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35th Etoile de Bessèges - 2.1
France, February 2-6, 2005
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Stage 3 - February 4: Branoux - La Grand'Combe, 143.3 km
Voigt gets another for CSC
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While his team-mate Lars Michaelsen was securing overall victory in Qatar, Jens Voigt continued CSC's early-season streak with victory in the third stage of the Etoile de Besseges.
An early attack resulted in a four-man escape by Johan Coenen (MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech), Eddy Seigneur (RAGT Semences), Patrice Halgand (Crédit Agricole) and Stéphane Augé (Cofidis).
Ten kilometers from the finish, Voigt bridged across to the break and ploughed through, taking Johan Coenen with him before shedding the Belgian a few kilometres later to take a fine solo win.
Meanwhile, a chasing group absorbed the remains of the break and Coenen;s team-mate Bobby Traksel won the 20-rider sprint for second place.
CSC directeur sportif Kim Andersen was lavish in his praise for Voigt. "Jens was simply flying today and he crossed the finish line on his own. A brilliant victory for an exceptional rider, and I think, he's got a big season ahead of him. For the next two stages we'll try and save our strength a bit, because we have a really powerful team and a good chance of winning overall at Tour Med next week," said Andersen.
Andersen's colleague Scott Sunderland explained the team's play. "We missed the initial break so we discussed tactics; the riders followed perfectly," said Sunderland. "They got to the front and the whole team put down the foundation of Jens' successful attack. On the last 1st category climb they set a killing tempo which broke up the bunch. Jens was strong as an ox today and he was able to launch a powerful attack; with Fränk Schleck and Bobby Julich controlling the chasing group. Jens took a fine solo victory. The team played it very well; Fränk finished second in the sprint and took a well-deserved 3rd in today's stage placings."
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- Jens Voigt (CSC) is followed by Johan Coenen (MrBookmaker.com)
- Jens Voigt (CSC) wins the third stage of the Etoile de Besseges
Results
1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 3.35.59 2 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 0.51 3 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 4 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 5 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Crédit Agricole 7 Antonio D'Aniello (Ita) Team Miche 8 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 9 Serguey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 10 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 11 Matthé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 12 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 13 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 14 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 15 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 16 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Team Miche 17 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 18 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 19 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 20 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 21 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 22 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 1.53 23 Luca Nardello (Ita) Team LPR 24 Christophe Rinero (Fra) RAGT Semences 25 Koen Barbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 26 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 27 Lilian Jegou (Fra) La Française des Jeux 28 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 29 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prévoyance 30 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 31 Hubert Dupont (Fra) RAGT Semences 32 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) Team Miche 33 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 34 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 35 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis 36 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 37 Yann Pivois (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 38 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Française des Jeux 39 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 40 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Auber 93 41 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 42 John Nilsson (Swe) Auber 93 43 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 44 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 45 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 5.07 46 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 47 Guillaume Auger (Fra) RAGT Semences 48 Kristof Trouve (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 49 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Jartazi-Revor 50 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Team LPR 51 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis 8.17 52 Glen D'Hollander (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 53 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 54 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) La Française des Jeux 55 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 10.48 56 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) RAGT Semences 57 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 11.10 58 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Cofidis 59 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11.25 60 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 61 Alexandre Girout (Fra) Agritubel 62 Florent Brard (Fra) Agritubel 63 Alex Coutts (GBr) Flanders 64 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 15.10 65 Bart Dockx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 66 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 67 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 68 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 69 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 70 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) La Française des Jeux 71 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) La Française des Jeux 72 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) La Française des Jeux 73 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 74 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 75 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 76 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 77 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 78 William Bonnet (Fra) Auber 93 79 Kenneth Mercken (Bel) Flanders 80 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 81 Armando Rupa (Ita) Team Miche 82 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis 83 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 84 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 85 Dimitri Konychev (Rus) Team LPR 86 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 17.10 87 Tony Bracke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 88 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 89 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance 90 Christian Muller (Ger) Team CSC 91 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 92 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 93 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders 94 Alessandro Maserati (Ita) Team LPR 95 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Crédit Agricole 21.10 96 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 97 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 98 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 99 Ivaïlo Gabrovski (Bul) Team Miche 100 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 101 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 102 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 103 David Breard (Fra) Auber 93 104 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Auber 93 105 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 106 Björn Cornelissen (Ned) Flanders 107 Thierry Masschelein (Bel) Flanders 108 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 109 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 110 Steven Thys (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 111 Robby Meul (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 112 Peter Ronsse (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 113 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Jartazi-Revor 114 Daniele Masolino (Ita) Team LPR 115 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team LPR 116 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 21.13 117 Kevin Ista (Bel) RAGT Semences 118 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) RAGT Semences 119 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 21.23 120 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 121 David Le Lay (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 122 Ludovic Auger (Fra) La Française des Jeux 123 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 124 Geert Omloop (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 125 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 126 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Auber 93 127 Marc Staelen (Fra) Agritubel 128 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Agritubel 129 Claude Pauwels (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 130 Mikhail Khalilov (Ukr) Team LPR 131 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team LPR NP Roman Luhovyy (Ukr) RAGT Semences Ab Alexandre Naulleau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom Ab Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim Ab Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel Ab Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel General classification after stage 3 1 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 11.03.44 2 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.08 3 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Auber 93 1.39 4 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 4.18 5 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 5.15 6 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 5.19 7 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 8 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 5.20 9 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 5.22 10 Serguey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 5.23 11 Matthé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 12 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 14 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 15 