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42nd Vuelta a Aragon - 2.1
Spain, April 13-17, 2005
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Stage 2 - April 14: Alcaniz - Sabinanigo, 206.5 km
Late attack succeeds for Efimkin and Perez
Russian Vladimir Efimkin (Barloworld-Valsir) has won the second stage of the Vuelta a Aragon that finished in Sabinanigo after 206 km of racing. Efimkin beat his breakaway companion Luis Perez (Cofidis) over the line, after the pair had attacked on the descent of the final climb with 17 km to go. At the finish they had 14 seconds over the peloton, which was led home by David Fernandez (Andalucia-Paul Versan), meaning that Efimkin took over the leader's jersey.
The second and longest stage took the riders between Alcaniz and Sabinanigo over a fairly flat course, with the Cat. 2 Puerto Monrepós (km 176) the main difficulty of the day. The start was fast and aggressive, with a strong tailwind pushing the speed up while making it hard to establish a break. Efraín Gutiérrez (Andalucia-Paul Versan) crashed at km 14 after hitting a car, and ended up in hospital in Zaragoza. That caused a reduction in the speed for a while, until everyone was satisfied that Gutiérrez wasn't too badly injured.
Eventually at kilometre 77, Barloworld's David George accelerated out of the peloton and got a gap, which quickly grew to 9'30 at km 103 while the bunch soft pedaled. George stayed out in front until the Puerto Monrepós, where he took the maximum points on the seven kilometre climb and moved to within two points of the mountains jersey. But the peloton had been quite aggressive on the climb and closed the gap to George, as race leader Alessandro Petacchi was dropped, eventually finishing two minutes back.
After the descent of Monrepós, George's teammate Vladimir Efimkin attacked with Luis Perez, and the pair opened up an unassailable lead in the final 17 km, with Efimkin proving to be the best in the sprint.
Tomorrow's third stage is between Sabiñánigo and Zaragoza over 173.5 km, with two categorised climbs: Cat. 2 Puerto de Oroel (km 24), and the Cat. 3 Alto Casas de Expés (km 97). It should be suited to the sprinters.
Results
1 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Team Barloworld-Valsir 5.12.06 2 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 3 David Fernandez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 0.14 4 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 5 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 6 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 7 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 8 Alan Perez (Spa) Orbea 9 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 10 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 11 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 12 Ruben Perez (Spa) Orbea 13 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 14 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 Jose Luis Carrasco Gamiz (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 16 Félix Cardenas (Col) Team Barloworld-Valsir 17 David Lopez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18 Fco. Jose Martinez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 19 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 20 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 21 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas-Bianchi 22 Jose Ruiz (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 23 Fernando Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 24 Moises Dueñas (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 25 Jose Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 26 Javier Perez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 27 Jaume Rovira (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 28 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 29 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Kaiku 30 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 31 Manuel Lloret (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 32 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 33 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas-Bianchi 34 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 35 Anton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 36 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 37 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 38 Carlos Castaño (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 39 David George (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir 40 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 41 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 0.26 42 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2.09 43 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 44 Javier Ruiz De Larrinaga (Spa) Kaiku 45 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 46 José Antonio Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 47 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 48 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Orbea 49 Eddy Serri (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 50 Agustin Alonso (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 51 Angel Luis Casero (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 52 Koen De Kort (Ned) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 53 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 54 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Team Barloworld-Valsir 55 Xabat Ochotorena (Spa) Orbea 56 Raul Garcia De Mateo (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 57 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 58 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 59 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 60 Daniele Colli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 61 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 62 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 63 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 64 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 65 Adolfo Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 66 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 67 Ivan Santos (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 68 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2.15 69 Julian Sanchez Pimienta (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 4.35 70 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 8.24 71 Beñat Albizuri (Spa) Orbea 9.20 72 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Kaiku 9.24 73 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 10.19 74 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 75 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 76 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 77 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 78 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 79 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Orbea 80 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 81 Iker Leonet Iza (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 82 Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 83 Javier Benitez (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 84 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 85 Igor Gonzalez De Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 86 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 12.43 87 Antonio Berasategui (Spa) Kaiku 88 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 89 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 90 Antonio Tauler Llull (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 91 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 92 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 93 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) T-Mobile Team 94 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 95 Luca Celli (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 96 Vidal Celis (Spa) Orbea DNF Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team DNF Efrain Gutierrez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan DNF Gustavo Dominguez (Spa) Orbea Points 1 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Team Barloworld-Valsir 25 pts 2 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 20 3 David Fernandez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 16 4 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 14 5 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 12 6 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 10 7 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 9 8 Alan Perez (Spa) Orbea 8 9 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 7 10 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 6 11 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 5 12 Ruben Perez (Spa) Orbea 4 13 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3 14 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 15 Jose Luis Carrasco Gamiz (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1 Mountains Puerto Monrepós - Cat. 2, km 176 1 David George (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir 10 pts 2 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Team Barloworld-Valsir 7 3 David Lopez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 4 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3 5 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 2 6 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 1 Sprints Caspe - km 24.8 1 Javier Benitez (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 3 pts 2 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 