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Vuelta a Chihuahua Internacional - 2.2
Mexico, October 7-14, 2007
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Stage 6 - October 13: Cuauhtémoc - Chihuahua, 127.8 km
Cozza claims first professional victory
By Monika Prell in Chihuahua
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American Steven Cozza took his first victory as professional today when he won the sixth stage of the Vuelta a Chihuahua today. The 22 years-old who rides for Team Slipstream took the stage ahead of Canadian Cameron Evans (Symetrics Cycling team) Portugals Filipe Cardoso (Liberty Seguros). Spaniard Francisco Mancebo (Relax GAM) took over the overall lead from fellow countryman Javier Mejías (Saunier Duval).
Cozza was overjoyed after the finish. "It's my first victory as professional, and it's great that it happened here in Mexico . I already tried it in stage two. Now I am very happy. We will try to maintain our positions tomorrow."
How it unfolded
Once again the heat as well as the beautiful landscape that is Mexico greeted the riders as they set off on the penultimate stage of the Vuelta a Chihuahua from the Mennonite town of Cuauthémoc to the capital, Chihuahua. Plenty of action was expected from the GC riders as the top four on the general classification, Javier Mejías, Francisco Mancebo, Christian Meier and Antonio Aldape, are all on the same aggregate time.
After just six kilometres, Fausto Esparza (Tecos Trek), Carlos Hernández /Canels Turbo), Will Routley, Cameron Evans (both Symetrics), Jonathan Munford (Kelly Benefit), Steven Cozza (Slipstream), Mikel Artetxe (Fuerteventura Canarias) and Filipe Cardoso (Liberty Seguros) attacked the field and were allowed a gap as they posed no threat to the GC.
Combativity leader, Filipe Cardoso, riding to maintain his jersey took the first sprint at Anahuac ahead of Steven Cozza and Carlos Hernández. 1'55" had passed before the peloton had reached the sprint town, headed by the Relax GAM of Mancebo.
By the 67 kilometre mark the break had an advantage of 5'14" over the peloton who seemed content to let the break decide who the stage honours would go to.
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Shortly after the second intermediate sprint, cracks began appearing in the main field, caused by the hilly terrain and the speed that was being set by Mancebo's team at the front. The major causality of Relax's efforts on the front was Javier Mejías (Saunier Duval) as he was unable to maintain contact with his nearest rivals. Mejías' group contained three Fuerteventura Canarias riders, but even with them working as hard as they could, Mejías was unable to make regain contact.
At the head of the field, Cozza had been launching attacks in order to get away from his companions. The first was countered by Filipe Cardoso but when Cozza attacked a second time, no one was able to answer eventually reaching the finish line just four seconds clear of second place Evans with Cardoso rounding out the podium.
Back in the main field, the attacks by the GC contenders had shattered the field as well as bringing the gap to the leaders back to just 1'12" by the finish. Mancebo lead Meier, Aldape, Moreno and Duggan across the line to take over the overall lead from Mejías who trailed them by 1'20".
"Everything can happen tomorrow. I expect a sprint. The heat here makes the race hard but we are already accustomed to it," Mancebo commented.
Cardoso, third place today did enough to maintain his lead in the combative jersey and is confidant that he now has the competition sewn up, "I will try to go on like this tomorrow. I think that we will arrive in a sprint, and I am keen on winning."
Photography
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Images by Monika Prell
- Saunier Duval before the start.
- The Relax team, relaxing before the stage start.
- Eduardo Vicencio and Fausto Esparza before the start.
- Steven Cozza with what looks to be a very large trophy!
- Cozzareceives his kisses.
- Filipe Cardoso still leading the points.
- Cardoso gets his kisses.
- Vicencio takes a picture of his team-mate Porras, who leads the best Chihuahuense rider competition.
Images by Rafa Gómez Alonso
- Cozza takes the stage.
- Javier Mejías (Saunier Duval-Prodir).
- Mancebo being interviewed.
- The stage podium.
- Mancebo leads the overall , with one stage remaining.
