1. Jan Ullrich (Ger) TEL 7.46.06 (avs: 32,503 km/h) 2. Marco Pantani (Ita) MER 1.08 3. Richard Virenque (Fra) FES 1.08 4. Francesco Casagrande (Ita) SAE 2.01 5. Bjarne Riis (Dan) TEL 3.23 6. Laurent Dufaux (Swi) FES 3.27 7. Jose Maria Jimenez (Spa) BAN 3.45 8. Fernando Escartin (Spa) KEL 9. Abraham Olano (Spa) BAN 10. Alberto Elli (Ita) CSO 11. Marco Fincato (Ita) ROS 12. Pascal Lino (Fra) BIG 13. Roberto Conti (Ita) MER 14. Peter Luttenberger (Aut) RAB 4.02 15. Kevin Livingston (USA) COF 4.15 16. Beat Zberg (Swi) MER 4.46 17. Joona Laukka (Fin) FES 18. Oskar Camenzind (Swi) MAP 19. Laurent Roux (Fra) TVM 20. Jean-Philippe Dojwa (Fra) MUT 5.12 21. Daniele Nardello (Ita) MAP 6.25 22. David Delrieu (Fra) MUT 6.49 23. Bobby Julich (USA) COF 7.05 24. Frangois Simon (Fra) GAN 7.44 25. Cidric Vasseur (Fra) GAN 26. Michael Boogerd (Ned) RAB 27. Christophe Moreau (Fra) FES 28. Pascal Chanteur (Fra) CSO 29. Marcello Siboni (Ita) MER 30. Hernan Buenahora (Col) KEL 8.16 31. Laurent Madouas (Fra) LOT 8.27 32. Manuel Beltran (Spa) BAN 33. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) FES 10.21 34. Massimo Podenzana (Ita) MER 11.18 35. Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) USP 36. Santiago Blanco (Spa) BAN 11.43 37. Rolf Aldag (Ger) TEL 12.13 38. Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONC 12.49 39. Benont Salmon (Fra) LOT 13.51 40. Orlando Rodrigues (Por) BAN 15.03 41. Andreo Teteriuk (Kzk) LOT 15.28 42. Jose de los Angeles (Spa) KEL 17.18 43. Angel Casero (Spa) BAN 44. Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) SAE 45. Andrea Peron (Ita) FDJ 46. Valentino Fois (Ita) MAP 18.21 47. Neil Stephens (Aus) FES 18.59 48. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONC 49. Oscar Pellicioli (Ita) MER 19.40 50. Jon Odriozola (Spa) BAT 51. Giusvan Piovaccari (Ita) MER 52. Thierry Bourguignon (Fra) BIG 53. Peter Farazijn (Bel) LOT 54. Miguel Arroyo (Mex) BIG 20.11 55. Peter Meinert (Dan) USP 21.04 56. Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) USP 21.28 57. Stiphane Heulot (Fra) FDJ 22.59 58. Maximilian Sciandri (G-B) FDJ 27.14 59. Arturas Kasputis (Lit) CSO 60. Giorgio Furlan (Ita) SAE 61. Fabrice Gougot (Fra) CSO 28.55 62. Laurent Brochard (Fra) FES 63. Torsten Schmidt (Ger) ROS 64. Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) BAN 65. Zenon Jaskula (Pol) MAP 66. Alexandre Gontchenkov (Rus) ROS 67. Andrea Tafi (Ita) MAP 68. Marty Jemison (USA) USP 69. Erik Breukink (Ned) RAB 70. Didier Rous (Fra) FES 71. Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) CSO 72. Marco Zen (Ita) ROS 73. Tyler Hamilton (USA) USP 74. Pascal Hervi (Fra) FES 75. Marino Alonso (Spa) BAN 76. Daniele Sgnaolin (Ita) ROS 77. Viatcheslav Djavanian (Rus) ROS 78. Udo Bolts (Ger) TEL 79. Inigo Cuesta (Spa) ONC 80. Javier Pascual (Spa) KEL 81. Jaime Gonzalez (Col) KEL 82. Claude Lamour (Fra) MUT 83. Jose Angel Vidal (Spa) KEL 32.21 84. Rolf Sorensen (Dan) RAB 85. Georg Totschnig (Aut) TEL 33.01 86. Jens Heppner (Ger) TEL 87. Christophe Rinero (Fra) COF 33.13 88. Robbie McEwen (Aus) RAB 36.09 89. Frankie Andreu (USA) COF 90. Danny Nelissen (Ned) RAB 37.27 91. Erik Dekker (Ned) RAB 92. Erik Zabel (Ger) TEL 43.01 93. Arnaud Pretot (Fra) GAN 94. Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) PLT 95. Francisco Benitez (Spa) KEL 96. Adriano Baffi (Ita) USP 97. Gianluca Pierobon (Ita) BAT 98. Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) TEL 99. Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) LOT 100. Christian Henn (Ger) TEL 101. Mauro Gianetti (Swi) FDJ 102. Wilfried Peeters (Bel) MAP 103. Marco Artunghi (Ita) MER 104. George Hincapie (USA) USP 105. Nicola Loda (Ita) MAG 106. Bruno Cenghialta (Ita) BAT 107. Davide Rebellin (Ita) FDJ 108. Servais Knaven (Ned) TVM 109. Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) USP 110. Stuart O'Grady (Aus) GAN 111. Laurent Genty (Fra) BIG 112. Roberto Sierra (Spa) ONC 113. Bo Hamburger (Dan) TVM 114. Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) TVM 115. Fridiric Moncassin (Fra) GAN 116. Jean-Frangois Anti (Fra) MUT 117. Pascal Derami (Fra) USP 118. Francisco Cabello (Spa) KEL 119. Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) MAP 120. Giuseppe Tartaggia (Ita) BAT 121. Gerrit De Vries (Ned) PLT 122. Javier Mauleon (Spa) ONC 123. Mario Traversoni (Ita) MER 124. Gilles Maignan (Fra) MUT 125. Nicola Minali (Ita) BAT 126. Marco Saligari (Ita) CSO 127. David Etxebarria (Spa) ONC 128. Eros Poli (Ita) GAN 129. Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) COF 130. Laurent Pillon (Fra) MUT 131. Fridiric Guesdon (Fra) FDJ 132. Philipp Buschor (Swi) SAE 133. Stiphane Cueff (Fra) MUT 134. Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) SAE 135. Vitali Kokorine (Rus) ROS 136. Carlo Finco (Ita) MAG 137. Jesper Skibby (Dan) TVM 138. Girard Rui (Fra) GAN 139. Pascal Lance (Fra) BIG 140. Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) BIG 141. Gilberto Simoni (Ita) MAG 142. Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) PLT 143. Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) SAE 144. Christophe Mengin (Fra) FDJ 145. Andreo Tchmil (Ukr) LOT 146. Aitor Garmendia (Spa) ONC 147. Fabio Baldato (Ita) MAG 148. Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) TVM 149. Dominique Rault (Fra) MUT 150. Matteo Tosatto (Ita) MAG 151. Chris Boardman (G-B) GAN 152. Anthony Morin (Fra) BIG 153. Dario Frigo (Ita) SAE 154. Luca Colombo (Ita) BAT 155. Johan Museeuw (Bel) MAP 156. Jo Planckaert (Bel) LOT 157. Tristan Hoffman (Ned) TVM 158. Marc Wauters (Bel) LOT 159. Patrick Jonker (Aus) RAB 160. Marcelino Garcia (Spa) ONC 161. Andrea Brognara (Ita) BAT 162. Ludovic Auger (Fra) BIG 163. Luc Leblanc (Fra) PLT 164. Henk Vogels (Aus) GAN 165. Mirco Crepaldi (Ita) PLT 166. Serguei Outschakov (Ukr) PLT 167. Rossano Brasi (Ita) PLT 168. Gianluca Valoti (Ita) PLT 169. Francesco Frattini (Ita) BAT 170. Flavio Vanzella (Ita) FDJ 171. Lauri Aus (Est) CSO 172. Philippe Gaumont (Fra) COF 173. Rolf Jaermann (Swi) CSO 174. Bart Voskamp (Ned) TVM 175. Peter Van Petegem (Bel) TVM 176. Luca Scinto (Ita) MAG 177. Laurent Desbiens (Fra) COF 43.01 178. Cyril Saugrain (Fra) COF 44.48 Abandoned: Michele Bartoli (Ita) MAG
