23rd Chrono des Herbiers - 1.3/1.9.2/1.7.2/1.8

France, October 17, 2004

2003 Results Results Past winners

Chrono des Herbiers crowns French season

French champion Alexandre Binet won the Junior Chrono des Herbiers time trial on a 20.5 km parcours today. Anthony Martin got second, 0'12 behind the winner and 0'24 faster than Damien Gaudin, who placed third.

In the women's time trial, Edwige Pitel (VC La Pomme-Marseille) was 2 seconds faster than Australian Kathy Watt and completed the same course as the Juniors with an average speed of 41.129 km/h. Russian Zoulfia Zabirova finished third.

The Belgian Olivier Kaisen took the victory in the Espoirs category, contested on a 38.4 km parcours which he mastered at 46.018 km/h. French champion Florian Morizot finished second 1'45 behind Kaisen, and Nicolas Rousseau placed third with a 2'12 gap.

Finally, the Elite Men's competition saw Bert Roesems (Relax-Bodysol) on top of the final standings after the 48.1 km time trial. Vladimir Gussev (CSC) finished second, 10 seconds behind the winner. The German Sebastian Lang (Gerolsteiner) got third. World TT Champion Michael Rogers (Quick Step), the race favourite, could only achieve seventh place.

Results

Elite Men - 48.15 km
 
1 Bert Roesems (Bel) Relax Bodysol                 1.01.19 (47.9 km/h)
2 Vladimir Gussev (Rus) Team CSC                      0.10
3 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner                   1.03
4 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r                           1.17
5 Raivis Belhovociks (Lat) Chocolade Jacques          1.55
6 Ben Day (Aus) Relax Bodysol                         2.13
7 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon           2.23
8 Jean Nuttli SWI Volksbank                           2.53
9 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Fdjeux.com                    3.07
10 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre                         3.11
11 Frédéric Finot (Fra) RAGT                              
 
Elite Women - 20.5 km
 
1 Edwige Pitel (Fra) VC La Pomme-Marseille           29.56 (41.13 km/h)
2 Kathy Watt (Aus) Australie                          0.02
3 Zoulfia Zabirova (Rus) Let's Go Finland             0.34
4 Natacha Maes (Bel) Belgian National Team            0.49
5 Margaret Hemsley (Aus) Australian National Team     1.05
7 Marina Jaunâtre (Fra) VS Valletais                      
 
U23 Men - 38.1 km
 
1 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Wielergroep Beveren 2000      50.04 (46.02 km/h)
2 Florian Morizot (Fra) ECC Chalindrey                1.45
3 Nicolas Rousseau (Fra) CAC 41                       2.12
4 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Vendée U                       2.29
5 Mickaël Chaussard (Fra) UC Châteauroux              2.32
 
Junior Men - 20.5 km
 
1 Alexandre Binet (Fra) VC St-Hilaire-du-Harcouët    28.06 (43.24 km/h)
2 Anthony Martin (Fra) La Roche-Vendée Cyclisme       0.12
3 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Beaupréau VS                    0.24
4 Olivier Migné (Fra) La Roche-Vendée Cyclisme        0.33
5 Pierre Quilleré (Fra) ALL Chapelle-St-Ursin             

Courtesy of velomania.net

Past winners

Men

2003

1 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner     
2 Bert Roesems (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop
3 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner     

2002 

1 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner
2 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs
3 Bert Roesems (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop

2001

1 Jean Nuttli (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems
2 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Mapei-Quick Step
3 Sergey Gontchar (Ukr) Liquigas-Pata

2000

1 Jean Nuttli (Swi) Phonak
2 Sergey Gontchar (Ukr) Liquigas
3 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Mapei-Quick Step

1999

1 Sergey Gontchar (Ukr)
2 Gilles Maignan (Fra)
3 Christophe Moreau (Fra)

1998

1 Sergey Gontchar (Ukr)
2 Gilles Maignan (Fra)
3 Francisque Teyssier (Fra)

1997

1 Sergey Gontchar (Ukr)
2 Tony Rominger (Swi)
3 Francoise Teyssier (Fra)

1996

1 Chris Boardman (GB)
2 Laurent Brochard (Fra)
3 Neil Stephens (Aus)
 
1995 Pascal Lance (Fra)
1994 Pascal Lance (Fra)
1993 Chris Boardman (GBr)
1992 Arturas Kasputis (Ltu)
1991 Jan Karlsson (Swe)
1990 Jan Karlsson (Swe)
1989 Marco Jeletich (Ned)

Women

2002 Zoulfia Zabirova (Rus) Usci Chirio 
2001 Edwige Pitel (Fra) AVC Aix
2000 Jeannie Longo (Fra)
1999 Zoulfia Zabirova (Rus)
1998 Zoulfia Zabirova (Rus)

Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com