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Grand Prix Tell - 2.7.1
Switzerland, August 27-31, 2003
Stage 1 - August 27: Niedererlinsbach - Niedererlinsbach criterium, 80.0 km
First leader from Kazakhstan
By Andreas Oppliger
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On Wednesday evening the U23 World Cup race GP Tell 2003 started in Niedererlinsbach (near Aarau), with 99 riders out of 17 teams. One team, the prestigious Italian U23 squad, was not admitted to the race, for not getting the requested licence to start abroad by the Italian Cycling federation in time. It was a shock for the race organisers as some other national teams (France, Sweden, Ireland and Ukraine) had also renounced their participation in Switzerland, some even at the last moment.
Nevertheless this was a big chance for the other riders to gain points for the U23 World Cup classification, although the profile of the first stage was difficult. It consisted in 10 laps of an 8 kilometre circuit with one very steep (12%) but short climb. From the beginning the speed in the race was very high, and eventually Assan Bazayev of the Kazakhstan national team won the stage.
One of the most active riders in the peloton was Daniel Gysling (Swiss national team). He was at the front of the race after 40 kilometres together with the Slovenian rider Janez Braikovic and the man from Latvia, Oleg Melehs. The trio never succeeded in building up a lead of over 30 seconds, so five other riders managed to catch them, including another Swiss rider, Florian Stalder. Although the two Swiss guys were extremely active in this group, they didn't succeed in getting away from the other riders. The Kazakh Assan Bazayev joined the leading group only five kilometres before the finish line. He was the strongest member out of the leading group and won the final sprint.
Bazayev is taking part in the GP Tell for the second time, after having finished 28th on GC last year. It was the fourth win for the 22 year old rider in this season. After his win he denied having any ambitions on GC, "The cat. 1 climbs... they really are too steep for a guy like me!"
Photos
Images by Tony Stutz and Daniel Erismann
- Team Germany present themselves to the crowd.
- The Swiss Hadimec contingent.
- The Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart boys.
- The Kazakhstan National Team looking relaxed.
- Team Mixed Zollinger.
- Team GS Rufalex Nordwest.
- Another Swiss mob, GS Rufalex Nordwest.
- 99 riders start the GP Tell with a 80 kilometre criterium in Niedererlinsbach.
- Assan Bazayev (Kazakhstan National Team) wins the first stage with ease.
- Daniel Gysling (Swiss Cycling) in the orange sprint leader's jersey.
- Daniel Gysling also took the first mountains jersey.
- Assan Bazayev (Kazakhstan National Team) dons the race leader's yellow jersey.
Results
1 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 1.58.10 2 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 3 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 4 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 5 Walker Ferguson (USA) USA National Team 6 Tomaz Nose (Slo) Slovenian National Team 7 Florian Stalder (Swi) Swiss Cycling 8 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Slovenian National Team 9 Stef Clement (Ned) Dutch National Team 10 Oleg Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 11 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 12 Michael Creed (USA) USA National Team 13 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Dutch National Team 1.13 14 Peter Mohlmann (Ned) Dutch National Team 15 Peter Oeschger (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 16 Daniel Musiol (Ger) German National Team 17 Alberto Tiberio (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 18 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 19 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 20 Jonas Meng (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 21 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Swiss Cycling 22 Felix Gniot (Ger) German National Team 23 Arian Buchwalder (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 24 Steve Grossenbacher (Swi) Hadimec 25 Bart Oegema (Ned) Dutch National Team 26 Marco Giani (Ita) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 27 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 28 Markus Schmidig (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 29 Michael Müller (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 30 Jimmy Tapparel (Swi) Hadimec 31 Jos Harms (Ned) Dutch National Team 32 Matic Strgar (Slo) Slovenian National Team 33 Marcel Schilliger (Swi) Hadimec 34 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 35 Jure Kocjan (Slo) Slovenian National Team 36 Peter Magyarosi (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 37 Marco Von Känel (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 38 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 39 Viktor Shestakuv (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 40 Sergey Lazarev (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 41 Pablo Pico (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 42 Bruno Büetiger (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 43 Jochen Uhrig (Ger) German National Team 44 Marco Jimenez (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 45 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 46 Erich Kunz (Swi) Hadimec 47 Dane Jankowiak (USA) USA National Team 48 Michael Muck (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 49 Laurent Arn (Swi) Hadimec 50 Norbert Poels (Ned) Dutch National Team 51 Johann Tschopp (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 52 Matthias Russ (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 53 Morten Knudsen (Den) Danish National Team 54 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 55 Wren Tyler (USA) USA National Team 56 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Russian National Team 57 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russian National Team 58 Timmy Duggan (USA) USA National Team 59 Dmitri Kozontchuk (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 60 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 61 Brian Vandborg (Den) Danish National Team 62 Glenn Poleunis (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 63 Darby Thomas (USA) USA National Team 64 Jochen Rochau (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 65 Braulio Juanes (Spa) Hadimec 66 Roman Gugger (Swi) Swiss Cycling 67 Simon Schärer (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 68 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Swiss Cycling 69 Alexander Bespalov (Rus) Russian National Team 1.21 70 Jonas Leib (Swi) Swiss Cycling 1.34 71 Michael Kristensen (Den) Danish National Team 1.37 72 Larsen Klostergaard Kasper (Den) Danish National Team 73 Sandro Germann (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 2.12 74 Alexander Bazhenov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 4.55 75 Kristof De Zutter (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 6.44 76 Christian Rocha (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 6.58 77 Steffen Greger (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 78 Remo Spirgi (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 79 Stefan Widmer (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 80 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 81 Christian Frommelt (Lie) Team Mixed Zollinger 82 Lasse Böchman (Den) Danish National Team 83 Stanislav Belov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 10.04 84 Aldis Abolins (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 11.49 85 Pirmin Lang (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 86 Tobias Baumgartner (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 87 Kalvis Eisaks (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 88 Janusch Laule (Ger) Team Mixed Zollinger 89 Peter Jörgensen (Den) Danish National Team 90 Boris Shpilevski (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 11.53 91 Thorsten Struch (Ger) German National Team 92 Christian Grob (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 15.37 93 Mario Wernli (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 94 Kurt Dierckx (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 16.22 95 Leo Karstens (Ger) German National Team 17.45 96 Gregory De Munster (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 97 Ronny Hartz (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart DNF Martins Polakovs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team DNF Kristaps Celms (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team Points 1 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 25 pts 2 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 20 3 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 16 4 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 13 5 Walker Ferguson (USA) USA National Team 11 6 Tomaz Nose (Slo) Slovenian National Team 10 7 Florian Stalder (Swi) Swiss Cycling 9 8 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Slovenian National Team 8 9 Stef Clement (Ned) Dutch National Team 7 10 Oleg Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 6 11 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 5 12 Michael Creed (USA) USA National Team 4 13 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Dutch National Team 3 14 Peter Mohlmann (Ned) Dutch National Team 2 15 Peter Oeschger (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 1 Mountains Lostorferstrasse - Cat. 3, 23.8 km 1 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 3 pts 2 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russian National Team 2 3 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 1 Lostorferstrasse - Cat. 3, 43.8 km 1 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 3 pts 2 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 2 3 Oleg Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 1 Lostorferstrasse - Cat. 3, 63.8 km 1 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 3 pts 2 Stef Clement (Ned) Dutch National Team 2 3 Walker Ferguson (USA) USA National Team 1 Sprints Erlinsbach - 20.0 km 1 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 3 pts 2 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Dutch National Team 2 3 Daniel Musiol (Ger) German National Team 1 Erlinsbach - 40.0 km 1 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 3 pts 2 Oleg Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 2 3 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 1 Erlinsbach - 60.0 km 1 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 3 pts 2 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 2 3 Stef Clement (Ned) Dutch National Team 1 Teams 1 Slovenian National Team 5.54.30 2 Swiss Cycling 1.13 3 USA National Team 4 Kazakhstan National Team 2.16 5 Russian National Team 2.20 6 German National Team 2.22 7 Dutch National Team 2.26 8 Hörmann Betoncoupe 3.39 9 Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 10 Hadimec 11 GS Rufalex Nordwest 12 Palmans-Collstrop 13 Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 14 Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 15 Danish National Team 4.03 16 Team Mixed Zollinger 9.24 17 Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 18.47 General classification after stage 1 1 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 1.58.00 2 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 0.04 3 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 0.06 4 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 0.10 5 Walker Ferguson (USA) USA National Team 6 Tomaz Nose (Slo) Slovenian National Team 7 Florian Stalder (Swi) Swiss Cycling 8 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Slovenian National Team 9 Stef Clement (Ned) Dutch National Team 10 Oleg Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 11 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 12 Michael Creed (USA) USA National Team 13 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Dutch National Team 1.23 14 Peter Mohlmann (Ned) Dutch National Team 15 Peter Oeschger (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 16 Daniel Musiol (Ger) German National Team 17 Alberto Tiberio (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 18 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 19 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 20 Jonas Meng (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 21 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Swiss Cycling 22 Felix Gniot (Ger) German National Team 23 Arian Buchwalder (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 24 Steve Grossenbacher (Swi) Hadimec 25 Bart Oegema (Ned) Dutch National Team 26 Marco Giani (Ita) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 27 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 28 Markus Schmidig (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 