38th Internationale Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt - 2.3

Germany, September 17-21, 2003

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The Stages

Stage 1 - September 17: Ludwigshafen - Simmern, 145,7 km
Stage 2 - September 18: Koblenz - Bad Marienberg, 185,9 km
Stage 3 - September 19: Bitburg - Trier, 164,8 km
Stage 4 - September 20: Saarburg - Kaiserslautern, 193,7 km
Stage 5 - September 21: Landau - Ludwigshafen, 191,3 km

Rheinland-Pfalz last race for Bölts

37 year old German pro Udo Bölts will ride his last professional race this week, taking part in the 38th Rheinland-Pfalz-Rundfahrt (September 17-21). The Gerolsteiner captain will lead a team containing last year's winner Ronny Scholz as well as René Haselbacher, Sebastian Lang, Robert Förster, Volker Ordowski and Peter Wrolich. The race will pass through Bölts' home town of Heltersberg on Saturday, and will finish in Ludwigshafen on Sunday.

Bölts has been a professional for 14 years, and his palmares include Clasica San Sebastian, Dauphine Libéré, stage wins in the Giro d'Italia and Tour de Suisse, GP Gippingen, GP de Wallonie, and the German Championships title three times. He raced for Telekom between 1990-2002 before changing to Gerolsteiner for his last season.

The Rheinland-Pfalz-Rundfahrt will also attract the a number of Division I teams including Telekom (Hondo, Nardello), CCC-Polsat (Romanik), CSC (Peron), Team fakta (Høj's), Lotto-Domo (Merckx), Phonak Hearing Systems (Bertolini) and Rabobank (Boogerd).

Start list

Gerolsteiner                      CCC-Polsat
 
1 Ronny Scholz (Ger)              11 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol)
2 Udo Bölts (Ger)                 12 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol)
3 René Haselbacher (Aut)          13 Marek Galinski (Pol)
4 Sebastian Lang (Ger)            14 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze)
5 Robert Förster (Ger)            15 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr)
6 Volker Ordowski (Ger)           16 Marc Weisshaupt (Ger)
7 Fabian Wegmann (Ger)            17 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol)
8 Peter Wrolich (Aut)             18 Dariusz Skoczylas (Pol)
 
Team ComNet-Senges                Team CSC
 
21 Markus Ganser (Ger)            31 Geert Van Bondt (Bel)
22 Stefan Ganser (Ger)            32 Michael Blaudzun (Den)
23 Frank Dressler (Ger)           34 Andrea Peron (Ita)
24 Wolfram Wiese (Ger)            36 Morten Knudsen (Den)
25 Stefan Cohnen (Ned)            37 Roberto Arroyo (Spa)
26 Luke Roberts (Aus)
27 Hans-Jürgen Juretzek (Ger)
28 Scott McGrory (Aus)
 
German National Team              Team fakta
 
41 Markus Fothen (Ger)            51 Frank Hoj (Den)
42 Christian Knees (Ger)          52 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den)
43 Marcus Burghardt (Ger)         53 Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den)
44 Heinrich Haussler (Ger)        55 Björnar Vestöl (Nor)
45 Andreas Schillinger (Ger)      56 Fredrik Modin (Swe)
46 Moritz Veit (Ger)              57 Thomas Grönqvist (Swe)
47 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger)        58 Mickael Rheis (Den)
48 Michael Muck (Ger)
 
Team Lamonta                      Lotto-Domo
 
61 Björn Glasner (Ger)            71 Axel Merckx (Bel)
62 Holger Sievers (Ger)           72 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned)
63 Jonas Owaczarek (Ger)          73 Leif Hoste (Bel)
64 Philipp Mamos (Ger)            74 Kevin Van Impe (Bel)
65 Armin Kröniger (Ger)           75 Gert Steegmans (Bel)
66 Björn Papstein (Ger)           76 Koos Moerenhout (Ned)
68 Sebastian Drenker (Ger)        77 Nick Gates (Aus)
                                  78 Leon Van Bon (Ned)
 
Phonak Hearing Systems            Rabobank
 
81 Denis Bertolini (Ita)          91 Michael Boogerd (Ned)
82 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa)      92 Erik Dekker (Ned)
83 Fabrice Gougot (Fra)           93 Marc Wauters (Bel)
84 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger)       94 Grischa Niermann (Ger)
85 Gregory Rast (Swi)             95 Robert Bartko (Ger)
86 Michael Albasini (Swi)         96 Bram De Groot (Ned)
87 Johann Tschopp (Swi)           97 Marc Lotz (Ned)
88 Sascha Urweider (Swi)          98 Kevin De Weert (Bel)
 
Team Telekom                      Team Wiesenhof
 
101 Rolf Aldag (Ger)              111 Enrico Poitschke (Ger)
102 Danilo Hondo (Ger)            112 Lars Wackernagel (Ger)
103 Daniele Nardello (Ita)        113 Ralf Grabsch (Ger)
104 Matthias Kessler (Ger)        114 Rene Obst (Ger)
105 Andreas Klier (Ger)           115 Björn Schröder (Ger)
106 Andreas Klöden (Ger)          116 Eric Baumann (Ger)
107 David Kopp (Ger)              117 Timo Scholz (Ger)
108 Dirk Reichl (Ger)             118 Michael Giebelmann (Ger)
 
Mixed Team
 
121 Dennis Kraft (Ger)
122 Felix Odebrecht (Ger)
123 Ronny Lauke (Ger)
124 Jörn Reuß (Ger)
125 Linus Gerdemann (Ger)
126 Patrick Holsche (Ger)
127 Ronald Otto (Ger)
128 Gregor Willwohl (Ger)

Past winners

2002 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner
2001 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank
2000 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank
1999 Marc Wauters (Bel)
1998 Lance Armstrong (USA)
1997 Dainis Ozols (Lat)
1996 Olaf Ludwig (Ger)
1995 Jörn Reuss (Ger)
1994 Cèdric Vasseur (Fra)
1993 Bert Dietz (Ger)
1992 Gerd Audehm (Ger)
1991 Gerd Audehm (Ger)
1990 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger)

Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com