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Euskal Bizikleta - 2.1
Spain, June 4-8, 2003
Stage 1 - June 4: Eibar - Ispaster, 146.5 km
Etxebarria wins at home
Euskaltel-Euskadi's Basque pocket rocket David Etxebarria won the sprint finish of the first stage of the Euskal Bizikleta in Ispater today. Etxebarria was the first of a group of ten riders that had a 21-second advantage on the field at the end of the 146.5km stage from Eibar. David De La Fuente (Vini Caldirola) was second and Francesco Casagrande (Lampre) third.
"We worked hard [to set up for] the sprint," said Etxebarria, "and ONCE and Lampre were also aiming for it." Etxebarria added that he had enjoyed racing in the area as he's very familiar with the roads.
Extebarria's victory came at the end of a stage that was not especially animated, despite an early 20-rider breakaway that included Mikel Zarrabeitia (ONCE-Eroski), Oscar Freire (Rabobank) and Marco Pinotti (Lampre) who later fell heavily and was taken to hospital where he was diagnosed with a broken pelvis.
The escape was caught with 98km to go at which point Francisco Vila (Lampre), José Luis Arrieta (IBanesto.com) and Iñigo Cuesta (Cofidis) took advantage of the confusion to slip away, only to be caught three kilometres from the line. As the peloton caught Vila Arrieta and Cuesta, the final group of ten got away and stayed away to the finish.
Tomorrow's second stage covers 167.2km between Ispaster and Aizarnazabal.
Results
1 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.39.39 2 David De La Fuente (Spa) Vini Caldirola 3 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Lampre 4 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre 5 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 6 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) IBanesto.com 7 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza-MSS 8 Joseba Beloki (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 9 Raimondas Rumsas (Ltu) Lampre 10 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.03 11 Miguel Martin Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 0.21 12 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Vini Caldirola 13 Rui Miguel Sousa (Por) Milaneza-MSS 14 Angel Castresana (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 15 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 16 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 17 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18 Koldo Gil (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 19 Mikel Pradera (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 20 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 21 Mario Aerts (Bel) Telekom 22 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 23 Jon Odriozola (Spa) IBanesto.com 24 Gustavo Otero (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 25 Marcos Serrano (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 26 Unai Osa (Spa) IBanesto.com 27 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Milaneza-MSS 28 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza-MSS 29 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 30 Joaquin Lopez (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 31 Iñigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 32 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 33 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) IBanesto.com 34 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) Telekom 35 Lizuarte Manuel Martins (Por) Milaneza-MSS 36 J.Antonio Pecharroman (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 37 Juan Miguel Cuenca (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 38 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Telekom 39 Xabier Zandio (Spa) IBanesto.com 40 Aitor Osa (Spa) IBanesto.com 41 Fabio Testi (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 42 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 43 Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 44 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis 45 J.Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 46 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 47 J.Antonio Flecha (Spa) IBanesto.com 48 Aitor Kintana (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 49 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 50 José Javier Gomez Gozalo (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 51 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Telekom 52 Carlos Carneiro (Por) Milaneza-MSS 53 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 54 Ruben Lobato (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 55 Sylvester Szymyd (Pol) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 56 Santiago Blanco (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 57 David Latasa (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 58 José Garrido (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 59 Paulo Barroso (Por) Milaneza-MSS 60 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis 0.52 61 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 1.09 62 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 2.22 63 Dario Gadeo (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 3.17 64 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Cofidis 65 David Navas (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 3.24 66 Gorka Gerrikagoitia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 67 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 68 Nico Mattan (Bel) Cofidis 69 Alvaro Glez. Galdeano (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 70 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) IBanesto.com 71 Francisco Palacios (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 72 Roberto Lozano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 73 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 74 Alberto Hierro (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 75 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 76 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 77 Maurizio Ardila (Col) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 78 Christian Werner (Ger) Telekom 79 Gustavo Toledo (Arg) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 80 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 81 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Vini Caldirola 82 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 83 José Miguel Elias (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 84 Antonio Colom (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 85 Filip Meirhaeghe (Bel) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 86 Kyryl Pospyeyev (Ukr) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 87 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 88 Alexis Rodriguez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 89 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 90 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 91 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 92 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre 93 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 94 Adolfo