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33rd Volta ao Algarve - 2.1
Portugal, February 21-25, 2007
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Stage 4 - February 24: Vila Real de Santo António - Loulé, 187.2 km
Petacchi has Milan-San Remo form...at last
By Jean-François Quénet in Loulé
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The stars of the classics have shown up in stage four of the Tour of Algarve. Every kind: Alessandro Petacchi, the man who has made Milan-San Remo an obsession for himself, won the stage and too over the lead from Bernhard Eisel; Philippe Gilbert who aims for the Flemish one-day races, moved up in fifth position today after breaking away; Davide Rebellin, the only man to have won the triple crown of the Ardennes (Amstel Gold Race, Flèche Wallonne, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2004), was a valuable runner-up on the finishing line of Loulé.
"At some stage during the race, I spoke with Tom Steels in the bunch and he said today's course was similar to Liège-Bastogne-Liège's," Petacchi revealed. He was right. "Although I don't know much of Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Today it was very nervous with a lot of climbs, for which the 21 or the 23 gear was needed. Winning such a race in front of Rebellin makes me think that my condition is really good. I've been in this kind of shape before but what I enjoy now is that day after day, I feel better and better."
The Ligurian knows little of Liège-Bastogne-Liège but Rebellin doesn't have to worry about him: Petacchi is not going to switch to the classics formatted for climbers. Although he likes to remember that he was the king of the mountain in the 1999 Tour de Langkawi, something that means a lot for whoever has climbed Genting Highlands, but the work done for becoming one of the world's top sprinters has changed him physically in such way that his climbing abilities are limited now.
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"Today was the equivalent of Liège-Bastogne-Liège on a short distance," he said. "A classic is something different. There are attacks all day. For sure I don't have the characteristics for the Ardennes. My mind is set on Milan-San Remo only. No other race can motivate me as much as this one. As soon as I won it, I wanted to win it again. Only somebody who has won it can feel how great it is."
"Milan-San Remo requires a lot of work before," Petacchi continued. "I've done it. Also, the choice of doing the Tour of Qatar has given me the pedaling rhythm I needed for performing the way I did today. Usually, I started my season at the Tour of Andalucia. Had I followed the same habits, the Tour of Algarve would have been my first race, but I'm ready to take on the overall win. I came here for winning. To make it, I'll have to win the last stage as well. No race is won before the end but I have the right team-mates for controlling the situation."
The end of the last stage is flat enough for expecting another bunch sprint, with more than 23 riders as it was the case in Loulé. So it will be hard for Rebellin to give Gerolsteiner their season's first win, although he's got the legs for that after riding aggressively for two days in a row. Gilbert should also be happy with what he has done. "I was among the last riders to stay with the front group," the Belgian said. "I attacked for the stage win with 3.5km to go but I got caught quickly. Finishing fifth in such a hard stage is an encouraging sign. I still had energy for the sprint, it makes me happy."
How it unfolded
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After 34 kilometers, 10 riders broke clear: Steve Cummings and Yaroslav Popovych (Discovery Channel), Wim van Huffel (Predictor-Lotto), Matthias Kessler (Astana), Hubert Schwab (Quick Step), Patrick Sinkewitz (T-Mobile), Christophe Mengin (Française des Jeux), Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner), Sébastien Minard and Nick Nuyens (Cofidis). They covered 44.6 km in the first hour.
Van Huffel was first at the top of Cerro de San Miguel, a third category climb, at km 47. Markus Eichler (Unibet.com) who was in between the breakaway and the bunch was brought back at kilometer 54 where the advantage of the 10 leaders was 1:47. Xavier Volpini (LA MSS) and Gilberto Martins (Madeinox) attacked from the peloton and rejoined the front of the race at kilometer 72 as the gap reached 4:20. Portuguese teams Liberty Seguros and Benfica drove the bunch.
Van Huffel and Martins competed for the mountain prices but the advantage of the 12 leaders kept decreasing. Cummings was the only one to insist.
With 30km to go, the Englishman had 34 seconds advantage on counter-attackers Fabrizio Guidi (Barloworld) and Fernando Sousa who is from the Madeinox team based in Loulé where the stage finish was located. But the bunch was never further than one minute behind Cummings who was caught with 10km to go, just before the top of the Montanha em Picota where Antonio Colom (Astana) was first. The bunch was split in three and the yellow jersey Bernhard Eisel (T-Mobile) was the second group.
