49th Circuit Cycliste de la Sarthe - 2.4France, April 10-13, 2001Main page Results Previous stage Stage 2 - April 11: Evron - Tiercé, 192.1 kmKirsipuu wins stage 2Ag2r's Jaan Kirispuu scored another win in France with a victory in the second stage of the Circuit Cycliste de la Sarthe, between Evron and Tiercé (192.1 km). Kirsipuu outsprinted German Steffen Radochla (Festina) and Australian Bradley McGee (Francaise des Jeux) in 4.33.46 (42.102 km/h), while Jean Delatour's Laurent Brochard held onto his leader's jersey by finishing in the peloton. Brochard faced a number of attacks en route to the finish, starting with David Navas (iBanesto) who attacked at kilometre 65. He was caught by the peloton and a new break went with Tyler Hamilton (US Postal) and Alexi Sivakov (Bigmat). They were caught with over 50 kilometres to go. There were constant attacks on the finishing circuits, with the most threatening from Linas Balciunas (Ag2R), Bert Grabsch (Phonak), José-Luis Rubeira (USPS), and Jacky Durand (FdJ). However, it all came back together for Jaan Kirsipuu to take his fourth victory of the season. Laurent Brochard increased his lead in the GC to 13 seconds over Anthony Morin, due to several bonuses that he picked up. Tomorrow will see two stages contested: Tiercé - Angers (100 km) in the morning, followed by a time trial in Angers (9 km) in the afternoon.
Results1 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 4.33.46 (42.102 km/h) 2 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Festina 3 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 4 Alberto Benito (Spa) iBanesto.com 5 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Mapei-Quick Step 6 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour 7 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 8 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 9 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 11 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 12 Michael Blaudzun (Den) CSC-World Online 13 Christophe Capelle (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 14 Kurt Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team Fakta 15 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 16 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Coast 17 Sven Teutenberg (Ger) Festina 18 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 19 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 20 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Bonjour 21 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) O.N.C.E 22 Grzegorz Gwiazdowski (Pol) La Francaise Des Jeux 23 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 24 Anthony Morin (Fra) Credit Agricole 25 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 26 Stéphane Heulot (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 27 Franck Bouyer (Fra) Bonjour 28 Pierre Bourquenoud (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 29 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 30 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 31 Bobby Julich (USA) Credit Agricole 32 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Ag2R Prevoyance 33 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team Fakta 34 Bo Hamburger (Den) CSC-World Online 35 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 36 Anthony Langella (Fra) Credit Agricole 37 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Cofidis 38 Isidro Nozal (Spa) O.N.C.E 39 Francisco Javier Cerezo Perales (Spa) CSC-World Online 40 Allan Johansen (Den) Team Fakta 41 Thorsten Rund (Ger) Team Coast 42 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 43 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Festina 44 Christian Charriere (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 45 Antonio Rizzi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 46 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 47 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 48 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 49 Steffen Kjaergaard (Nor) U.S. Postal Service 50 Pascal Lino (Fra) Festina 51 Tyler Hamilton (USA) U.S. Postal Service 52 Pablo Lastras (Spa) iBanesto.com 53 Nicolas Dumont (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 54 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) iBanesto.com 55 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Credit Agricole 56 Laurent Madouas (Fra) Festina 57 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner 58 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 59 Lance Armstrong (USA) U.S. Postal Service 60 Christian Vandevelde (USA) U.S. Postal Service 61 Robert Sassone (Fra) Cofidis 62 Dmitri Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 63 Pascal Derame (Fra) Bonjour 64 Gilles Maignan (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 65 David Tani (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 66 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) O.N.C.E 67 Roberto Lochowski (Ger) Team Fakta 68 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 69 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) U.S. Postal Service 70 Arturas Kasputis (Ltu) Ag2R Prevoyance 71 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Bigmat-Auber 93 72 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner 73 Morten Sonne (Den) Team Fakta 74 Christophe Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Coast 75 Jean Cyril Robin (Fra) Bonjour 76 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 77 Xabier Zandio (Spa) iBanesto.com 78 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 79 Jean Nuttli (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 80 Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 81 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner 82 Jacky Durand (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 83 Olivier Asmaker (Swi) CSC-World Online 84 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 85 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Credit Agricole 86 Patrick Jonker (Aus) Bigmat-Auber 93 87 Scott Mcgrory (Aus) Mapei-Quick Step 0.34 88 Samuel Plouhinec (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.45 89 Bruno Thibout (Fra) Jean Delatour 7.05 90 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) Jean Delatour 91 Xavier Florencio (Spa) O.N.C.E 92 Dario Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 9.59 93 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) Jean Delatour 94 Bjornar Vestol (Den) Fakta 95 Roberto Laiseka Jaio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11.34 96 David Arroyo (Spa) O.N.C.E 97 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 98 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 99 David Navas Chica (Spa) iBanesto.com 100 Marcelino Garcia (Spa) CSC-World Online 101 Santos Gonzales (Spa) O.N.C.E 102 Victor Hugo Pena Grisales (Col) U.S. Postal Service DNF Jason Philips (Aus) Team Coast DNS Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step DNS Michael Giebelmann (Ger) Team Coast General classification after stage 2 1 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 9.54.53 2 Anthony Morin (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.13 3 Franck Bouyer (Fra) Bonjour 0.14 4 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 0.15 5 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 0.17 6 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 7 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.18 8 Michael Blaudzun (Den) CSC-World Online 0.19 9 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 0.42 10 Christian Vandevelde (USA) U.S. Postal Service 0.43 11 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 0.44 12 Stéphane Heulot (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 13 Bobby Julich (USA) Credit Agricole 14 Bo Hamburger (Den) CSC-World Online 15 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 16 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 0.49 17 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Festina 0.53 18 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.56 19 Tyler Hamilton (USA) U.S. Postal Service 20 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 0.57 Climbers classification 1 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 28 pts 2 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner 17 3 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 13 4 Michael Blaudzun (Den) CSC-World Online 9 5 Dario Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 7 6 David Navas Chica (Spa) iBanesto.com 6 7 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 6 8 Bo Hamburger (Den) CSC-World Online 4 9 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 10 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 4 11 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 3 12 Bobby Julich (USA) Credit Agricole 2 13 Stéphane Heulot (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 2 14 Jean Nuttli (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 15 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Coast 1 Sprints classification 1 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 14 pts 2 Sven Teutenberg (Ger) Festina 6 3 Tyler Hamilton (USA) U.S. Postal Service 5 4 David Navas Chica (Spa) iBanesto.com 5 5 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5 6 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 3 7 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Bigmat-Auber 93 3 8 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 3 9 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 3 10 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 3 11 Franck Bouyer (Fra) Bonjour 1 12 Christian Vandevelde (USA) U.S. Postal Service 1 13 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 1 14 Jacky Durand (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 1 Courtesy of velomania.net |