39th Internationale Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt - 2.3

Germany, September 15-19, 2004

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Stage 3 - September 17: Koblenz - Bad Marienberg, 204,8 km

Don't pack your bags yet!
Photo ©: Mani Wollner
Photography

Images by Mani Wollner/www.foto-grafik-satz.de
Leon Van Bon (Lotto-Domo) in a playful mood.
Aussie Benjamin Johnson just signed a contract with Team Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit
Steffen Wesemann (T-mobile Team) likes the joke he just heard.
The Choccy Jacques Crew Enjoying the fine weather in Koblenz.
Overnight leader Luke Roberts (Team Comnet-Senges) prepares to defend his yellow jersey.
Danilo Hondo (Team Gerolsteiner) wears the sprinter's jersey, with not a hair out of place.
The lead group at the second GPM in Landkern.
Steffen Wesemann (T-mobile Team) drives the lead group.
The peloton, on the other hand, was definitely not in a hurry.
Rolf Aldag (T-mobile Team) does his turn at the front at the third GPM in Willingen.
Rolf Aldag (T-mobile Team) comes into the finishing circuits alone...
... and finishes alone for a great stage win.
Steffen Wesemann (T-mobile Team) takes sixth, just ahead of Jurgen Van De Walle (Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf).
A lazy peloton comes in, seen here with one lap to go.
Mauricio Ardila (Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf) tried to attack the yellow jersey on the last lap...
... but Comet-Senges and Lamonta controlled the race perfectly, with Roberts finishing third in the bunch sprint.
Exhausted domestiques cross the finish line.
Stage winner Rolf Aldag (T-mobile Team).
Stefan Schumacher (Team Lamonta) took the mountains jersey.
Danilo Hondo (Team Gerolsteiner) defended his sprint jersey.
Don't pack your bags yet! Luke Roberts (Team Comnet-Senges) still in the leader's jersey, but with two stages to go.
Results

1 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile Team                             5.05.16       
2 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner                               1.45
3 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Lamonta                                 
4 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf                 
5 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank                                         
6 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team                          2.25
7 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf           
8 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                            2.28
9 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                           2.58
10 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta                             8.59
11 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Lamonta                               
12 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges                               
13 Leonardo Duque (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf               
14 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                     
15 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoop CCC - Polsat                             
16 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank                                         
17 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Domo                                  
18 Mauricio Ardila (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf              
19 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank                                     
20 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                                   
21 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                
22 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Lotto-Domo                                     
23 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                
24 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) T-Mobile Team                               
25 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) German National Team                 9.05
26 Jörn Reuss (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                          
27 Quentino Rodriques (Por) Hoop CCC - Polsat                          
28 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                  
29 Christophe Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Lamonta                       
30 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank                                          
31 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Hoop CCC - Polsat                              
32 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                    
33 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                    
34 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                   
35 Karl Platt (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann                    
36 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank                                        
37 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Rabobank                                      
38 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat                            
39 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges                                
40 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf              
41 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat                           
42 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                               
43 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                   
44 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                     
45 Karsten Volkmann (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann       9.15
46 Patrick Köhler (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann                
47 Eelke Van Der Wal (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                      9.17
48 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Lotto-Domo                                       
49 Christian Leben (Ger) German National Team                   9.26
50 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat                               
51 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                             
52 Henning Jaecks (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann                
53 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann    9.29
54 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                 9.34
55 Mariusz Kowal (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat                               
56 Falk Dworatzek (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                 
57 Wolfram Wiese (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                              
58 Frank Dressler (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                             
59 Marco Bos (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                              9.35
60 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) German National Team                      
61 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank                                         
62 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team                         9.37
63 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Lotto-Domo                              9.52
64 Jason Philips (Aus) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann          9.55
65 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                         
66 Maxim Rudenko (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf                
67 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner                            10.37
68 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Team Lamonta                                  
69 Alexander Peter (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann               
70 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                  
71 Jonas Owczarek (Ger) Team Lamonta                                   
72 René Obst (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                      
73 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                   
74 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                      
75 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                     
76 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                              
77 Carlo Westphal (Ger) German National Team                           
78 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner                                       
79 Peter Magyarosi (Ger) Team Lamonta                                  
80 Frank Van Dulmen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                              
81 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto-Domo                                         
82 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                            
83 André Greipel (Ger) German National Team                            
84 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) German National Team                      
85 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf       11.19
86 Hans-Jürge Juretzek (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                14.42
87 Robert Bartko (Ger) Rabobank                                        
88 Thorsten Rund (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                       
89 Artur Gajek (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                         
90 Felix Odebrecht (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                     
91 Thorsten Struch (Ger) German National Team                          
92 Karsten Vogel (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                              
93 Alexei Markov (Rus) Hoop CCC - Polsat                               
94 Jochen Uhrig (Ger) German National Team                             
95 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                               
96 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf              
 
Points
 
1 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                    11 pts
2 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                     10
3 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                                  3
4 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf          3
5 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                 3
6 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank                                        2
7 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf                1
 
