38th Tour de l'Avenir - 2.5France, September 6-15, 2001Main Page Results Previous stage Stage 10 - September 15: Morteau - Morteau, 135 kmMenchov wins tour by one secondCooke adds another stage, wins points jersey Russian Denis Menchov (iBanesto.com) has pulled off a remarkable last gasp victory in the Tour de l'Avenir, gaining the race by a solitary second from French favourite Florent Brard. Just as he did in stage six, Menchov attacked on the last climb, taking Australian Baden Cooke (Mercury) with him. The pair opened up 47 seconds lead on the chasers and Cooke won his second stage, obliterating the points competition. Menchov was delighted as his lead was just enough to pip Brard at the post. The final stage was five laps of a 27 kilometre circuit around Morteau, containing one category 1 climb (Cote du Chauffaud) per lap. The tough stage started aggressively, with successive attacks from Guillaume Auger (Big Mat), Thomas Voeckler (Bonjour) and Ludovic Martin (Crédit Agricole) on the first lap. Robert Sassone (Cofidis) caught Martin after 30 kilometres, and the pair rode together until they were caught by the Norwegian Kaggestad after 84 kilometres. Shortly afterwards, Franck Pencole (BigMat) made the junction by the four split on the fourth lap, when Pencole and Kaggestad dropped Martin and Sassone. They were joined by Koldo Gil Perez (iBanesto.com), Christophe Le Mevel (Credit Agricole), Carlos Garcia Quesada (Kelme) and Geoffrey Demeyere (Vlaanderen-T Interim), and with one lap to go these six riders had 33 seconds on the peloton. The peloton had reformed before the final time up the climb, and it was Cooke and Menchov who took the initiative to attack. Menchov attacked several times, but Cooke came back to him and the pair had 28 seconds at the top of the climb. They extended their lead on the descent to the all important 47 seconds, with Green Jersey Baden Cooke taking the stage and Menchov the race.
Results1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Mercury 3.30.50 (38.42 km/h) 2 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 3 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.47 4 Florent Brard (Fra) Festina 5 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 Juan Miguel Cuenca (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 7 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) iBanesto.com 8 Jesus Manzano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 9 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 10 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 11 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 12 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 13 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Mapei-Quick Step 14 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 15 Franck Pencole (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 16 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.52 17 Eladio Jimenez Sanchez (Spa) iBanesto.com 18 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) iBanesto.com 1.37 19 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.49 20 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Cofidis 21 David Derepas (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 22 Nicolas Meunier (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 1.50 23 Matteo Gigli (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 24 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Mapei-Quick Step 25 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 26 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Norwegian National Team 27 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 2.31 28 Francisco Lara (Spa) Festina 5.21 29 Oscar Borlini (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 30 Florian Ludi (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 31 Marlon Perez Arango (Col) 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 32 Gregory Rast (Swi) Post Swiss Team 33 Luis Oran Castaneda (Col) 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 7.17 34 Robert Sassone (Fra) Cofidis 35 Adolfo Garcia Quesada (Spa) iBanesto.com 36 Joaquim Lopez Torella (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 9.51 37 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 11.41 38 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 14.53 39 Jorge Gonzalez (Col) 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 14.55 40 Médéric Clain (Fra) Cofidis 41 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 42 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 43 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Post Swiss Team 44 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Festina 45 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 46 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Jean Delatour 47 Alejandro Cortes (Col) 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 48 Vincent Bader (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 49 Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) iBanesto.com 50 Yan Tournier (Fra) Credit Agricole 51 Josu Silloniz Aresti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 52 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 53 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 54 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Mercury 55 Ciaran Power (Irl) St Quentin-Oktos 56 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 57 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 58 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 59 Danny Van Capellen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 19.41 60 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Mapei-Quick Step 61 Radek Dite (Cze) Czech Rep. National Team 62 Radek Becka (Cze) Czech Rep. National Team 20.33 63 Kamil Vrana (Cze) Czech Rep. National Team 64 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bonjour DNF Nicolas Liboreau (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 DNF Petr Sestak (Cze) Czech Rep. National Team DNF David Kupka (Cze) Czech Rep. National Team DNF Jan Chrobak (Cze) Czech Rep. National Team DNF Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bonjour DNF Fabrice Salanson (Fra) Bonjour DNF Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bonjour DNF Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Norwegian National Team DNF Kjetil Loitegârd (Nor) Norwegian National Team DNF Rune Jogert (Nor) Norwegian National Team DNF Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) Festina DNF Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux DNF Nicolas Andre (Fra) Cofidis DNF Sergey Kruszhevskiy (Uzb) St Quentin-Oktos DNF Jan Verstraeten (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim DNF Ruben Diaz De Cerio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi Sprints Morteau - 54 km 1 Robert Sassone (Fra) Cofidis 3 pts 2 