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68th Skoda-Tour de Luxembourg - 2.HC
Luxembourg, June 4-8, 2008
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Stage 3 - June 7: Wiltz - Diekirch, 172.2km
Albasini and Posthuma take the honours
By Susan Westemeyer
Michael Albasini of Team Liquigas won a two-man sprint to take the second stage of the Tour du Luxembourg, while his breakaway companion Joost Posthuma of Team Rabobank took over the leader's jersey. Team CSC's Fraank Schleck was third on the day.
Halfway through the stage, an 18 rider strong escape group formed. Further breaks out of this group went on until the final climb, when Albasini and Posthuma took off. Schleck was 13 seconds behind them, and the next riders came in at less than a minuted down, with the rest coming in from nearly four minutes to 20 minutes for the gruppetto.
Posthuma now leads Albasini in the overall by one second, with Schleck 18 seconds down. The final winner is expected to come from this threesome. The previous leader, Swiss Fabian Cancellara, dropped to 24th overall.
Rabobank Directeur Sportif Erik Dekker refused to start celebrating, saying, "We have not won the stage, and we have not won the general classification either. The track of tomorrow is a difficult one."
Results
1 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 4.28.03 2 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 3 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.13 4 Jos Pimenta Costa M (Por) Benfica 0.52 5 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 6 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Credit Agricole 7 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Cycle Collstrop 8 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 9 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 10 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 11 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 12 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 4.46 13 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Preti Mangi 4.49 14 Sergey Rudaskov (Rus) Cycle Collstrop 15 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole 16 Kalle Kriit (Est) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 17 Emilien Ben Berges (Fra) Agritubel 18 Clement Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil - Shimano 19 Borut Bozic (Slo) Cycle Collstrop 4.51 20 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 21 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 22 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 23 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 14.18 24 Rene Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 19.58 25 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 26 David Deroo (Fra) Skil - Shimano 20.01 27 Vincenzo Centrone (Lux) Preti Mangi 28 Fredrik Johansson (Swe) CC Differdange 29 Troels Ronn Vinther (Den) Cycle Collstrop 30 Vytautas Kaupas (Ltu) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 31 Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 32 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 33 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 34 Dana Andonov Petrov (Bul) Benfica 35 Jav Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 36 B Castanheira Gomes (Por) Benfica 37 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 38 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 39 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 40 David Kopp (Ger) Cycle Collstrop 41 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Benfica 42 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 43 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 44 Held Duarte Miranda (Den) Benfica 45 Fabien Bacquet (Fra) Skil - Shimano 46 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 47 Benoit Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 48 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil - Shimano 49 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana 50 Thierry Hupond (Fra) Skil - Shimano 51 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Benfica 52 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 53 Claude Wolter (Lux) CC Differdange 54 Yohan Cauquil (Fra) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 55 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 56 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 57 Ken Van Der Schuere (Bel) Cycle Collstrop 58 Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 59 Mikel Gaztanaga (Spa) Agritubel 60 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 61 Ji Cheng (Chn) Skil - Shimano 62 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 63 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Astana 64 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Liquigas 65 Ian Stannard (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 66 Robert Lauscha (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 67 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 68 Michal Golas (Pol) Cycle Collstrop 69 Christian Poos (Lux) CC Differdange 70 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 71 Christophe Kern (Fra) Credit Agricole 72 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 73 Julien Simon (Fra) Credit Agricole 74 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 75 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana 76 Thomas Bodo (Fra) CC Differdange 77 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 78 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 79 Eddy Forner (Ita) CC Differdange 80 Boris Shpilevsky (Rus) Preti Mangi 81 Jens Mouris (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 82 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Credit Agricole 83 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 84 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 85 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 86 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 87 Clemens Fankhauser (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 88 Massimo Mazzanti (Ita) Preti Mangi 89 Jan Valach (Svk) Elkhaus - Simplon 90 Hakan Nilsson (Swe) CC Differdange 91 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) Preti Mangi 92 Haral Starzengruber (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 93 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 94 Paul Manning (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 95 Hannes Blank (Ger) CC Differdange 96 Mattia Gavazzi (Ita) Preti Mangi DNF Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas DNF Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel DNF Mirko Selvaggi (Ita) Cycle Collstrop DNF Gianluca Geremia (Ita) Preti Mangi DNS Marco Zanotti (Ita) Preti Mangi Points 1 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 20 pts 2 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 16 3 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 13 4 Jos Pimenta Costa M (Por) Benfica 11 5 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 9 6 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Credit Agricole 7 7 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Cycle Collstrop 5 8 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 3 9 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 2 10 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 1 Mountains Mountains 1 - 33.9km 1 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 5 pts 2 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 3 3 Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 2 4 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 1 Mountains 2 - 53.5km 1 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 5 pts 2 Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 3 3 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 2 4 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 1 Mountains 3 - 81km 1 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 5 pts 2 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 3 3 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 2 4 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1 Mountains 4 - 107.7km 1 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 5 pts 2 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 3 3 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 2 4 Borut Bozic (Slo) Cycle Collstrop 1 Mountains 5 - 140.9km 1 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 5 pts 2 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 3 3 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 2 4 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1 Stage total 1 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 22 pts 2 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 7 3 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 5 4 Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 5 5 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 5 6 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 3 7 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 3 8 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 2 9 Borut Bozic (Slo) Cycle Collstrop 1 10 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 1 11 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 1 Teams 1 Rabobank 13.25.53 2 Cycle Collstrop 8.48 3 Credit Agricole 4 Team CSC 17.38 5 Liquigas 19.09 6 Benfica 24.00 7 Astana 39.07 8 Elkhaus - Simplon 39.10 9 Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 43.04 10 Mitsubishi-Jartazi 43.07 11 Skil - Shimano 12 Agritubel 13 Preti Mangi 14 CC Differdange 58.16 Young rider 1 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Credit Agricole 14.04.22 2 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 0.06 3 Jos Pimenta Costa M (Por) Benfica 0.16 4 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 0.18 5 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole 3.55 6 Clement Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil - Shimano 4.04 7 Sergey Rudaskov (Rus) Cycle Collstrop 4.12 8 Kalle Kriit (Est) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 4.29 9 Emilien Ben Berges (Fra) Agritubel 6.59 10 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 13.55 11 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 19.10 12 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 19.21 13 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 14 Thierry Hupond (Fra) Skil - Shimano 19.23 15 Julien Simon (Fra) Credit Agricole 19.25 16 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana 19.37 17 Hannes Blank (Ger) CC Differdange 19.45 18 Clemens Fankhauser (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 19.46 19 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 20.11 20 Mattia Gavazzi (Ita) Preti Mangi 22.09 21 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana 22.11 22 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil - Shimano 23.46 23 Michal Golas (Pol) Cycle Collstrop 23.52 24 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 26.59 25 Troels Ronn Vinther (Den) Cycle Collstrop 27.03 26 Yohan Cauquil (Fra) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 27.06 27 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 27.07 28 Robert Lauscha (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 27.08 29 David Deroo (Fra) Skil - Shimano 27.14 30 Ian Stannard (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 31 Ji Cheng (Chn) Skil - Shimano 27.30 32 Fabien Bacquet (Fra) Skil - Shimano 30.16 33 Benoit Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 31.02 34 Claude Wolter (Lux) CC Differdange 42.27 General classification after stage 3 1 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 14.03.28 2 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 0.01 3 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.18 4 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Credit Agricole 0.54 5 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 0.56 6 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 1.00 7 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 1.08 8 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Cycle Collstrop 1.09 9 Jos Pimenta Costa M (Por) Benfica 1.10 10 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 1.12 11 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 1.32 12 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole 4.49 13 Borut Bozic (Slo) Cycle Collstrop 4.53 14 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 4.57 15 Clement Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil - Shimano 4.58 16 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 4.59 17 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Preti Mangi 5.01 18 Sergey Rudaskov (Rus) Cycle Collstrop 5.06 19 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 5.21 20 Kalle Kriit (Est) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 5.23 21 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 