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40th Tour de Bretagne Cycliste - 2.2
France, April 25-May 1, 2006
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Stage 7 - April 30: Pipriac - Fougeres, 155.5 km
Zen to the zenith, Devenyns close to the win
By Jean-François Quénet in Fougères
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In the 2.2 category of international cycling, many riders are aiming to move one step higher. They're not experienced enough to realize that they are actually producing a much better spectacle than the true professionals taking part in cat. 1 events. In the Tour de Bretagne, the fighting is permanent.
"And the field is much better than last year," Russell Downing explained after coming second in Fougères behind Jean Zen (VC Roubaix). "I attacked with 25km to go, with 22 to go, with 19 to go, the last time was with 2 to go. I eventually rode away but there was still one guy ahead."
That was Jean Zen, a 24 year-old tall rider (1.90m) who has hoped to turn pro for a few years now. "I'm 79kg," he said. "If I had known that the climb on the final circuit was so hard, maybe I wouldn't have even tried to break clear from the jump. I wanted to pull out during the stage because it started flat out again from the start and I was tired of not being able to do anything in that race."
Three years ago, he was forced to retire from the Ruban Granitier Breton – the former name of Tour de Bretagne – because of being sick after leading the overall classification.
Behind Zen's remarkable solo effort, there was an impressive fight for GC going on. Surprisingly, the two riders from Bretagne-Jean Floc'h who had taken place in the 21 man breakaway earlier on didn't take their turns. Had they done it, Stéphane Pétilleau and Cédric Hervé would have been in contention for the overall win against Jonathan Dayus (U Nantes-Atlantique), Jurgen Roelandts (Bodysol) and Sergeï Klimov (Tinkoff). It was a better opportunity than waiting for David Lelay to attack race leader Dries Devenyns on the final hill.
Devenyns was totally sure of what he was doing. While he watched Lelay and Pavel Brutt (Tinkoff) in particular, he let Downing and Peter Velits (Konica-Minolta) try their luck before catching them. This Velits is for sure to be remembered. The Slovakian winner of the Giro del Capo is only 21 and looks to have a bright future.
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There's only one stage to go for Devenyns, who is also a pro in the making. The finish in Dinan includes a 1.2km steep hill with 400 meters of cobblestone. It's extremely spectacular. Two years ago, South African Nic White of HSBC showed his superb class up there while Laurent Mangel, now with Ag2r, secured the final win against Jussi Veikkanen, now with Française des Jeux, and Simon Gerrans, who is now his teammate at Ag2r. The Tour de Bretagne has the reputation of bringing up new talents. Devenyns is already one of them.
How it unfolded
Despite the compact peloton being stopped for 35 seconds behind a train barrier, 47.7 kilometres were covered in the first hour, due to many attacks by the teams who haven't been very successful so far. After 60km, a group of 21 riders went away with Stéphane Pétilleau and Cédric Hervé (Bretagne-Jean Floc'h), Gianni Meersman (Beveren 2000), Jeroen Boelen and Alain van Katwijk (Procomm-Van Hemert), Kristoff De Zutter and Jurgen Roelandts (Bodysol), Jonathan Dayus (U Nantes-Atlantique), Romain Mary, Olivier Nari and Benoît Geoffroy (SCO Dijon), Médéric Clain (VC Roubaix), Julien Simon (Super Sport), Sergeï Klimov (Tinkoff), Nico Keinath (Team Aguti), Bradley Huff and Taylor Tolleson (TIAA-CREF), Pavel Subrt (Dukla Praha), John-Lee Augustyn (Konica-Minolta), Anthony Boyer and Nicolas Rousseau (UC Châteauroux).
In that group, the highest ranked riders were Dayus, Roelandts, Hervé, Pétilleau and Klimov. But the teams of St-Etienne, Côtes d'Armor and DFL chased hard. The gap didn't go further than 50 seconds. When the peloton almost caught the escapees, Nari stayed away by himself and saw Jean Zen (VC Roubaix) coming across. The duo got 2'30 lead and entered the final circuit in the front. Zen dropped Nari who couldn't resist the bunch. For second place, Russell Downing (DFL-Cyclingnews) arrived solo and race leader Dries Devenyns (Beveren 2000) controlled all of his opponents.
