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76th Critérium International - 2.HC
France, March 31-April 1, 2007
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Stage 2 - April 1: Les Vieilles Forges (Les Mazures) - Monthermé, 98.5 km
One more one man show for Jens Voigt
By Jean-François Quénet in Monthermé
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Jens Voigt is the true star of the Critérium International, and like a true champion he took control of the race by winning the second, hilly stage on Sunday morning, catapulting himself to the top of the general classification. Voigt has already won the Criterium International in 1999 and 2004 (3rd in 2001, 4th in 2002, 2nd in 2003, 5th in 2005). He also claimed the morning hill climb stage twice and the individual time trial three times. With the German in such great shape this year - already stage winner in the Tour of California, 6th in the Vuelta Murcia and Tirreno-Adriatico - it should be no problem for him to secure the overall win again in the time trial in Charleville-Mézières.
"I remember that two years ago, the breakaway went very early," Voigt recalled. "It's a kind of stage where it's very difficult to re-join someone who's broken away. I was lucky to be in the front with two very good riders, especially Sébastien Joly, I knew he had had a good Paris-Nice and I have a lot of respect for him."
Joly commented: "I wanted to confirm my good Paris-Nice. I like this kind of terrain where it's possible to climb with a big gear." The third man, Gorazd Stangelj was clearly focused on the mountain jersey. But none of the two managed to accompany Voigt when he attacked with almost 25km to go.
The Caisse d'Epargne team spent a lot of time and energy chasing for nothing. "Because the course is always up and down with a lot of curves and changes of rhythm, it's almost impossible for a team to bring the peloton back," Voigt explained. "It would be different if there were 20 kilometres of flat along the river. I love this kind of cycling. It's short and stressful."
It was very spectacular in the French Ardennes forest indeed. The main favorites chased hard. Damiano Cunego missed the victory for the second day in a row and Alexandre Vinokourov was the only big name who didn't make the first group, confirming that he intends to peak only for the Tour de France.
How it unfolded
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On the first time up the Côte du Mont Malgré Tout, former U23 world champion Danny Pate (Slipstream) gave the signal for an attack but he couldn't stay with Gorazd Stangelj (Lampre) who was followed by Sébastien Joly (Française des Jeux) and Jens Voigt (CSC). On the next climb, the Côte de Blossette (km 34), the trio had gained a two minute lead.
Caisse d'Epargne was doing most of the work in the bunch but couldn't close the gap. Voigt attacked on the false flat section preceding the second time climbing the Côte du Mont Malgré Tout (km 77) and went solo. A few riders broke clear from the peloton on this climb: Fränk Schleck (CSC), Andreas Klöden (Astana), Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne), Giampaolo Caruso (Lampre), Thomas Lövkvist (Française des Jeux) and Felix Cardeñas (Barloworld).
More riders then went across and Damiano Cunego (Lampre) threw all of his forces in a desperate chase by himself behind Voigt who held on and kept 48 seconds lead ahead of Valverde and 12 other riders. With Voigt's time-trialling prowess it should be enough for the German to secure the overall win in the 8.3km individual time trial in the afternoon.
Photography
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- The winner is... Jens Voigt again.
- Jens Voigt is used to the yellow jersey.
- Jens Voigt, aged 36, is always green.
- Gorazd Stangelj reached his goal to get the polka dot jersey.
- Swedish rider Thomas Lövkvist can't help but offer a smile to the blond girl.
- Thomas Lövkvist is the best yong rider.
Images by Luc Claessen/www.ctm-images.com
- Sébastien Joly (Française des Jeux) leads the break followed by Jens Voigt (Team CSC) and Gorazd Stangelj (Lampre).
- Joly checks the damage behind.
- Jens Voigt (Team CSC) celebrates a commanding stage victory on stage two.
- Classic Voigt: The German produced a trademark solo win to take the overall lead by 48 seconds.
- Jens Voigt (Team CSC) takes the applause for the stage win.
- Voigt has already won a stage of the Tour of California this year.
- A happy Jens Voigt in the yellow jersey.
- Jens Voigt has won the Criterium International twice before - in 1999 and 2004.
