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47th Vuelta Ciclista a la Rioja - 2.1
Spain, April 27-29, 2007
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Stage 1 - April 27: Lardero-Calahorra, 150.4 km
Loddo opens his account
By Monika Prell
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Italian Alberto Loddo (Selle Italia) has won the first stage of the Vuelta a la Rioja from Lardero to Calahorra. In a mass sprint, he got the better of Portuguese rider Candido Barbosa (Liberty Seguros) and the Russian Alexei Markov (Caisse d'Epargne).
Ninety-three riders signed on for stage one, starting at the sports centre in Lardero. In front of the presentation stage, a large queue formed as the riders relaxed, drank coffee, read newspapers and teased each other. Today's parcours was not overly difficult, 150km with just the third category Alto de Montaña de Galilea coming after 23.7 km. The only non-starter was Gustav Larsson (Unibet.com).
Attacks began at kilometre six, Luis Pérez (Andalucía-Cajasur) going away solo and reaching a maximum advantage of 1'10 over the peloton. His escape was short-lived, however, and after 14 kilometres it was all back together.
At the summit of Alto de Montaña de Galilea, Pablo Urtasun (Liberty Seguros) crossed first followed by Vladimir Karpets (Caisse d'Epargne) and Manuel Ortega (Andalucía - Cajasur).
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Next to attack, at 34 kilometres covered, was Pablo de Pedro (Grupo Nicolas Mateos) - his only reason surely being to see the fantastic landscape earlier than his team-mates. At the first intermediate sprint in Pradejon, de Pedro had an advantage of 6'05 to the peloton and 3'30 to lone pursuer Steven Cozza (Slipstream).
With de Pedro's advantage sky-rocketing to a maximum of 12 minutes, the peloton decided enough was enough and that stage one would be decided with a bunch sprint in Calahorra. Orbea, Selle Italia and the three ProTour teams - Euskaltel-Euskadi, Unibet and Caisse d'Epargne - all joined forces, working hard to reach the two escapees.
By kilometre 76 Cozza had been captured but it was not until three kilometres from the finish that de Pedro was finally swept up, a bunch sprint the only possibility from here. Selle Italia then sent their train into overdrive giving Loddo a perfect leadout for the stage and overall leader's jersey.
And despite crossing the line in 91st and last position, some 30 seconds after the winner, de Pedro was rewarded with the intermediate sprints jersey after his exhausting 130km breakaway.
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- Team Slipstream riders joking around at the start.
- Caisse d'Epargne and Selle Italia keep the two breakaway riders within reach.
- Today's parcours wasn't hard enough to cause any real selections.
- Alberto Loddo (Selle Italia) wins stage one.
- Pablo Urtasun (Liberty Seguros) leads the mountains classification.
- Pablo de Pedro (Grupo Nicolas Mateos) was rewarded for his long breakaway with the sprints jersey.
- Alberto Loddo (Selle Italia) is the first leader of the 47th Vuelta Ciclista a la Rioja.
Images by Monika Prell/Cyclingnews
- Beñat Intxausti (Grupo Nicolas Mateos) catches up on some news before the start.
- Dionisio Galparsoro (Euskaltel-Euskadi)
- The free coffee was too much to resist for some riders.
- Stage winner Alberto Loddo salutes from the podium.
- Loddo lets rip with the Champagne.
- The four jersey wearers after stage one.