Photography
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Images by Jean-Francois Quenet
- Gianni Meersman of Beveren 2000 took part in a very interesting but unsuccessful breakaway
- New Zealander Pete Latham chats with Cyclingnews
- Bradley Huff of TIAA-CREF keeps chasing points for the sprint classification
- Dries Devenyns is the best young rider and also leads the points competition
- The leader's jersey presented by Jean-Yves Le Drian, the president of the cycling mad region of Bretagne
- Paul Brousse, Bradley Huff, Jean Zen and Dries Devenyns will never forget the warm welcome of the town of Fougères
- Dries Devenyns needs food after the effort
- Dries Devenyns and his directeur sportif Peter de Maere
Results
1 Jean Zen (Fra) VC Roubaix 3.36.06 2 Russel Downing (GBr) DFL-Cyclingnews 0.40 3 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 0.44 4 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Konica Minolta 5 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 6 Milan Kadlec (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 7 Cédric Drouet (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 8 Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 9 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 10 Cédric Herve (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 11 Julien Belgy (Fra) Vende U 12 Lucas Persson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 13 Christophe Diguet (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 14 Jonathan Dayus (GBr) Team U Nantes Atlantique 15 David Le Lay (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 16 Sylvain Cheval (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 17 Nico Keinath (Ger) Team Aguti 18 Stephen Greger (Ger) Team Aguti 19 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 20 Médéric Clain (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 21 Robin Sharman (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 22 Nikolay Trussov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 23 Arnaud Lesnevan (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 0.54 24 Anton Mindlin (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 25 Michael Stevensson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 26 Sergey Klimov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 27 Kristof De Zutter (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 28 Maarten Neyens (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 29 Michael Friedman (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 30 Guillaume Le Floch (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 31 Jérome Bonnace (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 32 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 33 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Konica Minolta 34 Nikolas Maes (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 35 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 36 Vadim Vdovinov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 37 Marcel Belma (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 38 Mikhail Ignatev (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 39 Stephan Lageler (Ger) Team Aguti 40 Kristian House (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 41 Gleen Poleunis (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 1.02 42 John Lee Augustyn (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 43 Marnus Potgieter (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 1.03 44 Brice Monnerais (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 1.05 45 Peter Stetina (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 46 Anthony Boyer (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 1.07 47 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 48 Robert Partridge (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 49 Jan Kunta (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 50 Cyrille Noel (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 51 Johannes Kachelhoffer (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 52 Jeroen Boelen (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 53 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 54 Grzegorz Kwiatkowski (Pol) V.C De Roubaix 55 Steven De Neef (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 1.13 56 Sébastien Duret (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 1.18 57 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Vende U 1.23 58 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 59 Fabrice Jandesboz (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 1.27 60 Pierre Bernard Vaillant (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 1.39 61 Olivier Nari (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 1.43 62 Christopher Newton (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 2.10 63 Dale Appleby (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 64 Tamo Raudsepp (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 65 Markku Ainsalu (Est) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne 66 Jean Marc Bideau (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 3.50 67 Florian Guillou (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 68 Petr Lazar (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 4.07 69 Timothée Lefrancois (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 4.22 70 Olivier Grammaire (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 71 Mickael Mourecek (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 72 Roy Curvers (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 73 Sven Van Den Houte (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 74 Taylor Tolleson (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 75 Tyler Butterfield (Ber) Vende U 76 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 77 Mario Ickx (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 5.21 78 Pete Latham (NZl) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 5.49 79 Jeremy Vennel (NZl) DFL-Cyclingnews 6.02 80 Jérôme Bouchet (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 6.05 81 Paul Brousse (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 82 Julien Simon (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 83 Alex Coutts (GBr) DFL-Cyclingnews 84 Matthieu Rompion (Fra) Vende U 85 Florent Roussy (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 86 Alexandre Bousseau (Fra) Vende U 87 Daniel Fleeman (Fra) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne 88 Alexis Merle (Fra) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne 89 Rolf Hobauer (Ger) Team Aguti 90 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Vende U 91 Nicolas Rousseau (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 92 Benoit Geoffroy (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 6.25 93 Julien Gonnet (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 6.38 94 Alexey Zaitsev (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 6.42 95 David Harrigan (Aus) DFL-Cyclingnews 6.57 96 Marcus Svensson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 97 Pavel Subrt (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 98 Martin Blaha (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 99 Bjorn Hoeben (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 7.17 100 Fabrice Billard (Fra) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne 7.26 101 Tony Goossens (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 