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40th Tour de l'Avenir - 2.5
France, September 4-13, 2003
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Stage 10 - September 13: La Crau - La Crau, 128 km
Dumoulin at last
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Samuel Dumoulin (Jean Delatour) has finally added a second Avenir stage win to his swag this year, taking the final stage in a bunch sprint in La Crau. The small Frenchman avoided two crashes in the final to finish ahead of Moritz Veit (German National Team) and Assan Bazayev (Kazakhstan National Team) at the end of the 128 km stage. Basque rider Egoi Martinez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) finished 21st and thus claimed the overall victory in the Tour de l'Avenir.
The final stage was run over two laps of a 64 km circuit around La Crau, with 81 riders taking the start. The pace was very high from the beginning, with a number of attacks trying to get clear. Euskaltel-Euskadi controlled everything, until Bazayev attacked after 20 km. He was joined by Calzati (Barloworld), Leblacher (CA) and Ljungblad (Swedish National Team) after 29 km, and the four leaders built up a 25" advantage.
After the côte de Rocbaron (km 36) they were caught as Samuel Dumoulin drove the peloton hard, splitting it into two parts. After 44 km, a larger break went with Lequatre (C.A), Sébastien Talabardon (BigMat), Ljungblad, Berthou (Barloworld), Kohl (Rabobank), Willems (Vlaanderen), Day (Carvalhelhos) and Veit (German National Team). They managed a maximum lead of 42 seconds but broke apart when Berthou and Lequatre attacked before the sprint at halfway (km 64).
Only Jonas Ljungblad managed to fight his way back, and there were three leaders at the 77 km mark with 40" advantage over the peloton. The gap was too small though, and they were finally caught before the côte de Rocbaron (km 101). After that, the bunch more or less remained together until the finish in La Crau, where there was a crash with 2 km to go, and then another one in the final sprint involving Vastaranta and Vanlandschoot.
Dumoulin avoided the crash to win the stage in front of Veit and Bazayev, while Egoi Martinez could raise his arms as he crossed the line further back as the overall winner of the "Tour of the Future".
Photos
Images by AFP
- Samuel Dumoulin (Jean Delatour) celebrates after winning the final stage of the Tour de l'Avenir, a 128 kilometre stage run over two laps of a 64 km circuit around La Crau in southern France.
- Spaniard Egoi Martinez (Euskatel-Euskadi) celebrates, knowing he has won the 40th edition of the Tour de l'Avenir, or "Tour of the Future" as it is otherwise known.
- Tour de l'Avenir victor Egoï Martinez (Euskatel-Euskadi) knows deep down what this win means as he holds onto his winner's trophy.
Results
1 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Jean Delatour 2.48.21 2 Moritz Veit (Ger) German National Team 3 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 4 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 6 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco 7 Camille Bouquet (Fra) French National Team 8 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 9 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank TT3 10 Marcus Fothen (Ger) German National Team 11 David Derepas (Fra) FDJeux.com 12 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank TT3 13 Ian Mcleod (RSA) Team HSBC 14 Yves Delarue (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 15 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) French National Team 16 Gustavo Dominguez (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 17 Christian Knees (Ger) German National Team 18 David Breard (Fra) French National Team 19 Tobias Lergard (Swe) Swedish National Team 20 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 21 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 22 Darren Lill (RSA) Team HSBC 23 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Austrian National Team 24 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 25 Wim Vanhuffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 26 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 27 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Crédit Agricole 28 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Crédit Agricole 29 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 30 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Swedish National Team 31 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank TT3 32 Jef Peeters (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 33 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Austrian National Team 34 Ben Day (Aus) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 35 Ryan Cox (RSA) Team Barloworld 36 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Rabobank TT3 37 Vadim Gorbachevskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 38 Maxime Mederel (Fra) French National Team 39 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco 40 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 41 Jeremy Maartens (RSA) Team HSBC 42 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 43 Nicolas Meunier (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 44 Simons Gerrans (Aus) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 45 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco 46 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 47 Patrick Mccarty (USA) USA National Team 48 Glenn Bak (Den) Team PH 49 Cameron Mcleod (RSA) Team HSBC 0.30 50 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 51 Frederik Willems (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 52 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 53 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour 54 Martin Gratzer (Aut) Austrian National Team 0.34 55 Matti Breschel (Den) Team PH 56 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 57 Matej Marin (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 0.47 58 Tomislav Danculovic (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 59 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Team Barloworld 60 Danail Petrov (Bul) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 0.48 61 Pavel Linet (Cze) Czech Republic National Team 0.58 62 Mikael Segersall (Swe) Swedish National Team 1.05 63 Pierre Therville (Fra) Jean Delatour 1.18 64 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 1.21 65 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJeux.com 66 Denis Robin (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.28 67 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) French National Team 1.32 68 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 2.24 69 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Crédit Agricole 70 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 4.37 71 