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42nd Tour de l'Avenir - 2.1France, September 1-10, 2005Main Page Results Overall standings Next Stage Stage 1 - September 1: Argentré-du-Plessis - Argentré-du-Plessis, 141 kmBak in businessBy Jean-François Quénet in Argentré-du-Plessis Danish national champion Lars Ytting Bak of CSC has won the opening stage of the Tour de l'Avenir in Argentré-du-Plessis, the same place in Brittany where David Millar won the inaugural time trial of the 'little Tour de France' for Under 26 back in 1998. The former Cofidis rider has been reported to be in training in Italy recently. He's banned until June next year, but it's unsure yet whether the new 4 year ban rule from Pro Tour teams will apply for him or not. Team CSC's ambitions for this Tour de l'Avenir are clear from the beginning. "We are the favourites and we hope to confirm that," said the young hope Andy Schleck, who is a potential GC contender as well as Bak and Brian Vandborg. In the first breakaway of the day, CSC outnumbered the other teams with Matti Breschel and Christian Müller alongside Cyrille Monnerais (Française des Jeux), Aaron Kemps (Liberty Seguros), Marc de Maar (Rabobank), Stuart Gillespie (TIAA-CREF), Romain Feuillu (Agritubel), Matej Marin (Perutnina Ptuj) and Tom Stubbe (Chocolates Jacques). They stayed away until the 7th of the 12 laps of the stage. Only Breschel avoided the come back of the peloton and he persisted with Christophe Riblon (Ag2r), Alexander Gottfried (Germany) and Maarten Wijnands (Chocolates Jacques). They also got caught, then Schleck and Sébastien Duret (Bretagne-Jean Floc'h) took off, before being joined by Bak, Denis Kostyuk (Jartazi) and Jesus Del Nero (Orbea). "It was a fast race, stage winner Bak commented. There wasn't anybody to control but our team CSC spent the whole day in the front and it paid off. Last year I finished in the top 20 of the Tour de l'Avenir and I'm fitter this year, I'm not so heavy anymore and the course isn't that hard. In the early stages, it's flat but windy. I'm happy with the yellow jersey now. I'll try to keep it as long as I can, but with teams of six riders, it's difficult to control. A group can go, it's all over, and c'est la vie..." The 22km time trial scheduled on Monday should be the turning point of the race. "I may be able to finish top 10," Bak reckoned considering his improvement against the clock. He did three time trials this year: 5th in the Ster Elektrotoer, 6th in the Tour of Denmark, 3rd the Danish championship. "The Tour de l'Avenir is a very unpredictable race," he added. "There are some amateurs racing. With them, you never know. Last year there were Kazakhs, one of them (Maxim Iglinskiy) had the yellow jersey for a while and became a good pro this year. You must have your eyes open every day." For sure CSC's directeur sportif Scott Sunderland will not let any of his young guns sleep during the coming stages.
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Images by Jean-Francois Quenet
Results1 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 3.04.45 2 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Jartazi Granville Team 3 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Orbea 4 Sebastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 5 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.02 6 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Française Des Jeux 0.14 7 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Rabobank 8 Tyler Farrar (USA) USA National Team 9 Vincent Cantero (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 10 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 Aldo Ino Ilesic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 12 Xabat Ochotorena (Spa) Orbea 13 Leonardo Duque (Col) Jartazi Granville Team 14 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 15 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 16 Roy Hegreberg (Nor) Norwegian National Team 17 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) French National Team 18 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 19 Robby Meul (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 20 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 21 Sébastien Minard (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 22 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole 23 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 24 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 25 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 26 John Murphy (USA) USA National Team 27 Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 28 Gregor Gazvoda (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 29 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Française Des Jeux 30 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 31 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 32 Gustavo Dominguez (Spa) Orbea 33 Philip Deignan (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance 34 Kasper Larsen (Den) Team CSC 35 Sven Renders (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 36 Havard Nybo (Nor) Norwegian National Team 37 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 38 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 39 Koen De Kort (Ned) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 40 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) German National Team 41 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 42 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 43 Vytautas Kaupas (Ltu) Jartazi Granville Team 44 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) French National Team 45 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 46 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 47 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) French National Team 48 Mathieu Heyboer (Ned) Rabobank 49 Nicolas Dulac (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 50 Julien Antomarchi (Fra) French National Team 51 Jean Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 52 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Credit Agricole 53 Antoine Dalibard (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 54 William Frischkorn (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 55 Julien Mazet (Fra) Auber 93 56 Ludovic Poilvet (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 57 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC 58 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 59 Arnaud Lesvenan (Fra) French National Team 60 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 61 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 62 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 63 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 64 Brent Bookwalters (USA) USA National Team 65 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 66 Aaron Villegas (Spa) Orbea 67 Romain Chollet (Fra) Agritubel 68 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole 69 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 70 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 71 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 72 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française Des Jeux 73 Alexander Gottfried (Ger) German National Team 74 Hubert Dupont (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 75 Ben Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 76 Timothy Duggan (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 77 