41st ENECO Ronde van Nederland - 2.1Netherlands, August 28-September 1, 2001Main page Results Previous stage Stage 6 - September 1: Blerick - Landgraaf, 228 kmVan Bon wins Ronde van NederlandIn a remarkable finish to the five day ENECO Ronde van Nederland, Dutchman Leon Van Bon (Mercury) has won courtesy of an inspiring ride as part of a six man breakaway. Van Bon, Schreck (Telekom), Den Bakker (Rabobank), Van Hyfte (Lotto), Hulsmans (Mapei) and Van Velzen (BankGiroLoterij) attacked with 79 kilometres to go in the 228 kilometre stage. They built a lead which seriously threatened Serguei Gontchar (Liquigas) and his team could not close the gap. Erik Dekker (Rabobank) bridged up to the leaders with 15 kilometres to go, before attacking to try and win the tour outright. He failed by just 6 seconds, although he did win the stage. Today's sixth stage from Blerick to Landgraaf was the longest and the hardest of the whole tour - held over a similar parcours to the Amstel Gold Race. This combined with some wet weather conditions made life tough for the peloton. So much so that three riders didn't start, and 49 didn't finish. The break of the day came from Daniel van Elven (AXA-VVZ), who escaped after just 19 kilometres and was allowed to go free. His lead extended to 13 minutes after 59 kilometres, before topping out at a maximum of 15'50 at the third classification sprint in Valkenburg (km 93). At this point, there was some action in the following peloton on the first passage of the Cauberg, where a group of 9 riders escaped: Addy Engels, Matteo Frutti, Nicolas Jalabert, Arvis Piziks, Steffen Wesemann, Glenn d'Hollander, Giancarlo Raimondi, Juan-Carlos Dominguez and Danny Stam. After the Cauberg, Jalabert took it upon himself to chase alone, but he only lasted 10 kilometres before coming back to the peloton. Meanwhile Van Elven's lead was plummetting, and when he crossed the finish line for the first time in Landgraaf (km 147) it was just 6'20. Two kilometres later, the race winning move was made from the peloton: Maarten den Bakker (Rabobank), Leon van Bon (Mercury), Jan van Velzen (BankGiroLoterij), Kevin Hulsmans (Mapei), Stephan Schreck (Telekom) and Paul van Hyfte (Lotto) attacked, and built a solid lead as Gontchar's Liquigas boys couldn't close the gap, and Bart Voskamp's BankGiroLoterij team chose not to help. With such small differences separating the top GC riders, Van Bon (4th before today) quickly found himself as the virtual leader of the race. The breakaway gained 2'20 on the peloton, and was closing in on Van Elven who was now just 3'10 in front. Van Bon's group held steady at between 1'50 and 2'00 in front of the peloton as the kilometres ticked down. Van Velzen was caught and dropped, after a total of 140 kilometres in front. Just over 30 kilometres from the end, Erik Dekker (Rabobank) took off in pursuit of the leaders along with Julian Dean (US Postal). Dekker is an expert at doing this, and he crossed the gap quite quickly, leaving Dean behind on one of the climbs. Dekker caught the leaders with 15 kilometres to go, but needed 32 seconds to overtake Van Bon for the overall win. He didn't wait long to attack, and only Stephan Schreck could go with him. In the closing phase, Dekker gave it everything to extend the gap between he and Van Bon. However, Van Bon didn't give up easily and reduced Dekker's lead to just 17 seconds at the finish - enough to keep last year's winner in second place overall and give Van Bon his biggest win of the year. Dekker had to be content with the stage win and an impressive jump up the rankings on the final day. Serguei Gontchar came in 1'03 behind Van Bon (5th) and finished up with third overall.
Results1 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 5.54.00 (38.64 km/h) 2 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 3 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 0.02 4 Kevin Hulsman (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 0.17 5 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Mercury 6 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 0.18 7 Jan Van Velzen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 0.20 8 Frank Hoj (Den) Team Coast 1.30 9 Johan Museeuw (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 10 Matteo Frutti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 11 Bjarke Nielsen (Den) CSC Tiscali 12 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Rabobank 13 Steven De Jong (Ned) Rabobank 14 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Alexia Alluminio 15 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 16 Geert Van Bondt (Bel) Mercury 17 Chris Wherry (USA) Mercury 18 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Lampre-Daikin 19 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 20 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 21 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 22 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Mercury 23 Robert Hunter (RSA) Lampre-Daikin 24 Julian Dean (NZl) US Postal Service 25 Sergei Gontchar (Ukr) Liquigas-Pata 26 Malte Urban (Ned) Team Coast 27 Juan-Carlos Dominguez (Spa) iBanesto.com 28 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 29 Mirko Marini (Ita) Liquigas-Pata 30 Andrey Kashechkin (Ukr) Domo-Farm Frites 31 Leif Hoste (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 32 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 33 Servais Knaven (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 34 Antonio Cruz (USA) US Postal Service 35 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 36 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) US Postal Service 37 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) CSC Tiscali 38 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Alexia Alluminio 39 Benoît Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service 40 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) US Postal Service 41 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 3.31 42 