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41st International Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt - 2.1
Germany, April 26-30, 2006
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Stage 4 - April 29: Bitburg - Koblenz, 195.4 km
That old one-two for T-Mobile
By Susan Westemeyer
T-Mobile's number one and two sprinters finished second and first in Saturday's fourth stage of the Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt. Andre Greipel repeated his success from the first stage and won the race's Queen stage over 193 kilometres ahead of teammate Olaf Pollack and Werner Riebenbauer of Team Vorarlberg. Gerolsteiner's Rene Haselbacher finished sixth, in the same time as Greipel, and retained the leader's jersey.
A bit of spring snow greeted the riders at the start in Bitburg, and it stayed cool but dry for most of the day. A five-man group, including three Kaiku riders, escaped and led for a long time, but with not more than a few minutes' advantage. After the final mountain, 50 km before the finish, Gerolsteiner and T-Mobile worked together to chase down the escapees.
"Kaiku tried to make our life difficult, but we did everything to defend the jersey, and with success," said Gerolsteiner directeur sportif Udo Bölts. The combined efforts of the two German teams lead to a mass sprint, which the magenta-clad riders won. "I'm especially happy that Andre won," said T-Mobile DS Frans van Looy. "He and Olaf rode very strong today. Together with Gerolsteiner, we held the field together and the sprint possible for the two of them."
Haselbacher leads in the GC with five seconds over Pablu Urtasan of Kaiku and seven seconds over Ricardo Serrano, also of Kaiku, who today moved up into third place. He knocked T-Mobile's Thomas Ziegler down to 4th, 8 seconds down.
Results
1 Andre Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4.35.51 (42.5 km/h) 2 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 4 Rene Weissinger (Ger) Skil-Shimano 5 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 6 Jurgen Van Loocke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 7 Rene Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 8 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 9 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 10 Tilo Schüler (Ger) Team Milram 11 Stefan Heiny (Ger) Team Lamonta 12 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 13 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Milram 14 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 15 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Sparkasse 16 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 17 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Wiesenhof Akud 18 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 19 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 20 Tom Flammang (Lux) Team Sparkasse 21 Alberto Losada (Spa) Kaiku 22 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Milram 23 Jonas Owczarek (Ger) Team Sparkasse 24 Finn Heitmann (Ger) German National Team 25 Jens Mouris (Ned) Team Regiostrom-Senges 26 Masahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 27 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 28 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team Lamonta 29 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Milram 30 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 31 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 32 Bert Dewaele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 33 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 34 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Vorarlberg 35 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Unibet.com 36 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Kaiku 37 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 38 Sven Renders (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 39 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 40 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 41 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 42 Antonio Berasategui (Spa) Kaiku 43 Jean-Claude Lebeau (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 44 Juan Jose Oroz (Spa) Kaiku 45 Maint Berkenbosch (Ned) Team Regiostrom-Senges 46 Richard Faltus (Cze) Team Sparkasse 47 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 48 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 49 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta 50 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 51 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 52 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 53 Gregor Gut (Swi) Team Vorarlberg 54 Benny De Schrodder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 55 Christoph Klipp (Ger) German National Team 56 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Team Sparkasse 57 Christophe Girschweiler (Swi) Team Vorarlberg 58 Tino Meier (Ger) German National Team 59 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 60 Karsten Volkmann (Ger) Team Milram 61 Alexander Maul (Ger) Team Sparkasse 62 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 63 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 64 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 65 Kim Lachmann (Ger) German National Team 66 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 67 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Unibet.com 68 Mathias Wiele (Ger) German National Team 69 Cesar Grajales (Col) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 70 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 71 Christophe Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Lamonta 72 Philipp Seubert (Ger) German National Team 73 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 74 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 75 Kurt Van Den Wouwer (Bel) Unibet.com 76 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Wiesenhof Akud 77 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 