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Tour du Limousin - 2.1
France, August 21-24, 2007
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Stage 3 - August 23: Abjat S/Bandiat – Rochechouart , 186.8 km
A first for Jégou
Fédrigo retains overall lead
By Jean-François Quénet in Rochechouart
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31 year-old Lilian Jégou logged his first professional win at the Tour du Limousin Stage 3. He's not counting his success in Gabon at the Tropicale Amissa Bongo. His win in the Limousin came at the top of the hill of Rochechouart, where one of France's most demanding amateur races used to be held on a grueling circuit.
Jégou was a member of a 13-man breakaway that took off from the gun. So was Patrice Halgand, a former winner of the Tour du Limousin (in 2000 and 2002). "As I had no more chances to win the overall, I lost ten minutes on purpose yesterday so I'd be able to go in the move today," said the cagey Crédit Agricole rider who won a stage in the Tour de l'Ain last week.
The other 11 men were Maryan Hary and Geoffroy Lequatre (Cofidis), Jean-Luc Delpech and Sébastien Duret (Bretagne-Armor Lux), Christophe Moreau and Renaud Dion (Ag2r), Niels Brouzes (Auber 93), Nicolas Jalabert and Samuel Plouhinec (Agritubel), Mathieu Perget and Sébastien Portal (Caisse d'Epargne). The highest ranked on GC was Hary, in 21st position, 9'21" behind Pierrick Fedrigo. There was never any real danger for Bouygues Telecom who could afford to let the breakaway take four minutes.
"Nobody attacked us today because everyone had sore legs because of the rain," said Bouygues Telecom's directeur sportif Christian Guiberteau. Fedrigo lost one of his main rivals for the overall win, as Philippe Gilbert, the winner of stage 1, was forced to pull out at the feed zone." Because of the virus he still carries in his stomach, he had no more strength, and his participation to the Vuelta a Espana next week is now in question.
Française des Jeux's DS Marc Madiot had no more riders left in the main pack at the end of the stage after he lost a few more in a crash with 20km to go. It involved Mickaël Delage who was sixth on the GC, less than one minute down on Fedrigo. But Madiot forgot all of his worries when Jégou was part of the right move at the front.
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With 25km to go, Halgand countered an acceleration by Brouzes on a hill. Four riders followed him: Jégou, Jalabert, Delpech and Lequatre. The latter got dropped with 5km to go. "My return to competition isn't easy after my crash in stage 5 in the Tour de France," Lequatre said. "But I'm happy to have taken the initiative and spent the whole day in the front."
Another admirable French rider was Duret. He was away the entire way the day before, and he did it again! "Clément L'Hotellerie couldn't do everything: defend his lead at the KOM and keep his spot high on GC, so I went for the climbers classification," Duret explained. "At the end, we played the card of Delpech who is quite fast. It's not a bad for us."
The crucial part of the stage happened one kilometer before the end when Halgand crashed. "I didn't know the curve, and my front wheel turned badly," the Crédit Agricole rider said. "More than the crash, I lost a lot of time because my chain was off the front ring, and I had to put it back on with my fingers. That's how I lost the stage. It's a pity. I was one leg above anybody else. I was sure to win."
Halgand was the strongest of us," Jégou confirmed.
Jégou's win shows the the wheels of fortune have turned. Since Jégou became a pro with Crédit Agricole in 2002, he was famous for his crashes, but this time he won because somebody else crashed. "My crash in Malaysia at Le Tour de Langkawi in February was a turning point in my career," he laughed. For once, it wasn't his fault when he fell in Khota Bahru. Since then, he has gone down only once, and that was in Pinerolo at the Tour of Italy when 60 riders fell together.
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Jégou rode the Tour de France last month and was still benefitting from his form. "Just like Benoît Vaugrenard at the Polynormande, I wanted to win badly with my Tour form," he said. "It's done now. It's a relief. I've waited for this for so long. Now I hope it'll mean more are coming. But honestly, I didn't think I'd win today when I passed the final climb once with 55km to go. It didn't suit me at all. I've had to hold on hard. My muscles were full of toxins for the final sprint. Delpech almost overtook me. Jalabert was also fast. It's been extremely difficult to win. That's probably what made it so enjoyable."
As his team-mate Gilbert is out of the race, the final is now more of a duel between Fedrigo and Oscar Pereiro, who are separated by only six seconds. "Initially, I came here for training for the Tour of Spain, because the terrain is up and down all the time, but I wouldn't mind grabbing a win," said the man who will either be the winner or the runner-up of the 2006 Tour de France depending on the outcome of the Floyd Landis case.
"I know by experience that this race is a question of bonuses on the final stage because I was exactly in the same situation last year, and I lost by one second to Leonardo Duque," Fedrigo said. "For the last day, I'd like to have drier conditions. With the rain, I won't feel as good."
