53rd Grand Prix du Midi-Libre - 2.1France, May 22-27, 2001Main page Results Previous stage Stage 2 - May 23: Saint-Cyprien - Pézenas, 190 kmSvorada goes one better in stage 2
Czech Jan Svorada became the new leader in the GP du Midi Libre after he won the second stage from Saint-Cyprien to Pézenas. The Lampre rider beat home Fassa Bortolo's Nicola Loda and Telekom's Alexandre Vinokourov in a bunch sprint. The 197 kilometre stage contained only one small climb, the Côte des Treilles at the 48th kilometre. The rest of the stage was completely flat. The usual attacks got the stage started at a high pace, with things settling down after half an hour. Even the climb wasn't taken particularly hard, as Karsten Kroon (Rabobank) crossed in front of Sylvain Chavanel (Bonjour) and Gregory Vollet (St-Quentin).
After that, the pace became more lively, but Jerome Bernard's Jean Delatour team kept things under control. Credit Agricole took over after 100 kilometres, to try and launch Stuart O'Grady in a breakaway. The Australian responded with an attack at 112 km, joined by Alexei Sivakov (Bigmat Auber 93). They managed to gain a minute's advantage by km 141, when a storm burst over the pack. In Cazouls-les-Béziers (km 156), the streets were under 20 cm of water, making things a little difficult. O'Grady and Sivakov were caught before the downpour started however, and after that the peleton remained together. In the sprint, Svorada clearly beat Loda and Vinokourov, gaining enough bonus seconds to move into the lead.
Results1 Jan Svorada (Cze) Lampre-Daikin 4.43.43 2 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Deutsche Telekom 4 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Mercury-Viatel 6 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 7 Bram De groot (Ned) Rabobank 8 Grzegorz Gwiazdowski (Pol) La Francaise Des Jeux 9 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 10 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Deutsche Telekom 11 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Festina 12 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 13 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour 14 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 15 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour 16 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 17 Francisco Javier Cerezo Perales (Spa) CSC-World Online 18 Gilles Maignan (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 19 Stéphane Heulot (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 20 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 21 Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Festina 22 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 23 Michael Olejnik (Pol) Saint-Quentin Oktos 24 Udo Bolts (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 25 Andrei Mizourov (Kaz) Team Deutsche Telekom 26 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 27 Uani Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 28 Christophe Morel (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 29 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 30 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 31 Pascal Lino (Fra) Festina 32 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) CSC-World Online 33 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 34 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 35 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 36 Aitor Osa Eizaguirre (Spa) iBanesto.com 37 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 38 Nicki Sorensen (Den) CSC-World Online 39 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 40 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Rabobank 41 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 42 Rafael Diaz de Cerio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 43 Sven Montgomery (Swi) La Francaise Des Jeux 44 Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) Mercury-Viatel 45 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 46 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 47 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) CSC-World Online 48 William Frischkorn (USA) Mercury-Viatel 49 Cyril Saugrain (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 50 Loïc Lamouller (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 51 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) Jean Delatour 52 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 53 Addy Engels (Ned) Rabobank 54 Patrick Jonker (Aus) Bigmat-Auber 93 55 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour 56 Jamie Drew (Aus) Mercury-Viatel 57 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 58 Robert Hunter (RSA) Lampre-Daikin 0.29 59 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 60 Oleg Kozlitine (Kaz) Saint-Quentin Oktos 61 Robert Bartko (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 62 Médéric Clain (Fra) Cofidis 63 Laurent Paumier (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 64 Gorka Gerrikagoitia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 65 Francisco Mancebo Perez (Spa) iBanesto.com 66 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bonjour 67 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Eusktaltel-Euskadi 68 Olivier Trastour (Fra) Jean Delatour 69 Francisco Javier Vila (Spa) iBanesto.com 70 Bjarke Nielsen (Den) CSC-World Online 71 Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis 72 Xavier Jan (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 73 Matteo Frutti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 74 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 75 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 76 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Cofidis 77 Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) Lampre-Daikin 78 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 79 Jose Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 80 Zbigniew Spruch (Pol) Lampre-Daikin 81 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 82 Max Becker (Lux) Collstrop-Palmans 83 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre-Daikin 84 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 85 Phillip Bordenave (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 86 Christophe Gauthier (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 87 Ramon Gonzalez Arrieta 88 Anthony Morin (Fra) Credit Agricole 89 Laurent Chotard (Fra) Mercury-Viatel 90 Fabrice Gougot (Fra) Credit Agricole 91 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Credit Agricole 92 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 93 Gregory Vollet (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 94 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Bonjour 95 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 96 Anthony Langella (Fra) Credit Agricole 97 Laurent Roux (Fra) Jean Delatour 98 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Jean