81st Volta a Catalunya - 2.HCSpain, June 21- 28, 2001Main page Results Previous stage Stage 8 - June 28: St Julia Loria - Alt de la Rabassa ITT, 13.9 kmBeloki snatches final victory with top TTBy Gabriella Ekström, cyclingnews.com correspondent Joseba Beloki (ONCE) has won the mountain time trial up to Alt de la Rabessa by 15 seconds over Fernando Escartin (Team Coast). A pleasing victory, but more importantly was the fact that Igor Gonzales de Galdeano (ONCE) was 55 seconds behind him. Before today's stage, Beloki was second overall, only 22 seconds behind Gonzales de Galdeano, so his fine performance over the 13.9 kilomtre uphill TT course means that he won the overall GC by 33 seconds over Gonzales de Galdeano. Fernando Escartin moved up to third in the final GC thanks to an awesome performance today, a performance based more on great form and a strong mind, than technique and elegance. ONCE capped off a near perfect Volta a Catalunya. After winning the first stage team time trial they passed the leader's jersey around between four team members, with it finally finishing on Joseba Beloki's shoulders. No other team wore it during the entire eight stages. Beloki also won the points classification and Rafael Felix Cardenas (Kelme) won the mountains classification. He earned half of his 105 points during the fifth stage where he rode in a long breakaway. The metas volantes and special sprints classifications were taken by Carlos Ramon Golbano (Jazztel) and Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Kelme) respectively. Surprisingly, iBanesto.com just beat ONCE in the teams classification.
Results1 Joseba Beloki (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 33.47 2 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 0.15 3 Igor Gonzalez (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 0.55 4 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 1.15 5 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.34 6 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 1.37 7 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1.42 8 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 2.05 9 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 2.10 10 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 2.17 11 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) iBanesto.com 2.26 12 Roberto Heras (Spa) U.S. Postal Service 2.26 13 Alber Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.29 14 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 2.35 15 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 2.42 16 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit-Agricole 2.45 17 Felix Rafael Cardenas (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 2.54 18 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 3.02 19 David Vazquez (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 3.07 20 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 3.18 21 Felix M. Garcia (Spa) Festina 3.29 22 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 3.39 23 Marcos A. Serrano (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 3.42 24 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) U.S. Postal Service 3.42 25 Aitor Kintana (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 3.45 26 Roberto Conti (Ita) Cantina Tollo 3.52 27 Angel Luis Casero (Spa) Festina 4.05 28 Levi Leipheimer (USA) U.S. Postal Service 4.05 29 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Cantina Tollo 4.21 30 Luis Perez (Spa) Festina 4.25 31 Daniel Clavero (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 4.26 32 Jens Heppner (Ger) Telekom 4.30 33 Maurizio Caravaggio (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 4.42 34 Iban Sastre (Spa) Festina 4.48 35 Santiago Blanco (Spa) iBanesto.com 4.55 36 Raphael Schweda (Ger) Team Coast 5.07 37 Bobby Julich (USA) Credit-Agricole 5.27 38 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 5.39 39 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 5.41 40 Jose Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 5.45 41 Cesar Garcia (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 5.47 42 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit-Agricole 5.54 43 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 6.00 44 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Telekom 6.09 45 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Cantina Tollo 6.26 46 Marco Velo (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 6.27 47 Jose Maria Jimenez (Spa) iBanesto.com 6.38 48 Santiago Botero (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 6.44 49 Angel Castresana (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.47 50 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Alessio 6.50 51 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 6.55 52 Julian Dean (NZl) U.S. Postal Service 7.02 53 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Credit-Agricole 7.32 54 Ivan Gotti (Ita) Alessio 7.39 55 Ruben Diaz De Cerio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7.47 56 Igor Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7.48 57 Enrico Cassani (Ita) Domo-Farm Frites 7.50 58 Carlos Ramon Golbano (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 8.15 59 German Nieto (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 8.19 60 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Cantina Tollo 8.20 61 Alessandr Spezialetti (Ita) Cantina Tollo 8.35 62 Chann McRae (USA) Mercury-Viatel 8.55 63 Eleuterio Anguita (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 9.01 64 Juan Carlos Vicario (Spa) Festina 9.03 65 Fabrice Gougot (Fra) Credit-Agricole 9.58 66 Marco Milesi (Ita) Domo-Farm Frites 10.06 67 Juan Carlos Guillamon (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 11.19 68 Thorsten Rund (Ger) Team Coast 12.31 69 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Alessio 15.39 Points 1 Joseba Beloki (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 25 pts 2 