Mountains
 
1st climb (cat.  2) - km 40,1                                          
 
1 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Lamonta                                5 pts
2 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf          3
3 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                     2
4 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta                                    1
 
 
2nd climb (cat.  2) - km 60,6                                          
 
1 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Lamonta                                5 pts
2 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf                3
3 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf          2
4 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                 1
 
 
3rd climb (cat.  3) - km 106,1                                         
 
1 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Lamonta                                3 pts
2 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                      2
3 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf                1
 
 
4th climb (cat.  3) - km 188,6                                         
 
1 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Lamonta                                3 pts
2 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                      2
3 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf                1
 
Sprints
 
1st intermediate sprint - km 51,4 
 
1 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                     5 pts
2 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                 3
3 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf          2
4 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                                  1
 
 
2nd intermediate sprint - km 122,3 
 
1 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                      5 pts
2 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                     3
3 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                                  2
4 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf          1
 
 
3rd intermediate sprint - km 193,8 
 
1 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                      5 pts
2 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                     3
3 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank                                        2
4 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf                1
 
General classification after stage three
 
1 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges                        13.54.44 
2 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Lamonta                            0.02
3 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta                                 0.08
4 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank                                      0.09
5 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                                0.13
6 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank                                  0.14
7 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Domo                                   
8 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                 
9 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                      
10 Mauricio Ardila (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf              
11 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges                            0.57
12 Jörn Reuss (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                      1.01
13 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) German National Team                  1.33
14 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank                                   11.54
15 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                12.49
16 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                 15.52
17 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Lamonta                           17.49
18 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf           17.53
19 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf     18.32
20 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team                           18.33
21 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                             19.09
22 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                            19.38
23 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) T-Mobile Team                             20.33
24 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank                                     21.46
25 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Lotto-Domo                                22.35
26 Frank Van Dulmen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                         25.00
27 Leonardo Duque (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf          25.07
28 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Lotto-Domo                                     
29 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                
30 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                25.13
31 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                   
32 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat                            
33 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) T-Mobile Team                          25.41
34 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoop CCC - Polsat                             
35 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team                               25.47
36 Christophe Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Lamonta                       
37 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Hoop CCC - Polsat                              
38 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf              
39 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                   
40 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat                           
41 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Rabobank                                      
42 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) German National Team                        
43 Karl Platt (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann                    
44 Quentino Rodriques (Por) Hoop CCC - Polsat                          
45 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                    
46 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank                                        
47 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                               
48 Patrick Köhler (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann           25.57
49 Karsten Volkmann (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann              
50 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Lotto-Domo                                  25.59
51 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                        26.08
52 Henning Jaecks (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann                
53 Christian Leben (Ger) German National Team                          
54 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat                               
55 Wolfram Wiese (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                         26.16
56 Frank Dressler (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                             
57 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                        
58 Marco Bos (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                                26.17
59 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank                                         
60 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team                           26.19
61 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                    26.37
62 Maxim Rudenko (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf                
63 Jason Philips (Aus) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann                 
64 Jonas Owczarek (Ger) Team Lamonta                              27.19
65 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                            
66 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) German National Team                      
67 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                      
68 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                  
69 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                              
70 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto-Domo                                         
71 Peter Magyarosi (Ger) Team Lamonta                                  
72 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                28.10
73 Eelke Van Der Wal (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                        28.31
74 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann      28.43
75 Falk Dworatzek (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                            28.48
76 Mariusz Kowal (Pol) Hoop CCC - Polsat                               
77 André Greipel (Ger) German National Team                       29.51
78 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Team Lamonta                                  
79 René Obst (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                      
80 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner                                    
81 Alexander Peter (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann          31.08
82 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner                                       
83 Carlo Westphal (Ger) German National Team                      31.12
84 Artur Gajek (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                    31.24
85 Jochen Uhrig (Ger) German National Team                             
86 Alexei Markov (Rus) Hoop CCC - Polsat                               
87 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf          31.50
88 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner                              33.33
89 Robert Bartko (Ger) Rabobank                                   33.56
90 Thorsten Struch (Ger) German National Team                          
91 Felix Odebrecht (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                     
92 Thorsten Rund (Ger) Winfix Arnolds Sicherheit                  35.13
93 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                               
94 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf         35.17
95 Hans-Jürge Juretzek (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                        
96 Karsten Vogel (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                         37.38
 
Points classification
 
1 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                    26 pts
2 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Lamonta                              11
3 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                     10
4 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta                                    9
5 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges                               7
6 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank                                        7
7 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank                                          7
8 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Lotto-Domo                                     4
9 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank                                         3
10 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf         3
11 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                                 3
12 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                3
13 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                                  2
14 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                 2
15 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank                                    1
16 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf               1
 
Mountains classification
 
1 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Lamonta                               16 pts
2 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank                                         15
3 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                     9
4 Mauricio Ardila (Col) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf              7
5 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                  7
6 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Domo                                  6
7 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank                                        6
8 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf                5
9 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf          5
10 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta                                   4
11 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                     4
12 Frank Van Dulmen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij                             4
13 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                    2
14 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank                                        1
15 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                1