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44th Vuelta al Pais Vasco - 2.HC
Spain, April 5-9, 2004
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Stage 5a - April 9: Lekunberri - Lazkao, 72 km
Victory for Voigt
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German Jens Voigt (CSC) has won the first half stage on day 5 of the Vuelta a Pais Vasco, a 72 kilometre leg between Lekunberri and Lazkao. Voigt attacked after 10 km with Unai Etxebarria (Euskaltel), leaving the latter behind after he punctured, and eventually crossed the line 51 seconds clear of David Etxebarria (Euskaltel), Denis Menchov (Illes Balears) and Iban Mayo (Euskaltel). As Voigt was no threat on GC, Menchov retained his leader's jersey going into this afternoon's crucial 8.5 km time trial.
How it unfolded
The morning's stage was short but difficult, containing four Cat. 3 and one Cat. 2 climb, and was held in cold, wet conditions. Voigt, who has been engaged in a battle for the mountains jersey with Unai Etxebarria, applied his usual tactic and attacked near the start. Etxebarria went with him, and the pair rode together until kilometre 24, when Etxebarria punctured. Naturally Voigt didn't wait, and proceeded to gobble up the maximum points on offer on the small Cat. 3 climbs, building an unassailable lead in the mountains competition.
Behind him, Unai Etxebarria hadn't given up, and pursued Voigt at a distance of a minute until kilometre 37, when teammate David Etxebarria bridged up from the peloton and caught him. But Unai couldn't follow David on the Alto de Olaberria, leaving David to try and bridge the gap to Voigt, which was still around a minute.
The peloton wasn't too concerned about Voigt, but Menchov's Illes Balears team didn't want to let David Etxebarria get too far in front. They caught David with 24 km to go, as Voigt still maintained his 1'15 advantage. Once David was back in the fold, the gap went out to an uncatchable 2 minutes, although Jorge Ferrio tried to bridge on his own.
David Etxebarria hadn't given up yet, and attacked on the descent of the second last climb of Alto de Gaintza with 9 km to go, catching and passing Ferrio on the final climb of Alto de Lazkaomendi, with Voigt's lead now starting to drop. But with two kilometres from the top of the climb, racer leader Menchov and Iban Mayo bridged the gap to Etxebarria, and continued to close in on Voigt.
The German maintained a 51 second lead to the finish in Lazkao, with Etxebarria, Menchov and Mayo coming in together. The next group was led by Danilo Di Luca at 1'07, and this also contained Voigt's teammate Bobby Julich (CSC), who will be a threat to Menchov and Mayo for the overall GC.
The Vuelta a Pais Vasco will finish this afternoon with a tough 8.5 kilometre time trial around Lazkao. The stage is not flat, featuring a 2.5 km at 4% climb after 5 km, and Menchov will be a tough man to beat.
Results
1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 1.53.12 2 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.51 3 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 4 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.52 5 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Saeco 1.07 6 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 7 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 8 Jorge Ferrio Luque (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 9 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 10 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 11 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 12 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 13 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 14 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 1.23 16 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 17 Aitor Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 18 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.33 19 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 20 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Saeco 21 Francisco Lara (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 22 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 1.39 23 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 1.49 24 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 25 Sebastien Chavanel (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 26 Michael Barry (Can) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 27 Marco Serrano Rodriguez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 28 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 2.09 29 Mauricio Ardila (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 30 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 31 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 32 Benjamin Noval (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 2.35 33 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 34 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 2.38 35 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros 3.18 36 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 4.55 37 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 38 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 5.59 39 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.20 40 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.42 41 José Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 7.14 42 Jokin Ormaetxea (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 7.37 43 J.Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 44 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros 7.42 45 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 12.17 46 Jon Odriozola (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 47 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Cafes Baque 48 Francisco José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 49 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 50 Gianni Faresin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 51 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 52 Gorka Beloki (Spa) Brioches La Boulangere 53 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 54 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 55 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 56 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 57 Jon Del Rio (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 58 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 59 Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile Team 60 Francisco Palacio (Spa) Cafes Baque 61 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 62 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 63 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 64 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 65 David Lopez (Spa) Cafes Baque 66 Jose Julia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 67 Unai Yus Kerejeta (Spa) Brioches La Boulangere 68 Igor Glz. De Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros 69 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 70 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 71 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 72 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Rabobank 73 Efrain Gutierrez (Spa) Cafes Baque 74 Carlos Zarate (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 75 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 76 Francisco Gutierrez (Spa) Cafes Baque 77 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 78 Dario Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 79 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 80 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 81 Peio Arreitunandia (Spa) Cafes Baque 82 Evgueni Petrov (Rus) Saeco 83 Javier Pascual (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 84 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 85 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 86 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 87 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 88 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 89 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 90 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step-Davitamon 91 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 92 Isidro Nozal Vega (Spa) Liberty Seguros 93 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo Points 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 25 pts 2 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20 3 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 16 4 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 14 5 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Saeco 12 6 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 10 7 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 9 8 Jorge Ferrio Luque (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 8 9 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 7 10 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 6 11 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 5 12 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 4 13 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 3 14 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 15 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 1 Mountains Alto De Urkillaga - Cat. 3, 48 km 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 3 pts 2 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Alto De Olaberria - Cat. 3, 59 km 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 3 pts 2 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 Francisco Lara (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 1 Alto