Cholet-Pays De Loire - 1.2France, March 25, 20012000 Results Results Past winners Florent Brard wins in CholetFestina's Florent Brard has taken the third round of the Coupe de France, the 24th GP Cholet-Pays de Loire. Brard beat Jean Delatour's Laurent Brochard and Cofidis' Nico Eeckhout, the three riders crossing the line separately. The race's main escape was made by Belgian Marc Chanoine and two French riders Stéphane Bergès and Guillaume Auger. However, they were caught before one of the last hills, the bosse du Moulin-Guérin, and all the favourites were in the leading group. Five riders (Franck Renier, Arnaud Prétot, Christophe Agnolutto, Christophe Mengin and Nico Eeckhout) attacked, gaining 50 seconds in the closing stages. But David Millar (Cofidis), Patrice Halgand (Delatour) and Serge Baguet (Lotto) then managed to bridge up to the leaders on the final hill. However on the finishing circuit in Cholet, the eight riders couldn't quite escape the peloton, which was now down to 25 riders. Jurgen Guns, Arnaud Prétot and Franck Bouyer (Bonjour) all tried separate attacks, but it was Florent Brard who succeeded in getting away under the 1 km to go banner, taking one of his biggest professional wins.
Results1 Florent Brard (Fra) Festina 4.56.59 2 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.05 3 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Cofidis 0.09 4 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 5 Serge Baguet (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 6 Stéphane Heulot (Fra) Big Mat-Aubervilliers 93 7 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Française des Jeux 8 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2r 0.14 9 Franck Bouyer (Fra) Bonjour 0.16 10 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Big Mat-Aubervilliers 93 0.41 11 Arnaud Pretot (Fra) Festina 12 Steve Vermaut Lotto - Adecco 13 Jurgen Guns (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 14 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Mercury-Viatel 15 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 16 Franck Renier (Fra) Bonjour 17 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Cofidis 18 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 19 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Ag2R Prevoyance 20 Jurgen Van Roosbroeck (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 21 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 22 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Jean Delatour 23 Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Festina 24 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 25 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 0.47 26 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 3.13 27 Jean Patrick Nazon (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 28 Christophe Capelle (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 29 Gilles Maignan (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 30 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour 31 Ciaran Power (Irl) St Quentin-Oktos 32 Tom Stremersch (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 33 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 34 Frédéric Mainguenaud (Fra) Bonjour 35 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 36 Pavel Broutt (Rus) Itera 37 Kurt Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team Fakta 38 Hans De Clercq (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 39 Serguei Klimov (Rus) Itera 40 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team Fakta 41 Anthony Langella (Fra) Credit Agricole 42 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 43 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 44 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 45 Kurt Van Lancker (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 46 Daniel Atienza Urendez (Spa) Cofidis 47 Lukas Zumsteg (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 48 Pascal Lino (Fra) Festina 49 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Festina 50 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bonjour 51 Pierre Bourquenoud (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 52 Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 53 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 3.22 54 Manu L'Hoir (Bel) Fakta 55 Damien Nazon (Fra) Bonjour 56 Laurent Madouas (Fra) Festina 57 Nicolas Dumont (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 58 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 59 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 3.26 60 Oleg Pankov (Ukr) Collstrop-Palmans 61 Scott Sunderland (Aus) Team Fakta 62 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 63 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 64 Alexei Markov (Rus) Itera 65 Yoann Le Boulanger (Cofidis) 66 Anthony Morin (Fra) Credit Agricole 67 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour 68 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Jean Delatour 69 Kris Gerits (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 70 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 71 Christophe Gauthier (Fra) Saint Quentin - Oktos 3.36 72 Davy Daniels (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 3.43 73 Konstansin Sivtsov (Rus) Itera 4.06 74 Alexander Serov (Rus) Itera 4.07 75 Vladislav Borisov (Rus) Itera 76 Denis Smylov (Rus) Itera 77 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 9.26 78 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Itera 79 Lauri Aus (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 9.29 80 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Jean Delatour 81 Frédéric Finot (Fra) Credit Agricole 82 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 83 Marc Chanoine (Bel) Ville De Charleroi-New Systems 5.50 84 Renaud Boxus (Bel) Ville De Charleroi-New Systems 5.51 Past winners2000 Jens Voigt (Ger) 202 kms in 4.52.13 (41.065 km/h) 1999 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Casino 202 kms in 5.03.32 (39.925 km/h) 1998 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Casino 202 kms in 5.09.20 (39.181 km/h) 1997 Jann Kirsipuu (Est) 202 kms in 4.56.25 1996 Stéphan Heulot (Fra) 207 kms in 4.59.43 1995 Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) 207 kms in 5.08.45 1994 Laurent Madouas (Fra) 207 kms in 5.26.59 1993 Marc Bouillon (Fra) 209 kms in 5.16.31 1992 Laurent Desbiens (Fra) 205 kms in 5.19.16 1991 Sammie Moreels (Bel) 205 kms in 5.12.03 1990 Kim Andersen (Den) 200 kms in 5.03.59 1989 Frank Boucanville (Fra) 238 kms in 6.24.53 1988 Patrick Onnockx (Bel) 241 kms in 6.33.46 1987 Frédéric Garnier (Fra) 239 kms in 6.23.33 1986 Domenique Lecrocq (Fra) 237 kms in 6.17.44 1985 Marc Madiot (Fra) 236 kms in 6.28.36 1984 Pascal Poisson (Fra) 233 kms in 5.55.10 1983 Eric Dall'Armellina (Fra) 1982 Pierre Bazzo (Fra) 220 kms in 5.24.37 1981 Roger Legeay (Fra) 1980 Roger Legeay (Fra) 1979 Pierre Bazzo (Fra) 1978 Jacques Bossis (Fra) Notes: In 1987 and 1989 it was called GP Cholet-Mauleon From 1990, it took the name of GP Cholet-Pays de Loire Between 1982-86 and 1988 the race was known as Mauleon - Moulins. |