After three days of rain and cold, better weather is expected in Limoges on Friday, but it will be a hard battle for Fedrigo anyway. The staff of Bouygues Telecom crossed its fingers. "We're specialists in losing this race," Guiberteau said with a smile. It happened to Jean-Cyril Robin in 2000, the first year of the Bonjour team. But the team is hoping for better fortunes in Limoges.
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- Lilian Jégou (Française des Jeux) was the first home in a strung out peloton.
- Geoffroy Lequatre (Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone) pushed hard all day but could only manage fifth.
- Frenchman Pierrick Fedrigo (Bouygues Telecom) continues to lead on general classification from Spain's Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne).
Results
1 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 4.30.14 (41.475 km/h) 2 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 3 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 0.04 4 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.11 5 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.41 6 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 2.11 7 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 2.15 8 Niels Brouzes (Fra) Auber 2.24 9 Samuel Plouhinec (Fra) Agritubel 2.29 10 Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2.45 11 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 2.50 12 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 2.52 13 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 3.50 14 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6.21 15 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6.25 16 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 17 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 18 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 19 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 20 David Lelay (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 21 Tanel Kangert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 22 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 23 Michael Lange (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 6.32 24 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 25 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 26 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 27 Cédric Pineau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 6.35 28 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6.37 29 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Crédit Agricole 30 Peter Stetina (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 31 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Intel - Action 6.40 32 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil - Shimano 6.42 33 Maxime Méderel (Fra) Auber 34 Sébastien Fournet Fayard (Fra) French National Team 35 Léo Fortin (Fra) French National Team 6.44 36 Rémi Cusin (Fra) French National Team 37 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6.46 38 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 39 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6.50 40 Yann Pivois (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 6.52 41 Benoît Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 6.56 42 Jean Mespoulède (Fra) Auber 6.59 43 Florian Vachon (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 44 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Auber 45 Stéphane Bonsergent (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 7.01 46 Eric Berthou (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 47 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Intel - Action 7.24 48 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 7.44 49 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 50 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 8.10 51 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 52 David Deroo (Fra) Skil - Shimano 9.09 53 Paul Brousse (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 54 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) French National Team 9.15 55 Thomas Brigaud (Fra) French National Team 56 Anthony Roux (Fra) French National Team 9.18 57 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9.31 58 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 59 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 60 Ji Cheng (Chn) Skil - Shimano 10.01 61 Brice Feillu (Fra) French National Team 10.11 62 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 63 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 10.21 64 Florent Brard (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 65 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 66 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 67 Mickael Larpe (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 68 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Intel - Action 69 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 70 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 71 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 11.49 72 Paul Moucheraud (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 73 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 74 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) Intel - Action 12.40 75 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel - Action 76 Carl Naïbo (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 13.30 77 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 78 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Auber 13.53 79 Blaise Sonnery (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 80 Arnaud Lesvenan (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 81 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 13.57 82 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 15.03 83 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 16.03 84 Yasuharu Nakajima (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 85 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 86 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 87 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 88 Kazuki Inoue (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 89 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 90 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 17.01 DNF Junya Sano (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada DNF Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux DNF Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel DNF Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel DNF Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole DNS Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Intel - Action Mountains Côte de Busserolles 1 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 6 pts 2 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 4 3 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 2 4 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1 Côte du Chemin Neuf 1 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 6 pts 2 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 4 3 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 2 4 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 1 Côte de la Chabaudie 1 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 4 pts 2 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 3 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 1 Sprints Varaignes 1 Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 pts 2 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 2 3 Samuel Plouhinec (Fra) Agritubel 1 Oradour-sur-Vayres 1 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 3 pts 2 Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2 3 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Verneuil 1 Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 pts 2 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 2 3 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1 Team 1 Bretagne Armor Lux 13.39.22 2 Agritubel 0.25 3 Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 1.32 4 Caisse D'epargne 2.44 5 Credit Agricole 4.21 6 AG2r Prevoyance 4.25 7 Auber 93 7.25 8 Bouygues Telecom 10.47 9 Equipe De France 11.30 10 Francaise Des Jeux 13.30 11 Roubaix Lille Metropole 14.03 12 Team Slipstream 14.50 13 Intel - Action 15.45 14 Skil-Shimano 17.12 15 Nippo Corporation 39.29 General classification after stage 3 1 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13.33.17 2 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.06 3 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.27 4 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil - Shimano 0.34 5 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.01 6 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 1.03 7 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.05 8 David Lelay (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 1.12 9 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.15 10 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.27 11 Yann Pivois (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 1.32 12 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 1.36 13 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 4.56 14 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 5.17 15 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 5.19 16 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 5.25 17 Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 5.33 18 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6.06 19 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6.46 20 Niels Brouzes (Fra) Auber 7.49 21 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 8.10 22 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 8.20 23 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Crédit Agricole 8.37 24 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 9.25 25 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 9.28 26 Carl Naïbo (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 10.56 27 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 11.33 28 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 11.50 29 Michael Lange (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 11.57 30 Tanel Kangert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 31 Cédric Pineau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 12.00 32 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 12.04 33 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 34 Rémi Cusin (Fra) French National Team 12.09 35 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Intel - Action 12.12 36 Maxime Méderel (Fra) Auber 12.14 37 Sébastien Fournet Fayard (Fra) French National Team 38 Stéphane Bonsergent (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 12.26 39 Jean Mespoulède (Fra) Auber 12.31 40 Eric Berthou (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 12.33 41 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 13.35 42 Florian Vachon (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 13.37 43 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 13.42 44 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 14.23 45 David Deroo (Fra) Skil - Shimano 14.41 46 Paul Brousse (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 47 Thomas Brigaud (Fra) French National Team 14.47 48 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 14.55 49 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 14.56 50 Anthony Roux (Fra) French National Team 15.00 51 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 15.03 52 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 15.16 53 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Intel - Action 15.22 54 Benoît Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 15.23 55 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 15.44 56 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Auber 16.35 57 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 16.39 58 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 16.51 59 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 17.34 60 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel - Action 18.12 61 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) French National Team 18.35 62 Paul Moucheraud (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 19.02 63 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 19.14 64 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 19.15 65 Blaise Sonnery (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 19.25 66 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 20.28 67 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 20.50 68 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 20.56 69 Léo Fortin (Fra) French National Team 22.08 70 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 22.41 71 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 23.13 72 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 23.33 73 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 24.38 74 Brice Feillu (Fra) French National Team 25.40 75 Florent Brard (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 25.45 76 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 77 Mickael Larpe (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 25.59 78 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 27.13 79 Peter Stetina (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 27.48 80 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) Intel - Action 28.14 81 Arnaud Lesvenan (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 29.17 82 Samuel Plouhinec (Fra) Agritubel 31.13 83 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 31.41 84 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 31.42 85 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Intel - Action 33.33 86 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Auber 36.48 87 Yasuharu Nakajima (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 37.14 88 Kazuki Inoue (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 41.45 89 Ji Cheng (Chn) Skil - Shimano 42.32 90 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 46.41 Mountains Classification 1 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 24 pts 2 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil - Shimano 21 3 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Auber 10 4 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 8 5 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 6 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 5 7 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 4 8 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 9 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 10 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 2 11 Rémi Cusin (Fra) French National Team 2 12 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 2 13 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 14 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 15 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 16 Cédric Pineau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 1 Sprint Classification 1 Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 8 pts 2 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 8 3 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 6 4 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Crédit Agricole 5 5 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 3 6 David Lelay (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 3 7 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Auber 3 8 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 9 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 2 10 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 2 11 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 2 12 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1 13 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 1 14 Samuel Plouhinec (Fra) Agritubel 1 15 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 1 Best Young Rider Classification 1 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil - Shimano 13.33.51 2 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.53 3 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6.12 4 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Crédit Agricole 8.03 5 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 10.59 6 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 11.16 7 Michael Lange (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 11.23 8 Tanel Kangert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 9 Cédric Pineau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 11.26 10 Rémi Cusin (Fra) French National Team 11.35 11 Sébastien Fournet Fayard (Fra) French National Team 11.40 12 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 13.01 13 Florian Vachon (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 13.03 14 David Deroo (Fra) Skil - Shimano 14.07 15 Paul Brousse (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 16 Thomas Brigaud (Fra) French National Team 14.13 17 Anthony Roux (Fra) French National Team 14.26 18 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 14.29 19 Benoît Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 14.49 20 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Auber 16.01 21 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 17.00 22 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) French National Team 18.01 23 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 18.41 24 Blaise Sonnery (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 18.51 25 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 19.54 26 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 20.16 27 Léo Fortin (Fra) French National Team 21.34 28 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 22.07 29 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 22.39 30 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 22.59 31 Brice Feillu (Fra) French National Team 25.06 32 Mickael Larpe (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 25.25 33 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 26.39 34 Peter Stetina (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 27.14 35 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Auber 36.14 36 Yasuharu Nakajima (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 36.40 37 Ji Cheng (Chn) Skil - Shimano 41.58 Team classification 1 Credit Agricole 40.33.02 2 Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 5.30 3 Bouygues Telecom 9.31 4 Bretagne Armor Lux 10.17 5 Francaise Des Jeux 11.50 6 Caisse D'epargne 12.03 7 Ag2R Prevoyance 14.55 8 Agritubel 21.34 9 Auber 93 36.42 10 Equipe De France 43.28 11 Roubaix Lille Metropole 47.07 12 Intel-Action 50.16 13 Skil-Shimano 1.04.36 14 Team Slipstream 1.05.49 15 Nippo Corporation 1.19.18
