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47th Vuelta al País Vasco - PT
Spain, April 9-14, 2007
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Stage 5 - April 13: Lekunberri - Oiartzun, 169 km
Cobo back in yellow
By Shane Stokes
It may be his birthday but Angel Vicioso, but the Relax-Gam rider received no presents from the Saunier Duval-Prodir team today, with Saunier's Juan José Cobo spoiling the party and taking both the stage win and the overall lead in the Vuelta al País Vasco.
Showing the same climbing ability which won him the opening stage, the 26 year old Spaniard raced to a 1'03 victory over Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi). Cobo’s team-mate Koldo Gil was third, 1 minute and 38 seconds back, while Vicioso had a tough fight and came in 9th, 1’55 down, just enough for the Relax-Gam rider to slip out of yellow by one second.
Cobo was on a mission today, riding aggressively for much of the stage and going clear with twelve others on the Alto de Usategieta. They caught the leading trio of Alberto Contador (Discovery Channel), Aitor Hernández (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and Maxime Monfort (Cofidis) soon afterwards and while a crash destroyed the unity in this front group, he avoided trouble and pressed on with several others.
Cobo then forged ahead with Samuel Sánchez on the first category Jaizkibel and subsequently dropped the Euskaltel-Euskadi rider on the final climb of the day, the Alto de Erlaiz, soloing to the stage win and the overall lead.
That sets things up for an exciting finale tomorrow. The Vuelta al País Vasco concludes with a 14 kilometre time trial in Oiartzun and with Cobo and Vicioso separated by the narrowest of margins, the race against the clock is of crucial importance. Sánchez is third overall but is 1’20 down and surely too far back to challenge for the final honours.
How it unfolded
Today’s penultimate stage was another toughie, with the riders facing more unseasonably bad weather and six categorised climbs along the way from Lekunberri to Oiartzun. The second category Alto de Huitzi and Alto de Usategieta were the first two mountains on the menu, then after a long decent and some flat roads the first cat Alto de Agiña and second category Alto de Aritxulegi lay in wait. After that, the cat 1 Alto de Jaizkibel (best known for its role in the Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian) and the second cat Alto de Erlaiz remained, with a fast 18 kilometre descent down to the finish line.
2005 winner Danilo Di Luca was one those not to take to the start this morning, with team-mate Alessandro Spezialetti, Morris Possoni (Lampre-Fondital), Tour de France stage winner Matthias Kessler (Astana), Bjorn Schröder (Team Milram) and Pierrick Fedrigo (Bouygues Telecom) also not signing on.
First to attack was Vuelta a España King of the Mountains Egoi Martínez (Discovery Channel), the Spaniard launching himself clear after six kilometres. He was joined a little later by Tino Zaballa (Caisse d'Epargne), then 2004 Tour of Britain champ Mauricio Ardila (Rabobank) made it three at the front after some 25 kilometres. He was second to Zaballa in the Meta Volantes sprint one kilometre later.
They were brought back almost immediately, though, after which Paris-Nice and Vuelta a Castilla y Leon winner Alberto Contador went clear on the Alto de Huitzi with Aitor Hernández (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and Maxime Monfort (Cofidis). An energetic Martínez was one of twelve riders who bridged across on the next climb, considerably increasing the size of the break. The other riders were Patxi Vila and Giampaolo Caruso (both Lampre-Fondital), Iñigo Landaluze and Mikel Astarloza (both Euskaltel-Euskadi), Pablo Lastras, David Arroyo and David Pérez (all Caisse d'Epargne), Ezequiel Mosquera (Karpin-Galicia), Anthony Charteau (Crédit Agricole), Oscar Sevilla (Relax-Gam) and Juan José Cobo.
Hernández led Monfort and Cobo over the top of the Alto de Usategieta. At the 64 kilometre point the leaders had a 25 second advantage over the peloton, but their unity was shattered when several of them came down in a crash. Monfort pulled out of the race as a result.
