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77th Critérium International - 2.HC
France, March 29-30, 2008
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Stage 2 - March 30: Les Vieilles Forges (Les Mazures) - Monthermé, 98.5km
Gerrans takes first 2008 victory as Voigt claims 'his' jersey
By Hedwig Kröner
Australian Simon Gerrans took the second stage of the Critérium International on Sunday, scoring his first victory thus far this season. At the end of a long breakaway, together with three-times winner of the event, Jens Voigt (Team CSC), the 27 year-old of Crédit Agricole got the better of the tall German, who nevertheless claimed the leader's jersey he was out for.
It was a two-man show as of the second ascent of the Côte du Mont Malgré Tout with 13 kilometres to go, where Gerrans and Voigt dropped their breakaway companions Sandy Casar (Française des Jeux) and Mauro Santambrogio (Lampre). The quartet had been in front of the race since kilometre 15.
"This stage was my sole objective, coming to Critérium International," Gerrans admitted happily. "I'm not good enough a rouleur to hope for anything in the time trial, so this stage was the one I wanted to win."
The stage was interrupted half way through by a group of demonstrators, when the breakaway had already gained an advantage of nearly two minutes. The race was thus brought to a halt, and re-started once the road was cleared, using the same time gaps. "After the race had been stopped, it was difficult to start anew as we had cooled down. But we immediately rode fast enough again to continue hoping that the neak would succeed. That's how we kept our advance until the end," he added.
How it unfolded
The race was fast and furious right from the start at 8:30am. The first attack at the foot of the very first ascent was made by Paris-Nice best climber Clément Lhotellerie (Skil-Shimano), who was followed by Johann Tschopp (Bouygues Telecom) and Leonardo Duque (Cofidis). Soon, other riders followed – most notably three-time winner Jens Voigt (CSC).
By five kilometres of racing, a group of 15 had some 20 seconds over the bunch: Voigt, Gustav Erik Larsson, Andy Schleck (CSC), Sandy Casar (Française des Jeux), Alberto Losada (Caisse d'Epargne), Rémi Pauriol (Crédit Agricole), Robert Gesink (Rabobank), Paolo Tiralongo (Lampre), Tschopp, Egoi Martínez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Leonardo Duque (Cofidis), Andriy Grivko, Peter Velits (Milram), Lhotellerie and Alexandre Moos (BMC Racing Team).
But the peloton managed to catch the break before they headed towards the next climb, the Côte du Mont Malgré Tout ("climb of the Notwithstanding mountain"), where climbers again made the day hard for the rest of the bunch. Pauriol and Lhotellerie went off again by kilometre 11, this time joined by Fränk Schleck (CSC). The two French men could not hold the pace of the CSC rider near the top of the climb, where Schleck scored the maximum mountain points.
The Côte du Mont Malgré Tout had done some damage, as it split the field in several groups. A front group of around 50 riders formed on the plateau of the hill, out of which four riders jumped away: Voigt, Casar, Simon Gerrans (Crédit Agricole) and Mauro Santambrogio (Lampre). They put in a consistent pace and opened a considerable gap before the descent at kilometre 25.
The four-man group extended its advantage to 45 seconds at kilometre 30, and to 1'30" at the foot of the next climb, the Côte de Blossette. The gap continued to grow steadily, and as the break approached the fifth climb of the day, the Côte des Perrières, it was up to 1'55".
At kilometre 48, a group of demonstrators blocked the road, and the race was stopped. Event organisers had to wait for the road to be cleared before re-starting the race at the top of the Côte des Perrières (kilometre 49), respecting the time gaps: Voigt, Casar, Gerrans and Santambrogio thus started with an advantage of 1'55 over the first field, with the second one 2'40" adrift.
The breakaway worked well together and continued to hold off the bunch: the gap grew to 2'15" at the summit of the Côte de Bois de l'Or (kilometre 61).
