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64th Tour de Luxembourg - 2.2
Luxembourg, May 27-30, 2004
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Stage 2 - May 28: Wasserbillig-Leudelange, 182 km
Steels wins second stage
Belgian sprinter Tom Steels recorded his second victory of the season by winning stage 2 of the Tour de Luxembourg in Leudelange. The Landbouwkrediet-Colnago rider beat home CSC's Kurt-Asle Arvesen and Quick.Step's Aurélien Clerc. Race leader Lars Bak (BankGiroLoterij) finished in the peloton and kept the leader's jersey.
Steels returned to racing two weeks ago in the Tour de Picardie, after spending most of the early season out of action due to a crash in the Moscow Track World Cup. "This victory came so early that I didn't expect it," Steels told L'Equipe. "But it shows that I am in good condition and will continue to prepare myself seriously. After the Tour de Picardie, the Tour of Belgium permitted me to come back to my top level."
The break of the day went after 10 km and consisted of Rik Reinerink (Chocolade Jacques) and Ruslan Gryschenko (Landbouwkrediet-Colnago). The pair could only get 2'50 lead and were caught after 98 km of the 182 km stage. The sprinters teams kept control of the peloton and the stage ended in a mass sprint.
Results
1 Tom Steels (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 4.30.32 2 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 3 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 4 Jans Koerts (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 5 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 6 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 7 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 8 Roger Hammond (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 9 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 10 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 11 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 12 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Bankgiroloterij 13 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 14 Davy Commeyne (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 15 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 16 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 17 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 18 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 19 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 20 Giannoni Juan Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 21 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 22 Scott Sunderland (Aus) Alessio-Bianchi 23 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 24 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 25 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 26 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 27 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 28 Christophe Stevens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 29 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 30 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 31 Hans De Clercq (Bel) Lotto-Domo 32 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio-Bianchi 33 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 34 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 35 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 36 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 37 Björn Leukemans (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 38 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 39 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 40 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 41 Martin Hvastija (Slo) Alessio-Bianchi 42 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 43 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 44 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 45 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 46 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 47 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 48 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 49 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 50 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 51 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 52 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 53 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 54 Ben Day (Aus) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 55 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Lotto-Domo 56 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 57 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 58 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 59 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 60 René Joergensen (Den) Alessio-Bianchi 61 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 62 Mario Aerts (Bel) T-Mobile Team 63 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Bankgiroloterij 64 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 65 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 66 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 67 Manual Calvente Gorbas (Spa) Team CSC 68 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 69 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 70 Luca Solari (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 71 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 72 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 73 Martin Juan Mercado (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 74 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 75 Carlo Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 76 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 77 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 78 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 79 Allan Johansen (Den) Bankgiroloterij 80 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 81 Juan Sanchez Piementa (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 82 Marc Streel (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 83 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 84 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 85 Santiago Botero (Col) T-Mobile Team 86 Ruslan Gryschenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 87 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 88 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Domo 89 Axel Merckx (Bel) Lotto-Domo 90 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 91 James Perry (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 92 Sean Sullivan (Aus) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 93 Vincent Van Der Kooij (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 4.59 94 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij DNF Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo DNF Glenn D´Hollander (Bel) Lotto-Domo DNF Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Bankgiroloterij DNF Rodney Green (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli Points 1 Tom Steels (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 20 pts 2 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 16 3 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 13 4 Jans Koerts (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 11 5 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 9 6 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 7 7 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 5 8 Roger Hammond (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 3 9 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 2 10 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1 Mountains Climb 1 - km 26 1 Ruslan Gryschenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 5 pts 2 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 3 3 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Domo 2 4 Juan Sanchez Piementa (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 1 Climb 2 - km 39 1 Ruslan Gryschenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 5 pts 2 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 3 3 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 2 4 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Bankgiroloterij 1 Climb 3 - km 97 1 Ruslan Gryschenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 5 pts 2 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 3 3 Juan Sanchez Piementa (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 2 4 Luca Solari (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 1 Sprints Sprint 1 - km 103 1 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 2 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 3 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo Sprint 2 - km 130 1 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 3 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli Sprint 3 - km 156 1 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 2 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 3 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC General classification after stage 2 1 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Bankgiroloterij 8.56.25 2 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.36 3 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.38 4 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 5 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 0.40 6 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 7 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 0.41 8 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 9 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 10 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.42 11 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 0.43 12 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 13 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 0.44 14 Roger Hammond (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 15 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 16 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 17 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 18 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 19 Davy Commeyne (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 20 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 21 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 22 Hans De Clercq (Bel) Lotto-Domo 23 Scott Sunderland (Aus) Alessio-Bianchi 24 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 25 Giannoni Juan Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 26 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 27 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 28 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 29 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 30 Björn Leukemans (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 31 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 32 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 33 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 34 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 35 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 36 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 37 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Lotto-Domo 38 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 39 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 40 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 41 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 42 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 43 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 44 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 45 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 46 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 47 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 48 Christophe Stevens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 49 Mario Aerts (Bel) T-Mobile Team 50 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 51 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 52 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 53 Manual Calvente Gorbas (Spa) Team CSC 54 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio-Bianchi 55 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 56 Martin Juan Mercado (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 57 René Joergensen (Den) Alessio-Bianchi 58 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 59 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 60 Allan Johansen (Den) Bankgiroloterij 61 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 62 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 63 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 64 Luca Solari (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 65 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 66 Ben Day (Aus) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 67 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 68 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 69 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 70 Ruslan Gryschenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 71 Carlo Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 72 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 73 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 74 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 75 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 76 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 77 Axel Merckx (Bel) Lotto-Domo 78 Juan Sanchez Piementa (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 79 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Domo 80 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 81 Santiago Botero (Col) T-Mobile Team 82 Sean Sullivan (Aus) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 83 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 3.43 84 Tom Steels (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 3.53 85 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Bankgiroloterij 4.03 86 Martin Hvastija (Slo) Alessio-Bianchi 87 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 88 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 89 James Perry (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 7.37 90 Jans Koerts (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 7.40 91 Marc Streel (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 7.57 92 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 93 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 12.36 94 Vincent Van Der Kooij (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 17.46 Points classification 1 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 26 pts 2 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Bankgiroloterij 20 3 Tom Steels (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 20 4 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 17 5 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 16 6 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 14 7 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 13 8 Roger Hammond (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 12 9 Jans Koerts (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 11 10 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 10 11 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 9 12 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 3 13 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 2 14 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 1 Mountains classification 1 Ruslan Gryschenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 19 pts 2 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Bankgiroloterij 14 3 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 11 4 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 9 5 Juan Sanchez Piementa (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 4 6 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 2 7 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 2 8 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Domo 2 9 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 1 10 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 1 11 Luca Solari (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 1 Young rider classification 1 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Bankgiroloterij 8.56.25 2 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.36 3 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.38 4 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 0.40 5 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.41 6 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 7 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.43 8 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.44 9 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 10 Davy Commeyne (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 11 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 12 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 13 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 14 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 15 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 16 Luca Solari (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 17 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 18 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 19 Ruslan Gryschenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 20 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 21 Juan Sanchez Piementa (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 22 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 4.03 23 James Perry (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 7.37 24 Vincent Van Der Kooij (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 17.46 Teams classification 1 Bankgiroloterij 26.50.56 2 Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 0.31 3 MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 4 Fassa Bortolo 5 Lotto-Domo 6 Team CSC 7 Rabobank 8 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 9 Alessio-Bianchi 10 Quick.Step-Davitamon 11 Credit Agricole 12 Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 13 T-Mobile Team
