2001 results Results Past winners
Italian sprinter Massimo Strazzer has won the 17th Clasica Almeria, beating the two Zberg brothers Marcus and Beat in a mass sprint. Strazzer finished the race in 3:54:36 at an average speed of 44.501 km/h.
The race featured three category 2 climbs, all coming between 90 and 120 kilometres. The riders had to battle cold conditions with some rain, which was worse on the climbs. A fast pace was imposed from the outset, which prevented any escapes from staying away for long.
Just before the fog covered third climb of the day, Paso del Collado Garcia, Rafael Casero (Jazztel) and David Navas (iBanesto.com) made a move. They reached the top of the climb with a 25 second advantage over a group containing Cardoso, Mancebo, Jeker and Brutt. The peloton was at 1'05, led by the Milaneza team.
Casero and Navas increased their advantage over the next 50 kilometres, as Jeker's group was reabsorbed by the peloton. Casero attacked to try and take a solo victory but was caught by the peloton with 12 kilometres to go.
The Milaneza and Rabobank squads continued to lead the bunch, trying to set up the sprint for Angel Edo and Markus (or Beat) Zberg. In the end it was Massimo Strazzer (Phonak) who profited, taking the victory from Markus and Beat Zberg, followed by Edo.
1 Massimo Strazzer (Ita) Phonak Hearing System 3.54.36 (44.501 km/h) 2 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 3 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 4 Angel Edo (Spa) Milaneza-MSS 5 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 Torsten Nitsche (Ger) Saeco-Longoni 7 Pablo Lastras (Spa) iBanesto.com 8 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 9 Edouard Gritsoun (Rus) Itera 10 Gustavo M. Toledo (Arg) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 11 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Lotto 12 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Nurnberger 13 Pablo Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 14 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 15 Gian Mario Ortenzi (Ita) Mercatone-Uno 16 Jimmi Madsen (Den) C.S.C.-Tiscali 17 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Team Nurnberger 18 Cesar Garcia (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 19 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20 Christian Pfannberger (Aut) Team Nurnberger 21 Xavier Florencio (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 22 Iker Camaņo (Spa) Phonak Hearing System 23 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing System 24 Jose Cayetano Julia (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 25 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 26 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing System 27 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Itera 28 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 29 Vladimir Autko (Blr) Itera 30 Tom Stremersch (Bel) Lotto 31 Jorge Capitan (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 32 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 33 Jose A. Pecharroman (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 34 Rafael Casero (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 35 Francisco Javier Vila (Spa) iBanesto.com 36 Konstantin Sivtsov (Blr) Itera 37 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 38 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto 39 Pablo Soler (Spa) Mercatone-Uno 40 Abraham Olano (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 41 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team Nurnberger 42 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) iBanesto.com 43 David Muņoz (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 44 Carlos Sastre (Spa) C.S.C.-Tiscali 45 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) iBanesto.com 46 Christian Werner (Ger) Team Nurnberger 47 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) ONCE-Eroski 48 Jan Hruska (Cze) ONCE-Eroski 49 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 50 Rene Andrle (Cze) ONCE-Eroski 51 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 52 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Rabobank 53 Ricardo Valdez (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 54 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Milaneza-MSS 55 Tyler Hamilton (USA) C.S.C.-Tiscali 56 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 57 Rui Miguel Sousa (Por) Milaneza-MSS 58 David Navas (Spa) iBanesto.com 59 Gorka Beloki (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 60 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza-MSS 61 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 62 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Milaneza-MSS 63 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 64 Koldo Gil (Spa) iBanesto.com 65 Beat Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 66 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Itera 67 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing System 2.01 Starters. 121 Classified. 67 Abandons. 54 Mountains 1 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza-MSS 22 2 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 20 3 Rafael Casero (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 10 4 Francisco Javier Vila (Spa) iBanesto.com 8 5 David Navas (Spa) iBanesto.com 7 6 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) iBanesto.com 6 7 Carlos Sastre (Spa) C.S.C.-Tiscali 3 8 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 2 9 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Itera 2 10 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Milaneza-MSS 2 11 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) ONCE-Eroski 1 12 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Itera 1 Metas volantes 1 Gustavo M. Toledo (Arg) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 3 2 Gorka Beloki (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 3 Special sprints 1 Rafael Casero (Spa) Jazztel-Costa Almeria 3 2 Jorge Capitan (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 3 3 David Navas (Spa) iBanesto.com 2 4 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 2 5 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Milaneza-MSS 1 Teams 1 Phonak Hearing Systems 11.43.48 2 Team Nürnberger Versicherung 3 Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 Relax-Fuenlabrada 5 Rabobank 6 Itera 7 Kelme 8 Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 9 Lotto-Adecco 10 iBanesto.com 11 ONCE-Eroski 12 Milaneza-MSS 13 Tiscali Team CSC
2001 Tayeb Braikia (Den) Lotto-Adecco 2000 Isaac Galvez (Spa) Kelme Costa Blanca 176 kms in 4.36.51 1999 Jan Svorada (Cze) Lampre-Daikin 188 kms in 5.34.51 1998 Mario Traversoni (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Bianchi 188 kms in 4.48.07 1997 Massimo Strazzer (Ita 1996 Wilfried Nelissen (Bel) 1995 Jean-Pierre Heynderickx (Bel) 1994 Johan Capiot (Bel) 1993 Vjatcheslav Ekimov (Rus)