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Swedish National Team 72 Dean Podgornik (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 5.48 73 Martin Pedersen (Den) Team PH 6.28 74 Eric Berthou (Fra) Team Barloworld 8.51 75 Kamil Vrana (Cze) Czech Republic National Team 9.21 76 Martin Mares (Cze) Czech Republic National Team 77 Massimo Demarin (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 78 José Carlos Rodrigues (Por) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 24.02 79 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank TT3 80 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim DNF Mads Christensen (Den) Team PH DNS Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Russian National Team Points 1 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Jean Delatour 30 pts 2 Moritz Veit (Ger) German National Team 27 3 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 25 4 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 23 5 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 21 6 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco 19 7 Camille Bouquet (Fra) French National Team 17 8 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 15 9 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank TT3 13 10 Marcus Fothen (Ger) German National Team 11 11 David Derepas (Fra) FDJeux.com 10 12 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank TT3 9 13 Ian Mcleod (RSA) Team HSBC 8 14 Yves Delarue (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 7 15 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) French National Team 6 16 Gustavo Dominguez (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 5 17 Christian Knees (Ger) German National Team 4 18 David Breard (Fra) French National Team 3 19 Tobias Lergard (Swe) Swedish National Team 2 20 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 1 Mountains Côte De Rocbaron, 36.0 km 1 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Crédit Agricole 5 pts 2 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 3 3 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Team Barloworld 1 Côte De Rocbaron, 101.0 km 1 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 5 pts 2 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 3 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Final general classification 1 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 35.29.38 2 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 2.02 3 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Jean Delatour 3.36 4 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 4.18 5 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Crédit Agricole 4.29 6 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Swedish National Team 4.42 7 Tobias Lergard (Swe) Swedish National Team 5.09 8 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 5.11 9 Jef Peeters (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 5.17 10 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 5.25 11 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco 5.37 12 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco 5.43 13 Ben Day (Aus) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 5.50 14 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank TT3 5.51 15 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 6.08 16 Wim Vanhuffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 6.19 17 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank TT3 6.43 18 Maxime Mederel (Fra) French National Team 6.53 19 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 7.27 20 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank TT3 21 Patrick Mccarty (USA) USA National Team 8.33 22 Gustavo Dominguez (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 9.07 23 Camille Bouquet (Fra) French National Team 10.39 24 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 11.13 25 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 11.26 26 David Derepas (Fra) FDJeux.com 12.00 27 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco 12.21 28 David Breard (Fra) French National Team 13.03 29 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Austrian National Team 13.55 30 Vadim Gorbachevskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 15.32 31 Jeremy Maartens (RSA) Team HSBC 17.36 32 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 17.42 33 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Team Barloworld 17.48 34 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Rabobank TT3 18.37 35 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 22.20 36 Tomislav Danculovic (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 23.05 37 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Austrian National Team 26.44 38 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) French National Team 27.44 39 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 27.47 40 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank TT3 27.53 41 Christian Knees (Ger) German National Team 31.47 42 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour 36.14 43 Frederik Willems (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 38.38 44 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 39.03 45 Nicolas Meunier (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 39.36 46 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 42.51 47 Darren Lill (RSA) Team HSBC 42.55 48 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 47.07 49 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 49.06 50 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Crédit Agricole 49.37 51 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Swedish National Team 50.51 52 Simons Gerrans (Aus) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 51.07 53 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJeux.com 51.29 54 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) French National Team 52.20 55 Martin Mares (Cze) Czech Republic National Team 52.52 56 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 53.45 57 Martin Pedersen (Den) Team PH 55.43 58 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 56.39 59 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 58.23 60 José Carlos Rodrigues (Por) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 1.04.32 61 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.06.22 62 Ryan Cox (RSA) Team Barloworld 1.07.07 63 Ian Mcleod (RSA) Team HSBC 1.13.59 64 Danail Petrov (Bul) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 1.14.51 65 Dean Podgornik (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 1.15.46 66 Pierre Therville (Fra) Jean Delatour 1.17.15 67 Pavel Linet (Cze) Czech Republic National Team 1.20.01 68 Marcus Fothen (Ger) German National Team 1.23.10 69 Eric Berthou (Fra) Team Barloworld 1.27.30 70 Yves Delarue (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 1.29.28 71 