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26th Vuelta a Murcia - 2.1
Spain, March 1-5, 2006
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Stage 1 - March 1: Murcia-Las Torres De Cotilla, 162,2 km
Haussler wins first stage in bunch sprint
Gerolsteiner sprinter Heinrich Haussler has claimed victory in the first stage of the Vuelta a Murcia, beating Ariel Richeze (Ceramica Panaria-Navigare) and Jesus Del Nero (3 Molinos Resort) in a bunch sprint, also taking the first leader's jersey in the five stage race.
The 22 year-old Gerolsteiner rider, who won a stage in the Vuelta a España last year, described himself as "insanely happy" with the result. "I gave it everything I had and it worked out."
How it unfolded
The first stage started in Murcia with the regional vice president, Fernando de la Cierva, together with race director Carmen Guzmán, cutting the ribbon at 11:45. Ricardo Serrano (Kaiku) was not permitted to start, being declared inapt as a result of UCI blood controls in the morning.
The first escape happened after 22 km, when Carlos Castaño (Kaiku) and Manuel Vázquez (Andalucía Paul Versan) attacked, but were only allowed to stay away for five kilometres. Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) won the first intermediate sprint at Fortuna (km 31,30) ahead of Ruben Perez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and Angel Edo (Andalucia-Paul Versan). The peloton then tackled the Cat. 3 climb of Alto Fuente Blanca (km 46,50), where Egoi Martinez (Discovery Channel) crossed first, ahead of Julian Sanchez (Comunidad Valenciana) and Manuel Beltrán (Discovery Channel).
On the second climb, the Alto De Peña Zafra (km 53,60), Ezequiel Mosquera (Comunidad Valenciana) was able to get away alone, gaining 35 seconds at the top. He came back, courtesy of some chasing by Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears, before Rubén Pérez (Euskaltel) escaped with Thorwald Veneberg (Rabobank) at km 62. This was more successful than any previous breakaway, and the pair gained six minutes over the Illes Balears controlled peloton.
Veneberg won the sprint at Cieza (km 126) ahead of Perez, with Valverde taking third place at 3'52. The gap continued to reduce as the race approached the finish in Las Torres De Cotilla, and with 20 km to go it was 1'25. The pair was finally caught with seven kilometres left, and a bunch sprint looked inevitable. Julian Sanchez tried at four kilometres to go, then Marc de Maar went in the final kilometre, but no-one could prevent the sprinters from having their day, and Haussler proved to have the quickest legs.
Courtesy of Antonio J. Salmeron.
Results
1 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4.03.18 2 Ariel Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 3 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.Com 5 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 6 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 7 David Muñoz (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 8 Angel Edo (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 9 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre 10 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Kaiku 11 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 12 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 13 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel 14 Benat Albizuri (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Discovery Channel 16 Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) Unibet.Com 17 Mario De Sarraga (Spa) Relax-Gam 18 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 19 José Adrian Bonilla (CRc) Comunidad Valenciana 20 Pedro Luis Marichalar (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 21 Jose Luis Carrasco (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 22 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 23 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Gam 24 Francisco Perez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 25 Jose Cayetano Julia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 26 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel 27 Oscar Garcia (Spa) Relax-Gam 28 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.Com 29 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 30 Claudio José Casas (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 31 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Discovery Channel 32 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Kaiku 33 Ivan Santos (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 34 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 35 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Unibet.Com 36 Aitor Galdos (Spa) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 37 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.Com 38 Angel Castresana (Spa) Unibet.Com 39 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 40 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 41 Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 42 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 43 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel 44 José Mario Almagro (Spa) Relax-Gam 45 Jan Hruska (Cze) 3 Molinos Resort 46 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 47 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Discovery Channel 48 Ivan Gilmartin (Spa) Kaiku 49 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 50 Alberto Losada (Spa) Kaiku 51 Juan Gomis (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 52 José Antonio Banos (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 53 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 54 Fco. Jose Martinez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 55 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel 56 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre 57 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 58 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Lampre 59 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre 60 Aketza Pena (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 61 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 62 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 63 Carlos Abellan (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 64 José Luis Martinez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 65 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 66 Jaume Rovira (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 67 Julian Sanchez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 68 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre 69 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 70 Manuel Ortega (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 71 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 72 Miguel Angel Rubiano (Col) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 73 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 74 Sergio Dominguez (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 75 Ruben Perez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 76 Joan Horrach (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 77 Anton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 78 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 79 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner 80 Isidro Cerrato (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 81 Marcos Antoni Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 82 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 83 José Antonio Lopez (Spa) Kaiku 84 Niels Scheuneman (Ned) Rabobank 85 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 86 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 87 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 88 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 89 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 90 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 91 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre 92 Florent Brard (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 93 Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) Unibet.Com 94 Kurt V. De Wouwer (Bel) Unibet.Com 95 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 96 Jesus Buendia (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 97 Fco. José Terciado (Spa) Relax-Gam 98 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel 99 Carlos Castaño (Spa) Kaiku 100 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 101 Julio A. Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 102 Jose Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Gam 103 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 104 David Etxebarria (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 105 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 106 Unai Uribarri (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 107 Angel Vallejo (Spa) Relax-Gam 0.25 108 José Martinez (Spa) Relax-Gam 0.32 109 Julio Garcia (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 6.29 110 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Points 1 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 25 pts 2 Ariel Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 20 3 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 16 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.Com 14 5 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 12 6 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 10 7 David Muñoz (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 9 8 Angel Edo (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 8 9 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre 7 10 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Kaiku 6 11 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 5 12 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 13 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel 3 14 Benat Albizuri (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 15 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Discovery Channel 1 Mountains Alto Fuente Blanca - Cat. 3, km 46,50 1 