1. Marco Pantani (Ita) MER 5.02.42 (avs. 40,336 km/h ) 2. Jan Ullrich (Ger) TEL 0.47 3. Richard Virenque (Fra) FES 1.27 4. Francesco Casagrande (Ita) SAE 2.27 5. Bjarne Riis (Dan) TEL 2.28 6. Beat Zberg (Swi) MER 2.59 7. Udo Bolts (Ger) TEL 2.59 8. Roberto Conti (Ita) MER 2.59 9. Laurent Madouas (Fra) LOT 2.59 10. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONC 3.22 11. Marco Fincato (Ita) ROS 3.22 12. Abraham Olano (Spa) BAN 3.25 13. Orlando Rodrigues (Por) BAN 3.30 14. Manuel Beltran (Spa) BAN 3.46 15. Fernando Escartin (Spa) KEL 4.14 16. Davide Rebellin (Ita) FDJ 4.25 17. Patrick Jonker (Aus) RAB 4.27 18. Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) USP 4.27 19. Jose Maria Jimenez (Spa) BAN 4.27 20. Peter Luttenberger (Aut) RAB 4.27 21. Bobby Julich (USA) COF 4.27 22. Oskar Camenzind (Swi) MAP 4.31 23. Javier Pascual (Spa) KEL 4.31 24. Kevin Livingston (USA) COF 5.09 25. Thierry Bourguignon (Fra) BIG 5.19 26. David Etxebarria (Spa) ONC 5.24 27. Joona Laukka (Fin) FES 5.24 28. Jean-Philippe Dojwa (Fra) MUT 5.24 29. Stephane Heulot (Fra) FDJ 5.24 30. Alberto Elli (Ita) CSO 5.24 31. Peter Meinert (Dan) USP 5.24 32. Michael Boogerd (Ned) RAB 5.24 33. Massimo Podenzana (Ita) MER 5.24 34. Daniele Nardello (Ita) MAP 5.34 35. Angel Casero (Spa) BAN 5.34 36. Jon Odriozola (Spa) BAT 5.47 37. Fabrice Gougot (Fra) CSO 5.53 38. Pascal Chanteur (Fra) CSO 5.53 39. Jose de los Angeles (Spa) KEL 5.53 40. Santiago Blanco (Spa) BAN 5.53 41. Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) MAP 6.13 42. Gianluca Valoti (Ita) PLT 6.26 43. Miguel Arroyo (Mex) BIG 6.34 44. Marcello Siboni (Ita) MER 6.34 45. Andrea Tafi (Ita) MAP 7.05 46. Tyler Hamilton (USA) USP 7.05 47. Frangois Simon (Fra) GAN 7.05 48. Laurent Roux (Fra) TVM 7.05 49. Arturas Kasputis (Lit) CSO 7.05 50. Viatcheslav Djavanian (Rus) ROS 7.05 51. Pascal Herve (Fra) FES 7.05 52. Didier Rous (Fra) FES 7.05 53. Laurent Dufaux (Swi) FES 7.05 54. Carlo Finco (Ita) MAG 7.33 55. Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) PLT 7.34 56. Laurent Brochard (Fra) FES 7.44 57. Jesper Skibby (Dan) TVM 7.44 58. Zenon Jaskula (Pol) MAP 7.44 59. Javier Mauleon (Spa) ONC 7.44 60. Erik Breukink (Ned) RAB 7.44 61. Dominique Rault (Fra) MUT 8.02 62. Cedric Vasseur (Fra) GAN 8.14 63. Hernan Buenahora (Col) KEL 8.57 64. Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) USP 9.03 65. David Delrieu (Fra) MUT 9.13 66. Marco Zen (Ita) ROS 9.13 67. Daniele Sgnaolin (Ita) ROS 9.13 68. Rolf Sorensen (Dan) RAB 9.18 69. Rolf Jaermann (Swi) CSO 9.33 70. Christophe Moreau (Fra) FES 9.36 71. Alexandre Gontchenkov (Rus) ROS 10.08 72. Mauro Gianetti (Swi) FDJ 10.08 73. Gerard Rue (Fra) GAN 10.08 74. Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) BIG 10.08 75. Marco Saligari (Ita) CSO 10.08 76. Jens Heppner (Ger) TEL 10.08 77. Benont Salmon (Fra) LOT 10.08 78. Luc Leblanc (Fra) PLT 10.35 79. Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) PLT 10.35 80. Peter Farazijn (Bel) LOT 10.35 81. Bart Voskamp (Ned) TVM 10.35 82. Bo Hamburger (Dan) TVM 10.47 83. Frederic Guesdon (Fra) FDJ 10.56 84. Flavio Vanzella (Ita) FDJ 10.56 85. Bruno Cenghialta (Ita) BAT 10.56 86. Christophe Mengin (Fra) FDJ 10.56 87. Ludovic Auger (Fra) BIG 10.56 88. Erik Dekker (Ned) RAB 10.56 89. Arnaud Pretot (Fra) GAN 10.56 90. Christophe Rinero (Fra) COF 10.56 91. Giuseppe Tartaggia (Ita) BAT 11.42 92. Rolf Aldag (Ger) TEL 11.42 93. Francisco Benitez (Spa) KEL 11.42 94. Jose Angel Vidal (Spa) KEL 11.42 95. Francisco Cabello (Spa) KEL 11.42 96. Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) TVM 11.42 97. Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) USP 11.42 98. Gerrit De Vries (Ned) PLT 11.42 99. Marty Jemison (USA) USP 11.42 100. George Hincapie (USA) USP 11.42 101. Roberto Sierra (Spa) ONC 11.42 102. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) FES 11.42 103. Giorgio Furlan (Ita) SAE 11.42 104. Marino Alonso (Spa) BAN 11.42 105. Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) CSO 11.42 106. Fabio Baldato (Ita) MAG 11.42 107. Dario Frigo (Ita) SAE 11.42 108. Stuart O'Grady (Aus) GAN 11.42 109. Claude Lamour (Fra) MUT 11.42 110. Luca Scinto (Ita) MAG 11.42 111. Matteo Tosatto (Ita) MAG 11.42 112. Marcelino Garcia (Spa) ONC 11.42 113. Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) BAN 12.15 114. Servais Knaven (Ned) TVM 12.18 115. Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) SAE 12.29 116. Maximilian Sciandri (G-B) FDJ 12.29 117. Torsten Schmidt (Ger) ROS 12.29 118. Cyril Saugrain (Fra) COF 12.56 119. Erik Zabel (Ger) TEL 12.56 120. Frederic Moncassin (Fra) GAN 12.56 121. Gilberto Simoni (Ita) MAG 12.56 122. Henk Vogels (Aus) GAN 13.01 123. Neil Stephens (Aus) FES 14.09 124. Oscar Pellicioli (Ita) MER 14.09 125. Wilfried Peeters (Bel) MAP 14.09 126. Georg Totschnig (Aut) TEL 14.09 127. Robbie McEwen (Aus) RAB 14.40 128. Tristan Hoffman (Ned) TVM 15.23 129. Luca Colombo (Ita) BAT 18.06 130. Pascal Derame (Fra) USP 18.06 131. Mirco Crepaldi (Ita) PLT 18.06 132. Eros Poli (Ita) GAN 18.06 133. Nicola Minali (Ita) BAT 18.06 134. Laurent Pillon (Fra) MUT 18.06 135. Stephane Cueff (Fra) MUT 18.06 136. Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) SAE 18.06 137. Marco Artunghi (Ita) MER 18.06 138. Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) SAE 18.06 139. Serguei Outschakov (Ukr) PLT 18.06 140. Adriano Baffi (Ita) USP 18.06 141. Philipp Buschor (Swi) SAE 18.06 142. Rossano Brasi (Ita) PLT 18.06 143. Inigo Cuesta (Spa) ONC 18.06 144. Giusvan Piovaccari (Ita) MER 18.06 145. Anthony Morin (Fra) BIG 18.06 146. Francesco Frattini (Ita) BAT 18.06 147. Christian Henn (Ger) TEL 18.06 148. Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) LOT 18.06 149. Jaime Gonzalez (Col) KEL 18.06 150. Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) TEL 18.06 151. Andreo Tchmil (Ukr) LOT 18.06 152. Pascal Lance (Fra) BIG 18.06 153. Marc Wauters (Bel) LOT 18.06 154. Jo Planckaert (Bel) LOT 18.06 155. Aitor Garmendia (Spa) ONC 18.06 156. Johan Museeuw (Bel) MAP 18.06 157. Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONC 18.06 158. Mario Traversoni (Ita) MER 18.06 159. Andrea Peron (Ita) FDJ 18.06 160. Nicola Loda (Ita) MAG 18.06 161. Lauri Aus (Est) CSO 18.06 162. Peter Van Petegem (Bel) TVM 18.06 163. Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) TVM 18.06 164. Gianluca Pierobon (Ita) BAT 18.06 165. Laurent Genty (Fra) BIG 18.06 166. Gilles Maignan (Fra) MUT 18.06 167. Pascal Lino (Fra) BIG 18.06 168. Frankie Andreu (USA) COF 18.30 169. Laurent Desbiens (Fra) COF 18.30 170. Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) COF 18.30 171. Philippe Gaumont (Fra) COF 19.16 Abandoned. Chris Boardman (G-B) GAN