Colom was chased down by Gerolsteiner, which showed the intentions of Davide Rebellin. Vladimir Gusev (Discovery Channel) launched a strong solo attack with less than five kilometres to go, Philippe Gilbert (Française des Jeux) tried as well but Petacchi's guardian angels Fabio Sacchi and Marco Velo made sure the first group would be back together for the finish. There were two lengths of a bike between Petacchi and Rebellin on the line.
Photography
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- Philippe Gilbert, fifth overall, leads the 'combined' classification.
- The winner is... Alessandro Petacchi again.
- Petacchi also wears the yellow jersey.
- Philippe Gilbert and Wim van Huffel, the new king of the mountains, accompany Petacchi on the podium.
Images by João Dias/www.cycloweb.freealoja.com
- The Belgian supporters in Portela do Barranco.
- The breakaway group climbs the third KOM.
- Yaroslav Popovych (Discovery Channel), Matthias Kessler (Astana) and Steve Cummings (Discovery Channel) on the front.
- Today's parcours was similar to Liège-Bastogne-Liège with many short, sharp climbs.
- The peloton in pursuit with Liberty Seguros riders Rui Sousa and Hernani Broco on the front.
- Nuno Ribeiro (Liberty Seguros), Pedro Lopes and José Azevedo (Benfica).
- Lavier Benitez (Benfica), Hugo Vitor (Riberalves Boavista) and Bernhard Eisel (T-Mobile) on the way to the third KOM.
- It was hard work for most of the riders today.
- Davide Rebellin (Gerosteiner) attacks on the KOM at Picota.
- Alessandro Petacchi (Milram) was very strong on the climbs today.
- Pedro Lopes (Benfica), Bernhard Eisel (T-Mobile) and Kevin de Weert (Cofidis) on the way to Picota.
Results
1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Milram 4.42.22 2 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 3 René Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 4 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 5 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 6 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Duja-Tavira 7 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile 8 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 9 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 10 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 11 Marco Velo (Ita) Milram 0.04 12 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa) Barloworld 13 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel 14 Gilberto Sampaio (Por) Vitória-ASC 15 Antonio Colom (Spa) Astana 16 Hector Guerra Garcia (Spa) Liberty Seguros 17 Pedro Cardoso (Por) LA-MSS 18 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 19 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 20 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 21 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 22 Luis Pinheiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 23 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 24 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 0.13 25 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Milram 0.37 26 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Liberty Seguros 1.02 27 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 1.05 28 Bruno Neves (Por) LA-MSS 29 Johan Coenen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 30 Arjen De Baat (Ned) Rabobank Continental 31 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 32 Alejandro M. Marques (Spa) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 33 Sergio Sousa (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 34 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 35 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française Des Jeux 36 Andre Cardoso (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 37 Claudio Faria (Por) LA-MSS 38 Pedro Soeiro (Por) Barbot-Halcon 39 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis 40 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 41 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 42 Krassimir Vasilev (Bul) Duja-Tavira 43 Sergio Ribeiro (Por) Benfica 44 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 45 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile 46 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 47 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis 48 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 49 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel 50 Steffen Wesemann (Swi) Wiesenhof-Felt 51 Nuno Marta Duarte (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 52 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 53 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 54 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 55 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile 56 Xavier Tondo (Spa) LA-MSS 57 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile 58 Volodymyr Dyudya (Ukr) Milram 1.30 59 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 3.06 60 Ricardo Martins (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 61 Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Rabobank Continental 62 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank Continental 63 Thomas Berkhout (Ned) Rabobank Continental 64 Bert Roesems (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 65 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Cofidis 66 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Unibet.com 67 Hugo Manuel Vitor Izidoro (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 68 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank Continental 69 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 70 Bas Giling (Ned) Wiesenhof-Felt 71 José Manuel De Sousa Cunha (Por) Vitória-ASC 72 José Carlos Silva Rodrigues (Por) Vitória-ASC 73 Bruno Barbosa (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 74 Celestino Pinho (Por) Barbot-Halcon 75 Virgilio Martins Santos (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 76 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française Des Jeux 77 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 78 Bruno Pires (Por) LA-MSS 79 Rui Filipe Pinto (Por) Barbot-Halcon 80 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 81 Stefan Kushlev (Bul) Riberalves-Boavista 82 André Moreira Vital (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 83 Edgar Anão (Por) LA-MSS 84 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 85 Javier Benitez (Spa) Benfica 86 Angel Vazquez Iglesias (Spa) LA-MSS 87 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 88 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 89 Ilzo Keisse (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 90 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana 91 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 92 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 93 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 94 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Française Des Jeux 95 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel 96 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Cofidis 97 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quickstep-Innergetic 98 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 99 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram 100 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Française Des Jeux 101 Rui Miguel Sousa Barbosa (Por) Liberty Seguros 102 