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48th Vuelta Asturias - 2.2
Spain, May 12-16, 2004
Stage 1 - May 12: Oviedo - Llanes, 174,4 km
Sanchez on form
By Martin Hardie
Twenty year old Liberty Seguros, rider Luis Sanchez, picked up his second win of the past week when he took the victory in a rapid 174 km stage from Oviedo to the Asturian coastal city of Llanes. Sanchez dedicated his win to his teammate Alberto Contador who was involved in a bad crash during the course of the stage. He remains in hospital in a grave state after suffering convulsions.
Sanchez recognised after the stage that he would not try and defend the lead as his main task over the next few days was to work for teammates Heras and Nozal. He added, regarding his two wins over the last few days, that for him it was "something unthinkable" before last Sunday's time trial win in Alcobendas.
Sanchez finished the stage with Baleares rider David Navas 6 seconds ahead of an octet that included Eladio Jimenez (Comunidad Valenciana), Isidro Nozal (Liberty Seguros), Felix Cardenas (Cafes Baque) and Haimar Zubeldia (Euskaltel Euskadi).
The main peloton, which included many of the main contenders for this mountainous appointment, was over a minute behind the octet. Depending on how Nozal and Zubeldia climb for the remainder of the week, Roberto Heras and Iban Mayo could find themselves in the end working for their teammates and co-leaders in this outing. But with the continual rolling courses one finds in this part of the world, the 1.04 window that separates one from the other could well disappear in one decent mountain attack. Also sitting in the Mayo/Heras group and worthy of attention are Samuel Sanchez, Leonardo Piepoli, Fabian Jeker, Paco Mancebo and Christophe Moreau.
Tomorrow the Vuelta traverses 153 kms from Llanes to Gijon, including some notable obstacles at the 88, 106 and 124 kilometre marks. The Cat. 2 Alto la Campa, Cat. 3 Alto de Muncó and the Cat. 2 Alto de San Martin de Huerces and a nice little 2 km/5% kick falling just 4 km before the end, dropping down 100 or so metres in the last km to the finish.
Results
1 Luis León Sánchez Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros 3.49.12 2 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 3 Eladio Jiménez Sánchez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 0.06 4 Isidro Nozal Vega (Spa) Liberty Seguros 5 Félix R Cárdenas Ravalo (Col) Cafes Baque 6 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 Carlos Ramón Golbano García (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 8 José Angel Gómez Marchante (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 9 Alberto López De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 0.58 11 Markel Irizar Aramburu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 13 David Latasa Lasa (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 14 Joseba Albizu Lizaso (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 José M Elias Galindo (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 16 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 17 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.10 18 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) L.A.-Pecol 19 Samuel Sánchez González (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 21 Pedro Marichalar Fernández (Spa) Spanish National Team 22 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza Maia 23 Lizuarte Manuel Martins (Por) Milaneza Maia 24 Francisco José Lara Ruiz (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 25 Pablo Lastras García (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 26 Hernani Broco (Por) L.A.-Pecol 27 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 28 Pedro M Andrade Oliveira (Por) L.A.-Pecol 29 Efraín Gutierrez Sánchez (Spa) Cafes Baque 30 Mario De Sarraga Orviz (Spa) Spanish National Team 31 Javier Pérez Pereira (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 32 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 33 Miguel Martín Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 34 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Cafes Baque 35 Hugo Sabido (Por) Milaneza Maia 36 Dailos Diaz Armas (Spa) Spanish National Team 37 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) L.A.-Pecol 38 Beñat Albizuri Aransolo (Spa) Spanish National Team 39 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros 40 Jorge Ferrío Luque (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 41 David Herrero Llorente (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 42 Roberto Heras Hernández (Spa) Liberty Seguros 43 Moisés Dueñas Nevado (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 44 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 45 Mikel Pradera Rodríguez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 46 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) Milaneza Maia 47 Jorge Torre (Por) L.A.-Pecol 48 Francisco Palacios (Spa) Cafes Baque 49 Antonio Tauler Llul (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 50 Francisco Mancebo Pérez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 51 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 52 Iván Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 53 Rodrigo García Rena (Spa) Spanish National Team 54 Gonçalo José Amorim Valada (Por) Milaneza Maia 55 Pedro Arreitunandia Quintero (Spa) Cafes Baque 56 José Antonio López Gil (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 57 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 58 Gorka González Larrañaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 59 José Luis Rebollo Aguado (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 60 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 61 Dimitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 62 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 63 Joseba Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 64 Adolfo García Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 65 Hernán Buenahora Gutiérrez (Col) Cafes Baque 66 Jonathan González Rios (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 67 David López García (Spa) Cafes Baque 68 Joaquim López Torrella (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 69 Roberto Laiseka Jaio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 70 Dimitri Konyshev (Rus) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 1.28 71 Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 2.19 72 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 73 Christian Vandevelde (USA) Liberty Seguros 74 Angel Gómez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4.50 75 Iñigo Chaurreau Bernárdez (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 5.27 76 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 77 Mario Sánchez Fernández (Spa) Spanish National Team 78 Joaquín Sobrino Martínez (Spa) Spanish National Team 79 Aitor Hernández Gutiérrez (Spa) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 80 Mikel Elqezabal Fernández (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 81 Rubén Ispizua Oarbeascoa (Spa) L.A.