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel 3 pts 2 Julian Sanchez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 2 3 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel 1 Alto De Peña Zafra - Cat. 3, km 53,60 1 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3 pts 2 Julian Sanchez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 2 3 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel 1 Sprints Fortuna, km 31,30 1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 3 pts 2 Ruben Perez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 Angel Edo (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 1 Cieza, km 126,30 1 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 3 pts 2 Ruben Perez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1 Teams 1 Gerolsteiner 12.09.54 2 Unibet.com 3 Discovery Channel 4 Comunidad Valenciana 5 Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 6 Andalucia-Paul Versan 7 Relax-Gam 8 3 Molinos Resort 9 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 10 Kaiku 11 Liberty Seguros - Wurth 12 Rabobank 13 Lampre 14 Euskaltel-Euskadi General classification after stage 1 1 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4.03.18 2 Ariel Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 3 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.Com 5 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 6 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 7 David Muñoz (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 8 Angel Edo (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 9 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre 10 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Kaiku 11 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 12 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 13 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel 14 Benat Albizuri (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Discovery Channel 16 Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) Unibet.Com 17 Mario De Sarraga (Spa) Relax-Gam 18 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 19 José Adrian Bonilla (CRc) Comunidad Valenciana 20 Pedro Luis Marichalar (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 21 Jose Luis Carrasco (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 22 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 23 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Gam 24 Francisco Perez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 25 Jose Cayetano Julia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 26 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel 27 Oscar Garcia (Spa) Relax-Gam 28 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.Com 29 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 30 Claudio José Casas (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 31 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Discovery Channel 32 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Kaiku 33 Ivan Santos (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 34 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 35 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Unibet.Com 36 Aitor Galdos (Spa) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 37 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.Com 38 Angel Castresana (Spa) Unibet.Com 39 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 40 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 41 Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 42 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 43 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel 44 José Mario Almagro (Spa) Relax-Gam 45 Jan Hruska (Cze) 3 Molinos Resort 46 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 47 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Discovery Channel 48 Ivan Gilmartin (Spa) Kaiku 49 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 50 Alberto Losada (Spa) Kaiku 51 Juan Gomis (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 52 José Antonio Banos (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 53 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 54 Fco. Jose Martinez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 55 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel 56 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre 57 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 58 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Lampre 59 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre 60 Aketza Pena (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 61 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 62 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 63 Carlos Abellan (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 64 José Luis Martinez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 65 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 66 Jaume Rovira (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 67 Julian Sanchez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 68 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre 69 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 70 Manuel Ortega (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 71 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 72 Miguel Angel Rubiano (Col) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 73 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 74 Sergio Dominguez (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 75 Ruben Perez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 76 Joan Horrach (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 77 Anton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 78 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 79 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner 80 Isidro Cerrato (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 81 Marcos Antoni Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 82 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 83 José Antonio Lopez (Spa) Kaiku 84 Niels Scheuneman (Ned) Rabobank 85 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 86 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 87 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 88 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 89 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 90 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 91 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre 92 Florent Brard (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 93 Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) Unibet.Com 94 Kurt V. De Wouwer (Bel) Unibet.Com 95 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 96 Jesus Buendia (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 97 Fco. José Terciado (Spa) Relax-Gam 98 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel 99 Carlos Castaño (Spa) Kaiku 100 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 101 Julio A. Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 102 Jose Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Gam 103 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 104 David Etxebarria (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 105 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 106 Unai Uribarri (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 107 Angel Vallejo (Spa) Relax-Gam 0.25 108 José Martinez (Spa) Relax-Gam 0.32 109 Julio Garcia (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 6.29 110 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Points classification 1 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 25 pts 2 Ariel Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 20 3 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 16 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.Com 14 5 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 12 6 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 10 7 David Muñoz (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 9 8 Angel Edo (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 9 9 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre 7 10 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Kaiku 6 11 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 5 12 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 4 13 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 14 Ruben Perez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 15 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 3 16 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel 3 17 Benat Albizuri (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 18 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Discovery Channel 1 Mountains classification 1 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel 4 pts 2 Julian Sanchez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 4 3 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3 4 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel 1 Combination classification 1 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2 pts 2 Ariel Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 4 3 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) 3 Molinos Resort 6 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.Com 8 5 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 10 6 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 12 7 David Muñoz (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 14 8 Angel Edo (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 16 9 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre 18 10 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Kaiku 20 11 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 22 Teams classification 1 Gerolsteiner 12.09.54 2 Unibet.com 3 Discovery Channel 4 Comunidad Valenciana 5 Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 6 Andalucia-Paul Versan 7 Relax-Gam 8 3 Molinos Resort 9 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 10 Kaiku 11 Liberty Seguros - Wurth 12 Rabobank 13 Lampre 14 Euskaltel-Euskadi
