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GP Tell - 2.2U
Switzerland, August 23-27, 2006
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Stage 1 - August 24: Sarnen - Sarnen, 139.3km
Van Emden: Again and again
By Andreas Oppliger
As foreseen by the weather forecast the first stage of this year's GP Tell was held under extremely changeable weather conditions. The day started with rain showers, continued with blue skies and dry roads and finally finished under a heavy thunderstorm. The riders really had to fight against the outside conditions.
The stage was a circuit of 34.7 kms that had to be done four times, including a short and slight cat.3 climb. The first three laps were dominated by a group of seven athletes containing three Swiss riders. They were caught, after having had a lead up to three minutes, by the chasing field just on the second but last crossing of the finish line in Sarnen. The 19-year old Moldavian Alexandr Pliushin and the French rider Jerome Coppel took profit from a short confusion within the peloton and got away.... but not for too long.
Dutchman Jos van Emden, in his yellow jersey of the overall leader, took the pursuit of the leading duo and caught them only a few kilometres later. In the finish van Emden showed his outstanding form. He beat Pliushin after having been in the second position only 200 meters from the finish line. In this moment the "Rabo-rider" took his last chance and sprinted in a very narrow gap between the Moldavian and the borders on the left, to win over Pliushin
Photography
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Images by Andreas Oppliger
- Michael Franzl (Germany) takes some bottles
- Overall leader van Emden and his teammate Tom Stamsnijder.
- Pirmin Lang (Switzerland) in a heavy rainshower
- Polish riders in the lead of the bunch.
- Ready steady go.
- Very difficult situation in the heavy rain.
- A new and very interesting name Alexander Pliushin from Moldavia
- Frenchmen enjoying coffee before the start.
- Jos van Emden and his temporary friend William Tell.
Results
1 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 3.30.23 2 Alexandre Pliuschin (Mda) Team Mixte Central 3 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Polish national team 0.03 4 Jérome Coppel (Fra) French national team 5 Nico Graf (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 0.32 6 Björn Gollhardt (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 7 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 8 Alexey Kunshin (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 9 Cyrille Heymans (Lux) Luxembourg national team 10 Nazareno Rossi (Swi) Swiss national team 11 Marco-Leonardo Oreggia (Aut) Austrian national team 12 Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 13 Stefan Trafelet (Swi) Swiss national team 14 Kim Lachmann (Ger) German national team 15 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 16 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 17 Mathias Blumer (Swi) Hadimec 18 Julien Bérard (Fra) AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 19 Steve Bovay (Swi) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 20 Brent Bookwalter (USA) USA national team 21 Marcel Wyss (Swi) Swiss national team 22 Maurizio Anzalone (Ita) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 23 Cyril Gautier (Fra) French national team 24 Matthew Crane (USA) USA national team 25 Markus Eibegger (Aut) Austrian national team 26 Lars Jun (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 27 Michael Farel (Ger) German national team 28 Aldo Ino Ilesic (Slo) Slovenian national team 29 Christoph Sokoll (Aut) Austrian national team 30 Fabian Züsli (Swi) Team Mixte Central 31 Christian Ebner (Aut) Austrian national team 32 Sergey Smirnov (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 33 Philip Patzer (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 34 Laurent Beuret (Swi) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 35 Tobias Eggli (Swi) Hadimec 36 John Devine (USA) USA national team 37 Miha Svab (Slo) Slovenian national team 38 Peter Andres (Swi) Hadimec 39 Michael Stevenson (Swe) Swedish national team 40 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 41 Andreas Moser (Swi) Team Mixte Central 42 Rick Fransen (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 43 Arjen De Baat (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 44 Romain Feillu (Fra) French national team 45 Simon Wyss (Swi) Hadimec 46 Pirmin Lang (Swi) Swiss national team 47 Viktor Folkesson (Swe) Swedish national team 48 Simon Geschke (Ger) German national team 49 Simon Spilak (Slo) Slovenian national team 50 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Austrian national team 51 Michael Randin (Swi) Hadimec 52 Albert Timmer (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 53 Lucas Persson (Swe) Swedish national team 54 Bernhard Oberholzer (Swi) Hadimec 55 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Polish national team 56 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Konica Minolta 57 Sander Oostlander (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 58 Janick Wisler (Swi) Team Mixte Central 59 Keith Jennings (USA) USA national team 60 Mateusz Komar (Pol) Polish national team 61 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Konica Minolta 62 Travis Allen (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 63 Yann Huguet (Fra) French national team 64 Roman Klimov (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 65 Thierry Fondère (Fra) Team Mixte Central 66 Pierre Rolland (Fra) French national team 67 Jean Charles Sénac (Fra) AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 68 Thomas Frei (Swi) Swiss national team 69 Ben Gastauer (Lux) Luxembourg national team 70 Maxime Beney (Swi) Swiss national team 71 Jonas Bjelkmark (Swe) Swedish national team 72 Lukasz Modzelewski (Pol) Polish national team 73 Mathias Frank (Swi) Team Mixte Central 74 Vladimir Kerkez (Slo) Slovenian national team 75 Mathieu Deschenaux (Swi) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 76 Alexander Lebedev (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 77 Huub Duyn (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 78 Adam Sznitko (Pol) Polish national team 79 Viktor Renäng (Swe) Swedish national team 80 Loïc Mühlemann (Swi) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 81 Tony Martin (Ger) German national team 82 Blaise Sonnery (Fra) AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 2.01 83 Radoslaw Kwiatkowski (Pol) Polish national team 8.36 84 Kristjan Koren (Slo) Slovenian national team 85 Karsten Hess (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 86 Alexander Afonin (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 10.22 87 Eric Riggs (USA) USA national team 12.04 88 Maarten Krommendijk (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 89 Sheldon Deeny (USA) USA national team 12.30 90 Silvère Ackermann (Swi) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 12.32 91 Grega Bole (Slo) Slovenian national team 92 Thom Van Dulmen (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 12.36 93 Alexandre Roger (Fra) French national team 12.39 94 Florian Frohn (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 12.54 95 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) German national team 96 Sebastian Hans (Ger) German national team 13.56 97 Josef Kugler (Aut) Austrian national team 14.40 98 Nick Clesen (Lux) Luxembourg national team 99 Roman Mikhailov (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 100 Robert Schmitt (Lux) Luxembourg national team 17.23 101 Tom White (GBr) Team Konica Minolta 20.59 102 Herman Fouche (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 103 Thomas Rostollan (Fra) AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 23.12 104 Petter Persson (Swe) Swedish national team 27.46 DNF Carlo Kirsch (Lux) Luxembourg national team DNF Tom Wecker (Lux) Luxembourg national team DNF Sven Hippel (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team Points 1 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 25 pts 2 Alexandre Pliuschin (Mda) Team Mixte Central 20 3 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Polish national team 16 4 Jérome Coppel (Fra) French national team 13 5 Nico Graf (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 11 6 Björn Gollhardt (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 10 7 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 9 8 Alexey Kunshin (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 8 9 Cyrille Heymans (Lux) Luxembourg national team 7 10 Nazareno Rossi (Swi) Swiss national team 6 11 Marco-Leonardo Oreggia (Aut) Austrian national team 5 12 Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 4 13 Stefan Trafelet (Swi) Swiss national team 3 14 Kim Lachmann (Ger) German national team 2 15 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 1 Mountains Z'Mos unterh. Flüeli - Cat. 3, 51 km 1 Michael Stevenson (Swe) Swedish national team 3 pts 2 Cyril Gautier (Fra) French national team 2 3 Bernhard Oberholzer (Swi) Hadimec 1 Z'Mos unterh. Flüeli - Cat. 3, 85.7 km 1 Cyril Gautier (Fra) French national team 3 pts 2 Michael Stevenson (Swe) Swedish national team 2 3 Bernhard Oberholzer (Swi) Hadimec 1 Z'Mos unterh. Flüeli - Cat. 3, 120.4 km 1 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 3 pts 2 Jérome Coppel (Fra) French national team 2 3 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Polish national team 1 Sprints Sarnen Zentrum, 34.7km 1 Pirmin Lang (Swi) Swiss national team 6 pts 2 