Even the second ascent of the Côte du Mont Malgré Tout did not see the chasers come any nearer. But in the lead group, Casar's and Santambrogio's forces faded, and they lost contact to their two companions. At the summit, Santambrogio had lost 50 seconds to the leaders Voigt and Gerrans, who still had an advantage of 2'25" over the main field. Frenchman Casar managed to catch the two again, but finally had to give in to their leg-breaking pace and got dropped with 13 kilometres to go.
Ten kilometres before the line, there was still no reaction from the bunch, as the gap to Voigt and Gerrans grew to 2'40". In the final climb of the Côte de la Roche aux 7 villages ('the rocky climb of seven villages') up to the finish in Monthermé, the leaders battled it out amongst themselves. Under the rain, Voigt led the Australian up the climb, but with 300 metres to go, Gerrans came around him.
Results
1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 2.27.36 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 0.04 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.39 4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 5 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6 David Herrero (Spa) Karpin Galicia 7 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 8 Gustavo César Veloso (Spa) Karpin Galicia 9 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 10 Kim Kirchen (Lux) High Road 11 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 12 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 13 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 14 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC 15 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 1.43 16 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 17 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18 Trent Lowe (Aus) Slipstream Chipotle - H30 19 Iouri Trofimov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom 20 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Barloworld 21 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1.46 22 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 23 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 24 John Gadret (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 25 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 26 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram 27 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 28 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) High Road 29 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis 30 Julien El Farès (Fra) Cofidis 31 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 32 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.50 33 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 34 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 35 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1.59 36 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 37 Iñigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.05 38 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 2.10 39 David Zabriskie (USA) Slipstream Chipotle - H30 40 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2.17 41 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre 2.22 42 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre 2.30 43 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.42 44 Chris Froome (Ken) Barloworld 45 Thierry Huppond (Fra) Skil-Shimano 2.53 46 Iban Velasco Murillo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.01 47 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis 3.23 48 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 3.45 49 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre 4.43 50 Ian McKissick (USA) BMC Racing Team 5.52 51 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2R La Mondiale 52 Tony Martin (Ger) High Road 53 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 54 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 5.56 55 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 6.10 56 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 57 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 58 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 59 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Agritubel 60 Matej Jurco (Svk) Team Milram 61 Delio Fernandez Cruz (Spa) Karpin Galicia 62 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Barloworld 63 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 64 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 65 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 66 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 67 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 68 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 69 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Française des Jeux 70 Bert Grabsch (Ger) High Road 71 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 72 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 73 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 74 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 75 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 76 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Française des Jeux 77 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 78 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 79 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) High Road 80 David Millar (GBr) Slipstream Chipotle - H30 81 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 82 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 83 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis 84 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 85 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis 86 Darren Lill (RSA) BMC Racing Team 87 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 88 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 89 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 90 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 6.21 91 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 6.57 92 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 8.01 93 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 94 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 95 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 96 Adam Hansen (Aus) High Road 97 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 8.34 98 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 99 Alberto Losada (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 100 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis 101 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 9.00 102 Emilien-Benoît Berges (Fra) Agritubel 103 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 104 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 105 Jonathan Garcia (USA) BMC Racing Team 106 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 107 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 108 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Slipstream Chipotle - H30 109 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 110 Jesús Cobelo Fojo (Spa) Karpin Galicia 111 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 112 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 113 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 114 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 115 Mikel Gaztañaga Echeverria (Spa) Agritubel 116 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 117 Ian Stannard (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 118 Aitor Hernández (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi Points 1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 15 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 12 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 10 4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 8 5 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7 6 David Herrero (Spa) Karpin Galicia 6 7 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 5 8 Gustavo César Veloso (Spa) Karpin Galicia 4 9 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 3 10 Kim Kirchen (Lux) High Road 2 Mountains Côte des Vieilles Forges - 2.0 Km 1 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis 4 pts 2 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 2 3 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 1 Côte du Mont Malgré Tout - 13.0 Km Standing Rider number bib 1 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6 pts 2 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 4 3 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 Côte de Blossette - 34.0 Km 1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 4 pts 2 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 3 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 1 Col du Loup (D.131-D.13) - 39.5 Km 1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 4 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 3 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre 1 Côte des Perrières - 49.0 Km 1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 4 pts 2 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 3 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 1 Côte de Meillier-Fontaine - 56.5 Km 1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 4 pts 2 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 3 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 1 Côte du Bois de l'Or - 61.0 Km 1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 6 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 4 3 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre 2 Côte du Mont Malgré Tout - 77.0 Km 1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 4 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Young rider 1 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2.29.15 2 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 3 Trent Lowe (Aus) Slipstream Chipotle - H30 0.04 4 Iouri Trofimov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom 5 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram 0.07 6 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) High Road 7 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis 8 Julien El Farès (Fra) Cofidis 9 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 10 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.11 11 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 12 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.03 13 Chris Froome (Ken) Barloworld 14 Thierry Huppond (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1.14 15 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 2.06 16 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre 3.04 17 Tony Martin (Ger) High Road 4.13 18 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 4.17 19 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 4.31 20 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 21 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 22 Matej Jurco (Svk) Team Milram 23 Delio Fernandez Cruz (Spa) Karpin Galicia 24 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 25 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 26 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 27 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 28 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Française des Jeux 29 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 30 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 31 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Française des Jeux 32 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 33 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) High Road 34 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 35 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 36 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 5.18 37 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 6.55 38 Emilien-Benoît Berges (Fra) Agritubel 7.21 39 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 40 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 41 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 42 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 43 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 44 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 45 Ian Stannard (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner Teams 1 Team CSC 7.26.10 2 Crédit Agricole 0.41 3 Bouygues Telecom 1.46 4 Cofidis 1.49 5 Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.54 6 AG2R La Mondiale 2.09 7 Rabobank 8 Lampre 3.09 9 High Road 5.55 10 Karpin Galicia 6.06 11 Caisse d'Epargne 12 Française des Jeux 6.10 13 Slipstream Chipotle - H30 6.41 14 Barloworld 7.13 15 Skil-Shimano 7.31 16 BMC Racing Team 10.19 17 Team Milram 10.30 18 Agritubel 15.08 19 Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 18.09 General classification after stage 2 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 7.17.53 2 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 1.14 3 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.30 4 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.36 5 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 7 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 9 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 10 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC 11 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 12 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.40 13 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 14 Iouri Trofimov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom 15 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 16 Trent Lowe (Aus) Slipstream Chipotle - H30 17 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 1.43 18 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 19 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram 20 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 21 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1.47 22 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre 2.19 23 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre 2.23 24 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2R La Mondiale 5.49 25 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 5.53 26 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 6.07 27 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 28 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 29 Bert Grabsch (Ger) High Road 30 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 31 David Millar (GBr) Slipstream Chipotle - H30 32 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 6.38 33 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 8.10 34 David Herrero (Spa) Karpin Galicia 8.17 35 Gustavo César Veloso (Spa) Karpin Galicia 36 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Barloworld 8.21 37 Julien El Farès (Fra) Cofidis 8.24 38 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) High Road 39 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 40 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 41 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis 42 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.28 43 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 44 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 8.37 45 Iñigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.43 46 David Zabriskie (USA) Slipstream Chipotle - H30 8.48 47 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 48 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 8.55 49 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 8.57 50 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 51 Chris Froome (Ken) Barloworld 9.20 52 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 53 Thierry Huppond (Fra) Skil-Shimano 9.31 54 Iban Velasco Murillo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9.39 55 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis 10.01 56 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 10.23 57 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 11.00 58 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre 11.21 59 Ian McKissick (USA) BMC Racing Team 12.24 60 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 12.30 61 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 12.47 62 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 63 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 12.48 64 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Barloworld 