1. Jan Ullrich (Ger) TEL 55.00.54 2. Richard Virenque (Fra) FES 2.58 3. Abraham Olano (Spa) BAN 4.46 4. Bjarne Riis (Dan) TEL 4.53 5. Marco Pantani (Ita) MER 5.29 6. Fernando Escartin (Spa) KEL 5.46 7. Laurent Dufaux (Swi) FES 6.02 8. Oskar Camenzind (Swi) MAP 7.00 9. Francesco Casagrande (Ita) SAE 7.20 10. Cidric Vasseur (Fra) GAN 7.31 11. Pascal Lino (Fra) BIG 7.41 12. Peter Luttenberger (Aut) RAB 8.02 13. Jose Maria Jimenez (Spa) BAN 9.33 14. Daniele Nardello (Ita) MAP 10.01 15. Roberto Conti (Ita) MER 10.20 16. Alberto Elli (Ita) CSO 10.41 17. Joona Laukka (Fin) FES 11.15 18. Laurent Madouas (Fra) LOT 12.19 19. Beat Zberg (Swi) MER 12.47 20. Frangois Simon (Fra) GAN 13.58 21. Manuel Beltran (Spa) BAN 14.38 22. Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) USP 15.30 23. Marco Fincato (Ita) ROS 16.34 24. Hernan Buenahora (Col) KEL 18.57 25. Christophe Moreau (Fra) FES 18.58 26. Michael Boogerd (Ned) RAB 21.17 27. Pascal Chanteur (Fra) CSO 22.14 28. Laurent Roux (Fra) TVM 22.59 29. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONC 24.32 30. Santiago Blanco (Spa) BAN 24.34 31. Jean-Philippe Dojwa (Fra) MUT 25.26 32. Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONC 25.31 33. Marcello Siboni (Ita) MER 26.58 34. Kevin Livingston (USA) COF 27.05 35. Andreo Teteriuk (Kzk) LOT 27.24 36. Stiphane Heulot (Fra) FDJ 29.58 37. Peter Meinert (Dan) USP 30.04 38. Massimo Podenzana (Ita) MER 30.24 39. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) FES 31.33 40. Laurent Brochard (Fra) FES 32.46 41. Bobby Julich (USA) COF 32.47 42. Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) USP 34.07 43. Jose de los Angeles (Spa) KEL 36.03 44. Benont Salmon (Fra) LOT 36.08 45. Thierry Bourguignon (Fra) BIG 38.26 46. Rolf Aldag (Ger) TEL 39.06 47. Didier Rous (Fra) FES 39.12 48. Udo Bolts (Ger) TEL 40.26 49. Peter Farazijn (Bel) LOT 42.14 50. Valentino Fois (Ita) MAP 42.49 51. Pascal Hervi (Fra) FES 43.56 52. Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) SAE 44.01 53. Oscar Pellicioli (Ita) MER 44.29 54. Georg Totschnig (Aut) TEL 44.44 55. Fabrice Gougot (Fra) CSO 45.33 56. Javier Pascual (Spa) KEL 45.54 57. Neil Stephens (Aus) FES 46.04 58. Orlando Rodrigues (Por) BAN 46.08 59. Erik Breukink (Ned) RAB 46.42 60. David Delrieu (Fra) MUT 48.29 61. Inigo Cuesta (Spa) ONC 48.37 62. Zenon Jaskula (Pol) MAP 49.14 63. Angel Casero (Spa) BAN 50.31 64. Jon Odriozola (Spa) BAT 51.07 65. Marino Alonso (Spa) BAN 51.16 66. Andrea Peron (Ita) FDJ 51.17 67. Bo Hamburger (Dan) TVM 51.54 68. Giusvan Piovaccari (Ita) MER 56.36 69. Erik Zabel (Ger) TEL 58.20 70. Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) PLT 58.30 71. Andrea Tafi (Ita) MAP 59.09 72. Davide Rebellin (Ita) FDJ 59.18 73. Miguel Arroyo (Mex) BIG 59.40 74. Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) TVM 59.47 75. Marco Zen (Ita) ROS 59.54 76. Marty Jemison (USA) USP 1.00.16 77. Daniele Sgnaolin (Ita) ROS 1.00.23 78. Aitor Garmendia (Spa) ONC 1.00.30 79. Christophe Mengin (Fra) FDJ 1.00.41 80. Tyler Hamilton (USA) USP 1.01.06 81. Maximilian Sciandri (G-B) FDJ 1.01.54 82. Patrick Jonker (Aus) RAB 1.02.45 83. Frankie Andreu (USA) COF 1.04.34 84. Jaime Gonzalez (Col) KEL 1.05.18 85. Alexandre Gontchenkov (Rus) ROS 1.06.04 86. Jose Angel Vidal (Spa) KEL 1.06.33 87. Francisco Benitez (Spa) KEL 1.06.56 88. Giorgio Furlan (Ita) SAE 1.07.11 89. Rolf Sorensen (Dan) RAB 1.08.29 90. Christophe Rinero (Fra) COF 1.08.32 91. Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) CSO 1.08.42 92. Arturas Kasputis (Lit) CSO 1.09.42 93. Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) MAP 1.09.48 94. Chris Boardman (G-B) GAN 1.10.42 95. Claude Lamour (Fra) MUT 1.11.19 96. David Etxebarria (Spa) ONC 1.11.30 97. Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) USP 1.12.52 98. Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) BAN 1.12.56 99. Bruno Cenghialta (Ita) BAT 1.12.57 100. Wilfried Peeters (Bel) MAP 1.14.13 101. Erik Dekker (Ned) RAB 1.14.34 102. Giuseppe Tartaggia (Ita) BAT 1.15.01 103. Nicola Loda (Ita) MAG 1.15.02 104. Robbie McEwen (Aus) RAB 1.15.59 105. Stuart O'Grady (Aus) GAN 1.16.04 106. Fridiric Moncassin (Fra) GAN 1.16.09 107. Jens Heppner (Ger) TEL 1.16.28 108. Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) SAE 1.16.53 109. Nicola Minali (Ita) BAT 1.17.19 110. Mario Traversoni (Ita) MER 1.17.26 111. Danny Nelissen (Ned) RAB 1.17.30 112. Henk Vogels (Aus) GAN 1.17.32 113. Marco Artunghi (Ita) MER 1.17.50 114. Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) LOT 1.18.09 115. Andreo Tchmil (Ukr) LOT 1.18.28 116. Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) TVM 1.18.55 117. Luc Leblanc (Fra) PLT 1.19.10 118. Javier Mauleon (Spa) ONC 1.19.14 119. Arnaud Pretot (Fra) GAN 1.19.49 120. Johan Museeuw (Bel) MAP 1.20.30 121. Anthony Morin (Fra) BIG 1.20.34 122. Viatcheslav Djavanian (Rus) ROS 1.20.44 123. Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) TEL 1.20.47 124. Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) COF 1.21.22 125. Adriano Baffi (Ita) USP 1.21.25 126. Francisco Cabello (Spa) KEL 1.21.29 127. Girard Rui (Fra) GAN 1.21.30 128. Peter Van Petegem (Bel) TVM 1.21.41 129. Mirco Crepaldi (Ita) PLT 1.22.20 130. Dominique Rault (Fra) MUT 1.22.53 131. Laurent Desbiens (Fra) COF 1.23.11 132. Mauro Gianetti (Swi) FDJ 1.23.20 133. Roberto Sierra (Spa) ONC 1.23.36 134. Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) PLT 1.23.42 135. Pascal Lance (Fra) BIG 1.23.52 136. George Hincapie (USA) USP 1.24.14 137. Christian Henn (Ger) TEL 1.25.21 138. Gilberto Simoni (Ita) MAG 1.25.50 139. Gerrit De Vries (Ned) PLT 1.25.56 140. Fridiric Guesdon (Fra) FDJ 1.25.58 141. Gilles Maignan (Fra) MUT 1.26.12 142. Servais Knaven (Ned) TVM 1.26.24 143. Jesper Skibby (Dan) TVM 1.26.59 144. Laurent Genty (Fra) BIG 1.27.19 145. Flavio Vanzella (Ita) FDJ 1.27.20 146. Fabio Baldato (Ita) MAG 1.27.20 147. Marcelino Garcia (Spa) ONC 1.27.30 148. Stiphane Cueff (Fra) MUT 1.28.04 149. Rolf Jaermann (Swi) CSO 1.28.06 150. Dario Frigo (Ita) SAE 1.28.14 151. Serguei Outschakov (Ukr) PLT 1.28.14 152. Lauri Aus (Est) CSO 1.28.21 153. Marco Saligari (Ita) CSO 1.28.31 154. Philipp Buschor (Swi) SAE 1.28.44 155. Vitali Kokorine (Rus) ROS 1.28.54 156. Rossano Brasi (Ita) PLT 1.28.57 157. Tristan Hoffman (Ned) TVM 1.29.50 158. Pascal Derami (Fra) USP 1.30.13 159. Andrea Brognara (Ita) BAT 1.31.22 160. Jean-Frangois Anti (Fra) MUT 1.31.25 161. Jo Planckaert (Bel) LOT 1.32.02 162. Cyril Saugrain (Fra) COF 1.32.35 163. Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) BIG 1.32.47 164. Gianluca Valoti (Ita) PLT 1.32.48 165. Torsten Schmidt (Ger) ROS 1.33.19 166. Francesco Frattini (Ita) BAT 1.33.33 167. Luca Scinto (Ita) MAG 1.34.36 168. Carlo Finco (Ita) MAG 1.36.49 169. Bart Voskamp (Ned) TVM 1.37.05 170. Matteo Tosatto (Ita) MAG 1.37.16 171. Marc Wauters (Bel) LOT 1.37.19 172. Eros Poli (Ita) GAN 1.37.52 173. Laurent Pillon (Fra) MUT 1.40.46 174. Luca Colombo (Ita) BAT 1.49.35 175. Philippe Gaumont (Fra) COF 1.56.19 176. Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) SAE 2.00.32 177. Gianluca Pierobon (Ita) BAT 2.05.39 178. Ludovic Auger (Fra) BIG 2.09.30
