5th Trophée d'Or Féminin - 2.9.2France, August 29 - September 2, 2001Main page Results Previous stage Stage 2 - August 30: Avord - Avord, 128.8 kmBy James Victor, AIS women's coach Today was the longest stage of the Trophée d'Or Féminin, and although very flat, the weather changes provided difficult for difficult conditions and aggressive racing. Attacks started early, with the Aussies featuring in all the moves, and making going tough in the cross-winds. The intermediate sprints provided many springboard opportunities for small groups, with the crucial winning move coming after the 78 km sprint, passing the podium in Avord. Unfortunately in the lead-out for the sprint, Kym Shirley suffered some broken spokes in her front wheel, and following the wheel change never regained the peloton, that had now split into 6 groups. Sara Carrigan, Alison Wright and promising Australian junior Vanessa Crawford all made the chase group of 13 riders, along with 2nd overall Karpenko, and Edita Pucinskaite, now in pursuit of the Yellow jersey and her Carpe Diem - Itera teammate Olga Zabelinskaia and Danish rider Lisbeth Simper. The gap hovered between 40 seconds and 1 minute over the closing stages, with Zabelinskaia attacking the lead-group with 4 km remaining, and stretching the gap to her breakaway companions and the chasing group. Meanwhile the main group had lost incentive to chase, and dropped significant time towards the end of the stage. Jeannie Longo was in trouble all day in the wind, and withdrew from the tour after 80 km today. Tomorrow is a double stage day, covering 100 km in the morning from St. Germain du Puy to La Chapelle St-Ursin, and the all important 17 km Time Trial starting at 6.30pm.
Results1 Olga Zabelinskaia (Rus) Carpe Diem-Itera 3.20.39 (38.515 km/h) 2 Youlia Martissova (Rus) Carpe Diem-Itera 0.14 3 Lisbeth Simper (Den) National Team 4 Virginie Moinard (Fra) Ile de France 1.44 5 Sigrid Corneo (Ita) Carpi Diem - Itera 6 Sara Carrigan (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 14 Alison Wright (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 15 Venessa Crawford (Aus) International 1 ... 17 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 9.25 Katie Mactier (Aus) A.I.S. Australia Katie Brown (Aus) International 1 Naomi Williams (Aus) International 1 Hayley Rutherford (Aus) A.I.S. Australia Vanessa Crawford (Aus) International 1 Emily Williams (Aus) International 1 Kym Shirley (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 18.25 General classification after stage 2 1 Youlia Martissova (Rus) Carpe Diem - Itera 5.11.24 2 Valentina Karpenko (Ukr) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 1.30 3 Sara Carrigan (Aus) AIS Australia 1.32 4 Olga Zabelinskaia (Rus) Carpe Diem - Itera 2.35 5 Lisbeth Simper (Den) Denmark 2.49 6 Virginie Moinard (Fra) Ile de France 4.19 7 Miho Oki (Jpn) CA Mantes la Ville 78 8 Tatiana Stiajkina (Ukr) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 9 Sigrid Corneo (Ita) Carpe Diem - Itera 10 Edita Pucinskaite (Ltu) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 11 Lotte Schmidt (Den) Denmark 