Five riders pressed on, namely Cobo, Lastras, Vila, Charteau and Astarloza and, after 77 kilometres of racing, had a slender 45 second lead over the chasers. Three others then succeeded in getting across, namely Carlos Barredo (QuickStep), David Pérez and Luis Pasamontes (Unibet.com). Cobo was first to the top of the first category Alto de Agiña, ahead of Astarloza, and the two put the hammer down to open up a lead on the others.
They stayed clear over the top of the next climb, the Alto de Aritxulegi, but Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel Euskadi) and Aitor Pérez tore down the descent and made it four in the lead. However, Cobo and Sánchez pressed ahead on a rain-soaked Jaizkibel, opening up a lead of almost a minute and a half over Arrieta and Astarloza by the top. Behind, Koldo Gil (Saunier Duval-Prodir) and 2004 Giro d’Italia winner Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Fondital) were amongst the most active on the climb, putting Vicioso’s Relax team under a lot of pressure.
The gap was almost two and a half minutes at this point. Cobo had started the stage third overall, 1 minute and 54 seconds down, so he was race leader on the road. However, despite the risks taken by Cobo and Sánchez on the wet, foggy descent, the chase group were drawing closer. They reeled in Astarloza and Cunego on the descent and cut the lead to under two minutes before the start of the next climb, the Alto de Erlaiz.
Vicioso was fighting hard to stay in yellow but was soon under attack on the final ascent of the day. Gil, second-placed José Angel Gómez Marchante and Alejandro Valverde (Caisse D’Epargne) got clear of him, and were 26 seconds ahead with about twenty kilometres remaining. Cobo and Sánchez were by now approximately a minute ahead.
Team-mates Marchante and Gil left Valverde and closed the gap to 45 seconds, with the 2006 ProTour winner and Cunego dropping a further 40 seconds back. Cobo then attacked and left Sánchez behind, descending quickly to open up a lead. Behind, Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) and Frank Schleck (CSC) crashed on the downhill and, soon afterwards, Gil and Marchante also hit the ground. They had been close to catching Sánchez at this point but lost their chance.
Marchante was recaptured by the Vicioso group but Gil stayed clear, riding hard all the way to the line. However Cobo was too far ahead, taking the win by 1 minute and 3 seconds over Sánchez. Gil was a further 36 seconds back in third, while Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) took fourth, 1 minute and 50 seconds down. Vicioso was just off the back of this group and lost yellow as a result. The birthday cake is on hold, but he could be celebrating tomorrow if he can pull out a good time trial.
Results
1 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4.18.38 2 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.03 3 Koldo Gil (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.38 4 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 1.50 5 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 7 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 8 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.53 9 Ángel Vicioso (Spa) Relax-GAM 1.55 10 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.57 11 Antonio Colom (Spa) Astana 12 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 2.02 13 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 4.05 14 Manuel Beltrán (Spa) Liquigas 15 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 16 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 4.11 17 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas 18 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4.58 19 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 5.34 20 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 5.56 21 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Crédit Agricole 22 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 23 Iker Camaño (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 24 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 25 Mauricio Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 6.07 26 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-GAM 27 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.26 28 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Relax-GAM 8.58 29 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 30 José Miguel Elías (Spa) Relax-GAM 31 José Lui Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 9.00 33 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 9.01 34 Rubén Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 35 Bingen Fernández (Spa) Cofidis 36 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis 9.17 37 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 14.10 38 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 39 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 40 Michael Barry (Can) T-Mobile 41 Rubén Lobato (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 42 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis 43 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 44 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 14.14 45 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Crédit Agricole 15.06 46 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 47 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 48 Gustav Erik Larsson (Sui) Unibet.com 49 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Astana 50 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 51 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram 52 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quickstep-Innergetic 53 Francisco Pérez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 54 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 55 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 15.14 56 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quickstep-Innergetic 15.22 57 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 19.58 58 Scott Davis (Aus) T-Mobile 59 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 60 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 20.00 61 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 62 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 63 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20.02 64 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 26.21 65 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Milram 26.22 66 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 67 Ian McLeod (RSA) Française Des Jeux 68 Julien Mazet (Fra) Astana 69 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Milram 70 Iker Flores (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 71 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 72 Vicente Ballester (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 73 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 74 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 75 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 76 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 77 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 78 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 79 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 80 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 81 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 82 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 83 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 84 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 85 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel 86 Dailos Diaz Armas (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 87 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis 88 Ivan Parra (Col) Cofidis 89 Iñigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 90 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 91 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 92 Ángel Vallejo (Spa) Relax-GAM 93 