Garcia Quesada (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 95 Iñaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.10 96 David Muñoz (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 97 Pedro Diaz Lobato (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 98 Mauro Radaelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola 6.17 99 David Kopp (Ger) Telekom 100 Francisco Gutierrez (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 101 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Vini Caldirola 102 Claudio Astolfi (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 103 Manu L'hoir (Bel) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 104 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 8.29 105 Dimitri Konyshev (Rus) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 106 Jean-Michel Tessier (Fra) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 107 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre 108 David Fernandez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 109 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 110 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola 111 Leandro Navarrete (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 11.36 112 Marcelino Garcia (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 113 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 114 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 115 Massimo Cigana (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 116 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) Telekom 117 Eddy Serri (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 118 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 119 Robert Sassone (Fra) Cofidis 15.16 120 Enrico Degano (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 20.48 121 Kai Hundertmark (Ger) Telekom DNF Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Vini Caldirola DNF Maro Pinotti (Ita) Lampre DNF Robert Hunter (Rsa) Rabobank Points 1 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25 Pts 2 David De La Fuente (Spa) Vini Caldirola 20 3 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Lampre 16 4 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre 14 5 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 12 6 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) IBanesto.com 10 7 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza-MSS 9 8 Joseba Beloki (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 8 9 Raimondas Rumsas (Ltu) Lampre 7 10 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 11 Miguel Martin Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 5 12 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Vini Caldirola 4 13 Rui Miguel Sousa (Por) Milaneza-MSS 3 14 Angel Castresana (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 2 15 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 1 Mountains Areitio - Cat. 3, km 5 1 Koldo Gil (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 3 Pts 2 Iñaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Aretxabalgane - Cat. 3, km 41 1 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 3 Pts 2 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 1 Bizkaiko Begiratokia - Cat.3, km 64 1 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 3 Pts 2 Mikel Pradera (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 1 Natxitua - Cat. 3, km 99 1 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) IBanesto.com 3 Pts 2 Roberto Lozano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1 Nabarniz - Cat. 3, km 129 1 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) IBanesto.com 3 Pts 2 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 1 Metas Volantes Goikolezea, km 37.3 1 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 3 Pts 2 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 2 3 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 1 Kortezubi, km 116.7 1 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 3 Pts 2 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) IBanesto.com 2 3 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre 1 Teams 1 Lampre 10.59.17 2 Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.04 3 ONCE-Eroski 0.22 4 Milaneza-MSS 5 iBanesto.com 6 Cofidis 7 Telekom 0.43 8 Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 9 Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 10 Kelme-Costa Blanca 11 Paternina-Costa de Almeria 12 Mercatone Uno-Scanvino 13 Vini Caldirola 3.25 14 Domina Vacanze-Elitron 3.46 15 Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 16 Rabobank 5.47 General classification after stage 1 1 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.39.39 2 David De La Fuente (Spa) Vini Caldirola 3 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Lampre 4 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre 5 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 6 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) IBanesto.com 7 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza-MSS 8 Joseba Beloki (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 9 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.03 10 Raimondas Rumsas (Ltu) Lampre 0.20 11 Miguel Martin Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 0.21 12 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Vini Caldirola 13 Rui Miguel Sousa (Por) Milaneza-MSS 14 Angel Castresana (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 15 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 16 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 17 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18 Koldo Gil (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 19 Mikel Pradera (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 20 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 21 Mario Aerts (Bel) Telekom 22 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 23 Jon Odriozola (Spa) IBanesto.com 24 Gustavo Otero (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 25 Marcos Serrano (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 26 Unai Osa (Spa) IBanesto.com 27 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Milaneza-MSS 28 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza-MSS 29 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 30 Joaquin Lopez (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 31 Iñigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 32 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 33 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) IBanesto.com 34 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) Telekom 35 Lizuarte Manuel Martins (Por) Milaneza-MSS 36 J.Antonio Pecharroman (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 37 Juan Miguel Cuenca (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 38 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Telekom 39 Xabier Zandio (Spa) IBanesto.com 40 Aitor Osa (Spa) IBanesto.com 41 Fabio Testi (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 42 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 43 Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 44 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis 45 J.Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 46 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 47 J.Antonio Flecha (Spa) IBanesto.com 48 Aitor Kintana (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 49 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 50 José Javier Gomez Gozalo (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 51 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Telekom 52 Carlos Carneiro (Por) Milaneza-MSS 53 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 54 Ruben Lobato (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 55 Sylvester Szymyd (Pol) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 56 Santiago Blanco (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 57 David Latasa (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 58 José Garrido (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 59 Paulo Barroso (Por) Milaneza-MSS 60 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis 0.52 61 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 1.09 62 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 2.22 63 Dario Gadeo (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 3.17 64 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Cofidis 65 David Navas (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 3.24 66 Gorka Gerrikagoitia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 67 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 68 Nico Mattan (Bel) Cofidis 69 Alvaro Glez. Galdeano (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 70 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) IBanesto.com 71 Francisco Palacios (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 72 Roberto Lozano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 73 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 74 Alberto Hierro (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 75 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 76 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 77 Maurizio Ardila (Col) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 78 Christian Werner (Ger) Telekom 79 Gustavo Toledo (Arg) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 80 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 81 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Vini Caldirola 82 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 83 José Miguel Elias (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 84 Antonio Colom (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 85 Filip Meirhaeghe (Bel) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 86 Kyryl Pospyeyev (Ukr) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 87 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 88 Alexis Rodriguez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 89 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 90 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 91 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 92 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre 93 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 94 Adolfo Garcia Quesada (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 95 Iñaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.10 96 David Muñoz (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 97 Pedro Diaz Lobato (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 98 Mauro Radaelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola 6.17 99 David Kopp (Ger) Telekom 100 Francisco Gutierrez (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 101 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Vini Caldirola 102 Claudio Astolfi (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 103 Manu L'hoir (Bel) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 104 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 8.29 105 Dimitri Konyshev (Rus) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 106 Jean-Michel Tessier (Fra) Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 107 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre 108 David Fernandez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 109 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 110 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola 111 Leandro Navarrete (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 11.36 112 Marcelino Garcia (Spa) Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 113 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 114 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 115 Massimo Cigana (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 116 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) Telekom 117 Eddy Serri (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 118 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 119 Robert Sassone (Fra) Cofidis 15.16 120 Enrico Degano (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 20.48 121 Kai Hundertmark (Ger) Telekom Points classification 1 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25 Pts 2 David De La Fuente (Spa) Vini Caldirola 20 3 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Lampre 16 4 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre 14 5 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 12 6 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) IBanesto.com 10 7 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza-MSS 9 8 Joseba Beloki (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 8 9 Raimondas Rumsas (Ltu) Lampre 7 10 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 11 Miguel Martin Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 5 12 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Vini Caldirola 4 13 Rui Miguel Sousa (Por) Milaneza-MSS 3 14 Angel Castresana (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 2 15 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 1 Mountains classification 1 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) IBanesto.com 6 Pts 2 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 4 3 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 4 4 Koldo Gil (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 3 5 Mikel Pradera (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 1 6 Roberto Lozano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1 7 Iñaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Metas volantes classification 1 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 5 Pts 2 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) IBanesto.com 2 3 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre 1 4 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 1 Teams classification 1 Lampre 10.59.17 2 Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.04 3 ONCE-Eroski 0.22 4 Milaneza-MSS 5 iBanesto.com 6 Cofidis 7 Telekom 0.43 8 Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 9 Labarca 2-Cafe Baque 10 Kelme-Costa Blanca 11 Paternina-Costa de Almeria 12 Mercatone Uno-Scanvino 13 Vini Caldirola 3.25 14 Domina Vacanze-Elitron 3.46 15 Marlux Wincor Nixdorf 16 Rabobank 5.47