12 Delphine Guille (Fra) Centre - Pays de la Loire 13 Alison Wright (Aus) AIS Australia 14 Vanessa Crawford (Aus) Internationals 15 Marta Vilajosana (Spa) Catalonia 16 Anna Skawinska (Pol) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 4.29 17 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) AIS Australia 12.00 18 Joanne Cavill (GBr) Scotland 19 Annette Beutler (Fra) CA Mantes la Ville 78 20 Ita Kryjanovskaia (Rus) Carpe Diem - Itera 21 Khodentchenkova (Rus) Russia 22 Karine Dalmais (Fra) Rhône-Alpes 23 Volha Hayeva (Blr) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 24 Carine Peter (Fra) Team C-F 24 25 Jutta Schubert (Aut) Lady Team Tyrol 26 Isabelle Nicoloso (Fra) CA Mantes la Ville 78 27 Katie Mactier (Aus) AIS Australia 28 Marina Jaunatre (Fra) Centre - Pays de la Loire 29 Lory Laroy (Lux) Luxembourg 30 Katie Brown (Aus) Internationals 31 Bridget Evans (Aus) Team C-F 24 32 Béatrice Thomas (Fra) VC Millau 33 Barbara Lancioni (Ita) Carpe Diem - Itera 34 Doris Posch (Aut) Lady Team Tyrol 35 Cécile Quillacq (Fra) Ile de France 36 Hayley Rutherford (Aus) AIS Australia 37 Naomi Williams (Aus) Internationals 38 Azucena Sanchez (Spa) Catalonia 39 Natalia Boiarskaia (Rus) Russia 40 Séverine Villance (Lux) Luxembourg 41 Tatyana Andrutchenko (Ukr) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 42 Sandra Wampfler (Swi) CA Mantes la Ville 78 43 Magali Finot (Fra) Centre - Pays de la Loire 44 Sue Smith (Can) Rhône-Alpes 45 Karine Saysset (Fra) VC Millau 46 Montserrat Bernal Alonso (Spa) Catalonia 47 Wylie Katie (GBr) Scotland 48 Caroline Cook (GBr) Scotland 49 Silvia Valsecchi (Ita) Carpe Diem - Itera 50 Katrina Hair (GBr) Scotland 51 Maryline Salvetat (Fra) VC Millau 52 Jennifer Dehaas-Boissiere (Fra) Rhône-Alpes 53 Emily Williams (Aus) Internationals 54 Kerstin Sosnowski (Lux) Luxembourg 55 Zlatica Gavlakova (Svk) Ile de France 12.13 56 Séverine Desbouys (Fra) Denmark 12.16 57 Ekatarina Malomoura (Rus) Russia 58 Olga Fomina (Rus) Russia 15.38 59 Suzie Godart (Lux) Luxembourg 60 Karen Lovatt (GBr) Scotland 15.44 61 Nadezda Vlasova (Rus) Russia 15.47 62 Isabelle Moulis (Fra) Team C-F 24 63 Shona Robson (GBr) Scotland 64 Lise Christensen (Den) Denmark 65 Nathalie Griggio (Aut) Lady Team Tyrol 15.52 66 Aline Parsy (Fra) VC Millau 16.06 67 Virginie Jacob (Fra) Rhône-Alpes 16.12 68 Karina Sorensen (Den) Denmark 17.29 69 Lucienne Azzalini (Aut) Lady Team Tyrol 17.31 70 Rebecca Menart (Fra) Team C-F 24 17.48 71 Eva Clop (Spa) Catalonia 72 Murielle Gaillet (Fra) Rhône-Alpes 73 Isabelle Carro (Fra) VC Millau 17.50 74 Kym Shirley (Aus) AIS Australia 20.40 75 Marion Gufler (Aut) Lady Team Tyrol 28.24 76 Blandine Camus (Fra) Rhône-Alpes 31.56 77 Anne-Laure Portais (Fra) Centre - Pays de la Loire 34.13 78 Godelieve Jansens (Lux) Luxembourg 37.27 79 Sylvie Levillain (Fra) Ile de France 45.56 80 Sarah Tournabien (Fra) Centre - Pays de la Loire 81 Fiona Souchon (Lux) Luxembourg 48.21 82 Meritxell Ferrer (Spa) Catalonia 51.52 83 Delphine Deschamps (Fra) Ile de France 84 Elisabeth Fritz (Aut) Lady Team Tyrol Mountains classification 1 Youlia Martissova (Rus) Carpe