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Vuelta a Chihuahua Internacional - 2.2
Mexico, October 7-14, 2007
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Stage 2 - October 8: Chihuahua - Camargo, 147.8 km
Hernández takes first win for Mexico
By Monika Prell in Camargo
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The Mexican Carlos Hernández (Team Canels) has won the second stage of the Vuelta a Chihuahua, ahead of the US American Steven Cozza (Team Slipstream) and the Spaniard Daniel Moreno (Relax GAM). Danny Pate (Team Slipstream) has taken over as the new leader.
After one of the great, typical Mexican breakfasts, consisting of a lot of fresh fruits like melon, pineapple, banana and mango, cold or hot tacos, scrambled eggs, a mash of beans and other delicious items, the riders started on Monday morning at 10:00 in Chihuahua, the capital of the state Chihuahua.The 147.8-kilometre stage into the South of the state, to Camargo, went over seemingly endless straight roads. The peloton raced by cotton fields and nut tree goves, passing some typical ranches under the torrid Mexican sun, with temperatures of at least 30 degree centigrades. Attacks were numerous and the peloton worked hard to catch riders like Francisco Mancebo and Santi Pérez (both Relax GAM).
By kilometre 34, two riders had escaped from the main peloton: Carlos Hernández (Canels) and Steven Cozza (Slipstream) with Hernández winning the mountain classification from Cozza at kilometre 38. Third was the Canadian Keven Lacombe (Kelly Benefit).
After 57 kilometres, Ricardo Samuel Tapia (Arenas Tlaxcala) had crossed the gap to reach the two riders, and together the trio reached an advantage of eight minutes and 15 seconds.
Saunier Duval was the first team that began working to reduce the gap to leaders, but later Tecos-Trek and Liberty Seguros took over from the Spanish outfit. However, neither team was able to bridge the gap to the front group. It took Fuerteventura Canarias and later on Relax GAM before the peloton began making any headway on the three riders. With eight kilometres to go, Tapia was dropped from the leading trio, leaving only Cozza and Hernández to fend off the charging peloton.
With one kilometre remaining the duo still had a minute on the fast chasing peloton. There was no time to play cat and mouse however as the peloton was closing in quickly. By the time Hernández crossed the line for the win, after beating Cozza in the sprint, the main bunch was upon them and they all received the same time with Daniel Moreno taking third.
Hernández was very happy to have won in his home country, in front of the frenetic public that celebrated the event after the end of the stage with folkloric dances and various shows. "I came to this race with the intention to win a stage. It was not easy, and I am very content. Now I would like to fight for the classification of the Metas Volantes [intermediate sprint classification]." The 33 year-old dedicated the victory "to my wife and my three sons."
Photography
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Images by Monika Prell
Images by Rafael Gómez Alonso
- The peloton all together.
- Hernandez wins the stage.
- Hernandez on the Podium.
- The new leader of the tour , Danny Pate.
- Eduardo Gonzalo has a drink by the flowers.
- Traditional costume of Mexico.
- The locals put on a display of a Folkloric dance.
- Hernandez driving the break.
- Hernandez, Cozza in the break.
- Saunier Duval working hard on the front to try and defend the lead.
- The three riders that made up the break.