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 78 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française Des Jeux 79 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 80 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank 81 Matej Marin (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 82 Emilien-Benoît Berges (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 83 Niels Brouzes (Fra) Auber 93 84 Matija Kvasina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 85 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 86 Tomislav Danculovic (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 87 Saul Raisin (USA) Credit Agricole 88 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 89 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 90 Stuart Gillespie (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 91 Ian Macgregor (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 92 Austin King (USA) USA National Team 93 Dailos Diaz Armas (Spa) Orbea 94 Craig Lewis (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 95 Joseba Zumeta (Spa) Orbea 96 Svew-Erik Vold (Nor) Norwegian National Team 97 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 98 Lars-Peter Nordhaug (Nor) Norwegian National Team 99 Dan Bowman (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 100 Christopher Myhre (Nor) Norwegian National Team 101 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 102 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 103 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 104 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) R.A.G.T. Semences 105 Eric Berthou (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 106 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 107 Lucas Euser (USA) USA National Team 108 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 109 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Jartazi Granville Team 110 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 111 Steve Cummings (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 112 Patrick Mccarty (USA) USA National Team 113 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 114 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance 115 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 116 Paul Martens (Ger) German National Team 117 Carlo Westphal (Ger) German National Team 118 Tony Martin (Ger) German National Team 119 Frederik Wilmann (Nor) Norwegian National Team 120 Borut Bozic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 121 Christophe Riblon (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 122 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 123 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank 124 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4.08 125 Jose Antonio Redondo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 126 Eladio Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 127 Jurgen Van Loocke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 9.20 128 Julien Loubet (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 12.57 129 Jean Mespoulede (Fra) French National Team 0.14 130 William Bonnet (Fra) Auber 93 DNF Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 DNF Tristan Valentin (Fra) Auber 93 Points 1 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 30 pts 2 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Jartazi Granville Team 27 3 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Orbea 25 4 Sebastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 23 5 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 21 6 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Française Des Jeux 19 7 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Rabobank 17 8 Tyler Farrar (USA) USA National Team 15 9 Vincent Cantero (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 13 10 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 11 Aldo Ino Ilesic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 10 12 Xabat Ochotorena (Spa) Orbea 9 13 Leonardo Duque (Col) Jartazi Granville Team 8 14 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 7 15 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 6 Sprints Argentre-Du-Plessis (lap 3) - km 35.5 Points 1 Matej Marin (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 3 pts 2 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 2 3 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 1 Argentre-Du-Plessis (lap 6) - km 70.5 Points 1 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 3 pts 2 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 2 3 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 1 Argentre-Du-Plessis (lap 9) - km 106 Points 1 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 3 pts 2 Christophe Riblon (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 2 3 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 1 Teams 1 Team CSC 9.14.31 2 Jartazi Revor 0.12 3 Orbea 4 Bretagne - Jean Floc'h 5 Cycling Team Capec 0.26 6 Francaise Des Jeux 7 USA National Team 8 Credit Agricole 9 Chocolade Jacques - T Interim 10 French National Team 11 Bouygues Telecom 12 Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 13 Perutnina Ptuj 14 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 15 Rabobank 16 German National Team 18 R.A.G.T. Semences 19 Norwegian National Team 20 Agritubel 21 Team TIAA-Cref 22 Auber 93 General classification after stage 1 1 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 3.04.35 2 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Jartazi Granville Team 0.04 3 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Orbea 0.06 4 Sebastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 0.10 5 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.12 6 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 0.18 7 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 0.21 8 Matej Marin (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 9 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 0.22 10 Christophe Riblon (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 11 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 0.23 12 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 13 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Française Des Jeux 0.24 14 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Rabobank 15 Tyler Farrar (USA) USA National Team 16 Vincent Cantero (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 17 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18 Aldo Ino Ilesic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 19 Xabat Ochotorena (Spa) Orbea 20 Leonardo Duque (Col) Jartazi Granville Team 21 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 22 Roy Hegreberg (Nor) Norwegian National Team 23 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) French National Team 24 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 25 Robby Meul (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 26 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 27 Sébastien Minard (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 28 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole 29 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 30 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 31 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 32 John Murphy (USA) USA National Team 33 Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 34 Gregor Gazvoda (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 