Results
1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2.29.00 2 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.48 3 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 4 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 5 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 6 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 7 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 8 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 9 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 10 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 Félix Rafael Cárdenas (Col) Barloworld 12 José Alberto Martínez (Spa) Agritubel 13 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 14 Francisco Pérez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.25 15 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 16 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 2.03 17 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis 2.07 18 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 19 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 20 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team LPR 21 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 22 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 23 Luca Solari (Ita) Team LPR 24 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 25 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 26 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 27 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 28 Peter Velits (Svk) Wiesenhof-Felt 29 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 30 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 31 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 32 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 33 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 34 Alexander Vinokourov (Kaz) Astana 35 John Gadret (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 36 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 37 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 38 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 2.21 39 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.34 40 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 4.27 41 Huub Duyn (Ned) Slipstream-Chipotle 42 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r Prévoyance 43 Bradley McGee (Aus) Française Des Jeux 44 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 45 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 46 David Herrero (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 47 Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis 48 Danny Pate (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle 49 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 50 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Astana 51 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 52 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance 53 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 54 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 55 Johannes Frohlinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner 56 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 57 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 58 Antonio Bucciero (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 59 Martin Velits (Slo) Wiesenhof-Felt 60 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 61 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 62 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis 63 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 64 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 65 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 66 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 67 Rene Mandri (Est) Ag2r Prévoyance 68 Iban Iriondo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 69 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) Team LPR 70 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 71 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 72 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 73 Roberto Traficante (Ita) Team LPR 74 Filippo Savini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 75 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 76 Carlos Castaño (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 77 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 78 Ivan Parra (Col) Cofidis 79 Roger Beuchat (Sui) Team LPR 80 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 81 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 82 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 83 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Astana 84 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 5.31 85 Clément L'Hottelerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 86 Iban Mayoz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 87 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 88 Thomas Frei (Sui) Astana 89 Julien Mazet (Fra) Astana 90 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 91 Robert Retschke (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 92 Pierre Drancourt (Bel) Bouygues Telecom 93 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 94 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 95 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 96 Ian MacGregor (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle 97 Ian McLeod (RSA) Française Des Jeux 98 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 99 Mikel Gaztañaga Echeverria (Spa) Agritubel 100 Chris Sutton (Aus) Cofidis 101 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 102 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 103 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 7.33 104 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 105 James Perry (RSA) Barloworld 106 Steven Cozza (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle 107 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 108 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 109 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis DNF Enrique Salgueiro (Spa) Karpin-Galicia DNF Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano DNF Christian Müller (Ger) Skil-Shimano DNF Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano DNF David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano DNF Fabien Bacquet (Fra) Skil-Shimano DNF Anthony Ravard (Fra) Agritubel DNF Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel DNF Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Barloworld DNF Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld DNF Christian Leben (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt DNF Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt DNF Juan Francisco Mouron Doldan (Spa) Karpin-Galicia DNF Serafin Martinez (Spa) Karpin-Galicia DNF Gustavo César Veloso (Spa) Karpin-Galicia DNF Luca Celli (Ita) Team LPR DNF Borut Bozic (Slo) Team LPR DNF Maurizio Bellin (Ita) Team LPR DNF Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare DNF Tiziano Dall'Antonia (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare DNF Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt DNF Taylor Tolleson (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle DNF Kilian Patour (Fra) Slipstream-Chipotle DNF David Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner DNF Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom DNF Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom DNF Sébastien Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne DNF Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne DNF Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne DNF Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne DNF Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana DNF Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana DNF Sjef De Wilde (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner DNF Steven Kleynen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner DNF Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Slipstream-Chipotle DNF William Frischkorn (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle DNF Antton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi DNF Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi DNF Beñat Albizuri (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi DNF Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux DNF James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner DNF Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner DNF Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner DNF Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC Mountains Côte des Vieilles Forges - km 2 1 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 4 pts 2 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 2 3 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Slipstream-Chipotle 1 Côte du Mont Malgré Tout - km 13 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 6 pts 2 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 4 3 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2 Côte de Blossette - km 34 1 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 4 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 3 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 Col du Loup - km 39.5 1 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 4 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 3 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 Côte des Perrières - km 49 1 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 4 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 3 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 Côte de Meillier-Fontaine - km 56.5 1 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 4 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 3 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 Côte du Bois de l'Or - km 61 1 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 4 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 3 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 Côte du Mont Malgré Tout - km 77 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 6 pts 2 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 4 3 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 2 Côte de la Roche aux 7 Villages (Montherme) - km 98.5 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 4 pts 2 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 3 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 1 Young rider 1 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 2.29.48 2 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.37 3 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 1.15 4 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.19 5 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team LPR 6 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 Peter Velits (Svk) Wiesenhof-Felt 8 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 9 Huub Duyn (Ned) Slipstream-Chipotle 3.39 10 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 11 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 12 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 13 Johannes Frohlinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner 14 Antonio Bucciero (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 15 Martin Velits (Slo) Wiesenhof-Felt 16 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 17 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 18 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 19 