59th Vuelta Ciclista Comunidad Valenciana - 2.3Spain, February 27-March 3, 2001Main Page Results Previous stage Stage 5 - March 3: Valencia - Valencia ITT, 23.5 kmSlava creams them in TT, but Jeker takes overallSwiss Fabian Jeker, riding for the Portuguese Maia-MSS team has won the overall classification of the 59th Tour of Valencia. Jeker finished only 16th in the final 23.5 kilometre time trial in Valencia, but managed to put 13 seconds into Michael Boogerd (Rabobank), who had led the race since the first day. Jeker had started the time trial on equal time with Boogerd and Leonardo Piepoli, and he only needed to make sure he beat the other two, while watching for 4th overall, Alex Vinokourov, who could only put 6 seconds into Jeker to take third overall. The stage honours belonged to the timeless Russian, Vjatcheslav Ekimov, who scored US Postal's first win of the year using his fearsome time trialling abilities. In the wind and rain, the Olympic champion clocked 28.42 for the distance, averaging just over 49 km/h to beat Jorg Jaksche (ONCE) and Aitor Gonzalez (Kelme). Ekimov also beat Melchior Mauri (Maia) who was trying out the new (and slightly controversial) Rotor pedal system, which is designed to help efficiency. It was a failure as far as Mauri was concerned, as he only finished 35th, 1.53 behind Slava, and dropped to 10th overall. Michael Boogerd was also suffering, and was half a minute behind Jeker at the halfway point, and clearly not comfortable. He and his Rabobank team had the race taken from their grasp after controlling it so well for four stages. However, they still have the Majorca and Ruta del Sol victories to be satisfied with, and there's plenty more racing in Spain to come.
Results1 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 28.42 (49.128 km/h) 2 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) ONCE 0.01 3 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 0.02 4 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 0.19 5 Jose Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.25 6 David Plaza (Spa) Festina 0.31 7 Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) ONCE 0.33 8 Angel Luis Casero (Spa) Festina 0.42 9 Jose Azevedo (Por) ONCE 0.52 10 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) La Pecol 11 Christian Vandevelde (USA) US Postal Service 0.55 12 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 1.02 13 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.03 14 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Telekom 1.10 15 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Maia-MSS 1.16 16 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1.19 17 Ińigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 18 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 1.22 19 Thomas Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 20 Rafael Diaz (Spa) ONCE 1.23 21 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service 1.23 22 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 1.28 23 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 1.29 24 Martin Rittsel (Swe) CSC-World Online 1.30 25 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1.31 26 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 1.40 27 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 1.41 28 Alex Zülle (Swi) Team Coast 29 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Cofidis 1.45 30 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) US Postal Service 1.47 31 Pedro Andrade (Por) La Pecol 1.48 32 Bo Hamburger (Den) CSC-World Online 1.50 33 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 1.51 34 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Lampre-Daikin 1.52 35 Melchior Mauri (Spa) Maia-MSS 1.53 36 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 2.04 37 Paulo Barroso (Por) Maia-MSS 2.07 38 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) La Pecol 2.09 39 Jaime Javie Hernandez (Spa) Festina 2.11 40 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.13 41 Cesar Garcia (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 2.19 42 Uan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 2.33 43 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 44 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 45 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 2.35 46 Francisco Jose Lara (Spa) Festina 2.37 47 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.39 48 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 2.43 49 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Maia-MSS 2.45 50 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 2.46 51 German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 2.47 52 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 2.49 53 Rolf Huser (Swi) Team Coast 2.57 54 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 2.59 55 Udo Bolts (Ger) Team Telekom 3.00 56 Ens Heppner (Ger) Team Telekom 3.02 57 Michael Blaudzun (Den) CSC-World Online 3.08 58 Dmitri Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 3.09 59 Angel Edo (Spa) Maia-MSS 3.12 60 Michael Giebelmann (Ger) Team Coast 61 Joan Horrach (Spa) Maia-MSS 3.16 62 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal Service 63 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Maia-MSS 3.21 64 Alberto Elli (Ita) Team Telekom 3.22 65 Carlos Sastre (Spa) ONCE 3.23 66 Gianpaolo Mondini (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 3.26 67 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 3.26 68 Armin Meier (Swi) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 3.40 69 Koldo Gil (Spa) iBanesto.com 3.50 70 Daniel Clavero (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 3.54 71 Joao Silva (Por) Maia-MSS 3.58 72 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Telekom 4.04 73 Jose Javier Gomez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 4.04 74 Nicki Sorensen (Den) CSC-World Online 4.18 75 Rene Joergensen (Den) CSC-World Online 4.23 76 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 4.28 77 Antonio Colom (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 78 Jose A. Pecharroman (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 4.30 79 Marco Della Vedova (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 4.35 80 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 4.56 81 David Vazquez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 5.09 82 Mario Scirea (Ita) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 5.11 83 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 5.18 84 Saulius Sarkauskas (Ltu) La Pecol 