- Mancebo also gets a load of kisses.
Results
1 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 2.28.46 (51.544 km/h) 2 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 0.04 3 Filipe Cardoso (Por) Liberty Seguros 4 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 5 Mikel Artetxe Gezuraga (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 6 Jonathan Reid Mumford (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 7 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 8 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 0.13 9 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 1.12 10 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Relax-Gam 11 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Gam 12 Timothy Duggan (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 13 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Canel's Turbo 14 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Ceramica Flaminia 2.31 15 José Adrian Bonilla (CRc) Fuerteventura-Canarias 16 Ryan Roth (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 17 Francisco Matamoros (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 2.32 18 Vitor Rodrigues (Por) Liberty Seguros 19 Jessel Valenzuela (Mex) Orven 20 Lucas Euser (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 21 Dan Bowman (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 22 David Bernabeu Armengol (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 23 Oscar Sevilla Ribera (Spa) Relax-Gam 24 Javier Mejías (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 26 Blake Caldwell (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 27 Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez (Spa) Agritubel 28 César Antunes Quiterio (Por) Liberty Seguros 29 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Gam 30 Gregorio Ladino (Col) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 31 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 32 Carlos Lopez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 33 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 34 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.40 35 Rafael Aguilar (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 4.59 36 Gilberto Porras (Mex) Rica Burguer 37 Ivan Borunda (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 38 Edgar Treviño (Mex) Orven 5.02 39 David Muñoz (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 40 Jesus Grajeda (Mex) Orven 41 Nacor Burgos Rojo (Spa) Relax-Gam 42 Eder Arenas (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 43 Enrique Mendez (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 44 Luis Pinheiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 45 Martin Robles (Mex) Rica Burguer 46 Bernardo Colex Tepoz (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 47 Pedro Covarrubias (Mex) Orven 48 Miguel Angel Gonzalez (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 49 Domingo Gonzalez (Mex) Orven 50 Antonio Velazquez (Mex) Rica Burguer 51 Jose Miguel Elias Galindo (Spa) Relax-Gam 52 Jose Gerardo Soto (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 53 Eduardo Graciano (Mex) Orven 54 José de Jesus Gomez (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 55 Eduardo Vicencio (Mex) Rica Burguer 56 Henry Swinty (USA) Rica Burguer 57 David Belda (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 5.07 58 William Frishkorn (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 59 Iosvani Falcon (Cub) AEG-Toshiba-Jetnetwork Pro Cycling Team 60 Cuitlahuac Ayala (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 61 John Fredy Parra (Col) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 62 Danny Pate (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 63 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 64 Ricardo Samuel Tapia (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 65 Uriel Clara (Mex) Canel's Turbo 66 Alex Hagman (USA) AEG-Toshiba-Jetnetwork Pro Cycling Team 67 Ryan Blicken (USA) Rica Burguer 68 Hector Rangel (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 69 Justin Spinelli (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 70 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 71 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 72 Oscar Barron (Mex) Orven 73 Alberto Fernandez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 74 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 75 Geoffrey Kabush (USA) Symmetrics Cycling Team 76 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Canel's Turbo 77 Joel Alamillo (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 78 Carlos Nozal Vega (Spa) Liberty Seguros 79 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 80 Edgardo Lugo (Mex) Canel's Turbo 81 Daniel Duarte (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 9.41 82 Saul Figueroa (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 83 Marco Rios (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 10.15 84 Roberto Rodriguez (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 85 Misael Ramirez (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 10.18 86 Juan Pablo Villela (Mex) Rica Burguer 17.46 Sprint 1 - 23km 1 Filipe Cardoso (Por) Liberty Seguros 3 pts 2 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 2 3 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 1 Sprint 2 - 