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18th GP Cycliste de Beauce - 2.3
Canada, June 17-22, 2003
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Stage 4 - June 20: Saint-Georges - Mont Mégantic, 172 km
Konecny magic up Megantic, Lieswyn keeps lead
By Kristy Scrymgeour
Tomas Konecny (Ed's System ZVVZ) benefited from his aggressive team plan today when he bridged up to the leaders on the final climb up to Mont Megantic with tour leader John Lieswyn (7UP-Maxxis) and took the mountain top finish and the fourth stage of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Beauce.
Again the race panned out to be another carbon copy of previous stages where an early break rode off the front for the majority of the race before being caught near the finish. The first break, which occurred very early in the race, was reeled back in only to have the gutsy Canadian Cory Lange (Canadian National Team) counter the move and break away alone. Before long however, six others joined him, including his teammate Chris Isaac, Lubor Kejval (Ed's System ZVVZ), Dave McKenzie (Flanders IteamNova), Oleg Grishkine (Navigators), Jason Lokkesmoe (Health Net), and Martin St-Laurent (Trek-Volkswagen).
The group of seven powered away, with Grishkine and Lokkesmoe often sitting on, due to the fact that they had their team leaders behind in the bunch. They gained over five minutes on the field leaving 7UP-Maxxis to chase once again. Cyclingnews heard from a happy Lieswyn this morning before the race. "The team is working very hard for me every day on the front. A spirited defense of the jersey, to say the least. They've been on the front now for 250kms and hauled back over 15 minutes in breakaways."
Today the 7UP-Maxxis team spent more time at the front, and with the help of a few other teams, reduced the gap to three minutes by the base of the climb. By this stage Hejvel and Grishkine had broken away from the lead group and the remaining five had been caught by the peloton. It was now time for Lieswyn to defend his leader's jersey alone.
Climbers began to attack including Lieswyn and Dominique Perras. Eventually it was Lieswyn and Konecny alone with Chris Baldwin (Navigators) attempting to bridge with Petr Bencik (Ed's Systems ZVVZ) on his wheel. Konecny and Lieswyn were too strong however and arrived at the top of the mountain with 11" to spare on Bencik and Danny Pate (Prime Alliance) and another 25" on Baldwin. Konecny took the win leaving Lieswyn happy to keep the jersey after the hardest stage of the tour.
Tomorrow is a double day of racing with the 15.5km Time Trial in the morning and a 60km criterium in the evening in St. Georges.
Results
1 Tomas Konecny (Cze) ZVVZ 2 John Lieswyn (USA) 7up Maxxis 3 Petr Bencik (Cze) ZVVZ 4 Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance 5 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators General classification after stage 4 1 John Lieswyn (USA) 7UP / Maxxis 15.11.04 2 Tomas Konecny (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 0.13 3 Petr Bencik (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 0.36 4 Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 0.41 5 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators Cycling Team 0.47 6 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canadian National Team 1.15 7 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 1.36 8 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Tecos - Mercurio 1.39 9 Dominique Perras (Can) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 1.59 10 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 2.06 11 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Cycling Team 2.09 12 Jean-Sebastien Maheu (Can) Équipe Québec 4.12 13 Michal Precechtel (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 4.21 14 Lubor Tesar (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 4.48 15 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Cycling Team 4.56 16 Yoshiyuki Abe (Jpn) Shimano Cycling 4.58 17 Javier Paniagua (Mex) Tecos - Mercurio 18 Todd Herriot (USA) Health Net Cycling Team 5.07 19 Joe Giuliano (Can) Atlas Cold / Italpasta 5.10 20 Frantisek Trkal (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 21 Oleg Grishkine (Rus) Navigators Cycling Team 5.50 22 Christopher McGovern (USA) Health Net Cycling Team 5.51 23 Corey Jay (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 6.06 24 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Tecos - Mercurio 6.12 25 Stig Somme (Nor) Jet Fuel Coffee 6.15 26 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Cycling 6.16 27 Cameron J. Evans (Can) Canadian National Team 6.27 28 