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67th Skoda-Tour de Luxembourg - 2.HC
Luxembourg, June 6-10, 2007
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Stage 3 - June 9: Wiltz - Diekirch, 173.8 km
Feillu sprints to win in Luxembourg
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Romain Feillu of Agritubel sprinted to the win in the third stage of the Tour du Luxembourg, ahead of Gorik Gardeyn (Unibet) and Paul Martens of Skil Shimano. Laruent Brochard retained the leader's jersey.
An eight-man escape group dominated the race, but it never had more than a two minute lead on the pack. Ten kilometers before the finish line. the peloton caught them up, and a 36-man strong group went into the final sprint.
Sunday's final stage from Mersch to Luxembourg City over 149 km. Many attacks and aggressive riding are expected, as the first 27 racers in the GC are all within one minute of the leader.
Photography
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Images by Florian and Susanne Schaaf/cyclingpictures.de
- Laurent Brochard highly concentrated before the start
- The peloton along the route
- Bouygues Telecom protects the yellow jersey
- The main field heads into a dark forest
- Brochard in yellow concentrated also during the race
- The sprinters wind it up
- Romain Feillu takes the honours on the line
- Romain Feillu (Agritubel) a happy smile from the winner
Images by Andrea Hübner/www.velo-photos.com
- Bouygues Telecom lead the peloton
- The peloton
- Bouygues Telecom
- The peloton
- The peloton on the 2nd lap in Diekirch
- Laurent Brochard (Bouygues Telecom) working hard
- On the way to the finish
- The peloton in Diekirch
- The sprint
- Romain Feillu (Agritubel) wins the sprint in Diekirch
- A happy winner
- Jimmy Engoulvent (Crédit Agricole)
- Feillu celebrates his victory
- Laurent Brochard (Bouygues Telecom)
- The podium of stage 3
- Gregory Rast (Astana)
- Local hero Benoît Joachim (Astana)
- Stefan Van Dijk (Wiesenhof)
- José Azevedo (Benfica)
- Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank)
- Current leader of the Tour of Luxemburg Laurent Brochard (Bouygues Telecom)
- Riders waiting for the start of stage 3 in Wiltz
- Thorwald Veneberg (Rabobank)
- The official start of stage 3
- Hannes Blank (CC Differdange)
- The peloton
- The peloton
- The peloton
- The peloton
- The peloton
Results
1 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 4.23.17 2 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 3 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 4 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 5 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 6 Daniel Andonov Petrov (Bul) Benfica 7 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 8 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 9 Christian Poos (Lux) CC Differdange 10 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 11 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 12 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 13 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 14 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 15 Eddy Forner (Ita) CC Differdange 16 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 17 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 18 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Benfica 19 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 20 Hannes Blank (Ger) CC Differdange 21 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 22 Jan Valach (Svk) Elkhaus-Simplon 23 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 24 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 25 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 26 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 27 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 28 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 29 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 30 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 31 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 32 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Benfica 33 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 34 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 35 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 36 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 37 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.34 38 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 2.04 39 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 40 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 41 Matheus Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 42 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 43 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 44 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 3.16 45 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 46 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 47 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 48 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elkhaus-Simplon 49 Jean Marc Marino (Fra) Credit Agricole 50 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 51 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 6.17 52 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 53 José Antonio Pecharroman Fabian (Spa) Benfica 7.09 54 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 55 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 56 Emilien Benoit Berges (Fra) Agritubel 57 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 9.13 58 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 11.09 59 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 60 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 61 Cédric Herve (Fra) Agritubel 62 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 63 Frank Dressler (Ger) CC Differdange 64 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 65 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 66 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 67 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 68 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 69 David Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 70 Vincenzo Centrone (Lux) CC Differdange 71 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 72 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 73 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 74 Hakan Nilsson (Swe) CC Differdange 75 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 76 Francesco Tomei (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 77 Evan Oliphant (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 78 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 79 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 80 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Credit Agricole 81 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 82 Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano 83 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 84 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 85 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 86 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 87 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 88 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 89 Filippo Savini (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 90 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 91 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 92 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Astana 93 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 94 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 95 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 96 Paul Manning (GBr) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 97 Kane Oakley (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 98 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 99 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 100 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 101 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13.23 102 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom Mountains km 33.9 1 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 5 pts 2 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 3 3 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 2 4 Jean Marc Marino (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 km 62.0 1 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 5 pts 2 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 3 3 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elkhaus-Simplon 2 4 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 km 142.7 1 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 5 pts 2 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 3 3 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 2 4 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elkhaus-Simplon 1 Teams 1 Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 13.09.51 2 Elk Haus - Simplon 3 Continental Cycling Team Differdange 4 Benfica 5 Rabobank 6 Unibet.com 7 Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 8 Bouygues Telecom 0.34 9 Skil-Shimano 2.04 10 Astana 3.16 11 Credit Agricole 4.08 12 Agritubel 7.09 13 DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed 11.09 14 Team Wiesenhof Felt 13.13 General classification after stage three 1 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13.22.28 2 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 0.01 3 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.08 4 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 0.09 5 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0.10 6 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 0.15 7 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 8 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.18 