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67th Skoda-Tour de Luxembourg - 2.HC
Luxembourg, June 6-10, 2007
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Stage 1 - June 7: Luxembourg - Mondorf, 166.8 km
Richeze takes the sprint
By Susan Westemeyer
Maximiliano Richeze of Panaria won the mass sprint in the first stage of the Tour de Luxembourg, ahead of Jochen Summer (Elk Haus-Simplon) and Mark Renshaw (Crédit Agricole). It was the Argentinean's third season win. Juan Antonio Flecha, who finished second in yesterday's prologue, took over the overall lead.
The peloton was divided, with 50 riders in the first group, and the rest finishing 7'49" down.
Friday's second stage runs 193 kilometres from Schifflange to Differdange.
Photography
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Images by Florian and Susanne Schaaf/cyclingpictures.de
- The peloton awaits the start
- Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) powers up the mountain
- Paul Martens (Skil-Shimano) at the final mountain classification
- Race leader Jimmy Engoulvent gives it all to the top
- Richeze (left) takes the sprint
Results
1 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 4.08.58 (40.2 km/h) 2 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 3 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 4 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 5 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 6 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 7 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 8 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 9 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 10 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 11 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 12 Christian Poos (Lux) CC Differdange 13 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 14 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 15 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Astana 16 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 17 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 19 Eddy Forner (Ita) CC Differdange 20 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 21 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 22 Frank Dressler (Ger) CC Differdange 23 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 24 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 25 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 26 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 27 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 28 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 29 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 30 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 31 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 32 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 33 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 34 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 35 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 36 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 37 José Antonio Pecharroman Fabian (Spa) Benfica 38 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 39 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 40 Daniel Andonov Petrov (Bul) Benfica 41 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 42 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 43 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 44 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Benfica 45 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elkhaus-Simplon 46 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 47 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 48 Hannes Blank (Ger) CC Differdange 49 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 50 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 51 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 52 Kane Oakley (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 53 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 54 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Benfica 55 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 56 Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano 57 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 58 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 59 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 60 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 61 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 62 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 63 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 64 Francesco Tomei (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 65 Paul Manning (GBr) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 66 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 67 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 68 Marc Weisshaupt (Ger) Elkhaus-Simplon 69 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 70 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 71 Hakan Nilsson (Swe) CC Differdange 72 Vincenzo Centrone (Lux) CC Differdange 73 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 74 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 75 Filippo Savini (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 76 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 77 Jan Valach (Svk) Elkhaus-Simplon 78 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 6.55 79 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 7.49 80 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 81 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 82 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 83 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel 84 Cédric Herve (Fra) Agritubel 85 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 86 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 87 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 88 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 89 Matheus Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 90 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 91 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 92 Stefan Heiny (Ger) CC Differdange 93 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 94 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Credit Agricole 95 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 96 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 97 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 98 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 99 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 100 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 101 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 102 David Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 103 Evan Oliphant (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 104 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 105 Emilien Benoit Berges (Fra) Agritubel 106 Jean Marc Marino (Fra) Credit Agricole 107 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare Points 1 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 20 pts 2 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 16 3 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 13 4 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 11 5 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 9 6 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 7 7 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 5 8 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 3 9 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 2 10 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 1 Mountains 1 1 Cédric Herve (Fra) Agritubel 5 pts 2 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 3 3 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 4 Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano 1 2 1 Cédric Herve (Fra) Agritubel 5 pts 2 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 3 3 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 4 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 1 3 1 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 5 pts 2 Cédric Herve (Fra) Agritubel 3 3 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 4 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 1 Teams 1 Bouygues Telecom 12.26.54 2 Astana 3 Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 4 Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 5 Unibet.com 6 Rabobank 7 CC Differdange 8 Elkhaus-Simplon 9 Benfica 10 Agritubel 11 Credit Agricole General classification 1 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 4.12.45 2 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 3 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 4 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 5 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 0.01 6 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.02 7 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.03 8 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0.05 9 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 10 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 0.06 11 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 12 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 0.07 14 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 15 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 16 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 