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20th Rothaus Regio-Tour International - 2.3
Germany, August 4-8, 2004
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Stage 5 - August 8: Herbolzheim - Vogtsburg/Kaiserstuhl, 177.1 km
Vogondy gets a birthday present
By Christine Schramm
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French rider Nicolas Vogondy (FDJeux.com) won the final stage of the Rothaus Regio Tour on his 27th birthday, beating Stéphane Auge and Geoffroy Lequatre (both Credit Agricole) in a small group sprint. Race leader Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile) retained his leader's jersey on the final day and took home the big prize as the overall winner.
The last stage of the Regio-Tour went over 177 km from Herbolzheim to Vogtsburg. After having reached Vogtsburg for the first time, the riders had to do six laps until they were finally allowed to cross the finish line. On each of these laps, they had to cross the "Texas pass", a very steep mountain pass situated in the middle of the famous Kaiserstuhl, the so called "German Toscana", the hottest spot in Germany. And it was hot: 33 degrees celsius in the shade, but there hardly was any shade on the road...
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A breakaway group of eight riders escaped early from the peloton. Eventual winner Nicolas Vogondy (FDJeux.com) was one of them. The peloton was well controlled by the T-Mobile Team whose leader Alexandre Vinokourov was never in danger of losing his yellow jersey.
Birthday boy Nicolas Vogondy was the first to cross the finish line in Vogtsburg ahead of Stéphane Augé (Credit Agricole) and made himself the best present for his special day. Vinokourov won the 20th Rothaus Regio-Tour International, following in the footsteps of his teammate Jan Ullrich, who won the Tour in 1996.
Photography
Images by Christine Schramm/www.tourfoto.de
- Rik Reinerink (Chocolade Jaques) leads the breakaway group in the first of six laps around Vogtsburg
- Björn Schröder (Wiesenhof) leads the group in burning heat for the first time over the "Texas pass"
- The T-Mobile Team is obviously controlling the race
- Not everybody in the peloton can follow this speed easily
- Michele Gobbi (De Nardi) and Vincente Rynes (Illes Baleares) making speed to catch up with the break
- The riders from Illes Baleares were working for Unai Osa, who ended fourth today
- The riders where carried uphill by hundreds of enthusiastic fans
- Fabien Sanchez (Fdjeux.com) still in the heat on the "Texas pass"
- Birthday boy Nicolas Vogondy (Fdjeux.com) crosses the finish line before Stéphane Augé (Crédit Agricole)
- Stage winner Nicolas Vogondiy (Fdjeux.com)
- How does the wine from the famous Kaiserstuhl taste?
- The prize is huge: Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile) overall winner of the 20th Rothaus Regio-Tour International
- The podium (L to R): Stephan Schreck (T-Mobile, 2nd), Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile, 1st), Andrey Kashechkin (Crédit Agricole, 3rd)
Results
1 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 4.26.19 2 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 0.03 5 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi 0.13 6 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.38 7 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 0.39 8 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 0.42 9 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.50 10 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 11 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 12 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 13 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 14 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) De Nardi 15 Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile Team 16 Tomas Konecny (Cze) T-Mobile Team 17 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 18 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) T-Mobile Team 19 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 20 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 21 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 22 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 23 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 24 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 25 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) De Nardi 26 Stefano Cavallari (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 27 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 28 Pierre Bourquenoud (Swi) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 29 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 30 Pablo Lastras-Garcia (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 31 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 32 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 33 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 34 Paol Longo Borghini (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 35 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 36 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) FDJeux.com 37 Frederik Willems (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 1.02 38 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 2.14 39 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) German national team 2 2.29 40 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 41 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 2.45 42 Florent Brard (Fra) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 43 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 44 Matej Jurco (Svk) De Nardi 3.21 45 Lado Fumic (Ger) German national team 2 46 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 47 Renaud Dion (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 48 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJeux.com 49 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 50 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 51 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Domina Vacanze 52 Giulio Tomi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 8.41 53 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 8.43 54 Robert Bartko (Ger) German national team 1 8.44 55 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 8.46 56 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 8.47 57 Andreas Waelsch (Ger) German national team 1 9.26 58 Robert Bengsch (Ger) German national team 1 59 David Meys (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 60 Marc Gölz (Ger) German national team 2 13.14 61 Christian Lademann (Ger) German national team 1 DNF Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Olaf Pollack (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie DNF Leif Lampater (Ger) German national team 1 DNF Guido Fulst (Ger) German national team 1 DNF Christian Kux (Ger) German national team 1 DNF Karl-Christia König (Ger) German national team 1 DNF Simone Cadamuro (Ita) De Nardi DNF Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) De Nardi DNF Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) De Nardi DNF Charles Wegelius (GBr) De Nardi DNF Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team DNF Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) T-Mobile Team DNF Dimitry Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole DNF Cezary Zamana (Pol) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf DNF Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf DNF Chris Peers (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf DNF Rik Reinerink (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf DNF Eric Berthou (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover DNF Roman Lunovyy (Ukr) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover DNF Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover DNF Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof DNF Roberto Lochowski (Ger) Team Wiesenhof DNF Juan Horrach-Rippoll (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto DNF Steffen Radochla (Ger) Illes Balears-Banesto DNF Antonio Tauler (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto DNF Freddy Bichot (Fra) FDJeux.com DNF Fabien Sanchez (Fra) FDJeux.com DNF Benoit Vaugrendard (Fra) FDJeux.com DNF Andrus Aug (Est) Domina Vacanze DNF Martin Derganc (Slo) Domina Vacanze DNF M. Antonio Fischer (Bra) Domina Vacanze DNF Andris Nauduzs (Let) Domina Vacanze DNF Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Domina Vacanze DNF Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim DNF Steven Caethoven (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim DNF Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim DNF Marcel Sieberg (Ger) German national team 2 DNF Carsten Bresser (Ger) German national team 2 DNS Mickael Buffaz (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover Points 1 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 15 pts 2 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 12 3 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 10 4 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 8 5 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi 6 6 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 5 7 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 4 8 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 3 9 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2 10 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1 Mountains Climb 1 - Cat. 1, km 84,9 1 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 10 pts 2 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 6 3 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 4 4 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 2 Climb 2 - Cat. 1, km 133,5 1 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 10 pts 2 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 6 3 