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 6.39 29 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 6.41 30 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Shimano Cycling 6.51 31 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Atlas Cold / Italpasta 6.57 32 Jean-François Laroche (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 7.20 33 Alexandre Nadeau (Can) Équipe Québec 7.36 34 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 7.52 35 Hisafumi Imanisi (Jpn) Shimano Cycling 8.04 36 Jean-Francois Racine (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 8.23 37 Jamie Drew (Aus) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 8.24 38 Christophe Cheseaux (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 8.50 39 Dominique Rollin (Can) Équipe Québec 8.58 40 Bruno Langlois (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 9.14 41 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Shimano Cycling 9.28 42 Lubos Kejval (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 9.36 43 Chris Isaac (Can) Canadian National Team 9.54 44 Kaoru Ouchi (Jpn) Shimano Cycling 9.55 45 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Cycling Team 10.53 46 Peter Sanowar (Can) Canadian National Team 10.56 47 Chris Wherry (USA) Navigators Cycling Team 11.36 48 Doug Ziewacz (USA) 7UP / Maxxis 11.47 49 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net Cycling Team 11.51 50 Andrew Randell (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee 11.54 51 Jason Lokkesmoe (USA) Health Net Cycling Team 13.07 52 David McKenzie (Aus) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 13.47 53 Ariel De Cardenas (Can) Équipe Québec 14.33 54 Trent Wilson (Aus) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 14.43 55 Thomas Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Navigators Cycling T 14.47 56 Alex Candelario (USA) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 16.27 57 Brice Jones (USA) 7UP / Maxxis 16.32 58 Irving Aguilar (Mex) Tecos - Mercurio 16.38 59 Pierre-Olivier Boily (Can) Équipe Québec 16.44 60 Rusty Beall (USA) Health Net Cycling Team 17.56 61 Cory Lange (Can) Canadian National Team 18.01 62 Kevin Miller (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee 18.07 63 Jindrich Vana (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 18.16 64 Svein Tuft (Can) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 18.33 65 John Peters (USA) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 18.37 66 Warren Tilbrook (Can) Canadian National Team 20.09 67 Mathieu Roy (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 21.22 68 Joel Alamillo (Mex) Tecos - Mercurio 22.17 69 Paulo Rego (Can) Atlas Cold / Italpasta 22.52 70 Matt Decanio (USA) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 23.22 71 Scott Guyton (NZl) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 23.43 72 Ryan Roth (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee 24.47 73 Greg Henderson (NZl) 7UP / Maxxis 25.12 74 Jason McCartney (USA) 7UP / Maxxis 26.55 75 David Salomon Alvarez (Mex) Tecos - Mercurio 28.46 76 Bryan Rusche (Can) Atlas Cold / Italpasta 29.42 77 Kevin Monahan (USA) 7UP / Maxxis 30.47 78 Czeslaw Lukaszewicz (Can) Équipe Québec 31.15 79 Patrick Shea (Can) Atlas Cold / Italpasta 32.11 80 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 32.48 81 Jeff Hansen (Can) Atlas Cold / Italpasta 33.29 82 Craig Boileau (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 34.51 83 Alexandre Cloutier (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 42.57 84 David Whyman (NZl) Atlas Cold / Italpasta 52.50 85 Andrew Davidson (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee 55.32 Points classification 1 Oleg Grishkine (Rus) Navigators Cycling Team 32 pts 2 John Lieswyn (USA) 7UP / Maxxis 31 3 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators Cycling Team 30 4 Tomas Konecny (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 28 5 Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 27 6 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 24 7 Petr Bencik (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 23 8 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canadian National Team 21 9 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 19 10 Lubos Kejval (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 19 11 Jean-François Laroche (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 16 12 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net Cycling Team 15 13 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Cycling Team 14 14 Dominique Perras (Can) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 