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KBC Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde - 2.HC
Belgium, April 1-3, 2008
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Stage 2 - April 2: Zottegem - Koksijde, 228km
Cavendish does it the Manchester-way
By Brecht Decaluwé and Gregor Brown in Koksijde
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Mark Cavendish of High Road claimed victory in a wild bunch sprint where miraculously nobody crashed. Tight turns, narrow roads and riders risking their necks to edge past their competitors via the sidewalks filled with spectators offered an adrenaline-filled finale, before the barriers and a wider road finally gave way to some clean sprinting. Cavendish came out of nowhere to take the stage by more than two bike lengths from Francesco Chichi (Liquigas) who managed to take second ahead of Sébastien Chavanel (Française des Jeux) with a desperate lunge on the line.
The delighted winner spoke with Cyclingnews right after his sublime win which came just days after his victory in the Madison with High Road team-mate Bradley Wiggins at the track world championship held in Manchester. "My team did so much to help me early on, but there was too much going on at the finish. With 300 metres to go I thought: 'maybe I'm out of this...' I was ten back, but then I saw a gap down the left and when there's a gap normally I go through it," Cavendish said before disappearing in the mass towards the podium.
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Enrico Gasparotto remains the leader as nobody took bonus seconds on the blonde Barloworld-rider, except for the riders in the breakaway group who weren't a threat for the Italian. His first day in the leader's jersey went as well as could be expected for Gasparotto. "Today was a long day," he said. "The team worked so hard.
"At the beginning, it went wrong. A lot of riders were trying to attack and someone touched my team-mate [Diego Caccia], who is now in hospital. It does not leave a good feeling from today, my team worked so hard all day," he said. "That is not good, the rest is good."
Tomorrow sees the peloton tackle a split stage. The first, a 119-kilometre stage from the coastal city of De Panne towards the famous cobbled climb of the Kemmelberg, before turning back to finish in De Panne. The Race concludes with a 13.7-kilometre time trial held just hour after the completion of the morning stage and should see those with overall ambitions give their all. One rider who has already opted out of the stage is Belgian Tom Boonen who has stated that he would prefer to skip the afternoon session to recover a little more for the Tour of Flanders.
How it unfolded
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A torturing wind greeted the peloton for the 228-kilometre stage held on the flatlands of West-Flanders. With most of the riders content to sit in the relative comfort of the main peloton, it took some time before the action finally began. Breakaway specialist David Boucher (Landbouwkrediet), accompanied by Bart Van Heule (Topsport Vlaanderen) and Gianni Meersman (Française des Jeux), were the first to make a move. Not wanting to burn all there candles in one go on such a long stage, the three set about gradually building their lead. With 90 kilometres to go the gap was six minutes. After four hours of racing the average speed was just 35km/h. It was due to these slow speeds that most of the crashes occurred in the peloton. Michael Schär (Astana), a victim of a stage one crash, was not getting any luckier, crashing twice during the stage.
Without much effort, the peloton began to take back some time on the leaders. With 75 kilometres remaining and as they passed the start line of yesterday’s stage in Middelkerke, they were just five minutes down on the escapees. Twenty kilometres further the gap was still 4'38".
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As Boucher crossed the finish line in Koksijde to take the three bonus seconds they had covered 180 kilometres in a little more than five hours, but still had three laps and 48 kilometres remaining until the finsih.
Back in the peloton a crash occurred as some riders tried to overtake the peloton on the sidewalk. Steven Cozza (Slipstream) and Olaf Pollack (Team Volksbank) were the main victims and they were both taken away with the ambulance.
With 32 kilometres, or two laps, to go, the three leaders still had 2'46" over the peloton, but the sprinters teams such as Lampre, Skil and Silence-Lotto had started working on the front of the peloton. David Boucher again, took the three bonus seconds on the line. Despite the work in the peloton the three leaders proved to have something left in their legs and with 20 kilometres to go they still had 1'20".
As they began their ultimate lap the leaders had 36" left on the peloton, where Liquigas and Astana had joined the other sprinter teams in taking up the chase. With 14 kilometres to go Meersman took a strong pull in the leaders group and Boucher was blown off the Belgian's wheel. In the peloton the message arrived that the speed had to go up one more level - averaging 50 km/h - and with 10 kilometres to the gap started to drop steadily.
No team managed to dominate the build-up to the sprint and eventually it was Cavendish who steamed forward in the final hectometres to claim a convincing win.