78 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 79 Glen Chadwick (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 80 Thorsten Struch (Ger) German National Team 81 Bart Van Heule (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 82 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 83 Glenn D'hollander (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 84 Fraser Macmaster (NZl) Team Vorarlberg 85 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T-Mobile Team 0.37 86 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 0.39 87 Geert Omloop (Bel) Unibet.com 0.47 88 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 0.54 89 Timo Honstein (Ger) Team Sparkasse 1.12 90 Ed Clancy (GBr) Team Sparkasse 91 Patrick Riedesser (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 1.15 92 Bernard Van Ulden (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 1.32 93 Vasili Anastopoulos (Gre) Team Vorarlberg 2.23 94 Gustav Cesar Valoso (Spa) Kaiku 2.26 95 René Schild (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 2.32 96 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 2.35 97 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 98 Petter Renäng (Swe) Unibet.com 99 Tim Klinger (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 3.40 100 Patrick Keller (Ger) Team Milram 7.37 101 Shawn Milne (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 102 Alexander Gut (Ger) Team Lamonta 12.20 103 Alexander Müller (Ger) Team Milram 104 Matthias Bertling (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 105 Joshua Collingwood (Aus) Team Regiostrom-Senges DNF James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago DNF Benjamin Brooks (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team DNF Lubor Tesar (Cze) Team Wiesenhof Akud DNF Artur Gajek (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud DNS Uwe Hardter (Ger) Team Lamonta DNS Erik Hoffmann (Ger) Team Lamonta DNS Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Lamonta DNS Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges Mountains Climb 1, km 101,2 1 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 5 pts 2 Gustav Cesar Valoso (Spa) Kaiku 3 3 Tim Klinger (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 2 4 Shawn Milne (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 1 Climb 2, km 116,1 1 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 5 pts 2 Gustav Cesar Valoso (Spa) Kaiku 3 3 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 2 4 Shawn Milne (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 1 Climb 3, km 143,7 1 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 5 pts 2 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 3 3 Tim Klinger (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 2 4 René Schild (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 1 Sprints Sprint 1, km 40,4 1 Gustav Cesar Valoso (Spa) Kaiku 5 pts 2 René Schild (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 3 3 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 2 4 Tim Klinger (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 1 Sprint 2, km 97,6 1 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 5 pts 2 Gustav Cesar Valoso (Spa) Kaiku 3 3 René Schild (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 2 4 Shawn Milne (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 1 Sprint 3, km 168,3 1 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 5 pts 2 René Schild (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 3 3 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 2 4 Tim Klinger (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 1 Teams 1 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 13.47.33 2 T-Mobile Team 3 Team Milram 4 Gerolsteiner 5 Skil-Shimano 6 Team Sparkasse 7 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 8 Team Wiesenhof Akud 9 Team Lamonta 10 Team Vorarlberg 11 Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 12 Kaiku 13 German National Team 14 Team Regiostrom-Senges 15 Unibet.com General classification after stage 4 1 Rene Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 16.01.18 2 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Kaiku 0.05 3 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 0.07 4 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.08 5 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Wiesenhof Akud 0.10 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 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 0.31 13 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Unibet.com 0.32 14 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 0.33 15 Juan Jose Oroz (Spa) Kaiku 16 Jean-Claude Lebeau (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.34 17 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.35 18 Benny De Schrodder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 19 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 0.36 20 Rene Weissinger (Ger) Skil-Shimano 21 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Milram 22 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 23 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 24 Sven Renders (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 25 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 26 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 27 Finn Heitmann (Ger) German National Team 28 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 29 Antonio Berasategui (Spa) Kaiku 30 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 31 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Team Sparkasse 32 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 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 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.39 39 Gustav Cesar Valoso (Spa) Kaiku 4.42 40 Andre Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 10.31 41 Jonas Owczarek (Ger) Team Sparkasse 10.51 42 Cesar Grajales (Col) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 43 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 44 Kurt Van Den Wouwer (Bel) Unibet.com 45 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 11.02 46 Jens Mouris (Ned) Team Regiostrom-Senges 12.39 47 Alexander Maul (Ger) Team Sparkasse 12.41 48 Kim Lachmann (Ger) German National Team 49 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 50 Bart Van Heule (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 51 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 13.20 52 Karsten Volkmann (Ger) Team Milram 14.01 53 Glen Chadwick (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 14.07 54 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T-Mobile Team 14.20 55 Tim Klinger (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 14.31 56 René Schild (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 15.02 57 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Milram 15.07 58 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 15.29 59 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 19.37 60 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team Lamonta 19.41 61 Tom Flammang (Lux) Team Sparkasse 62 Christoph Klipp (Ger) German National Team 63 Christophe Girschweiler (Swi) Team Vorarlberg 64 Patrick Keller (Ger) Team Milram 20.18 65 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 20.20 66 Philipp Seubert (Ger) German National Team 22.32 67 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 23.35 68 Richard Faltus (Cze) Team Sparkasse 23.40 69 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 23.42 70 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Milram 71 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 72 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 73 Masahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 74 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 75 Mathias Wiele (Ger) German National Team 76 Tino Meier (Ger) German National Team 77 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 78 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 79 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Wiesenhof Akud 80 Fraser Macmaster (NZl) Team Vorarlberg 81 Jurgen Van Loocke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23.53 82 Geert Omloop (Bel) Unibet.com 24.29 83 Timo Honstein (Ger) Team Sparkasse 24.54 84 Ed Clancy (GBr) Team Sparkasse 85 Vasili Anastopoulos (Gre) Team Vorarlberg 26.05 86 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 26.17 87 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 88 Petter Renäng (Swe) Unibet.com 89 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 26.23 90 Shawn Milne (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 27.18 91 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 28.03 92 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Sparkasse 93 Tilo Schüler (Ger) Team Milram 94 Christophe Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Lamonta 95 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 96 Gregor Gut (Swi) Team Vorarlberg 97 Thorsten Struch (Ger) German National Team 98 Glenn D'hollander (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 99 Patrick Riedesser (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 29.16 100 Joshua Collingwood (Aus) Team Regiostrom-Senges 30.06 101 Stefan Heiny (Ger) Team Lamonta 30.52 102 Bernard Van Ulden (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 31.22 103 Alexander Gut (Ger) Team Lamonta 40.23 104 Alexander Müller (Ger) Team Milram 105 Matthias Bertling (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges Mountains classification 1 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 16 pts 2 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 14 3 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 10 4 Gustav Cesar Valoso (Spa) Kaiku 7 5 Alberto Losada (Spa) Kaiku 6 6 Karsten Volkmann (Ger) Team Milram 5 7 Tim Klinger (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 4 8 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 9 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3 10 René Schild (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 3 11 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 3 12 Bert Dewaele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2 13 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 2 14 Shawn Milne (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 2 15 Patrick Riedesser (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 2 16 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Wiesenhof Akud 1 17 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 1 18 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1 19 Stefan Heiny (Ger) Team Lamonta 1 Sprints classification 1 René Schild (Ger) Team Regiostrom-Senges 21 pts 2 Gustav Cesar Valoso (Spa) Kaiku 16 3 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 12 4 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 11 5 Jose Lopez Gil (Spa) Kaiku 9 6 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Kaiku 5 7 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 5 8 Juan Jose Oroz (Spa) Kaiku 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 Richard Faltus (Cze) Team Sparkasse 3 15 Patrick Riedesser (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 3 16 Joshua Collingwood (Aus) Team Regiostrom-Senges 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 Tim Klinger (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Akud 2 22 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2 23 Shawn Milne (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 2 24 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1 25 Glen Chadwick (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 1 26 Tom Flammang (Lux) Team Sparkasse 1 Teams classification 1 Kaiku 48.04.44 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 1.17 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 23.18 15 German National Team 32.08
