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32nd Tour Méditerranéen - 2.1
France/Italy, February 9-13, 2005
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Stage 2 - February 10: Villeneuve-Loubet - Bormes-les-Mimosas, 131 km
Gilbert grabs top spot in Benelux 1-2-3
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Belgian Philippe Gilbert (Française des Jeux) has won the second stage of the Tour Méditerranéen in a 'low countries finale, out-sprinting the Luxembourg duo of Franck Schleck (CSC) and Kim Kirchen (Fassa Bortolo).
The finale was marred by a fall by Bram De Groot (Rabobank) in the sprint. De Groot was nevertheless given the same time as the peloton.
The bunch finish came at the end of a day marked by a 40km escape by Nicolas Reynaud (RAGT), who slipped away as the peloton came down from the day's first major obstacle, the col de l'Estérel at the 60km mark. Reynaud built a five minute gap before being recaptured as the peloton climbed toward Bormes-Les-Mimosas.
With three kilometres to go race leader Jens Voigt (CSC) broke away with his team-mate Franck Schleck and Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) but was only able to carve a ten second gap before being caught with 1km to go, eventually finishing fifth behind Gilbert.
Photography
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- Philippe Gilbert (La Francaise des Jeux, left) dukes it out with Franck Schleck (CSC) and Kim Kirchen (Fassa Bortolo)
- Philippe Gilbert waves from the podium
- Philippe Gilbert is presented with his flowers and traditional congratulations
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Philippe Gilbert (La Francaise des Jeux) claims victory in stage 2
- Mario Cipollini (Liquigas-Bianchi) rolls in to the finish
- Jens Voigt (CSC) retains the overall leader jersey
- Philippe Gilbert (La Francaise des Jeux) smiles from the podium
Images by Emmanuel Isnard
- Alexandr Arekeev (Acqua & Sapone) looks serious at the start
- Paolo Bossoni (Fassa Bortolo) - "Are you talkin' ta me?"
- Mario Cipollini (Liquigas-Bianchi) heads for the start line
- Seweryn Kohut (Miche) ready to roll
- Nicola Loda (Liquigas-Bianchi) ready to go
- Ian McLeod (La Francaise des Jeux) at the beginning of a good day for the team
- Lénaïc Olivier (Agritubel) ready to start
- Ciaran Power (Navigators) at the start of stage 2
- Armando Rupa (Miche) poses in front of his team's bus
- Alessandro Vanotti (Domina Vacanze) starts the day with a big smile
- Phil Zajicek (Navigators) - happy to be here
Results
1 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) La Francaise des Jeux 3.10.45 2 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 3 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 4 Bram de Groot (Ned) Rabobank 5 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 6 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 7 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 8 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 0.04 9 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 10 Antonio d'Aniello (Ita) Team Miche 11 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 12 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 14 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 15 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 16 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) La Française des Jeux 17 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 18 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 19 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Team Miche 20 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prévoyance 21 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 22 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 23 Kevin de Weert (Bel) Quick Step 24 Jurgen van Goolen (Bel) Quick Step 25 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 26 Bo Hamburger (Den) Acqua e Sapone 27 Sergei Gonchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 28 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 29 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.28 30 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 31 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis 32 Philip Deignam (Irl) Ag2r Prévoyance 33 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) La Française des Jeux 34 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak 35 Lénaïc Olivier (Fra) Agritubel 36 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 37 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 38 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) Team Miche 39 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick Step 40 Kristof Trouve (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 41 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 42 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Cofidis 43 J.Alberto Martinez (Spa) Agritubel 44 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 45 Vladimir Goussev (Rus) Team CSC 46 Ian McLeod (RSA) La Française des Jeux 47 Mathé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 48 Eric Berthou (Fra) RAGT Semences 49 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 50 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 51 Chris Baldwin (USA) Navigators 52 Johan Tschopp (Swi) Phonak 53 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 54 Kyrylo Pospeyev (Ukr) Acqua e Sapone 55 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 56 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick Step 57 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Crédit Agricole 58 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis 59 Mathew White (Aus) Cofidis 60 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis 61 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 62 Renaud Dion (Fra) RAGT Semences 1.03 63 Przemislaw Niemec (Pol) Team Miche 64 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 65 Kilian Patour (Fra) Crédit Agricole 66 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r Prévoyance 67 Slavomir Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 68 Kirk O'Bee (USA) Navigators 69 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 70 Niels Scheuneman (Ned) Rabobank 71 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Crédit Agricole 72 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 73 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 74 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 75 Nicola Loda (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 76 Gilles Canouet (Fra) Agritubel 77 Mario Cipollini (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 78 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak 79 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 80 Laurent Paumier (Fra) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 81 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 82 Michaël Delage (Fra) La Française des Jeux 83 Armando Rupa (Ita) Team Miche 84 Alessio Galletti (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 85 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak 86 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 87 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 88 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 89 David Boucher (Fra) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 90 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 91 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 92 Stéphane Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 93 