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47th Vuelta al País Vasco - PT
Spain, April 9-14, 2007
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Stage 6 - April 14: Oiartzun - Oiartzun, 14 km
Cobo races to overall victory, Sánchez nails TT win
By Shane Stokes
Pulling out a strong time trial on the final day of the Vuelta al País Vasco, Juan José Cobo (Saunier Duval-Prodir) finished a determined third in the 14 kilometre race against the clock and ran out the overall winner of the 2.HC race.
Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) proved quickest in the test around Oiartzun, beating Paris-Nice winner Alberto Contador (Discovery Channel) by two seconds, but Cobo was just two seconds further back. Closest challenger Ángel Vicioso (Relax-GAM) had started the day just one second down but couldn’t match Cobo in the time trial, finishing 36 seconds slower in sixth place.
The Saunier Duval-Prodir rider has had an excellent week, racing to victory on the opening day and then seizing yellow from Vicioso when winning yesterday’s mountain stage. Counting the overall classification, he’s taken three victories in six days; not bad going for the 29 year old who, until this week, had no pro wins to his credit.
Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Fondital) showed he is becoming more consistent on the TT bike, finishing 14 seconds behind Sánchez in fourth. This was eight seconds quicker than Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne), who seems to be slightly off the form he showed earlier this spring when winning the Tours of Valencia and Murcia. His first season targets of Amstel Gold, Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège are fast approaching, and a clearer view of his form will be seen there.
Cobo finished 37 seconds ahead of Vicioso in the general classification, with Sánchez taking third, 1’16 back. Cunego showed his form is on the up prior to the Giro d’Italia in taking fourth overall, with Ardennes Classics favourites Valverde and Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) next in standings.
Cobo’s consistency saw him take the points jersey ahead of Sánchez, while Aitor Hernández (Euskaltel Euskadi) won the mountains classification. Saunier Duval – Prodir and Iker Flores (Fuerteventura-Canarias) captured the team and metas volantes (hot spot sprints) prizes.
"The six days have been hard, but today has been incredible," Cobo told the EFE news agency after the stage. "In spite of being only 14 kilometres, I suffered as much as yesterday or the first day."
His exertions on stage five were part of the reason for that, but so too the fact that he was not content to just beat Vicioso in the race against the clock. "I was trying to win the time trial, even if the overall victory is already something impressive.
"Everyone said to me beforehand to be calm, that I had already won two stages and if I lost, it didn’t matter. To win a stage race is not something everyone can do, or which happens every day." However he said that this approach enabled him to put aside any pressure he was feeling and to give it everything in the time trial.
Cobo came into the race knowing he was in good form, having got third in the Vuelta a Castilla y León, but was prepared to work for his team-mates Jose Angel Gomez Marchante and Koldo Gil. "I said this it from the first day. In principle, I arrived to help Marchante and Gil, but I attacked on the first day, got the victory and built on that."
How it unfolded
Aitor Hernández held the provisional best time for quite a while when he covered the 14 kilometre distance in 22’31. Time trial specialists such as Bobby Julich and Jens Voigt (CSC) came and went but couldn’t improve on this mark. Discovery Channel’s Egoi Martinez eventually went eight-odd seconds quicker but was subsequently knocked off the top spot by his own team-mate
Alberto Contador, the Paris-Nice winner racing to an excellent time of 21’38. Cunego showed improving TT abilities when he posted a 21’50 to go provisional second, with Valverde third, but Sanchez was on an inspired ride. He was just behind Contador at the timecheck near the halfway point, seven seconds back, and pulled out all the stops on second half of the course to clock a final time of 21’36, two seconds quicker than the Discovery rider.
Cobo was also going well, leading his main GC rival Vicioso by thirteen seconds at the intermediate timecheck. He continued to gain time all the way to the line, edging ahead of Cunego to take third on the stage and seal his overall victory. Vicioso took sixth but had enough of a buffer to hold off Sánchez for second in the general classification.