5.42 22 Emilien Ben Berges (Fra) Agritubel 7.53 23 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 14.49 24 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 19.53 25 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 19.58 26 Rene Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 20.03 27 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 20.04 28 Jav Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 20.06 29 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Astana 30 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 20.08 31 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 32 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 20.09 33 Boris Shpilevsky (Rus) Preti Mangi 20.10 34 Dana Andonov Petrov (Bul) Benfica 20.11 35 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 36 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 20.13 37 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Liquigas 38 David Kopp (Ger) Cycle Collstrop 20.14 39 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 40 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 20.15 41 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 42 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) Preti Mangi 20.16 43 Thierry Hupond (Fra) Skil - Shimano 20.17 44 Julien Simon (Fra) Credit Agricole 20.19 45 Christophe Kern (Fra) Credit Agricole 20.22 46 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 47 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Credit Agricole 20.26 48 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Benfica 20.29 49 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana 20.31 50 Christian Poos (Lux) CC Differdange 20.39 51 Hannes Blank (Ger) CC Differdange 52 Clemens Fankhauser (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 20.40 53 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 21.05 54 Jan Valach (Svk) Elkhaus - Simplon 21.23 55 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 21.28 56 Fredrik Johansson (Swe) CC Differdange 21.33 57 Morten Knudsen (Den) CC Differdange 21.34 58 Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 59 Ken Van Der Schuere (Bel) Cycle Collstrop 21.37 60 Eddy Forner (Ita) CC Differdange 22.47 61 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 22.56 62 Vincenzo Centrone (Lux) Preti Mangi 23.00 63 Mattia Gavazzi (Ita) Preti Mangi 23.03 64 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana 23.05 65 Jens Mouris (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 24.38 66 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil - Shimano 24.40 67 Michal Golas (Pol) Cycle Collstrop 24.46 68 Paul Manning (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 24.51 69 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 24.58 70 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Benfica 26.30 71 Held Duarte Miranda (Den) Benfica 26.31 72 Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 27.36 73 B Castanheira Gomes (Por) Benfica 27.39 74 Haral Starzengruber (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 27.42 75 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 27.48 76 Mikel Gaztanaga (Spa) Agritubel 27.51 77 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 27.53 78 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 27.56 79 Troels Ronn Vinther (Den) Cycle Collstrop 27.57 80 Yohan Cauquil (Fra) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 28.00 81 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 28.01 82 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 28.02 83 Robert Lauscha (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 84 Massimo Mazzanti (Ita) Preti Mangi 28.03 85 Vytautas Kaupas (Ltu) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 28.05 86 Hakan Nilsson (Swe) CC Differdange 28.07 87 David Deroo (Fra) Skil - Shimano 28.08 88 Ian Stannard (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 89 Ji Cheng (Chn) Skil - Shimano 28.24 90 Fabien Bacquet (Fra) Skil - Shimano 31.10 91 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 31.26 92 Benoit Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 31.56 93 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 32.06 94 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 32.15 95 Thomas Bodo (Fra) CC Differdange 32.49 96 Claude Wolter (Lux) CC Differdange 43.21 Points 1 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Credit Agricole 27 pts 2 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 27 3 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 22 4 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 21 5 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Cycle Collstrop 21 6 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 20 7 Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 20 8 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 19 9 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 17 10 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 16 11 Borut Bozic (Slo) Cycle Collstrop 14 12 Haral Starzengruber (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 14 13 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 14 14 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole 13 15 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 11 16 Jos Pimenta Costa M (Por) Benfica 11 17 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 9 18 Mattia Gavazzi (Ita) Preti Mangi 9 19 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 9 20 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 7 21 Rene Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 5 22 Clemens Fankhauser (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 5 23 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Preti Mangi 5 24 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 25 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Astana 2 26 Jav Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 2 27 David Kopp (Ger) Cycle Collstrop 2 28 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elkhaus - Simplon 2 29 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 1 Teams 1 Rabobank 42.12.59 2 Credit Agricole 8.13 3 Cycle Collstrop 8.33 4 Team CSC 16.57 5 Liquigas 18.47 6 Benfica 23.39 7 Astana 38.31 8 Elkhaus - Simplon 39.12 9 Preti Mangi 42.52 10 Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 42.57 11 Agritubel 45.04 12 Skil - Shimano 47.21 13 Mitsubishi-Jartazi 48.57 14 CC Differdange 1.00.07
