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Vuelta de Chile - 2.5
Chile, March 27-April 5, 2003
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Stage 7 - April 3: Melipilla - Farellones, 125km
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Images from the decisive stage to Farellones by Robinson Nuñez
- Plenty of hairpins around the first set of turns.
- A fan imitating the famous "il Diablo" from the Tour de France. He's got a bit of work to do.
- A view from turn 16 of Farellones, the stage finish and the the highest part of the mountain.
- A fan rides up the mountain to see the action at the top of the climb.
- Turn 22 - the fight for the stage was well fought, with only a few managing to stay in the first group in the last 16 kilometres.
- The view from turn 32; the road down below is turn 16.
- The first group appears - only six riders managed to finish within one minute of stage winner Marco Arriagada (Publiguias).
- Fans wait eagerly for the riders at turn 34.
- Incessant attacks broke the back of the peloton into pieces early on.
- Chilean Marco Arriagada (Publiguias) on his way to victory.
- Gonzalo Salas (Lider Trek Bio-Bio) finished fourth on the decisive stage to Farellones.
- The group containing the leader's jersey of Edgardo Simon (Ekono Alamo Rent A); Simon finished 1'04 down on Marco Arriagada (Publiguias).
- After winning the stage to Farellones, Marco Arriagada (Publiguias, L) became the new race leader.
- The leaders of the various jersey classifications on salute the crowd.
- Looking down into the town of Santiago.
- It's always a blast coming back down after such a torturous climb.
1 Marco Arriagada (Chi) Publiguias 3.26.53 2 Jorge Giacinti (Arg) Publiguias 0.02 3 Jose Medina (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 0.03 4 Gonzalo Salas (Arg) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 0.15 5 Luis Sepulveda (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 0.19 6 Raul Gomez (Col) Transportes Romero 0.57 7 Edgardo Simon (Arg) Ekono Alamo Rent A 1.04 8 Juan Agüero (Arg) Ekono Alamo Rent A 9 Pedro Prieto (Arg) Publiguias 1.16 10 Luis Espinoza (Col) Transportes Romero 2.29 11 Marcelo Arriagada (Chi) Publiguias 12 Manuel Medina (Ven) Venezuela 2.37 13 Michael Carter (USA) Marco Polo 2.59 14 Richard Rodriguez (Chi) Publiguias 3.11 15 Cesar Doussang (Chi) Doñihue 16 Gonzalo Miranda (Chi) Publiguias 4.27 17 Renato Rosler (Bra) Brazil 4.55 18 Franklin Chacon (Ven) Venezuela 5.43 19 Nelson Vargas (Col) Ace Byrc Curico 5.54 20 Daniel Bretti (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 6.16 21 Andrei Sartassov (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 6.40 22 Nestor Pais (Uru) Alas Rojas 7.32 23 Victor Becerra (Ven) Venezuela 7.55 24 Márcio May (Bra) Brazil 7.59 25 Gonzalo Garrido (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 26 Juan Fierro (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 8.23 27 Cristobal Silva (Chi) La Polar 8.50 28 Ronald Gonzales (Ven) Venezuela 10.09 29 Nathan Dahlberg (NZl) Marco Polo 10.12 30 Joaquín Jorquera (Chi) Agua Mineral Rari 10.16 31 Agustín Margalef (Uru) Alas Rojas 11.01 32 