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Record Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen - 2.3
Belgium, March 5-7, 2004
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Stage 1 - March 6: Handzame - Koksijde - Handzame, 192.4 km
Kirsipuu wins in Handzame
Last year's Driedaagse van West Vlaanderen overall winner Jaan Kirsipuu (Ag2r) has triumphed in the first road stage, 192 km from Handzame to Koksijde and back. Kirsipuu won a bunch sprint ahead of Fabrizio Guidi (Team CSC) and Aurélien Clerc (Quick.Step-Davitamon). The race lead stayed with German Robert Bartko (Rabobank), who picked up an extra 3 bonus seconds during the stage to lead Kurt-Asle Arvesen (CSC) by 13 seconds on GC.
After a fast start, where both Bartko and third placed Servais Knaven (Quick.Step-Davitamon) were involved in the chase for bonus seconds, a break of three riders got away at the 40 kilometre mark. Stéphane Berges (Ag2R), Yuri Metlushenko (Landbouwkrediet) and Sergey Kruszhevskiy (Oktos) managed to gain three minutes over the tightly controlled peloton, but were caught on the finishing circuits in Handzame after over 100 km in front.
Despite some late attacks by Ludo Dierckxsens (Landbouwkrediet) and Nico Mattan (Bodysol), the stage finished in a bunch sprint and Jaan Kirsipuu was too fast.
The three day race will finish tomorrow with a tough 182 km stage starting and finishing in Ichtegem, including the Zwarteberg, Rodeberg, Monteberg and Kemmelberg. The conditions are predicted to be cold and wet, as usual.
Results
1 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 4.32.22 2 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Team CSC 3 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 4 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 5 Jans Koerts (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 6 Frank Hoj (Den) Team CSC 7 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 8 Franck Pencole (Fra) Oktos 9 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 10 Rudi Kemna (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 11 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Lotto-Domo 12 Sjef De Wilde (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 13 Christoph Roodhooft (Bel) MrBookmaker-Palmans 14 Michel Van Haecke (Bel) MrBookmaker-Palmans 15 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 16 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Lotto-Domo 17 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 18 Sven Renders (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 19 Roger Hammond (GBr) MrBookmaker-Palmans 20 Robert Bartko (Ger) Rabobank 21 Kirk O'bee (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 22 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Oktos 23 Christophe Mengin (Fra) FDJeux.com 24 Bart Dockx (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 25 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 26 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 27 Nico Mattan (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 28 Roel Paulissen (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 29 Erki Pütsep (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 30 Geert Omloop (Bel) MrBookmaker-Palmans 31 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick.Step-Davitamon 32 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 33 Mark Renshaw (Aus) FDJeux.com 34 Benjamin Levecot (Fra) Oktos 35 Yuri Metlushenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 36 Kristof Trouve (Bel) MrBookmaker-Palmans 37 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 38 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 39 Eelke Van Der Wal (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 40 Bert Roesems (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 41 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 42 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker-Palmans 43 Hayden Roulston (NZl) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 44 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJeux.com 45 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Team CSC 46 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 47 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 48 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 49 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 50 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 51 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 52 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 53 Leif Hoste (Bel) Lotto-Domo 54 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team CSC 55 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Lotto-Domo 56 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 57 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 58 Michel Tessier Jean (Fra) Oktos 59 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 60 Ief Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 61 Johan Verstrepen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 62 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 63 Ytting Bak Lars (Den) Bankgiroloterij 64 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 65 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 66 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 67 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 68 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 69 Filip Meirhaeghe (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 70 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Lokomotiv 71 Serguei Klimov (Rus) Lokomotiv 72 Frederik Willems (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 73 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 74 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 75 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Lotto-Domo 76 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 77 Freddy Bichot (Fra) FDJeux.com 78 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 79 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 80 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 81 Juan Mercado Martin (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 82 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 83 Jan Van Velzen (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 84 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Lokomotiv 85 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJeux.com 86 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 87 Jehudi Schoonacker (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 88 Matthew Gilmore (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 89 David Mc Kenzie (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 90 Allan Johansen (Den) Bankgiroloterij 91 Bekim Christensen (Den) Team CSC 92 Niels Scheuneman (Ned) Relax-Bodysol 93 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 94 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 95 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 96 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 97 Marc Streel (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 98 Phil Zajicek (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 99 Joeri Deliens (Bel) Flanders-Afincom 100 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 101 Steven De Neef (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 102 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 103 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 104 Maxim Averin (Rus) Lokomotiv 0.31 105 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto-Domo 1.44 106 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 107 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 7.42 108 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 109 Cyril Robin Jean (Fra) FDJeux.com 110 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 111 Maxim Rudenko (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 112 Stefan Wijnands (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 113 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker-Palmans 114 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) FDJeux.com 115 Sergei Kulakov (Rus) Lokomotiv 116 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 117 Antonio Garrido José (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 118 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 119 Nikolai Troussov (Rus) Lokomotiv 120 Carsten Podlesch (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 121 Alexander Serov (Rus) Lokomotiv 122 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 123 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Rabobank 12.42 124 Anton Mindlin (Rus) Lokomotiv 125 