2001 results Results Past winners
Russian Serguei Ivanov (Fassa Bortolo) has prevented Erik Zabel (Telekom) from successfully defending his title in the 22nd Trofeo Luis Puig, held between Valencia and Benidorm. Ivanov won the race after getting clear with 400m to go as the race ended in a bunch sprint. He finished ahead of Rolf Aldag and Zabel with Mario Cipollini (Acqua & Sapone) taking fourth. His third place means that Erik Zabel still has yet to win a race this year.
The Trofeo Luis Puig started with 149 riders who enjoyed the temperature of 22 degrees. The start was quite fast and no riders managed to escape until the first climb of the day, the category 3 Puerto de Serragrosa. Victoriano Fernandez (Milaneza MSS) and Juan J De Los Angeles (Kelme) accelerated and had a 20 second lead over the top, which then blew out to 9'30 over the next 25 kilometres.
The next climb of the Puerto de Albaida (km 89) saw Fernandez take the points again in front of De Los Angeles, with the peloton crossing at 9'04 behind. The tempo started to lift as the riders tackled the day's main climb, the Puerto de Confrides (Cat. 2, 960 m). Fernandez dropped De Los Angeles on the climb and again took the points, securing his mountain jersey for the day.
Telekom, Fassa Bortolo, Acqua & Sapone, Euskaltel and ONCE were all contributing to the chase, but with 30 kilometres to go Fernandez still had 5'02, while De Los Angeles had been caught by the peloton. 14 kilometres later it was all over for Fernandez, after 100 km in the lead.
The final climb of the Alto de Finestrat (km 172) saw a small breakaway develop with Peter Van Petegem (Lotto), Dave Bruylandts and Tomas Konecny (Domo), Claus Moller (MSS), Luis Perez (Coast), Javier Pascual Rodriguez (iBanesto), and Nico Mattan (Cofidis). Van Petegem led over the top with the peloton at 12 seconds, and chasing hard.
The group was brought back with two kilometres to go, setting things up for what looked like to be Erik Zabel's third consecutive victory. However, Serguei Ivanov had other ideas and jumped away at a roundabout with 400 metres to go, successfully holding off Aldag, Zabel and the rest in the sprint.
1 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Fassa-Bartolo 4.24.24 (40.915 km/h) 2 Rolf Aldag (Ger) Telekom 3 Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 4 Mario Cipollini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 5 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 6 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Domo Farm-Frites 7 Angel Edo (Spa) Milaneza MSS 8 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Mercatone Uno 9 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 10 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) iBanesto.com 11 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 12 Nico Mattan (Bel) Cofidis 13 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 14 Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Domo Farm-Frites 15 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Telekom 16 Pablo Fernandez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 17 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Team Coast 18 Ruben Plaza (Spa) iBanesto.com 19 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 20 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 21 Luca De Angeli (Ita) Mercatone Uno 22 Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 23 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 24 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza MSS 25 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis 26 Chris Peers (Bel) Cofidis 27 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 28 Mario Aerts (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 29 Rui Miguel Sousa (Por) Milaneza MSS 30 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 31 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) iBanesto.com 32 Alexandre Grux (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 33 Iñigo Charreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 34 Jose Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 35 Miguel Martin Perdiguero (Spa) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 36 Rafael Diaz (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 37 Beat Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 38 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 39 Julian Usano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 40 Rafael Casero (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 41 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 42 David Plaza (Spa) Team Coast 43 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 44 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 45 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) ONCE-Eroski 46 Iker Camaño (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 47 Luis Perez (Spa) Team Coast 48 Mario Scirea (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 49 Gustavo M Toledo (Arg) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 0.13 50 Francisco Javier Vila (Spa) iBanesto.com 51 Cedric Fragniere (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 52 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 53 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Fassa-Bartolo 54 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 55 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 56 Melchior Mauri (Spa) Milaneza MSS 57 Victoriano Fernandez (Spa) Milaneza MSS 58 Alex Zuelle (Swi) Team Coast 59 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Milaneza MSS 60 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 61 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) iBanesto.com 62 Ivan Basso (Ita) Fassa-Bartolo 63 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Domo Farm-Frites 64 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 65 Guido Trenti (USA) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 0.19 66 Claus Michael Moller (Den) Milaneza MSS 67 Gabriele Colombo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 0.25 68 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Domo Farm-Frites 69 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Telekom 0.34 70 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.49 71 Jose Cayetano Julia (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 72 Jose A. Pecharroman (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 73 Glenn D'hollander (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 74 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 75 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 76 Coen Boerman (Ned) Rabobank 77 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 78 Dario Gadeo (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 79 Marcos Serrano (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 80 David Fernandez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 81 Bram Tankink (Ned) Domo Farm-Frites 82 Iban Herrero (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 83 Angel Castresana (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 84 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 85 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza MSS 86 Gonzalo Bayarri (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 87 Jose Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 88 Marco Milesi (Ita) Domo Farm-Frites 89 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa-Bartolo 90 Dmitri Konyshev (Rus) Fassa-Bartolo 91 Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis 92 Alessio Galletti (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 93 Igor Gonzalez (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 94 Stephane Berges (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 95 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 96 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 97 Jorg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco-Longoni Sport 98 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 99 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 100 Cesar Garcia (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 101 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Saeco-Longoni Sport 102 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 103 Martin Derganc (Slo) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 8.24 104 Pablo Soler Siles (Spa) Mercatone Uno 9.22 105 Daniel Clavero (Spa) Mercatone Uno 106 Marco Pantani (Ita) Mercatone Uno 107 Gian Mario Ortenzi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 108 Isaac Galvez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 109 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 110 Isidro Nozal (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 111 Ricardo Valdez (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 112 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 113 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) Telekom 114 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 115 Gianpaolo Caruso (Ita) ONCE-Eroski 116 Arturas Kasputis (Ltu) Ag2R Prevoyance 117 Igor Pugaci (Mda) Saeco-Longoni Sport 118 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Fassa-Bartolo 119 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa-Bartolo 12.12 120 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa-Bartolo 121 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 122 Gorka Gerrikagoitia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 123 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 124 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Lotto-Adecco 125 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 126 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Domo Farm-Frites 127 Roberto Conti (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 128 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Telekom 14.53 129 German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 130 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 131 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger) Telekom 132 Andreas Klier (Ger) Telekom 133 Serguei Smetanine (Rus) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 25.24 134 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) Rabobank Starters: 149 Classified: 134 Mountains Pto. Serragrosa - Cat. 3 1 Victoriano Fernandez (Spa) Milaneza MSS 6 pts 2 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 4 3 Rui Miguel Sousa (Por) Milaneza MSS 2 4 Dario Gadeo (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 1 Pto. Albaida - Cat. 3 1 Victoriano Fernandez (Spa) Milaneza MSS 6 pts 2 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 4 3 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa-Bartolo 2 4 Martin Derganc (Slo) Ac.& Sapone-Cantina 1 Pto. Confrides - Cat. 2 1 Victoriano Fernandez (Spa) Milaneza MSS 10 pts 2 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 7 3 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) Telekom 5 4 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 3 5 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Milaneza MSS 2 6 Dario Gadeo (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 1 Pto. Finestrat - Cat. 3 1 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 6 pts 2 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) Ibanesto.Com 4 3 Nico Mattan (Bel) Cofidis 2 4 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Domo Farm-Frites 1 Metas Volantes Carcaixent - km 38 1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 3 pts 2 German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenla 2 3 Victoriano Fernandez (Spa) Milaneza MSS 1 Cocentaina - km 96 1 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 3 pts 2 Victoriano Fernandez (Spa) Milaneza MSS 2 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1 Teams 1 Team Telekom 13.13.12 2 Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 3 iBanesto.com 4 Milaneza-MSS 5 Kelme 6 Cofidis 7 Lotto-Adecco 8 Rabobank 9 Phonak Hearing Systems 10 Team Coast 11 ONCE-Eroski 12 Domo-Farm Frites 0.13 13 Jazztel-Costa Almeria 14 Fassa Bortolo 0.26 15 Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.49 16 Ag2r-Prevoyance 17 Relax-Fuenlabrada 7.38 18 Mercatone Uno 9.22 19 Saeco-Longoni Sport 11.27 Mountains classification 1 Victoriano Fernandez (Spa) Milaneza MSS 22 pts 2 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 15 3 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 6 4 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) Telekom 5 5 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) Ibanesto.Com 4 6 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 3 7 Nico Mattan (Bel) Cofidis 2 8 Rui Miguel Sousa (Por) Milaneza MSS 2 9 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Milaneza MSS 2 10 Dario Gadeo (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 2 11 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa-Bartolo 2 12 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Domo Farm-Frites 1 13 Martin Derganc (Slo) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 1 Metas volantes classification 1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 4 pts 2 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 3 3 Victoriano Fernandez (Spa) Milaneza MSS 3
Year Winner Finish 2001 Erik Zabel (Ger) Valencia 186 kms in 4.39.45 (39.034) 2000 Erik Zabel (Ger) Beindorm 1999 Mario Cipollini (Ita) Valencia 190 kms in 4.34.35 (41.517) 1998 Andre Tchmil (Bel) Valencia 186 kms in 4.36.21 (40.384) 1997 Erik Zabel (Ger) Valencia 1996 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Valencia 1995 Mario Cipollini (Ita) Valencia 1994 Adriano Baffi (Ita) Valencia 1993 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) Valencia 1992 Sean Kelly (Ire) Benidorm 1991 Andreas Kappes (Ger) Benidorm 1990 Tom Cordes (Ned) Benidorm 1989 Mathieu Hermans (Ned) Cullera 1988 Acacio Da Silva (Por) Benidorm 1987 Pello Ruiz-Cabestany (Spa) Benidorm 1986 Bernard Hinault (Fra) Denia 1985 Enrique Aja (Spa) Elda 1984 Noél Dejonckheere (Bel) Torrent 1983 Noél Dejonckheere (Bel) Burjassot 1982 Raimund Dietzen (Ger) Benifays 1981 Noél Dejonckheere (Bel) Algemesm 1979 Antoine Gutierrez (Spa) 1978 Javier Elorriaga (Spa) 1977 Domingo Perurena (Spa) 1976 Tomas Nistal (Spa) 1975 Eddy Peelman (Bel) 1974 Eddy Peelman (Bel) 1973 Gustave Van Roosbroeck (Bel) 1972 Eric Leman (Bel) 1971 Pe Verhaegen (Bel) 1970 Ramon Saez (Spa) 1969 Carlos Echeverria (Spa) Past Winners by Mario Stiehl, Berlin