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19th Clásica Internacional Alcobendas - 2.3
Spain, May 8-9, 2004
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Stage 3 - May 9: Alcobendas - Alcobendas ITT, 9.7 km
Mayo all the way
By Martin Hardie
Three stages. Three distinct messages. All saying in one way or another - "I will be ready and I will be there at the end when it matters".
Iban Mayo is flying - how else can you put it? Yesterday we saw him take a good minute and a half out of the man many regard as the world's best climber on the Alto de Navacerrada. This morning, in a stage destined for a bunch sprint, Mayo attacked with a kilometre to go and showed the peloton a clean pair of heels to cross the line first for the second time in consecutive stages. Then in the afternoon's time trial (on a one off Orbea prototype) carved another 23 seconds out of Heras and much more out of his main rivals to finish second, second in a time trial a mere two seconds behind the stage winner, 20 year old Liberty rider, Luis Sanchez.
In all Iban Mayo picked up the G.C. by a whopping (in the context of a three stage race) advantage of 1.57 over Eladio Jimenez (Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme). He won two stages. He won the combination jersey, the points jersey, was second in the time trial and second (as a result of Walter Beneteau's solo break yesterday) in the mountains jersey. Not a bad day at the office after what has been a very softly, softly start to the season.
In the morning's short road stage, Euskaltel controlled the front of the race to neutralise the early break over the final kilometres. Tino Zaballa (Saunier Duval) was the last to be captured with not much more than a kilometre to go. Just under a kilometre to go, the front of the bike race a mass of orange, the yellow jersey jumped through a roundabout and set off, leaving a startled peloton to regain its senses and mount a chase. Mayo's advantage was never huge over the thousand metres, but he fought to keep them at bay all the way to the line, crossing with daylight a good second.
It was a type of win that no one expected and for some signaled that he was trying to create himself some breathing space ahead of the time trial. Euskaltel, as we all know, have never been known for their prowess against the clock, with only Zubeldia previously showing any class.
Come the time trial and the early mark was set by the 20 year old Liberty Seguros rider Luis Sanchez. His closest challenger being for the day his teammate Isidro Nozal, a specialist against the clock. As the others came in, no-one seemed to even come close to putting the mark set by Sanchez in danger. The course was relatively flat, with a little rise towards the end. The major factor was cross and head winds at different points of the out and back course. The climbers Jimenez (Comunidad Valenciana), Buenahora and Cardenas (Cafes Baque) were never going to surpass the time of Sanchez. Heras came in 25 seconds back - again as in the climb to Navacerrada more or less sandwiched between Zubeldia and Laiseka.
Mayo came to the start ramp getting a wobbly hold, as do all the riders when the organisers prefer a model to a beefy bloke with a bit of experience in holding a rider for a standing start. Mechanic Eneko Iturriaga wiped down the wheels on the one and only prototype Orbea time trial bike. A pronounced sloping top tube and some relaxed angles said to have been designed subsequent to Mayo's winter's wind tunnel testing in Italy.
At the turnaround, Mayo stunned everyone by being only 4 seconds behind the young Sanchez. He continued to hold his speed into the testing head/crosswinds and as he entered the final stretches he seemed to be going at a speed that made him appear to be flying in comparison to those that rode immediately before him. Up out of the saddle, up a gear and he put more power on, with 200 metres to go, the move was repeated, out of the saddle and up a gear. He gave it some and time disappeared mere metres from the end - he crossed 3 seconds behind the stage winner Sanchez.
Three stages, three messages. 'I can win on the mountain, I can jump and stay away on the way into town and guess what, I can even do a decent time trial - watch out!'
Mayo's nearest rival in the end nearly two minutes behind on the G.C. Or put another way in around 90 kilometres of racing today - on the bunch and solo, Mayo picked up another minute over the rest of the field to add to the minute he took out of them yesterday. Can he keep it up? Who knows, but this was class, pure and simple.
Results
1 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 11.26 2 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.03 3 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 0.06 4 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.08 5 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 Hector Guerra (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 0.10 7 Rene Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros 8 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 0.11 9 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.17 10 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.25 11 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 0.26 12 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 0.30 13 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 0.34 14 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 0.42 15 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 16 David Navas (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 0.44 17 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.46 18 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 0.48 19 Santiago Perez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 20 Aitor Perez (Spa) Cafes Baque 0.49 21 Aaron Villegas (Spa) Spanish National Team 0.51 22 Ivan Parra (Col) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 0.52 23 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.54 24 M.A. Martin Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 Josu Agirre (Spa) Spanish National Team 26 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 27 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.56 28 Hugo Sabido (Por) Milaneza Maia 29 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Brioches La Boulangere 0.58 30 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 0.59 31 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 32 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 1.00 33 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 34 Joan Horrach (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 35 Angel Gomez (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 36 David Latasa (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1.01 37 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1.03 38 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.04 39 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 1.06 40 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.07 41 Gustavo Dominguez (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 42 Francisco Terciado (Spa) Spanish National Team 43 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 44 Efrain Gutierrez (Spa) Cafes Baque 1.08 45 Bruno Pires (Por) Milaneza Maia 1.10 46 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 47 Hernan Buenahora (Col) Cafes Baque 1.12 48 Mauro Santanbrogio (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 49 Sergio Herrero (Spa) Spanish National Team 1.14 50 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 51 José Almagro (Spa) Spanish National Team 1.15 52 Francisco Palacio (Spa) Cafes Baque 53 Aketza Peña (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.19 54 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1.20 55 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 56 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 1.23 57 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) Milaneza Maia 1.25 58 Lizuarte Manuel Martins (Por) Milaneza Maia 1.26 59 Javier Perez (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 1.27 60 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.30 61 Adolfo Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1.33 62 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros 1.36 63 Lander Euba (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 64 Carlos Golbano (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 1.38 65 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 1.40 66 Xabat Otxotorena (Spa) Spanish National Team 1.41 67 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 1.49 68 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza Maia 1.50 69 Dimitri Konyshev (Rus) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 1.52 70 Joaquin Lopez (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 2.03 71 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.35 DNS Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina DNS Carlos Zarate (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme DNS Paulo Barroso (Por) Milaneza Maia DNS Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax-Bodysol DNS Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Bodysol DNS Luis Perez Romero (Spa) Relax-Bodysol DNS Jose Luis Rebollo (Spa) Relax-Bodysol DNS Javier Gonzalez (Col) Saunier Duval-Prodir DNS Luca Nardello (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL Points 1 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 25 