7.53 102 Maxime Vantomme (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 103 David Burgy (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 8.59 104 Jérémie Derangere (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 9.00 105 Kane Oakley (Aus) DFL-Cyclingnews 10.01 106 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 107 Peter Lundblad (Swe) Team Malarenergi 108 François Parisien (Can) Team TIAA-CREF 109 Christoph Kindle (Ger) Team Aguti 110 Jos Pronk (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 111 Charles Bradley Huff (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 112 Mike Creed (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 113 Romain Mary (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 114 Viktor Folkesson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 20.30 115 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 25.46 116 Xavier Laureau (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique DNF Charles Guilbert (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch DNF Andreyi Pchelkin (Rus) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne DNF Gaylord Cumont (Fra) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne DNF David Deroo (Fra) V.C De Roubaix General classification after stage 7 1 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 20.36.57 2 David Le Lay (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 0.32 3 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 0.36 4 Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 0.54 5 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Konica Minolta 0.57 6 Russel Downing (GBr) DFL-Cyclingnews 1.19 7 Jonathan Dayus (GBr) Team U Nantes Atlantique 1.29 8 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 1.31 9 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 1.33 10 Nikolay Trussov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 1.38 11 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 1.56 12 Cédric Herve (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 2.05 13 Julien Belgy (Fra) Vende U 2.12 14 Sergey Klimov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 2.14 15 Maarten Neyens (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 2.25 16 Mikhail Ignatev (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 2.31 17 Christophe Diguet (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 2.36 18 Milan Kadlec (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 2.39 19 Stephen Greger (Ger) Team Aguti 2.40 20 Médéric Clain (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 2.44 21 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Konica Minolta 2.47 22 Kristof De Zutter (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 2.50 23 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 2.52 24 Cédric Drouet (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 2.57 25 Guillaume Le Floch (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 26 Nico Keinath (Ger) Team Aguti 2.59 27 Kristian House (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 3.05 28 Lucas Persson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 29 Nikolas Maes (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 3.06 30 Gleen Poleunis (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 3.12 31 John Lee Augustyn (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 3.25 32 Michael Stevensson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 33 Jan Kunta (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 3.26 34 Anton Mindlin (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 3.27 35 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 3.30 36 Brice Monnerais (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 37 Robin Sharman (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 3.33 38 Robert Partridge (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 3.34 39 Jeroen Boelen (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 3.36 40 Sylvain Cheval (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 3.38 41 Sébastien Duret (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 4.00 42 Peter Stetina (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 43 Johannes Kachelhoffer (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 4.01 44 Jean Zen (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 4.06 45 Stephan Lageler (Ger) Team Aguti 46 Grzegorz Kwiatkowski (Pol) V.C De Roubaix 4.08 47 Anthony Boyer (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 4.13 48 Marnus Potgieter (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 4.20 49 Marcel Belma (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 4.23 50 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 4.25 51 Jérome Bonnace (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 4.31 52 Cyrille Noel (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 4.42 53 Arnaud Lesnevan (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 4.57 54 Olivier Nari (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 5.00 55 Tamo Raudsepp (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 5.04 56 Fabrice Jandesboz (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 5.15 57 Pierre Bernard Vaillant (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 5.21 58 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 5.24 59 Steven De Neef (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 6.07 60 Michael Friedman (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 6.08 61 Taylor Tolleson (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 6.29 62 Petr Lazar (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 6.49 63 Mario Ickx (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 7.17 64 Mickael Mourecek (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 7.19 65 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 7.33 66 Dale Appleby (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 67 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Vende U 7.44 68 Vadim Vdovinov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 7.48 69 Sven Van Den Houte (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 7.51 70 Olivier Grammaire (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 8.00 71 Christopher Newton (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 8.11 72 Markku Ainsalu (Est) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne 73 Tyler Butterfield (Ber) Vende U 8.12 74 Florian Guillou (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 8.16 75 Pete Latham (NZl) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 76 Timothée Lefrancois (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 8.22 77 Jean Marc Bideau (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 8.33 78 Alexis Merle (Fra) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne 8.39 79 Florent Roussy (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 8.45 80 Julien Simon (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 8.48 81 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Vende U 8.50 82 Roy Curvers (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 8.56 83 Matthieu Rompion (Fra) Vende U 9.13 84 Benoit Geoffroy (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 9.37 85 Nicolas Rousseau (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 9.45 86 Maxime Vantomme (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 9.53 87 Jérémie Derangere (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 