Cofidis' Estonian sprinter Janek Tombak won the first stage of the Grande Premio Rota de Marqês from Oeiras to Marinha Grande. It was a Basque-Bulgarian duo however, that put on the big show on ths first of four stages.
After several minor attacks at the start, Porta de Ravessa's Bulgarian Krassimir Vassiliev and Euskaltel's Inigo Landaluze attacked shortly after the first sprint in Cacém at 21 kms. The duo managed to hold the peloton off for most of the day. After the second and last climb, Vassiliev had to let go and then the lone Basque Landaluze was doomed and finally reeled in with some six kilometres to go, after 154 kilometres in the lead. His gap was at most a bit over ten minutes.
The brave duo can comfort themselves tomorrow with the white sprints jersey
for Landaluze and the blue for the King of the Mountains Vassiliev.
1 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis 4.37.53 2 Jacek Mickiewicz (Pol) CCC-Mat 3 Nuno Marta (Por) Barbot-Torrie 4 Saulius Sarkauskas (Ltu) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 5 Tom Flammang (Lux) Cofidis 6 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza-MSS 7 Cesar Quiteiro (Por) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 8 Alexei Markov (Rus) Itera 9 Manuel Liberato (Por) Matesica-Aboboda 10 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 11 Josep Jufre (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 12 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 13 Paulo Ferreira (Por) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 14 Claudio Faria (Por) Barbot-Torrie 15 Edouard Gritsoun (Rus) Itera 16 Candido Barbosa (Por) L.A.-Pecol 17 Santiago Perez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 18 Pedro Martins (Por) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 19 Konstantin Sivtsov (Blr) Itera 20 Vladimir Autko (Blr) Itera 21 Paulo Costa (Por) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 22 Jose Guillen (Spa) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 23 Daniel Petrov (Bul) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 24 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Milaneza-MSS 25 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Itera 26 Joan Horrach (Spa) Milaneza-MSS 27 Hugo Sabido (Por) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 28 Rui Miguel Sousa (Por) Milaneza-MSS 29 Fabio Malberti (Ita) L.A.-Pecol 30 Ricardo Costa (Por) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 31 Hugo Lucio (Por) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 32 Fernando Sousa (Por) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 33 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 34 Bruno Castanheira (Por) L.A.-Pecol 35 Carlos Teixeira (Por) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 36 Vitorino Nelson (Por) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 37 Quintino Rodrigues (Por) CCC-Mat 38 Miguel Soro (Spa) Matesica-Aboboda 39 Alexander Serov (Rus) Itera 40 Rui Roque (Por) L.A.-Pecol 41 Pedro Hermida (Spa) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 42 Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis 43 Eduardo Gonzalez (Spa) Barbot-Torrie 44 Virgilio Santos (Por) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 45 Julen Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 46 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Milaneza-MSS 47 Joaquim Andrade (Por) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 48 Oscar Serrano (Spa) ASC-Vila Do Conde 49 Jose Rosa (Por) L.A.-Pecol 50 Felice Putini (Swi) CCC-Mat 51 Roberto Lozano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 52 Krassimir Vassiliev (Bul) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 53 Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) CCC-Mat 54 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 55 Ruben Diaz De Cerio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 56 Ruben Galvan (Spa) ASC-Vila Do Conde 57 Victor Gamito (Por) Barbot-Torrie 58 Carlos Pinho (Por) Barbot-Torrie 59 Ricardo Felgueiras (Por) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 60 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) L.A.-Pecol 61 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 62 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 63 Luis Vicente (Por) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 64 Eric Pascal (Fra) Matesica-Aboboda 65 Nuno Alves (Por) Barbot-Torrie 66 Atanas Petrov (Bul) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 67 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Barbot-Torrie 68 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 69 David Bernabeu (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 70 Piotr Przydzial (Pol) CCC-Mat 71 Serguei Klimov (Rus) Itera 72 Sergio Paulinho (Por) ASC-Vila Do Conde 73 Hermano Vieira (Por) ASC-Vila Do Conde 74 Celio Sousa (Por) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 75 Lander Euba (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 76 Jordi Riera (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 77 Jesus Maria Manzano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 78 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) CCC-Mat 79 Hugo Vitor (Por) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 80 Pedro Magalhaes (Por) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 81 Oscar Diaz (Spa) Barbot-Torrie 82 Ricardo Santos (Por) ASC-Vila Do Conde 83 Unai Yus (Spa) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 84 Joaquim Sampaio (Por) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 85 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza-MSS 86 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 87 Orlando Rodrigues (Por) L.A.