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 3 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Post Swiss Team 1 Morteau - 108 km 1 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 3 pts 2 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Norwegian National Team 2 3 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 Mountains Côte du Chauffaud - 14.50 km 1 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 15 pts 2 Jesus Manzano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 12 3 Franck Pencole (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 10 4 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 8 5 Florent Brard (Fra) Festina 6 6 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Norwegian National Team 5 7 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 8 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Festina 3 9 Francisco Lara (Spa) Festina 2 Côte du Chauffaud - 41.50 km 1 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 15 pts 2 Robert Sassone (Fra) Cofidis 12 3 Jesus Manzano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 10 4 Marlon Perez Arango (Col) 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 8 5 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 6 6 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 5 7 Florent Brard (Fra) Festina 4 8 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) Festina 3 9 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 2 10 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Côte du Chauffaud - 68.50 km 1 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 15 pts 2 Robert Sassone (Fra) Cofidis 12 3 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Post Swiss Team 10 4 Jesus Manzano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 8 5 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 6 6 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) iBanesto.com 5 7 Eladio Jimenez Sanchez (Spa) iBanesto.com 4 8 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 9 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 10 Francisco Lara (Spa) Festina 1 Côte du Chauffaud - 95.50 km 1 Franck Pencole (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 15 pts 2 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Norwegian National Team 12 3 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 10 4 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) iBanesto.com 8 5 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 6 6 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 5 7 Jesus Manzano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 4 8 Adolfo Garcia Quesada (Spa) iBanesto.com 3 9 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 10 Oscar Borlini (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 1 Côte du Chauffaud - 122.50 km 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Mercury 15 pts 2 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 12 3 Jesus Manzano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 10 4 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 8 5 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 6 6 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 5 7 Eladio Jimenez Sanchez (Spa) iBanesto.com 4 8 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) iBanesto.com 3 9 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 2 10 Florent Brard (Fra) Festina 1 Teams 1 iBanesto.com 10.34.09 2 Credit Agricole 0.47 3 Kelme - Costa Blanca 2.26 4 Big.Mat - Auber 93 2.48 5 Phonak Hearing Systems 7.20 6 Euskaltel - Euskadi 14.5 7 Mapei - Quick Step 15.51 8 Festina Watches 19.24 9 Team Colpack - Astro 20.27 10 Cofidis 22.22 11 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 25.54 12 Czech Republic 59.08 Final general classification 1 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 38.44.52 2 Florent Brard (Fra) Festina 0.01 3 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 0.09 4 Juan Miguel Cuenca (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 0.28 5 Jesus Manzano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 0.33 6 Baden Cooke (Aus) Mercury 0.42 7 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Mapei-Quick Step 1.00 8 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.59 9 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) iBanesto.com 2.04 10 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.34 11 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 2.37 12 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.38 13 Eladio Jimenez Sanchez (Spa) iBanesto.com 3.02 14 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 4.08 15 Franck Pencole (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 4.21 16 Nicolas Meunier (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 5.40 17 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Phonak Hearing Systems 6.18 18 Matteo Gigli (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 6.43 19 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 6.50 20 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 6.52 21 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Norwegian National Team 7.53 22 Francisco Lara (Spa) Festina 8.17 23 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 10.40 24 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Cofidis 12.37 25 Marlon Perez Arango (Col) 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 13.19 26 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 16.36 27 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Mapei-Quick Step 19.04 28 David Derepas (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 19.56 29 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 19.57 30 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 20.21 31 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Mapei-Quick Step 21.12 32 Florian Ludi (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 22.34 33 Ciaran Power (Irl) St Quentin-Oktos 26.15 34 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 27.35 35 Kamil Vrana (Cze) Czech Rep. National Team 32.20 36 Vincent Bader (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 32.28 37 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 33.07 38 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 34.05 39 Josu Silloniz Aresti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 34.27 40 Alejandro Cortes (Col) 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 36.53 41 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 37.08 42 Gregory Rast (Swi) Post Swiss Team 37.25 43 Oscar Borlini (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 38.23 44 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Jean Delatour 38.27 45 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 39.08 46 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Mercury 40.41 47 Robert Sassone (Fra) Cofidis 40.48 48 