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19th Rothaus Regio-Tour International - 2.3
Germany, August 6-10, 2003
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Stage 5 - August 10: Emmendingen - Vogtsburg-Kaiserstuhl, 155.2 km
Gustov wins Regio Tour
Fassa Bortolo's Vlodymir Gustov has claimed the overall victory in the 19th Rothaus Regio-Tour, which finished in Vogtsburg-Kaiserstuhl today. The Ukrainian successfully defended a two second lead to Ronny Scholz (Gerolsteiner), with Cristian Moreni (Alessio) finishing third at three seconds. The final stage was won by Ruben Plaza (iBanesto) from Torsten Hiekmann (Telekom) and Thomas Ziegler (Wiesenhof).
The stage between Emmendingen and Vogtsburg-Kaiserstuhl was originally planned for 171 kilometres, however the organisers decided to eliminate the last local lap and reduce it to 155 km, because of the 40 degree temperatures. The aggression started early with a group of 12 getting away, but they were not allowed to go far and were caught after 20 km. However just as they were caught, Ruben Plaza (iBanesto) attacked, which helped create the winning break.
Besides Plaza, the group contained Antonio Bucciero (Saeco), Kevin de Weert (Rabobank), Thomas Ziegler (Wiesenhof), Tomasz Brozyna (CCC), Cadel Evans (Telekom), Ludovic Martin (Jean Delatour) and Torsten Hiekmann (Telekom). Plaza was the best placed in the break, starting the day at 2'16 down, and found himself as virtual leader once the break reached an advantage of 3'50.
Fassa Bortolo didn't panic however, and gradually started to bring the gap down over the tough finishing circuit. An attack by Ziegler, De Weert, Brozyna and Evans with over 50 km to go looked promising, however the remaining four did not give up the chase, with Plaza, Martin and Hiekmann all making contact. Evans was dropped, leaving six in front, all the time maintaining a one minute plus lead over the main field.
In the last three kilometres, the leading group exploded, and it was Plaza and Hiekmann who fought it out for stage honours, with Plaza winning.
Results
1 Ruben Plaza (Spa) iBanesto.com 3.55.01 2 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) Team Telekom 3 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 0.06 4 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Jean Delatour 5 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) CCC-Polsat 0.08 6 Kevin De Weert (Ned) Rabobank 0.12 7 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 0.28 8 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 9 Santo Anza (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 10 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) Jean Delatour 11 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Alessio 0.34 12 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Telekom 13 David Kopp (Ger) Team Telekom 14 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Team Saeco 15 Bert De Wale (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 16 Javier Pascual (Spa) iBanesto.com 17 Vlodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 18 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) iBanesto.com 19 Pierre Bourquenoud (Fra) Jean Delatour 20 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 21 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Crédit Agricole 22 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 23 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger) Team Telekom 24 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) CCC-Polsat 0.36 25 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Crédit Agricole 26 Sergey Avdyeyev (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 27 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 28 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Alessio 29 Christian Werner (Ger) Team Telekom 30 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 31 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 32 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Jean Delatour 33 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Crédit Agricole 34 Jens Voigt (Ger) Crédit Agricole 35 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) iBanesto.com 36 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 37 Addy Engels (Ned) Rabobank 38 Jaime Hernandez (Spa) Team Bianchi 39 Mathias Jelitto (Ger) German Track Team 40 Timo Scholz (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 41 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 42 Christian Knees (Ger) German Road Team 43 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 44 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) CCC-Polsat 45 Anthony Morin (Fra) Crédit Agricole 46 Michael Giebelmann (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 47 Björn Papstein (Ger) German Track Team 0.46 48 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio 0.47 49 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 0.50 50 Stefano Casagranda (Ita) Alessio 0.52 51 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo 3.21 52 Cadel Evans (Aus) Team Telekom 53 Maik Müller (Ger) German Track Team 3.44 54 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 55 Volodimir Duma (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 56 Roberto Vinale (Ita) Alessio 4.38 57 Christoph Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Bianchi 7.04 58 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 7.08 59 Ruslan Gryshchenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 8.18 60 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 61 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Crédit Agricole 8.39 62 Tom Stremeersch (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 63 Enrico Nikolai (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 12.19 64 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Gerolsteiner 65 Jens Reuker (Ger) German Track Team 66 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12.24 Points 1 Ruben Plaza (Spa) iBanesto.com 15 pts 2 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) Team Telekom 12 3 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 10 4 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Jean Delatour 8 5 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) CCC-Polsat 6 6 Kevin De Weert (Ned) Rabobank 5 7 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 4 8 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 9 Santo Anza (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2 10 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) Jean Delatour 1 Mountains Maleck - Cat. 2, km 13,6 2 David Kopp (Ger) Team Telekom 4 pts 3 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 4 Sergey Avdyeyev (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 1 Climb - Cat. 1, km 111,6 1 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 10 pts 2 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) CCC-Polsat 6 3 Cadel Evans (Aus) Team Telekom 4 4 Kevin De Weert (Ned) Rabobank 2 Climb - Cat. 1, km 127,8 1 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Jean Delatour 10 pts 2 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) Team Telekom 6 3 Kevin De Weert (Ned) Rabobank 4 4 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) CCC-Polsat 2 Climb - Cat. 1, km 144,0 1 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) Team Telekom 10 pts 2 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) CCC-Polsat 6 3 Ruben Plaza (Spa) iBanesto.com 4 4 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Jean Delatour 2 Sprints Emmendingen - km 17,3 1 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) iBanesto.com 2 pts 2 Timo Scholz (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1 Leiselheim km 68,9 1 Antonio Bucciero (Ita) Team Saeco 3 pts 2 Kevin De Weert (Ned) Rabobank 2 3 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1 Leiselheim km 133,7 1 Cadel Evans (Aus) Team Telekom 3 pts 2 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Jean Delatour 2 3 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1 Teams 1 Team Telekom 11.46.11 2 Jean Delatour 3 iBanesto.Com 4 Rabobank 0.06 5 Team Wiesenhof 0.10 6 Polsat 0.12 7 Landbouwkrediet 0.30 8 Crédit-Agricole 9 Alessio 0.49 10 German Track Team 3.58 11 Fassa Bortolo 9.55 12 Gerolsteiner 11.28 Final general classification 1 Vlodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 19.42.33 2 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.02 3 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Alessio 0.03 4 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) iBanesto.com 0.17 5 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) iBanesto.com 0.24 6 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.34 7 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.35 8 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.36 9 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 0.37 10 Javier Pascual (Spa) iBanesto.com 0.46 11 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger) Team Telekom 0.51 12 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 1.04 13 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.18 14 Timo Scholz (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1.23 15 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Alessio 16 Bert De Wale (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 1.24 17 David Kopp (Ger) Team Telekom 1.25 18 Pierre Bourquenoud (Fra) Jean Delatour 1.27 19 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 1.32 20 Ruben Plaza (Spa) iBanesto.com 21 Jaime Hernandez (Spa) Team Bianchi 1.33 22 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 1.44 23 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 2.00 24 Santo Anza (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2.06 25 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) Team Telekom 2.34 26 Jens Voigt (Ger) Crédit Agricole 2.49 27 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Telekom 3.09 28 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 3.40 29 Kevin De Weert (Ned) Rabobank 3.57 30 Sergey Avdyeyev (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 4.02 31 Christian Knees (Ger) German Road Team 4.06 32 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Team Saeco 4.29 33 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) CCC-Polsat 4.34 34 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 4.52 35 Volodimir Duma (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 5.13 36 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo 6.09 37 Michael Giebelmann (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 6.18 38 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 11.25 39 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) CCC-Polsat 16.49 40 Christian Werner (Ger) Team Telekom 17.01 41 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Jean Delatour 17.09 42 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 17.33 43 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 17.44 44 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 17.48 45 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) CCC-Polsat 17.50 46 Addy Engels (Ned) Rabobank 17.51 47 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Crédit Agricole 17.56 48 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio 18.14 49 Mathias Jelitto (Ger) German Track Team 18.25 50 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 18.52 51 Björn Papstein (Ger) German Track Team 18.53 52 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 21.22 53 Ruslan Gryshchenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23.59 54 Christoph Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Bianchi 24.44 55 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Crédit