-Pecol 88 Antonio Martin (Spa) Matesica-Aboboda 89 Ruben Garcia (Spa) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 90 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 91 Rafael Fernandez (Spa) ASC-Vila Do Conde 92 Alber Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 93 Elio Sousa (Por) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 94 Sergio Ribeiro (Por) ASC-Vila Do Conde 95 Alexandre Pinho (Por) Matesica-Aboboda 96 Paulo Barroso (Por) Milaneza-MSS 97 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) CCC-Mat 98 Dariusz Skoczylas (Pol) CCC-Mat 99 Cedrick Loue (Fra) Cofidis 100 Fernando Ordonez (Spa) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 101 Jorge Nogaledo (Spa) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 102 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 103 Joaquim Gomes (Por) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 104 Mariano Fernandez (Spa) ASC-Vila Do Conde 0.16 105 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Itera 0.17 106 Alberto Benito (Spa) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 0.21 107 Robert Hayles (GBr) Cofidis 1.16 108 Oscar Romero (Spa) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 109 Goncalo Amorim (Por) Milaneza-MSS 110 Jerome Neuville (Fra) Cofidis 5.19 111 Luis Sarreira (Por) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 5.48 112 Humberto Oliveira (Por) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 113 Lizuarte Martins (Por) Matesica-Aboboda 114 Roger Lucia (Spa) Matesica-Aboboda 115 Marc Soares (Por) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 17.27 Points 1 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis 25 pts 2 Jacek Mickiewicz (Pol) CCC-Mat 20 3 Nuno Marta (Por) Barbot-Torrie 16 4 Saulius Sarkauskas (Ltu) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 13 5 Tom Flammang (Lux) Cofidis 10 6 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza-MSS 8 7 Cesar Quiteiro (Por) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 6 8 Alexei Markov (Rus) Itera 4 9 Manuel Liberato (Por) Matesica-Aboboda 2 10 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1 Mountains Ribamar - Cat. 3 1 Krassimir Vassiliev (Bul) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 5 pts 2 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 3 Jorge Nogaledo (Spa) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 1 Carrascas - Cat. 3 1 Krassimir Vassiliev (Bul) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 5 pts 2 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 3 Cesar Quiteiro (Por) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 1 Metas volantes Cacem - km 55.9 1 Nuno Marta (Por) Barbot-Torrie 3 pts 2 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 Pedro Martins (Por) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 1 Caldas Da Rainha - km 123.4 1 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 pts 2 Krassimir Vassiliev (Bul) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 2 3 Nuno Marta (Por) Barbot-Torrie 1 Alcobaca - km 150.8 1 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 pts 2 Krassimir Vassiliev (Bul) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 2 3 Nuno Marta (Por) Barbot-Torrie 1 Teams 1 Kelme-Costa Blanca 13.53.39 2 Itera 3 Cofidis 4 Cantanhede-M.Marialva 5 Milaneza-MSS 6 Barbot-Torrie 7 Porta Ravessa-Zurich 8 L.A.-Pecol 9 Paredes R.M.-Antarte 10 Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovarense 11 CCC-Mat 12 Carvalhelhos-Boavista 13 Matesica-Aboboda 14 Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 ASC-Vila Do Conde General classification after stage 1 1 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis 4.37.43 2 Nuno Marta (Por) Barbot-Torrie 0.01 3 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.02 4 Jacek Mickiewicz (Pol) CCC-Mat 0.04 5 Krassimir Vassiliev (Bul) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 0.06 6 Pedro Martins (Por) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 0.09 7 Saulius Sarkauskas (Ltu) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 0.10 8 Tom Flammang (Lux) Cofidis 9 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza-MSS 10 Cesar Quiteiro (Por) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 11 Alexei Markov (Rus) Itera 12 Manuel Liberato (Por) Matesica-Aboboda 13 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 14 Josep Jufre (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 15 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 16 Paulo Ferreira (Por) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 17 Claudio Faria (Por) Barbot-Torrie 18 Edouard Gritsoun (Rus) Itera 19 Candido Barbosa (Por) L.A.-Pecol 20 Santiago Perez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 21 Konstantin Sivtsov (Blr) Itera 22 Vladimir Autko (Blr) Itera 23 Paulo Costa (Por) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 24 Jose Guillen (Spa) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 25 Daniel Petrov (Bul) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 26 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Milaneza-MSS 27 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Itera 28 Joan Horrach (Spa) Milaneza-MSS 29 Hugo Sabido (Por) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 30 Rui Miguel Sousa (Por) Milaneza-MSS 31 Fabio Malberti (Ita) L.A.-Pecol 32 Ricardo Costa (Por) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 33 Hugo Lucio (Por) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 34 Fernando Sousa (Por) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 35 Juan J De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 36 Bruno Castanheira (Por) L.A.