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28th International Bayern Rundfahrt - 2.HC
Germany, May 30-June 3, 2007
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Stage 1 - May 30: Garmisch Partenkirchen - Gundelfingen, 211.1 km
Schulze surprises in sprint
By Susan Westemeyer
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André Schulze of the Professional Continental Team Wiesenhof-Felt surprised the international ProTour competition and took the mass sprint in the first stage of the Bayern Rundfahrt. Stuart O'Grady (CSC) and David Kopp (Gerolsteiner) took second and third, with Milram's Erik Zabel finishing fourth.
It was Schulze's first win in only his third race back after a bad crash and surgery the end of March. He crashed in the Ronde van het Groene Hart race and broke his jaw and his cheekbone in three places. It was also the team's first win since Wiesenhof announced that it would stop its sponsorship at the end of the season. "That was exactly the right response from our team to the turbulence of the last week," said Ronny Lauke, Wiesenhof's Directeur Sportif.
It looked for a while as if there would be no mass sprint in the stage. An early escape group of Jörg Ludewig (Wiesenhof), Emilien Berges (Agritubel), Malaya van Ruitenbeek (Regiostrom Senges), and Michael Schär (Astana) got away and built up a lead of up to seven minutes. The sprinter teams joined together and caught them only five kilometers before the finish line.
"In the finale, I had a super position on Erik Zabel's rear wheel," explained Schulze. "200 meters before the line I opened the sprint and simply took off. It makes me very happy that I got the stage win. The stage tomorrow to Eichstätt won't be easy. But I will do my best and hope to win another stage."
Thursday's stage from Gundelfingen to Eichstätt is 188 rolling kilometres, finishing with two laps of a difficult round course.
Photography
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- Erik Zabel (Milram) riding his first race since confessing last Thursday that he used EPO in 1996.
- A pensive Zabel heads for the start line in Garmisch.
- The German sprinter managed a respectable fourth in the Stage 1 bunch finish.
Images by Andrea Hübner/www.velo-photos.com
- Jörg Ludewig (Wiesenhof)
- The peloton passes the finish line 1 lap to go
- Thorsten Hiekmann (Gerolsteiner) leads the peloton into the last lap
- The peloton in Gundelfingen
- The final sprint in Gundelfingen André Schulze vs. Stuart O'Grady
- Schulze and O'Grady
- Schulze wins stage 1
- Beer for David Kopp (Gerolsteiner) and André Schulze (Wiesenhof)...
- Stuart O'Grady (Team CSC) gets a beer, too
- The podium of stage 1 Kopp, Schulze, O'Grady
- André Schulze (Wiesenhof) first leader of the Bayernrrundfahrt 2007
Results
1 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 4.41.51 (44.94 km/h) 2 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 3 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 5 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 6 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 7 René Obst (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 8 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 9 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 10 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 11 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 12 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 13 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 14 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Intel - Action 15 Emiliano Donadello (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 16 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 17 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 18 Dariusz Rudnicki (Pol) Intel - Action 19 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 20 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 21 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 22 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Volksbank 23 Renato Silva (Por) Benfica 24 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 25 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 26 Christoph Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 27 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 28 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank 29 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 30 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 31 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 32 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 33 Sven Renders (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 34 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 35 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel 36 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 37 Samuel Plouhinec (Fra) Agritubel 38 Martin Hebik (Cze) Heinz von Heiden Focus 39 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile Team 40 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 41 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 42 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 43 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 44 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 45 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 46 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 47 Bruno Miguel Castanheira Gomes (Por) Benfica 48 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 49 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 50 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 51 Hans-Jürgen Juretzek (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 52 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 53 Koen Barbé (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 54 Leonardo Moser (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 55 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elk Haus - Simplon 56 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 57 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 58 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 59 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel - Action 60 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 61 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team 62 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 63 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 64 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 65 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 66 Tobias Erler (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 67 Christian Murro (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 68 Florian Stalder (Swi) Team Volksbank 69 Luca Sabatino (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 70 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 71 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Volksbank 72 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 73 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank 74 Felix Gniot (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 75 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 76 Serge Herz (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 77 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 78 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 79 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 80 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 81 Helder Miranda (Spa) Benfica 82 Jason Phillips (Aus) Heinz von Heiden Focus 83 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 84 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Benfica 85 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 86 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 87 Steffen Wesemann (Swi) Team Wiesenhof Felt 88 Honorio Machado Perez (Ven) Tenax Salmilano 89 Jure Golcer (Slo) Tenax Salmilano 90 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Intel - Action 91 Maint Berkenbosch (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 92 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team CSC 93 Alessandro Bertuola (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 94 Erik Hoffmann (Nam) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 95 Jan Valach (Svk) Elk Haus - Simplon 96 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 97 Santo Anza (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 98 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 99 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 100 Malte Urban (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 101 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 102 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Volksbank 103 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 104 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 105 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 106 Wolfram Wiese (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 107 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel - Action 108 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Intel - Action 109 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 110 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 111 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Regiostrom - Senges 112 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 113 Mattia Turrina (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 114 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner 115 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 116 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 117 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram Sprints Km. 84.5 1 