Bernhard Oberholzer (Swi) Hadimec 3 3 Sander Oostlander (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 1 Sarnen Zentrum, 69.4km 1 Pirmin Lang (Swi) Swiss national team 6 pts 2 Cyril Gautier (Fra) French national team 3 3 Bernhard Oberholzer (Swi) Hadimec 1 Sarnen Zentrum, 104.1km 1 Pirmin Lang (Swi) Swiss national team 6 pts 2 Laurent Beuret (Swi) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 3 3 Peter Andres (Swi) Hadimec 1 Teams 1 Rabobank (RB3) 10.32.13 2 Team Mixte Central 3 French National Team 0.03 4 Polish National Team 5 Swiss Cycling 0.32 6 Thüringer Energie Team 7 Austrian National Team 8 VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admiral 9 USA National Team 10 Team Löwik Meubelen 11 German National Team 12 Hadimec 13 AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 14 Premier Russia 15 Slovenian National Team 16 Swedish National Team 17 Team Konica Minolta 18 Luxembourg National Team 14.40 General classification after stage 1 1 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 3.32.49 2 Alexandre Pliuschin (Mda) Team Mixte Central 0.13 3 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Polish national team 0.18 4 Jérome Coppel (Fra) French national team 0.24 5 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 0.43 6 Stefan Trafelet (Swi) Swiss national team 0.44 7 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 0.45 8 Markus Eibegger (Aut) Austrian national team 0.46 9 Andreas Moser (Swi) Team Mixte Central 0.47 10 Brent Bookwalter (USA) USA national team 11 Sander Oostlander (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 12 Arjen De Baat (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 0.48 13 Romain Feillu (Fra) French national team 14 Nazareno Rossi (Swi) Swiss national team 15 Huub Duyn (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 0.49 16 Pierre Rolland (Fra) French national team 17 Lukasz Modzelewski (Pol) Polish national team 18 Aldo Ino Ilesic (Slo) Slovenian national team 19 Pirmin Lang (Swi) Swiss national team 0.50 20 Alexey Kunshin (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 21 Nico Graf (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 22 Thomas Frei (Swi) Swiss national team 23 Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 0.51 24 Simon Wyss (Swi) Hadimec 25 Philip Patzer (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 26 John Devine (USA) USA national team 27 Vladimir Kerkez (Slo) Slovenian national team 28 Cyril Gautier (Fra) French national team 0.52 29 Bernhard Oberholzer (Swi) Hadimec 30 Tobias Eggli (Swi) Hadimec 31 Christian Ebner (Aut) Austrian national team 32 Jonas Bjelkmark (Swe) Swedish national team 33 Simon Spilak (Slo) Slovenian national team 0.53 34 Mateusz Komar (Pol) Polish national team 35 Marcel Wyss (Swi) Swiss national team 36 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Austrian national team 37 Maurizio Anzalone (Ita) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 38 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Polish national team 39 Mathias Blumer (Swi) Hadimec 40 Maxime Beney (Swi) Swiss national team 0.54 41 Julien Bérard (Fra) AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 42 Mathias Frank (Swi) Team Mixte Central 43 Roman Klimov (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 44 Albert Timmer (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 45 Michael Stevenson (Swe) Swedish national team 46 Steve Bovay (Swi) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 47 Fabian Züsli (Swi) Team Mixte Central 48 Mathieu Deschenaux (Swi) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 49 Simon Geschke (Ger) German national team 50 Marco-Leonardo Oreggia (Aut) Austrian national team 0.55 51 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 52 Kim Lachmann (Ger) German national team 53 Yann Huguet (Fra) French national team 54 Matthew Crane (USA) USA national team 55 Viktor Folkesson (Swe) Swedish national team 56 Laurent Beuret (Swi) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 0.56 57 Keith Jennings (USA) USA national team 58 Michael Randin (Swi) Hadimec 59 Sergey Smirnov (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 60 Alexander Lebedev (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 61 Ben Gastauer (Lux) Luxembourg national team 62 Thierry Fondère (Fra) Team Mixte Central 63 Loïc Mühlemann (Swi) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 0.57 64 Björn Gollhardt (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 65 Lars Jun (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 66 Rick Fransen (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 67 Peter Andres (Swi) Hadimec 68 Viktor Renäng (Swe) Swedish national team 0.58 69 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Konica Minolta 70 Travis