53rd Criterium du Dauphiné Libére - 2.HCFrance, June 10-17, 2001Main page Results Previous stage Stage 3 - June 13: Guilherand-Granges - Carpentras, 184 kmMerckx takes over on the Ventoux
Belgian champion Axel Merckx is the new leader in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré after he finished 10th in toady's stage that went over the mighty Mont Ventoux. The stage was won by Venezuelan Unai Etxebarria (Euskaltel) who broke away and won by three seconds, with a group of 13 following. Merckx pulled on the yellow and blue jersey 30 years after his father Eddy had worn (and won) it in the 1971 edition. The race winning move in today's 184 kilometre stage from Guilherand-Granges to Carpentras came with 8 kilometres to go from the summit of Mont Ventoux (1909m). It was then that Etxebarria attacked, gaining 48 seconds on small lead group, and 1'20 on a group containing Merckx, and David Millar amongst others. Merckx and Millar chased hard down the other side to regain those in front, but Etxebarria still held a 40 second lead in Bedoin.
This was reduced to 3 seconds by the finish in Carpentras, but the adopted Basque held firm and won the stage. Merckx now holds a 1'32 advantage on Cofidis' David Millar, but this may be substantially reduced in tomorrow's 43 kilometre time trial from Beaumes-de-Venise to Valréas. In addition, Christophe Moreau (Festina), Pavel Tonkov (Mercury) and Jonathan Vaughters (Credit Agricole) are poised to strike in this stage, as all are less than 2 minutes behind Merckx. "With 10 kilometres to go to the top of Ventoux, I had problems. Fortunately, I found Moreau and Millar. We descended into an open tomb. We caught up with the leaders." "The time trial is not my specialty. I will try and give my all. Moreau, Millar and Vaughters will be difficult to beat." Etxebarria (4th overall) hopes to ride well on Saturday's mountainous stage, and is looking for support from his teammates. "I sacrificed myself for Iban Mayo in the Midi Libre. I will now wait to see if the others do the same for me," he said.
Results1 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.57.12 2 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 0.03 3 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 4 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 5 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Mercury-Viatel 6 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 7 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit Agricole 8 Ruben Gonzalez (Chi) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 Sven Montgomery (Swi) La Francaise Des Jeux 10 Axel Merckx (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 11 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 12 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 13 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 14 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 15 Stéphane Heulot (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 2.25 16 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 17 Txema Del Omo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19 Sébastien Demarbaix (Bel) Ag2R Prevoyance 20 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Jean Delatour 4.40 22 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 23 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Credit Agricole 5.44 24 Chann McRae (USA) Mercury-Viatel 25 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 5.48 26 David Plaza Romero (Spa) Festina 27 Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 28 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 7.11 29 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bonjour 30 Laurent Roux (Fra) Jean Delatour 31 Bobby Julich (USA) Credit Agricole 32 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 33 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 34 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Lotto-Adecco 35 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 36 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 37 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 38 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole 39 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 40 Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) Mercury-Viatel 41 Pascal Lino (Fra) Festina 42 Florent Brard (Fra) Festina 43 Steve De Wolf (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 13.26 44 Laurent Madouas (Fra) Festina 13.41 45 Lylian Lebreton (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 46 Franck Renier (Fra) Bonjour 47 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour 48 Dominique Rault (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 49 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 50 Floyd Landis (USA) Mercury-Viatel 51 Grzegorz Gwiazdowski (Pol) La Francaise Des Jeux 52 Steve Vermaut (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 53 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Jean Delatour 54 Gilles Maignan (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 55 Anthony Morin (Fra) Credit Agricole 56 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Mercury-Viatel 57 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 58 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour 59 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 17.09 60 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Bigmat-Auber 93 61 Francisco Mancebo Perez (Spa) iBanesto.com 62 Francisco Javier Vila (Spa) iBanesto.com 63 Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 64 Dmitri Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 65 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 66 Candido Barbosa (Por) iBanesto.com 67 Xavier Jan (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 68 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 21.50 69 Xabier Zandio (Spa) iBanesto.com 70 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Cofidis 71 Arnaud Pretot (Fra) Festina 23.13 72 Gorka Gerrikagoitia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 73 Glenn Magnusson (Swe) Domo-Farm Frites 74 Fabian Dewaele (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 75 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 76 Serge Baguet (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 77 Christophe Capelle (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 78 Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 79 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 80 Thomas Bodo (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 81 Jimmy Casper (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 82 