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 3 pts 2 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2 3 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 1 152.3 1 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 3 pts 2 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2 3 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 1 km. 198.5 1 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 3 pts 2 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 2 3 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 1 Finish 1 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 5 pts 2 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 4 3 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 4 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 2 5 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 1 Mountains Cat. 1 - km. 18.3 1 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5 pts 2 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 3 3 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 2 4 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Volksbank 1 Cat. 2 - km. 113.7 1 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 3 pts 2 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2 3 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 1 General classification after stage 1 1 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 4.41.41 2 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 0.01 3 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 0.04 4 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 0.05 5 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.06 6 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 0.08 7 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 8 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 0.10 9 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 10 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 11 René Obst (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 12 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 13 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 14 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 15 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 16 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 17 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 18 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Intel - Action 19 Emiliano Donadello (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 20 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 21 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 22 Dariusz Rudnicki (Pol) Intel - Action 23 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 24 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 25 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 26 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Volksbank 27 Renato Silva (Por) Benfica 28 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 29 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 30 Christoph Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 31 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 32 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank 33 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 34 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 35 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 36 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 37 Sven Renders (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 38 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 39 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel 40 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 41 Samuel Plouhinec (Fra) Agritubel 42 Martin Hebik (Cze) Heinz von Heiden Focus 43 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile Team 44 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 45 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 46 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 47 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 48 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 49 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 50 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 51 Bruno Miguel Castanheira Gomes (Por) Benfica 52 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 53 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 54 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 55 Hans-Jürgen Juretzek (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 56 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 57 Koen Barbé (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 58 Leonardo Moser (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 59 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elk Haus - Simplon 60 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 61 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 62 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel - Action 63 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 64 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team 65 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 66 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 67 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 68 Tobias Erler (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 69 Christian Murro (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 70 Florian Stalder (Swi) Team Volksbank 71 Luca Sabatino (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 72 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 73 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Volksbank 74 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 75 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank 76 Felix Gniot (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 77 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 78 Serge Herz (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 79 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 80 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 81 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 82 Helder Miranda (Spa) Benfica 83 Jason Phillips (Aus) Heinz von Heiden Focus 84 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 85 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Benfica 86 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 87 Steffen Wesemann (Swi) Team Wiesenhof Felt 88 Honorio Machado Perez (Ven) Tenax Salmilano 89 Jure Golcer (Slo) Tenax Salmilano 90 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Intel - Action 91 Maint Berkenbosch (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 92 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team CSC 93 Alessandro Bertuola (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 94 Erik Hoffmann (Nam) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 95 Jan Valach (Svk) Elk Haus - Simplon 96 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 97 Santo Anza (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 98 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 99 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 100 Malte Urban (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 101 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 102 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Volksbank 103 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 104 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 105 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 106 Wolfram Wiese (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 107 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel - Action 108 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Intel - Action 109 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 110 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 111 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Regiostrom - Senges 112 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 113 Mattia Turrina (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 114 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner 115 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 116 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 117 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram Points classification 1 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 9 pts 2 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 5 3 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 5 4 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 4 5 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 6 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 2 7 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 2 8 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 2 9 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 1 Mountains classification 1 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5 pts 2 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 3 3 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 3 4 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2 5 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 2 6 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 1 7 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Volksbank 1 Team classification 1 Gerolsteiner 14.05.03 2 Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 3 Team Volkswagen-Trek 4 Benfica 5 Team Wiesenhof Felt 6 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 7 Elk Haus-Simplon 8 Tenax-Menikini 9 Agritubel 10 T-Mobile Professional Cycling 11 Intel-Action 12 Team 3C-Gruppe Lamonta 13 Team CSC 14 Astana 15 Team Milram 16 Heinz von Heiden Focus 17 Team Regiostrom-Senges