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 4.06 43 Edwin Dunning (Ned) AXA-VVZ Professional Cycling Team 44 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 45 Corey Sweet (Aus) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 6.20 46 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 47 Danny Jonasson (Den) CSC Tiscali 48 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) CSC Tiscali 49 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 7.18 50 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 51 Koen Beeckman (Bel) CSC Tiscali 52 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 7.27 53 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 16.11 54 Ruben Plaza (Spa) iBanesto.com DNF Addy Engels (Ned) Rabobank DNF Johan Verstrepen (Bel) Lampre-Daikin DNF Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre-Daikin DNF Zbigniew Spruch (Pol) Lampre-Daikin DNF Jan Svorada (Cze) Lampre-Daikin DNF Wilfried Peeters (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites DNF Dylan Casey (USA) US Postal Service DNF Wim Van Sevenant (Bel) Mercury DNF Henk Vogels (Aus) Mercury DNF Arvis Piziks (Lat) CSC Tiscali DNF Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Mapei-Quick Step DNF Davide Bramati (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step DNF Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step DNF Philippe Köhler (Fra) Mapei-Quick Step DNF Adriano Baffi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step DNF Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Mapei-Quick Step DNF Rolf Aldag (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom DNF Gian-Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Team Deutsche Telekom DNF Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom DNF Jan Schaffrath (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom DNF Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom DNF Rudie Kemna (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus DNF Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco DNF Fulco Van Gulik (Ned) Lotto-Adecco DNF Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Lotto-Adecco DNF Wesley Van Speybroeck (Bel) Lotto-Adecco DNF Paolo Bono (Ita) Liquigas-Pata DNF Daniele Contrini (Ita) Liquigas-Pata DNF Giancarlo Raimondi (Ita) Liquigas-Pata DNF Cristian Salvato (Ita) Liquigas-Pata DNF Fabio Marchesin (Ita) Liquigas-Pata DNF Alberto Benito (Spa) iBanesto.com DNF Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com DNF Candido Barbosa (Por) iBanesto.com DNF Ivan Quaranta (Ita) Alexia Alluminio DNF Corrado Serina (Ita) Alexia Alluminio DNF Marco Villa (Ita) Alexia Alluminio DNF Mario Manzoni (Ita) Alexia Alluminio DNF Mauro Zinetti (Ita) Alexia Alluminio DNF Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Coast DNF Christoph V. Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Coast DNF Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team Coast DNF Raphael Schweda (Ger) Team Coast DNF Danny Stam (Ned) AXA-VVZ Professional Cycling Team DNF John Den Braber (Ned) AXA-VVZ Professional Cycling Team DNF Daniel Van Elven (Ned) AXA-VVZ Professional Cycling Team DNF Marcel Luppes (Ned) AXA-VVZ Professional Cycling Team DNF Jurgen De Jong (Ned) AXA-VVZ Professional Cycling Team DNF Joost Legtenberg (Ned) AXA-VVZ Professional Cycling Team DNS Glenn Magnusson (Swe) Domo-Farm Frites DNS Bart Leysen (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step DNS Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) Lotto-Adecco Points 1 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 15 pts 2 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 12 3 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 10 4 Kevin Hulsman (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 8 5 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Mercury 6 6 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 5 7 Jan Van Velzen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 4 8 Frank Hoj (Den) Team Coast 3 9 Johan Museeuw (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 2 10 Matteo Frutti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 1 Bonification sprints Valkenburg - 174.4 km 1 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Mercury 3sec 2 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 2 3 Kevin Hulsman (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 1 Huls - 214.9 km 1 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 3 sec 2 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 2 3 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Mercury 1 Classification sprints Heythuysen - 24.9 km 1 Daniel Van Elven (Ned) AXA-VVZ Professional Cycling 3 pts 2 Wilfried Peeters (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 2 3 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 1 Elsloo - 70.2 km 1 Daniel Van Elven (Ned) AXA-VVZ Professional Cycling 3 pts 2 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 2 3 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Liquigas-Pata 1 Valkenburg - 92.9 km 1 Daniel Van Elven (Ned) AXA-VVZ Professional Cycling 3 pts 2 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 2 3 Addy Engels (Ned) Rabobank 1 Landgraaf - 146.9 km 1 Daniel Van Elven (Ned) AXA-VVZ Professional Cycling 3 pts 2 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 2 3 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 1 Best young rider 1 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 5.54.00 2 Kevin Hulsman (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 0.02 3 Robert Hunter (RSA) Lampre-Daikin 1.03 4 Andrey Kashechkin (Ukr) Domo-Farm Frites 5 Leif Hoste (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 6 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 7 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Alexia Alluminio 8 Corey Sweet (Aus) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 6.02 9 Ruben Plaza (Spa) iBanesto.com 16.01 Teams 1 Rabobank 17.43.56 2 Mercury 1.30 3 Lampre - Daikin 2.43 4 Domo - Farm Frites 2.43 5 US Postal Service 2.43 6 