Alejandro Acton (Arg) Alas Rojas 33 Manuel Abarca (Chi) Agua Mineral Rari 11.12 34 Gregory Saw (Aus) Trust House 11.40 35 Cesar Valenzuela (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 11.58 36 Jaime Bretti (Chi) Ekono Alamo Rent A 12.07 37 Antonio Nascimento (Bra) Brazil 12.59 38 Cristian Medina (Chi) Agua Mineral Rari 13.02 39 Carlos Ochoa (Ven) Venezuela 13.08 40 Victor Garrido (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 13.41 41 Milton Wynants (Uru) La Polar 13.59 42 Eddy Hilger (USA) Colavita Bolla 14.26 43 Richard Mascarañas (Uru) Alas Rojas 14.38 44 Enzo Cesareo (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 15.37 45 Jamsram Ulzii (Mgl) Marco Polo 46 Tim Wilson (Aus) Trust House 47 Hernandez Quadri Jr (Bra) Brazil 48 kay Karner (Ger) Marco Polo 49 Raúl Lopez (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 50 Harm Jansen (Ned) Trust House 51 Pelle Kil (Ned) Trust House 52 Cory Lange (Can) Marco Polo 16.45 53 Antonio Cabrera (Chi) Ekono Alamo Rent A 17.41 54 Josh Seldman (USA) Colavita Bolla 18.55 55 Reinaldo Cortes (Chi) Transportes Romero 19.07 56 Facundo Bazzi (Arg) Agua Mineral Rari 19.35 57 Pablo Valenzuela (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 19.39 58 Jonathan Alvarado (Chi) Peñaflor Lascar 19.42 59 Suelito Gohr (Bra) Brazil 60 Pablo Riveros (Chi) Transportes Romero 20.20 61 Rodrigo Perez (Chi) Peñaflor Lascar 21.05 62 Francisco Cabrera (Chi) Ekono Alamo Rent A 21.18 63 Cristian Fierro (Chi) La Polar 21.22 64 Jose Labra (Chi) La Polar 21.44 65 Angel Perez (Chi) Ekono Alamo Rent A 22.07 66 Andrew Small (Aus) Trust House 22.25 67 Manuel Gonzalez (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 22.27 68 Miguel Parraguez (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 22.53 69 Joe Papp (USA) UPMC-La Polar 23.59 70 Clauss Plaut (Chi) La Polar 24.42 71 Dario Ramirez (Arg) Agua Mineral Rari 24.55 72 Peter Fairbanks (USA) Colavita Bolla 25.30 73 Rodrigo Berrios (Chi) Doñihue 25.38 74 Sergio Abarca (Chi) Peñaflor Lascar 26.05 75 Jose Aravena (Chi) Agua Mineral Rari 28.07 76 Aliro Catejo (Chi) Doñihue 29.55 77 Shawn Wilard (USA) Colavita Bolla 30.31 78 Jaime Carreño (Chi) Peñaflor Lascar 31.26 79 Cristian Rosas (Chi) Transportes Romero 32.22 80 Felipe Ramirez (Chi) Doñihue 36.14 81 Alejandro Solis (Chi) Doñihue 36.28 82 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Marco Polo 39.20 83 Deivis Urdaneta (Ven) Venezuela 39.47 84 Andrés Taulis (Chi) Peñaflor Lascar 41.51 85 Hector Osorio (Chi) Doñihue 42.40 Points 1 Marco Arriagada (Chi) Publiguias 25 pts 2 Jorge Giacinti (Arg) Publiguias 20 3 Jose Medina (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 16 4 Gonzalo Salas (Arg) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 14 5 Luis Sepulveda (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 12 6 Raul Gomez (Col) Transportes Romero 10 7 Edgardo Simon (Arg) Ekono Alamo Rent A 9 8 Juan Agüero (Arg) Ekono Alamo Rent A 8 9 Pedro Prieto (Arg) Publiguias 7 10 Luis Espinoza (Col) Transportes Romero 6 11 Marcelo Arriagada (Chi) Publiguias 5 12 Manuel Medina (Ven) Venezuela 4 13 Michael Carter (USA) Marco Polo 3 14 Richard