29 Michael Müller (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 30 Jimmy Tapparel (Swi) Hadimec 31 Jos Harms (Ned) Dutch National Team 32 Matic Strgar (Slo) Slovenian National Team 33 Marcel Schilliger (Swi) Hadimec 34 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 35 Jure Kocjan (Slo) Slovenian National Team 36 Peter Magyarosi (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 37 Marco Von Känel (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 38 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 39 Viktor Shestakuv (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 40 Sergey Lazarev (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 41 Pablo Pico (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 42 Bruno Büetiger (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 43 Jochen Uhrig (Ger) German National Team 44 Marco Jimenez (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 45 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 46 Erich Kunz (Swi) Hadimec 47 Dane Jankowiak (USA) USA National Team 48 Michael Muck (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 49 Laurent Arn (Swi) Hadimec 50 Norbert Poels (Ned) Dutch National Team 51 Johann Tschopp (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 52 Matthias Russ (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 53 Morten Knudsen (Den) Danish National Team 54 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 55 Wren Tyler (USA) USA National Team 56 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Russian National Team 57 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russian National Team 58 Timmy Duggan (USA) USA National Team 59 Dmitri Kozontchuk (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 60 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 61 Brian Vandborg (Den) Danish National Team 62 Glenn Poleunis (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 63 Darby Thomas (USA) USA National Team 64 Jochen Rochau (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 65 Braulio Juanes (Spa) Hadimec 66 Roman Gugger (Swi) Swiss Cycling 67 Simon Schärer (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 68 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Swiss Cycling 69 Alexander Bespalov (Rus) Russian National Team 1.31 70 Jonas Leib (Swi) Swiss Cycling 1.44 71 Michael Kristensen (Den) Danish National Team 1.47 72 Larsen Klostergaard Kasper (Den) Danish National Team 73 Sandro Germann (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 2.22 74 Alexander Bazhenov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 5.05 75 Kristof De Zutter (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 6.54 76 Christian Rocha (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 7.08 77 Steffen Greger (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 78 Remo Spirgi (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 79 Stefan Widmer (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 80 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 81 Christian Frommelt (Lie) Team Mixed Zollinger 82 Lasse Böchman (Den) Danish National Team 83 Stanislav Belov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 10.14 84 Aldis Abolins (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 11.59 85 Pirmin Lang (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 86 Tobias Baumgartner (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 87 Kalvis Eisaks (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 88 Janusch Laule (Ger) Team Mixed Zollinger 89 Peter Jörgensen (Den) Danish National Team 90 Boris Shpilevski (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 12.03 91 Thorsten Struch (Ger) German National Team 92 Christian Grob (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 15.47 93 Mario Wernli (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 94 Kurt Dierckx (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 16.32 95 Leo Karstens (Ger) German National Team 17.55 96 Gregory De Munster (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 97 Ronny Hartz (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart Points classification 1 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 25 pts 2 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 20 3 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 16 4 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 13 5 Walker Ferguson (USA) USA National Team 11 6 Tomaz Nose (Slo) Slovenian National Team 10 7 Florian Stalder (Swi) Swiss Cycling 9 8 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Slovenian National Team 8 9 Stef Clement (Ned) Dutch National Team 7 10 Oleg Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 6 11 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 5 12 Michael Creed (USA) USA National Team 4 13 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Dutch National Team 3 14 Peter Mohlmann (Ned) Dutch National Team 2 15 Peter Oeschger (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 1 Mountains classification 1 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 6 pts 2 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 3 3 Stef Clement (Ned) Dutch National Team 2 4 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 2 5 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russian National Team 2 6 Walker Ferguson (USA) USA National Team 1 7 Oleg Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 1 8 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 1 Sprints classification 1 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 6 pts 2 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 4 3 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 2 4 Oleg Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 2 5 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Dutch National Team 2 6 Stef Clement (Ned) Dutch National Team 1 7 Daniel Musiol (Ger) German National Team 1 Teams classification 1 Slovenian National Team 5.54.30 2 Swiss Cycling 1.13 3 USA National Team 4 Kazakhstan National Team 2.16 5 Russian National Team 2.20 6 German National Team 2.22 7 Dutch National Team 2.26 8 Hörmann Betoncoupe 3.39 9 Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 10 Hadimec 11 GS Rufalex Nordwest 12 Palmans-Collstrop 13 Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 14 Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 15 Danish National Team 4.03 16 Team Mixed Zollinger 9.24 17 Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 18.47
