Recently on Cyclingnews.com |
 Bayern Rundfahrt Photo ©: Schaaf |
41st International Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt - 2.1
Germany, April 26-30, 2006
Main Page Results Overall standings Previous Stage Next Stage
Stage 3 - April 28: Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler - Bad Marienberg, 143.6 km
Another stage for Gerolsteiner
By Susan Westemeyer
The second stage winner was Gerolsteiner, the third stage winner was Gerolsteiner. The boys in baby blue seem to take turns winning stages in the Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt. Friday in the third stage it was Heinrich Haussler's turn to win, while teammate and previous day's winner Rene Haselbacher retained the leader's jersey.
Three riders escaped and stayed away for 88 kilometres. Frantisek Rabon (T-Mobile), Juan Jose Oroz (Kaiku) and Jean-Claude Lebeau (Landbouwkrediet) never got more than about a two minute lead, though. The whole Kaiku team was very active the whole stage, testing Gerolsteiner's control with constant attacks.
A chasing group of about 30 caught the escapees shortly before entering Bad Marienberg, where the finish line was. Haussler took the sprint ahead of Pablo Urtasun Perez (Kaiku) and Marco Serpellini (Unibet). Haselbacher finished tenth in the same time as the winner. "Actually I wanted to prepare the sprint for 'Hasi' but the hole was too big and he didn't get by," said Haussler.
The finish was marred by a crash several hundred meters before the finish, which was held up Haselbacher. The most prominent victim was T-Mobile's Thomas Ziegler, who managed to make it across the finish line but was taken to the hospital for x-rays. The team later announced that nothing was broken, but that his left shoulder and hip were covered with bruises and scrapes. Ziegler dropped from second overall to third, and the team hopes that he will be able to ride Saturday.
Results
1 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.30.42 (40.89 km/h) 2 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Kaiku 3 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Unibet.com 4 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 5 Rene Weissinger (Ger) Skil-Shimano 6 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta 7 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 8 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 9 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 10 Rene Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 11 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Wiesenhof Akud 12 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 13 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 14 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 15 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 16 Benny De Schrodder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 17 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Milram 18 Juan Jose Oroz (Spa) Kaiku 19 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 20 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 21 Alberto Losada (Spa) Kaiku 22 Bert Dewaele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23 Jean-Claude Lebeau (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 24 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 25 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 26 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 27 Antonio Berasategui (Spa) Kaiku 28 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 29 Gustav Cesar Valoso (Spa) Kaiku 0.08 30 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Team Sparkasse 31 Finn Heitmann (Ger) German National Team 0.11 32 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 33 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T-Mobile Team 0.17 34 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Unibet.com 0.19 35 Maint Berkenbosch (Ned) Team Regiostrom-Senges 36 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 37 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 38 Glen Chadwick (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 39 Sven Renders (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 40 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Vorarlberg 0.32 41 Karsten Volkmann (Ger) Team Milram 0.36 42 Erik Hoffmann (Ger) Team Lamonta 0.40 43 Joshua Collingwood (Aus) Team Regiostrom-Senges 44 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.04 45 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 46 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 47 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Lamonta 10.15 48 Kim Lachmann (Ger) German National Team 49 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Milram 50 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 51 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 52 Alexander Maul (Ger) Team Sparkasse 53 Artur Gajek (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 54 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Milram 55 Alexander Müller (Ger) Team Milram 56 Andre Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 57 Tilo Schüler (Ger) Team Milram 58 Mathias Wiele (Ger) German National Team 59 Christoph Klipp (Ger) German National Team 60 Thorsten Struch (Ger) German National Team 61 Shawn Milne (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 62 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 63 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 64 Philipp Seubert (Ger) German National Team 65 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 66 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 67 Patrick Keller (Ger) Team Milram 68 Alexander Gut (Ger) Team Lamonta 69 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 70 Glenn D'hollander (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 71 Christophe Girschweiler (Swi) Team Vorarlberg 72 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 73 René Schild (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 74 Tim Klinger (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 75 Christophe Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Lamonta 76 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team Lamonta 77 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Team Lamonta 78 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 79 Jonas Owczarek (Ger) Team Sparkasse 80 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 81 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 82 Masahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 