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42nd Setmana-Catalana - 2.HC
Spain, March 21-25, 2005
Stage 1 - March 21: Lloret De Mar - Lloret De Mar, 165 km
Murn wins stage one in sprint
Slovenian champion Uros Murn (Phonak) has won the first stage of Setmana Catalana in Lloret de Mar, beating young Italian Claudio Corioni (Fassa Bortolo) and Mikel Artetxe (Euskaltel) in a bunch sprint. Some 70 riders finished in the front bunch, and with most of the top sprinters sitting out this race after Milan-San Remo, it left the door open for some of the lesser known fast men to shine.
The 165 km stage was no pancake flat run either. With a start and finish in Lloret de Mar, the stage featured three climbs: one each of Cat. 1, Cat. 2 and Cat. 3. After 15 km, Luis Perez Romero (Relax) set off for what turned out to be a very long day in the saddle. After 45 km, Perez had 12 minutes lead and that forced Liberty Seguros into action to limit the damage.
On the Cat. 1 Alto de Sant Grau (km 126), Perez lost most of his lead, although he did secure the mountains jersey by crossing first, with the next five places going to Liberty Seguros riders. At km 140, he still had 4'30 lead when 13 riders attacked the peloton, signaling the start of the finale. Perez was finally caught with 3.5 km to go and the bunch wound up for a mass sprint.
Robert Hunter put himself at the service of his Phonak teammate Uros Murn, enabling the Slovenian to take the stage win.
Tomorrow's second stage will travel between Lloret de Mar and Empuriabrava, over 168.8 kilometres. There are two Cat. 3, one Cat. 2 and one Cat. 1 climb en route.
Results
1 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 4.22.30 2 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 Volodomyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 Angel Edo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 7 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 8 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 9 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 10 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Kaiku 11 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 12 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 13 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 14 Alberto Benitez (Spa) Spiuk 15 René Joergensen (Den) Team Barloworld-Valsir 16 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 17 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 18 Angel Vallejo (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 19 Israel Nuñez (Spa) Kaiku 20 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 22 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 23 Peio Arreitunandia (Spa) Team Barloworld-Valsir 24 Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 26 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 27 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 28 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 29 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 30 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 31 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 32 David Navas (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 33 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 34 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 35 Javier Cherro (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 36 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 37 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 38 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 39 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Spiuk 40 Benjamín Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 41 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 42 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 43 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval-Prodir 44 David Plaza (Spa) Team Barloworld-Valsir 45 Aitor Perez Arrieta (Spa) Spiuk 46 Moises Dueñas (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 47 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 48 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 49 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 50 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 51 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 52 Jose Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 53 Sylvester Szymyd (Pol) Lampre-Caffita 54 José Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 55 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 56 Adrian Palomares (Spa) Kaiku 57 Pat Mccarty (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 58 Antonio Olmo (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 59 Luis Perez Romero (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 60 Julián Sanchez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 61 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 62 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 63 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 64 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 65 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 66 Sergio Dominguez (Spa) Spiuk 67 Felix Cardenas (Col) Team Barloworld-Valsir 68 David George (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir 69 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.34 70 Raul Garcia De Mateos (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 1.00 71 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Kaiku 1.05 72 Angel Casero (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 1.15 73 Juan Gomis (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 1.20 74 Fernando Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 75 Enrique Salgueiro (Spa) Spiuk 1.21 76 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 77 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 78 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 79 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Lampre-Caffita 5.14 80 Pedro Romero (Spa) Spiuk 10.29 81 José Garcia Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 11.31 82 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 83 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 84 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 85 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Kaiku 86 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 87 Fernando Torres (Spa) Spiuk 88 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Kaiku 89 Rodney Green (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir 90 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 91 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo 92 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 93 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Lampre-Caffita 94 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 95 José Julia (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 96 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 97 Michele Scotto (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 98 Israel Perez (Spa) Spiuk 99 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 100 Jose Antonio Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 101 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 22.10 102 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems DNS Tomaz Nose (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems Points 1 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 25 pts 2 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 20 3 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 16 4 Volodomyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 14 5 Angel Edo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 6 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 10 7 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 9 8 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8 9 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 7 10 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Kaiku 6 11 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 5 12 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4 13 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 3 14 Alberto Benitez (Spa) Spiuk 2 15 René Joergensen (Den) Team Barloworld-Valsir 1 Mountains Alt de Lloret - Cat. 3, km 3 1 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 pts 2 René Joergensen (Den) Team Barloworld-Valsir 4 3 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 2 4 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 Sant Hilari Sacalm - Cat. 2, km 46 1 Luis Perez Romero (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 10 pts 2 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7 3 René Joergensen (Den) Team Barloworld-Valsir 5 4 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 3 5 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 2 6 Michele Scotto (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1 Alt de Sant Grau - Cat. 1, km 126 1 Luis Perez Romero (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 16 pts 2 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 12 3 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 10 4 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 8 5 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 5 6 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4 7 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3 