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67th Skoda-Tour de Luxembourg - 2.HC
Luxembourg, June 6-10, 2007
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Stage 2 - June 8: Schifflange - Differdange, 193.1 km
"Oldie" Brochard takes it all
At 39 years old, Laurent Brochard of Bouyges Telecom is not only the oldest rider in the Tour of Luxembourg, he is also the fastest. He won the second stage and took over the leader's jersey. He outsprinted Gregory Rast (Astana) and Rabobank's Sebastian Langeveld.
In the overall, Brochard is now two seconds ahead of Rast and eight seconds ahead of Panaria's Tizian Dall'Antonia. Saturday's third stage runs 173,8 km from Wiltz to Diekirch.
Photography
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Images by Florian and Susanne Schaaf/cyclingpictures.de
- The peloton lines up for stage three
- Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) zips up the leader's jersey
- The field strung out on the streets of Luxembourg
- The break of the day Sprick, Poos, Koen De Kort, Rucker (l-r)
- Rabobank sets pace in quest to keep yellow
- Laurent Brochard wins the wet affair
Results
1 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4.46.34 (40.93 km/h) 2 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 3 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 4 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 5 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 6 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 0.04 7 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 8 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.07 9 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 10 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 11 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Astana 12 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 13 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 14 Daniel Andonov Petrov (Bul) Benfica 15 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 16 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 17 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 18 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 19 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 20 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Benfica 21 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Benfica 22 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 23 Hannes Blank (Ger) CC Differdange 24 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 25 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 26 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 27 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 28 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 29 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 30 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 31 Jean Marc Marino (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.14 32 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 0.46 33 Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano 0.50 34 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 0.57 35 Frank Dressler (Ger) CC Differdange 36 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 37 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 38 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 39 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 40 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 41 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 42 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 43 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 44 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 45 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 46 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elkhaus-Simplon 47 José Antonio Pecharroman Fabian (Spa) Benfica 48 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 49 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 50 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 51 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 52 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 53 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 1.03 54 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 55 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 56 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 57 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 1.14 58 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.56 59 Eddy Forner (Ita) CC Differdange 60 Jan Valach (Svk) Elkhaus-Simplon 2.14 61 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.57 62 Vincenzo Centrone (Lux) CC Differdange 5.45 63 Matheus Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 64 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 65 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 66 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 6.03 67 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 68 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 69 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 70 Christian Poos (Lux) CC Differdange 71 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 72 Hakan Nilsson (Swe) CC Differdange 73 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 74 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 75 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 76 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10.29 77 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 78 Emilien Benoit Berges (Fra) Agritubel 79 Paul Manning (GBr) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 80 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel 81 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 82 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 83 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 84 Marc Weisshaupt (Ger) Elkhaus-Simplon 85 Cédric Herve (Fra) Agritubel 86 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 87 Evan Oliphant (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 88 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 89 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 90 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 91 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 92 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 93 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 94 Francesco Tomei (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 95 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 96 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 97 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 98 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 99 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 100 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 101 Filippo Savini (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 102 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 103 Kane Oakley (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 104 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 105 David Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 13.19 106 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 18.28 Points 1 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 20 pts 2 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 16 3 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 13 4 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 11 5 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 9 6 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 7 7 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 5 8 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 9 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 2 10 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 1 Mountains 1 - km. 74.2 1 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5 pts 2 Christian Poos (Lux) CC Differdange 3 3 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 2 4 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 1 2 - km. 158.5 1 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5 pts 2 Christian Poos (Lux) CC Differdange 3 3 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 2 4 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 1 Teams 1 Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 14.19.56 2 Astana 3 Benfica 4 Rabobank 5 Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 0.07 6 Credit Agricole 7 Unibet.com 0.54 8 Elkhaus-Simplon 0.57 9 Agritubel 10 Skil-Shimano 1.37 11 Bouygues Telecom 1.40 12 Team Wiesenhof-Felt 2.37 13 CC Differdange 2.46 14 DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 21.41 General classification after stage two 1 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8.59.11 2 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 0.02 3 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.08 4 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 0.09 5 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 0.15 6 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 7 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.18 8 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0.20 9 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 0.21 10 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.22 11 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 12 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 0.24 13 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Benfica 14 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.26 15 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 0.27 16 Daniel Andonov Petrov (Bul) Benfica 0.28 17 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 18 Hannes Blank (Ger) CC Differdange 0.29 19 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 0.30 20 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Astana 