Agricole 25.45 56 Tom Stremeersch (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 26.37 57 Roberto Vinale (Ita) Alessio 27.56 58 Cadel Evans (Aus) Team Telekom 29.42 59 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Gerolsteiner 30.08 60 Anthony Morin (Fra) Crédit Agricole 32.02 61 Stefano Casagranda (Ita) Alessio 34.27 62 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 35.29 63 Maik Müller (Ger) German Track Team 36.00 64 Jens Reuker (Ger) German Track Team 45.28 65 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 55.12 66 Enrico Nikolai (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1.03.58 Points classification 1 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Telekom 31 pts 2 Volodimir Duma (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 24 3 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Alessio 21 4 Jens Voigt (Ger) Crédit Agricole 19 5 Ruben Plaza (Spa) iBanesto.com 15 6 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) iBanesto.com 14 7 David Kopp (Ger) Team Telekom 13 8 Christian Werner (Ger) Team Telekom 13 9 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 12 10 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) Team Telekom 12 11 Michael Giebelmann (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 11 12 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 11 13 Vlodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 10 14 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Jean Delatour 10 15 Anthony Morin (Fra) Crédit Agricole 10 16 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 9 17 Kevin De Weert (Ned) Rabobank 7 18 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 19 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 6 20 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) CCC-Polsat 6 21 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Alessio 5 22 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Team Saeco 5 23 Addy Engels (Ned) Rabobank 5 24 Antonio Bucciero (Ita) Team Saeco 4 25 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 4 26 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) iBanesto.com 4 27 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 4 28 Cadel Evans (Aus) Team Telekom 3 29 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) German Road Team 3 30 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 31 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 32 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Crédit Agricole 3 33 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger) Team Telekom 2 34 Santo Anza (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2 35 Stefano Casagranda (Ita) Alessio 2 36 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) Jean Delatour 1 37 Timo Scholz (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1 38 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) CCC-Polsat 1 Mountains classification 1 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 30 pts 2 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Alessio 28 3 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) Team Telekom 22 4 Christian Werner (Ger) Team Telekom 14 5 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) CCC-Polsat 14 6 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Jean Delatour 12 7 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12 8 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 12 9 Vlodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 10 10 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 10 11 Santo Anza (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 10 12 Michael Giebelmann (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 9 13 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Telekom 8 14 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 8 15 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) CCC-Polsat 6 16 Addy Engels (Ned) Rabobank 6 17 Kevin De Weert (Ned) Rabobank 6 18 Volodimir Duma (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 6 19 Jens Voigt (Ger) Crédit Agricole 5 20 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 21 David Kopp (Ger) Team Telekom 4 22 Ruben Plaza (Spa) iBanesto.com 4 23 Cadel Evans (Aus) Team Telekom 4 24 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 3 25 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 26 Anthony Morin (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 27 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2 28 Sergey Avdyeyev (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 1 29 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 1 U23 classification 1 David Kopp (Ger) Team Telekom 19.43.58 2 Ruben Plaza (Spa) iBanesto.com 0.07 3 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 0.35 4 Santo Anza (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.41 5 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) Team Telekom 1.09 6 Kevin De Weert (Ned) Rabobank 2.32 7 Christian Knees (Ger) German Road Team 2.41 8 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo 4.44 9 Christian Werner (Ger) Team Telekom 15.36 10 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 16.19 11 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 16.23 12 Mathias Jelitto (Ger) German Track Team 17.00 13 Ruslan Gryshchenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 22.34 14 Christoph Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Bianchi 23.19 15 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Gerolsteiner 28.43 16 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 53.47 Teams classification 1 iBanesto.Com 59.08.20 2 Jean Delatour 1.01 3 Team Telekom 2.47 4 Landbouwkrediet 2.52 5 Crédit-Agricole 3.29 6 Rabobank 4.04 7 Team Wiesenhof 6.20 8 Alessio 7.38 9 Gerolsteiner 31.51 10 Polsat 38.16 11 Fassa Bortolo 38.46 12 German Track Team 56.59