pts 2 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20 3 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 16 4 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 14 5 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 12 6 Hector Guerra (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 10 7 Rene Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros 9 8 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 8 9 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 7 10 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 11 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 5 12 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 4 13 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 3 14 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 2 15 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 1 Teams 1 Liberty Seguros 34.34.00 2 Phonak Hearing Systems 17.00 3 Euskaltel - Euskadi 58.00 4 Illes Balears - Banesto 1.38 5 Brioches La Boulangere 2.06 6 Comunidad Valenciana - Kelme 2.25 7 T. L.P.R. Piacenza 2.30 8 Selección España Elite 2.36 9 Cafes Baque 2.40 10 Saunier Duval - Prodir 2.41 11 Cofidis, le credit par telephone 12 Milaneza - Maia 3.15 13 Costa de Almeria - Paternina 3.17 Final general classification 1 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.27.54 2 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1.57 3 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 2.01 4 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 2.02 5 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 2.10 6 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.14 7 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.19 8 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 2.22 9 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.29 10 Angel Gomez (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 2.33 11 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.53 12 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 3.02 13 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 14 Hernan Buenahora (Col) Cafes Baque 3.09 15 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.22 16 Aitor Perez (Spa) Cafes Baque 3.23 17 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 3.28 18 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.37 19 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros 3.48 20 Santiago Perez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.50 21 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 22 David Navas (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 4.29 23 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 24 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 4.32 25 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 4.43 26 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 4.49 27 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 28 Joaquin Lopez (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 4.58 29 Bruno Pires (Por) Milaneza Maia 5.01 30 Francisco Palacio (Spa) Cafes Baque 5.06 31 Hector Guerra (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 5.15 32 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 5.30 33 David Latasa (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 5.32 34 Txema Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza Maia 5.35 35 Gustavo Dominguez (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 5.38 36 Francisco Terciado (Spa) Spanish National Team 37 Efrain Gutierrez (Spa) Cafes Baque 5.39 38 Joan Horrach (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 5.41 39 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 5.53 40 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 5.54 41 José Almagro (Spa) Spanish National Team 6.05 42 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Brioches La Boulangere 6.15 43 Lander Euba (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 6.17 44 Aaron Villegas (Spa) Spanish National Team 6.52 45 Lizuarte Manuel Martins (Por) Milaneza Maia 8.12 46 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.20 47 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 8.28 48 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 8.35 49 Ivan Parra (Col) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 9.06 50 Adolfo Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 9.12 51 Carlos Golbano (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 9.17 52 M.A. Martin Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10.05 53 Rene Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros 10.13 54 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10.26 55 Josu Agirre (Spa) Spanish National Team 56 Hugo Sabido (Por) Milaneza Maia 10.28 57 Aketza Peña (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10.38 58 Sergio Herrero (Spa) Spanish National Team 10.50 59 Mauro Santanbrogio (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 11.10 60 Dimitri Konyshev (Rus) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 11.50 61 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 62 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 12.06 63 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 12.25 64 Xabat Otxotorena (Spa) Spanish National Team 12.32 65 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) Milaneza Maia 12.35 66 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12.36 67 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 12.39 68 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 13.58 69 Javier Perez (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 14.18 70 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 15.55 71 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 16.39 Points classification 1 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 70 pts 2 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 25 3 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 25 4 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 25 5 M.A. Martin Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 21 6 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 21 7 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 18 8 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 18 9 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 16 10 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 16 11 Mauro Santanbrogio (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 14 12 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 13 13 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13 14 Angel Gomez (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 12 15 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 12 16 Santiago Perez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 12 17 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 18 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 10 19 Hector Guerra (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 10 20 Carlos Golbano (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 10 21 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 9 22 Rene Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros 9 23 Dimitri Konyshev (Rus) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 8 24 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 7 25 Hernan Buenahora (Col) Cafes Baque 6 Mountains classification 1 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 22 pts 2 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 16 3 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 15 4 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 12 5 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 10 6 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 8 7 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 7 8 Angel Gomez (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 6 9 Lizuarte Manuel Martins (Por) Milaneza Maia 5 10 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 4 11 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 12 Lander Euba (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 3 13 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 2 14 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 15 Adolfo Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1 16 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 Combination classification 1 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 pts 2 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 10 3 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 16 4 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 21 5 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 22 6 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 30 7 Angel Gomez (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 32 8 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 34 9 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 37 10 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 40 11 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 57 12 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 96 13 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 97 Teams classification 1 Euskaltel - Euskadi 19.28.51 2 Liberty Seguros 2.05 3 Phonak Hearing Systems 2.31 4 Cafes Baque 3.45 5 Cofidis, le credit par telephone 4.27 6 Costa de Almeria - Paternina 5.16 7 Illes Balears - Banesto 5.56 8 Brioches La Boulangere 9.19 9 Comunidad Valenciana - Kelme 10.28 10 Milaneza - Maia 12.44 11 Selección España Elite 13.05 12 Saunier Duval - Prodir 17.56 13 T. L.P.R. Piacenza 20.43