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) iBanesto.com 83 Thomas Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 84 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Bonjour 85 Damien Nazon (Fra) Bonjour 86 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 87 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 88 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) Jean Delatour 89 Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Festina 90 Phil Zajicek (USA) Mercury-Viatel 91 Plamen Stainov (Bul) Mercury-Viatel 92 Fabrice Gougot (Fra) Credit Agricole 93 Arturas Kasputis (Ltu) Ag2R Prevoyance 94 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Festina 95 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour 96 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 97 Jacky Durand (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 98 Philippe Bordenave (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 99 Ludovic Auger (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 100 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Bonjour 23.21 General classification after stage 3 1 Axel Merckx (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 15.13.47 2 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 1.32 3 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 1.37 3 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 1.43 6 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 1.44 7 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Mercury-Viatel 1.46 8 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.48 9 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 1.54 10 Sven Montgomery (Swi) La Francaise Des Jeux 1.55 11 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit Agricole 1.56 12 Ruben Gonzalez (Chi) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.59 13 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 2.08 14 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 2.12 15 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 3.50 16 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.59 17 Stéphane Heulot (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 4.09 18 Txema Del Omo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.22 19 Sébastien Demarbaix (Bel) Ag2R Prevoyance 4.25 20 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.31 21 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 6.25 22 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Jean Delatour 6.44 23 Laurent Roux (Fra) Jean Delatour 7.01 24 Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 7.30 25 Chann McRae (USA) Mercury-Viatel 7.33 26 David Plaza Romero (Spa) Festina 7.40 27 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Credit Agricole 7.41 28 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 7.47 29 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Lotto-Adecco 8.48 30 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 8.53 31 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 8.54 32 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.58 33 Bobby Julich (USA) Credit Agricole 8.59 34 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bonjour 9.01 35 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 9.02 36 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 9.03 37 Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) Mercury-Viatel 9.07 38 Pascal Lino (Fra) Festina 9.12 39 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 9.13 40 Florent Brard (Fra) Festina 9.17 41 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 9.23 42 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Mercury-Viatel 15.27 42 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour 44 Steve De Wolf (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 15.31 45 Floyd Landis (USA) Mercury-Viatel 15.32 46 Lylian Lebreton (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 15.33 46 Anthony Morin (Fra) Credit Agricole 48 Franck Renier (Fra) Bonjour 15.34 48 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour 48 Steve Vermaut (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 48 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 52 Dominique Rault (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 15.35 53 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Jean Delatour 15.36 54 Gilles Maignan (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 15.39 55 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 16.10 56 Laurent Madouas (Fra) Festina 16.14 57 Grzegorz Gwiazdowski (Pol) La Francaise Des Jeux 17.10 58 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 18.35 59 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 18.42 60 Candido Barbosa (Por) iBanesto.com 18.45 61 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Bigmat-Auber 93 18.47 62 Francisco Mancebo Perez (Spa) iBanesto.com 18.52 63 Francisco Javier Vila (Spa) iBanesto.com 19.01 64 Xavier Jan (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 19.12 65 Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 19.40 66 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole 20.13 67 Xabier Zandio (Spa) iBanesto.com 23.51 68 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 24.01 69 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Cofidis 24.10 70 Glenn Magnusson (Swe) Domo-Farm Frites 24.34 71 Fabian Dewaele (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 24.49 72 Jacky Durand (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 24.53 73 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 24.55 74 Serge Baguet (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 24.56 75 Damien Nazon (Fra) Bonjour 24.58 76 Christophe Capelle (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 25.00 77 Thomas Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 25.04 78 Phil Zajicek (USA) Mercury-Viatel 25.06 79 Thomas Bodo (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 25.07 80 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour 25.10 81 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 25.11 82 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) iBanesto.com 25.17 83 Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 25.20 84 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) Jean Delatour 25.23 85 Gorka Gerrikagoitia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25.41 86 Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Festina 25.44 87 Arturas Kasputis (Ltu) Ag2R Prevoyance 25.49 88 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 25.52 89 Arnaud Pretot (Fra) Festina 26.24 90 Plamen Stainov (Bul) Mercury-Viatel 26.30 91 Philippe Bordenave (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 34.14 92 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Festina 36.31 93 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 36.32 94 Ludovic Auger (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 36.33 95 Jimmy Casper (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 37.07 96 Dmitri Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 37.24 97 Fabrice Gougot (Fra) Credit Agricole 43.05 98 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Bonjour 43.16 99 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Bonjour 43.20 100 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 45.08 Points classification 1 Glenn Magnusson (Swe) Domo-Farm Frites 52 pts 2 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 39 3 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 32 4 Fabian Dewaele (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 31 5 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 31 6 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 26 7 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 25 8 Damien Nazon (Fra) Bonjour 25 9 Axel Merckx (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 23 10 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 23 11 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 22 12 Jimmy Casper (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 22 13 Christophe Capelle (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 21 13 Candido Barbosa (Por) iBanesto.com 21 15 Laurent Roux (Fra) Jean Delatour 20 16 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 17 17 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Bigmat-Auber 93 15 18 Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 12 19 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 12 20 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Mercury-Viatel 11 21 Serge Baguet (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 10 22 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Jean Delatour 10 23 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 23 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit Agricole 9 25 Ruben Gonzalez (Chi) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8 26 Jacky Durand (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 7 26 Sven Montgomery (Swi) La Francaise Des Jeux 7 28 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Festina 6 29 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 6 30 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole 6 31 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 6 32 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 5 33 Francisco Mancebo Perez (Spa) iBanesto.com 4 34 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 35 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Lotto-Adecco 3 35 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 3 35 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 3 38 Stéphane Heulot (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 3 39 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 2 40 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) Jean Delatour 2 40 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour 2 42 Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Festina 1 Mountains classification 1 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 40 pts 2 Sven Montgomery (Swi) La Francaise Des Jeux 35 3 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Mercury-Viatel 30 4 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 26 5 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 22 6 Ruben Gonzalez (Chi) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18 7 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit Agricole 16 8 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 14 9 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 12 10 Axel Merckx (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 11 11 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 11 12 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 10 13 Serge Baguet (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 8 14 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 8 15 Laurent Roux (Fra) Jean Delatour 6 16 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 17 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 5 18 Jimmy Casper (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 5 19 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Bonjour 5 20 Thomas Bodo (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 4 21 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Jean Delatour 3 22 Anthony Morin (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 23 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 24 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 25 Francisco Javier Vila (Spa) iBanesto.com 1 26 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 1 27 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 1 28 Arnaud Pretot (Fra) Festina 1 29 Txema Del Omo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Combination classification 1 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 94 pts 2 Axel Merckx (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 64 3 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 60 4 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Mercury-Viatel 58 5 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 57 6 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 56 7 Sven Montgomery (Swi) La Francaise Des Jeux 53 8 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 50 9 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 41 10 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 35 11 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit Agricole 35 12 Ruben Gonzalez (Chi) Euskaltel-Euskadi 35 13 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 32 14 Jimmy Casper (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 27 15 Laurent Roux (Fra) Jean Delatour 26 16 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 24 17 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 22 18 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20 19 Serge Baguet (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 18 20 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Jean Delatour 13 21 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 8 22 Stéphane Heulot (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 7 23 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 24 Txema Del Omo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 25 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 |