Results
stage2 1 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 3.17.06 (44.992 km/h) 2 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 3 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Gam 4 Gianluca Geremia (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 5 Danny Pate (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 6 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Relax-Gam 7 Filipe Cardoso (Por) Liberty Seguros 8 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 9 Antonio D'aniello (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 10 Marco Rios (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 11 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 12 Cuitlahuac Ayala (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 13 Edgardo Lugo (Mex) Canel's Turbo 14 Jessel Valenzuela (Mex) Orven 15 Nacor Burgos Rojo (Spa) Relax-Gam 16 Javier Mejías (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 17 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Ceramica Flaminia 18 Mikel Artetxe Gezuraga (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 19 Edgar Treviño (Mex) Orven 20 Jose Gerardo Soto (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 21 José Adrian Bonilla (CRc) Fuerteventura-Canarias 22 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 23 Iosvani Falcon (Cub) AEG-Toshiba-Jetnetwork Pro Cycling Team 24 Gilberto Porras (Mex) Rica Burguer 25 Rafael Aguilar (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 26 Pedro Covarrubias (Mex) Orven 27 Hector Rangel (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 28 David Bernabeu Armengol (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 29 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 30 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Gam 31 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 32 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Ceramica Flaminia 33 Timothy Duggan (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 34 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 35 Oscar Sevilla Ribera (Spa) Relax-Gam 36 Oswaldo Hernandez (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 37 Martin Gilbert (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 38 Lucas Euser (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 39 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 40 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 41 Vitor Rodrigues (Por) Liberty Seguros 42 Francisco Matamoros (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 43 Martin Robles (Mex) Rica Burguer 44 Gregorio Ladino (Col) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 45 César Antunes Quiterio (Por) Liberty Seguros 46 Pedro Garibay (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 47 Jesus Grajeda (Mex) Orven 48 Geoffrey Kabush (USA) Symmetrics Cycling Team 49 Fabian Reyes (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 50 Daniel Duarte (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 51 Eder Arenas (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 52 Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez (Spa) Agritubel 53 Saul Figueroa (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 54 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 55 Adriano Angeloni (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 56 Blake Caldwell (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 57 Alex Hagman (USA) AEG-Toshiba-Jetnetwork Pro Cycling Team 58 Oscar Barron (Mex) Orven 59 Roberto Rodriguez (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 60 Jonathan Reid Mumford (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 61 Eduardo Vicencio (Mex) Rica Burguer 62 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 63 Bernardo Colex Tepoz (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 64 José de Jesus Gomez (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 65 Luis Pinheiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 66 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Canel's Turbo 67 Uriel Clara (Mex) Canel's Turbo 68 William Frishkorn (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 69 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Canel's Turbo 70 John Fredy Parra (Col) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 71 Juan Pablo Villela (Mex) Rica Burguer 72 David Salomon (Mex) Canel's Turbo 73 Carlos Nozal Vega (Spa) Liberty Seguros 74 Domingo Gonzalez (Mex) Orven 75 Carlos Lopez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 76 David Winston (USA) AEG-Toshiba-Jetnetwork Pro Cycling Team 77 Eduardo Graciano (Mex) Orven 78 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin (Spa) Agritubel 79 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 80 Dan Bowman (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 81 Justin Spinelli (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 82 Enrique Mendez (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 83 Eric Keim (USA) AEG-Toshiba-Jetnetwork Pro Cycling Team 84 Ivan Borunda (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 85 Jose Miguel Elias Galindo (Spa) Relax-Gam 86 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 87 Ryan Blicken (USA) Rica Burguer 88 Joel Alamillo (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 89 Antonio Velazquez (Mex) Rica Burguer 0.14 90 Miguel Angel Gonzalez (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 0.15 91 Ryan Roth (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 0.31 92 Misael Ramirez (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 0.33 93 David Muñoz (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 94 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 0.38 95 Henry Swinty (USA) Rica Burguer 0.52 96 David Belda (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 1.00 97 Alberto Fernandez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.25 98 Gabriel Juarez (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 1.31 99 Ricardo Samuel Tapia (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 1.57 100 Arkaitz Duran (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.00 HD Dean Peters (USA) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 26.16 DSQ Edgar Gaytan (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo Sprints 1 1 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 3 pts 2 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 2 3 Domingo Gonzalez (Mex) Orven 1 2 1 Ricardo Samuel Tapia (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 3 pts 2 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 2 3 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 1 Mountains 1 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 4 pts 2 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 3 3 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 2 4 Eduardo Vicencio (Mex) Rica Burguer 1 Teams 1 Team Slipstream 9.51.18 2 Liberty Seguros 3 Relax Gam Fuenlabrada 4 Ceramica Flamina Cycling 5 Saunier Duval Prodir 6 Arenas Tlax 7 Agritubel 8 Fuerte Ventura Canarias 9 Rica Burguer 10 Symetrics Cycling Team 11 Orven 12 Tecos Universidad Autonoma 13 Canel's Turbo 14 Kelly Benefit Strategies 15 Aeg Toshiba 16 Univeridad Autonoma De Chihuahua 17 Fullerton Bicycleo Novo General classification after stage 2 1 Danny Pate (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 5.01.13 2 Filipe Cardoso (Por) Liberty Seguros 