He was a freckle-faced 14-year-old when the first barrier, the Berlin Wall, fell in 1989 and the Rostock-born youngster was able to race in the West.
``I was nine when I took part in my first race and 14 when the Berlin Wall came down and I had my first chance to race in France and Belgium,'' the German said as he donned the overall leader's yellow jersey for the first time.
Ullrich came to prominence when he finished second to his Telekom team leader Bjarne Riis in last year's Tour after a remarkable time trial victory in the penultimate stage at St Emilion.
But insiders such as American Lance Armstrong, recovering from cancer and looking to race again for the Cofidis team, said the young German's talent has long been evident.
``It's not so surprising. He's a talened young guy who was world champion as an amateur (in 1993). He could win many more Tours,'' Armstrong said after the 10th stage, second in the Pyrenees, which Ullrich won by a one minute eight seconds margin.
At 23, Ullrich is the same age as Frenchmen Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault, both five times winners, and their compatriot Laurent Fignon, twice a victor, were when they won their first Tours.
Ullrich named Spain's Miguel Indurain, who also won the Tour five successive times until he was succeeded by Riis in 1996, as his idol.
He bears a remarkable resemblance to Indurain in the ease with which he appears to stay with any pace in the climbs and his brilliance in the time trials. He was second to Briton Chris Boardman in the prologue in Rouen 10 days ago.
Symbolically, Ullrich has taken the yellow jersey for the first time -- and the first by a German since Klaus Peter Thaler in 1978 -- in the first Tour since Indurain retired.
Assuming he fulfils his promise as a Tour great, Ullrich will also look back to American Greg LeMond as an influential predecessor.
``I remember him from the first time I saw the Tour on television. He won the yellow jersey,'' Ullrich said.
``Ever since I first watched the Tour I wanted to become a professional and one day wear it.''
LeMond marked a change in Tour history in which the winners crown their efforts in the mountains with good time trials.
Ullrich is out of the same mould, whereas his only real rival in this Tour, Frenchman Richard Virenque, belongs to the old school of pure climbers.
Having shown the potential to take the lead in Monday's first mountain stage when he was second, Ullrich said: ``Today I believed I could. I made the break, then looked back and saw no-one coming with me so I thought this is it and pressed on.''
Riis, who only on Monday was strongly defending his status as team captain, now appears merely to be the link between the Indurain era and a possible new one bearing the name of Ullrich.