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4th Tour of Qatar - 2.1
Qatar, January 31-February 4, 2005
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Stage 2 - February 1: Camel Race Track - Qatar Olympic Committee, 167,5 km
Boonen belts to second win
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Tom Boonen has won his second consecutuve stage of the Tour of Qatar, beating Fabrizio Guidi (Team CSC) and Robbie McEwen (Davitamon-Lotto) at the front of an 18-man sprint finish.
Conditions were windy for the peloton's 167,5 km journey from the Camel Race Track - to the Qatar Olympic Committee headquarters, and it was the wind that made the difference on a day that saw a splintered peloton limp in behind the lead bunch.
Afterwards, Boonen said, "It was a real race today. Yesterday, there was a tail wind and everyone waited until the last 20kms for the decision to be made. Today, with the wind, only the best were in the lead. The sprint was extremely tough with the best specialists in the leading group. I misjudged the finish line and started sprinting with still 250m to go. I could feel the others coming back at me. It's very satisfying to have been able to keep my speed all the way to the finish."
How it unfolded
After just three kilometres of riding, three riders broke away from the 133-strong Tour de Qatar peloton I a break that was to shape the race. Mads Kaggestad (Credit Agricole), Maarten Tjallingii (Marco Polo) and Marco Bos (Shimano) built a lead of over three minutes by the first intermediate sprint at 22km.
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Bos was first across the line at Rawdat Rashed and 6km later the lead was up to 4:05 as counter-attacking rider Mohcena Rhiele (Al-Jazeera Sports Channel) was caught by a five-man chasing group of Ahmed Abduljaleel, Farkad Mohammed (both Al-Jazeera Sports Channel), Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile, Kurt Hovelynck and Tom Stubbe (both Chocolade Jacques-T Interim).
As the peloton formed echelons after 45km the five chasers dropped Rhiele and attempted to reel in the leaders. By the 76km mark Kaggestad, Tjallingii and Bos had 9.10 on the peloton and 2.50 on the five-man chase group.
Bos took the second intermediate sprint, but by now the peloton had realised the escapes were dangerous and the chase was on in earnest. Sixteen riders, including race leader Tom Boonen (Quick Step) had rapidly closed the gap to the chasers and were just 1.30 behind the leaders. After 114km the escapees and pursuers were all together in a 21-strong lead group, with the main peloton 45 seconds behind.
With just 20km to go six riders, including the previous day's runner-up, Mario Cipollini (Liquigas-Bianchi) split from the main peloton to chase the leaders but were unable to close the gap before the finish.
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Photography
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- The peloton passes some palm trees - a big improvement on wintry Europe!
- Tom Boonen (Quick Step, in yellow) and the peloton pass a mosque
- The peloton hits the road in stage 2 of the Tour of Qatar
- Tom Boonen (Quick Step, in yellow) rides near the front in stage 2
- Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Telecom) feels the heat
- Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Telecom) and Mario Cipollini (Liquigas-Bianchi) working hard in the sunshine
- Tom Boonen (Quick Step, right) outsprints Fabrizio Guidi (CSC, centre) and RobbieMcEwen (Davitamon-Lotto)
- Tom Boonen celebrates his second stage win and yellow jersey from the podium
- "Think this will get me to the top of the Alps even quicker this year?" Er, probably not, Thomas...
