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85th Volta a Catalunya - PT
Spain, May 16-22, 2005
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Stage 1 - May 16: Salou-Salou TTT, 19.2 km
Phonak take team honours on day 1
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The Phonak team has won the opening stage of the 85th Volta a Catalunya, a 20.1 km team time trial in Salou. Averaging an impressive 53.05 km/h over the slightly undulating course, Phonak beat home Discovery Channel by seven seconds, with the Jan Ullrich-led T-Mobile team taking third at 15 seconds. Spaniard Miguel Angel Martin Perdiguero was first across the line of the Phonak team, and thus claimed the first green and white striped leader's jersey.
Perdiguero is the defending champion in this race, and was quoted by Reuters as saying, "It was the other guys in the team that decided during the stage that I should be leader. I don't rule out repeating last year's win. But my teammates Santiago Botero and Floyd Landis have a much better chance because they are stronger than me on the climbs and there is a tough mountain time trial on Friday."
While the rest of the squad is tearing up the roads in the Giro d'Italia, the CSC team had a quiet opener in Catalunya, finishing 20th at 54 seconds. "We didn't think of getting a big result in this time trial here today," team director Scott Sunderland told Cyclingnews after the stage. "The team only brought seven riders to this race. We can't be good everywhere all year round, and some of our riders also need the occasional rest. So it's kind of a mixed line up we have down here. Two of them, Sastre (broken elbow) and Piil (back problems) are coming back from injury and the others, like Lars Michaelsen, Thomas Bruun and Allan Johansen have done all the spring classics and had a well-deserved break.
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"This is an ideal race to get back into the swing of things. There was a this great holiday atmosphere around us at the start of the stage in Salou. Our team will be staying in the beautiful coastal city of Port Cambrils for three nights, before this Vuelta takes the peloton to Andorra. I feel that the boys are keen to get some good work done, a lot of kilometres. The stages are nice and hopefully we'll keep having this good weather. This could make for an enjoyable week of racing in Spain. We'll try to win a stage, and I've given Manuel Calvente a free role so he can ride for his chances."
Photography
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- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) warms up for the TTT
- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) leads the T-Mobile team
- Cofidis riding hard during the TTT
- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) practices his disco moves
- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) happy to be back racing again
- Phonak was the winning team in the TTT
- Miguel A. M. Perdiguero (Phonak) took the first leader's jersey
Results
1 Miguel A.M. Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 21.43 (53.047 km/h) 2 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 5 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 7 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.03 8 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Discovery Channel 0.07 9 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 10 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel 11 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 12 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel 13 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 0.15 14 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 15 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 16 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 17 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 18 Francisco José Lara (Spa) T-Mobile Team 19 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 20 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 21 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Casse d'Epargne 0.16 22 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Illes Balears-Casse d'Epargne 23 Aitor Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Casse d'Epargne 24 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Casse d'Epargne 25 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Illes Balears-Casse d'Epargne 26 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Casse d'Epargne 27 Jonathan Gonzalez (Spa) Illes Balears-Casse d'Epargne 28 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) Illes Balears-Casse d'Epargne 29 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 0.17 30 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 31 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis 32 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 33 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 34 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis 35 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.18 36 Nicola Loda (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 37 Marco Righetto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 38 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 39 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 40 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 41 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.19 42 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 43 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 44 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 45 René Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 46 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 47 Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.22 48 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.23 49 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Credit Agricole 50 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 51 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 52 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 53 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 0.25 54 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 55 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Domina Vacanze 56 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 57 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 58 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.27 59 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 60 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 61 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 62 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 63 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank 64 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 65 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Rabobank 66 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 0.29 67 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 68 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 69 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 70 Koen De Kort (Ned) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 71 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 72 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 73 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 0.30 74 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.32 75 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 76 Maryan Hary (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 77 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 78 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 79 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 80 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 81 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 82 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 83 Julian Sanchez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 84 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 85 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 86 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 87 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 88 Alessandr Spezialetti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 0.35 89 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 90 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 91 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 92 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 93 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Lampre-Caffita 94 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 95 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 96 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.36 97 Manuel Lloret (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 0.38 98 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 99 David Latasa (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 100 David Blanco (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 101 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 102 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 103 Juan Gomis (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 104 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quickstep 0.44 105 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Quickstep 106 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep 107 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep 108 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Quickstep 109 Marc Lotz (Ned) Quickstep 110 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quickstep 111 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 0.46 112 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 113 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 114 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 115 Moises Duenas (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 116 Jose Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 117 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.47 118 Aketza Peña (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 119 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 120 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 121 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 122 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 123 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.52 124 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 125 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Kaiku 126 Fernando Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 127 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Kaiku 128 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Kaiku 129 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.53 130 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 131 Thomas Bruun Eriksen (Den) Team CSC 0.54 132 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 133 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 134 Jakob Piil (Den) Team CSC 135 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team CSC 136 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 137 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 0.55 138 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 139 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 140 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 141 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 142 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.56 143 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 144 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 145 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 146 Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 147 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 148 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 149 Sebastien Portal (Fra) Credit Agricole 150 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 0.59 151 Bart Dockx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1.07 152 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 153 Frederic Finot (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 1.21 154 Mickael Delage (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 155 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 156 Francis Mourey (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 157 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Francaise Des Jeux 158 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 159 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 160 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 161 Oscar Mason (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.30 162 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1.41 163 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 1.44 164 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.45 165 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis 1.50 166 Enrico Grigoli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 2.07 167 Israel Nunez (Spa) Kaiku 168 José A. Lopez (Spa) Kaiku 169 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 170 Angel Edo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.13 171 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Discovery Channel 2.30 172 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.35 173 Agustin Alonso (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3.16 174 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.17 175 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 3.48 176 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel 4.11 177 Ivan Santos (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 4.14 178 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Fassa Bortolo 4.54 179 Luis Perez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 6.09 Teams 1 Phonak Hearing Systems 1.05.09 2 Discovery Channel 0.21 3 T-Mobile Team 0.45 4 Illes Balears-Casse d'Epargne 0.48 5 Cofidis 0.51 6 Liquigas-Bianchi 0.54 7 Gerolsteiner 0.57 8 Credit Agricole 1.09 9 Domina Vacanze 1.15 10 Rabobank 1.21 11 Liberty Seguros-Wurth 1.27 12 Bouygues Telecom 1.36 13 Fassa Bortolo 14 Lampre-Caffita 1.45 15 Comunidad Valenciana 1.54 16 Quickstep 2.12 17 Relax-Fuenlabrada 2.18 18 Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.21 19 Kaiku 2.36 20 Team CSC 2.42 21 Davitamon-Lotto 2.45 22 Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.48 23 Francaise Des Jeux 4.03