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 20 3 Igor Gonzalez (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 16 4 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 14 5 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 6 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 10 7 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 9 8 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 8 9 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 7 10 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 6 11 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) iBanesto.com 5 12 Roberto Heras (Spa) U.S. Postal Service 4 13 Alber Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 14 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 2 15 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 1 Mountains La Rabassa - Cat. 1 1 Joseba Beloki (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 16 pts 2 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 12 3 Igor Gonzalez (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 10 4 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 8 5 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 6 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 4 7 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 3 8 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 2 9 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 1 Teams 1 O.N.C.E.-Eroski 1.44.51 2 Team Coast 3.07 3 Kelme-Costa Blanca 3.11 4 iBanesto.com 3.15 5 US Postal Service 6.43 6 Euskaltel-Euskadi 7.20 7 Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 7.39 8 Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 7.48 9 Festina 8.29 10 Credit Agricole 10.36 11 Cantina Tollo 11.09 12 Alessio 16.40 Final general classification 1 Joseba Beloki (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 26.40.14 (37.843 km/h) 2 Igor Gonzalez (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 0.33 3 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 0.41 4 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1.44 5 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 3.03 6 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) iBanesto.com 3.04 7 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.40 8 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 3.57 9 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 5.11 10 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 5.28 11 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 5.51 12 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit-Agricole 6.10 13 Felix M. Garcia (Spa) Festina 6.23 14 Luis Perez (Spa) Festina 6.25 15 Santiago Blanco (Spa) iBanesto.com 7.20 16 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 8.30 17 Marcos A. Serrano (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 8.45 18 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 8.56 19 Alber Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9.11 20 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Cantina Tollo 9.41 21 Aitor Kintana (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 10.16 22 Roberto Heras (Spa) U.S. Postal Service 11.13 23 David Vazquez (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 13.51 24 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 13.58 25 Ivan Gotti (Ita) Alessio 14.15 26 Marco Velo (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 15.12 27 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Cantina Tollo 15.53 28 Angel Luis Casero (Spa) Festina 17.21 29 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 17.56 30 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 19.40 31 Bobby Julich (USA) Credit-Agricole 20.11 32 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) U.S. Postal Service 20.48 33 Daniel Clavero (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 21.03 34 Raphael Schweda (Ger) Team Coast 22.34 35 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 22.37 36 Jens Heppner (Ger) Telekom 23.53 37 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 24.08 38 Jose Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 26.32 39 Igor Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 26.56 40 Roberto Conti (Ita) Cantina Tollo 27.09 41 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Cantina Tollo 32.08 42 Cesar Garcia (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 32.13 43 Santiago Botero (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 33.01 44 Levi Leipheimer (USA) U.S. Postal Service 33.49 45 Angel Castresana (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 34.06 46 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 34.37 47 Felix Rafael Cardenas (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 38.34 48 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Telekom 39.01 49 Jose Maria Jimenez (Spa) iBanesto.com 39.41 50 Julian Dean (NZl) U.S. Postal Service 43.35 51 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 46.35 52 Ruben Diaz De Cerio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 46.55 53 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit-Agricole 49.40 54 Iban Sastre (Spa) Festina 50.18 55 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Alessio 54.40 56 Enrico Cassani (Ita) Domo-Farm Frites 55.42 57 Carlos Ramon Golbano (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 1.05.33 58 German Nieto (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 1.06.25 59 Maurizio Caravaggio (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 1.14.22 60 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Credit-Agricole 1.18.54 Points classification 1 Joseba Beloki (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 74 pts 2 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 61 3 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 54 4 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 49 5 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 42 6 Igor Gonzalez (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 37 7 Julian Dean (NZl) U.S. Postal Service 28 8 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 27 9 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) iBanesto.com 26 10 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 26 11 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 25 12 Ivan Gotti (Ita) Alessio 25 13 Aitor Kintana (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 20 14 Igor Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19 15 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 14 16 Jens Heppner (Ger) Telekom 14 17 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 14 18 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 14 19 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Cantina Tollo 12 20 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit-Agricole 12 21 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 11 22 Santiago Blanco (Spa) iBanesto.com 11 23 Felix Rafael Cardenas (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 10 24 Luis Perez (Spa) Festina 9 25 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 8 26 Carlos Ramon Golbano (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 8 27 Felix M. Garcia (Spa) Festina 7 28 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 6 29 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit-Agricole 5 30 Roberto Heras (Spa) U.S. Postal Service 4 31 Alber Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 32 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 2 33 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Cantina Tollo 2 34 Santiago Botero (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 2 Mountains classification 1 Felix Rafael Cardenas (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 105 pts 2 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 80 3 Joseba Beloki (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 46 4 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 46 5 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 45 6 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 39 7 Aitor Kintana (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 31 8 Ivan Gotti (Ita) Alessio 29 9 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 29 10 Daniel Clavero (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 28 11 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 27 12 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 26 13 Igor Gonzalez (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 22 14 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 17 15 Carlos Ramon Golbano (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 17 16 German Nieto (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 15 17 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) iBanesto.com 14 18 Bobby Julich (USA) Credit-Agricole 13 19 Cesar Garcia (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 13 20 Santiago Botero (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 12 21 David Vazquez (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 11 22 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 11 23 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Cantina Tollo 11 24 Alber Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 25 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 8 26 Julian Dean (NZl) U.S. Postal Service 8 27 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 7 28 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 7 29 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 6 30 Jens Heppner (Ger) Telekom 6 31 Marcos A. Serrano (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 4 32 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 4 33 Luis Perez (Spa) Festina 3 34 Santiago Blanco (Spa) iBanesto.com 3 35 Roberto Conti (Ita) Cantina Tollo 3 36 Angel Luis Casero (Spa) Festina 2 37 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit-Agricole 1 38 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 1 Metas volantes classification 1 Carlos Ramon Golbano (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 8 pts 2 Cesar Garcia (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 7 3 Ivan Gotti (Ita) Alessio 4 4 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 4 5 Aitor Kintana (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 4 6 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 3 7 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 3 8 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) U.S. Postal Service 3 9 Jens Heppner (Ger) Telekom 2 10 Marco Velo (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 2 11 German Nieto (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 2 12 Santiago Botero (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1 13 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1 Special sprints classification 1 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 9 pts 2 German Nieto (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 8 3 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 6 4 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 3 5 Cesar Garcia (Spa) Col.Relax-Fuenlabrada 3 6 Julian Dean (NZl) U.S. Postal Service 3 7 Santiago Botero (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 2 8 Aitor Kintana (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 2 9 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 2 10 Jens Heppner (Ger) Telekom 2 11 Daniel Clavero (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 1 12 Felix Rafael Cardenas (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1 Teams classification 1 iBanesto.com 80.06.44 2 O.N.C.E.-Eroski 0.21 3 Kelme-Costa Blanca 3.59 4 Euskaltel-Euskadi 22.14 5 Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 22.16 6 Festina 23.46 7 Team Coast 25.43 8 Cantina Tollo 28.17 9 Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 42.17 10 US Postal Service 50.22 11 Credit Agricole 1.09.43 12 Alessio 1.41.15 |