Photography
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- Pascal Hungerbühler (Team Volksbank) was one of the many crash victims.
- Mad dash to the line with a compact field but one rider ahead of everyone else.
- Mark Cavendish (High Road) takes the win on stage 2 with plenty of space ahead of the runner-up.
Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net
- Mark Cavendish (High Road) takes his win over some of the best sprinters.
- Mark Cavendish (High Road) came to De Panne straight from Manchester Track Worlds, where he won gold.
- Cool and green country sides along the Belgian coast welcomed the riders in stage two.
- Robert Hunter (Barloworld) works to help defend classification leader Enrico Gasparotto. The team lost Diego Caccia due to a crash during stage two, where he fractured a rib on his left side.
- Italian Enrico Gasparotto (Barloworld) continues his lead in the classification.
Images by Stijn Vercaemer/www.cyclingview.be
- Safety first! This security guard's job is to stop the cars
- The leading group of the day: David Boucher (Landbouwkrediet) Gianni Meersman (Française des Jeux) and Bart Vanheule (Topsport Vlaanderen)
- Some young supporters of Filip Meirhaeghe
- Team Barloworld leads the peloton
- Christian Kux (Team Milram) and Seba Rosseler (Quick Step)
- Alessandro Ballan (Lampre) is defending champion.
- The Barloworld team of leader Enrico Gasparotto doing much of the work to control the breakaway.
- Jin Long (Skil-Shimano) and Steven de Jong (Quick Step)
- Leif Hoste (Silence-Lotto) and Niko Eeckhout (Topsport Vlaanderen)
- Two local boys, Niko Eeckhout (Topsport Vlaanderen) and Gorik Gardeyn (Silence-Lotto)
Images by John Pierce/Photosport International
- Mark Cavendish (High Road) receives the green jersey.
- Cavendish was the fastest sprinter of the day.
Results
1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team High Road 6.06.35 (37.318 km/h) 2 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 3 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 4 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 5 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 6 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Astana 7 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Saunier Duval - Scott 8 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 9 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 11 Luca Paolini (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 12 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 13 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 14 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 15 André Schulze (Ger) PSK Whirlpool - Author 16 Baden Cooke (Aus) Barloworld 17 Niko Eeckhout (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 18 Tom Steels (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 19 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 20 Allan Davis (Aus) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 21 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Team Volksbank 22 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 23 David Kopp (Ger) Cycle Collstrop 24 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 25 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Barloworld 26 Ilya Chernetskiy (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 27 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 28 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Silence - Lotto 29 Michael Friedman (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 30 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 31 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 32 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 33 Borut Bozic (Slo) Cycle Collstrop 34 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 35 Robert Lauscha (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 36 Ian Stannard (GBr) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 37 Josef Benetseder (Aut) Team Volksbank 38 Björn Thurau (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 39 Pieter Vanspeybroock (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 40 Tyler Farrar (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 41 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team High Road 42 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 43 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 44 Vladimir Goussev (Rus) Astana 45 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 46 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 47 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Silence - Lotto 48 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 49 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 50 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 51 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 52 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 53 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre 54 Roy Curvers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 55 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 56 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 57 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 58 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 59 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 60 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 61 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 62 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank 63 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 64 Diego Milan Jiminez (Spa) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 65 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team High Road 66 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 67 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 68 Bastian Giling (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 69 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team High Road 70 Radek Becka (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 71 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 72 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 73 George Hincapie (USA) Team High Road 74 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 75 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Milram 76 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval - Scott 77 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 78 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre 79 Frantisek Kloucek (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 80 Johan Coenen (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 81 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 82 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team High Road 83 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 84 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 85 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre 86 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 87 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 88 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 89 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Saunier Duval - Scott 90 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 91 David Boucher (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 92 Huub Duyn (Ned) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 93 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 94 Michal Golas (Pol) Cycle Collstrop 95 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 96 Vojtech Dlouhy (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 97 Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 98 Stanislav Kozubek (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 99 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 100 Bernardo Riccio (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems 101 Filip Meirhaeghe (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 102 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 103 Christian Kux (Ger) Team Milram 104 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 105 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Liquigas 106 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 107 Artur Gajek (Ger) Team Milram 108 Christian Murro (Ita) Lampre 109 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 110 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 111 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) Quick Step 112 Servais Knaven (Ned) Team High Road 113 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 114 Tomas Buchacek (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 115 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 116 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 117 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 118 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 119 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 120 Alexander Gottfried (Ger) Tinkoff Credit Systems 121 Andrei Kunitski (Blr) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 122 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 123 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano 124 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 125 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 126 Yohann Gène (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 127 René Andrle (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 128 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 129 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 130 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Lampre 131 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 132 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence - Lotto 133 