Matti Breschel (Den) Team PH 1.39.59 72 Cameron Mcleod (RSA) Team HSBC 1.43.48 73 Glenn Bak (Den) Team PH 1.48.25 74 Kamil Vrana (Cze) Czech Republic National Team 1.52.35 75 Denis Robin (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.53.28 76 Matej Marin (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 1.54.48 77 Moritz Veit (Ger) German National Team 2.07.51 78 Massimo Demarin (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 2.13.11 79 Martin Gratzer (Aut) Austrian National Team 2.15.41 80 Mikael Segersall (Swe) Swedish National Team 2.17.00 Points classification 1 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 174 pts 2 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Jean Delatour 162 3 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank TT3 119 4 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 106 5 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco 87 6 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 85 7 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 74 8 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 71 9 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Swedish National Team 68 10 David Derepas (Fra) FDJeux.com 65 11 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 62 12 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 60 13 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 59 14 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank TT3 59 15 Camille Bouquet (Fra) French National Team 56 16 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 54 17 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 54 18 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Crédit Agricole 52 19 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 51 20 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Swedish National Team 45 21 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour 44 22 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 43 23 Tobias Lergard (Swe) Swedish National Team 38 24 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 35 25 Marcus Fothen (Ger) German National Team 35 26 Jef Peeters (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 33 27 Ben Day (Aus) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 30 28 Gustavo Dominguez (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 29 29 Moritz Veit (Ger) German National Team 27 30 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 26 31 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Crédit Agricole 26 32 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco 25 33 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) French National Team 25 34 David Breard (Fra) French National Team 25 35 Danail Petrov (Bul) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 21 36 Dean Podgornik (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 21 37 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21 38 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank TT3 18 39 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank TT3 17 40 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJeux.com 14 41 José Carlos Rodrigues (Por) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 12 42 Matti Breschel (Den) Team PH 12 43 Wim Vanhuffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 12 44 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) French National Team 9 45 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 9 46 Ian Mcleod (RSA) Team HSBC 8 47 Yves Delarue (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 8 48 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Crédit Agricole 8 49 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco 7 50 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Austrian National Team 5 51 Simons Gerrans (Aus) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 5 52 Maxime Mederel (Fra) French National Team 5 53 Christian Knees (Ger) German National Team 4 54 Eric Berthou (Fra) Team Barloworld 4 55 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 4 Mountains classification 1 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 102 pts 2 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Jean Delatour 74 3 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 49 4 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Crédit Agricole 45 5 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) French National Team 32 6 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank TT3 25 7 Danail Petrov (Bul) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 23 8 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 18 9 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Crédit Agricole 16 10 Tobias Lergard (Swe) Swedish National Team 14 11 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 13 12 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 10 13 Wim Vanhuffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 10 14 David Derepas (Fra) FDJeux.com 9 15 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 9 16 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8 17 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Swedish National Team 8 18 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 7 19 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco 7 20 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 21 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 22 Ben Day (Aus) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 5 23 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Crédit Agricole 5 24 David Breard (Fra) French National Team 5 25 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 5 26 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) French National Team 5 27 Maxime Mederel (Fra) French National Team 4 28 Marcus Fothen (Ger) German National Team 3 29 Gustavo Dominguez (Spa) Carvalhelhos-Boavista 3 30 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 3 31 Camille Bouquet (Fra) French National Team 3 32 Jef Peeters (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 2 33 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco 2 34 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour 1 35 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Team Barloworld 1 36 Frederik Willems (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 1 37 Matti Breschel (Den) Team PH 1 Teams classification 1 Carvalhelhos - Boavista 106.43.16 2 Vlaanderen - T Interim 1.51 3 Rabobank TT3 0.29 4 Quick Step-Davitamon-Latexco 3.34 5 Kazakhstan National Team 10.44 6 French National Team 10.50 7 Credit Agricole 19.28 8 Euskaltel - Euskadi 27.56 9 Swedish National Team 30.17 10 FDJeux.com 32.47 11 Team Barloworld 48.47 12 Perutnina Ptuj 1.08.08 13 Bigmat.Auber 93 1.12.02 14 Jean Delatour 1.21.57 15 Team HSBC 1.25.24 16 Austrian National Team 1.50.32 17 Team PH 3.04.00 18 Czech Republic National Team 3.25.32 19 German National Team 3.40.35