Results
1 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21.36.00 (38.89 km/h) 2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 0.02 3 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.04 4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 0.14 5 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.22 6 Ángel Vicioso (Spa) Relax-GAM 0.40 7 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.41 8 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel 0.47 9 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 10 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 0.55 11 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 0.56 13 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.01 14 Antonio Colom (Spa) Astana 1.04 15 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.06 16 Iker Camaño (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.07 17 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1.08 18 Gustav Erik Larsson (Sui) Unibet.com 1.17 19 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.18 20 José Lui Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 1.19 21 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 1.30 22 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 23 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-GAM 1.36 24 Ángel Vallejo (Spa) Relax-GAM 1.39 25 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas 1.40 26 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 1.42 27 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 1.44 28 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 1.47 29 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Relax-GAM 1.51 30 Koldo Gil (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.52 31 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Crédit Agricole 1.56 32 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 2.07 33 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 34 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 2.08 35 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis 2.09 36 Mauricio Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 2.12 37 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Ag2r Prévoyance 2.13 38 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 39 Julien Mazet (Fra) Astana 2.18 40 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Crédit Agricole 2.19 41 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.20 42 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 43 Manuel Beltrán (Spa) Liquigas 2.28 44 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 2.29 45 Vicente Ballester (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 2.32 46 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.33 47 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 2.38 48 Ivan Parra (Col) Cofidis 2.39 49 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.41 50 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 51 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quickstep-Innergetic 2.42 52 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 53 Rubén Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 54 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 2.43 55 Bingen Fernández (Spa) Cofidis 2.44 56 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Astana 2.45 57 José Miguel Elías (Spa) Relax-GAM 2.46 58 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.47 59 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 2.48 60 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram 2.49 61 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quickstep-Innergetic 62 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 2.55 63 Dailos Diaz Armas (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 2.56 64 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 65 Michael Barry (Can) T-Mobile 2.59 66 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3.03 67 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.06 68 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 3.08 69 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile 3.09 70 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 3.12 71 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3.13 72 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis 3.17 73 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 3.20 74 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 75 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 76 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.21 77 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Milram 78 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 3.26 79 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Milram 3.31 80 Iker Flores (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 3.36 81 Scott Davis (Aus) T-Mobile 3.45 82 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 3.49 83 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 3.51 84 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 3.56 85 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 86 Rubén Lobato (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.57 87 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis 4.06 88 Ian McLeod (RSA) Française Des Jeux 4.07 89 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 4.40 90 Iñigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.02 91 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.51 Teams 1 Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.06.40 2 Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.04 3 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.16 4 Caisse D'Epargne 0.54 5 Lampre - Fondital 1.00 6 Relax - GAM 2.03 7 Team CSC 2.33 8 Liquigas 4.03 9 Astana 4.15 10 Credit Agricole 4.30 11 Rabobank 5.30 12 Predictor - Lotto 5.31 13 Cofidis, le credit par telephone 5.40 14 Unibet.com 15 AG2R Prevoyance 5.42 16 Bouygues Telecom 6.18 17 Quick Step - Innergetic 6.51 18 Française Des Jeux 7.02 19 Fuerteventura - Canarias 7.12 20 Team Milram 7.49 21 T- Mobile Team 8.01 22 Karpin - Galizia 9.26 Regularidad 1 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25 pts 2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 20 3 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 14 5 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 12 6 Ángel Vicioso (Spa) Relax-GAM 10 7 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 9 8 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel 8 9 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 7 10 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 6 11 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 12 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 4 13 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 14 Antonio Colom (Spa) Astana 2 15 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Final General classification 1 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 21.56.38 2 Ángel Vicioso (Spa) Relax-GAM 0.37 3 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.16 4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.26 5 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2.42 6 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 2.50 7 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 2.57 8 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 3.13 9 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3.21 10 Koldo Gil (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.41 11 Antonio Colom (Spa) Astana 3.47 12 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5.27 13 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 6.02 14 