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 134 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 135 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 136 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 137 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Barloworld 138 Geert Omloop (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 139 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 140 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Silence - Lotto 141 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 142 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team High Road 143 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas 144 Steffen Wesemann (Swi) Cycle Collstrop 145 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Cycle Collstrop 146 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 147 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 148 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 149 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 150 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 151 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre 0.22 152 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre 153 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 154 Janek Tombak (Est) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 0.27 155 Patrick Keller (Ger) PSK Whirlpool - Author 156 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.52 157 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 158 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano 1.30 159 Jens Mouris (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 2.04 160 René Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 2.43 161 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 3.52 162 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 163 Long Jin (Chn) Skil-Shimano 164 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 5.42 165 Carlo Scognamiglio (Ita) Barloworld 166 Peter Presslauer (Aut) Team Volksbank DNF Michael Schär (Swi) Astana DNF Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld DNF Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Cycle Collstrop DNF Steven Cozza (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 DNF William Frischkorn (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 DNF Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi DNF Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Volksbank DNF Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Volksbank DNF Simone Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo DNS Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Saunier Duval - Scott DNS Nikolay Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems Points 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team High Road 20 pts 2 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 18 3 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 16 4 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 14 5 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 12 6 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Astana 10 7 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Saunier Duval - Scott 9 8 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 8 9 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7 10 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 6 11 Luca Paolini (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 5 12 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 4 13 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 3 14 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 2 15 André Schulze (Ger) PSK Whirlpool - Author 1 Sprints Sprint 1 - km 180 1 David Boucher (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 3 pts 2 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 2 3 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 1 Sprint 2 - km 196 1 David Boucher (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 3 pts 2 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 2 3 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 1 Climbs Kanarieberg - km 22 1 David Boucher (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 5 pts 2 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 3 3 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 1 Eikenberg - km 33 1 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 5 pts 2 David Boucher (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 3 3 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 1 Tiegemberg - km 50 1 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 5 pts 2 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 3 3 David Boucher (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 1 Teams 1 Topsport Vlaanderen 18.19.45 2 Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 3 Team Volksbank 4 Skil-Shimano 5 Mitsubishi-Jartazi 6 Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 7 Silence-Lotto 8 Elk Haus - Simplon 9 Rabobank 10 Bouygues Telecom 11 High Road 12 Française Des Jeux 13 Quick Step 14 Cycle Collstrop 15 Saunier Duval-Scott 16 Tinkoff Credit Systems 17 Lampre 18 Barloworld 19 Astana 20 PSK Whirlpool - Author 21 Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 22 Liquigas 23 Team Milram General classification after stage 2 1 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Barloworld 11.04.35 2 Luca Paolini (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 0.05 3 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 0.07 4 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 0.11 5 Baden Cooke (Aus) Barloworld 0.25 6 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team High Road 7 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre 8 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 0.27 9 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 0.39 10 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 0.40 11 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre 12 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.06 13 George Hincapie (USA) Team High Road 1.07 14 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 1.08 15 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 1.10 16 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 17 Niko Eeckhout (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 18 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Astana 19 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 20 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 21 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team High Road 22 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 23 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 24 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Silence - Lotto 25 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 26 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 27 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 28 David Kopp (Ger) Cycle Collstrop 29 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 30 Vladimir Goussev (Rus) Astana 31 Tyler Farrar (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 32 Ian Stannard (GBr) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 33 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 34 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 35 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 36 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team High Road 37 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 38 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 39 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 40 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) Quick Step 41 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Liquigas 42 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 43 Johan Coenen (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 44 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 45 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 46 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 47 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 48 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 49 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 50 Christian Murro (Ita) Lampre 51 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team High Road 52 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 53 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 54 Servais Knaven (Ned) Team High Road 55 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence - Lotto 56 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 57 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 58 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 59 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 60 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 61 Steffen Wesemann (Swi) Cycle Collstrop 62 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 63 Janek Tombak (Est) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 1.37 64 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 1.42 65 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 66 Diego Milan Jiminez (Spa) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 2.19 67 Tom Steels (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 3.19 68 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 69 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4.36 70 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 71 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 72 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Team Volksbank 6.20 73 Josef Benetseder (Aut) Team Volksbank 74 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 75 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval - Scott 76 