1. Jan Ullrich (Ger) TEL 66.26.10 2. Richard Virenque (Fra) FES 6.22 3. Marco Pantani (Ita) MER 8.24 4. Bjarne Riis (Dan) TEL 9.42 5. Abraham Olano (Spa) BAN 10.38 6. Francesco Casagrande (Ita) SAE 12.56 7. Fernando Escartin (Spa) KEL 14.36 8. Oskar Camenzind (Swi) MAP 16.59 9. Jose Maria Jimenez (Spa) BAN 18.32 10. Laurent Dufaux (Swi) FES 18.46 11. Peter Luttenberger (Aut) RAB 19.47 12. Beat Zberg (Swi) MER 19.59 13. Roberto Conti (Ita) MER 20.48 14. Alberto Elli (Ita) CSO 21.53 15. Laurent Madouas (Fra) LOT 22.10 16. Daniele Nardello (Ita) MAP 22.20 17. Cedric Vasseur (Fra) GAN 25.57 18. Marco Fincato (Ita) ROS 26.08 19. Joona Laukka (Fin) FES 26.25 20. Manuel Beltran (Spa) BAN 27.09 21. Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) USP 27.46 22. Frangois Simon (Fra) GAN 29.07 23. Michael Boogerd (Ned) RAB 30.58 24. Pascal Lino (Fra) BIG 31.35 25. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONC 34.29 26. Pascal Chanteur (Fra) CSO 34.31 27. Hernan Buenahora (Col) KEL 37.23 28. Christophe Moreau (Fra) FES 37.59 29. Jean-Philippe Dojwa (Fra) MUT 39.10 30. Laurent Roux (Fra) TVM 39.10 31. Marcello Siboni (Ita) MER 40.20 32. Santiago Blanco (Spa) BAN 40.47 33. Stephane Heulot (Fra) FDJ 42.30 34. Kevin Livingston (USA) COF 42.55 35. Massimo Podenzana (Ita) MER 43.20 36. Peter Meinert (Dan) USP 43.28 37. Bobby Julich (USA) COF 44.37 38. Laurent Brochard (Fra) FES 45.17 39. Thierry Bourguignon (Fra) BIG 50.47 40. Udo Bolts (Ger) TEL 51.08 41. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) FES 51.50 42. Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) USP 52.18 43. Jose de los Angeles (Spa) KEL 53.00 44. Didier Rous (Fra) FES 54.00 45. Javier Pascual (Spa) KEL 55.13 46. Orlando Rodrigues (Por) BAN 56.37 47. Pascal Herve (Fra) FES 58.28 48. Rolf Aldag (Ger) TEL 58.30 49. Peter Farazijn (Bel) LOT 1.00.15 50. Fabrice Gougot (Fra) CSO 1.00.17 51. Erik Breukink (Ned) RAB 1.00.47 52. Angel Casero (Spa) BAN 1.02.05 53. Jon Odriozola (Spa) BAT 1.02.42 54. Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) SAE 1.05.05 55. Georg Totschnig (Aut) TEL 1.05.49 56. David Delrieu (Fra) MUT 1.09.05 57. Benont Salmon (Fra) LOT 1.10.28 58. Oscar Pellicioli (Ita) MER 1.10.36 59. Neil Stephens (Aus) FES 1.10.41 60. Marino Alonso (Spa) BAN 1.11.06 61. Davide Rebellin (Ita) FDJ 1.12.06 62. Bo Hamburger (Dan) TVM 1.13.06 63. Tyler Hamilton (USA) USP 1.14.18 64. Patrick Jonker (Aus) RAB 1.14.21 65. Andrea Tafi (Ita) MAP 1.15.03 66. Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONC 1.15.38 67. Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) PLT 1.16.50 68. Andrea Peron (Ita) FDJ 1.17.47 69. Zenon Jaskula (Pol) MAP 1.17.53 70. Daniele Sgnaolin (Ita) ROS 1.18.13 71. Miguel Arroyo (Mex) BIG 1.18.15 72. Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) TVM 1.19.02 73. Erik Zabel (Ger) TEL 1.19.02 74. Marco Zen (Ita) ROS 1.19.21 75. Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) MAP 1.19.58 76. Christophe Mengin (Fra) FDJ 1.20.02 77. Marty Jemison (USA) USP 1.22.07 78. Maximilian Sciandri (G-B) FDJ 1.22.07 79. Alexandre Gontchenkov (Rus) ROS 1.24.54 80. Giusvan Piovaccari (Ita) MER 1.25.25 81. Arturas Kasputis (Lit) CSO 1.25.34 82. David Etxebarria (Spa) ONC 1.25.37 83. Aitor Garmendia (Spa) ONC 1.26.16 84. Rolf Sorensen (Dan) RAB 1.26.26 85. Giorgio Furlan (Ita) SAE 1.27.02 86. Jose Angel Vidal (Spa) KEL 1.27.09 87. Francisco Benitez (Spa) KEL 1.28.44 88. Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) USP 1.30.09 89. Erik Dekker (Ned) RAB 1.30.36 90. Claude Lamour (Fra) MUT 1.31.10 91. Frankie Andreu (USA) COF 1.31.20 92. Jens Heppner (Ger) TEL 1.33.46 93. Bruno Cenghialta (Ita) BAT 1.33.47 94. Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) BAN 1.33.51 95. Javier Mauleon (Spa) ONC 1.34.47 96. Inigo Cuesta (Spa) ONC 1.35.30 97. Jaime Gonzalez (Col) KEL 1.35.37 98. Luc Leblanc (Fra) PLT 1.35.44 99. Stuart O'Grady (Aus) GAN 1.36.03 100. Giuseppe Tartaggia (Ita) BAT 1.36.21 101. Wilfried Peeters (Bel) MAP 1.37.42 102. Henk Vogels (Aus) GAN 1.39.36 103. Frederic Moncassin (Fra) GAN 1.40.12 104. Dominique Rault (Fra) MUT 1.40.46 105. Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) PLT 1.41.26 106. Robbie McEwen (Aus) RAB 1.42.08 107. Nicola Loda (Ita) MAG 1.42.17 108. Gerard Rue (Fra) GAN 1.42.20 109. Roberto Sierra (Spa) ONC 1.42.44 110. Jesper Skibby (Dan) TVM 1.42.47 111. Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) SAE 1.42.49 112. Francisco Cabello (Spa) KEL 1.43.17 113. Arnaud Pretot (Fra) GAN 1.43.28 114. Marco Artunghi (Ita) MER 1.43.50 115. Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) LOT 1.44.09 116. Mauro Gianetti (Swi) FDJ 1.45.49 117. Anthony Morin (Fra) BIG 1.46.02 118. Andreo Tchmil (Ukr) LOT 1.46.29 119. George Hincapie (USA) USP 1.46.32 120. Nicola Minali (Ita) BAT 1.46.38 121. Gerrit De Vries (Ned) PLT 1.46.44 122. Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) TVM 1.46.55 123. Johan Museeuw (Bel) MAP 1.47.03 124. Rolf Jaermann (Swi) CSO 1.47.15 125. Marcelino Garcia (Spa) ONC 1.47.28 126. Frederic Guesdon (Fra) FDJ 1.47.33 127. Mario Traversoni (Ita) MER 1.47.54 128. Flavio Vanzella (Ita) FDJ 1.47.58 129. Pascal Lance (Fra) BIG 1.48.16 130. Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) BIG 1.48.30 131. Servais Knaven (Ned) TVM 1.48.51 132. Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) TEL 1.49.09 133. Fabio Baldato (Ita) MAG 1.49.19 134. Adriano Baffi (Ita) USP 1.49.41 135. Mirco Crepaldi (Ita) PLT 1.49.41 136. Dario Frigo (Ita) SAE 1.50.39 137. Gianluca Valoti (Ita) PLT 1.50.44 138. Christophe Rinero (Fra) COF 1.50.52 139. Christian Henn (Ger) TEL 1.50.58 140. Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) CSO 1.51.11 141. Laurent Desbiens (Fra) COF 1.51.21 142. Peter Van Petegem (Bel) TVM 1.51.23 143. Gilberto Simoni (Ita) MAG 1.52.41 144. Laurent Genty (Fra) BIG 1.52.52 145. Carlo Finco (Ita) MAG 1.53.22 146. Tristan Hoffman (Ned) TVM 1.54.48 147. Viatcheslav Djavanian (Rus) ROS 1.55.14 148. Lauri Aus (Est) CSO 1.55.16 149. Serguei Outschakov (Ukr) PLT 1.56.45 150. Luca Scinto (Ita) MAG 1.57.41 151. Bart Voskamp (Ned) TVM 1.58.05 152. Rossano Brasi (Ita) PLT 1.58.42 153. Matteo Tosatto (Ita) MAG 1.59.08 154. Cyril Saugrain (Fra) COF 1.59.17 155. Pascal Derame (Fra) USP 1.59.17 156. Jo Planckaert (Bel) LOT 2.02.24 157. Francesco Frattini (Ita) BAT 2.04.15 158. Marco Saligari (Ita) CSO 2.04.39 159. Eros Poli (Ita) GAN 2.06.44 160. Marc Wauters (Bel) LOT 2.07.10 161. Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) COF 2.09.52 162. Philipp Buschor (Swi) SAE 2.10.04 163. Torsten Schmidt (Ger) ROS 2.10.18 164. Laurent Pillon (Fra) MUT 2.14.16 165. Gilles Maignan (Fra) MUT 2.14.26 166. Stephane Cueff (Fra) MUT 2.14.26 167. Philippe Gaumont (Fra) COF 2.22.22 168. Ludovic Auger (Fra) BIG 2.29.49 169. Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) SAE 2.30.37 170. Gianluca Pierobon (Ita) BAT 2.30.39 171. Luca Colombo (Ita) BAT 2.41.00
On Saturday, the Italian returned to the top with a superb 13th stage victory at Alpe d'Huez in the Tour de France.
``More than a rebirth, it's a recovery of all the time lost,'' Pantani said after finishing 47 seconds ahead of yellow jersey holder Jan Ullrich of Germany to climb to third overall.
Dubbed The Little Devil after his idol Claudio ``Diavolo'' Chiappucci, Pantani said his second successive Alpe d'Huez victory was a wonderfully emotional moment.
``I saw people crying that I'd never have imagined I would see like that,'' the 27-year-old ardent AC Milan fan from Cesenatico on Italy's Adriatic coast said.
``This is the great present I've made to all those friends who believed the old Pantani could come back.
``This was a more beautiful victory (than the first at Alpe d'Huez in 1995) after a very serious injury. So many things happened in 1995...So much has changed since then but what was the same was the Pantani that crossed the line first.''
Pantani shattered his left shin when he collided with a Jeep going in the opposite direction during the Milan-Turin race in October 1995. He was out of action for 16 months and missed last year's Tour de France.
``Right after (the accident) I thought of quitting. My leg looked a mess,'' Pantani said.
``I started to think about recovering as a person, then I began going out on a bike. But I only thought about quitting for a week.''
The accident followed an earlier one in May 1995 when he injured his knee in a crash with a car during training. He also needed five stitches in a cut on his right eyebrow.
But the same year the Italian, who also suffered collarbone, wrist, instep and shoulder injuries as an amateur between 1985 and 1990, won two stages on the Tour de France.
Pantani said he has some way to go to retain the fitness of 1994 when he was third overall in the Tour de France. That year he also won two stages of the Giro d'Italia.
``The best Pantani, physically, was in 1994. I was better prepared then but less experienced.
``I'm not 100 percent. In 1995 it was a different stage (at Alpe d'Huez). We came to this one fresher,'' said Pantani, who came back in the Milan-San Remo race in March.
``I've been improving over the last few days and my legs are stronger but I've had a throat problem.''
Ideally built for a climber at 1.64 metres and 56 kg, Pantani said he thought he could have ridden even faster on Saturday.
``When you're fitter you can do more or less the same time with far less effort,'' said Pantani, who prepared for the classic by racing in the Tour of Switzerland. ``What came out was more grit and tenacity than legs.''