Delatour 99 David Lefevre (Fra) Cofidis 100 Angel Casero (Spa) Festina 101 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Bigmat-Auber 93 102 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 103 Alberto Benito (Spa) iBanesto.com 104 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 105 Phil Zajicek (USA) Mercury-Viatel 105 Dominique Rault (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 107 Florent Brard (Fra) Festina 108 Laurent Madouas (Fra) Festina 109 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Bigmat-Auber 93 110 Roger Hammond (GBr) Collstrop-Palmans 111 Frédéric Lecrosnier (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 112 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit Agricole 113 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Mercury-Viatel 114 Alexandre Grux (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 115 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Lampre-Daikin 116 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 117 Thomas Bodo (Fra) Francaise des Jeux 118 Fillipo Casagrande (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 119 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Cofidis 120 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 121 Candido Barbosa (Por) iBanesto.com 122 Geert Van Bondt (Bel) Mercury-Viatel 123 Jimmy Casper (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 1.29 124 Vincent Cali (Fra) Collstrop-Palmans 5.43 125 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 5.45 126 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 9.10 127 Oleg Pankov (Ukr) Collstrop-Palmans 128 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 129 Marcellino Garcia Alonso (Spa) CSC-WorldOnline 130 Vincent Templier (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 131 Xavier Zandio (Spa) iBanesto.com 132 Laurent Estadieu (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 133 Franck Renier (Fra) Bonjour 134 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Jean Delatour 135 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Bonjour 10.37 136 Jakob Piil (Den) CSC-WorldOnline 10.39 137 Marco Fincato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 138 Dirk Aernouts (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 14.38 139 David Clinger (USA) Festina 140 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis DNF Kodo Gil (Spa) iBanesto.com DNS Karl Pauwels (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans Points 1 Jan Svorada (Cze) Lampre-Daikin 20 pts 2 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 17 3 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Deutsche Telekom 15 4 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13 5 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Mercury-Viatel 11 6 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 10 7 Bram De groot (Ned) Rabobank 9 8 Grzegorz Gwiazdowski (Pol) La Francaise Des Jeux 8 9 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 7 10 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Deutsche Telekom 6 11 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Festina 5 12 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4 13 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour 3 14 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 2 15 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour 1 Mountains Cote de Treilles - km 48 1 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 5 pts 2 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 3 3 Gregory Vollet (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 1 General classification after stage 2 1 Jan Svorada (Cze) Lampre-Daikin 9.13.42 2 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour 3 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.10 4 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Deutsche Telekom 0.12 5 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Mercury-Viatel 0.14 6 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.16 7 Bram De groot (Ned) Rabobank 8 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Deutsche Telekom 9 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour 10 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 10 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Festina 12 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 13 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 14 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour 15 Grzegorz Gwiazdowski (Pol) La Francaise Des Jeux 16 Michael Olejnik (Pol) Saint-Quentin Oktos 17 Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Festina 18 Uani Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18 Francisco Javier Cerezo Perales (Spa) CSC-World Online 18 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 21 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 22 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 22 Nicki Sorensen (Den) CSC-World Online 24 Aitor Osa Eizaguirre (Spa) iBanesto.com 25 Udo Bolts (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 26 Christophe Morel (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 27 Addy Engels (Ned) Rabobank 28 Andrei Mizourov (Kaz) Team Deutsche Telekom 29 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 30 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 31 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 32 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 32 Gilles Maignan (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 34 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 35 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 36 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 36 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) CSC-World Online 38 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) CSC-World Online 39 William Frischkorn (USA) Mercury-Viatel 40 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 41 Sven Montgomery (Swi) La Francaise Des Jeux 41 Stéphane Heulot (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 43 Pascal Lino (Fra) Festina 44 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 44 Rafael Diaz de Cerio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 46 Jamie Drew (Aus) Mercury-Viatel 47 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 48 Loïc Lamouller (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 49 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 50 Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) Mercury-Viatel 51 Cyril Saugrain (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 52 Patrick Jonker (Aus) Bigmat-Auber 93 53 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 54 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 0.38 55 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Bigmat-Auber 93 0.43 56 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 57 Oleg Kozlitine (Kaz) Saint-Quentin Oktos 0.45 58 Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis 59 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Eusktaltel-Euskadi 60 Max Becker (Lux) Collstrop-Palmans 61 Francisco Mancebo Perez (Spa) iBanesto.com 62 Jose Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 63 Laurent Chotard (Fra) Mercury-Viatel 64 Médéric Clain (Fra) Cofidis 65 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Bigmat-Auber 93 66 Alberto Benito (Spa) iBanesto.com 67 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 68 Robert Bartko (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 69 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 70 Gorka Gerrikagoitia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 71 Christophe Gauthier (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 72 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 72 Phillip Bordenave (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 74 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre-Daikin 75 Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) Lampre-Daikin 76 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bonjour 77 Anthony Langella (Fra) Credit Agricole 78 Francisco Javier Vila (Spa) iBanesto.com 78 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 80 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit Agricole 81 Laurent Roux (Fra) Jean Delatour 82 Anthony Morin (Fra) Credit Agricole 83 Zbigniew Spruch (Pol) Lampre-Daikin 83 Fabrice Gougot (Fra) Credit Agricole 85 Ramon Gonzalez Arrieta 86 Roger Hammond (GBr) Collstrop-Palmans 87 Matteo Frutti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 87 Laurent Paumier (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 89 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Credit Agricole 90 Gregory Vollet (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 91 Xavier Jan (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 92 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Bonjour 92 Phil Zajicek (USA) Mercury-Viatel 94 Alexandre Grux (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 95 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 96 Bjarke Nielsen (Den) CSC-World Online 96 Olivier Trastour (Fra) Jean Delatour 98 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Cofidis 99 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 99 Laurent Madouas (Fra) Festina 101 Angel Casero (Spa) Festina 102 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Mercury-Viatel 103 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 104 Florent Brard (Fra) Festina 105 Geert Van Bondt (Bel) Mercury-Viatel 106 David Lefevre (Fra) Cofidis 107 Dominique Rault (Fra) Bigmat-Auber 93 108 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Lampre-Daikin 109 Candido Barbosa (Por) iBanesto.com 110 Fillipo Casagrande (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 111 Thomas Bodo (Fra) Francaise des Jeux 112 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 113 Robert Hunter (RSA) Lampre-Daikin 1.07 114 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Rabobank 3.50 115 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 4.56 116 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) Jean Delatour 117 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 118 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Jean Delatour 5.25 119 Frédéric Lecrosnier (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 120 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 121 Vincent Cali (Fra) Collstrop-Palmans 5.59 122 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 6.01 123 Jimmy Casper (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 6.25 124 Oleg Pankov (Ukr) Collstrop-Palmans 9.26 125 Vincent Templier (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 126 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 127 Franck Renier (Fra) Bonjour 128 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 129 Laurent Estadieu (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 130 Xavier Zandio (Spa) iBanesto.com 131 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Bonjour 10.53 132 Marco Fincato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 10.55 133 Jakob Piil (Den) CSC-WorldOnline 134 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 12.44 135 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Cofidis 136 Marcellino Garcia Alonso (Spa) CSC-WorldOnline 14.06 137 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Jean Delatour 138 David Clinger (USA) Festina 14.54 139 Dirk Aernouts (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 19.34 140 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis Points classification 1 Jan Svorada (Cze) Lampre-Daikin 37 pts 2 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 28 3 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Mercury-Viatel 28 4 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour 24 5 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 21 6 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21 7 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Deutsche Telekom 15 8 Bram De groot (Ned) Rabobank 11 9 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 10 10 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Bigmat-Auber 93 10 11 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Bigmat-Auber 93 10 12 Oleg Kozlitine (Kaz) Saint-Quentin Oktos 9 13 Grzegorz Gwiazdowski (Pol) La Francaise Des Jeux 8 14 Robert Hunter (RSA) Lampre-Daikin 8 15 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 7 16 Alberto Benito (Spa) iBanesto.com 7 17 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Deutsche Telekom 6 18 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Rabobank 6 19 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Festina 5 20 Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis 5 21 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4 22 Max Becker (Lux) Collstrop-Palmans 4 23 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour 4 24 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 4 25 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour 3 26 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 2 27 Laurent Chotard (Fra) Mercury-Viatel 1 Mountains classification 1 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour 20 pts 2 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Rabobank 12 3 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 5 3 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 5 5 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 4 6 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Jean Delatour 4 7 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 3 8 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Bigmat-Auber 93 3 9 Gilles Maignan (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 2 10 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 11 Gregory Vollet (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 1 11 Olivier Trastour (Fra) Jean Delatour 1 |