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 4 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 Climb 3 - Cat. 1, km 149,7 1 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 10 pts 2 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 6 3 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 4 4 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 2 Sprints Sprint 1, km 41,1 1 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 3 pts 2 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 2 3 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 1 Sprint 2, km 74,4 1 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 3 pts 2 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 3 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1 Sprint 3, km 106,8 1 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 3 pts 2 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 3 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1 Teams 1 Credit Agricole 13.19.47 2 FDJeux.com 0.50 3 Illes Balears-Banesto 0.53 4 De Nardi 1.03 5 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 1.28 6 T-Mobile Team 1.40 7 Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 8 Vlaanderen-T Interim 11.13 9 German National Team 2 18.14 10 German National Team 1 26.46 Final general classification 1 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 17.23.49 2 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.08 3 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 0.21 4 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.47 5 Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile Team 0.57 6 Tomas Konecny (Cze) T-Mobile Team 1.04 7 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) T-Mobile Team 1.13 8 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 1.28 9 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 1.32 10 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 1.37 11 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1.48 12 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.59 13 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 2.05 14 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.15 15 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2.17 16 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 2.37 17 Stefano Cavallari (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 2.48 18 Pierre Bourquenoud (Swi) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 3.08 19 Paol Longo Borghini (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 3.16 20 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi 3.38 21 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 3.47 22 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 23 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 3.49 24 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 4.39 25 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) German national team 2 4.40 26 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 4.43 27 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) FDJeux.com 4.45 28 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Domina Vacanze 5.34 29 Pablo Lastras-Garcia (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 5.57 30 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 6.39 31 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 7.14 32 Lado Fumic (Ger) German national team 2 8.22 33 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 11.42 34 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) De Nardi 23.54 35 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 23.56 36 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 24.10 37 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 24.36 38 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 25.07 39 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 25.20 40 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 25.40 41 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 26.02 42 Frederik Willems (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 26.06 43 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 26.07 44 Florent Brard (Fra) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 26.32 45 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 27.15 46 Matej Jurco (Svk) De Nardi 27.17 47 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 28.03 48 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJeux.com 28.08 49 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 28.46 50 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 29.50 51 Robert Bartko (Ger) German national team 1 32.26 52 David Meys (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 33.28 53 Giulio Tomi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 33.47 54 Andreas Waelsch (Ger) German national team 1 34.04 55 Robert Bengsch (Ger) German national team 1 34.07 56 Renaud Dion (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 34.19 57 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 36.00 58 Christian Lademann (Ger) German national team 1 37.30 59 Marc Gölz (Ger) German national team 2 38.41 60 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) De Nardi 41.43 61 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 49.13 Points classification 1 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 38 pts 2 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 27 3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 18 4 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 18 5 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 17 6 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 17 7 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 15 8 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 14 9 Tomas Konecny (Cze) T-Mobile Team 13 10 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 11 11 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Domina Vacanze 9 12 Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile Team 8 13 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 8 14 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 8 15 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 6 16 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi 6 17 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 6 18 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 3 19 Stefano Cavallari (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 2 20 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 2 21 Pablo Lastras-Garcia (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 2 22 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) De Nardi 2 23 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 2 24 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 2 25 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2 26 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) T-Mobile Team 1 27 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 1 28 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 1 29 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1 Mountains classification 1 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 47 pts 2 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 44 3 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 25 4 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 18 5 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 12 6 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 10 7 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 10 8 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 6 9 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) German national team 2 6 10 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 6 11 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 4 12 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 2 13 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 14 David Meys (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 2 15 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 1 Young rider classification 1 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 2 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.26 3 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 1.07 4 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 1.11 5 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 1.16 6 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.38 7 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1.44 8 Paol Longo Borghini (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 2.55 9 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) German national team 2 4.19 10 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 11.21 11 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 23.49 12 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 24.15 13 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 24.59 14 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 25.41 15 Frederik Willems (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 25.45 16 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 26.54 17 Matej Jurco (Svk) De Nardi 26.56 18 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 27.42 19 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJeux.com 27.47 20 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 28.25 21 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 29.29 22 David Meys (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 33.07 23 Andreas Waelsch (Ger) German national team 1 33.43 24 Robert Bengsch (Ger) German national team 1 33.46 25 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 48.52 Teams classification 1 T-Mobile Team 2 Credit Agricole 3.48 3 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 4.12 4 FDJeux.com 5.25 5 Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 5.51 6 Illes Balears-Banesto 8.19 7 De Nardi 9.08 8 German National Team 2 49.44 9 Vlaanderen-T Interim 1.22.46 10 German National Team 1 1.38.05