-Pecol 82 Luca Nardello (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 83 Samuel Soto Vidal (Spa) Spanish National Team 7.26 84 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 85 Ivan Degasperi (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 9.08 86 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 87 Candido Barbosa (Por) L.A.-Pecol 88 Luis Pérez Romero (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 89 Hector Guerra García (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 90 Jon Odriozola Mugarza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 91 David Bernabeu Armengol (Spa) Milaneza Maia 92 Óscar Laguna García (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 93 Fernando Torres (Spa) Cafes Baque 94 David García Dapena (Spa) L.A.-Pecol 95 Andrei Karpatchev (Rus) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 96 Francisco Cabello Luque (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 97 Bruno Castanheira Gomes (Por) Milaneza Maia 98 Rafael Casero Moreno (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 99 Javier Cherro Molina (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 100 Francisco Gutiérrez (Spa) Cafes Baque 101 Tim Johnson (USA) Saunier Duval-Prodir 102 Daniel Moreno Fernández (Spa) Spanish National Team 103 Jesús Hernández Blazquez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 104 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 105 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 106 Javier González Barrera (Col) Saunier Duval-Prodir 107 René Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros 108 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros DNF 52 DNF 18 DNF 77 DNF 65 DNF 5 DNF 88 DNS 123 Mountains La Llama - Cat. 2, km 58.6 1 Gonçalo José Amorim Valada (Por) Milaneza Maia 10 pts 2 Pedro M Andrade Oliveira (Por) L.A.-Pecol 7 3 Gorka González Larrañaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 4 Félix R Cárdenas Ravalo (Col) Cafes Baque 3 5 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 6 Adolfo García Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1 Ortiguero - Cat. 3, km 141.9 1 Félix R Cárdenas Ravalo (Col) Cafes Baque 6 pts 2 Alberto López De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 3 Eladio Jiménez Sánchez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 2 Llano De La Cuesta - Cat. 3, km 154.7 1 Félix R Cárdenas Ravalo (Col) Cafes Baque 6 pts 2 Alberto López De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 3 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 4 Carlos Ramón Golbano García (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 1 Metas volantes Infiesto - km 42 1 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 3 pts 2 Pedro M Andrade Oliveira (Por) L.A.-Pecol 2 3 Mikel Pradera Rodríguez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1 Cangas De Onís - km 122 1 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 pts 2 Miguel Martín Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 3 Jon Odriozola Mugarza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1 Teams 1 Euskaltel - Euskadi 11.28.46 2 Liberty Seguros 0.06 3 Costa De Almeria - Paternina 0.12 4 Com. Valenciana - Kelme 1.04 5 Illes Balears - Banesto 1.10 6 Cafes Baque 1.16 7 Credit Agricole 1.56 8 Relax - Bodysol 2.08 9 L.A. - Pecol 2.20 10 Milaneza Maia 11 Selección Española 12 Saunier Duval - Prodir 13 Team L.P.R. - Piacenza Management 3.35 14 Ag2R Prevoyance 6.37 General classification after stage 1 1 Luis León Sánchez Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros 3.49.02 2 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 0.04 3 Eladio Jiménez Sánchez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 0.12 4 Isidro Nozal Vega (Spa) Liberty Seguros 0.16 5 Félix R Cárdenas Ravalo (Col) Cafes Baque 6 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 Carlos Ramón Golbano García (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 8 José Angel Gómez Marchante (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 9 Alberto López De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 1.08 11 Markel Irizar Aramburu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 13 David Latasa Lasa (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 14 Joseba Albizu Lizaso (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 José M Elias Galindo (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 16 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 17 Rodrigo García Rena (Spa) Spanish National Team 1.17 18 Pedro M Andrade Oliveira (Por) L.A.-Pecol 1.18 19 Miguel Martín Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 20 Mikel Pradera Rodríguez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 21 Gorka González Larrañaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 22 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.20 23 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) L.A.-Pecol 24 Samuel Sánchez González (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 26 Pedro Marichalar Fernández (Spa) Spanish National Team 27 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza Maia 28 Lizuarte Manuel Martins (Por) Milaneza Maia 29 Francisco José Lara Ruiz (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 30 Pablo Lastras García (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 31 Hernani Broco (Por) L.A.