5.23 85 Francisco Javier Cerezo (Spa) CSC-World Online 5.26 86 Ramon Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.36 87 Danny Jonasson (Den) CSC-World Online 5.52 88 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 5.53 89 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 6.00 90 Jose Rosa (Por) La Pecol 6.25 91 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) La Pecol 6.33 92 Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis 7.08 93 Davide Bramati (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 7.28 94 Ricardo Valdez (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 7.40 95 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 8.22 Points 1 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 25 pts 2 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) ONCE 20 3 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 16 4 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 14 5 Jose Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 6 David Plaza (Spa) Festina 10 7 Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) ONCE 9 8 Angel Luis Casero (Spa) Festina 8 9 Jose Azevedo (Por) ONCE 7 10 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) La Pecol 6 11 Christian Vandevelde (USA) US Postal Service 5 12 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 4 13 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 14 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Telekom 2 15 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Maia-MSS 1 Teams 1 O.N.C.E 1.27.32 2 U.S. Postal Service 0.52 3 Kelme-Costa Blanca 1.26 4 Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 1.57 5 Festina 1.58 6 Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.15 7 Rabobank 2.27 8 iBanesto.com 3.05 9 La-Pecol 3.23 10 Maia-MSS 3.50 11 CSC-World Online 5.02 12 Team Deutsche Telekom 5.46 13 Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 6.13 14 Mapei-Quick Step 6.23 15 Team Coast 6.24 16 Lampre-Daikin 6.52 17 Saeco Macchine Per Caffe 7.17 18 Mercatone Uno-Albacom 11.47 19 Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 15.12 Final general classification 1 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Maia-MSS 16.22.48 2 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 0.13 3 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Telekom 0.32 4 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 0.37 5 Christian Vandevelde (USA) US Postal Service 0.50 6 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 0.51 7 Jose Azevedo (Por) ONCE 1.01 8 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 1.15 9 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 1.19 10 Melchior Mauri (Spa) Maia-MSS 1.27 11 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.42 12 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1.56 13 David Plaza (Spa) Festina 1.58 14 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Lampre-Daikin 2.29 15 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 2.35 16 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 3.10 17 Koldo Gil (Spa) iBanesto.com 3.31 18 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Maia-MSS 3.58 19 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 3.59 20 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.59 21 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) La Pecol 4.07 22 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 4.43 23 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 5.05 24 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) ONCE 5.28 25 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.29 26 Bo Hamburger (Den) CSC-World Online 5.30 27 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 6.06 28 Cesar Garcia (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 6.43 29 Rolf Huser (Swi) Team Coast 10.50 30 Thomas Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 11.02 31 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) La Pecol 12.17 32 Angel Edo (Spa) Maia-MSS 12.52 33 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) US Postal Service 15.32 34 Ińigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 17.06 35 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 17.18 36 Alex Zülle (Swi) Team Coast 17.30 37 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service 17.46 38 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 17.51 39 Udo Bolts (Ger) Team Telekom 19.04 40 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Maia-MSS 19.51 41 Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) ONCE 19.55 42 Jose Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20.03 43 Alberto Elli (Ita) Team Telekom 20.28 44 Rafael Diaz (Spa) ONCE 20.45 45 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 22.21 46 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal Service 22.38 47 Rene Joergensen (Den) CSC-World Online 22.49 48 Carlos Sastre (Spa) ONCE 23.01 49 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 23.18 50 Dmitri Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 23.48 51 Joan Horrach (Spa) Maia-MSS 24.52 52 Jaime Javie Hernandez (Spa) Festina 26.25 53 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 26.25 54 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Telekom 27.17 55 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 27.40 56 Armin Meier (Swi) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 27.54 57 Michael Blaudzun (Den) CSC-World Online 27.54 58 Nicki Sorensen (Den) CSC-World Online 28.01 59 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 29.02 60 Martin Rittsel (Swe) CSC-World Online 30.08 61 Pedro Andrade (Por) La Pecol 30.34 62 Antonio Colom (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 30.37 63 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) La Pecol 30.47 64 Francisco Jose Lara (Spa) Festina 31.02 65 Uan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 31.28 66 Ricardo Valdez (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 31.54 67 Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis 32.11 68 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 32.44 69 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 34.08 70 Ens Heppner (Ger) Team Telekom 34.12 71 Paulo Barroso (Por) Maia-MSS 34.22 72 Marco Della Vedova (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 35.45 73 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 36.23 74 Michael Giebelmann (Ger) Team Coast 38.05 75 Davide Bramati (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 38.38 76 Jose Javier Gomez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 