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19th GP Cycliste de Beauce - 2.3
Canada, June 15-20, 2004
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Stage 4 - June 18: Saint-Georges/Mont-Mégantic, 155 km
Polish teams take control on Mont Mégantic
Romanik wins stage; Brozyna remains on top
By Mark Zalewski
The Action ATI team of race leader Tomasz Brozyna and the Hoop CCC Polsat team of Radoslaw Romanik continued to control the 19th Cycliste de Beauce today -- all the way to the top of Mont Mégantic, rising 600 meters over the final eight kilometres.
Entering today's stage, only nine riders were within one minute of Brozyna, making the task of defending the yellow jersey much easier for him and his teammates. The likely suspects to mount a challenge among the nine leaders were Colavita Olive Oil's Nathan O'Neilll down 25 seconds, Health Net's climber Scott Moninger at 26 seconds and Capec's Maxim Iglinskiy, back 39 seconds.
"It was a typical Mont Mégantic stage," said Colavita Director Chad Davis. "We tried to set-up O'Neilll [today] by sticking with Health Net and the Polish teams. Action and CCC Polsat have been working together all week long."
And after the typical "Beauce Break" was reeled in, it was Action ATI and CCC Polsat on the front the rest of the day. At the top, it was a reverse of the overall with Romanik taking the win in front of the yellow jersey of Brozyna. Scott Moninger stayed with the two leaders, with help from his teammate Mike Jones, coming in three seconds behind for third. Iglinskiy and O'Neill managed to limit their losses, losing 17 and 26 seconds respectively.
With O'Neilll still inside one minute to the leader, Davis is confident that the former Australian time trial champion can make up significant ground in tomorrow's time trial. "[Nathan] is much faster than Romanik, and he can pass him and Scott [Moninger]." O'Neilll even has a new TT bike from Felt, painted in the yellow and green to compliment Mark McCormack's stars and stripes national champion road machine. O'Neilll will be riding Mavic wheels, a change for him from previous years. The switch in wheels and a motivating paint job could launch him a few spots up on the overall classification, making for an interesting final stage on Sunday.
How it unfolded
More than 1,100 meters of climbing awaited the 83-man peloton today, with the finish sure to separate the contenders from the pretenders. In true Beauce fashion, a group of five riders left the comfort of the pack to have a go on the early climbs, including: Vassili Davidenko (Navigators Insurance), Linus Gerdemann (Winfix Arnolds), Tyler Wren (Colavita Olive Oil), Svein Tuft (Symmetrics) and Bruno Langlois (Volkswagon Trek). This group gained nearly 2:30 on the field.
"We sent Tyler up the road to cover the early move," said Chad Davis. "Then we let him sit up and come back."
After the first major climb of the day, only three breakaway riders remained: Davidenko, Tuft and Langlios. This trio had 5:15 into the peloton as they approached the second climb of Mont Morne. This was the biggest gap Health Net and the two Polish teams were going to allow. After Morne the gap began to fall. After the climb is was 4:40 -- and as the Action ATI team drove the peloton the gap came down to under four minutes.
Through the village of Marston the gap was 3:30, and it was clear the break would be reeled in well before the final ascent to the top of Mégantic. Past Lake Mégantic the trio dangled in front with Action ATI just waiting to pull the string. With 20 km to go the pace quickened even more. Near the base of the final climb, the remaining three were caught and the race immediately began to shatter over the final eight kilometres.
15 riders set the pace up Mégantic -- then 10 -- then six. But Nathan O'Neilll wasn't in the first 15. "Nathan jumped across to Moninger in the final six," Chad Davis explained. The two then rode with Romanik, Mike Jones (Health Net), Iglinskiy, Romanik and Brozyna. But as the grade increased, it was Romanik, Brozyna and Moninger with the strongest legs.
Romanik crossed the line ahead of Brozyna, with Moninger holding on for third.
