21st Tour de Normandie - 2.5France, March 26-April 1, 2001Main page Results Previous stage Stage 2 - March 28: Forges-les-Eaux Elboeuf, 140km
Battle of the vikingsNormandy bears its name from the Norse vikings of Denmark and Norway roaming rivers and beaches a millenium ago. Now they are back - on bike. After Norwegian Thor Hushovd's impressive performance yesterday the Danish team Fakta tried to take over today. Their Norwegian mercenary Kurt-Asle Arvesen attacked already after a few kilometres. With three followers he managed to get a three minute gap while the peloton blew apart in the heavy cross winds. Hushovd got a puncture and was in a third group with his Credit Agricole team mates while Fakta had all of their men in second. With some 30 kilometres to go a field of 65 riders had assembled at the front with Hushovd in it. Fakta's Belgian L'Hoir attacked and brought ten other riders along among them Big Mat's Pencole and Bonjour's Guilbert, second and fourth in the overall classification. They finished 34 seconds ahead of the peloton with Hushovd but he still has a 22 seconds margin. Lenaic Olivier of Jean Delatour won the stage. Arvesen conquered the combativity jersey while L'Hoir flags the climber's jersey. Courtesy of Peter Sejr Nielsen, Team Fakta
Results1 Lénaïc Olivier (Fra) Jean Delatour 3.43.17 2 Anthony Morin (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 Cédric Loue (Fra) VC Rouen 4 Christian Weber (Swi) Kia Suisse 5 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour 6 Manu L'Hoir (Bel) Team Fakta 7 Olivier Trastour (Fra) Jean Delatour 8 Roland Müller (Swi) Post Swiss Team 9 Cédric Herve (Fra) Jean Floc'h 10 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Itera 11 Franck Pencole (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 12 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 13 Roberto Lochowski (Ger) Team Fakta 0.34 14 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team Fakta 15 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour 16 Bjorn Cornelissen (Ned) Axa-VVZ 17 Marc Vanacker (Lux) Post Swiss Team 18 Hubert Nowak (Pol) Legia Baszylek 19 Daniel Van Elven (Ned) Axa-VVZ 20 Allan Johansen (Den) Team Fakta 21 Martin Cotar (Cro) Post Swiss Team 22 Jan Faltynek (Cze) Joko Velamos 23 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Nurnberger 24 Thomas Liese (Fra) Nurnberger 25 Nicolas Meret (Fra) VC Rouen General classification after stage 2 1 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 8.55.46 2 Franck Pencole (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 0.22 3 Anthony Morin (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.36 4 Manu L'Hoir (Bel) Team Fakta 0.38 5 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour 0.41 6 Cédric Loue (Fra) VC Rouen 0.44 7 Lénaïc Olivier (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.50 8 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Itera 0.56 9 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.58 10 Christian Weber (Swi) Kia Suisse 0.59 11 Olivier Trastour (Fra) Jean Delatour 12 Roland Müller (Swi) Post Swiss Team 1.00 13 Cédric Herve (Fra) Jean Floc'h 1.06 14 Martin Cotar (Cro) Post Swiss Team 1.27 15 Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 16 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 1.29 17 Marcus Ljungquist (Swe) Team Fakta 1.30 18 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team Fakta 1.31 19 Thomas Liese (Fra) Nurnberger 20 Serguei Klimov (Rus) Itera 1.35 21 Eddy Lembo (Fra) Jean Delatour 1.36 22 Alessandro Pozzi (Ita) Kia Suisse 23 Alexandre Serov (Rus) Itera 24 Martial Locatelli (Fra) VC Rouen 25 Christian Heule (Swi) Post Swiss Team Points classification 1 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 35 pts 2 Lénaïc Olivier (Fra) Jean Delatour 31 3 Anthony Morin (Fra) Crédit Agricole 28 4 Manu L'Hoir (Bel) Team Fakta 26 5 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour 26 6 Franck Pencole (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 25 7 Cédric Loue (Fra) VC Rouen 21 8 Christian Weber (Swi) Kia Suisse 14 9 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Mixte FDJ-Festina 12 10 Christian Heule (Swi) Post Swiss Team 10 11 Eugen Wacker (Kgz) Mroz-Supradyn 9 12 Olivier Trastour (Fra) Jean Delatour 9 13 Joost Legtenberg (Ned) Axa-VVZ 9 14 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team Fakta 9 15 Roland Müller (Swi) Post Swiss Team 8 16 Aurélien Clerc (Fra) Post Swiss Team 8 Intermediate sprints classification 1 Lénaïc Olivier (Fra) Jean Delatour 10 pts 2 Anthony Morin (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 3 Cédric Loue (Fra) VC Rouen 4 4 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 5 Dariusz Skoczylas (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn 3 6 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team Fakta 2 7 Morten Sonne (Den) Team Fakta 2 8 Nicolas Meret (Fra) VC Rouen 1 9 Stéphane Delimauges (Fra) Limousin 1 Hot spot sprints classification 1 Olivier Trastour (Fra) Jean Delatour 10 pts 2 Stéphane Delimauges (Fra) Limousin 5 3 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour 5 4 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 4 5 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team Fakta 3 6 Franck Pencole (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 3 7 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 3 8 Manu L'Hoir (Bel) Team Fakta 2 9 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) Mixte FDJ-Festina 2 10 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Mixte FDJ-Festina 2 11 Pascal Derame (Fra) Bonjour 2 12 Roland Müller (Swi) Post Swiss Team 1 13 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 1 14 Dariusz Skoczylas (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn 1 Mountains classification 1 Olivier Trastour (Fra) Jean Delatour 16 pts 2 Manu L'Hoir (Bel) Team Fakta 8 3 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour 7 4 Roberto Lochowski (Ger) Team Fakta 6 5 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) Mixte FDJ-Festina 5 6 Cédric Celarier (Fra) VC Rouen 5 7 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 4 8 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Itera 3 9 Stéphane Delimauges (Fra) Limousin 3 10 Pascal Derame (Fra) Bonjour 3 11 Sébastien Rainaud (Fra) Limousin 3 12 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Bonjour 3 13 Alessandro Pozzi (Ita) Kia Suisse 2 14 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team Fakta 2 15 Dariusz Skoczylas (Pol) Mroz-Supradyn 2 16 Jérôme Neuville (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2 17 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Limousin 1 18 Martin Cotar (Cro) Post Swiss Team 1 19 Franck Pencole (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 1 Team classification 1 Jean Delatour 11.10.25 2 Crédit Agricole 3 Team Fakta 4 Post Swiss Team 5 Bonjour 6 Big Mat-Auber 93 7 Kia Suisse 8 VC Rouen 9 Itera 10 Axa-VVZ 11 Nurnberger 12 Legia Baszylizek 13 Joko Velamos 14 Limousin 15 Mroz-Supradyn 16 Jean Floc'h 17 Normandie 18 Ked Bianchi Team Berlin 19 Bert Story Piels 20 Mixte FDJ-Festina 21 CCC Mat 22 Trojborn Olsson Courtesy of www.velomania.net |