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40th Tour de l'Avenir - 2.5
France, September 4-13, 2003
2002 results Stage List Preview Start List Past winners
The Stages
- Stage 1 - September 4: Bonneval - Bonneval ITT, 10.7 km
- Stage 2 - September 5: Bonneval - Sassay, 147 km
- Stage 3 - September 6: Sassay - Aigurande, 171.2 km
- Stage 4 - September 7: Sainte-Sévère - Le Rouget, 233.5 km
- Stage 5 - September 8: Maurs - Saint-Flour, 155 km
- Stage 6 - September 9: Saint-Flour - Mende, 137 km
- Stage 7 - September 10: Mende - Valréas, 173 km
- Stage 8 - September 11: L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue - Rousset-sur-Arc, 164.5 km
- Stage 9 - September 12: Rousset-sur-Arc - Solliès-Ville, 199.5 km
- Stage 10 - September 13: La Crau - La Crau, 128 km
Strong US field for Tour de l'Avenir; UK's Wiggins hopeful
The USA looks set to field perhaps its strongest national team ever for the Tour de l'Avenir, which starts tomorrow. According to a source close to the team, the squad will consist of Tom Danielson, Danny Pate, Shawn Milne, Will Frischkorn, Michael Creed, and Patrick McCarty.
Despite its nominally low UCI 2.5 grade, the ten-day tour, promoted by Tour de France owners ASO, is an important race for young riders. Unlike that other French race, only one rider from the US has won Tour de l'Avenir: Greg LeMond in 1982.
The UK's Brad Wiggins (Fdjeux.com) is also looking forward to Avenir, after finishing fifth in the Tour du Poitou Charentes last week. Wiggins says he wants to improve on his second place in the prologue last year, and perhaps to win a stage in one of his last races for Fdjeux.com.
"I really want to ride well for the team as well as myself," said Wiggins. "It's been so good riding for them. It would be good to produce some more good performances for them before the road season ends. My condition feels very good but the lack of racing on the road could be a disadvantage in a 10-day tour."
Start list
Crédit Agricole Euskaltel-Euskadi
1 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) 11 David Herrero (Spa)
2 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) 12 Julen Fernandez (Spa)
3 Eric Leblacher (Fra) 13 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa)
4 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) 14 Egoi Martinez (Spa)
5 Kilian Patour (Fra) 15 Josu Silloniz (Spa)
6 Denis Robin (Fra)
Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco French National Team
21 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) 31 Matthieu Sprick (Fra)
22 Wim De Vocht (Bel) 32 Camille Bouquet (Fra)
23 Bart Dockx (Bel) 33 David Breard (Fra)
24 Sebastien Rosseler (Bel) 34 Cédric Coutouly (Fra)
25 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) 35 Maxime Mederel (Fra)
26 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) 36 Alexandre Urbain (Fra)
FDJeux.com Russian National Team
41 David Derepas (Fra) 51 Vladimir Gusev (Rus)
42 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) 52 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus)
43 Régis Lhuillier (Fra) 53 Alexandr Bespalov (Rus)
44 Jérémy Roy (Fra) 54 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus)
45 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) 55 Andrei Pchelkine (Rus)
46 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) 56 Yvan Terenine (Rus)
Jean Delatour USA National Team
61 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) 71 Tom Danielson (USA)
62 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) 72 Michael Creed (USA)
63 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) 73 William Frischkorn (USA)
64 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) 74 Patrick Mccarty (USA)
65 Sébastien Joly (Fra) 75 Shawn Milne (USA)
66 Pierre Therville (Fra) 76 Danny Pate (USA)
Brioches La Boulangère Rabobank TT3
81 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) 91 Pieter Weening (Ned)
82 Anthony Charteau (Fra) 92 Michiel Elijzen (Ned)
83 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) 93 Theo Eltink (Ned)
84 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) 94 Bernhard Kohl (Aut)
85 Christophe Kern (Fra) 95 Joost Posthuma (Ned)
86 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) 96 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin)