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 103 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Unibet.com 104 Carlos Nozal Vega (Spa) Liberty Seguros 105 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel 5.52 106 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Milram 107 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 108 Paulo Barroso (Por) Vitória-ASC 6.33 109 Devi Vervaeke (Bel) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 110 Rui Sá (Por) Barbot-Halcon 111 Hernani Broco (Por) Liberty Seguros 112 Helder Oliveira (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 113 Fernando Sousa (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 114 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Milram 7.39 115 David Blanco (Spa) Duja-Tavira 116 Ricardo Mestre (Por) Duja-Tavira 117 Gilberto Martins (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 118 Servais Knaven (Ned) T-Mobile 119 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 120 Claus Michael Möller (Den) Barbot-Halcon 121 João Cabreira (Por) LA-MSS 122 Bruno Miguel Castanheira Gomes (Por) Benfica 123 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française Des Jeux 124 Celio Cristiano Sousa (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 125 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Benfica 126 Nelson Hugo Rocha (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 127 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 128 Pedro Costa (Por) Vitória-ASC 129 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 130 Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 131 Bruno Sa (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 132 Virgilo Neves (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 133 Jacek Morajko (Pol) Riberalves-Boavista 134 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank Continental 135 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Unibet.com 136 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Wiesenhof-Felt 137 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel 138 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Unibet.com 139 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 140 Steve Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel 141 Luis Silva (Por) Duja-Tavira 142 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 143 Ryan Cox (RSA) Barloworld 144 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis 145 Evert Verbist (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 146 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 147 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 148 Martin Garrido Mayorga (Arg) Duja-Tavira 149 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 150 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis 151 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis 152 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 153 Giosuè Bonomi (Ita) Barloworld 10.05 154 Tom Steels (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 155 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 156 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Barloworld 157 Martyn Maaskant (Ned) Rabobank Continental 22.32 158 Evgeny Popov (Rus) Rabobank Continental Points 1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Milram 25 pts 2 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 20 3 René Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 16 4 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 13 5 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 10 6 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Duja-Tavira 8 7 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile 6 8 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 4 9 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 2 10 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 1 Mountain 1 (Cat 3, 47.1km) 1 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 5 pts 2 Steve Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel 3 3 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 1 Mountain 2 (Cat 3, 92km) 1 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 5 pts 2 Gilberto Martins (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 3 3 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 1 Mountain 3 (Cat 3, 99km) 1 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 5 pts 2 Gilberto Martins (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 3 3 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 1 Mountain 4 (Cat 3, 107.8km) 1 Gilberto Martins (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 5 pts 2 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 3 3 Steve Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel 1 Mountain 5 - Col Picota (Cat 3, 177.8km) 1 Antonio Colom (Spa) Astana 5 pts 2 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Duja-Tavira 3 3 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile 1 Metas volantes Quarteira, 161km 1 Steve Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel 3 pts 2 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Barloworld 2 3 Fernando Sousa (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 1 Teams 1 Astana 14.07.14 2 Discovery Chanel 0.09 3 Team Milram 0.33 4 Barloworld 1.01 5 Liberty Seguros 1.02 6 Cofidis 2.02 7 T-Mobile Team 8 Gerolsteiner 9 La Mss 2.06 10 Benfica 11 Predictor-Lotto 12 Madeinox-Bric-Loule 3.07 13 Française Des Jeux 4.03 14 Chocolade Jacques 5.08 15 Team Wiesenhof Felt 16 Quickstep-Innergetic 6.04 17 Vitoria-Asc 6.08 18 Riberalves-Boavista 19 Rabobank 7.09 20 Fercase/Rota Dos Moveis 21 Barbot-Halcon 22 Duja-Tavira 8.36 23 Unibet.Com 13.43 General classification after stage 4 1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Milram 18.55.07 2 René Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 0.10 3 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 0.12 4 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 0.17 5 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 0.19 6 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 0.21 7 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 0.23 8 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile 9 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 10 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 11 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Duja-Tavira 12 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel 0.27 13 Marco Velo (Ita) Milram 14 Hector Guerra Garcia (Spa) Liberty Seguros 15 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 16 Luis Pinheiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 17 Pedro Cardoso (Por) LA-MSS 18 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa) Barloworld 19 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 20 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 21 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 22 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 0.36 23 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Milram 1.00 24 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile 1.12 25 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Liberty Seguros 1.21 26 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 1.23 27 Nuno Marta Duarte (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 1.26 28 Krassimir Vasilev (Bul) Duja-Tavira 1.27 29 Sergio Ribeiro (Por) Benfica 1.28 30 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 