Results
1 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 3.37.02 (41.579 km/h) 2 Candido Barbosa (Por) Liberty Seguros 3 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 4 Simon Edgarco (Arg) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 5 David Herrero (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 6 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 7 Joaquin Sobrino (Spa) Relax-GAM 8 Manuel Ortega (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 9 Joaquin Ortega (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 10 Jesus Rosendo (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 11 Diego Milan (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 12 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13 Xabat Otxotorena (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 14 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 Juan Jose Oroz (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 16 David Bernabeu (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 17 Iker Leonet (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 18 Gonzalo Rabunal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 19 Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 20 Javier Cherro (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 21 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Team Slipstream 22 Enrique Salgueiro (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 23 Carlos Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 24 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 25 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-GAM 26 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Liberty Seguros 27 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 28 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 29 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 30 Miguel Ochoa (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 31 Luis Perez Romero (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 32 Denis Kudashev (Rus) Relax-GAM 33 Jorge Perez (Spa) Relax-GAM 34 Alberto Losada (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 35 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 36 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 37 Dailos Manuel Diaz (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 38 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 39 Jorge Garcia (Spa) Relax-GAM 40 Eloy Teruel (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 41 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 42 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream 43 Manuel Lloret (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 44 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 45 William Frischkorn (USA) Team Slipstream 46 Julen Zubero (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 47 Oscar Garcia (Spa) Relax-GAM 48 José Antonio Lopez (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 49 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 50 Sergi Escobar (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 51 Aaron Villegas (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 52 Marcos A. Serrano (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 53 Antonio Piedra (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 54 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 55 Filipe Cardoso (Por) Liberty Seguros 56 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 57 Serafin Martinez (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 58 Jason Donald (USA) Team Slipstream 59 Michal Golas (Pol) Unibet.com 60 Fco. Jose Martinez (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 61 Javier Echarri (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 62 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 63 Jonathan P. Mc Carty (USA) Team Slipstream 64 Fco. José Terciado (Spa) Relax-GAM 65 Juan C. Carinena (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 66 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 67 David Garcia (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 68 Jose Rafael Martinez (Spa) Relax-GAM 69 Huub Duyn (Ned) Team Slipstream 70 Ivan Melero (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 71 Josu Agirre (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 72 Jordi Grau (Spa) Liberty Seguros 73 Beñat Intxausti (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 74 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 75 Gil Suray (Bel) Unibet.com 76 David Belda (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 77 Joseba Zumeta (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 78 Tyler Butterfield (Ber) Team Slipstream 79 Ivan Degasperi (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 80 Mattia Turrina (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 81 Luis Pinheiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 82 Fabio Borghesi (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 83 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Unibet.com 84 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 85 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 86 Andoni Lafuente (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.18 87 José Antonio Baños (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 0.22 88 César Quiterio (Por) Liberty Seguros 0.25 89 Denis Bertolini (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 0.27 90 Bruno Bertolini (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 91 Pablo De Pedro (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 0.36 Points 1 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 25 pts 2 Candido Barbosa (Por) Liberty Seguros 20 3 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 16 4 Simon Edgarco (Arg) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 14 5 David Herrero (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 12 6 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 10 7 Joaquin Sobrino (Spa) Relax-GAM 9 8 Manuel Ortega (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 8 9 Joaquin Ortega (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 7 10 Jesus Rosendo (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 6 11 Diego Milan (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 5 12 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 13 Xabat Otxotorena (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 3 14 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 15 Juan Jose Oroz (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 1 Mountains Alto de Galilea (cat. 3), km 23.7 1 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Liberty Seguros 3 pts 2 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 2 3 Manuel Ortega (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 1 Sprints Pradejon, km 51.4 1 Pablo De Pedro (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 3 pts 2 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream 2 3 César Quiterio (Por) Liberty Seguros 1 Alfaro, km 122.1 1 Pablo De Pedro (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 3 pts 2 César Quiterio (Por) Liberty Seguros 2 3 Jesus Rosendo (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 1 Teams 1 Andalucia-Cajasur 10.51.06 2 Fuerteventura-Canarias 3 Karpin-Galicia 4 Liberty Seguros 5 Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 Caisse d'Epargne 7 Relax-GAM 8 Orbea-Oreka SFA 9 Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 10 Grupo Nicolas Mateos 11 Unibet.com 12 Team Slipstream General classification after stage 1 1 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 