Team Barloworld German National Team
101 Eric Berthou (Fra) 111 Marcus Fothen (Ger)
102 Freddy Bichot (Fra) 112 Andre Greipel (Ger)
103 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) 113 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger)
104 Hilton Clarke (Aus) 114 Christian Knees (Ger)
105 Ryan Cox (RSA) 115 Marcel Sieberg (Ger)
106 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) 116 Moritz Veit (Ger)
Vlaanderen-T Interim Team PH
121 Stijn De Volder (Bel) 131 Mads Christensen (Den)
122 Jef Peeters (Bel) 132 Glenn Bak (Den)
123 Nico Sijmens (Bel) 133 Matti Breschel (Den)
124 Wim Vanhuffel (Bel) 134 Andreas Finnerup (Den)
125 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) 135 Nicki Olsen (Den)
126 Frederik Willems (Bel) 136 Martin Pedersen (Den)
Perutnina Ptuj Austrian National Team
141 Massimo Demarin (Cro) 151 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut)
142 Tomislav Danculovic (Cro) 152 Andrew Bradley (Aut)
143 Matej Marin (Slo) 153 Martin Gratzer (Aut)
144 Dean Podgornik (Slo) 154 Wolfgang Murer (Aut)
145 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) 155 Thomas Rohregger (Aut)
156 Stefan Rucker (Aut)
Big Mat-Auber 93 Czech Republic National Team
161 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) 171 Kamil Vrana (Cze)
162 Yves Delarue (Fra) 172 Jan Barta (Cze)
163 Loïc Lamouller (Fra) 173 Jiri Korbel (Cze)
164 Nicolas Meunier (Fra) 174 Pavel Linet (Cze)
165 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) 175 Lukas Manousek (Cze)
166 Tristan Valentin (Fra) 176 Martin Mares (Cze)
Team HSBC Kazakhstan National Team
181 Daniel Spence (RSA) 191 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz)
182 Jeff Howes (RSA) 192 Assan Bazayev (Kaz)
183 Darren Lill (RSA) 193 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz)
184 Jeremy Maartens (RSA) 194 Vadim Gorbachevskiy (Kaz)
185 Cameron Mcleod (RSA) 195 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz)
186 Ian Mcleod (RSA) 196 Viktor Shestakov (Kaz)
Carvalhelhos-Boavista Swedish National Team
201 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Spa) 211 Tobias Lergard (Swe)
202 Ben Day (Aus) 212 Jonas Holmkvist (Swe)
203 Gustavo Dominguez (Spa) 213 Jesper Ingevaldsson (Swe)
204 Simons Gerrans (Aus) 214 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe)
205 Danail Petrov (Bul) 215 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe)
206 José Carlos Rodrigues (Por) 216 Mikael Segersall (Swe)
Past winners
Year Winner Best Team Distance Stages Tour de l'Avenir 2002 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1463 km 10 2001 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 1559.5 km 10 2000 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1562 km 10 1999 Unai Osa (Spa) 1998 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Casino 1471 km 12 1997 Roux (Fra) TVM 1344 km 9 1996 Etxebarria (Spa) ONCE 1858 km 11 1995 Magnien (Fra) Castorama 1614 km 11 1994 Casero (Spa) Banesto 1591 km 11 1993 Davy (Fra) Castorama 1543 km 12 1992 Garel (Fra) RMO 1528 km 12 Tour of the European Community 1990 Bruyneel (Bel) Toshiba 1370 km 10 1989 Lino (Fra) RMO 1440 km 9 1988 Fignon (Fra) France 1846 km 12 1987 Madiot (Fra) France 1719 km 12 1986 Indurain (Spa) System U 1712 km 14 Grand Prix de l'Avenir (Paris-Vierzon-Thiers) 1985 Ramirez (Col) Cafe de Colombia 1612 km 13 1984 Mottet (Fra) Renault 1620 km 12 1983 Ludwig (DDR) East Germany 1959 km 15 1982 Lemond (USA) East Germany 1382 km 11 1981 Simon (Fra) USSR 1514 km 14 1980 Florez (Col) USSR 1629 km 12 1979 Soukhoroutchenkov (Rus) USSR 1643 km 12 1978 Soukhoroutchenkov (Rus) USSR 1577 km 12 1977 Schepers (Bel) Belgium 1597 km 12 1976 Nilsson (Swe) Spain 1017 km 9 1974 Martinez (Spa) Poland 1296 km 11 1973 Baronchelli (Ita) Switzerland 1480 km 11 1972 Den Hertog (Ned) Netherlands 1618 km 13 1971 Ovion (Fra) France 1638 km 11 1970 Duchemin (Fra) France 779 km 4 Tour de l'Avenir 1969 Zoetemelk (Ned) Netherlands 1846 km 10 1968 Boulard (Fra) France 1567 km 12 1967 Robini (Fra) France 1560 km 10 1966 Denti (Ita) Italy 1955 km 12 1965 Diaz (Spa) Spain 2167 km 12 1964 Gimondi (Ita) Spain 2021 km 13 1963 Zimmermann (Fra) Spain 2060 km 14 1962 Gomez Del Moral (Spa) Netherlands 2120 km 14 1961 De Rosso (Ita) Spain 2209 km 14 Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com