35 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Française Des Jeux 36 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 37 Gustavo Dominguez (Spa) Orbea 38 Philip Deignan (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance 39 Kasper Larsen (Den) Team CSC 40 Sven Renders (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 41 Havard Nybo (Nor) Norwegian National Team 42 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 43 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 44 Koen De Kort (Ned) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 45 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) German National Team 46 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 47 Vytautas Kaupas (Ltu) Jartazi Granville Team 48 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) French National Team 49 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 50 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 51 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) French National Team 52 Mathieu Heyboer (Ned) Rabobank 53 Nicolas Dulac (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 54 Julien Antomarchi (Fra) French National Team 55 Jean Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 56 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Credit Agricole 57 Antoine Dalibard (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 58 William Frischkorn (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 59 Julien Mazet (Fra) Auber 93 60 Ludovic Poilvet (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 61 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC 62 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 63 Arnaud Lesvenan (Fra) French National Team 64 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 65 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 66 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 67 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 68 Brent Bookwalters (USA) USA National Team 69 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 70 Aaron Villegas (Spa) Orbea 71 Romain Chollet (Fra) Agritubel 72 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole 73 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 74 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 75 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française Des Jeux 76 Alexander Gottfried (Ger) German National Team 77 Hubert Dupont (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 78 Ben Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 79 Timothy Duggan (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 80 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 81 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française Des Jeux 82 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 83 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank 84 Emilien-Benoît Berges (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 85 Niels Brouzes (Fra) Auber 93 86 Matija Kvasina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 87 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 88 Tomislav Danculovic (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 89 Saul Raisin (USA) Credit Agricole 90 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 91 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 92 Stuart Gillespie (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 93 Ian Macgregor (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 94 Austin King (USA) USA National Team 95 Dailos Diaz Armas (Spa) Orbea 96 Craig Lewis (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 97 Joseba Zumeta (Spa) Orbea 98 Svew-Erik Vold (Nor) Norwegian National Team 99 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 100 Lars-Peter Nordhaug (Nor) Norwegian National Team 101 Dan Bowman (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 102 Christopher Myhre (Nor) Norwegian National Team 103 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 104 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 105 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) R.A.G.T. Semences 106 Eric Berthou (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 107 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 108 Lucas Euser (USA) USA National Team 109 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 110 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Jartazi Granville Team 111 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 112 Steve Cummings (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 113 Patrick Mccarty (USA) USA National Team 114 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 115 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance 116 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 117 Paul Martens (Ger) German National Team 118 Carlo Westphal (Ger) German National Team 119 Tony Martin (Ger) German National Team 120 Frederik Wilmann (Nor) Norwegian National Team 121 Borut Bozic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 122 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 123 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank 124 Jean Mespoulede (Fra) French National Team 125 William Bonnet (Fra) Auber 93 126 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4.18 127 Jose Antonio Redondo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 128 Eladio Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 129 Jurgen Van Loocke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 9.30 130 Julien Loubet (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 13.07 Points classification 1 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 30 pts 2 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Jartazi Granville Team 27 3 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Orbea 25 4 Sebastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 23 5 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 21 6 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Française Des Jeux 19 7 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Rabobank 17 8 Tyler Farrar (USA) USA National Team 15 9 Vincent Cantero (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 13 10 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 11 Aldo Ino Ilesic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 10 12 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 10 13 Xabat Ochotorena (Spa) Orbea 9 14 Leonardo Duque (Col) Jartazi Granville Team 8 15 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 6 16 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 6 17 Matej Marin (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 3 18 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 2 19 Christophe Riblon (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 2 20 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 1 21 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 1 Teams classification 1 Team CSC 9.14.31 2 Jartazi Revor 0.12 3 Orbea 4 Bretagne - Jean Floc'h 5 Cycling Team Capec 0.26 6 Francaise Des Jeux 7 USA National Team 8 Credit Agricole 9 Chocolade Jacques - T Interim 10 French National Team 11 Bouygues Telecom 12 Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 13 Perutnina Ptuj 14 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 15 Rabobank 16 German National Team 18 R.A.G.T. Semences 19 Norwegian National Team 20 Agritubel 21 Team TIAA-Cref 22 Auber 93 |
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