65 Matej Jurco (Svk) Team Milram 66 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 67 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Agritubel 68 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 69 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 70 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 71 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 72 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Française des Jeux 73 Delio Fernandez Cruz (Spa) Karpin Galicia 74 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 75 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 76 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 77 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Française des Jeux 78 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis 79 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) High Road 80 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis 81 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 82 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 83 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 84 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 85 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 12.59 86 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 13.35 87 Kim Kirchen (Lux) High Road 14.06 88 John Gadret (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 14.13 89 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 14.26 90 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 14.39 91 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 92 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 15.12 93 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis 94 Alberto Losada (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 95 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 96 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Slipstream Chipotle - H30 15.38 97 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 98 Aitor Hernández (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 99 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 100 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 101 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 102 Tony Martin (Ger) High Road 18.19 103 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18.37 104 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 105 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 106 Darren Lill (RSA) BMC Racing Team 107 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 20.28 108 Adam Hansen (Aus) High Road 109 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 110 Emilien-Benoît Berges (Fra) Agritubel 21.27 111 Jonathan Garcia (USA) BMC Racing Team 112 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 113 Jesús Cobelo Fojo (Spa) Karpin Galicia 114 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 115 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 116 Mikel Gaztañaga Echeverria (Spa) Agritubel 117 Ian Stannard (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 118 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner Points classification 1 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 24 pts 2 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 15 3 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 15 4 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 15 5 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 13 6 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 10 7 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre 10 8 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 8 9 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 8 10 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 7 11 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 6 12 David Herrero (Spa) Karpin Galicia 6 13 Ian McKissick (USA) BMC Racing Team 6 14 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 5 15 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 16 Gustavo César Veloso (Spa) Karpin Galicia 4 17 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 2 18 Kim Kirchen (Lux) High Road 2 19 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 1 20 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Mountains classification 1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 26 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 12 3 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 10 4 Ian McKissick (USA) BMC Racing Team 8 5 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 8 6 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6 7 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis 4 8 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 9 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre 3 10 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 2 11 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 2 12 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 13 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 1 14 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 1 Young rider classification 1 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 7.19.29 2 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 3 Iouri Trofimov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom 0.04 4 Trent Lowe (Aus) Slipstream Chipotle - H30 5 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram 0.07 6 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 7 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.11 8 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 4.17 9 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 4.31 10 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 11 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 12 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 13 Julien El Farès (Fra) Cofidis 6.48 14 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) High Road 15 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis 16 Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 6.52 17 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 7.21 18 Chris Froome (Ken) Barloworld 7.44 19 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 20 Thierry Huppond (Fra) Skil-Shimano 7.55 21 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 8.47 22 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre 9.45 23 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 11.11 24 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 25 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 11.12 26 Matej Jurco (Svk) Team Milram 27 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 28 Delio Fernandez Cruz (Spa) Karpin Galicia 29 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Française des Jeux 30 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 31 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Française des Jeux 32 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) High Road 33 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 11.59 34 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 13.36 35 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 14.02 36 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 37 Tony Martin (Ger) High Road 16.43 38 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 17.01 39 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 40 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 41 Emilien-Benoît Berges (Fra) Agritubel 19.51 42 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 43 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 44 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 45 Ian Stannard (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner Teams classification 1 Team CSC 21.56.52 2 Bouygues Telecom 1.46 3 Rabobank 1.59 4 Lampre 3.09 5 Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.35 6 Team Milram 10.30 7 Française des Jeux 11.16 8 Caisse d'Epargne 12.47 9 Slipstream Chipotle - H30 13.22 10 Cofidis 15.11 11 AG2R La Mondiale 15.31 12 Crédit Agricole 16.06 13 BMC Racing Team 17.00 14 High Road 19.17 15 Karpin Galicia 19.28 16 Barloworld 27.16 17 Skil-Shimano 27.34 18 Agritubel 28.30 19 Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 44.01
