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51st Four Days of Dunkirk - 2.HC
France, May 4-8, 2005
2004 results Stage List Preview Start List Past winners
The Stages
- Stage 1 - May 4: Dunkirk - Marcq-en-Baroeul, 153,7 km
- Stage 2 - May 5: Marcq-en-Baroeul - Lens, 204,1 km
- Stage 3 - May 6: Liévin - Sangatte Cap Blanc Nez, 193,6 km
- Stage 4 - May 7: Boulogne sur Mer - Boulogne sur Mer, 173,4 km
- Stage 5 - May 8: Bourbourg - Dunkirk, 165,5 km
No TT in Four Days of Dunkirk
The 51st edition of the Four Days of Dunkirk kicks off in Dunkirk on Wednesday with a 154 km stage to Marcq-en-Baroeul. The five day race will not feature a time trial this year, and instead will be decided in five standard road stages.
The first stage is a 154 km leg from Dunkirk to Marcq-en-Baroeul, which contains the climbs of Mont Cassel, Mont des Cats, and Mont Noir. Stage 2 is the longest, 204 km between Marcq-en-Baroeul and Lens, but over fairly flat terrain. Stage 3 from Liévin to Sangatte Cap Blanc Nez over 194 km features the only uphill finish, and should start to break up the field. Stage 4 is the hardest, and consists of six laps of a 23 km circuit plus an additional 30 km for a total of 173 km. The circuit contains four climbs per lap, and tends to slowly shred the field by day's end. The final stage is a fairly flat 165 km between Bourbourg and Dunkirk.
20 teams will start, including six ProTour teams: Davitamon-Lotto (Rodriguez, Van Bon), Bouygues Telecom (Voeckler), Cofidis (Casper), Crédit Agricole (Moreau, Hushovd), Française des Jeux (Gilbert), Team CSC (Breschel), as well as continental teams MrBookmaker-SportsTech (Hunt, Van Dijk, VDB), Landbouwkrediet-Colnago (De Waele), AG2R Prévoyance (JP Nazon), Agritubel (Brard), Chocolade Jacques-T-Interim (Eeckhout), Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil (Marzoli), Team Barloworld (Efimkin), Team Wiesenhof (Kopp), Ed'System-ZVVZ (Svorada), Navigators (Grichkine), Relax-Fuenlabrada (Florencio), Naturino-Sapore di Mare (Nauduzs) and Intel Action (Bodnar).
Start list
Bouygues Telecom Ag2r Prevoyance
1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) 11 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra)
2 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) 12 Sylvain Calzati (Fra)
3 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) 13 Cyril Dessel (Fra)
4 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) 14 Andy Flickinger (Fra)
5 Anthony Geslin (Fra) 15 Stéphane Goubert (Fra)
6 Frédéric Mainguenaud (Fra) 16 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr)
7 Alexandre Naulleau (Fra) 17 Ludovic Turpin (Fra)
8 Anthony Ravard (Fra) 18 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu)
Credit Agricole Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone
21 Christophe Moreau (Fra) 31 Jimmy Casper (Fra)
22 Cédric Herve (Fra) 32 Stéphane Auge (Fra)
23 Thor Hushovd (Nor) 33 Arnaud Coyot (Fra)
24 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) 34 Herv Duclos-Lassalle (Fra)
25 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) 35 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra)
26 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) 36 Peter Farazijn (Bel)
27 Damien Nazon (Fra) 37 Jans Koerts (Ned)
28 Saul Raisin (USA) 38 Janek Tombak (Est)
Landbouwkrediet-Colnago Française Des Jeux
41 Tony Bracke (Bel) 51 Ludovic Auger (Fra)
42 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) 52 Philippe Gilbert (Bel)
43 Bert De Waele (Bel) 53 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin)
44 Maxime Monfort (Bel) 54 Mickael Delage (Fra)
45 Jurgen Van Loocke (Bel) 55 Frédéric Finot (Fra)
46 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) 56 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra)
47 Geert Verheyen (Bel) 57 Christophe Mengin (Fra)
48 Nico Sijmens (Bel) 58 Fabien Sanchez (Fra)
Team CSC Davitamon-Lotto
61 Matti Breschel (Den) 71 Gert Steegmans (Bel)
62 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) 72 Wim De Vocht (Bel)
63 Thomas Bruun Eriksen (Den) 73 Bart Dockx (Bel)
64 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) 74 Koos Moerenhout (Ned)
65 Christian Müller (Ger) 75 Bert Roesems (Bel)
66 Manuel Calvente (Spa) 76 Fred Rodriguez (USA)
67 Andy Schleck (Lux) 77 Leon Van Bon (Ned)
78 Preben Van Hecke (Bel)
Chocolade Jacques-T Interim Navigators Insurance Cycling Team
81 Koen Barbe (Bel) 91 Siro Camponogara (Ita)
82 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) 92 Hilton Clarke (Aus)
83 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) 93 Cesar Grajales (Col)
84 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) 94 Oleg Grichkine (Rus)
85 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) 95 Kirk O'bee (USA)