BankGiroLoterij-Batavus 4.09 7 Team CSC Tiscali 7.33 8 Team Deutsche Telekom 8.06 9 iBanesto.com 17.24 Final general classification 1 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Mercury 21.47.31 2 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 0.06 3 Sergei Gontchar (Ukr) Liquigas-Pata 0.27 4 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 0.42 5 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 0.53 6 Jan Van Velzen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 1.03 7 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 1.06 8 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 1.11 9 Robert Hunter (RSA) Lampre-Daikin 1.16 10 Frank Hoj (Den) Team Coast 1.37 11 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Mercury 1.43 12 Chris Wherry (USA) Mercury 1.43 13 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Lampre-Daikin 1.45 14 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 1.47 15 Juan-Carlos Dominguez (Spa) iBanesto.com 1.48 16 Servais Knaven (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 1.56 17 Antonio Cruz (USA) US Postal Service 1.58 18 Benoît Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service 2.00 19 Leif Hoste (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 2.03 20 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) US Postal Service 2.04 21 Kevin Hulsman (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 2.07 22 Bjarke Nielsen (Den) CSC Tiscali 2.10 23 Julian Dean (NZl) US Postal Service 2.18 24 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Alexia Alluminio 2.31 25 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 2.33 26 Mirko Marini (Ita) Liquigas-Pata 2.34 27 Geert Van Bondt (Bel) Mercury 2.35 28 Andrey Kashechkin (Ukr) Domo-Farm Frites 2.39 29 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) CSC Tiscali 2.53 30 Steven De Jong (Ned) Rabobank 2.53 31 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 2.54 32 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 2.54 33 Malte Urban (Ned) Team Coast 2.59 34 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) US Postal Service 2.59 35 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Alexia Alluminio 3.11 36 Johan Museeuw (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 3.11 37 Matteo Frutti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 3.11 38 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 3.14 39 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 3.19 40 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Rabobank 3.23 41 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 4.48 42 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 5.07 43 Edwin Dunning (Ned) AXA-VVZ Professional Cycling Team 5.58 44 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 6.01 45 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 6.09 46 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) CSC Tiscali 7.31 47 Corey Sweet (Aus) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 7.31 48 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 7.53 49 Danny Jonasson (Den) CSC Tiscali 8.42 50 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 9.13 51 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 9.58 52 Koen Beeckman (Bel) CSC Tiscali 10.44 53 Ruben Plaza (Spa) iBanesto.com 18.34 54 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 28.16 Points classification 1 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 34 2 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 31 3 Robert Hunter (RSA) Lampre-Daikin 26 4 Julian Dean (NZl) US Postal Service 16 5 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 15 6 Sergei Gontchar (Ukr) Liquigas-Pata 15 7 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Mercury 14 8 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 12 9 Steven De Jong (Ned) Rabobank 12 10 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 12 11 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) CSC Tiscali 12 12 Matteo Frutti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 11 13 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 10 14 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 10 15 Kevin Hulsman (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 8 16 Geert Van Bondt (Bel) Mercury 7 17 Frank Hoj (Den) Team Coast 6 18 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 5 19 Jan Van Velzen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 4 20 Johan Museeuw (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 2 21 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Mercury 2 22 Chris Wherry (USA) Mercury 1 Sprints classification 1 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 26 2 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 8 3 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 5 4 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 4 5 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Lampre-Daikin 2 6 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 2 7 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 2 8 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 1 9 Matteo Frutti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 1 10 Bjarke Nielsen (Den) CSC Tiscali 1 Young riders classification 1 Robert Hunter (RSA) Lampre-Daikin 21.48.47 2 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 0.31 3 Leif Hoste (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 0.47 4 Kevin Hulsman (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 0.51 5 Andrey Kashechkin (Ukr) Domo-Farm Frites 1.23 6 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Alexia Alluminio 1.55 7 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 2.03 8 Corey Sweet (Aus) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 6.15 9 Ruben Plaza (Spa) iBanesto.com 17.18 Teams classification 1 Mercury 65.25.54 2 Rabobank 0.57 3 US Postal Service 1.10 4 Lampre - Daikin 2.12 5 Domo - Farm Frites 3.14 6 BankGiroLoterij-Batavus 3.31 7 Team Deutsche Telekom 8.19 8 Team CSC Tiscali 9.14 9 iBanesto.com 18.55 |