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne Mountains Alto de Huitzi (Cat 3 - km 35) 1 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 3 pts 2 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 1 Alto de Usategieta (Cat 2 - km 40) 1 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 pts 2 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 4 3 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 4 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Alto de Agiña (Cat 1 - km 97) 1 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10 pts 2 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8 3 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quickstep-Innergetic 6 4 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 4 5 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 6 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 1 Alto de Aritxulegi (Cat 2 - km 105.5) 1 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 pts 2 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 3 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 4 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Alto de Jaizkibel (Cat 1 - km 132) 1 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 pts 2 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 8 3 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 4 5 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 6 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Alto de Erlaitz (Cat 2 - km 151.5) 1 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 pts 2 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 3 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 4 Koldo Gil (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 Sprints Venta de Mugirro (Km. 26) 1 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3 pts 2 Mauricio Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 2 3 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel 1 Lezo (Km. 122.5) 1 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 pts 2 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 Irun (Km. 144.5) 1 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 pts 2 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 3 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-GAM 1 Regularidad 1 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 pts 2 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20 3 Koldo Gil (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 4 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 14 5 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 12 6 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 10 7 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 9 8 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 8 9 Ángel Vicioso (Spa) Relax-GAM 7 10 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 11 Antonio Colom (Spa) Astana 5 12 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 4 13 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 3 14 Manuel Beltrán (Spa) Liquigas 2 15 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 1 Teams 1 Saunier Duval - Prodir 13.02.30 2 Caisse D'Epargne 3.07 3 Euskaltel - Euskadi 9.51 4 Relax - GAM 10.24 5 Lampre - Fondital 11.17 6 Liquigas 16.54 7 Rabobank 19.37 8 Credit Agricole 20.22 9 Cofidis, le credit par telephone 25.52 10 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 30.48 11 Team CSC 35.46 12 Astana 36.49 13 Quick Step - Innergetic 38.58 14 T- Mobile Team 47.32 15 Karpin - Galizia 50.19 16 Française Des Jeux 51.42 17 Unibet.com 54.50 18 Team Milram 1.01.14 19 Bouygues Telecom 1.06.08 20 Fuerteventura - Canarias 1.12.30 General classification after stage five 1 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 21.34.58 2 Ángel Vicioso (Spa) Relax-GAM 0.01 3 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.20 4 Koldo Gil (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.53 5 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 2.05 6 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2.07 7 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 8 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 2.09 9 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.16 10 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2.24 11 Antonio Colom (Spa) Astana 2.47 12 Manuel Beltrán (Spa) Liquigas 4.31 13 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4.50 14 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 5.11 15 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 5.22 16 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 6.09 17 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-GAM 6.56 18 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7.52 19 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 8.20 20 Iker Camaño (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 8.22 21 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 8.24 22 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 10.09 23 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas 10.52 24 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 11.08 25 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 11.12 26 José Miguel Elías (Spa) Relax-GAM 11.47 27 Mauricio Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 12.55 28 Bingen Fernández (Spa) Cofidis 14.18 29 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 16.29 30 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Crédit Agricole 18.00 31 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 19.54 32 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 23.40 33 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 24.10 34 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quickstep-Innergetic 25.07 35 José Lui Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 27.01 36 Francisco Pérez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 27.59 37 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quickstep-Innergetic 29.26 38 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 29.33 39 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 29.49 40 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 30.11 41 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 31.31 42 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 31.51 43 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 31.57 44 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram 32.07 45 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Relax-GAM 34.25 46 Rubén Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 36.59 47 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 37.43 48 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 42.13 49 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis 43.32 50 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 43.53 51 Gustav Erik Larsson (Sui) Unibet.com 44.01 52 Ángel Vallejo (Spa) Relax-GAM 44.43 53 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 45.24 54 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis 46.02 55 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 46.09 56 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 46.29 57 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 47.02 58 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 47.34 59 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 60 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 48.57 61 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 49.02 62 Ivan Parra (Col) Cofidis 49.21 63 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Astana 51.55 64 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 52.30 65 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Crédit Agricole 53.16 66 Iker Flores (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 53.48 67 Dailos Diaz Armas (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 54.04 68 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 56.56 69 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis 56.57 70 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 58.02 