Allen (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 71 Jean Charles Sénac (Fra) AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 72 Miha Svab (Slo) Slovenian national team 0.59 73 Christoph Sokoll (Aut) Austrian national team 74 Janick Wisler (Swi) Team Mixte Central 75 Cyrille Heymans (Lux) Luxembourg national team 1.00 76 Michael Farel (Ger) German national team 77 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Konica Minolta 78 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 1.01 79 Lucas Persson (Swe) Swedish national team 1.03 80 Adam Sznitko (Pol) Polish national team 81 Tony Martin (Ger) German national team 1.06 82 Blaise Sonnery (Fra) AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 2.28 83 Kristjan Koren (Slo) Slovenian national team 8.52 84 Karsten Hess (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 8.55 85 Radoslaw Kwiatkowski (Pol) Polish national team 9.03 86 Alexander Afonin (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 10.51 87 Maarten Krommendijk (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 12.29 88 Eric Riggs (USA) USA national team 12.33 89 Grega Bole (Slo) Slovenian national team 12.49 90 Silvère Ackermann (Swi) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 12.54 91 Sheldon Deeny (USA) USA national team 12.55 92 Thom Van Dulmen (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 12.56 93 Alexandre Roger (Fra) French national team 13.00 94 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) German national team 13.21 95 Florian Frohn (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 13.23 96 Sebastian Hans (Ger) German national team 14.13 97 Nick Clesen (Lux) Luxembourg national team 15.03 98 Josef Kugler (Aut) Austrian national team 99 Roman Mikhailov (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 15.09 100 Robert Schmitt (Lux) Luxembourg national team 18.03 101 Herman Fouche (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 21.19 102 Tom White (GBr) Team Konica Minolta 21.41 103 Thomas Rostollan (Fra) AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 23.48 104 Petter Persson (Swe) Swedish national team 28.07 Points classification 1 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 50 pts 2 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 29 3 Kristjan Koren (Slo) Slovenian national team 22 4 Alexandre Pliuschin (Mda) Team Mixte Central 20 5 Stefan Trafelet (Swi) Swiss national team 19 6 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Polish national team 16 7 Jérome Coppel (Fra) French national team 13 8 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 13 9 Markus Eibegger (Aut) Austrian national team 11 10 Nico Graf (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 11 11 Andreas Moser (Swi) Team Mixte Central 10 12 Björn Gollhardt (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 10 13 Nazareno Rossi (Swi) Swiss national team 10 14 Brent Bookwalter (USA) USA national team 9 15 Sander Oostlander (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 8 16 Alexey Kunshin (Rus) Premier St Petersburg / Russia 8 17 Arjen De Baat (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 7 18 Cyrille Heymans (Lux) Luxembourg national team 7 19 Romain Feillu (Fra) French national team 5 20 Marco-Leonardo Oreggia (Aut) Austrian national team 5 21 Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 4 22 Huub Duyn (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 3 23 Kim Lachmann (Ger) German national team 2 24 Grega Bole (Slo) Slovenian national team 2 25 Pierre Rolland (Fra) French national team 1 26 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 1 Mountains classification 1 Cyril Gautier (Fra) French national team 5 pts 2 Michael Stevenson (Swe) Swedish national team 5 3 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank (RB3) 3 4 Jérome Coppel (Fra) French national team 2 5 Bernhard Oberholzer (Swi) Hadimec 2 6 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Polish national team 1 Sprints classification 1 Pirmin Lang (Swi) Swiss national team 18 pts 2 Bernhard Oberholzer (Swi) Hadimec 4 3 Cyril Gautier (Fra) French national team 3 4 Laurent Beuret (Swi) VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admira 3 5 Sander Oostlander (Ned) Team Löwik Meubelen 1 6 Peter Andres (Swi) Hadimec 1 Teams classification 1 Rabobank (RB3) 10.32.13 2 Team Mixte Central 3 Polish National Team 0.03 4 French National Team 5 Swiss Cycling 0.32 6 Team Löwik Meubelen 7 USA National Team 8 Slovenian National Team 9 Premier Russia 10 Thüringer Energie Team 11 Hadimec 12 Austrian National Team 13 Swedish National Team 14 VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casino Admiral 15 AG2R Chambéry Cyclisme Formation 16 German National Team 17 Team Konica Minolta 18 Luxembourg National Team 14.40