0.31 21 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.32 22 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 23 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.33 24 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 25 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 0.34 26 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Benfica 0.36 27 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 0.42 28 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 29 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.44 30 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 1.05 31 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 1.06 32 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 1.08 33 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 1.11 34 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 35 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 1.12 36 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 1.13 37 Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano 38 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 1.14 39 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1.16 40 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.17 41 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 42 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 1.21 43 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 44 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 45 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 46 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 1.23 47 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 1.24 48 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elkhaus-Simplon 49 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 50 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 1.25 51 Frank Dressler (Ger) CC Differdange 1.26 52 José Antonio Pecharroman Fabian (Spa) Benfica 1.28 53 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 1.47 54 Eddy Forner (Ita) CC Differdange 2.23 55 Jan Valach (Svk) Elkhaus-Simplon 2.44 56 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.16 57 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 6.03 58 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 59 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 6.17 60 Christian Poos (Lux) CC Differdange 6.20 61 Vincenzo Centrone (Lux) CC Differdange 6.31 62 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 6.32 63 Hakan Nilsson (Swe) CC Differdange 6.35 64 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 6.38 65 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 6.39 66 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 8.17 67 Jean Marc Marino (Fra) Credit Agricole 8.28 68 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 9.15 69 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 9.24 70 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Credit Agricole 10.13 71 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10.45 72 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 10.47 73 Paul Manning (GBr) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 10.48 74 Filippo Savini (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 10.51 75 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 76 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10.55 77 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 10.57 78 Kane Oakley (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 79 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 11.00 80 Francesco Tomei (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 11.02 81 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 11.03 82 Marc Weisshaupt (Ger) Elkhaus-Simplon 11.08 83 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 13.19 84 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 13.55 85 Matheus Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 14.14 86 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 14.18 87 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 14.35 88 Emilien Benoit Berges (Fra) Agritubel 18.36 89 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 18.37 90 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 18.38 91 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 18.40 92 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 18.43 93 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 18.45 94 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 95 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 18.46 96 Evan Oliphant (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 18.47 97 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 18.48 98 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 18.50 99 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel 18.53 100 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 18.54 101 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 18.58 102 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 18.59 103 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 19.00 104 Cédric Herve (Fra) Agritubel 19.05 105 David Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 21.43 106 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 27.21 Points classification 1 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 27 pts 2 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 27 3 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 23 4 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 20 5 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 20 6 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 16 7 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 16 8 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 16 9 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 15 10 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 15 11 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 14 12 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 11 13 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 9 14 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 7 15 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 7 16 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 5 17 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 5 18 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 19 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 3 20 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 2 Mountains classification 1 Cédric Herve (Fra) Agritubel 13 pts 2 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 11 3 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10 4 Christian Poos (Lux) CC Differdange 6 5 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6 6 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 4 7 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 2 8 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 2 9 Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano 1 Young rider classification 1 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 8.59.19 2 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 0.01 3 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.10 4 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0.12 5 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.14 6 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 7 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 0.16 8 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.18 9 Hannes Blank (Ger) CC Differdange 0.21 10 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.24 11 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.25 12 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 0.34 13 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.36 14 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 0.58 15 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.03 16 Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano 1.05 17 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1.08 18 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.09 19 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 1.13 20 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 21 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 22 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 23 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 1.16 24 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 5.55 25 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 6.24 26 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 6.31 27 Jean Marc Marino (Fra) Credit Agricole 8.20 28 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 9.16 29 Filippo Savini (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 10.43 30 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 31 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10.47 32 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 10.49 33 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 10.52 34 Francesco Tomei (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 10.54 35 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 14.10 36 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 14.27 37 Emilien Benoit Berges (Fra) Agritubel 18.28 38 Evan Oliphant (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 18.39 39 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 18.42 40 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 18.52 Teams classification 1 Credit Agricole 26.58.02 2 Rabobank 3 Astana 4 Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.01 5 Benfica 6 Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 0.03 7 Unibet.com 1.00 8 Agritubel 1.01 9 Elkhaus-Simplon 1.02 10 Bouygues Telecom 1.59 11 Skil-Shimano 2.00 12 CC Differdange 3.02 13 Team Wiesenhof-Felt 10.00 14 DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 22.01