71 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 58.39 72 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 58.46 73 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Milram 59.07 74 Michael Barry (Can) T-Mobile 59.53 75 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.00.16 76 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.00.59 77 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 78 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.06.15 79 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 1.06.38 80 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.07.59 81 Rubén Lobato (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.10.38 82 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 1.10.54 83 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel 1.14.44 84 Iñigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.17.26 85 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 1.18.25 86 Scott Davis (Aus) T-Mobile 1.24.09 87 Vicente Ballester (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 1.24.43 88 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 1.24.59 89 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1.25.09 90 Ian McLeod (RSA) Française Des Jeux 1.32.34 91 Julien Mazet (Fra) Astana 1.32.41 92 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Milram 1.32.43 Mountains classification 1 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 53 pts 2 Manuel Beltrán (Spa) Liquigas 40 3 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 39 4 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 38 5 Javier Ramírez (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 23 6 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 22 7 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19 8 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quickstep-Innergetic 19 9 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana 19 10 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-GAM 17 11 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 17 12 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 15 13 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 15 14 Mauricio Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 14 15 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 16 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 17 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 9 18 Carl Naibo (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 8 19 Koldo Gil (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7 20 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Milram 6 21 Vicente Ballester (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 6 22 Addy Engels (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic 5 23 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 4 24 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 25 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 4 26 Iker Camaño (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 27 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 4 28 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 29 Ángel Vicioso (Spa) Relax-GAM 3 30 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 3 31 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 3 32 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel 3 33 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3 34 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel 3 35 Dario Cioni (Ita) Predictor-Lotto 2 36 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2 37 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 38 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 1 39 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 40 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 1 41 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 42 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 1 43 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel 1 Sprint classification 1 Iker Flores (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 9 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 9 3 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 8 4 Vicente Ballester (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 6 5 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 6 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 7 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 8 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quickstep-Innergetic 5 9 Javier Ramírez (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 4 10 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3 11 Manuel Beltrán (Spa) Liquigas 3 12 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 13 Carl Naibo (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 3 14 Mauricio Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 2 15 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 2 16 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2 17 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2 18 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana 2 19 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Milram 2 20 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 2 21 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 2 22 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 23 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-GAM 2 24 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 25 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 26 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel 1 27 José Lui Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 1 Regularidad classification 1 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 62 pts 2 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 50 3 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 46 4 Ángel Vicioso (Spa) Relax-GAM 42 5 Koldo Gil (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 37 6 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 35 7 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 35 8 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 32 9 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 30 10 Manuel Beltrán (Spa) Liquigas 27 11 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 26 12 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 25 13 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 25 14 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 20 15 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 20 16 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-GAM 17 17 Iker Camaño (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 18 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 14 19 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 13 20 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 13 21 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 10 22 José Lui Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 9 23 Iker Flores (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 6 24 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5 25 Antonio Colom (Spa) Astana 5 26 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 5 27 Dario Cioni (Ita) Predictor-Lotto 4 28 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 4 29 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 3 30 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Relax-GAM 3 31 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 2 Team classification 1 Saunier Duval - Prodir 64.48.57 2 Caisse D'Epargne 9.35.00 3 Lampre - Fondital 9.53 4 Relax - GAM 14.07 5 Euskaltel - Euskadi 20.37 6 Liquigas 26.14 7 Credit Agricole 39.38 8 Rabobank 51.51 9 Cofidis, le credit par telephone 56.46 10 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 57.10 11 Team CSC 57.15 12 Astana 13 Quick Step - Innergetic 58.29 14 T- Mobile Team 1.29.02 15 Française Des Jeux 1.32.54 16 Unibet.com 1.42.58 17 Karpin - Galizia 1.49.53 18 Team Milram 1.57.19 19 Bouygues Telecom 2.10.46 20 Fuerteventura - Canarias 2.18.41