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 20 Rene Mandri (Est) Ag2r Prévoyance 21 Iban Iriondo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 22 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 23 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 24 Roberto Traficante (Ita) Team LPR 25 Filippo Savini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 26 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 27 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 28 Clément L'Hottelerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 4.43 29 Thomas Frei (Sui) Astana 30 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 31 Pierre Drancourt (Bel) Bouygues Telecom 32 Ian MacGregor (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle 33 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 34 Chris Sutton (Aus) Cofidis 35 Steven Cozza (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle 6.45 Teams 1 Team CSC 7.29.55 2 Caisse D’Epargne 0.43 3 Lampre-Fondital 0.48 4 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 2.03 5 Credit Agricole 2.07 6 Barloworld 2.21 7 Bouygues Telecom 2.34 8 Francaise Des Jeux 3.08 9 Ag2r Prevoyance 3.26 10 Astana 4.27 11 Agritubel 12 Karpin Galicia 5.46 13 Euskaltel - Euskadi 14 Team L.P.R. 15 Team Wiesenhof Felt 9.10 16 Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 10.26 17 Gerolsteiner 18 Team Slipstream 11.30 19 Skil-Shimano 12.34 General Classification after stage 2 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 6.44.42 2 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.48 3 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 4 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 5 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 7 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 8 José Alberto Martínez (Spa) Agritubel 9 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 10 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 11 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 12 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 13 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.25 14 Francisco Pérez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 15 Félix Rafael Cárdenas (Col) Barloworld 1.59 16 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 2.03 17 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team LPR 2.07 18 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 19 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 20 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 21 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 22 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 23 Peter Velits (Svk) Wiesenhof-Felt 24 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 25 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 26 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 27 Alexander Vinokourov (Kaz) Astana 28 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 29 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 30 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 31 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 32 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 33 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 34 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.34 35 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis 3.18 36 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 37 Luca Solari (Ita) Team LPR 38 John Gadret (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 39 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 4.27 40 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 41 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r Prévoyance 42 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Astana 43 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 44 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 45 Iban Iriondo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 46 Rene Mandri (Est) Ag2r Prévoyance 47 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 48 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 49 David Herrero (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 50 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis 51 Bradley McGee (Aus) Française Des Jeux 52 Danny Pate (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle 53 Filippo Savini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 54 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 55 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 56 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) Team LPR 57 Martin Velits (Slo) Wiesenhof-Felt 58 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 59 Antonio Bucciero (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 60 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 61 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 62 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 63 Carlos Castaño (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 64 Roger Beuchat (Sui) Team LPR 65 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Astana 66 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance 67 Roberto Traficante (Ita) Team LPR 4.41 68 Mikel Gaztañaga Echeverria (Spa) Agritubel 5.27 69 Iban Mayoz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.31 70 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 71 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 72 Chris Sutton (Aus) Cofidis 73 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 74 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 75 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 76 Clément L'Hottelerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 77 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 5.32 78 Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis 5.38 79 Johannes Frohlinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner 80 Huub Duyn (Ned) Slipstream-Chipotle 81 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 82 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 83 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 84 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 85 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 86 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 87 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 88 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 89 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 90 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 91 Ian McLeod (RSA) Française Des Jeux 5.46 92 Ivan Parra (Col) Cofidis 6.27 93 Robert Retschke (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 6.42 94 Julien Mazet (Fra) Astana 95 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 96 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 97 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 98 Ian MacGregor (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle 99 Pierre Drancourt (Bel) Bouygues Telecom 100 Thomas Frei (Sui) Astana 7.08 101 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 7.23 102 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 7.27 103 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 7.33 104 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 105 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis 8.44 106 Steven Cozza (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle 9.10 107 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 9.31 108 James Perry (RSA) Barloworld 10.21 109 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 10.41 Points
1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 15 pts 2 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 15 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 12 4 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 12 5 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 10 6 Mikel Gaztañaga Echeverria (Spa) Agritubel 10 7 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 8 8 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 8 9 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 7 10 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 6 11 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 6 12 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 6 13 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5 14 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 5 15 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 4 16 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 4 17 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 3 18 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 3 19 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 Mountains 1 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 26 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 26 3 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 11 4 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 4 5 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 4 6 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 7 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 2 8 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 1 9 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 1 Young rider 1 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 6.45.30 2 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.37 3 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 1.15 4 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team LPR 1.19 5 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 7 Peter Velits (Svk) Wiesenhof-Felt 8 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 3.39 10 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 11 Rene Mandri (Est) Ag2r Prévoyance 12 Iban Iriondo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13 Martin Velits (Slo) Wiesenhof-Felt 14 Antonio Bucciero (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 15 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 16 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 17 Filippo Savini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 18 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 19 Roberto Traficante (Ita) Team LPR 3.53 20 Chris Sutton (Aus) Cofidis 4.43 21 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 22 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 23 Clément L'Hottelerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 24 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 4.44 25 Johannes Frohlinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4.50 26 Huub Duyn (Ned) Slipstream-Chipotle 27 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 28 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 29 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 30 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 31 Ian MacGregor (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle 5.54 32 Pierre Drancourt (Bel) Bouygues Telecom 33 Thomas Frei (Sui) Astana 6.20 34 Steven Cozza (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle 8.22 35 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 8.43 Teams 1 Team CSC 20.17.01 2 Caisse D’Epargne 0.43 3 Lampre-Fondital 0.48 4 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 2.03 5 Credit Agricole 2.07 6 Barloworld 2.21 7 Bouygues Telecom 2.34 8 Francaise Des Jeux 3.08 9 Ag2r Prevoyance 3.26 10 Astana 4.27 11 Agritubel 12 Euskaltel - Euskadi 5.46 13 Team L.P.R. 14 Karpin Galicia 15 Team Wiesenhof Felt 9.10 16 Gerolsteiner 10.26 17 Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 18 Team Slipstream 11.30 19 Skil-Shimano 12.34