-Pecol 32 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 33 Efraín Gutierrez Sánchez (Spa) Cafes Baque 34 Mario De Sarraga Orviz (Spa) Spanish National Team 35 Javier Pérez Pereira (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 36 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 37 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Cafes Baque 38 Hugo Sabido (Por) Milaneza Maia 39 Dailos Diaz Armas (Spa) Spanish National Team 40 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) L.A.-Pecol 41 Beñat Albizuri Aransolo (Spa) Spanish National Team 42 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros 43 Jorge Ferrío Luque (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 44 David Herrero Llorente (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 45 Roberto Heras Hernández (Spa) Liberty Seguros 46 Moisés Dueñas Nevado (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 47 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 48 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) Milaneza Maia 49 Jorge Torre (Por) L.A.-Pecol 50 Francisco Palacios (Spa) Cafes Baque 51 Antonio Tauler Llul (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 52 Francisco Mancebo Pérez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 53 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 54 Iván Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 55 Gonçalo José Amorim Valada (Por) Milaneza Maia 56 Pedro Arreitunandia Quintero (Spa) Cafes Baque 57 José Antonio López Gil (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 58 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 59 José Luis Rebollo Aguado (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 60 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 61 Dimitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 62 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 63 Joseba Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 64 Adolfo García Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 65 Hernán Buenahora Gutiérrez (Col) Cafes Baque 66 Jonathan González Rios (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 67 David López García (Spa) Cafes Baque 68 Joaquim López Torrella (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 69 Roberto Laiseka Jaio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 70 Dimitri Konyshev (Rus) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 1.38 71 Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 2.29 72 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 73 Christian Vandevelde (USA) Liberty Seguros 74 Angel Gómez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5.00 75 Iñigo Chaurreau Bernárdez (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 5.37 76 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 77 Mario Sánchez Fernández (Spa) Spanish National Team 78 Joaquín Sobrino Martínez (Spa) Spanish National Team 79 Aitor Hernández Gutiérrez (Spa) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 80 Mikel Elqezabal Fernández (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 81 Rubén Ispizua Oarbeascoa (Spa) L.A.-Pecol 82 Luca Nardello (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 83 Samuel Soto Vidal (Spa) Spanish National Team 7.36 84 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 85 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 9.15 86 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 87 Jon Odriozola Mugarza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 9.17 88 Candido Barbosa (Por) L.A.-Pecol 9.18 89 Luis Pérez Romero (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 90 Hector Guerra García (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 91 David Bernabeu Armengol (Spa) Milaneza Maia 92 Óscar Laguna García (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 93 Fernando Torres (Spa) Cafes Baque 94 David García Dapena (Spa) L.A.-Pecol 95 Andrei Karpatchev (Rus) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 96 Francisco Cabello Luque (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 97 Bruno Castanheira Gomes (Por) Milaneza Maia 98 Rafael Casero Moreno (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 99 Javier Cherro Molina (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 100 Francisco Gutiérrez (Spa) Cafes Baque 101 Tim Johnson (USA) Saunier Duval-Prodir 102 Daniel Moreno Fernández (Spa) Spanish National Team 103 Jesús Hernández Blazquez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 104 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 105 Javier González Barrera (Col) Saunier Duval-Prodir 106 René Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros 107 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros 108 Ivan Degasperi (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 9.28 Mountains classification 1 Félix R Cárdenas Ravalo (Col) Cafes Baque 15 pts 2 Gonçalo José Amorim Valada (Por) Milaneza Maia 10 3 Alberto López De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8 4 Pedro M Andrade Oliveira (Por) L.A.-Pecol 7 5 Gorka González Larrañaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 6 Eladio Jiménez Sánchez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 2 7 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 8 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 9 Carlos Ramón Golbano García (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 1 10 Adolfo García Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1 Metas volantes classification 1 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team L.P.R.-Piacenza Management SRL 3 pts 2 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 3 Miguel Martín Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 4 Pedro M Andrade Oliveira (Por) L.A.-Pecol 2 5 Jon Odriozola Mugarza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1 6 Mikel Pradera Rodríguez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1 Teams classification 1 Euskaltel - Euskadi 11.28.46 2 Liberty Seguros 0.06 3 Costa De Almeria - Paternina 0.12 4 Com. Valenciana - Kelme 1.04 5 Illes Balears - Banesto 1.10 6 Cafes Baque 1.16 7 Credit Agricole 1.56 8 Relax - Bodysol 2.08 9 L.A. - Pecol 2.20 10 Milaneza Maia 11 Selección Española 12 Saunier Duval - Prodir 13 Team L.P.R. - Piacenza Management 3.35 14 Ag2R Prevoyance 6.37
