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39th Internationale Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt - 2.3
Germany, September 15-19, 2004
Stage 1 - September 15: Pirmasens - Worms, 184,4 km
Roberts wins opening stage
Olympic team pursuit gold medalist Luke Roberts (Comnet-Senges) has won the first stage of the Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt in a 13 man sprint, beating Stefan Kupfernagel (Lamonta) and Marc Wauters (Rabobank). The Australian thus took the first leader's jersey in the five day race which takes place in southwestern Germany.
The winning break formed after only 30 km of the 184 km stage between Pirmasens and Worms when Roberts, his teammate Corey Sweet and 11 others escaped the peloton. Aside from Roberts, Sweet, Kupfernagel and Wauters, Addy Engels (BankGiroLoterij), Grischa Niermann (Rabobank), Christophe Brandt (Lotto-Domo), Christian Werner (T-Mobile Team), Mauricio Ardila (Chocolade Jacques), Ronny Scholz (Gerolsteiner), Jörn Reuss (Winfix) and Andreas Schillinger (German National Team) were all in the break.
The major teams were all represented, so the peloton did not chase and the 13 leaders finished up with an incredible 24'53 advantage. In the final sprint, Roberts used his track speed to good advantage to beat the remainder of the break, with the top 10 all finishing in the same time.
Results
1 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges 4.11.31 2 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Lamonta 3 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 4 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta 5 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 6 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 7 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Domo 8 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 9 Mauricio Ardila (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 10 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 11 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges 0.03 12 Jörn Reuss (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 0.07 13 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) German National Team 0.09 14 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Lotto-Domo 24.53 15 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 16 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 17 Leonardo Duque (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 18 André Greipel (Ger) German National Team 19 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 20 Marco Bos (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 21 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 22 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges 23 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 24 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 25 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 26 Frank Van Dulmen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 27 Tjarco Cuppens (Ned) Team Comnet-Senges 28 Jonas Owczarek (Ger) Team Lamonta 29 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 30 Patrick Köhler (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 31 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Lotto-Domo 32 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 33 Karsten Volkmann (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 34 Ief Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 35 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 36 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 37 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Team Lamonta 38 Artur Gajek (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 39 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Hoop CCC - Polsat 40 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 41 Christophe Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Lamonta 42 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 43 Wolfram Wiese (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges 44 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 45 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 46 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 47 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 48 Falk Dworatzek (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 49 Frank Dressler (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges 50 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 51 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 52 Christian Leben (Ger) German National Team 53 Jochen Uhrig (Ger) German National Team 54 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat 55 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner 56 Karl Platt (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 57 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 58 Henning Jaecks (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 59 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Rabobank 60 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoop CCC - Polsat 61 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 62 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) German National Team 63 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 64 René Obst (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 65 Quentino Rodriques (Por) Hoop CCC - Polsat 66 Hans-Jürge Juretzek (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges 67 Alexander Peter (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 68 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 69 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat 70 Robert Bartko (Ger) Rabobank 71 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 72 Mariusz Kowal (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat 73 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Lamonta 74 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 75 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) German National Team 76 Thorsten Struch (Ger) German National Team 77 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat 78 Allan Johansen (Den) Bankgiroloterij 79 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 80 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 81 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) T-Mobile Team 82 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile Team 83 Alexei Markov (Rus) Hoop CCC - Polsat 84 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 85 Thorsten Rund (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 86 Eelke Van Der Wal (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 87 Karsten Vogel (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges 88 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Lotto-Domo 89 Carlo Westphal (Ger) German National Team 90 Felix Odebrecht (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 91 Peter Magyarosi (Ger) Team Lamonta 92 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 93 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 94 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 95 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto-Domo 96 Andre Schulze (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 97 Daniel Meinke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 98 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 99 Jason Philips (Aus) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 100 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 101 Maxim Rudenko (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 102 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Björn Papstein (Ger) Team Lamonta Leif Hoste (Bel) Lotto-Domo Mountains Climb 1 - Cat. 2, km 80,8 1 Mauricio Ardila (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 5 pts 2 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Domo 3 3 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta 2 4 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 1 Climb 2 - Cat. 1, km 98,0 1 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Domo 3 pts 2 Mauricio Ardila (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 2 3 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta 1 Sprints Sprint 1, km 59,6 1 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Lamonta 5 pts 2 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta 3 3 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges 2 4 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 1 Sprint 2, km 106,3 1 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Lamonta 5 pts 2 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta 3 3 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 2 4 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 1 Sprint 3, km 159,6 1 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges 5 pts 2 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta 3 3 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 2 4 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Lamonta 1 General classification after stage 1 1 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges 4.11.17 2 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Lamonta 0.02 3 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta 0.08 4 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 0.09 5 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 0.13 6 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 0.14 7 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Domo 8 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 9 Mauricio Ardila (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 10 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 11 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges 0.17 12 Jörn Reuss (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 0.21 13 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) German National Team 0.23 14 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Lotto-Domo 25.07 15 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 16 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 17 Leonardo Duque (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 18 André Greipel (Ger) German National Team 19 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 20 Marco Bos (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 21 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 22 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges 23 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 24 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 25 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 26 Frank Van Dulmen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 27 Tjarco Cuppens (Ned) Team Comnet-Senges 28 Jonas Owczarek (Ger) Team Lamonta 29 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 30 Patrick Köhler (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 31 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Lotto-Domo 32 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 33 Karsten Volkmann (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 34 Ief Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 35 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 36 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 37 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Team Lamonta 38 Artur Gajek (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 39 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Hoop CCC - Polsat 40 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 41 Christophe Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Lamonta 42 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 43 Wolfram Wiese (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges 44 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 45 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 46 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 47 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 48 Falk Dworatzek (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 49 Frank Dressler (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges 50 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 51 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 52 Christian Leben (Ger) German National Team 53 Jochen Uhrig (Ger) German National Team 54 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat 55 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner 56 Karl Platt (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 57 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 58 Henning Jaecks (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 59 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Rabobank 60 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoop CCC - Polsat 61 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 62 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) German National Team 63 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 64 René Obst (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 65 Quentino Rodriques (Por) Hoop CCC - Polsat 66 Hans-Jürge Juretzek (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges 67 Alexander Peter (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 68 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 69 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat 70 Robert Bartko (Ger) Rabobank 71 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 72 Mariusz Kowal (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat 73 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Lamonta 74 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 75 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) German National Team 76 Thorsten Struch (Ger) German National Team 77 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat 78 Allan Johansen (Den) Bankgiroloterij 79 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 80 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 81 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) T-Mobile Team 82 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile Team 83 Alexei Markov (Rus) Hoop CCC - Polsat 84 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 85 Thorsten Rund (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 86 Eelke Van Der Wal (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 87 Karsten Vogel (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges 88 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Lotto-Domo 89 Carlo Westphal (Ger) German National Team 90 Felix Odebrecht (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit 91 Peter Magyarosi (Ger) Team Lamonta 92 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 93 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 94 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 95 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto-Domo 96 Andre Schulze (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 97 Daniel Meinke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 98 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 99 Jason Philips (Aus) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 100 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 101 Maxim Rudenko (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 102 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Mountains classification 1 Mauricio Ardila (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 7 pts 2 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Domo 6 3 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta 3 4 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 1 Sprints classification 1 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Lamonta 11 pts 2 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta 9 3 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges 7 4 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 3 5 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 2 6 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 1