Results
1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 3.59.52 2 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Team CSC 3 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 4 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak 5 Loyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2R 6 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile 7 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 8 Marco Bos (Ned) Shimano 9 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak 11 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R 12 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Marco Polo 13 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team CSC 14 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak 15 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 0.04 16 Guido Trentin (Ita) Quick Step 17 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 18 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 19 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick Step 0.16 20 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick Step 0.26 21 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 0.33 22 Mario Cipollini (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.04 23 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval 24 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 25 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Ag2R 26 Roger Hammond (Gbr) Discovery Channel 27 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 28 Andre Greipel (Ger) Wiesenhof 3.46 29 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 30 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval 31 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 6.41 32 Rudi Kemna (Ned) Shimano 33 Jorg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 34 Nicola Loda (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 35 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 36 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Ag2R 37 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 38 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Wiesenhof 39 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 40 Yohann Gene (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 41 Wesley Van Speybrock (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 42 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 43 Björn Schröder (Ger) Wiesenhof 44 Christian Knees (Ger) Wiesenhof 45 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel 46 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) T-Mobile 47 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 48 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 49 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 50 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC 51 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 52 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick Step 53 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Discovery Channel 54 Frédéric Mainguenaud (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 55 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 56 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 57 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 58 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 59 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 60 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Shimano 61 Thomas Eriksen (Den) Team CSC 62 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 63 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 64 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 65 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile 66 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval 67 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Saunier Duval 68 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 69 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Saunier Duval 70 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile 71 Erki Pütsep (Est) Ag2R 72 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile 73 Leif Hoste (Bel) Discovery Channel 74 Michele Gobbi (Ita) Domina Vacanze 9.25 75 Farkad Mohammed (Irq) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 14.40 76 Ahmed Abduljaleel (Irq) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 14.58 77 Kilian Patour (Fra) Credit Agricole 15.29 78 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R 79 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval 80 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Shimano 81 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile 82 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Credit Agricole 83 Khaleel Abduljanan (Qat) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 84 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile 85 Mohcena Rhiele (Mar) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 86 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 87 Tareq Esmaeili (Qat) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 88 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Phonak 89 Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh (Mgl) Marco Polo 90 Jason Mccartney (USA) Discovery Channel 91 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Shimano 92 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 93 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile 94 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel 95 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Team CSC 96 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 97 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Wiesenhof 98 Rene Obst (Ger) Wiesenhof 99 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 100 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Shimano 101 Eelke Van Der Wal (Ned) Shimano 102 Michael Carter (USA) Marco Polo 103 Rene Van Oord (NZl) Marco Polo 104 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 105 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 106 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak 107 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) Domina Vacanze 108 Sacha Urweider (Swi) Phonak 109 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel 110 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze 111 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 112 Juan Jose Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval 113 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 114 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Discovery Channel 115 Rhys Pollock (Aus) Marco Polo 116 Edmunds Hollands (Aus) Marco Polo 117 Christophe Riblon (Fra) Ag2R 118 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 119 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 120 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak 121 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick Step 122 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval 123 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 124 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak 125 Damien Nazon (Fra) Credit Agricole 126 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Ag2R 127 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 128 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom DNF Mihsien Reauf (Irq) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel DNF Chiyin Leung (HKg) Marco Polo HD Fuyu Li (Chn) Marco Polo HD Rdhwan Al-Moraqab (Qat) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel HD Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Shimano Points 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 30 pts 2 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Team CSC 27 3 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 25 4 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak 23 5 Loyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2R 21 6 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile 19 7 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 17 8 Marco Bos (Ned) Shimano 15 9 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13 10 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak 11 11 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R 10 12 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Marco Polo 9 13 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team CSC 8 14 