Recently on Cyclingnews.com |
 Mt Hood Classic Photo ©: Swift |
GP Tell - 2.2Ncup
Switzerland, August 22-26, 2007
Main Page Results Overall standings Previous Stage Next Stage
Stage 1 - August 23: Littau - Littau, 148.7km
Boaro takes Italian victory
By Andreas Oppliger
Today's Stage 1 was characterized by a very nervous progress amongst the Nations Cup peloton. In the first half an hour at least half a dozen riders or groups of riders attempted to break away, but none were succeeded. Finally Stefano Pirazzi, one of the Italian team's best riders, enjoyed some luck and managed to take an advantage of nearly five minutes over a short distance.
Pirazzi's quick getaway caused alarm bells to ring throughout the peloton, with riders keen on taking the title in Arosa knowing action was required to prevent the Italian from taking a runaway victory. As quick as Pirazzi escaped the pack, the peloton brought him back to reality.
The riders then arrived at the category two climb, around 35 kilometres away from the finish line in Littau, where the peloton shattered into three groups. Swiss winner of the Thüringen Rundfahrt, Matthias Frank, managed to take the mountains points and will wear the mountain's jersey on Stage 2 as a result.
Only four kilometres from the finish Italy's Manuele Boaro and France's Jérôme Coppel put a small gap between them and the field. The pair managed to hold on to a few seconds of that advantage all the way to Littau, with Boaro put his front wheel only a few centimetres in front of Coppel to take victory.
Boaro's stage victory also secured the Italian the general classification lead.
Results
1 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Italian National Team 3.39.23 (40.668 km/h) 2 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) French National Team 3 Michael Morkov (Den) Danish National Team 0.05 4 Tim Vermeersch (Bel) Belgian National Team 5 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Italian National Team 6 Pawel Wachnik (Pol) Polish National Team 7 Cyril Gautier (Fra) French National Team 8 Andris Buividas (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 9 Salvatore Mancuso (Ita) Italian National Team 10 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 11 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 12 Christoph Sokoll (Aut) Austrian National Team 13 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Russian National Team 14 Robel Tedros (Aut) Austrian National Team 15 Martin Kohler (Swi) Swiss National Team 16 Reto Holenstein (Swi) Swiss National Team 17 Nico Graf (Ger) German National Team 18 Laurent Beuret (Swi) Swiss National Team Two 19 Clemens Fankhauser (Aut) Austrian National Team 20 Pawel Cieslik (Pol) Polish National Team 21 Carlos Sabido (Por) Portuguese National Team 22 Romain Zingle (Bel) Belgian National Team 23 Julien Simon (Fra) French National Team 24 Christopher Froome (Ken) Mixed Team 25 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Danish National Team 26 Mathias Frank (Swi) Swiss National Team 27 Elias Schmaeh (Swi) Swiss National Team 28 Loïc Muhlemann (Swi) Swiss National Team Two 29 Anton Reshetnikov (Rus) Russian National Team 30 Michel Kreder (Ned) Dutch National Team 31 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Italian National Team 32 Niki Ostergaard (Den) Danish National Team 33 Jakob Bering (Den) Danish National Team 34 Biel Kadri (Fra) French National Team 35 César Fonte (Por) Portuguese National Team 36 Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Latvian National Team 37 Nino Schurter (Swi) Swiss National Team 38 Tony Gallopin (Fra) French National Team 39 Janick Wysler (Swi) Swiss National Team Two 40 Dalivier Ospina (Col) Mixed Team 41 Thomas Vedel Kvist (Den) Danish National Team 42 Mathieu Deschenaux (Swi) Swiss National Team 43 Alexey Esin (Rus) Russian National Team 44 Cyril Bessy (Fra) French National Team 45 Alberto Contoli (Ita) Italian National Team 46 Alexandre Shushemoin (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 0.26 47 Mathias Belka (Ger) German National Team 1.43 48 Maciej Paterski (Pol) Polish National Team 4.23 49 Dmytro Nowosad (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 50 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) Mixed Team 51 Carlo Kirsch (Lux) Luxembourg National Team 52 Sander Armee (Bel) Belgian National Team 53 Peter Salon (USA) US National Team 54 Nazar Jumabekov (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 55 Edgar Pinto (Por) Portuguese National Team 56 Nicolas Schnyder (Swi) Swiss National Team Two 57 Marko Hlebanja (Slo) Slovenian National Team 58 Anatoliy Kashtan (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 59 Simon Geschke (Ger) German National Team 60 Sergiu Cioban (Mda) Mixed Team 61 Martins Trautmanis (Lat) Latvian National Team 62 Mario Contreras (ESa) Mixed Team 63 Dmitry Sokolov (Rus) Russian National Team 64 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Austrian National Team 65 Matthias Schröger (Aut) Austrian National Team 66 Haijun Ma (Chn) Mixed Team 67 Detlef Moerman (Bel) Belgian National Team 68 Franz Grassmann (Aut) Austrian National Team 69 Marius Kukta (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 70 Gasper Svab (Slo) Slovenian National Team 71 Nik Burjek (Slo) Slovenian National Team 72 Max Jenkins (USA) US National Team 73 Wouter Poels (Ned) Dutch National Team 74 Herberts Pudans (Lat) Latvian National Team 75 Piotr Osinski (Pol) Polish National Team 76 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Belgian National Team 77 Lukasz Modzelewski (Pol) Polish National Team 78 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita) Italian National Team 79 Tony Martin (Ger) German National Team 80 Dimitri Claeys (Bel) Belgian National Team 81 Bajc Andi (Slo) Slovenian National Team 82 Evaldas Siskevicius (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 8.19 83 Henrique Casimiro (Por) Portuguese National Team 8.25 84 Bernhard Oberholzer (Swi) Swiss National Team Two 85 Jure Zagar (Slo) Slovenian National Team 86 Andriy Vasylyuk (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 87 Tomasz Krupinski (Pol) Polish National Team 88 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 89 Claudio Filipe Pedr Apolo (Por) Portuguese National Team 90 Andriy Suralyov (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 91 Benjamin Bradshaw (USA) US National Team 92 Andrey Solomennikov (Rus) Russian National Team 93 Kristoffer Nielsen (Den) Danish National Team 94 Bruno Saraiva (Por) Portuguese National Team 95 Normunds Lasis (Lat) Latvian National Team 96 Bjorn Selander (USA) US National Team 97 Arturs Malenders (Lat) Latvian National Team 98 Thijs Van Amerongen (Ned) Dutch National Team 99 Egon Van Kessel (Ned) Dutch National Team 100 Kristofers Racenajs (Lat) Latvian National Team 101 Wim Botmann (Ned) Dutch National Team 102 Valery Valynin (Rus) Russian National Team 103 Domenik Klemme (Ger) German National Team 104 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) German National Team 105 Chris Barton (USA) US National Team 13.54 106 Alain Lauener (Swi) Swiss National Team Two 107 Yvo Kusters (Ned) Dutch National Team 108 Kim Michely (Lux) Luxembourg National Team 109 Gediminas Kaupas (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 110 Tomas Mice (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 19.31 111 Dmitro Kryvtsov (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 112 Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 113 Frank Appelbaum (Lux) Luxembourg National Team 19.54 114 Chad Beyer (USA) US National Team 115 Blaz Furdi (Slo) Slovenian National Team DNF Yannick Stoltz (Lux) Luxembourg National Team DNF David Claerebout (Lux) Luxembourg National Team DNF Ivo Lux (Lux) Luxembourg National Team Sprints Blatten, Rest. Krone - 14.3 km 1 Thomas Vedel Kvist (Den) Danish National Team 6 pts 2 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Belgian National Team 3 3 Cyril Gautier (Fra) French National Team 1 Root - 42.4 km 1 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita) Italian National Team 6 pts 2 Thomas Vedel Kvist (Den) Danish National Team 3 pts 3 Nino Schurter (Swi) Swiss National Team 1 Gersau - 87.2 km 1 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita) Italian National Team 6 pts 2 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) German National Team 3 3 Gediminas Kaupas (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 1 Points 1 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Italian National Team 25 pts 2 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) French National Team 20 3 Michael Morkov (Den) Danish National Team 16 4 Tim Vermeersch (Bel) Belgian National Team 13 5 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Italian National Team 11 6 Pawel Wachnik (Pol) Polish National Team 10 7 Cyril Gautier (Fra) French National Team 9 8 Andris Buividas (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 8 9 Salvatore Mancuso (Ita) Italian National Team 7 10 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 6 11 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 5 12 Christoph Sokoll (Aut) Austrian National Team 4 13 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Russian National Team 3 14 Robel Tedros (Aut) Austrian National Team 2 15 Martin Kohler (Swi) Swiss National Team 1 Mountains Goldau, Bernerhöchi - 66.1 km (Cat. 3) 1 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita) Italian National Team 3 pts 2 Elias Schmaeh (Swi) Swiss National Team 2 3 Chad Beyer (USA) US National Team 1 Michaelskreuz - 112.6 km (Cat. 2) 1 Mathias Frank (Swi) Swiss National Team 1 2 Elias Schmaeh (Swi) Swiss National Team 1 3 Anton Reshetnikov (Rus) Russian National Team 3 4 Reto Holenstein (Swi) Swiss National Team 2 5 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Italian National Team 1 Teams 1 France 10.58.02 2 Italy 3 Austria 0.05 4 Switzerland 1 5 Denmark 6 Switzerland 2 7 Russia 8 Kazakstan 0.26 9 Poland 4.23 10 Belgium 11 Portugal 12 Mixed 13 Germany 6.01 14 Latvia 8.41 15 Lithuania 12.37 16 Netherlands 12.43 17 Slovenia 12.59 18 Ukraine 17.01 19 US National Team 20 Luxembourg 38.01 General classification after stage 1 1 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Italian National Team 3.42.12 2 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) French National Team 0.04 3 Tony Gallopin (Fra) French National Team 0.11 4 Julien Simon (Fra) French National Team 0.12 5 Martin Kohler (Swi) Swiss National Team 6 Michael Morkov (Den) Danish National Team 0.13 7 Cyril Gautier (Fra) French National Team 8 Biel Kadri (Fra) French National Team 0.14 9 Cyril Bessy (Fra) French National Team 0.15 10 Michel Kreder (Ned) Dutch National Team 11 Christoph Sokoll (Aut) Austrian National Team 0.16 12 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Italian National Team 0.17 13 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Danish National Team 14 Niki Ostergaard (Den) Danish National Team 0.18 15 Romain Zingle (Bel) Belgian National Team 16 César Fonte (Por) Portuguese National Team 17 Jakob Bering (Den) Danish National Team 18 Reto Holenstein (Swi) Swiss National Team 19 Clemens Fankhauser (Aut) Austrian National Team 0.19 20 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 21 Pawel Wachnik (Pol) Polish National Team 22 Christopher Froome (Ken) Mixed Team 0.20 23 Anton Reshetnikov (Rus) Russian National Team 24 Nino Schurter (Swi) Swiss National Team 25 Tim Vermeersch (Bel) Belgian National Team 26 Thomas Vedel Kvist (Den) Danish National Team 27 Mathieu Deschenaux (Swi) Swiss National Team 28 Nico Graf (Ger) German National Team 0.21 29 Elias Schmaeh (Swi) Swiss National Team 30 Mathias Frank (Swi) Swiss National Team 31 Pawel Cieslik (Pol) Polish National Team 32 Loïc Muhlemann (Swi) Swiss National Team Two 33 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 0.23 34 Robel Tedros (Aut) Austrian National Team 35 Alberto Contoli (Ita) Italian National Team 36 Salvatore Mancuso (Ita) Italian National Team 37 Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Latvian National Team 38 Laurent Beuret (Swi) Swiss National Team Two 39 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Russian National Team 0.24 40 Andris Buividas (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 41 Dalivier Ospina (Col) Mixed Team 42 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Italian National Team 0.26 43 Janick Wysler (Swi) Swiss National Team Two 44 Alexey Esin (Rus) Russian National Team 0.28 45 Carlos Sabido (Por) Portuguese National Team 0.29 46 Alexandre Shushemoin (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 0.46 47 Mathias Belka (Ger) German National Team 2.00 48 Dmitry Sokolov (Rus) Russian National Team 4.30 49 Nicolas Schnyder (Swi) Swiss National Team Two 4.31 50 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Belgian National Team 4.33 51 Herberts Pudans (Lat) Latvian National Team 52 Martins Trautmanis (Lat) Latvian National Team 4.34 53 Lukasz Modzelewski (Pol) Polish National Team 54 Franz Grassmann (Aut) Austrian National Team 4.35 55 Dimitri Claeys (Bel) Belgian National Team 4.36 56 Edgar Pinto (Por) Portuguese National Team 57 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Austrian National Team 58 Haijun Ma (Chn) Mixed Team 59 Maciej Paterski (Pol) Polish National Team 4.37 60 Detlef Moerman (Bel) Belgian National Team 4.38 61 Tony Martin (Ger) German National Team 62 Anatoliy Kashtan (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 4.39 63 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) Mixed Team 64 Simon Geschke (Ger) German National Team 65 Dmytro Nowosad (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 66 Wouter Poels (Ned) Dutch National Team 4.40 67 Sander Armee (Bel) Belgian National Team 68 Nik Burjek (Slo) Slovenian National Team 69 Gasper Svab (Slo) Slovenian National Team 4.41 70 Matthias Schröger (Aut) Austrian National Team 71 Bajc Andi (Slo) Slovenian National Team 72 Carlo Kirsch (Lux) Luxembourg National Team 73 Peter Salon (USA) US National Team 4.42 74 Piotr Osinski (Pol) Polish National Team 75 Nazar Jumabekov (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 76 Sergiu Cioban (Mda) Mixed Team 77 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita) Italian National Team 4.43 78 Marko Hlebanja (Slo) Slovenian National Team 4.44 79 Max Jenkins (USA) US National Team 80 Mario Contreras (ESa) Mixed Team 81 Marius Kukta (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 4.45 82 Kristoffer Nielsen (Den) Danish National Team 8.31 83 Bjorn Selander (USA) US National Team 8.34 84 Normunds Lasis (Lat) Latvian National Team 8.35 85 Evaldas Siskevicius (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 86 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) German National Team 87 Thijs Van Amerongen (Ned) Dutch National Team 8.36 88 Bernhard Oberholzer (Swi) Swiss National Team Two 8.38 89 Arturs Malenders (Lat) Latvian National Team 90 Jure Zagar (Slo) Slovenian National Team 91 Egon Van Kessel (Ned) Dutch National Team 8.39 92 Claudio Filipe Pedr Apolo (Por) Portuguese National Team 93 Domenik Klemme (Ger) German National Team 8.40 94 Benjamin Bradshaw (USA) US National Team 8.41 95 Valery Valynin (Rus) Russian National Team 8.43 96 Wim Botmann (Ned) Dutch National Team 97 Kristofers Racenajs (Lat) Latvian National Team 8.44 98 Henrique Casimiro (Por) Portuguese National Team 99 Bruno Saraiva (Por) Portuguese National Team 8.45 100 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 8.47 101 Andriy Vasylyuk (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 8.48 102 Tomasz Krupinski (Pol) Polish National Team 103 Andriy Suralyov (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 8.51 104 Andrey Solomennikov (Rus) Russian National Team 8.54 105 Yvo Kusters (Ned) Dutch National Team 14.00 106 Chris Barton (USA) US National Team 14.02 107 Kim Michely (Lux) Luxembourg National Team 14.05 108 Alain Lauener (Swi) Swiss National Team Two 14.07 109 Gediminas Kaupas (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 14.15 110 Tomas Mice (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 19.47 111 Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy (Kaz) Kazakh National Team 19.49 112 Dmitro Kryvtsov (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 19.58 113 Blaz Furdi (Slo) Slovenian National Team 20.10 114 Frank Appelbaum (Lux) Luxembourg National Team 20.15 115 Chad Beyer (USA) US National Team 20.17 Points classification 1 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Italian National Team 25 pts 2 Kristoffer Nielsen (Den) Danish National Team 25 3 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) French National Team 23 4 Tony Gallopin (Fra) French National Team 20 5 Cyril Gautier (Fra) French National Team 17 6 Michael Morkov (Den) Danish National Team 16 7 Yvo Kusters (Ned) Dutch National Team 16 8 Tim Vermeersch (Bel) Belgian National Team 13 9 Dmitry Sokolov (Rus) Russian National Team 13 10 Julien Simon (Fra) French National Team 11 11 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Italian National Team 11 12 Martin Kohler (Swi) Swiss National Team 11 13 Pawel Wachnik (Pol) Polish National Team 10 14 Nicolas Schnyder (Swi) Swiss National Team Two 9 15 Andris Buividas (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 8 Sprint classification 1 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita) Italian National Team 12 pts 2 Thomas Vedel Kvist (Den) Danish National Team 9 3 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Belgian National Team 3 4 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) German National Team 3 5 Cyril Gautier (Fra) French National Team 1 6 Nino Schurter (Swi) Swiss National Team 1 7 Gediminas Kaupas (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team 1 Mountains classification 1 Mathias Frank (Swi) Swiss National Team 6 pts 2 Elias Schmaeh (Swi) Swiss National Team 6 3 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita) Italian National Team 3 4 Anton Reshetnikov (Rus) Russian National Team 3 5 Reto Holenstein (Swi) Swiss National Team 2 6 Chad Beyer (USA) US National Team 1 7 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Italian National Team 1 Team classification 1 France 10.58.02 2 Italy 3 Denmark 0.05 4 Austria 5 Switzerland 1 6 Switzerland 2 7 Russia 8 Kazakstan 0.26 9 Belgium 4.23 10 Poland 11 Portugal 12 Mixed 13 Germany 6.01 14 Latvia 8.41 15 Lithuania 12.37 16 Netherlands 12.43 17 Slovenia 12.59 18 US National Team 17.01 19 Ukraine 20 Luxembourg 38.01