-Pecol 37 Carlos Teixeira (Por) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 38 Vitorino Nelson (Por) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 39 Quintino Rodrigues (Por) CCC-Mat 40 Miguel Soro (Spa) Matesica-Aboboda 41 Alexander Serov (Rus) Itera 42 Rui Roque (Por) L.A.-Pecol 43 Pedro Hermida (Spa) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 44 Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis 45 Eduardo Gonzalez (Spa) Barbot-Torrie 46 Virgilio Santos (Por) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 47 Julen Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 48 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Milaneza-MSS 49 Joaquim Andrade (Por) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 50 Oscar Serrano (Spa) ASC-Vila Do Conde 51 Jose Rosa (Por) L.A.-Pecol 52 Felice Putini (Swi) CCC-Mat 53 Roberto Lozano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 54 Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) CCC-Mat 55 Ruben Diaz De Cerio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 56 Ruben Galvan (Spa) ASC-Vila Do Conde 57 Victor Gamito (Por) Barbot-Torrie 58 Carlos Pinho (Por) Barbot-Torrie 59 Ricardo Felgueiras (Por) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 60 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) L.A.-Pecol 61 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 62 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 63 Luis Vicente (Por) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 64 Eric Pascal (Fra) Matesica-Aboboda 65 Nuno Alves (Por) Barbot-Torrie 66 Atanas Petrov (Bul) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 67 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Barbot-Torrie 68 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 69 David Bernabeu (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 70 Piotr Przydzial (Pol) CCC-Mat 71 Serguei Klimov (Rus) Itera 72 Sergio Paulinho (Por) ASC-Vila Do Conde 73 Hermano Vieira (Por) ASC-Vila Do Conde 74 Celio Sousa (Por) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 75 Lander Euba (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 76 Jordi Riera (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 77 Jesus Maria Manzano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 78 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) CCC-Mat 79 Hugo Vitor (Por) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 80 Pedro Magalhaes (Por) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 81 Oscar Diaz (Spa) Barbot-Torrie 82 Ricardo Santos (Por) ASC-Vila Do Conde 83 Unai Yus (Spa) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 84 Joaquim Sampaio (Por) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 85 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza-MSS 86 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 87 Orlando Rodrigues (Por) L.A.-Pecol 88 Antonio Martin (Spa) Matesica-Aboboda 89 Ruben Garcia (Spa) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 90 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 91 Rafael Fernandez (Spa) ASC-Vila Do Conde 92 Alber Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 93 Elio Sousa (Por) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 94 Sergio Ribeiro (Por) ASC-Vila Do Conde 95 Alexandre Pinho (Por) Matesica-Aboboda 96 Paulo Barroso (Por) Milaneza-MSS 97 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) CCC-Mat 98 Dariusz Skoczylas (Pol) CCC-Mat 99 Cedrick Loue (Fra) Cofidis 100 Fernando Ordonez (Spa) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 101 Jorge Nogaledo (Spa) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 102 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 103 Joaquim Gomes (Por) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 104 Oscar Romero (Spa) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 105 Goncalo Amorim (Por) Milaneza-MSS 106 Mariano Fernandez (Spa) ASC-Vila Do Conde 0.26 107 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Itera 0.27 108 Alberto Benito (Spa) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 0.31 109 Robert Hayles (GBr) Cofidis 1.26 110 Jerome Neuville (Fra) Cofidis 5.29 111 Luis Sarreira (Por) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 5.58 112 Humberto Oliveira (Por) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 113 Lizuarte Martins (Por) Matesica-Aboboda 114 Roger Lucia (Spa) Matesica-Aboboda 115 Marc Soares (Por) Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovare 17.37 Points classification 1 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis 25 pts 2 Jacek Mickiewicz (Pol) CCC-Mat 20 3 Nuno Marta (Por) Barbot-Torrie 16 4 Saulius Sarkauskas (Ltu) Cantanhede-M.Marialva 13 5 Tom Flammang (Lux) Cofidis 10 6 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza-MSS 8 7 Cesar Quiteiro (Por) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 6 8 Alexei Markov (Rus) Itera 4 9 Manuel Liberato (Por) Matesica-Aboboda 2 10 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1 Mountains classification 1 Krassimir Vassiliev (Bul) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 10 pts 2 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 3 Cesar Quiteiro (Por) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 1 4 Jorge Nogaledo (Spa) Paredes R.M.-Antarte 1 Metas volantes classification 1 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8 pts 2 Nuno Marta (Por) Barbot-Torrie 5 3 Krassimir Vassiliev (Bul) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 4 4 Pedro Martins (Por) Porta Ravessa-Zurich 1 Teams classification 1 Kelme-Costa Blanca 13.53.39 2 Itera 3 Cofidis 4 Cantanhede-M.Marialva 5 Milaneza-MSS 6 Barbot-Torrie 7 Porta Ravessa-Zurich 8 L.A.-Pecol 9 Paredes R.M.-Antarte 10 Pepolim&Irmaos-Ovarense 11 CCC-Mat 12 Carvalhelhos-Boavista 13 Matesica-Aboboda 14 Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 ASC-Vila Do Conde