9.59 88 Alexey Zaitsev (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 10.13 89 Rolf Hobauer (Ger) Team Aguti 10.14 90 Jeremy Vennel (NZl) DFL-Cyclingnews 10.16 91 Julien Gonnet (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 10.17 92 Alex Coutts (GBr) DFL-Cyclingnews 10.18 93 Paul Brousse (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 10.29 94 Martin Blaha (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 10.33 95 Daniel Fleeman (Fra) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne 11.19 96 Fabrice Billard (Fra) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne 12.15 97 Jérôme Bouchet (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 12.19 98 Mike Creed (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 12.48 99 Alexandre Bousseau (Fra) Vende U 12.53 100 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 13.21 101 Jos Pronk (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 13.42 102 Christoph Kindle (Ger) Team Aguti 13.45 103 Romain Mary (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 14.36 104 David Burgy (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 15.26 105 Pavel Subrt (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 15.37 106 François Parisien (Can) Team TIAA-CREF 15.51 107 David Harrigan (Aus) DFL-Cyclingnews 16.40 108 Charles Bradley Huff (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 17.09 109 Marcus Svensson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 17.23 110 Kane Oakley (Aus) DFL-Cyclingnews 18.38 111 Tony Goossens (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 21.36 112 Bjorn Hoeben (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 21.50 113 Viktor Folkesson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 22.19 114 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 29.45 115 Peter Lundblad (Swe) Team Malarenergi 35.05 116 Xavier Laureau (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 50.18 Points classification 1 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 73 pts 2 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 72 3 Russel Downing (GBr) DFL-Cyclingnews 59 4 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Konica Minolta 58 5 Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 49 6 David Le Lay (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 47 7 Cédric Herve (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 46 8 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 43 9 Nikolay Trussov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 29 10 Jean Zen (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 28 11 Médéric Clain (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 27 12 Maxime Vantomme (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 27 13 Charles Bradley Huff (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 26 14 Kristof De Zutter (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 26 15 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 26 16 Cédric Drouet (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 26 17 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 26 18 Kristian House (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 25 19 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 22 20 Mikhail Ignatev (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 21 21 Viktor Folkesson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 17 22 Milan Kadlec (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 15 23 Jérémie Derangere (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 15 24 Fabrice Jandesboz (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 14 25 Julien Belgy (Fra) Vende U 13 26 Romain Mary (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 13 27 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 12 28 Christophe Diguet (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 12 29 Sylvain Cheval (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 12 30 Jonathan Dayus (GBr) Team U Nantes Atlantique 11 31 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 10 32 Julien Simon (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 8 33 Marcel Belma (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 7 34 Robert Partridge (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 6 35 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Vende U 6 36 Olivier Nari (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 5 37 Michael Friedman (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 5 38 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 5 39 Lucas Persson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 4 40 Cyrille Noel (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 4 41 Christoph Kindle (Ger) Team Aguti 4 42 Nikolas Maes (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 3 43 Anton Mindlin (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 3 44 Peter Stetina (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 3 45 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 3 46 Benoit Geoffroy (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 3 47 Julien Gonnet (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 3 48 Daniel Fleeman (Fra) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne 3 49 Bjorn Hoeben (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 3 50 Sergey Klimov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 2 51 Maarten Neyens (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 2 52 Anthony Boyer (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 2 53 Olivier Grammaire (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 2 54 Pete Latham (NZl) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 2 55 Alexandre Bousseau (Fra) Vende U 2 Mountains classification 1 Paul Brousse (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 52 pts 2 Maarten Neyens (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 48 3 Olivier Grammaire (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 27 4 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 22 5 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 22 6 Olivier Nari (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 18 7 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 17 8 Benoit Geoffroy (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 14 9 Michael Friedman (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 12 10 Bjorn Hoeben (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 11 11 Jean Zen (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 10 12 Médéric Clain (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 10 13 Julien Gonnet (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 9 14 Fabrice Jandesboz (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 8 15 Kristof De Zutter (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 6 16 Cédric Herve (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 6 17 Milan Kadlec (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 6 18 Arnaud Lesnevan (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 6 19 Daniel Fleeman (Fra) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne 6 20 Mikhail Ignatev (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 5 21 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Vende U 5 22 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 4 23 Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 4 24 Markku Ainsalu (Est) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne 4 25 Florent Roussy (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 4 26 Jonathan Dayus (GBr) Team U Nantes Atlantique 3 27 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 2 28 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 2 29 Peter Stetina (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 2 30 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 2 31 Sven Van Den Houte (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 2 32 Sylvain Cheval (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 1 33 Marcel Belma (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 1 34 Tamo Raudsepp (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 1 35 Nicolas Rousseau (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 1 36 Romain Mary (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 1 Most combative classification 1 Charles Bradley Huff (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 26 pts 2 Romain Mary (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 11 3 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 10 4 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 8 5 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Vende U 6 6 Olivier Nari (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 5 7 Kristof De Zutter (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 5 8 Mikhail Ignatev (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 5 9 Michael Friedman (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 5 10 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 5 11 Milan Kadlec (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 5 12 Jean Zen (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 3 13 Benoit Geoffroy (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 3 14 Peter Stetina (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 3 15 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 3 16 Julien Gonnet (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 3 17 Cédric Herve (Fra) G.S Bretagne Jean Floch 3 18 Bjorn Hoeben (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 3 19 Anthony Boyer (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 2 20 Alexandre Bousseau (Fra) Vende U 2 21 Olivier Grammaire (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 2 22 Jonathan Dayus (GBr) Team U Nantes Atlantique 1 23 Médéric Clain (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 1 24 Nikolay Trussov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 1 25 Maarten Neyens (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 1 26 Maxime Vantomme (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 1 27 Cédric Drouet (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 1 Young rider classification 1 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 20.36.57 2 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Konica Minolta 0.57 3 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 1.31 4 Nikolay Trussov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 1.38 5 Julien Belgy (Fra) Vende U 2.12 6 Maarten Neyens (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 2.25 7 Mikhail Ignatev (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 2.31 8 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Konica Minolta 2.47 9 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 2.52 10 Guillaume Le Floch (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 2.57 11 Nico Keinath (Ger) Team Aguti 2.59 12 Lucas Persson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 3.05 13 Nikolas Maes (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 3.06 14 Gleen Poleunis (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 3.12 15 John Lee Augustyn (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 3.25 16 Michael Stevensson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 17 Jan Kunta (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 3.26 18 Anton Mindlin (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 3.27 19 Brice Monnerais (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 3.30 20 Robert Partridge (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 3.34 21 Sylvain Cheval (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 3.38 22 Peter Stetina (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 4.00 23 Johannes Kachelhoffer (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 4.01 24 Stephan Lageler (Ger) Team Aguti 4.06 25 Anthony Boyer (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 4.13 26 Marnus Potgieter (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 4.20 27 Marcel Belma (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 4.23 28 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 4.25 29 Fabrice Jandesboz (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 5.15 30 Pierre Bernard Vaillant (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 5.21 31 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 5.24 32 Taylor Tolleson (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 6.29 33 Mario Ickx (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 7.17 34 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 7.33 35 Dale Appleby (GBr) Recycling.Co.Uk 36 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Vende U 7.44 37 Vadim Vdovinov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 7.48 38 Sven Van Den Houte (Bel) Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaanderen 7.51 39 Tyler Butterfield (Ber) Vende U 8.12 40 Pete Latham (NZl) Cotes D’Armor Cyclisme Maître Jacques 8.16 41 Jean Marc Bideau (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 8.33 42 Alexis Merle (Fra) Espoir Cycliste Saint Etienne 8.39 43 Florent Roussy (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 8.45 44 Julien Simon (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 8.48 45 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Vende U 8.50 46 Matthieu Rompion (Fra) Vende U 9.13 47 Nicolas Rousseau (Fra) U.C Chateauroux 9.45 48 Maxime Vantomme (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000 – Quick Step 9.53 49 Alexey Zaitsev (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 10.13 50 Rolf Hobauer (Ger) Team Aguti 10.14 51 Alex Coutts (GBr) DFL-Cyclingnews 10.18 52 Paul Brousse (Fra) V.C De Roubaix 10.29 53 Alexandre Bousseau (Fra) Vende U 12.53 54 Jos Pronk (Ned) Procomm -Van Hemert 13.42 55 Christoph Kindle (Ger) Team Aguti 13.45 56 David Burgy (Fra) S.C.O Dijon Team Lapierre 15.26 57 Pavel Subrt (Cze) A.S.C Dukla Praha 15.37 58 Marcus Svensson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 17.23 59 Viktor Folkesson (Swe) Team Malarenergi 22.19 60 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Super Sport 35 Acnc 29.45 61 Xavier Laureau (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 50.18 Teams classification 1 Tinkoff Restaurants 61.54.20 2 Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 1.00 3 Wielergroep Beveren 2000 2.03 4 Bodysol-Win For Life-Jong Vlaaderen 3.15 5 Team Konica Minolta 3.46 6 U.C. Nantes Atlantique 4.06 7 Team Aguti 5.09 8 Recycling.co.uk 5.16 9 U.C. Chateauroux 5.29 10 Cycling Team Capec 5.38 11 V.C. Roubaix Lille Metropole 6.05 12 Cotes D'armor Cyclisme 7.30 13 A.S.C. Dukla Praha 8.56 14 Team TIAA-CREF 9.10 15 Vendee U-Pays De La Loire 9.32 16 Super Sport 35-A.C. Noyal Chatillon 10.34 17 Procomm-Van Hemert 11.05 18 Team Malarenergi CK 11.51 19 S.C.O. Dijon 15.46 20 E.C. St-Etienne Loire 17.32 21 DFL-Cyclingnews 17.42