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua e Sapone 94 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick Step 95 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 96 Thomasz Nose (Slo) Phonak 97 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 98 Crescenzo d'Amore (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 99 David O'Loughlin (Irl) Navigators 100 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 101 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 102 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 103 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 104 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 105 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 106 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 107 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 108 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis 109 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 110 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 111 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 112 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 113 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 2.08 114 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators 2.19 115 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak 2.22 116 Phil Zajicek (USA) Navigators 117 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak 118 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 119 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Française des Jeux 2.38 120 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 121 Frédéric Finot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 122 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) La Française des Jeux 123 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 124 Benjamin Levecot (Fra) RAGT Semences 125 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 126 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Cofidis 127 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Domina Vacanze 128 Sébastien Minard (Fra) RAGT Semences 129 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Navigators 130 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 131 Michele Gobbi (Ita) Domina Vacanze 132 Dimitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 133 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze 134 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 135 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 136 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick Step 137 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators 138 Andrea Ferrigato (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 139 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 140 Gabriele Colombo (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 141 Damien Nazon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 142 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 143 Nicolas Dulac (Fra) RAGT Semences 2.58 144 Ludovic Martin (Fra) RAGT Semences 145 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC 5.09 146 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) Domina Vacanze 5.27 147 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5.41 148 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 5.46 149 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 6.41 150 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) RAGT Semences 7.40 DNF Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis DNF Cédric Hervé (Fra) Crédit Agricole DNF Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak DNF Luca Ascani (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare DNF Francesco Failli (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare General classification after stage 2 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 6.28.46 2 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) La Française des Jeux 0.17 3 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.21 4 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 0.23 5 Bram de Groot (Ned) Rabobank 0.27 6 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 7 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 8 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 9 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.31 10 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 12 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 13 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 14 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 15 Jurgen van Goolen (Bel) Quick Step 16 Bo Hamburger (Den) Acqua e Sapone 17 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 19 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 20 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) La Française des Jeux 21 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prévoyance 22 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 23 Sergei Gonchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 24 Kevin de Weert (Bel) Quick Step 25 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 26 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 27 Antonio d'Aniello (Ita) Team Miche 28 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Team Miche 29 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 0.49 30 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis 0.55 31 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) Team Miche 32 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 33 Vladimir Goussev (Rus) Team CSC 34 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 35 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) La Française des Jeux 36 Lénaïc Olivier (Fra) Agritubel 37 Mathé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 38 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Cofidis 39 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick Step 40 Kristof Trouve (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 41 Chris Baldwin (USA) Navigators 42 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick Step 43 Ian McLeod (RSA) La Française des Jeux 44 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 45 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 46 Philip Deignam (Irl) Ag2r Prévoyance 47 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 48 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 49 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 50 Kyrylo Pospeyev (Ukr) Acqua e Sapone 51 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis 52 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 53 Eric Berthou (Fra) RAGT Semences 54 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak 55 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Crédit Agricole 56 Mathew White (Aus) Cofidis 57 Johan Tschopp (Swi) Phonak 58 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 59 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 60 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis 61 Przemislaw Niemec (Pol) Team Miche 1.30 62 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r Prévoyance 63 Renaud Dion (Fra) RAGT Semences 64 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 65 David Boucher (Fra) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 66 Crescenzo d'Amore (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 67 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 68 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 69 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak 70 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 71 