0.08 17 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.09 19 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 20 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Benfica 21 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.10 22 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 23 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 24 Christian Poos (Lux) CC Differdange 25 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.11 26 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 27 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 28 Paul Manning (GBr) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 29 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 0.12 30 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 31 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 32 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 33 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 34 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 35 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 0.13 36 Daniel Andonov Petrov (Bul) Benfica 37 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 38 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 39 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 0.14 40 Hannes Blank (Ger) CC Differdange 41 Filippo Savini (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 42 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 43 Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano 0.15 44 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 45 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 0.16 46 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Astana 47 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 48 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 49 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.17 50 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 51 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.18 52 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 53 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 54 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 0.19 55 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elkhaus-Simplon 56 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 57 Eddy Forner (Ita) CC Differdange 58 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 0.20 59 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 60 Kane Oakley (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 61 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 0.21 62 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Benfica 63 Frank Dressler (Ger) CC Differdange 64 Jan Valach (Svk) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.22 65 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 0.23 66 José Antonio Pecharroman Fabian (Spa) Benfica 67 Hakan Nilsson (Swe) CC Differdange 0.24 68 Francesco Tomei (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.25 69 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 70 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 0.26 71 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 0.27 72 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 73 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 74 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 0.28 75 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.29 76 Marc Weisshaupt (Ger) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.31 77 Vincenzo Centrone (Lux) CC Differdange 0.38 78 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 7.08 79 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 7.44 80 Emilien Benoit Berges (Fra) Agritubel 7.59 81 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 8.00 82 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 8.01 83 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 8.02 84 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 8.03 85 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 8.04 86 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 8.06 87 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 8.07 88 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 8.08 89 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 90 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 8.09 91 Jean Marc Marino (Fra) Credit Agricole 92 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Credit Agricole 93 Evan Oliphant (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 8.10 94 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 8.11 95 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 8.13 96 David Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 8.16 97 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel 98 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 8.17 99 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 8.19 100 Matheus Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 8.21 101 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 102 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 8.22 103 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 8.23 104 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 8.24 105 Cédric Herve (Fra) Agritubel 8.28 106 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 8.45 107 Stefan Heiny (Ger) CC Differdange 9.31 Points classification 1 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 20 pts 2 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 20 3 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 16 4 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 16 5 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 16 6 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 15 7 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 14 8 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 13 9 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 11 10 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 9 11 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7 12 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 7 13 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 5 14 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 3 15 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 1 16 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 1 Mountains classification 1 Cédric Herve (Fra) Agritubel 13 pts 2 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 11 3 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6 4 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 2 5 Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano 1 Young rider classification 1 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 4.12.45 2 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 0.01 3 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.03 4 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0.05 5 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 6 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.06 7 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 0.07 8 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.09 9 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 0.10 10 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.11 11 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 12 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 0.12 13 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 14 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 0.13 15 Hannes Blank (Ger) CC Differdange 0.14 16 Filippo Savini (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 17 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 18 Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano 0.15 19 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 0.16 20 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 21 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 22 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.17 23 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.18 24 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 25 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 0.19 26 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 0.20 27 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 0.21 28 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 0.23 29 Francesco Tomei (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.25 30 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 0.27 31 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 0.28 32 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.29 33 Emilien Benoit Berges (Fra) Agritubel 7.59 34 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 8.07 35 Jean Marc Marino (Fra) Credit Agricole 8.09 36 Evan Oliphant (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 8.10 37 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 8.13 38 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 8.19 39 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 8.23 40 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 8.24 41 Stefan Heiny (Ger) CC Differdange 9.31 Team classification 1 Credit Agricole 12.38.01 2 Rabobank 0.01 3 Astana 0.02 4 Unibet.com 5 Bouygues Telecom 6 Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 7 Benfica 8 Agritubel 0.03 9 Elkhaus-Simplon 10 Skil-Shimano 0.04 11 Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 12 CC Differdange 13 DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 14 Team Wiesenhof-Felt 7.04