31 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 32 Johan Coenen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 33 Andre Cardoso (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 34 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile 35 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 36 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 37 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel 38 Claudio Faria (Por) LA-MSS 39 Arjen De Baat (Ned) Rabobank Continental 40 Sergio Sousa (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 41 Pedro Soeiro (Por) Barbot-Halcon 42 Bruno Neves (Por) LA-MSS 43 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile 44 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 45 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française Des Jeux 46 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 47 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 48 Steffen Wesemann (Swi) Wiesenhof-Felt 49 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 50 Xavier Tondo (Spa) LA-MSS 51 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis 52 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis 53 Antonio Colom (Spa) Astana 2.08 54 Gilberto Sampaio (Por) Vitória-ASC 55 Volodymyr Dyudya (Ukr) Milram 2.50 56 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank Continental 3.24 57 Thomas Berkhout (Ned) Rabobank Continental 3.28 58 Javier Benitez (Spa) Benfica 3.29 59 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 60 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française Des Jeux 61 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 62 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank Continental 63 Bert Roesems (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 64 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Cofidis 65 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Unibet.com 66 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quickstep-Innergetic 67 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 68 Bas Giling (Ned) Wiesenhof-Felt 69 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Française Des Jeux 70 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 71 José Carlos Silva Rodrigues (Por) Vitória-ASC 72 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana 73 Rui Miguel Sousa Barbosa (Por) Liberty Seguros 74 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 75 Hugo Manuel Vitor Izidoro (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 76 Virgilio Martins Santos (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 77 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Unibet.com 78 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Française Des Jeux 79 Bruno Pires (Por) LA-MSS 5.10 80 Celestino Pinho (Por) Barbot-Halcon 81 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 82 Edgar Anão (Por) LA-MSS 83 Angel Vazquez Iglesias (Spa) LA-MSS 84 Stefan Kushlev (Bul) Riberalves-Boavista 85 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel 86 André Moreira Vital (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 87 Rui Filipe Pinto (Por) Barbot-Halcon 88 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel 6.15 89 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 90 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 7.49 91 Steve Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel 7.59 92 Martin Garrido Mayorga (Arg) Duja-Tavira 8.02 93 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Wiesenhof-Felt 94 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française Des Jeux 95 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank Continental 96 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Benfica 97 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 98 David Blanco (Spa) Duja-Tavira 99 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 100 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 101 Ryan Cox (RSA) Barloworld 102 Bruno Miguel Castanheira Gomes (Por) Benfica 103 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis 104 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis 105 Hernani Broco (Por) Liberty Seguros 8.37 106 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Barloworld 10.22 107 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 13.48 108 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 14.28 109 Alejandro M. Marques (Spa) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 110 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 16.00 111 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 112 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 113 Ricardo Martins (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 114 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 115 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 116 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Cofidis 117 Bruno Barbosa (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 16.27 118 Carlos Nozal Vega (Spa) Liberty Seguros 16.29 119 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 120 Ilzo Keisse (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 121 José Manuel De Sousa Cunha (Por) Vitória-ASC 122 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram 18.01 123 Fernando Sousa (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 19.26 124 Rui Sá (Por) Barbot-Halcon 19.27 125 Helder Oliveira (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 19.56 126 Devi Vervaeke (Bel) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 127 Paulo Barroso (Por) Vitória-ASC 128 Pedro Costa (Por) Vitória-ASC 20.33 129 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 130 Luis Silva (Por) Duja-Tavira 131 Celio Cristiano Sousa (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 132 Gilberto Martins (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 133 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel 134 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Milram 20.47 135 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Unibet.com 20.56 136 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis 20.57 137 Bruno Sa (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 21.02 138 Nelson Hugo Rocha (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 139 Ricardo Mestre (Por) Duja-Tavira 140 Jacek Morajko (Pol) Riberalves-Boavista 141 Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 142 Servais Knaven (Ned) T-Mobile 143 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 144 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 145 Evert Verbist (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 146 Claus Michael Möller (Den) Barbot-Halcon 147 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 148 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 149 João Cabreira (Por) LA-MSS 150 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Unibet.com 151 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Milram 22.59 152 Giosuè Bonomi (Ita) Barloworld 23.28 153 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 154 Tom Steels (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 155 Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Rabobank Continental 25.32 156 Martyn Maaskant (Ned) Rabobank Continental 35.55 157 Virgilo Neves (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 44.56 158 Evgeny Popov (Rus) Rabobank Continental 44.58