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 72 Mario Cipollini (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 73 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak 74 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 75 Alessio Galletti (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 76 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Crédit Agricole 77 Nicola Loda (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 78 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua e Sapone 79 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 80 Stéphane Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 81 Slavomir Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 82 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 83 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 84 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 85 Michaël Delage (Fra) La Française des Jeux 86 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 87 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 88 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 89 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 90 Gilles Canouet (Fra) Agritubel 91 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick Step 92 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 93 Kirk O'Bee (USA) Navigators 94 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 95 Laurent Paumier (Fra) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 96 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 97 Thomasz Nose (Slo) Phonak 98 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 99 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 100 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 101 David O'Loughlin (Irl) Navigators 102 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 103 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis 104 Niels Scheuneman (Ned) Rabobank 2.06 105 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 2.35 106 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators 2.46 107 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak 2.49 108 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak 109 Phil Zajicek (USA) Navigators 110 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) La Française des Jeux 3.05 111 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 112 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 113 Michele Gobbi (Ita) Domina Vacanze 114 Gabriele Colombo (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 115 Frédéric Finot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 116 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 117 Andrea Ferrigato (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 118 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Domina Vacanze 119 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze 120 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 121 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 122 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 123 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick Step 124 Dimitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 125 Armando Rupa (Ita) Team Miche 3.58 126 Benjamin Levecot (Fra) RAGT Semences 4.01 127 Ludovic Martin (Fra) RAGT Semences 128 Kilian Patour (Fra) Crédit Agricole 129 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC 130 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 131 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Navigators 132 Nicolas Dulac (Fra) RAGT Semences 133 Sébastien Minard (Fra) RAGT Semences 134 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 135 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 136 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) Domina Vacanze 137 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Française des Jeux 138 J.Alberto Martinez (Spa) Agritubel 139 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 140 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 141 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 142 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 143 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) RAGT Semences 144 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 145 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 146 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Cofidis 147 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators 148 Damien Nazon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 149 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 150 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare Points classification 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) CSC 37 pts 2 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) La Française des Jeux 25 3 Bram de Groot (Ned) Rabobank 21 4 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 20 5 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 20 6 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 16 7 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 16 8 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis 14 9 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick Step 12 10 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 12 11 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 10 12 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) Team Miche 10 13 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 9 14 Crescenzo d'Amore (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 9 15 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9 16 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 8 17 Vladimir Goussev (Rus) Team CSC 8 18 Antonio d'Aniello (Ita) Team Miche 6 19 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) La Française des Jeux 6 20 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 21 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 3 22 Mathé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 3 23 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 2 24 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 2 25 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 1 26 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators 1 Mountains classification 1 Michaël Delage (Fra) La Française des Jeux 16 pts 2 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 13 3 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 10 4 David O'Loughlin (Irl) Navigators 7 5 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 4 6 Vladimir Goussev (Rus) Team CSC 4 7 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 3 8 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 9 Kevin de Weert (Bel) Quick Step 2 10 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 1 11 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick Step 1 12 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 1 13 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1 Young rider classification 1 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) La Française des Jeux 3.18.28 2 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) Miche 3 Vladimir Goussev (Rus) Team CSC 4 David Boucher (Fra) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 5 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7 Przemislaw Niemec (Pol) Team Miche 8 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) La Française des Jeux 9 Jurgen van Goolen (Bel) Quick Step 10 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 11 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom Courtesy of velomania.net