86 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) 96 Shawn Milne (USA)
87 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) 97 Ciaran Power (Irl)
88 Wesle Van Speybroeck (Bel) 98 Mark Walters (Can)
R.A.G.T. Semences Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech
101 Guillaume Auger (Fra) 111 Angel Castresana (Spa)
102 Eric Berthou (Fra) 112 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned)
103 Renaud Dion (Fra) 113 Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel)
104 Christophe Rinero (Fra) 114 Laurent Paumier (Fra)
105 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) 115 Camille Bouquet (Fra)
106 Benjamin Levecot (Fra) 116 Jeremy Hunt (GBr)
107 Roman Luhovyy (Ukr) 117 David Boucher (Fra)
108 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) 118 Johan Coenen (Bel)
Relax Fuenlabrada Agritubel
121 Javier Benitez (Spa) 131 Florent Brard (Fra)
122 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) 132 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra)
123 Xavier Florencio (Spa) 133 Lénaïc Olivier (Fra)
124 Raul Garcia (Spa) 134 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu)
125 Josep Jufre (Spa) 135 Christophe Laurent (Fra)
126 Jorge Garcia (Spa) 136 Linas Balciunas (Ltu)
127 Juan Lopez De La Torre (Spa) 137 Stéphane Berges (Fra)
128 Lubos Pelanek (Cze) 138 Benjamin Johnson (Aus)
Intel-Action Ed' System-Zvvz
141 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) 151 Jan Svorada (Cze)
142 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) 152 Petr Bencik (Cze)
143 Marcin Lewandowski (Pol) 153 Roman Bronis (Svk)
144 Marcin Osinski (Pol) 154 David Kupka (Cze)
145 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) 155 Milan Kadlec (Cze)
146 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) 156 Michal Precechtel (Cze)
147 Adam Wadecki (Pol) 157 Jan Valach (Svk)
158 Pavel Zerzan (Cze)
Team Wiesenhof Team Barloworld-Valsir
161 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) 171 Enrico Degano (Ita)
162 David Kopp (Ger) 172 Luca Celli (Ita)
163 Roberto Lochowski (Ger) 173 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus)
164 Martin Müller (Ger) 174 Stefan Adamsson (Swe)
165 René Obst (Ger) 175 Paol Longo Borghini (Ita)
166 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) 176 Jeremy Maartens (RSA)
167 Daniel Musiol (Ger) 177 Antonio Salomone (Ita)
168 Sebastian Siedler (Ger)
Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil Naturino-Sapore di Mare
181 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) 191 Luca Ascani (Ita)
182 Alessandro Donati (Ita)
183 Denis Bertolini (Ita) 193 Sergio Barbero (Ita)
184 Gabriele Balducci (Ita) 194 Gabriele Colombo (Ita)
185 Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) 195 Francesco Failli (Ita)
187 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) 196 Alessio Galletti (Ita)
188 Andrea Rossi (Ita) 197 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita)
198 Andris Nauduzs (Lat)
Past winners
2004 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 2003 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 2002 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 2001 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 2000 Martin Rittsel (Swe) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 1999 Michaël Sandstod (Den) Team Home-Jack & Jones 1998 Alexander Vinokourov (Kaz) Casino 1997 Johan Museeuw (Bel) 1996 Philippe Gaumont (Fra) 1995 Johan Musseuw (Bel) 1994 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) 1993 Laurent Desbiens (Fra) 1992 Olaf Ludwig (Ger) 1991 Charly Mottet (Fra) 1990 Stephen Roche (Irl) 1989 Charly Mottet (Fra) 1988 Pascal Poison (Fra) 1987 Herman Frison (Bel) 1986 Dirk De Wolf (Bel) 1985 Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke (Bel) 1984 Bernard Hinault (Fra) 1983 Leo Van Vliet (Ned) 1982 Frank Hoste (Bel) 1981 Bert Oosterbosch (Hol) 1980 Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke (Bel) 1979 Daniel Willems (Bel) 1978 Freddy Maertens (Bel) 1977 Gerrie Knetemann (Ned) 1976 Freddy Maertens (Bel) 1975 Freddy Maertens (Bel) 1974 Walter Godefroot (Bel) 1973 Freddy Maertens (Bel) 1972 Yves Hezard (Fra) 1971 Roger De Vlaeminck (Bel) 1970 Willy Van Neste (Bel) 1969 Alain Vasseur (Fra) 1968 Jean Jourdan (Fra) 1967 Lucien Aimar (Fra) 1966 Theo Martens (Bel) 1965 Gustave Desmet (Bel) 1964 Gustave Desmet (Bel) 1963 Joseph Planckaert (Bel) 1962 Joseph Groussard (Bel) 1961 Albertus Geldermans (Bel) 1960 Joseph Planckaert (Bel) 1959 Jacques Anquetil (Fra) 1958 Jacques Anquetil (Fra) 1957 Joseph Planckaert (Bel) 1956 Jean Adriansens (Bel) 1955 Louis Deprez (Fra) Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com