77.8km 1 Filipe Cardoso (Por) Liberty Seguros 3 pts 2 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 2 3 Jonathan Reid Mumford (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 1 Finish 1 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 5 pts 2 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 3 3 Filipe Cardoso (Por) Liberty Seguros 2 Mountains Category 4 - 88.9km 1 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 4 pts 2 Jonathan Reid Mumford (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 3 3 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 2 4 Filipe Cardoso (Por) Liberty Seguros 1 Teams 1 Symetrics Cycling Team 7.27.47 2 Team Slipstream 2.15 3 Canel's Turbo 2.19 4 Relax Gam Fuenlabrada 3.27 5 Fuerte Ventura Canarias 3.38 6 Kelly Benefit Strategies 7 Liberty Seguros 3.39 8 Tecos Universidad Autonoma 9 Agritubel 8.42 10 Saunier Duval Prodir 8.50 11 Orven 11.07 12 Univeridad Autonoma De Chihuahua 13.31 13 Rica Burguer 13.34 14 Arenas Tlax 13.37 General classification after stage 6 1 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Relax-Gam 20.16.11 2 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 3 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Canel's Turbo 4 Timothy Duggan (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 0.16 5 Javier Mejías (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.20 6 Vitor Rodrigues (Por) Liberty Seguros 1.25 7 Lucas Euser (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 1.43 8 David Bernabeu Armengol (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 9 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Ceramica Flaminia 1.57 10 José Adrian Bonilla (CRc) Fuerteventura-Canarias 11 Francisco Matamoros (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 2.00 12 Gregorio Ladino (Col) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 2.26 13 Carlos Lopez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 2.36 14 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Gam 2.53 15 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 4.28 16 Oscar Sevilla Ribera (Spa) Relax-Gam 4.39 17 Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez (Spa) Agritubel 18 Blake Caldwell (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 4.46 19 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 5.20 20 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 5.50 21 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5.54 22 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 11.01 23 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 11.40 24 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 15.31 25 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Canel's Turbo 20.39 26 Dan Bowman (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 22.46 27 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 26.27 28 Danny Pate (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 26.30 29 Joel Alamillo (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 31.48 30 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Gam 31.57 31 Cuitlahuac Ayala (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 33.49 32 José de Jesus Gomez (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 34.39 33 Domingo Gonzalez (Mex) Orven 35.12 34 Alex Hagman (USA) AEG-Toshiba-Jetnetwork Pro Cycling Team 38.59 35 Alberto Fernandez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 39.25 36 Filipe Cardoso (Por) Liberty Seguros 42.26 37 Bernardo Colex Tepoz (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 43.10 38 Geoffrey Kabush (USA) Symmetrics Cycling Team 44.10 39 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 44.46 40 Eder Arenas (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 45.29 41 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 47.29 42 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 48.53 43 Uriel Clara (Mex) Canel's Turbo 49.13 44 Ryan Roth (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 49.15 45 Gilberto Porras (Mex) Rica Burguer 50.12 46 Jesus Grajeda (Mex) Orven 53.15 47 Hector Rangel (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 53.35 48 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 53.43 49 Edgardo Lugo (Mex) Canel's Turbo 55.39 50 John Fredy Parra (Col) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 56.26 51 William Frishkorn (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 56.48 52 David Muñoz (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 57.14 53 Mikel Artetxe Gezuraga (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 1.00.17 54 David Belda (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 1.00.41 55 Jonathan Reid Mumford (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 1.00.54 56 Jose Gerardo Soto (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 1.02.12 57 Jose Miguel Elias Galindo (Spa) Relax-Gam 1.02.35 58 Jessel Valenzuela (Mex) Orven 1.02.44 59 Nacor Burgos Rojo (Spa) Relax-Gam 1.05.15 60 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 1.05.20 61 Ryan Blicken (USA) Rica Burguer 1.05.42 62 Justin Spinelli (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 1.05.57 63 Marco Rios (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 1.11.07 64 Iosvani Falcon (Cub) AEG-Toshiba-Jetnetwork Pro Cycling Team 1.11.26 65 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 1.13.51 66 