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 44.10 49 Adolfo Garcia Quesada (Spa) iBanesto.com 45.53 50 Médéric Clain (Fra) Cofidis 46.49 51 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Post Swiss Team 53.10 52 Danny Van Capellen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 53.55 53 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bonjour 54.57 54 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 55.20 55 Luis Oran Castaneda (Col) 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 59.32 56 Jorge Gonzalez (Col) 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 1.04.51 57 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Festina 1.09.17 58 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1.17.11 59 Yan Tournier (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.27.18 60 Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) iBanesto.com 1.35.36 61 Radek Dite (Cze) Czech Rep. National Team 1.39.25 62 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) iBanesto.com 1.44.39 63 Radek Becka (Cze) Czech Rep. National Team 2.03.59 64 Joaquim Lopez Torella (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 2.19.37 Points classification 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Mercury 180 pts 2 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 102 3 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 95 4 Florent Brard (Fra) Festina 94 5 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Phonak Hearing Systems 93 6 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 87 7 Juan Miguel Cuenca (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 86 8 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 85 9 Jesus Manzano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 83 10 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Post Swiss Team 70 11 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 67 12 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) iBanesto.com 60 13 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Mapei-Quick Step 56 14 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 52 15 Eladio Jimenez Sanchez (Spa) iBanesto.com 52 16 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Mapei-Quick Step 51 17 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 46 18 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 44 19 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Mercury 43 20 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 42 21 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 41 22 Franck Pencole (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 39 23 Francisco Lara (Spa) Festina 35 24 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 30 25 Nicolas Meunier (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 30 26 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 29 27 Ciaran Power (Irl) St Quentin-Oktos 27 28 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 25 29 Marlon Perez Arango (Col) 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 25 30 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bonjour 23 31 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Cofidis 23 32 Florian Ludi (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 21 33 Matteo Gigli (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 15 34 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 11 35 Médéric Clain (Fra) Cofidis 11 36 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 10 37 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Mapei-Quick Step 10 38 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Festina 10 39 Josu Silloniz Aresti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 40 Alejandro Cortes (Col) 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 8 41 Danny Van Capellen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 7 42 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 5 43 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 44 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 45 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Norwegian National Team 4 46 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) iBanesto.com 3 47 Robert Sassone (Fra) Cofidis 3 48 Joaquim Lopez Torella (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1 Mountains classification 1 Jesus Manzano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 104 pts 2 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 66 3 Franck Pencole (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 45 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Mercury 37 5 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 36 6 Florent Brard (Fra) Festina 34 7 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 33 8 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 24 9 Juan Miguel Cuenca (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 24 10 Robert Sassone (Fra) Cofidis 24 11 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Norwegian National Team 24 12 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 22 13 Eladio Jimenez Sanchez (Spa) iBanesto.com 22 14 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19 15 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) iBanesto.com 16 16 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 14 17 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 13 18 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Mapei-Quick Step 13 19 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Festina 12 20 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 12 21 Francisco Lara (Spa) Festina 11 22 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11 23 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 11 24 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Post Swiss Team 10 25 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 9 26 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 9 27 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 8 28 Marlon Perez Arango (Col) 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 8 29 Florian Ludi (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 8 30 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) iBanesto.com 8 31 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 5 32 Adolfo Garcia Quesada (Spa) iBanesto.com 3 33 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 34 Matteo Gigli (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 1 35 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Mapei-Quick Step 1 36 Oscar Borlini (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 1 Teams classification 1 iBanesto.com 116.20.03 2 Kelme - Costa Blanca 3.15 3 Big.Mat - Auber 93 8.18 4 Credit Agricole 9.48 5 Mapei - Quick Step 15.41 6 Phonak Hearing Systems 20.06 7 Euskaltel - Euskadi 28.43 8 Team Colpack - Astro 41.33 9 Festina Watches 1.01.32 10 Cofidis 1.23.25 11 05 Orbitel-Berry Floor 1.36.58 12 Czech Republic 2.28.17 |