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52nd Vuelta Andalucía (Ruta Ciclista del Sol) - 2.1
Spain, February 12-16, 2006
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Stage 2 - February 13: La Guardia de Jaén - Jaén, 157.2 km
First pro win for Manuel Lloret
Comunidad Valenciana scored another early season victory when 24 year-old Manuel Lloret Zaragoza won the second stage of the Ruta del Sol. Lloret crossed the finish line in Jaén four seconds ahead of Santos Gonzalez Capilla (3 Molinos Resort) and 1'28 ahead of Manuel Calvente Corbas (Agritubel). The overall lead changed hands to Carlos García Quesada (Unibet.com), who shares the same time as Rodrigo García Rena (Kaiku) and overnight leader Adolfo García Quesada (Andalucia-Paul Versan).
With most of the peloton more than half an hour behind seven riders on the general classification, the second stage was always going to suit a breakaway. Starting in La Guardia de Jaén, the 157 km stage featured four Cat. 3 climbs, and it took just 15 km again for the break of the day to be established. Nine riders escaped, including Manuel Lloret, Santos Gonzalez, Manuel Calvente, Jesús Del Nero (3 Molinos), José Luis Martínez (Comunidad Valenciana), José Mario Almagro (Relax - Gam), Manuel Beltrán (Discovery Channel), Juan Carlos Domínguez (Unibet.com), and Antón Luengo Celaya (Euskaltel - Euskadi). Both Comunidad Valenciana and 3 Molinos Resort had two riders in the break.
At one stage, the break had over nine minutes on the peloton, but even this wasn't threatening to race leader Adolfo Garcia Quesada, who was watching his brother Carlos and Rodrigo García, his main rivals on GC. In front, Lloret and Gonzalez accelerated away from the rest of the break in the finale, and were the two strongest riders in the stage. Gonzalez tried to get the jump on Lloret at the finish, but Lloret was able to mark him and take his first victory in his second season as a pro.
Carlos Garcia Quesada finished 12th on the day, while Adolfo only managed 21st, meaning that Carlos took over the lead in the general classification.
Tomorrow's third stage is from Cabra to Cordoba over 174 km, featuring two Cat. 3 climbs. It may be one for the sprinters, Tom Boonen, Alessandro Petacchi and Oscar Freire.
Results
1 Manuel Lloret Zaragoza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3.48.19 2 Santos Gonzalez Capilla (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 0.04 3 Manuel Calvente Corbas (Spa) Agritubel 1.28 4 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 5 José Luis Martínez Jiménez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 1.30 6 José Mario Almagro Valero (Spa) Relax - Gam 7 Manuel Beltrán Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.32 8 Juan Carlos Domínguez Domínguez (Spa) Unibet.com 1.33 9 Antón Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.35 10 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 5.29 11 Rodrigo García Rena (Spa) Kaiku 12 Carlos García Quesada (Spa) Unibet.com 13 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 14 Serge Baguet (Bel) Quick Step - Innergetic 15 Luis Pasamontes Rodríguez (Spa) Unibet.com 16 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 17 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Kaiku 18 Ángel Gómez Gómez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 19 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 20 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 21 Adolfo García Quesada (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 22 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step - Innergetic 23 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 24 Jesús Hernández (Spa) Relax - Gam 25 José Adrián Bonilla Bonilla (CRi) Comunidad Valenciana 26 Antonio Tauler (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 27 Jon Bru Pascal (Spa) Kaiku 28 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 29 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 30 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 31 Jorge García Marín (Spa) Relax - Gam 32 Óscar García-Casarrubios (Spa) Relax - Gam 33 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 34 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 35 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Team 36 Oscar Sevilla Ribera (Spa) T-Mobile Team 37 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 38 Manuel Vázquez Hueso (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 39 Iker Flores Galarza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 40 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Team Milram 41 Juan Olmo Menacho (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 42 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 43 Francisco Cabello Luque (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 44 Fernando Serrano Sánchez (Spa) Kaiku 45 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step - Innergetic 46 Manuel Ortega Ocaña (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 47 Óscar Freire Gómez (Spa) Rabobank 48 Pedro Luis Marichalar (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 49 Franc Vandenbroucke (Bel) Unibet.com 50 Vicente Ballester Martínez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 51 Vicente Peiró Marqueno (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 5.41 52 Joseba Albizu Lizaso (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 53 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.com 6.04 54 Antonio Olmo Menacho (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 6.16 55 Mario De Sárraga (Spa) Relax - Gam 56 Jan Hruska (Cze) 3 Molinos Resort 6.28 57 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 58 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Team Milram 59 Lénaic Olivier (Fra) Agritubel 60 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 61 Oleg Chuzhda (Ukr) Comunidad Valenciana 62 Leif Hoste (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 63 Luis Pérez Romero (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 64 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 7.56 65 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 66 Juan Miguel Mercado Martín (Spa) Agritubel 67 José A López Gil (Spa) Kaiku 68 Pedro Horrillo Muñoz (Spa) Rabobank 69 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 70 Jesús Buendía (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 71 Isidro Cerrato López (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 72 Jorge Ferrio Luque (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 73 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step - Innergetic 74 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step - Innergetic 75 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step - Innergetic 76 