Ben Day (Aus) MrBookmaker-Palmans DNF Tom Steels (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago DNF Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Bankgiroloterij DNF Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step-Davitamon DNF Sergeï Krushevskiy (Uzb) Oktos Teams 1 Team CSC 13.37.06 2 Mrbookmaker.com-Palmans 3 Cofidis 4 Jong Vlaanderen 2016 5 Oktos - Saint-Quentin 6 Relax - Bodysol 7 Quick Step - Davitamon 8 Rabobank 9 Bankgiroloterij 10 Lotto - Domo 11 Ag2R Prevoyance 12 FDJeux.com 13 Chocolade Jacques Wincorf-Nixdorf 14 Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 15 Navigators Insurance CT 16 Vlaanderen - T Interim 17 Lokomotiv 18 Team Wiesenhof 1.44 General classification after stage 1 1 Robert Bartko (Ger) Rabobank 4.41.40 2 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 0.13 3 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.16 4 Frank Hoj (Den) Team CSC 0.19 5 Nico Mattan (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 0.22 6 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 7 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 8 Geert Omloop (Bel) MrBookmaker-Palmans 9 Bert Roesems (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 0.25 10 Niels Scheuneman (Ned) Relax-Bodysol 0.26 11 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 12 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJeux.com 13 Leif Hoste (Bel) Lotto-Domo 14 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 0.28 15 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 0.29 16 Eelke Van Der Wal (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 0.31 17 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 18 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 0.33 19 Mark Renshaw (Aus) FDJeux.com 20 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 0.35 21 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 22 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Team CSC 0.36 23 Jan Van Velzen (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 24 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 25 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 0.37 26 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Lokomotiv 27 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 0.38 28 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 29 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 30 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Lotto-Domo 0.39 31 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 0.41 32 Christophe Mengin (Fra) FDJeux.com 0.42 33 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 34 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.44 35 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 36 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Lotto-Domo 37 Hayden Roulston (NZl) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 0.45 38 Rudi Kemna (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 39 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Team CSC 40 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 41 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 42 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 0.46 43 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team CSC 44 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 0.47 45 Bekim Christensen (Den) Team CSC 46 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 0.48 47 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker-Palmans 48 Allan Johansen (Den) Bankgiroloterij 0.49 49 Serguei Klimov (Rus) Lokomotiv 0.50 50 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 51 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 52 Michel Van Haecke (Bel) MrBookmaker-Palmans 0.51 53 Marc Streel (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 54 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.52 55 Joeri Deliens (Bel) Flanders-Afincom 56 Roger Hammond (GBr) MrBookmaker-Palmans 0.53 57 Ief Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 58 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.54 59 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 0.55 60 Yuri Metlushenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 61 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Oktos 62 Juan Mercado Martin (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.57 63 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 0.58 64 Kirk O'bee (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 65 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 66 Filip Meirhaeghe (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 0.59 67 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 1.00 68 Benjamin Levecot (Fra) Oktos 1.01 69 Kristof Trouve (Bel) MrBookmaker-Palmans 70 Christoph Roodhooft (Bel) MrBookmaker-Palmans 1.02 71 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 72 Sven Renders (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 1.03 73 Matthew Gilmore (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 74 Jehudi Schoonacker (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 75 David Mc Kenzie (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 76 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 77 Phil Zajicek (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 1.04 78 Freddy Bichot (Fra) FDJeux.com 79 Bart Dockx (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 80 Franck Pencole (Fra) Oktos 81 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Lokomotiv 1.05 82 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJeux.com 83 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Lotto-Domo 84 Sjef De Wilde (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 1.06 85 Steven De Neef (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 86 Ytting Bak Lars (Den) Bankgiroloterij 87 Roel Paulissen (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 1.07 88 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 89 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 1.08 90 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1.10 91 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 92 Jans Koerts (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 1.11 93 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 94 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 95 Frederik Willems (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 1.12 96 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 1.15 97 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 1.17 98 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Lotto-Domo 1.18 99 Michel Tessier Jean (Fra) Oktos 100 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.19 101 Erki Pütsep (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.23 102 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 103 Johan Verstrepen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 1.27 104 Maxim Averin (Rus) Lokomotiv 1.45 105 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 2.47 106 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto-Domo 3.02 107 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) FDJeux.com 8.07 108 Stefan Wijnands (Bel) Jong Vlaanderen 2016 8.22 109 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 110 Alexander Serov (Rus) Lokomotiv 8.27 111 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 8.41 112 Antonio Garrido José (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 8.43 113 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 8.45 114 Cyril Robin Jean (Fra) FDJeux.com 8.47 115 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker-Palmans 116 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 8.48 117 Nikolai Troussov (Rus) Lokomotiv 8.50 118 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 8.55 119 Maxim Rudenko (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 8.59 120 Carsten Podlesch (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 9.03 121 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 9.05 122 Sergei Kulakov (Rus) Lokomotiv 9.06 123 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Rabobank 13.33 124 Ben Day (Aus) MrBookmaker-Palmans 13.42 125 Anton Mindlin (Rus) Lokomotiv 14.00 Teams classification 1 Rabobank 14.06.02 2 Team CSC 0.05 3 Relax - Bodysol 0.11 4 Quick Step - Davitamon 0.14 5 FDJeux.com 0.22 6 Cofidis 0.40 7 Lotto - Domo 0.47 8 Chocolade Jacques Wincorf-Nixdorf 0.49 9 Bankgiroloterij 0.51 10 Ag2R Prevoyance 0.58 11 Mrbookmaker.com-Palmans 0.59 12 Lokomotiv 1.10 13 Vlaanderen - T Interim 1.14 14 Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 1.23 15 Jong Vlaanderen 2016 1.40 16 Navigators Insurance CT 1.54 17 Oktos - Saint-Quentin 1.55 18 Team Wiesenhof 3.58