Results
1 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 4.13.53 2 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 3 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 0.04 4 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 0.17 5 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 0.26 6 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 0.39 7 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 0.41 8 Karirat Baigudinov (Kaz) Capec 0.59 9 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 1.02 10 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 1.09 11 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 1.18 12 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 1.21 13 Mathieu Toulouse (Can) Team Québec 1.32 14 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 1.35 15 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 1.45 16 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 1.49 17 Assan Bazaev (Kaz) Capec 1.51 18 Jean-Sébastien Maheu (Can) Volkswagen Trek 2.04 19 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 2.22 20 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 2.31 21 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 2.36 22 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 23 Eugene Wacker (Kgz) Action-ATI 24 Chris Isaac (Can) Ital Pasta 2.51 25 Dan Bowman (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 26 Alexander Dymovskikh, (Kaz) Capec 2.54 27 Andrey Medyannokov, (Kaz) Capec 3.08 28 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoop CCC Polsat 3.16 29 Alexandre Nadeau (Can) Volkswagen Trek 3.36 30 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canadian National Team 3.43 31 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen Trek 3.55 32 Dominique Rollin (Can) Team Québec 4.07 33 Brice Jones (USA) Health Net 4.09 34 Dustin MacBurnie (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique 4.30 35 Daniel Olszewski (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 36 Aaron Olson (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 5.07 37 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 38 Bakhtiyar Mamyrov (Kaz) Capec 5.09 39 Pierre-Olivier Boily (Can) Team Québec 5.33 40 Dylan Sebel (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 5.37 41 Greg Roth (Can) Ital Pasta 5.49 42 Cory Jay (Can) Canadian National Team 6.33 43 Joe Giuliano (Can) Ital Pasta 44 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action-ATI 6.53 45 Ryan Mckenzie (Can) Canadian National Team 7.14 46 Dennis Kraft (Ger) Action-ATI 8.15 47 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 48 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance 49 Jay Maclaren (Can) Ital Pasta 50 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 51 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 52 Thorben Wiedtz (Can) Team Ontario 53 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net 54 Greg Henderson (NZl) Health Net 55 Kevin Noiles (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique 8.56 56 Todd Yezefski (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 9.09 57 Bruno Langlois (Can) Volkswagen Trek 9.17 58 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen Trek 59 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen Trek 9.30 60 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Volkswagen Trek 9.32 61 Colby Pearce (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 9.45 62 David Mckensie (Aus) Navigators Insurance 10.08 63 Dave Mustaikis (Can) Team Québec 64 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 10.58 65 Andrew Randell (Can) Canadian National Team 66 Todd Herriott (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 67 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action-ATI 11.52 68 Mark Pozniak (Can) Team Ontario 12.12 69 Gustavo Artacho (Arg) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 12.23 70 Daniel Maggiacomo (Can) Ital Pasta 71 Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 72 Sheldon Deeny (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 12.26 73 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 74 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 75 Thorsten Rund (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 12.34 76 Lauke Ronny (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 77 Hayden Godfrey (NZl) Health Net 13.58 78 Ryan Roth (Can) Team Ontario 14.24 DNF Phil Cortes (Can) Ital Pasta DNF Ariel De Cardenas (Can) Team Québec DNF Nathan St-Onge (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique DNF Marsh Cooper (Can) Symmetrics Cycling DNF Mathieu Roy (Can) Team Québec Points 1 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 15 pts 2 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 14 3 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 13 4 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 12 5 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 11 6 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 10 7 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 9 8 Karirat Baigudinov (Kaz) Capec 8 9 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 7 10 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 6 11 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 5 12 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 4 13 Mathieu Toulouse (Can) Team Québec 3 14 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 2 15 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 1 General classification after stage 4 1 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 16.29.07 2 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 0.16 3 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 0.32 4 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 0.57 5 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 1.02 6 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 1.51 7 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 1.59 8 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 2.01 9 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 2.06 10 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 2.09 11 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 2.37 12 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 2.41 13 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 2.46 14 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 3.50 15 Eugene Wacker (Kgz) Action-ATI 4.04 16 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 4.19 17 Karirat Baigudinov (Kaz) Capec 9.31 18 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 10.50 19 Assan Bazaev (Kaz) Capec 10.57 20 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoop CCC Polsat 12.28 21 Alexandre Nadeau (Can) Volkswagen Trek 12.44 22 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canadian National Team 14.15 23 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 16.24 24 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 16.28 25 Dan Bowman (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 16.50 26 Joe Giuliano (Can) Ital Pasta 17.08 27 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 19.06 28 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net 19.34 29 Mathieu Toulouse (Can) Team Québec 19.47 30 Aaron Olson (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 19.55 31 Jean-Sébastien Maheu (Can) Volkswagen Trek 19.59 32 Alexander Dymovskikh, (Kaz) Capec 20.49 33 Chris Isaac (Can) Ital Pasta 21.07 34 Dominique Rollin (Can) Team Québec 22.02 35 Daniel Olszewski (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 22.25 36 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen Trek 22.42 37 Bakhtiyar Mamyrov (Kaz) Capec 24.16 38 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action-ATI 24.47 39 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Volkswagen Trek 27.27 40 Brice Jones (USA) Health Net 27.31 41 Andrey Medyannokov, (Kaz) Capec 28.21 42 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 28.22 43 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 28.29 44 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance 28.36 45 Dennis Kraft (Ger) Action-ATI 28.47 46 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 28.48 47 Andrew Randell (Can) Canadian National Team 28.53 48 Todd Yezefski (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 29.07 49 Colby Pearce (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 29.27 50 Dustin MacBurnie (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique 29.43 51 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 30.07 52 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 30.23 53 Ryan Mckenzie (Can) Canadian National Team 31.27 54 Sheldon Deeny (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 31.53 55 Greg Roth (Can) Ital Pasta 31.56 56 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action-ATI 32.55 57 Lauke Ronny (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 32.56 58 David Mckensie (Aus) Navigators Insurance 33.01 59 Jay Maclaren (Can) Ital Pasta 34.47 60 Dave Mustaikis (Can) Team Québec 35.04 61 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen Trek 35.15 62 Dylan Sebel (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 35.20 63 Thorben Wiedtz (Can) Team Ontario 35.42 64 Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 35.43 65 Greg Henderson (NZl) Health Net 39.27 66 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 41.03 67 Thorsten Rund (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 41.33 68 Cory Jay (Can) Canadian National Team 42.49 69 Hayden Godfrey (NZl) Health Net 46.38 70 Bruno Langlois (Can) Volkswagen Trek 46.43 71 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen Trek 46.45 72 Pierre-Olivier Boily (Can) Team Québec 47.08 73 Mark Pozniak (Can) Team Ontario 47.21 74 Todd Herriott (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 54.15 75 Ryan Roth (Can) Team Ontario 59.10 76 Gustavo Artacho (Arg) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 1.01.22 77 Daniel Maggiacomo (Can) Ital Pasta 78 Kevin Noiles (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique 1.02.58 Points classification 1 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 39 pts 2 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 35 3 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 32 4 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 32 5 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 31 6 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 27 7 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 25 8 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 25 9 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 23 10 Karirat Baigudinov (Kaz) Capec 23 11 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 23 12 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoop CCC Polsat 22 13 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canadian National Team 17 14 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 15 15 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 15 16 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net 14 17 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 12 18 Joe Giuliano (Can) Ital Pasta 11 19 Aaron Olson (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 11 20 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 8 21 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 8 22 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 8 23 Eugene Wacker (Kgz) Action-ATI 6 24 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 6 25 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 6 26 Dan Bowman (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 6 27 Dennis Kraft (Ger) Action-ATI 6 28 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action-ATI 6 29 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 5 30 Chris Isaac (Can) Ital Pasta 5 31 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 5 32 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 5 33 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 4 34 Mathieu Toulouse (Can) Team Québec 3 35 Brice Jones (USA) Health Net 3 36 Andrew Randell (Can) Canadian National Team 3 37 Assan Bazaev (Kaz) Capec 2 38 Bruno Langlois (Can) Volkswagen Trek 2 39 Dominique Rollin (Can) Team Québec 1 40 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action-ATI 1 41 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen Trek 1 Mountains classification 1 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 43 pts 2 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 35 3 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 34 4 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 33 5 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 31 6 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action-ATI 30 7 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 23 8 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 23 9 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 18 10 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 17 11 Bruno Langlois (Can) Volkswagen Trek 17 12 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 15 13 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 14 14 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 14 15 Bakhtiyar Mamyrov (Kaz) Capec 14 16 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoop CCC Polsat 13 17 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canadian National Team 12 18 Todd Herriott (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 11 19 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 9 20 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 9 21 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net 8 22 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 7 23 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 6 24 Chris Isaac (Can) Ital Pasta 6 25 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen Trek 6 26 Dustin MacBurnie (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique 6 27 Karirat Baigudinov (Kaz) Capec 5 28 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 4 29 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 4 30 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 4 31 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action-ATI 4 32 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance 4 33 Gustavo Artacho (Arg) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 4 34 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 3 35 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 3 36 Dennis Kraft (Ger) Action-ATI 2 37 Aaron Olson (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 1 38 Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 1 Teams classification 1 Hoop CCC Polsat 49.19.14 2 Navigators Insurance 14.23 3 Action ATI 14.34 4 Health Net Maxxis 26.23 5 Capec 29.49 6 Winfix Arnolds 35.55 7 Canadian National Team 36.14 8 Colavita Olive Oil 57.49 9 Volkswagen Trek 1.02.40 10 Symmetrics Cycling 1.14.19 11 Equipe Quebec 1.14.36 12 Ital Pasta 1.18.18 13 TIA-CREF/5280 Magazine 1.21.26 14 Team Ontario 2.30.20