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 6.07 15 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 6.48 16 Manuel Beltrán (Spa) Liquigas 6.55 17 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-GAM 8.28 18 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.49 19 Iker Camaño (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 9.25 20 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 10.23 21 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 11.46 22 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 11.49 23 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 12.10 24 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas 12.28 25 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 13.37 26 José Miguel Elías (Spa) Relax-GAM 14.29 27 Mauricio Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 15.03 28 Bingen Fernández (Spa) Cofidis 16.58 29 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 18.07 30 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Crédit Agricole 20.15 31 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel 23.47 32 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quickstep-Innergetic 27.45 33 José Lui Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 28.14 34 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Ag2r Prévoyance 30.37 35 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quickstep-Innergetic 32.11 36 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 37 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 32.28 38 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 32.40 39 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 32.57 40 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 34.25 41 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram 34.52 42 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 35.18 43 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Relax-GAM 36.12 44 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 38.46 45 Rubén Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 39.37 46 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 41.28 47 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 44.16 48 Gustav Erik Larsson (Sui) Unibet.com 45.14 49 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 45.36 50 Ángel Vallejo (Spa) Relax-GAM 46.18 51 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis 46.45 52 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis 48.07 53 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 48.38 54 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 48.41 55 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 48.52 56 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 49.00 57 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 49.30 58 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 49.39 59 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 50.09 60 Ivan Parra (Col) Cofidis 51.56 61 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 52.04 62 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 52.13 63 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Astana 54.36 64 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Crédit Agricole 55.08 65 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 55.39 66 Dailos Diaz Armas (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 56.56 67 Iker Flores (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 57.20 68 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 59.37 69 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 1.00.48 70 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 1.00.53 71 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis 1.00.59 72 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.02.32 73 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Milram 1.02.34 74 Michael Barry (Can) T-Mobile 1.02.48 75 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.03.36 76 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.03.51 77 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.08.31 78 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 1.09.54 79 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.13.46 80 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 1.14.10 81 Rubén Lobato (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.14.31 82 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile 1.16.24 83 Iñigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.22.24 84 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 1.23.01 85 Vicente Ballester (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 1.27.11 86 Scott Davis (Aus) T-Mobile 1.27.50 87 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1.28.08 88 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 1.28.51 89 Julien Mazet (Fra) Astana 1.34.55 90 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Milram 1.36.00 91 Ian McLeod (RSA) Française Des Jeux 1.36.37 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 Intermiediate 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 Points classification 1 Juan José Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 78 pts 2 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 71 3 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 59 4 Ángel Vicioso (Spa) Relax-GAM 52 5 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 47 6 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 42 7 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 40 8 Koldo Gil (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 37 9 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 34 10 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 33 11 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 32 12 Manuel Beltrán (Spa) Liquigas 27 13 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 25 14 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 25 15 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 21 16 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 20 17 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 19 18 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-GAM 17 19 Iker Camaño (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 20 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Ag2r Prévoyance 14 21 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 14 22 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 10 23 José Lui Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 9 24 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel 8 25 Antonio Colom (Spa) Astana 7 26 Iker Flores (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 6 27 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 5 28 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 29 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 4 30 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 3 31 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 32 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Relax-GAM 3 33 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 2 Team classification 1 Saunier Duval - Prodir 65.55.37 2 Caisse D'Epargne 10.29 3 Lampre - Fondital 10.53 4 Relax - GAM 16.10 5 Euskaltel - Euskadi 20.41 6 Liquigas 30.09 7 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 40.00 8 Credit Agricole 44.08 9 Rabobank 57.21 10 Team CSC 59.48 11 Astana 1.01.30 12 Cofidis, le credit par telephone 1.02.26 13 Quick Step - Innergetic 1.05.20 14 AG2R Prevoyance 1.11.23 15 Predictor - Lotto 1.14.21 16 T- Mobile Team 1.37.03 17 Française Des Jeux 1.39.56 18 Unibet.com 1.48.38 19 Karpin - Galizia 1.59.19 20 Team Milram 2.05.08 21 Bouygues Telecom 2.17.04 22 Fuerteventura - Canarias 2.25.53