1 Sariñena - km 99 1 David George (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir 3 pts 2 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 1 Teams 1 Team Barloworld - Valsir 15.36.46 2 Cofidis, le credit par telephone 3 Andalucia-Paul Versan 0.14 4 Kaiku 5 Relax Fuenlabrada 6 Euskaltel - Euskadi 7 Comunidad Valenciana 8 Orbea 2.09 9 Illes Balears - Caisse D'Epargne 10 T- Mobile Team 11 Liquigas - Bianchi 12 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 2.21 13 Fassa Bortolo 5.59 General classification after stage 2 1 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Team Barloworld-Valsir 9.10.47 2 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 0.04 3 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 0.15 4 David Fernandez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 0.17 5 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 0.21 6 David George (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir 7 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 0.23 8 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 0.24 9 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 10 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas-Bianchi 11 Ruben Perez (Spa) Orbea 12 Jose Luis Carrasco Gamiz (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 13 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 14 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 15 David Lopez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 16 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 17 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 18 Jose Ruiz (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 19 Félix Cardenas (Col) Team Barloworld-Valsir 20 Alan Perez (Spa) Orbea 21 Jose Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 22 Manuel Lloret (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 23 Fernando Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 24 Javier Perez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 25 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 26 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 27 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 28 Moises Dueñas (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 29 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Kaiku 30 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 31 Jaume Rovira (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 32 Fco. Jose Martinez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 33 Carlos Castaño (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 34 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 35 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas-Bianchi 36 Anton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 37 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 38 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 39 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 40 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 0.36 41 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.41 42 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2.06 43 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 2.12 44 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2.18 45 Eddy Serri (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 2.19 46 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 47 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 48 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 49 Koen De Kort (Ned) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 50 Daniele Colli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 51 Agustin Alonso (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 52 Xabat Ochotorena (Spa) Orbea 53 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 54 Angel Luis Casero (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 55 Raul Garcia De Mateo (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 56 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 57 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 58 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 59 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Orbea 60 José Antonio Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 61 Javier Ruiz De Larrinaga (Spa) Kaiku 62 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 63 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Team Barloworld-Valsir 64 Adolfo Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 65 Ivan Santos (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 66 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 2.37 67 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 2.38 68 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2.44 69 Julian Sanchez Pimienta (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 4.45 70 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 8.34 71 Beñat Albizuri (Spa) Orbea 9.30 72 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Kaiku 9.34 73 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 10.22 74 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10.24 75 Javier Benitez (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 10.26 76 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 10.29 77 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 78 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 79 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 80 Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 81 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Orbea 82 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 83 Iker Leonet Iza (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 84 Igor Gonzalez De Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 85 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 10.48 86 Antonio Tauler Llull (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 12.53 87 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) T-Mobile Team 88 Vidal Celis (Spa) Orbea 89 Antonio Berasategui (Spa) Kaiku 90 Luca Celli (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 91 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 92 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 13.16 93 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 94 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 13.18 95 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 13.19 96 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 13.30 Points classification 1 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 34 pts 2 David Fernandez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 30 3 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Team Barloworld-Valsir 25 4 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 25 5 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 22 6 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 20 7 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 18 8 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 16 9 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 15 10 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas-Bianchi 10 11 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 9 12 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 13 Alan Perez (Spa) Orbea 8 14 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8 15 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 8 16 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 7 17 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 7 18 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 5 19 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 5 20 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 4 21 Ruben Perez (Spa) Orbea 4 22 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 4 23 David George (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir 3 24 Javier Benitez (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 3 25 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3 26 Jose Luis Carrasco Gamiz (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 2 27 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 28 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 Mountains classification 1 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 12 pts 2 David George (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir 10 3 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 8 4 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Team Barloworld-Valsir 7 5 David Lopez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 6 Adolfo Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 4 7 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3 8 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 2 9 Anton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 10 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 1 Combination classification 1 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Team Barloworld-Valsir 8 pts 2 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 23 3 David George (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir 31 4 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 42 5 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 92 6 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 119 Teams classification 1 Team Barloworld - Valsir 27.33.19 2 Cofidis, le credit par telephone 3 Andalucia-Paul Versan 0.08 4 Kaiku 0.14 5 Relax Fuenlabrada 6 Euskaltel - Euskadi 7 Comunidad Valenciana 8 Illes Balears - Caisse D'Epargne 2.06 9 Liquigas - Bianchi 2.09 10 Orbea 11 T- Mobile Team 12 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 2.18 13 Fassa Bortolo 5.56