De Gaintza - Cat. 2,77 km 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 6 pts 2 Francisco Lara (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 4 3 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 4 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Alto De Lazkaomendi - Cat. 3, 85 km 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 3 pts 2 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 1 Metas Volantes Lakunza, 28 km 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 3 pts 2 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1 Lazkao, 56km 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 3 pts 2 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Zaldibia, 82 km 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 3 pts 2 José Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 2 3 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1 Teams 1 Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.42.26 2 Team CSC 0.06 3 Saeco 0.57 4 US Postal Service 1.45 5 Lampre 2.31 6 Liberty Seguros 3.24 7 Illes Balears-Banest 4.19 8 Costa De Almeria-Pat 7.27 9 Phonak Hearing Systems 13.09 10 Com. Valenciana-Kelme 13.12 11 Cofidis 16.49 12 T-Mobile Team 22.51 13 Rabobank 14 Gerolsteiner 23.17 15 Brioches La Boulangere 23.33 16 Chocolade Jacques 23.53 17 Saunier Duval-Prodir 18 Relax-Bodysol 29.21 19 Cafes Baque 34.01 20 Quick Step-Davitamon 21 Fassa Bortolo General classification after stage 5a 1 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 19.13.42 2 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.13 3 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.14 4 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Saeco 0.29 5 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 6 Jorge Ferrio Luque (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 7 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 9 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 10 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 11 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 0.37 12 Aitor Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 0.45 13 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 0.53 14 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 0.54 15 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 0.55 16 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 1.01 17 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.10 18 Marco Serrano Rodriguez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 1.11 19 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 20 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.15 21 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 1.18 22 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 1.44 23 Mauricio Ardila (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 1.51 24 Francisco Lara (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 2.00 25 Sebastien Chavanel (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 3.19 26 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros 3.21 27 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.25 28 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 3.34 29 Michael Barry (Can) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 5.03 30 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 8.00 31 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 8.52 32 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10.10 33 J.Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 11.20 34 Benjamin Noval (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 11.53 35 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step-Davitamon 11.59 36 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 37 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 12.28 38 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 12.36 39 Javier Pascual (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 12.42 40 David Lopez (Spa) Cafes Baque 12.46 41 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 13.15 42 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 13.45 43 Peio Arreitunandia (Spa) Cafes Baque 13.47 44 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 14.27 45 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 14.28 46 Gianni Faresin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 15.40 47 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 16.05 48 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 16.57 49 José Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 17.03 50 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Cafes Baque 17.07 51 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 17.16 52 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 18.18 53 Unai Yus Kerejeta (Spa) Brioches La Boulangere 18.48 54 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 19.16 55 Jokin Ormaetxea (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 19.18 56 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 19.19 57 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 20.21 58 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 21.50 59 Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile Team 22.03 60 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 23.01 61 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 24.11 62 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Saeco 24.53 63 Dario Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 25.40 64 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 65 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 25.43 66 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 26.21 67 Evgueni Petrov (Rus) Saeco 27.00 68 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros 28.01 69 Francisco Palacio (Spa) Cafes Baque 28.22 70 Francisco Gutierrez (Spa) Cafes Baque 29.43 71 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Rabobank 30.51 72 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 31.02 73 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 31.35 74 Jon Odriozola (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 32.05 75 Jose Julia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 32.13 76 Igor Glz. De Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros 32.36 77 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 32.52 78 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 33.36 79 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 33.43 80 Carlos Zarate (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 33.53 81 Efrain Gutierrez (Spa) Cafes Baque 34.41 82 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 35.22 83 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 35.56 84 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 85 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 36.31 86 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 37.03 87 Isidro Nozal Vega (Spa) Liberty Seguros 38.29 88 Francisco José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 40.39 89 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 40.57 90 Gorka Beloki (Spa) Brioches La Boulangere 45.16 91 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 48.02 92 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 51.27 93 Jon Del Rio (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 53.07 Points classification 1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 66 pts 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Saeco 57 3 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 47 4 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 47 5 Jorge Ferrio Luque (Spa) Costa De Almeria-Paternina 42 6 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 37 7 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 33 8 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 31 9 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros 28 10 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 25 Mountains classification 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 60 pts 2 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 49 3 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 17 4 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 5 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 6 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 8 7 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 6 8 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 9 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Saeco 6 10 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 5 Metas volantes classification 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 23 pts 2 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 3 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 5 4 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 5 Carlos Zarate (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 4 6 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 7 José Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 3 8 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 2 9 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 10 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 1 Teams classification 1 Euskaltel-Euskadi 57.42.02 2 Team CSC 0.34 3 US Postal Service 2.42 4 Liberty Seguros 4.05 5 Lampre 5.15 6 Saeco 5.31 7 Illes Balears-Banesto 7.47 8 Costa De Almeria-Paternina 12.06 9 Cofidis 18.19 10 Phonak Hearing Systems 19.32 11 T-Mobile Team 24.38 12 Gerolsteiner 25.42 13 Com. Valenciana-Kelme 29.27 14 Chocolade Jacques 38.31 15 Quick Step-Davitamon 39.36 16 Rabobank 43.09 17 Brioches La Boulangere 43.31 18 Cafes Baque 43.55 19 Saunier Duval-Prodir 45.32 20 Fassa Bortolo 48.32 21 Relax-Bodysol 1.02.27