83 Jens Mouris (Ned) Team Regiostrom-Senges 84 Bart Van Heule (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 85 Tino Meier (Ger) German National Team 86 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 87 Kurt Van Den Wouwer (Bel) Unibet.com 88 Stefan Heiny (Ger) Team Lamonta 89 Tom Flammang (Lux) Team Sparkasse 90 Timo Honstein (Ger) Team Sparkasse 91 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Sparkasse 92 Cesar Grajales (Col) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 93 Richard Faltus (Cze) Team Sparkasse 94 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 95 Fraser Macmaster (NZl) Team Vorarlberg 96 Ed Clancy (GBr) Team Sparkasse 97 Gregor Gut (Swi) Team Vorarlberg 98 Vasili Anastopoulos (Gre) Team Vorarlberg 99 Benjamin Brooks (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 100 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 101 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 102 Patrick Riedesser (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 103 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 104 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Wiesenhof Akud 105 Geert Omloop (Bel) Unibet.com 106 Matthias Bertling (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 107 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Team Wiesenhof Akud 108 Petter Renäng (Swe) Unibet.com 109 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 110 Bernard Van Ulden (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 111 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 10.26 112 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 113 Jurgen Van Loocke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago Mountains Climb 1, km 17,2 1 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Team Wiesenhof Akud 3 pts 2 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 2 3 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 1 Climb 2, km 54,4 1 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 3 pts 2 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2 3 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 1 Climb 3, km 117,9 1 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 3 pts 2 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2 3 Alberto Losada (Spa) Kaiku 1 Sprints Sprint 1, km 35,1 1 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Team Wiesenhof Akud 5 pts 2 Richard Faltus (Cze) Team Sparkasse 3 3 Maint Berkenbosch (Ned) Team Regiostrom-Senges 2 4 Shawn Milne (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 1 Sprint 2, km 106,9 1 Juan Jose Oroz (Spa) Kaiku 5 pts 2 Jean-Claude Lebeau (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 3 3 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T-Mobile Team 2 4 René Schild (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 1 Sprint 3, km 123,0 1 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Kaiku 5 pts 2 Joshua Collingwood (Aus) Team Regiostrom-Senges 3 3 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 2 4 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Teams 1 Gerolsteiner 10.32.06 2 Kaiku 3 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 4 Team Wiesenhof Akud 5 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 6 T-Mobile Team 0.17 7 Team Regiostrom-Senges 0.30 8 Skil-Shimano 10.15 9 Unibet.com 10.34 10 Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 11 Team Vorarlberg 10.47 12 Team Milram 10.51 13 Team Lamonta 10.55 14 Team Sparkasse 20.38 15 German National Team 20.41 General classification after stage 3 1 Rene Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 11.25.27 2 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Kaiku 0.05 3 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.08 4 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Wiesenhof Akud 0.10 5 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 6 Bert Dewaele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.14 7 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta 8 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.16 9 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 0.17 10 Alberto Losada (Spa) Kaiku 0.22 11 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.26 12 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Unibet.com 0.32 13 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 0.33 14 Juan Jose Oroz (Spa) Kaiku 15 Jean-Claude Lebeau (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.34 16 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.35 17 Benny De Schrodder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 18 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 0.36 19 Rene Weissinger (Ger) Skil-Shimano 20 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Milram 21 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 22 Sven Renders (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 24 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 25 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 26 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 27 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 28 Antonio Berasategui (Spa) Kaiku 29 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 30 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Team Sparkasse 0.44 31 Finn Heitmann (Ger) German National Team 0.47 32 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 33 Maint Berkenbosch (Ned) Team Regiostrom-Senges 0.54 34 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Unibet.com 0.55 35 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 36 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 37 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Vorarlberg 1.08 38 Gustav Cesar Valoso (Spa) Kaiku 2.29 39 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.39 40 Erik Hoffmann (Ger) Team Lamonta 3.06 41 Andre Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 10.41 42 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Lamonta 10.45 43 Jonas Owczarek (Ger) Team Sparkasse 10.51 44 Tim Klinger (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 45 Cesar Grajales (Col) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 46 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 47 Kurt Van Den Wouwer (Bel) Unibet.com 48 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 11.02 49 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 50 René Schild (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 12.35 51 Jens Mouris (Ned) Team Regiostrom-Senges 12.39 52 