8 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2 9 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Spiuk 1 Sprints Lloret de Mar - km 99,8 1 Luis Perez Romero (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 4 pts 2 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 3 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Lampre-Caffita 1 Tosa de Mar, km 153,2 1 Luis Perez Romero (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 4 pts 2 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 3 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Teams 1 Fassa Bortolo 13.07.30 2 Relax Fuenlabrada 3 Saunier Duval - Prodir 4 Lampre - Caffita 5 Discovery Chanel Pro Cycling 6 Euskaltel - Euskadi 7 Phonak Hearing Systems 8 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 9 Illes Balears - Caisse D'Epagne 10 Team Barloworld - Valsir 11 Comunidad Valenciana 12 Kaiku 13 Spiuk General classification after stage 1 1 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 4.22.30 2 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 Volodomyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 Angel Edo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 7 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 8 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 9 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 10 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Kaiku 11 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 12 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 13 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 14 Alberto Benitez (Spa) Spiuk 15 René Joergensen (Den) Team Barloworld-Valsir 16 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 17 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 18 Angel Vallejo (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 19 Israel Nuñez (Spa) Kaiku 20 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 22 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 23 Peio Arreitunandia (Spa) Team Barloworld-Valsir 24 Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 26 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 27 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 28 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 29 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 30 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 31 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 32 David Navas (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 33 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 34 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 35 Javier Cherro (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 36 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 37 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 38 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 39 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Spiuk 40 Benjamín Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 41 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 42 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 43 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval-Prodir 44 David Plaza (Spa) Team Barloworld-Valsir 45 Aitor Perez Arrieta (Spa) Spiuk 46 Moises Dueñas (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 47 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 48 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 49 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 50 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 51 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 52 Jose Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 53 Sylvester Szymyd (Pol) Lampre-Caffita 54 José Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 55 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 56 Adrian Palomares (Spa) Kaiku 57 Pat Mccarty (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 58 Antonio Olmo (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 59 Luis Perez Romero (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 60 Julián Sanchez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 61 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 62 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 63 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 64 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 65 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 66 Sergio Dominguez (Spa) Spiuk 67 Felix Cardenas (Col) Team Barloworld-Valsir 68 David George (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir 69 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.34 70 Raul Garcia De Mateos (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 1.00 71 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Kaiku 1.05 72 Angel Casero (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 1.15 73 Juan Gomis (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 1.20 74 Fernando Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 75 Enrique Salgueiro (Spa) Spiuk 1.21 76 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 77 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 78 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 79 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Lampre-Caffita 5.14 80 Pedro Romero (Spa) Spiuk 10.29 81 José Garcia Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 11.31 82 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 83 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 84 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 85 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Kaiku 86 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 87 Fernando Torres (Spa) Spiuk 88 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Kaiku 89 Rodney Green (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir 90 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 91 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo 92 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 93 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Lampre-Caffita 94 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 95 José Julia (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 96 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 97 Michele Scotto (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 98 Israel Perez (Spa) Spiuk 99 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 100 Jose Antonio Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 101 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 22.10 102 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems Points classification 1 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 25 pts 2 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 20 3 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 16 4 Volodomyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 14 5 Angel Edo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 6 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 10 7 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 9 8 Luis Perez Romero (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 8 9 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8 10 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 7 11 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Kaiku 6 12 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 5 13 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4 14 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 3 15 Alberto Benitez (Spa) Spiuk 2 16 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 17 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 18 René Joergensen (Den) Team Barloworld-Valsir 1 19 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 20 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Lampre-Caffita 1 Mountains classification 1 Luis Perez Romero (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 26 pts 2 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 13 3 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 12 4 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 10 5 René Joergensen (Den) Team Barloworld-Valsir 9 6 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 8 7 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 5 8 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 5 9 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4 10 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3 11 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 2 12 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2 13 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Spiuk 1 14 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 15 Michele Scotto (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1 Combination classification 1 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 23 pts 2 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 29 3 René Joergensen (Den) Team Barloworld-Valsir 38 4 Luis Perez Romero (Spa) Relax Fuenlabrada 68 Teams classification 1 Fassa Bortolo 13.07.30 2 Relax Fuenlabrada 3 Saunier Duval - Prodir 4 Lampre - Caffita 5 Discovery Chanel Pro Cycling 6 Euskaltel - Euskadi 7 Phonak Hearing Systems 8 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 9 Illes Balears - Caisse D'Epagne 10 Team Barloworld - Valsir 11 Comunidad Valenciana 12 Kaiku 13 Spiuk