Diem - Itera 12 pts 2 Sigrid Corneo (Ita) Carpe Diem - Itera 10 3 Valentina Karpenko (Ukr) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 9 4 Edita Pucinskaite (Ltu) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 6 5 Karine Dalmais (Fra) Rhône-Alpes 3 6 Sara Carrigan (Aus) AIS Australia 3 7 Ita Kryjanovskaia (Rus) Carpe Diem - Itera 2 8 Miho Oki (Jpn) CA Mantes la Ville 78 1 9 Katie Mactier (Aus) AIS Australia 1 10 Tatiana Stiajkina (Ukr) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 1 Points classification 1 Youlia Martissova (Rus) Carpe Diem - Itera 45 pts 2 Olga Zabelinskaia (Rus) Carpe Diem - Itera 26 3 Sara Carrigan (Aus) AIS Australia 26 4 Virginie Moinard (Fra) Ile de France 26 5 Lisbeth Simper (Den) Denmark 25 6 Valentina Karpenko (Ukr) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 24 7 Miho Oki (Jpn) CA Mantes la Ville 78 22 8 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) AIS Australia 14 9 Tatiana Stiajkina (Ukr) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 11 10 Lotte Schmidt (Den) Denmark 9 11 Sigrid Corneo (Ita) Carpe Diem - Itera 8 12 Volha Hayeva (Blr) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 8 13 Annette Beutler (Fra) CA Mantes la Ville 78 7 14 Delphine Guille (Fra) Centre - Pays de la Loire 6 15 Bridget Evans (Aus) Team C-F 24 6 16 Edita Pucinskaite (Ltu) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 5 17 Ita Kryjanovskaia (Rus) Carpe Diem - Itera 5 18 Marta Vilajosana (Spa) Catalonia 3 19 Marina Jaunatre (Fra) Centre - Pays de la Loire 3 20 Alison Wright (Aus) AIS Australia 2 21 Joanne Cavill (GBr) Scotland 2 22 Vanessa Crawford (Aus) Internationals 1 Young rider classification 1 Sara Carrigan (Aus) AIS Australia 5.12.56 2 Olga Zabelinskaia (Rus) Carpe Diem - Itera 1.03 3 Virginie Moinard (Fra) Ile de France 2.47 4 Delphine Guille (Fra) Centre - Pays de la Loire 5 Alison Wright (Aus) AIS Australia 6 Vanessa Crawford (Aus) Internationals 2.47 7 Anna Skawinska (Pol) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 2.57 8 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) AIS Australia 10.28 9 Volha Hayeva (Blr) Alfa Lum - Ciegi 10 Carine Peter (Fra) Team C-F 24 11 Marina Jaunatre (Fra) Centre - Pays de la Loire 12 Katie Brown (Aus) Internationals 13 Béatrice Thomas (Fra) VC Millau 14 Barbara Lancioni (Ita) Carpe Diem - Itera 15 Cécile Quillacq (Fra) Ile de France 16 Hayley Rutherford (Aus) AIS Australia 17 Naomi Williams (Aus) Internationals 18 Natalia Boiarskaia (Rus) Russia 19 Séverine Villance (Lux) Luxembourg 20 Silvia Valsecchi (Ita) Carpe Diem - Itera 21 Emily Williams (Aus) Internationals 22 Ekatarina Malomoura (Rus) Russia 10.44 23 Olga Fomina (Rus) Russia 14.06 24 Nadezda Vlasova (Rus) Russia 14.15 25 Aline Parsy (Fra) VC Millau 14.34 26 Karina Sorensen (Den) Denmark 15.57 27 Rebecca Menart (Fra) Team C-F 24 16.16 28 Blandine Camus (Fra) Rhône-Alpes 30.24 29 Anne-Laure Portais (Fra) Centre - Pays de la Loire 32.41 30 Sylvie Levillain (Fra) Ile de France 44.24 31 Meritxell Ferrer (Spa) Catalonia 50.20 32 Elisabeth Fritz (Aut) Lady Team Tyrol Courtesy of velomania.net |