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step - Innergetic 77 Luciano A Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 78 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 79 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 80 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) Team Milram 81 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 82 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Agritubel 83 Gilles Canouet (Fra) Agritubel 84 Beñar Albizuri Aransolo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 85 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 86 Francisco José Terciado Sacedo (Spa) Relax - Gam 87 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 88 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 89 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 90 Antonio Beresategui Saez (Spa) Kaiku 8.28 91 Koldo Fernández De Larrea (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 92 Mattew Wilson (Aus) Unibet.com 11.39 DNS Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team DNF Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank DNF Lubos Pelanek (Cze) Relax - Gam Points 1 Manuel Lloret Zaragoza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 25 pts 2 Santos Gonzalez Capilla (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 20 3 Manuel Calvente Corbas (Spa) Agritubel 16 4 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 14 5 José Luis Martínez Jiménez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 12 6 José Mario Almagro Valero (Spa) Relax - Gam 10 7 Manuel Beltrán Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 9 8 Juan Carlos Domínguez Domínguez (Spa) Unibet.com 8 9 Antón Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 7 10 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 6 11 Rodrigo García Rena (Spa) Kaiku 5 12 Carlos García Quesada (Spa) Unibet.com 4 13 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 3 14 Serge Baguet (Bel) Quick Step - Innergetic 2 15 Luis Pasamontes Rodríguez (Spa) Unibet.com 1 Teams 1 Comunidad Valenciana 11.31.56 2 3 Molinos Resort 0.02 3 Relax - Gam 5.29 4 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5.31 5 Unibet.com 5.32 6 Euskaltel - Euskadi 5.34 7 Agritubel 6.26 8 Kaiku 9.28 9 Team Milram 10 Saunier Duval - Prodir 11 Quick Step - Innergetic 12 Andalucia - Paul Versan 13 T-Mobile Team 14 Rabobank 11.55 General classification after stage 2 1 Carlos García Quesada (Spa) Unibet.com 8.18.04 2 Rodrigo García Rena (Spa) Kaiku 3 Adolfo García Quesada (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 4 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.11 5 Luis Pasamontes Rodríguez (Spa) Unibet.com 6 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 7 José Adrián Bonilla Bonilla (CRi) Comunidad Valenciana 8 Manuel Lloret Zaragoza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 25.50 9 Santos Gonzalez Capilla (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 25.54 10 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 27.18 11 Manuel Calvente Corbas (Spa) Agritubel 27.18 12 José Mario Almagro Valero (Spa) Relax - Gam 27.20 13 José Luis Martínez Jiménez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 14 Manuel Beltrán Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 27.22 15 Juan Carlos Domínguez Domínguez (Spa) Unibet.com 27.23 16 Antón Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 27.25 17 Serge Baguet (Bel) Quick Step - Innergetic 31.19 18 Jon Bru Pascal (Spa) Kaiku 19 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 20 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 21 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 22 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 23 Manuel Vázquez Hueso (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 24 Ángel Gómez Gómez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 25 Oscar Sevilla Ribera (Spa) T-Mobile Team 26 Manuel Ortega Ocaña (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 27 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 28 Franc Vandenbroucke (Bel) Unibet.com 29 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 30 Francisco Cabello Luque (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 31 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Kaiku 32 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step - Innergetic 33 Vicente Ballester Martínez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 34 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 35 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Team Milram 36 Jorge García Marín (Spa) Relax - Gam 37 Juan Olmo Menacho (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 38 Jesús Hernández (Spa) Relax - Gam 39 Antonio Tauler (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 40 Iker Flores Galarza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 41 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 42 Óscar García-Casarrubios (Spa) Relax - Gam 43 Fernando Serrano Sánchez (Spa) Kaiku 44 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step - Innergetic 45 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 46 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 47 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 48 Óscar Freire Gómez (Spa) Rabobank 49 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Team 50 Pedro Luis Marichalar (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 51 Vicente Peiró Marqueno (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 31.31 52 Joseba Albizu Lizaso (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 53 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.com 31.54 54 Mario De Sárraga (Spa) Relax - Gam 32.06 55 Antonio Olmo Menacho (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 56 Lénaic Olivier (Fra) Agritubel 32.18 57 Oleg Chuzhda (Ukr) Comunidad Valenciana 58 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 59 Luis Pérez Romero (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 60 Jan Hruska (Cze) 3 Molinos Resort 61 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 62 Leif Hoste (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 63 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Team Milram 64 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 33.46 65 José A López Gil (Spa) Kaiku 66 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 67 Pedro Horrillo Muñoz (Spa) Rabobank 68 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 69 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step - Innergetic 70 Juan Miguel Mercado Martín (Spa) Agritubel 71 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 72 Beñar Albizuri Aransolo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 73 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 74 