Alexander Maul (Ger) Team Sparkasse 12.41 53 Kim Lachmann (Ger) German National Team 54 Patrick Keller (Ger) Team Milram 55 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 56 Bart Van Heule (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 57 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 13.20 58 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T-Mobile Team 13.43 59 Karsten Volkmann (Ger) Team Milram 14.01 60 Glen Chadwick (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 14.07 61 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Milram 15.07 62 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 15.29 63 Joshua Collingwood (Aus) Team Regiostrom-Senges 17.46 64 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Team Wiesenhof Akud 19.38 65 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 19.41 66 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team Lamonta 67 Christophe Girschweiler (Swi) Team Vorarlberg 68 Christoph Klipp (Ger) German National Team 69 Tom Flammang (Lux) Team Sparkasse 70 Shawn Milne (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 71 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 72 Philipp Seubert (Ger) German National Team 22.32 73 Richard Faltus (Cze) Team Sparkasse 23.40 74 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 23.41 75 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 23.42 76 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 77 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Milram 78 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 79 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 80 Masahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 81 Artur Gajek (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 82 Mathias Wiele (Ger) German National Team 83 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 84 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 85 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 86 Tino Meier (Ger) German National Team 87 Timo Honstein (Ger) Team Sparkasse 88 Benjamin Brooks (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 89 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 90 Vasili Anastopoulos (Gre) Team Vorarlberg 91 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Wiesenhof Akud 92 Geert Omloop (Bel) Unibet.com 93 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 94 Petter Renäng (Swe) Unibet.com 95 Ed Clancy (GBr) Team Sparkasse 96 Fraser Macmaster (NZl) Team Vorarlberg 97 Jurgen Van Loocke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23.53 98 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 25.29 99 Patrick Riedesser (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 28.01 100 Alexander Gut (Ger) Team Lamonta 28.03 101 Alexander Müller (Ger) Team Milram 102 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 103 Christophe Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Lamonta 104 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Sparkasse 105 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Team Lamonta 106 Tilo Schüler (Ger) Team Milram 107 Gregor Gut (Swi) Team Vorarlberg 108 Matthias Bertling (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 109 Thorsten Struch (Ger) German National Team 110 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 111 Glenn D'hollander (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 112 Bernard Van Ulden (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 29.50 113 Stefan Heiny (Ger) Team Lamonta 30.52 Mountains classification 1 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 16 pts 2 Alberto Losada (Spa) Kaiku 6 3 Karsten Volkmann (Ger) Team Milram 5 4 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 5 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 3 6 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Team Wiesenhof Akud 3 7 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3 8 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 3 9 Bert Dewaele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2 10 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 2 11 René Schild (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 2 12 Patrick Riedesser (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 2 13 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Wiesenhof Akud 1 14 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 1 15 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 1 16 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1 17 Gustav Cesar Valoso (Spa) Kaiku 1 18 Stefan Heiny (Ger) Team Lamonta 1 Sprints classification 1 René Schild (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 13 pts 2 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 11 3 Gustav Cesar Valoso (Spa) Kaiku 8 4 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 7 5 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Kaiku 5 6 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 5 7 Juan Jose Oroz (Spa) Kaiku 5 8 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Team Wiesenhof Akud 5 9 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 10 Karsten Volkmann (Ger) Team Milram 4 11 Jean-Claude Lebeau (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 3 12 Jens Mouris (Ned) Team Regiostrom-Senges 3 13 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 14 Joshua Collingwood (Aus) Team Regiostrom-Senges 3 15 Richard Faltus (Cze) Team Sparkasse 3 16 Patrick Riedesser (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 3 17 Benny De Schrodder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 2 18 Maint Berkenbosch (Ned) Team Regiostrom-Senges 2 19 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2 20 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T-Mobile Team 2 21 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2 22 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1 23 Glen Chadwick (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 1 24 Tom Flammang (Lux) Team Sparkasse 1 25 Shawn Milne (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 1 Teams classification 1 Kaiku 34.17.11 2 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.16 3 Team Wiesenhof Akud 0.17 4 Gerolsteiner 0.36 5 T-Mobile Team 0.53 6 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 0.58 7 Team Regiostrom-Senges 1.28 8 Skil-Shimano 11.13 9 Unibet.com 11.32 10 Team Lamonta 13.21 11 Team Milram 17.55 12 Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 20.22 13 Team Vorarlberg 20.35 14 Team Sparkasse 23.26 15 German National Team 32.19