Rodriguez (Chi) Publiguias 2 15 Cesar Doussang (Chi) Doñihue 1 Meta Volante 1 Francisco Cabrera (Chi) Ekono Alamo Rent A 5 pts 2 Enzo Cesareo (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 3 3 Jose Aravena (Chi) Agua Mineral Rari 2 4 Pablo Valenzuela (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 1 Teams 1 Publiguias 10.21.57 2 Ace-Bryc Union Ciclista 4.58 3 Ekono Alamo Rent A Car 12.57 4 Lider Trek Bio-Bio 13.36 5 Venezuela 14.57 6 Transportes Romero 21.15 7 Selecao Nacional Do 24.35 8 Marco Polo 27.30 9 Alas Rojas Santa Lucia 28.16 10 Agua Mineral Rari 33.12 11 Vinci Los Angeles 36.35 12 Trust House New 41.36 13 La Polar 42.53 14 Doñihue-Agro Super 57.26 15 Colavita Bolla 57.33 16 Peñaflor Lascar 1.05.34 General classification after stage 7 1 Marco Arriagada (Chi) Publiguias 27.03.46 2 Jorge Giacinti (Arg) Publiguias 0.25 3 Edgardo Simon (Arg) Ekono Alamo Rent A 0.29 4 Jose Medina (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 0.31 5 Gonzalo Salas (Arg) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 0.42 6 Luis Sepulveda (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 1.11 7 Juan Agüero (Arg) Ekono Alamo Rent A 1.35 8 Pedro Prieto (Arg) Publiguias 2.18 9 Raul Gomez (Col) Transportes Romero 3.11 10 Marcelo Arriagada (Chi) Publiguias 4.05 11 Richard Rodriguez (Chi) Publiguias 4.17 12 Michael Carter (USA) Marco Polo 4.32 13 Luis Espinoza (Col) Transportes Romero 4.47 14 Gonzalo Miranda (Chi) Publiguias 5.04 15 Cesar Doussang (Chi) Doñihue 5.16 16 Renato Rosler (Bra) Brazil 6.47 17 Andrei Sartassov (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 7.51 18 Manuel Medina (Ven) Venezuela 8.10 19 Márcio May (Bra) Brazil 9.07 20 Juan Fierro (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 9.22 21 Daniel Bretti (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 12.40 22 Cristobal Silva (Chi) La Polar 14.16 23 Nestor Pais (Uru) Alas Rojas 24 Alejandro Acton (Arg) Alas Rojas 15.16 25 Gonzalo Garrido (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 16.40 26 Raúl Lopez (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 18.11 27 Nelson Vargas (Col) Ace Byrc Curico 19.38 28 Franklin Chacon (Ven) Venezuela 21.26 29 Victor Becerra (Ven) Venezuela 21.33 30 Cory Lange (Can) Marco Polo 23.15 31 Enzo Cesareo (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 25.26 32 Agustín Margalef (Uru) Alas Rojas 27.16 33 Francisco Cabrera (Chi) Ekono Alamo Rent A 28.49 34 Ronald Gonzales (Ven) Venezuela 29.53 35 Hernandez Quadri Jr (Bra) Brazil 30.50 36 Joaquín Jorquera (Chi) Agua Mineral Rari 31.23 37 Victor Garrido (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 31.37 38 Milton Wynants (Uru) La Polar 32.33 39 Jaime Bretti (Chi) Ekono Alamo Rent A 33.26 40 Cesar Valenzuela (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 33.28 41 Suelito Gohr (Bra) Brazil 35.33 42 Tim Wilson (Aus) Trust House 37.09 43 Antonio Cabrera (Chi) Ekono Alamo Rent A 39.37 44 Cristian Fierro (Chi) La Polar 41.29 45 Manuel Gonzalez (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 41.46 46 Harm Jansen (Ned) Trust House 43.31 47 Antonio Nascimento (Bra) Brazil 44.54 48 Carlos