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 75 Jesús Buendía (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 76 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) Team Milram 77 Luciano A Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 78 Francisco José Terciado Sacedo (Spa) Relax - Gam 79 Jorge Ferrio Luque (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 80 Isidro Cerrato López (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 81 Gilles Canouet (Fra) Agritubel 82 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step - Innergetic 83 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step - Innergetic 84 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 85 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step - Innergetic 86 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 87 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 88 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Agritubel 89 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 90 Antonio Beresategui Saez (Spa) Kaiku 34.18 91 Koldo Fernández De Larrea (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 92 Mattew Wilson (Aus) Unibet.com 37.29 Points classification 1 Manuel Lloret Zaragoza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 26 pts 2 Adolfo García Quesada (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 25 3 Carlos García Quesada (Spa) Unibet.com 24 4 Santos Gonzalez Capilla (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 20 5 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 16 6 Manuel Calvente Corbas (Spa) Agritubel 16 7 José Mario Almagro Valero (Spa) Relax - Gam 16 8 José Adrián Bonilla Bonilla (CRi) Comunidad Valenciana 14 9 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 14 10 Rodrigo García Rena (Spa) Kaiku 14 11 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 12 12 José Luis Martínez Jiménez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 12 13 Luis Pasamontes Rodríguez (Spa) Unibet.com 11 14 Manuel Beltrán Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 9 15 Juan Carlos Domínguez Domínguez (Spa) Unibet.com 8 16 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 8 17 Antón Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 7 18 Jon Bru Pascal (Spa) Kaiku 7 19 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 6 20 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 5 21 Serge Baguet (Bel) Quick Step - Innergetic 5 22 Lénaic Olivier (Fra) Agritubel 4 23 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 3 24 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2 Spanish riders classification 1 Carlos García Quesada (Spa) Unibet.com 8.18.04 2 Rodrigo García Rena (Spa) Kaiku 3 Adolfo García Quesada (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 4 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.11 5 Luis Pasamontes Rodríguez (Spa) Unibet.com 6 Manuel Lloret Zaragoza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 25.50 7 Santos Gonzalez Capilla (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 25.54 8 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 27.18 9 Manuel Calvente Corbas (Spa) Agritubel 10 José Mario Almagro Valero (Spa) Relax - Gam 27.20 11 José Luis Martínez Jiménez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 12 Manuel Beltrán Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 27.22 13 Juan Carlos Domínguez Domínguez (Spa) Unibet.com 27.23 14 Antón Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 27.25 15 Jon Bru Pascal (Spa) Kaiku 31.19 16 Manuel Vázquez Hueso (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 17 Ángel Gómez Gómez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 18 Oscar Sevilla Ribera (Spa) T-Mobile Team 19 Manuel Ortega Ocaña (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 20 Francisco Cabello Luque (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 21 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Kaiku 22 Vicente Ballester Martínez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 23 Jorge García Marín (Spa) Relax - Gam 24 Juan Olmo Menacho (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 25 Jesús Hernández (Spa) Relax - Gam 26 Antonio Tauler (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 27 Iker Flores Galarza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 28 Óscar García-Casarrubios (Spa) Relax - Gam 29 Fernando Serrano Sánchez (Spa) Kaiku 30 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 31 Óscar Freire Gómez (Spa) Rabobank 32 Pedro Luis Marichalar (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 33 Vicente Peiró Marqueno (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 31.31 34 Joseba Albizu Lizaso (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 35 Mario De Sárraga (Spa) Relax - Gam 32.06 36 Antonio Olmo Menacho (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 37 Luis Pérez Romero (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 32.18 38 José A López Gil (Spa) Kaiku 33.46 39 Pedro Horrillo Muñoz (Spa) Rabobank 40 Juan Miguel Mercado Martín (Spa) Agritubel 41 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 42 Beñar Albizuri Aransolo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 43 Jesús Buendía (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 44 Francisco José Terciado Sacedo (Spa) Relax - Gam 45 Jorge Ferrio Luque (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 46 Isidro Cerrato López (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 47 Antonio Beresategui Saez (Spa) Kaiku 34.18 48 Koldo Fernández De Larrea (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi Andalusian riders classification 1 Carlos García Quesada (Spa) Unibet.com 8.18.04 2 Adolfo García Quesada (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 3 Manuel Calvente Corbas (Spa) Agritubel 27.18 4 Manuel Beltrán Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 27.22 5 Manuel Vázquez Hueso (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 31.19 6 Manuel Ortega Ocaña (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 7 Francisco Cabello Luque (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 8 Juan Olmo Menacho (Spa) Andalucia - Paul Versan 9 Fernando Serrano Sánchez (Spa) Kaiku 10 Antonio Olmo Menacho (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 32.06 11 José A López Gil (Spa) Kaiku 33.46 12 Juan Miguel Mercado Martín (Spa) Agritubel Teams classification 1 Unibet.com 25.21.46 2 Comunidad Valenciana 25.47 3 Euskaltel - Euskadi 31.21 4 Kaiku 35.04 5 Andalucia - Paul Versan 35.04 6 Saunier Duval - Prodir 35.15 7 3 Molinos Resort 56.57 8 Relax - Gam 1.02.24 9 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.02.26 10 Agritubel 1.03.21 11 Quick Step - Innergetic 1.06.23 12 Team Milram 13 T-Mobile Team 14 Rabobank 1.08.50