38.54 77 Jose Rosa (Por) La Pecol 39.48 78 Mario Scirea (Ita) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 40.04 79 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Cofidis 41.55 80 Angel Luis Casero (Spa) Festina 42.03 81 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 44.53 82 David Vazquez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 46.56 83 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 47.07 84 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 47.21 85 Joao Silva (Por) Maia-MSS 49.16 86 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 50.43 87 Jose A. Pecharroman (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 52.24 88 Danny Jonasson (Den) CSC-World Online 52.30 89 Francisco Javier Cerezo (Spa) CSC-World Online 55.00 90 Ramon Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 55.10 91 Gianpaolo Mondini (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 56.37 92 Daniel Clavero (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 57.05 93 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 59.05 94 Saulius Sarkauskas (Ltu) La Pecol 1.00.13 95 German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1.04.52 Points classification 1 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 69 pts 2 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Maia-MSS 55 3 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 51 4 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 48 5 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 41 6 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 40 7 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Telekom 30 8 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 27 9 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Telekom 25 10 Angel Edo (Spa) Maia-MSS 24 11 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal Service 21 12 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) ONCE 20 13 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 17 14 Alex Zülle (Swi) Team Coast 14 15 Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) ONCE 14 16 Christian Vandevelde (USA) US Postal Service 14 17 Jose Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13 18 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 12 19 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 12 20 Koldo Gil (Spa) iBanesto.com 12 21 Jose Azevedo (Por) ONCE 12 22 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Lampre-Daikin 12 23 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) La Pecol 12 24 David Plaza (Spa) Festina 10 25 Melchior Mauri (Spa) Maia-MSS 10 26 Angel Luis Casero (Spa) Festina 8 27 Bo Hamburger (Den) CSC-World Online 7 28 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 6 29 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 30 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 3 31 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 3 32 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 3 33 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 2 34 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Maia-MSS 1 Mountains classification 1 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 74 pts 2 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Maia-MSS 61 3 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 42 4 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service 25 5 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 24 6 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 24 7 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 23 8 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Telekom 22 9 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 16 10 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 14 11 Jose Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 14 12 Melchior Mauri (Spa) Maia-MSS 12 13 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 12 14 Alex Zülle (Swi) Team Coast 11 15 Carlos Sastre (Spa) ONCE 11 16 Ricardo Valdez (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 10 17 Jose A. Pecharroman (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 8 18 Armin Meier (Swi) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 6 19 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 6 20 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 5 21 Uan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 5 22 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 4 23 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Saeco Machine Per Caffe 4 24 Rafael Diaz (Spa) ONCE 4 25 Christian Vandevelde (USA) US Postal Service 3 26 Joan Horrach (Spa) Maia-MSS 3 27 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 28 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 2 29 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 2 30 Bo Hamburger (Den) CSC-World Online 1 31 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 1 32 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 1 33 Cesar Garcia (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1 34 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Metas volantes classification 1 German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 6 pts 2 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Maia-MSS 6 3 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) ONCE 3 4 Ricardo Valdez (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 3 5 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 3 6 Koldo Gil (Spa) iBanesto.com 3 7 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 2 8 Cesar Garcia (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 2 9 Davide Bramati (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 2 10 Alex Zülle (Swi) Team Coast 2 11 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 12 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 1 13 Uan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1 14 Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) ONCE 1 Teams classification 1 iBanesto.com 49.10.54 2 Maia-MSS 1.41 3 Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.32 4 Kelme-Costa Blanca 8.16 5 U.S. Postal Service 9.43 6 O.N.C.E 19.18 7 Rabobank 22.11 8 Team Deutsche Telekom 31.48 9 Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 31.49 10 La-Pecol 33.49 11 CSC-World Online 35.28 12 Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 40.29 13 Saeco Macchine Per Caffe 41.59 14 Lampre-Daikin 42.35 15 Festina 49.48 16 Mapei-Quick Step 53.55 17 Team Coast 59.53 18 Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 1.41.50 19 Mercatone Uno-Albacom 2.27.35 |