Ochoa (Ven) Venezuela 45.57 49 Richard Mascarañas (Uru) Alas Rojas 49.02 50 Manuel Abarca (Chi) Agua Mineral Rari 50.00 51 Eddy Hilger (USA) Colavita Bolla 53.19 52 Jamsram Ulzii (Mgl) Marco Polo 54.34 53 Miguel Parraguez (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 55.54 54 kay Karner (Ger) Marco Polo 57.36 55 Reinaldo Cortes (Chi) Transportes Romero 58.22 56 Josh Seldman (USA) Colavita Bolla 59.14 57 Pablo Valenzuela (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 59.17 58 Pablo Riveros (Chi) Transportes Romero 1.01.04 59 Gregory Saw (Aus) Trust House 1.02.48 60 Joe Papp (USA) UPMC-La Polar 1.05.40 61 Jose Aravena (Chi) Agua Mineral Rari 1.08.13 62 Jonathan Alvarado (Chi) Peñaflor Lascar 1.08.43 63 Cristian Medina (Chi) Agua Mineral Rari 1.09.22 64 Angel Perez (Chi) Ekono Alamo Rent A 1.10.13 65 Dario Ramirez (Arg) Agua Mineral Rari 1.12.14 66 Jose Labra (Chi) La Polar 1.14.18 67 Peter Fairbanks (USA) Colavita Bolla 1.15.26 68 Nathan Dahlberg (NZl) Marco Polo 1.15.50 69 Facundo Bazzi (Arg) Agua Mineral Rari 1.18.18 70 Rodrigo Perez (Chi) Peñaflor Lascar 1.22.38 71 Pelle Kil (Ned) Trust House 1.24.24 72 Andrew Small (Aus) Trust House 1.26.34 73 Aliro Catejo (Chi) Doñihue 1.26.56 74 Jaime Carreño (Chi) Peñaflor Lascar 1.31.51 75 Rodrigo Berrios (Chi) Doñihue 1.41.49 76 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Marco Polo 1.43.47 77 Clauss Plaut (Chi) La Polar 1.59.18 78 Sergio Abarca (Chi) Peñaflor Lascar 2.05.46 79 Shawn Wilard (USA) Colavita Bolla 2.11.04 80 Cristian Rosas (Chi) Transportes Romero 2.17.06 81 Alejandro Solis (Chi) Doñihue 2.23.22 82 Deivis Urdaneta (Ven) Venezuela 2.25.34 83 Andrés Taulis (Chi) Peñaflor Lascar 3.01.47 84 Felipe Ramirez (Chi) Doñihue 3.32.43 85 Hector Osorio (Chi) Doñihue 3.33.54 Points classification 1 Edgardo Simon (Arg) Ekono Alamo Rent A 151 pts 2 Richard Rodriguez (Chi) Publiguias 99 3 Marco Arriagada (Chi) Publiguias 80 4 Francisco Cabrera (Chi) Ekono Alamo Rent A 77 5 Gonzalo Miranda (Chi) Publiguias 66 6 Jose Medina (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 64 7 Márcio May (Bra) Brazil 48 8 Alejandro Acton (Arg) Alas Rojas 45 9 Gonzalo Salas (Arg) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 44 10 Facundo Bazzi (Arg) Agua Mineral Rari 41 11 Harm Jansen (Ned) Trust House 38 12 Jorge Giacinti (Arg) Publiguias 38 13 Juan Agüero (Arg) Ekono Alamo Rent A 36 14 Pedro Prieto (Arg) Publiguias 36 15 Jose Aravena (Chi) Agua Mineral Rari 34 16 Miguel Parraguez (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 31 17 Tim Wilson (Aus) Trust House 31 18 Pablo Valenzuela (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 30 19 Angel Perez (Chi) Ekono Alamo Rent A 30 20 Enzo Cesareo (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 28 21 Luis Sepulveda (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 28 22 Cory Lange (Can) Marco Polo 27 23 Dario Ramirez (Arg) Agua Mineral Rari 26 24 Juan Fierro (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 25 25 Marcelo Arriagada (Chi) Publiguias 24 26 Milton Wynants (Uru) La Polar 24 27 Joe Papp (USA) UPMC-La Polar 21 28 Franklin Chacon (Ven) Venezuela 20 29 Manuel