14 15 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Tecos - Mercurio 14 16 Jamie Drew (Aus) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 14 17 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Cycling Team 14 18 David McKenzie (Aus) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 13 19 Alex Candelario (USA) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 13 20 John Peters (USA) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 13 21 Frantisek Trkal (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 12 22 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 11 23 Lubor Tesar (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 9 24 Pierre-Olivier Boily (Can) Équipe Québec 9 25 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Tecos - Mercurio 8 26 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Atlas Cold / Italpasta 8 27 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 7 28 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Cycling 7 29 Jean-Sebastien Maheu (Can) Équipe Québec 7 30 Dominique Rollin (Can) Équipe Québec 6 31 Trent Wilson (Aus) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 6 32 Cory Lange (Can) Canadian National Team 5 33 Thomas Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Navigators Cycling T 4 34 Joe Giuliano (Can) Atlas Cold / Italpasta 3 35 Jason Lokkesmoe (USA) Health Net Cycling Team 3 36 Christophe Cheseaux (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 3 37 Greg Henderson (NZl) 7UP / Maxxis 3 38 Irving Aguilar (Mex) Tecos - Mercurio 3 39 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 2 40 Todd Herriot (USA) Health Net Cycling Team 2 41 Czeslaw Lukaszewicz (Can) Équipe Québec 2 42 Michal Precechtel (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 1 43 Alexandre Nadeau (Can) Équipe Québec 1 44 Yoshiyuki Abe (Jpn) Shimano Cycling 1 45 Cameron J. Evans (Can) Canadian National Team 1 46 Jindrich Vana (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 1 47 Svein Tuft (Can) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 1 Mountains classification 1 Irving Aguilar (Mex) Tecos - Mercurio 80 pts 2 Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 54 3 Greg Henderson (NZl) 7UP / Maxxis 48 4 Tomas Konecny (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 28 5 John Lieswyn (USA) 7UP / Maxxis 27 6 Lubos Kejval (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 22 7 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators Cycling Team 21 8 David McKenzie (Aus) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 17 9 Jamie Drew (Aus) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 17 10 Todd Herriot (USA) Health Net Cycling Team 16 11 Petr Bencik (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 13 12 Chris Isaac (Can) Canadian National Team 13 13 Svein Tuft (Can) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 13 14 Lubor Tesar (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 11 15 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Cycling Team 10 16 Matt Decanio (USA) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 10 17 Jeff Hansen (Can) Atlas Cold / Italpasta 10 18 Christopher McGovern (USA) Health Net Cycling Team 9 19 Michal Precechtel (Cze) eD'system - ZVVZ 8 20 Stig Somme (Nor) Jet Fuel Coffee 8 21 Thomas Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Navigators Cycling T 8 22 Cory Lange (Can) Canadian National Team 8 23 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 7 24 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 6 25 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Tecos - Mercurio 6 26 Jason Lokkesmoe (USA) Health Net Cycling Team 6 27 Dominique Perras (Can) Flanders - Iteamnova.com 5 28 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canadian National Team 4 29 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 4 30 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Shimano Cycling 4 31 Oleg Grishkine (Rus) Navigators Cycling Team 3 32 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 3 33 Jean-Sebastien Maheu (Can) Équipe Québec 2 34 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Cycling Team 1 35 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net Cycling Team 1 Teams classification 1 Ed's System - ZVVZ 45.38.02 2 Flanders - Iteamnova.com 0.51 3 Navigators Cycling Team 3.09 4 Tecos - Mercurio 7.59 5 Canadian National Team 10.43 6 Shimano Cycling 11.34 7 Health Net Cycling Team 13.35 8 Équipe Québec 9 Volkswagen - Trek 15.42 10 Les Espoirs de Laval 18.29 11 7UP / Maxxis 21.39 12 Atlas Cold / Italpasta 22.50 13 Prime Alliance Cycling Team 28.02 14 Jet Fuel Coffe 31.26