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 77 Michal Golas (Pol) Cycle Collstrop 78 Christian Kux (Ger) Team Milram 79 Tomas Buchacek (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 80 Alexander Gottfried (Ger) Tinkoff Credit Systems 81 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano 7.50 82 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 10.26 83 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 84 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 85 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 86 Roy Curvers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 87 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank 88 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 89 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 90 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 91 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Barloworld 92 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 93 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 94 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre 10.48 95 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre 96 René Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 13.09 97 Carlo Scognamiglio (Ita) Barloworld 16.08 98 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team High Road 17.12 99 David Boucher (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 17.14 100 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 17.19 101 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 17.22 102 Allan Davis (Aus) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 103 Ilya Chernetskiy (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 104 Robert Lauscha (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 105 Pieter Vanspeybroock (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 106 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 107 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 108 André Schulze (Ger) PSK Whirlpool - Author 109 Björn Thurau (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 110 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 111 Borut Bozic (Slo) Cycle Collstrop 112 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 113 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Silence - Lotto 114 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 115 Radek Becka (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 116 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 117 Bastian Giling (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 118 Frantisek Kloucek (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 119 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre 120 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 121 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Milram 122 Stanislav Kozubek (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 123 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano 124 Filip Meirhaeghe (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 125 Andrei Kunitski (Blr) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 126 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Lampre 127 Geert Omloop (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 128 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 129 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 130 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 131 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 132 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Silence - Lotto 133 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 134 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 135 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18.14 136 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 19.00 137 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Saunier Duval - Scott 19.06 138 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 139 Michael Friedman (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 140 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 141 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 142 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team High Road 143 Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 144 Huub Duyn (Ned) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 145 Vojtech Dlouhy (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 146 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 147 Yohann Gène (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 148 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 149 René Andrle (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 150 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas 151 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Cycle Collstrop 152 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 153 Jens Mouris (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 19.26 154 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 20.34 155 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 156 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 157 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Saunier Duval - Scott 158 Artur Gajek (Ger) Team Milram 159 Bernardo Riccio (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems 160 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 20.56 161 Patrick Keller (Ger) PSK Whirlpool - Author 21.01 162 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 21.11 163 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 164 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 23.04 165 Long Jin (Chn) Skil-Shimano 24.26 166 Peter Presslauer (Aut) Team Volksbank 26.16 Points classification 1 Luca Paolini (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 23 pts 2 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Barloworld 20 3 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team High Road 20 4 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 18 5 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 16 6 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 16 7 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 14 8 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 14 9 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team High Road 12 10 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 12 11 Baden Cooke (Aus) Barloworld 10 12 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Astana 10 13 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre 9 14 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Saunier Duval - Scott 9 15 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 8 16 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 8 17 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8 18 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre 7 19 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 6 20 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 6 21 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 5 22 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 4 23 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 4 24 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3 25 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 3 26 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 2 27 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 2 28 André Schulze (Ger) PSK Whirlpool - Author 1 Sprint classification 1 David Boucher (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 8 pts 2 George Hincapie (USA) Team High Road 3 3 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 3 4 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 3 5 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 3 6 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 2 7 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Barloworld 1 8 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 1 Mountains classification 1 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 40 pts 2 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Barloworld 18 3 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 11 4 David Boucher (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 9 5 Luca Paolini (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 8 6 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 7 7 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 6 8 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 5 9 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team High Road 4 10 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team High Road 4 11 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 3 12 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Liquigas 3 13 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 3 14 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 3 15 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 3 16 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 3 17 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 2 18 Niko Eeckhout (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 1 19 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 1 20 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank 1 Teams classification 1 Barloworld 33.15.31 2 Lampre 0.29 3 Rabobank 0.31 4 Team Milram 0.45 5 Liquigas 6 High Road 0.59 7 Topsport Vlaanderen 1.14 8 Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 1.44 9 Silence-Lotto 10 Quick Step 11 Tinkoff Credit Systems 12 Cycle Collstrop 13 Astana 14 Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 2.43 15 Landbouwkrediet - Tonissteiner 3.53 16 Française Des Jeux 17 Bouygues Telecom 5.10 18 Skil-Shimano 6.54 19 Mitsubishi-Jartazi 20 Team Volksbank 12.36 21 Saunier Duval-Scott 16.10 22 Elk Haus - Simplon 34.08 23 PSK Whirlpool - Author 39.18