Medina (Ven) Venezuela 16 30 Gonzalo Garrido (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 16 31 Andrei Sartassov (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 14 32 Nelson Vargas (Col) Ace Byrc Curico 14 33 Sergio Abarca (Chi) Peñaflor Lascar 14 34 Alejandro Solis (Chi) Doñihue 12 35 Renato Rosler (Bra) Brazil 10 36 Raul Gomez (Col) Transportes Romero 10 37 Agustín Margalef (Uru) Alas Rojas 10 38 Aliro Catejo (Chi) Doñihue 10 39 Clauss Plaut (Chi) La Polar 10 40 Cristobal Silva (Chi) La Polar 9 41 Manuel Abarca (Chi) Agua Mineral Rari 9 42 Andrés Taulis (Chi) Peñaflor Lascar 9 45 Luis Espinoza (Col) Transportes Romero 8 46 Cristian Medina (Chi) Agua Mineral Rari 8 47 Hector Osorio (Chi) Doñihue 8 48 Cristian Fierro (Chi) La Polar 7 49 Andrew Small (Aus) Trust House 7 50 Shawn Wilard (USA) Colavita Bolla 7 51 Felipe Ramirez (Chi) Doñihue 7 53 Victor Becerra (Ven) Venezuela 6 54 Carlos Ochoa (Ven) Venezuela 6 55 kay Karner (Ger) Marco Polo 6 57 Michael Carter (USA) Marco Polo 5 58 Daniel Bretti (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 5 59 Pablo Riveros (Chi) Transportes Romero 5 60 Nestor Pais (Uru) Alas Rojas 4 61 Reinaldo Cortes (Chi) Transportes Romero 4 62 Gregory Saw (Aus) Trust House 4 64 Cesar Doussang (Chi) Doñihue 3 65 Cesar Valenzuela (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 3 67 Rodrigo Berrios (Chi) Doñihue 3 68 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Marco Polo 2 69 Victor Garrido (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 1 70 Antonio Nascimento (Bra) Brazil 1 71 Nathan Dahlberg (NZl) Marco Polo 1 Metas Volantes classification 1 Francisco Cabrera (Chi) Ekono Alamo Rent A 22 pts 2 Enzo Cesareo (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 19 3 Edgardo Simon (Arg) Ekono Alamo Rent A 14 4 Miguel Parraguez (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 12 5 Gonzalo Miranda (Chi) Publiguias 10 6 Pedro Prieto (Arg) Publiguias 6 7 Pablo Valenzuela (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 6 8 Herman Cline (Uru) Alas Rojas 5 9 Hector Osorio (Chi) Doñihue 5 10 Juan Fierro (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 5 11 Cristobal Silva (Chi) La Polar 5 12 Daniel Bretti (Chi) Vinci Los Angeles 5 13 Harm Jansen (Ned) Trust House 4 14 Dario Ramirez (Arg) Agua Mineral Rari 4 15 Franklin Chacon (Ven) Venezuela 3 16 Clauss Plaut (Chi) La Polar 3 17 Cory Lange (Can) Marco Polo 3 18 Richard Rodriguez (Chi) Publiguias 3 19 Andrei Sartassov (Chi) Lider Trek Bio-Bio 2 20 Jaime Bretti (Chi) Ekono Alamo Rent A 2 21 Jose Aravena (Chi) Agua Mineral Rari 2 22 Alejandro Acton (Arg) Alas Rojas 2 23 Luis Sepulveda (Chi) Ace Byrc Curico 1 Teams classificaton 1 Publiguias 80.57.40 2 Ace-Bryc Union Ciclista Curico 4.52 3 Lider Trek Bio-Bio 14.36 4 Ekono Alamo Rent A Car 20.00 5 Selecao Nacional Do Brasil 36.01 6 Venezuela 45.29 7 Alas Rojas Santa Lucia 48.54 8 Transportes Romero 1.01.05 9 Marco Polo 1.08.55 10 Agua Mineral Rari Curico 1.12.56 11 Vinci Los Angeles 1.13.38 12 La Polar 1.21.17 13 Trust House New Zelanda 1.49.38 14 Doñihue-Agro Super 2.39.44 15 Colavita Bolla 2.54.35 16 Peñaflor Lascar 3.40.07
