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62nd Vuelta Ciclista a la Comunidad Valenciana - 2.3
Spain, February 24-29, 2004
Stage 1- February 24: Xabea - Xabea, 149.2 km
Colom carries on
Antonio Colom, winner of the Challenge Illes Balears on the home turf of his sponsor Illes Balears-Banesto, has taken the first stage in Valenciana. On a rollercoaster parcours featuring four trips up the Cat. 3 Alto Costa Nova, Colom emergerd victorious after the final and decisive climb, outsprinting David Blanco of the local Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme team. Colom takes the first leader's jersey in the five stage race.
Few attempts at breaking away from the peloton were successful as Kelme and T-Mobile shut down the moves and kept the pace high on the Xabea circuit. Saunier Duval's Constantino Zaballa showed his climbing legs early, taking the points on the first two laps of the Alto Costa Nova before Kelme took over and sent Carlos and Adolfo Garcia Quesada to the front of the group. The Kelme brothers broke clear, taking teammate David Blanco along. The trio looked set for a podium sweep, but they didn't count on the tenacity of Colom, who got the jump on Blanco and took the first spoils.
Wednesday's stage 2 features the first Cat. 1 climb of the race, the Coll de Rates, along with a smaller Cat. 3 hurdle in the closing kilometres between Xabea and Calp.
Results
1 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 3.25.46 2 David Blanco (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 3 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 0.03 4 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 5 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 6 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.09 7 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 0.10 8 Angel Edo (Spa) Milaneza-Maia 0.11 9 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 10 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile 11 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 12 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 13 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 14 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 15 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis 16 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 17 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 18 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros 19 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Costa Almeria-Paternina 20 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 22 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 23 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step-Davitamon 24 David Cañada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 26 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 27 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 28 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza-Maia 29 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile 30 Bruno Castanheira (Por) Milaneza-Maia 31 David Bernabeu (Spa) Milaneza-Maia 32 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 33 Santiago Botero (Col) T-Mobile 34 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 35 Alex Zuelle (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 36 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 37 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza-Maia 38 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 39 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.04 40 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 41 David Fernandez (Spa) Costa Almeria-Paternina 42 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 43 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 44 José Luis Rebollo (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 45 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 46 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r-Prevoyance 47 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Phonak Hearing Systems 48 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis 49 Jose Cayetano Julia (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 50 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros 51 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros 52 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) Milaneza-Maia 53 Carlos R. Golbano (Spa) Costa Almeria-Paternina 54 David Lopez (Spa) Cafes Baque 55 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Costa Almeria-Paternina 56 Rafael Diaz (Spa) Liberty Seguros 57 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 58 Juan Gomis (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 59 Francisco Gutierrez (Spa) Cafes Baque 60 Gonzalo Bayarri (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 61 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 62 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile 2.30 63 David Herrero (Spa) Costa Almeria-Paternina 64 José E. Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 65 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 66 Jose Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 67 Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile 68 Gustavo Domingos (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 69 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 70 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 71 Lizuarte Martins (Por) Milaneza-Maia 72 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 73 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 74 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis 75 Alberto Hierro (Spa) Cafes Baque 76 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 77 Carlos Zarate (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 4.10 78 Javier Cherro (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 79 Anton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 80 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 81 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 82 Jorge Garcia (Spa) Cafes Baque 83 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa) Cafes Baque 84 José Antonio Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 85 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 86 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 87 Gilberto Martins (Por) Milaneza-Maia 88 Unai Yus (Spa) Brioches La Boulangere 89 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 90 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 91 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 92 José Antonio Garrido (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 93 Isaac Galvez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 94 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Costa Almeria-Paternina 7.26 95 M.A. M.Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 96 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 97 Haritz Arruti (Spa) Cafes Baque 98 Alex Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile 99 Robert Bartko (Ger) Rabobank 100 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 101 Andreas Kloden (Ger) T-Mobile 102 Didier Rous (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 103 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 104 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 105 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 106 Massimo Strazzer (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 107 Christia Van De Velde (USA) Liberty Seguros 108 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 109 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 110 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 111 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 13.16 112 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 113 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Banesto 114 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 115 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 116 Gorka Beloki (Spa) Brioches La Boulangere 117 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 13.20 118 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 119 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Cafes Baque 120 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros 17.59 Points 1 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 25 Pts 2 David Blanco (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 20 3 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 16 4 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 14 5 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 12 6 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 10 7 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 9 8 Angel Edo (Spa) Milaneza-Maia 8 9 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 7 10 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile 6 11 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 5 12 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 4 13 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 3 14 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 2 15 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis 1 Mountains Alto Costa Nova, Cat. 3 - km 25 1 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 Pts 2 David Lopez (Spa) Cafes Baque 4 3 Gilberto Martins (Por) Milaneza-Maia 2 4 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 1 Alto Costa Nova, Cat. 3 - km 62.3 1 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 Pts 2 David Lopez (Spa) Cafes Baque 4 3 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 4 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 1 Alto Costa Nova, Cat. 3 - km 99.6 1 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis 6 Pts 2 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 3 David Lopez (Spa) Cafes Baque 2 4 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 1 Alto Costa Nova, Cat. 3 - km 136.9 1 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 6 Pts 2 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 4 3 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 2 4 David Blanco (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 1 Metas volantes Xabia - km 37.3 1 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 3 Pts 2 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 3 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros 1 Xabia - km 37.3 1 David Blanco (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 3 Pts 2 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 2 3 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 1 Teams 1 Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 10.17.39 2 Cofidis 0.04 3 Relax-Bodysol 4 Rabobank 5 Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.12 6 Milaneza-Maia 7 T-Mobile 8 Quick.Step-Davitamon 1.03 9 Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.05 10 Costa ALMERIA-Paternina 1.58 11 Liberty Seguros 12 Phonak Hearing Systems 13 Ag2r-Prevoyance 2.24 14 Illes Balears-Banesto 3.00 15 Brioches La Boulangere 3.11 16 Cafes Baque 3.17 General classification after stage 1 1 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 3.25.36 2 David Blanco (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 0.01 3 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 0.09 4 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 0.13 5 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 6 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.19 7 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 8 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 9 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 0.20 10 Angel Edo (Spa) Milaneza-Maia 0.21 11 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 12 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile 13 Sylviain Chavanel (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 14 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 15 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 16 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis 17 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 18 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros 19 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Costa Almeria-Paternina 20 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 22 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 23 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step-Davitamon 24 David Cañada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 26 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 27 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 28 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza-Maia 29 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile 30 Bruno Castanheira (Por) Milaneza-Maia 31 David Bernabeu (Spa) Milaneza-Maia 32 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 33 Santiago Botero (Col) T-Mobile 34 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 35 Alex Zuelle (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 36 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 37 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza-Maia 38 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 39 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros 1.13 40 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.14 41 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 42 David Fernandez (Spa) Costa Almeria-Paternina 43 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 44 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 45 José Luis Rebollo (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 46 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 47 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r-Prevoyance 48 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Phonak Hearing Systems 49 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis 50 Jose Cayetano Julia (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 51 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros 52 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) Milaneza-Maia 53 Carlos R. Golbano (Spa) Costa Almeria-Paternina 54 David Lopez (Spa) Cafes Baque 55 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Costa Almeria-Paternina 56 Rafael Diaz (Spa) Liberty Seguros 57 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 58 Juan Gomis (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 59 Francisco Gutierrez (Spa) Cafes Baque 60 Gonzalo Bayarri (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 61 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 62 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile 2.40 63 David Herrero (Spa) Costa Almeria-Paternina 64 José E. Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 65 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 66 Jose Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 67 Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile 68 Gustavo Domingos (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 69 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 70 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 71 Lizuarte Martins (Por) Milaneza-Maia 72 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 73 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 74 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis 75 Alberto Hierro (Spa) Cafes Baque 76 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 77 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 4.16 78 Carlos Zarate (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 4.20 79 Javier Cherro (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 80 Anton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 81 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 82 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 83 Jorge Garcia (Spa) Cafes Baque 84 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa) Cafes Baque 85 José Antonio Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 86 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 87 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 88 Gilberto Martins (Por) Milaneza-Maia 89 Unai Yus (Spa) Brioches La Boulangere 90 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 91 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 92 José Antonio Garrido (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 93 Isaac Galvez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 94 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Costa Almeria-Paternina 7.36 95 M.A. M.Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 96 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 97 Haritz Arruti (Spa) Cafes Baque 98 Alex Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile 99 Robert Bartko (Ger) Rabobank 100 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 101 Andreas Kloden (Ger) T-Mobile 102 Didier Rous (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 103 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 104 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 105 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 106 Massimo Strazzer (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 107 Christia Van De Velde (USA) Liberty Seguros 108 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 109 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 110 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 111 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 13.26 112 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 113 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Banesto 114 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 115 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 116 Gorka Beloki (Spa) Brioches La Boulangere 117 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 13.30 118 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 119 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Cafes Baque 120 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros 18.09 Points classification 1 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 25 Pts 2 David Blanco (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 23 3 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 16 4 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 14 5 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 12 6 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 10 7 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 9 8 Angel Edo (Spa) Milaneza-Maia 8 9 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 7 10 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 6 11 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile 6 12 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 5 13 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 4 14 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 3 15 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 16 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 2 17 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis 1 18 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros 1 Mountains classification 1 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 Pts 2 David Lopez (Spa) Cafes Baque 10 3 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 6 4 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis 6 5 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 4 6 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 2 7 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 8 Gilberto Martins (Por) Milaneza-Maia 2 9 David Blanco (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 1 10 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 1 11 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 1 Combination classification 1 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 8 Pts 2 David Blanco (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 13 3 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 24 4 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 25 5 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 27 6 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 102 7 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 6 8 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 8 9 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 10 10 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 12 11 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 16 Teams classification 1 Comunitat Valenciana-Kelme 10.17.39 2 Cofidis 0.04 3 Relax-Bodysol 4 Rabobank 5 Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.12 6 Milaneza-Maia 7 T-Mobile 8 Quick.Step-Davitamon 1.03 9 Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.05 10 Costa ALMERIA-Paternina 1.58 11 Liberty Seguros 12 Phonak Hearing Systems 13 Ag2r-Prevoyance 2.24 14 Illes Balears-Banesto 3.00 15 Brioches La Boulangere 3.11 16 Cafes Baque 3.17