César Antunes Quiterio (Por) Liberty Seguros 1.15.19 67 Pedro Covarrubias (Mex) Orven 1.17.22 68 Eduardo Graciano (Mex) Orven 1.18.42 69 Carlos Nozal Vega (Spa) Liberty Seguros 1.21.58 70 Luis Pinheiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 1.28.22 71 Martin Robles (Mex) Rica Burguer 1.29.05 72 Ricardo Samuel Tapia (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 1.35.58 73 Oscar Barron (Mex) Orven 1.36.14 74 Miguel Angel Gonzalez (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 1.36.51 75 Roberto Rodriguez (Mex) Fullerton Bicycles-Novo 1.36.56 76 Eduardo Vicencio (Mex) Rica Burguer 1.37.23 77 Henry Swinty (USA) Rica Burguer 1.37.50 78 Rafael Aguilar (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 1.43.09 79 Enrique Mendez (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 1.47.08 80 Ivan Borunda (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 1.48.12 81 Edgar Treviño (Mex) Orven 1.48.38 82 Juan Pablo Villela (Mex) Rica Burguer 1.49.20 83 Misael Ramirez (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 1.53.40 84 Saul Figueroa (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 1.56.06 85 Antonio Velazquez (Mex) Rica Burguer 1.59.45 86 Daniel Duarte (Mex) Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua 2.02.57 Points classification 1 Filipe Cardoso (Por) Liberty Seguros 21 pts 2 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 13 3 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 13 4 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 7 5 Carlos Lopez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 7 6 Javier Mejías (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7 7 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Gam 7 8 Gregorio Ladino (Col) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 6 9 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Canel's Turbo 6 10 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 5 11 Bernardo Colex Tepoz (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 5 12 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 4 13 Eduardo Graciano (Mex) Orven 4 14 Ricardo Samuel Tapia (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 3 15 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Ceramica Flaminia 3 16 William Frishkorn (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 3 17 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 2 18 César Antunes Quiterio (Por) Liberty Seguros 2 19 Edgardo Lugo (Mex) Canel's Turbo 2 20 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 1 21 Domingo Gonzalez (Mex) Orven 1 22 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 1 23 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 1 24 Jonathan Reid Mumford (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 1 Mountains classification 1 Gregorio Ladino (Col) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 46 pts 2 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Gam 27 3 Lucas Euser (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 22 4 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Relax-Gam 21 5 Carlos Lopez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 15 6 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Gam 15 7 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 12 8 Javier Mejías (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10 9 Bernardo Colex Tepoz (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 9 10 Blake Caldwell (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 9 11 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Canel's Turbo 8 12 Oscar Sevilla Ribera (Spa) Relax-Gam 7 13 Vitor Rodrigues (Por) Liberty Seguros 6 14 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Ceramica Flaminia 6 15 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 5 16 José Adrian Bonilla (CRc) Fuerteventura-Canarias 5 17 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 4 18 William Frishkorn (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 4 19 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mex) Canel's Turbo 4 20 Filipe Cardoso (Por) Liberty Seguros 4 21 Timothy Duggan (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 3 22 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Canel's Turbo 3 23 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 24 Jonathan Reid Mumford (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 3 25 Steven Cozza (USA) Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle 3 26 José de Jesus Gomez (Mex) Arenas Tlacala 3 27 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 2 28 Edgardo Lugo (Mex) Canel's Turbo 2 29 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 2 30 Dan Bowman (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast 1 31 Eduardo Vicencio (Mex) Rica Burguer 1 32 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 1 33 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 1 34 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 1 Teams classification 1 Team Slipstream 60.49.43 2 Relax Gam Fuenlabrada 3.19 4 Fuerte Ventura Canarias 8.47 3 Tecos Universidad Autonoma 9.06 5 Canel's Turbo 13.59 6 Saunier Duval Prodir 21.35 7 Symetrics Cycling Team 31.35 8 Agritubel 44.07 9 Liberty Seguros 44.29 10 Arenas Tlax 1.24.57 11 Kelly Benefit Strategies 2.10.26 12 Orven 2.22.43 13 Rica Burguer 3.23.20 14 Univeridad Autonoma De Chihuahua 4.51.11