9 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 0.20 10 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 0.21 11 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.22 12 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 13 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.26 14 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 0.27 15 Daniel Andonov Petrov (Bul) Benfica 0.28 16 Hannes Blank (Ger) CC Differdange 0.29 17 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 0.30 18 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 0.33 19 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 0.34 20 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 0.35 21 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Benfica 0.36 22 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 0.42 23 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 24 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.43 25 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.44 26 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Benfica 27 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 0.59 28 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 1.11 29 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 30 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1.16 31 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 1.23 32 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 1.24 33 Eddy Forner (Ita) CC Differdange 2.23 34 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.34 35 Jan Valach (Svk) Elkhaus-Simplon 2.44 36 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 3.17 37 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 3.25 38 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 39 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.50 40 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4.33 41 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 4.37 42 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elkhaus-Simplon 43 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 4.40 44 Christian Poos (Lux) CC Differdange 6.20 45 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 7.29 46 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 8.23 47 José Antonio Pecharroman Fabian (Spa) Benfica 8.37 48 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 9.33 49 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 10.21 50 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 10.57 51 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Astana 11.40 52 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 11.41 53 Jean Marc Marino (Fra) Credit Agricole 11.44 54 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 12.15 55 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 12.17 56 Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano 12.22 57 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 12.26 58 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 12.30 59 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 12.32 60 Frank Dressler (Ger) CC Differdange 12.35 61 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 12.56 62 Matheus Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 16.18 63 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 17.12 64 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 65 Vincenzo Centrone (Lux) CC Differdange 17.40 66 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 17.41 67 Hakan Nilsson (Swe) CC Differdange 17.44 68 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 17.47 69 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 17.48 70 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 17.51 71 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 18.00 72 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 20.12 73 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 20.24 74 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 20.33 75 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Credit Agricole 21.22 76 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 21.56 77 Paul Manning (GBr) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 21.57 78 Filippo Savini (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 22.00 79 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 22.04 80 Kane Oakley (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 22.06 81 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 22.09 82 Francesco Tomei (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 22.11 83 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 23.31 84 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 24.08 85 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 24.26 86 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 24.28 87 Emilien Benoit Berges (Fra) Agritubel 25.44 88 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 29.46 89 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 29.47 90 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 29.49 91 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 29.52 92 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 29.55 93 Evan Oliphant (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 29.56 94 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 29.57 95 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 30.03 96 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 30.04 97 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 30.07 98 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 30.08 99 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 30.09 100 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 101 Cédric Herve (Fra) Agritubel 30.14 102 David Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 32.52 Mountain classification 1 Cédric Herve (Fra) Agritubel 13 pts 2 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 12 3 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 11 4 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10 5 Christian Poos (Lux) CC Differdange 6 6 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6 7 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 5 8 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 5 9 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 4 10 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 3 11 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elkhaus-Simplon 3 12 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 3 13 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 2 14 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 2 15 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 16 Jean Marc Marino (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 17 Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano 1 Young rider classification 1 Tiziano Dall'Antonia (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 13.22.36 2 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 0.01 3 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0.02 4 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.10 5 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 0.12 6 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.14 7 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 8 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.18 9 Hannes Blank (Ger) CC Differdange 0.21 10 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 0.34 11 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Col) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 0.35 12 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elkhaus-Simplon 0.36 13 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.03 14 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1.08 15 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 1.16 16 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 3.17 17 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 18 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4.25 19 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 4.29 20 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 10.49 21 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 11.33 22 Jean Marc Marino (Fra) Credit Agricole 11.36 23 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 12.07 24 Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano 12.14 25 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 12.22 26 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 17.04 27 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 17.33 28 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 17.40 29 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 17.43 30 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 17.52 31 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 20.25 32 Filippo Savini (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 21.52 33 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 21.56 34 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 22.01 35 Francesco Tomei (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria - Navigare 22.03 36 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 23.23 37 Emilien Benoit Berges (Fra) Agritubel 25.36 38 Evan Oliphant (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 29.48 39 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) Team Wiesenhof-Felt 30.01 40 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana Team classification 1 Rabobank 40.08.01 2 Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 0.09 3 Benfica 0.11 4 Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 0.36 5 Unibet.com 1.00 6 Elk Haus - Simplon 1.17 7 Bouygues Telecom 2.21 8 Continental Cycling Team Differdange 3.17 9 Astana 3.20 10 Credit Agricole 4.06 11 Skil-Shimano 4.07 12 Agritubel 8.21 13 Team Wiesenhof Felt 23.17 14 DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed 33.21
