason Phillips (Aus) Team Coast 11.20 51 Wilfried Peeters (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 11.26 52 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Cologne 11.29 53 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 11.51 54 Gregory Rast (Swi) Post Swiss Team 11.54 55 Stephan Gottschling (Ger) Post Swiss Team 12.01 56 Christian Heule (Swi) Post Swiss Team 12.15 57 Philipp Buschor (Swi) Post Swiss Team 12.39 58 Jos Lucassen (Ned) Team Cologne 13.08 59 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Team Cologne 14.40 60 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 15.08 61 Pietro Zucconi (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 15.33 62 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 15.50 63 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Kia-Villiger 16.10 64 Andreas Sauerborn (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 19.04 65 Michael Giebelmann (Ger) Team Coast 19.13 66 Michael Schlickau (Ger) Team Cologne 19.24 67 Antonio Rizzi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 21.25 68 Mario Bolz (Ger) Agro-Adler Brandenburg 21.50 69 Mauro Radaelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 22.03 70 Andreas Walzer (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 22.29 71 Anastoupula Vasilis (Gre) Kia-Villiger 23.20 72 Dirk Baldinger (Ger) Team Nürnberger 23.51 73 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Cologne 25.52 74 Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den) Memory Card 26.06 75 Thomas Heidrich (Ger) Agro-Adler Brandenburg 26.10 76 Stijn De Schoenmaecker (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy 26.38 77 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 28.06 78 Klaus Mutschler (Ger) Team Coast 28.14 79 Kris Gerits (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 28.43 80 Stefan Ruetimann (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 28.52 81 Coen Boermann (Ned) Rabobank 30.28 82 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Kia-Villiger 30.33 83 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 30.46 84 Andreas Beikirch (Ger) Agro-Adler Brandenburg 30.46 85 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Post Swiss Team 34.22 86 Kristof Trouve (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 35.17 87 Eric Baumann (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 36.02 88 Thomas Kaufmann (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 36.33 89 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 37.16 90 Julien Vergères (Swi) Post Swiss Team 37.24 91 Philipp Schnyder (Swi) Kia-Villiger 37.55 92 Uwe Nepp (Ger) Team Coast 38.41 93 Nicola Chesini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 40.19 94 Bjarke Nielsen (Den) Memory Card 45.36 95 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) Rabobank Amateurs 45.39 96 Ronny Scholz (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 46.04 97 Hansjörg Weber (Swi) Kia-Villiger 48.32 98 Michael Diether (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delker 49.22 99 Jan Hollitzer (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delker 49.35 100 Timo Brewi (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delker 50.03 101 Stefan Steinweg (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delker 51.02 Sprints classification: 1 Stefan Steinweg (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delker 25 pts 2 Bjarke Nielsen (Den) Memory Card 11 3 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Memory Card 9 4 Andreas Kappes (Ger) Agro-Adler Brandenburg 6 5 Eric Baumann (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 6 6 Nicholas Salmon (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delke 6 7 Udo Bölts (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 5 8 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 5 9 Christian Heule (Swi) Post Swiss Team 3 10 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Cologne 3 11 Mauro Radaelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 3 12 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 3 13 Ronny Scholz (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 3 14 William Chann McRae (USA) Mapei-Quick Step 2 15 Bo Hamburger (Den) Memory Card 2 16 Sven Teutenberg (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 2 17 Rolf Sörensen (Den) Rabobank 1 18 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 1 19 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Post Swiss Team 1 Mountains classification: 1 Bert Dietz (Ger) Team Nürnberger 32 pts 2 Udo Bölts (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom-ARD 24 3 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Memory Card 18 4 Philipp Schnyder (Swi) Kia-Villiger 7 5 Stefan Steinweg (Ger) Bellheimer Lord-Optik Delker 7 6 Axel Merckx (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 6 7 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 5 8 Tom Stremersch (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx 5 9 Andreas Sauerborn (Ger) Team Gerolsteiner 5 10 Jürge Van Roosbroek (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merkcx 5 11 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Cologne 3 12 Jens Zemke (Ger) Team Nürnberger 3 13 Christian Heule (Swi) Post Swiss Team 3 14 Björn Schröder (Ger) LG Giant Frankfurt 3 15 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Deutsche Telekom-AR 3 16 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 3 17 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 2 18 Bjarke Nielsen (Den) Memory Card 2 19 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 2 20 Wilfried Peeters (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 1 21 Rolf Sörensen (Den) Rabobank 1 22 Andreas Kappes (Ger) Agro-Adler Brandenburg 1 23 Thomas Liese (Ger) Team Nürnberger 1 24 Raphael Schweda (Ger) Team Nürnberger 1 25 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Cologne 1 26 William Chann McRae (USA) Mapei-Quick Step 1 27 Markus Zberg 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