3.37.02 2 Candido Barbosa (Por) Liberty Seguros 3 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 4 Simon Edgarco (Arg) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 5 David Herrero (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 6 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 7 Joaquin Sobrino (Spa) Relax-GAM 8 Manuel Ortega (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 9 Joaquin Ortega (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 10 Jesus Rosendo (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 11 Diego Milan (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 12 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13 Xabat Otxotorena (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 14 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 Juan Jose Oroz (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 16 David Bernabeu (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 17 Iker Leonet (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 18 Gonzalo Rabunal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 19 Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 20 Javier Cherro (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 21 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Team Slipstream 22 Enrique Salgueiro (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 23 Carlos Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 24 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 25 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-GAM 26 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Liberty Seguros 27 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 28 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 29 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 30 Miguel Ochoa (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 31 Luis Perez Romero (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 32 Denis Kudashev (Rus) Relax-GAM 33 Jorge Perez (Spa) Relax-GAM 34 Alberto Losada (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 35 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 36 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 37 Dailos Manuel Diaz (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 38 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 39 Jorge Garcia (Spa) Relax-GAM 40 Eloy Teruel (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 41 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 42 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream 43 Manuel Lloret (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 44 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 45 William Frischkorn (USA) Team Slipstream 46 Julen Zubero (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 47 Oscar Garcia (Spa) Relax-GAM 48 José Antonio Lopez (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 49 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 50 Sergi Escobar (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 51 Aaron Villegas (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 52 Marcos A. Serrano (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 53 Antonio Piedra (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 54 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 55 Filipe Cardoso (Por) Liberty Seguros 56 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 57 Serafin Martinez (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 58 Jason Donald (USA) Team Slipstream 59 Michal Golas (Pol) Unibet.com 60 Fco. Jose Martinez (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 61 Javier Echarri (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 62 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 63 Jonathan P. Mc Carty (USA) Team Slipstream 64 Fco. José Terciado (Spa) Relax-GAM 65 Juan C. Carinena (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 66 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 67 David Garcia (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 68 Jose Rafael Martinez (Spa) Relax-GAM 69 Huub Duyn (Ned) Team Slipstream 70 Ivan Melero (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 71 Josu Agirre (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 72 Jordi Grau (Spa) Liberty Seguros 73 Beñat Intxausti (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 74 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 75 Gil Suray (Bel) Unibet.com 76 David Belda (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 77 Joseba Zumeta (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 78 Tyler Butterfield (Ber) Team Slipstream 79 Ivan Degasperi (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 80 Mattia Turrina (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 81 Luis Pinheiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 82 Fabio Borghesi (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 83 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Unibet.com 84 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 85 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 86 Andoni Lafuente (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.18 87 José Antonio Baños (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 0.22 88 César Quiterio (Por) Liberty Seguros 0.25 89 Denis Bertolini (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 0.27 90 Bruno Bertolini (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 91 Pablo De Pedro (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 0.36 Points classification 1 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 25 pts 2 Candido Barbosa (Por) Liberty Seguros 20 3 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 16 4 Simon Edgarco (Arg) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 14 5 David Herrero (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 12 6 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 10 7 Joaquin Sobrino (Spa) Relax-GAM 9 8 Manuel Ortega (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 8 9 Joaquin Ortega (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 7 10 Jesus Rosendo (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 6 11 Diego Milan (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 5 12 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 13 Xabat Otxotorena (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 3 14 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 15 Juan Jose Oroz (Spa) Orbea-Oreka SDA 1 Mountains classification 1 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Liberty Seguros 3 pts 2 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 2 3 Manuel Ortega (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 1 Sprints classification 1 Pablo De Pedro (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 6 pts 2 César Quiterio (Por) Liberty Seguros 3 3 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream 2 4 Jesus Rosendo (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 1 Under 23 classification 1 Diego Milan (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 2 Miguel Ochoa (Spa) Grupo Nicolas Mateos 3 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream 4 Antonio Piedra (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 5 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com Teams classification 1 Andalucia-Cajasur 10.51.06 2 Fuerteventura-Canarias 3 Karpin-Galicia 4 Liberty Seguros 5 Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 Caisse d'Epargne 7 Relax-GAM 8 Orbea-Oreka SDA 9 Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni 10 Grupo Nicolas Mateos 11 Unibet.com 12 Team Slipstream