3 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Relax-Gam 4 Antonio D'aniello (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 5 Javier Mejías (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 Cuitlahuac Ayala (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 7 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 8 José Adrian Bonilla (CRc) Fuerteventura-Canarias 9 Jose Gerardo Soto (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 10 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Ceramica Flaminia 11 Gilberto Porras (Mex) Rica Burguer 12 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 13 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 14 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Gam 15 Pedro Covarrubias (Mex) Orven 16 Francisco Matamoros (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 17 Lucas Euser (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 18 David Bernabeu Armengol (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 19 Timothy Duggan (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 20 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 21 Martin Robles (Mex) Rica Burguer 22 Gregorio Ladino (Col) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 23 Vitor Rodrigues (Por) Liberty Seguros 24 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 25 Eduardo Graciano (Mex) Orven 26 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Canel's Turbo 27 David Salomon (Mex) Canel's Turbo 28 Dan Bowman (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 29 Eric Keim (USA) AEG-Toshiba-Jetnetwork Pro Cycling Team 30 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Gam 31 Edgardo Lugo (Mex) Canel's Turbo 32 Jessel Valenzuela (Mex) Orven 33 Mikel Artetxe Gezuraga (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 34 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 35 Rafael Aguilar (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 36 Nacor Burgos Rojo (Spa) Relax-Gam 37 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 38 Edgar Treviño (Mex) Orven 39 Marco Rios (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 40 Oscar Sevilla Ribera (Spa) Relax-Gam 41 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 42 Hector Rangel (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 43 Iosvani Falcon (Cub) AEG-Toshiba-Jetnetwork Pro Cycling Team 44 Fabian Reyes (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 45 Oscar Barron (Mex) Orven 46 César Antunes Quiterio (Por) Liberty Seguros 47 Oswaldo Hernandez (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 48 Eder Arenas (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 49 Daniel Duarte (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 50 Gianluca Geremia (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 51 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 52 Roberto Rodriguez (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 53 Saul Figueroa (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 54 Pedro Garibay (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 55 Jonathan Reid Mumford (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 56 Carlos Lopez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 57 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 58 Jesus Grajeda (Mex) Orven 59 Domingo Gonzalez (Mex) Orven 60 Bernardo Colex Tepoz (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 61 Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez (Spa) Agritubel 62 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 63 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Canel's Turbo 64 Alex Hagman (USA) AEG-Toshiba-Jetnetwork Pro Cycling Team 65 Geoffrey Kabush (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 66 Juan Pablo Villela (Mex) Rica Burguer 67 Ivan Borunda (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 68 Martin Gilbert (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 69 Blake Caldwell (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 70 Luis Pinheiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 71 José de Jesus Gomez (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 72 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 73 Adriano Angeloni (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 74 John Fredy Parra (Col) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 75 Justin Spinelli (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 76 David Winston (USA) AEG-Toshiba-Jetnetwork Pro Cycling Team 77 William Frishkorn (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 78 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 79 Jose Miguel Elias Galindo (Spa) Relax-Gam 80 Eduardo Vicencio (Mex) Rica Burguer 81 Carlos Nozal Vega (Spa) Liberty Seguros 82 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin (Spa) Agritubel 83 Enrique Mendez (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 84 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 85 Joel Alamillo (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 86 Ryan Blicken (USA) Rica Burguer 87 Antonio Velazquez (Mex) Rica Burguer 88 Miguel Angel Gonzalez (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 89 Ryan Roth (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 90 Misael Ramirez (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 91 David Muñoz (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 92 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 93 Henry Swinty (USA) Rica Burguer 94 David Belda (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 95 Alberto Fernandez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 96 Uriel Clara (Mex) Canel's Turbo 97 Gabriel Juarez (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 98 Ricardo Samuel Tapia (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 99 Arkaitz Duran (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 100 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Ceramica Flaminia Points Classification 1 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 5 pts 2 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 3 3 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Gam 2 Mountains Classification 1 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 4 pts 2 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 3 3 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 2 4 Eduardo Vicencio (Mex) Rica Burguer 1 Most Combative 1 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 9 pts 2 Filipe Cardoso (Por) Liberty Seguros 9 3 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 7 4 Javier Mejías (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 5 Eduardo Graciano (Mex) Orven 4 6 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Ceramica Flaminia 3 7 Ricardo Samuel Tapia (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 3 8 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Gam 2 9 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 1 10 Domingo Gonzalez (Mex) Orven 1 Teams Classification 1 Team Slipstream 3.03.39 2 Liberty Seguros 3.08 3 Relax Gam Fuenlabrada 4 Ceramica Flamina Cycling 5 Saunier Duval Prodir 6 Arenas Tlax 7 Agritubel 8 Fuerte Ventura Canarias 9 Rica Burguer 10 Symetrics Cycling Team 11 Orven 12 Tecos Universidad Autonoma 13 Canel's Turbo 14 Kelly Benefit Strategies 6.06 15 Aeg Toshiba 16 Univeridad Autonoma De Chihuahua 9.09 17 Fullerton Bicycleo Novo