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak 7 15 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 6 16 Guido Trentin (Ita) Quick Step 5 17 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 4 18 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 3 19 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick Step 2 20 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick Step 1 Sprints Rawdat Rashed (22.00 km) 1 Marco Bos (Ned) Shimano 3 pts 2 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Marco Polo 2 3 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 1 Messaieed (95.50 km) 1 Marco Bos (Ned) Shimano 3 pts 2 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Marco Polo 2 3 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 1 Best young rider 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 3.59.52 2 Loyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2R 3 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile 4 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 0.04 6 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick Step 0.16 7 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval 1.04 8 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Ag2R 9 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 10 Andre Greipel (Ger) Wiesenhof 3.46 11 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 12 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 6.41 13 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 14 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Wiesenhof 15 Yohann Gene (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 16 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 17 Björn Schröder (Ger) Wiesenhof 18 Christian Knees (Ger) Wiesenhof 19 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) T-Mobile 20 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 21 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 22 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Shimano 23 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 24 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 25 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval 26 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Saunier Duval 27 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 28 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile 29 Kilian Patour (Fra) Credit Agricole 15.29 30 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Credit Agricole 31 Khaleel Abduljanan (Qat) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 32 Mohcena Rhiele (Mar) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 33 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 34 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Phonak 35 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile 36 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel 37 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 38 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 39 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Shimano 40 Eelke Van Der Wal (Ned) Shimano 41 Rene Van Oord (NZl) Marco Polo 42 Sacha Urweider (Swi) Phonak 43 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 44 Juan Jose Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval 45 Rhys Pollock (Aus) Marco Polo 46 Christophe Riblon (Fra) Ag2R 47 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 48 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak 49 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Ag2R 50 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom Teams 1 Phonak Hearing Systems 11.59.36 2 Quick Step 0.08 3 Davitamon - Lotto 1.04 4 AG2R Prevoyance 5 Team CSC 6 Chocolade Jacques - T Interim 10.31 7 Saunier Duval - Prodir 11.31 8 Bouygues Telecom 13.22 9 Shimano - Memory Corp 10 T-Mobile Team 11 Liquigas - Bianchi 14.26 12 Discovery Channel Team 13 Team Wiesenhof 17.08 14 Credit Agricole 22.14 15 Domina Vacanze 22.47 16 Marco Polo Cycling Team 30.58 17 Aljazeera Sport Channel 45.07 General classification after stage 2 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 7.44.49 2 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak 0.14 3 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Team CSC 4 Marco Bos (Ned) Shimano 5 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 0.16 6 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Marco Polo 7 Loyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2R 0.20 8 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 9 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak 10 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile 11 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak 12 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team CSC 13 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R 14 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 15 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 0.22 16 Guido Trentin (Ita) Quick Step 0.24 17 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 18 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 19 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick Step 0.36 20 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick Step 0.46 21 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 0.53 22 Mario Cipollini (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.18 23 Roger Hammond (Gbr) Discovery Channel 1.24 24 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Ag2R 25 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 26 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval 27 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 28 Andre Greipel (Ger) Wiesenhof 4.06 29 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 30 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval 31 Björn Schröder (Ger) Wiesenhof 7.00 32 Rudi Kemna (Ned) Shimano 7.01 33 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 34 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Ag2R 35 Wesley Van Speybrock (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 36 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 37 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile 38 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval 39 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 40 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 41 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 42 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 43 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) T-Mobile 44 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Saunier Duval 45 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 46 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 47 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile 48 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 49 Erki Pütsep (Est) Ag2R 50 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 51 Jorg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 52 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Saunier Duval 53 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel 54 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 55 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile 56 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 57 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 58 Leif Hoste (Bel) Discovery Channel 59 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Discovery Channel 60 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 61 Frédéric Mainguenaud (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 62 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 63 Nicola Loda (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 64 Christian Knees (Ger) Wiesenhof 65 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 66 Yohann Gene (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 67 Thomas Eriksen (Den) Team CSC 68 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 69 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC 70 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick Step 71 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Shimano 7.15 72 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Wiesenhof 8.35 73 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 74 Michele Gobbi (Ita) Domina Vacanze 9.45 75 Farkad Mohammed (Irq) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 15.00 76 Ahmed Abduljaleel (Irq) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 15.18 77 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Shimano 15.47 78 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Wiesenhof 15.49 79 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Shimano 80 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) Domina Vacanze 81 Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh (Mgl) Marco Polo 82 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile 83 Eelke Van Der Wal (Ned) Shimano 84 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile 85 Mohcena Rhiele (Mar) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 86 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile 87 Tareq Esmaeili (Qat) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 88 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel 89 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak 90 Kilian Patour (Fra) Credit Agricole 91 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 92 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Credit Agricole 93 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Discovery Channel 94 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 95 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 96 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 97 Edmunds Hollands (Aus) Marco Polo 98 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R 99 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Shimano 100 Rene Obst (Ger) Wiesenhof 101 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 102 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 103 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak 104 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Phonak 105 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 106 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 107 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze 108 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval 109 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Team CSC 110 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak 111 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 112 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Ag2R 113 Damien Nazon (Fra) Credit Agricole 114 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel 115 Rhys Pollock (Aus) Marco Polo 116 Juan Jose Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval 117 Sacha Urweider (Swi) Phonak 118 Christophe Riblon (Fra) Ag2R 119 Jason Mccartney (USA) Discovery Channel 120 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 121 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 122 Rene Van Oord (NZl) Marco Polo 123 Michael Carter (USA) Marco Polo 124 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval 125 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 126 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick Step 127 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 128 Khaleel Abduljanan (Qat) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 17.06 Points classification 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 60 pts 2 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak 50 3 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 36 4 Loyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2R 34 5 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Team CSC 30 6 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak 30 7 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 27 8 Mario Cipollini (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 27 9 Marco Bos (Ned) Shimano 21 10 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile 21 11 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) Domina Vacanze 21 12 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile 19 13 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval 17 14 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Wiesenhof 15 15 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Marco Polo 13 16 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13 17 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak 11 18 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R 10 19 Wesley Van Speybrock (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 9 20 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team CSC 8 21 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 8 22 Rudi Kemna (Ned) Shimano 8 23 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Ag2R 7 24 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 6 25 Guido Trentin (Ita) Quick Step 5 26 Andre Greipel (Ger) Wiesenhof 5 27 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 4 28 Roger Hammond (Gbr) Discovery Channel 4 29 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Shimano 3 30 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 3 31 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick Step 2 32 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Shimano 2 33 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick Step 1 34 Björn Schröder (Ger) Wiesenhof 1 35 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1 Best young rider classification 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 7.44.49 2 Loyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2R 0.20 3 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile 4 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 0.24 6 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick Step 0.36 7 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Ag2R 1.24 8 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 9 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval 10 Andre Greipel (Ger) Wiesenhof 4.06 11 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 12 Björn Schröder (Ger) Wiesenhof 7.00 13 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 7.01 14 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval 15 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 16 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 17 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 18 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) T-Mobile 19 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 20 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 21 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 22 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Saunier Duval 23 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile 24 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 25 Christian Knees (Ger) Wiesenhof 26 Yohann Gene (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 27 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Shimano 7.15 28 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Wiesenhof 8.35 29 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile 15.49 30 Eelke Van Der Wal (Ned) Shimano 31 Mohcena Rhiele (Mar) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 32 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak 33 Kilian Patour (Fra) Credit Agricole 34 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 35 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Credit Agricole 36 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 37 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 38 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Shimano 39 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Phonak 40 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 41 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 42 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 43 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Ag2R 44 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel 45 Rhys Pollock (Aus) Marco Polo 46 Juan Jose Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval 47 Sacha Urweider (Swi) Phonak 48 Christophe Riblon (Fra) Ag2R 49 Rene Van Oord (NZl) Marco Polo 50 Khaleel Abduljanan (Qat) Al-Jazeera Sports Channel 17.06 Teams classification 1 Phonak Hearing Systems 23.15.27 2 Quick Step 0.08 3 Davitamon - Lotto 1.04 4 AG2R Prevoyance 5 Team CSC 6 Chocolade Jacques - T Interim 10.31 7 Saunier Duval - Prodir 11.31 8 T-Mobile Team 13.22 9 Shimano - Memory Corp 10 Bouygues Telecom 11 Discovery Channel Team 14.26 12 Liquigas - Bianchi 13 Team Wiesenhof 17.08 14 Credit Agricole 22.14 15 Domina Vacanze 22.47 16 Marco Polo Cycling Team 30.58 17 Aljazeera Sport Channel 45.07