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 16 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 17 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Crédit Agricole 18 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 19 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 20 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Team Miche 5.40 21 Lilian Jegou (Fra) La Française des Jeux 6.22 22 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prévoyance 6.23 23 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6.24 24 Christophe Rinero (Fra) RAGT Semences 6.25 25 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 26 Hubert Dupont (Fra) RAGT Semences 27 John Nilsson (Swe) Auber 93 28 Koen Barbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 29 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 30 Luca Nardello (Ita) Team LPR 31 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 32 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 33 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 34 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Française des Jeux 35 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 36 Yann Pivois (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 37 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 38 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 39 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 8.50 40 Guillaume Auger (Fra) RAGT Semences 9.39 41 Kristof Trouve (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 42 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) Team Miche 9.52 43 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis 44 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 45 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 12.46 46 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 13.06 47 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Team LPR 48 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Jartazi-Revor 49 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 50 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 14.29 51 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) RAGT Semences 15.19 52 Florent Brard (Fra) Agritubel 15.57 53 Alex Coutts (GBr) Flanders 54 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis 16.16 55 Glen D'Hollander (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 56 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) La Française des Jeux 18.57 57 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 19.09 58 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 19.24 59 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 60 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 19.42 61 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 62 Bart Dockx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 63 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 64 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 65 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) La Française des Jeux 66 Antonio D'Aniello (Ita) Team Miche 20.04 67 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 21.42 68 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 69 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 22.59 70 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 23.09 71 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 72 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 73 Dimitri Konychev (Rus) Team LPR 74 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 75 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 23.27 76 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance 25.09 77 Alessandro Maserati (Ita) Team LPR 78 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 25.12 79 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team LPR 25.55 80 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 27.21 81 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 27.46 82 Armando Rupa (Ita) Team Miche 83 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) La Française des Jeux 28.56 84 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) La Française des Jeux 85 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 29.05 86 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 29.12 87 William Bonnet (Fra) Auber 93 29.17 88 Mikhail Khalilov (Ukr) Team LPR 29.22 89 Claude Pauwels (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 90 Ludovic Auger (Fra) La Française des Jeux 91 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 92 Geert Omloop (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 93 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 29.25 94 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 29.34 95 Tony Bracke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 29.40 96 Christian Muller (Ger) Team CSC 29.46 97 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 98 Alexandre Girout (Fra) Agritubel 31.57 99 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 32.03 100 Marc Staelen (Fra) Agritubel 101 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 33.40 102 Daniele Masolino (Ita) Team LPR 33.46 103 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders 34.23 104 David Breard (Fra) Auber 93 35.17 105 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 106 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team LPR 35.25 107 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Crédit Agricole 35.28 108 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Agritubel 35.30 109 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 35.34 110 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Auber 93 111 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 112 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis 35.42 113 Kenneth Mercken (Bel) Flanders 114 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Jartazi-Revor 36.26 115 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 36.48 116 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Cofidis 38.03 117 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) RAGT Semences 38.26 118 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 38.36 119 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Auber 93 39.09 120 Robby Meul (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 40.02 121 Björn Cornelissen (Ned) Flanders 40.11 122 Ivaïlo Gabrovski (Bul) Team Miche 123 Peter Ronsse (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 124 David Le Lay (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 41.32 125 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 41.42 126 Steven Thys (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 127 Thierry Masschelein (Bel) Flanders 128 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 129 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 43.13 130 Kevin Ista (Bel) RAGT Semences 44.51 131 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 45.01 Points classification 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 56 pts 2 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 42 3 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 33 4 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 25 5 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23 6 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Auber 93 20 7 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Crédit Agricole 20 8 Lilian Jegou (Fra) La Française des Jeux 18 9 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 16 10 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 16 11 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 15 12 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 14 13 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 14 14 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team LPR 14 15 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 13 16 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 12 17 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 12 18 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Crédit Agricole 10 19 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 10 20 Antonio D'Aniello (Ita) Team Miche 9 Mountains classification 1 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Auber 93 18 pts 2 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 16 3 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) RAGT Semences 12 4 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 12 5 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 10 6 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 8 7 Serguey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 6 8 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6 9 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 10 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 6 11 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 4 12 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 4 13 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 4 14 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 4 15 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 4 16 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 4 Under 23 classification 1 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 11.03.52 2 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 6.17 3 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 4 Alex Coutts (GBr) Flanders 15.49 5 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) La Française des Jeux 18.49 6 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 19.34 7 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 8 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 23.19 9 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team LPR 25.47 10 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 27.38 11 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) La Française des Jeux 28.48 12 William Bonnet (Fra) Auber 93 29.09 13 Christian Muller (Ger) Team CSC 29.38 14 Alexandre Girout (Fra) Agritubel 31.49 15 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 31.55 16 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Auber 93 35.26 17 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 36.40 18 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Cofidis 37.55 19 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) RAGT Semences 38.18 20 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 41.34 21 Kevin Ista (Bel) RAGT Semences 44.43 Teams classification 1 La Française des Jeux 33.24.15 2 Team CSC 2.15 3 MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 3.06 4 Crédit Agricole 5 Davitamon-Lotto 6 Cofidis 4.08 7 Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 5.10 8 Bouygues Telecom 9 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 5.41 10 Ag2r Prévoyance 6.12 11 Team Miche 7.52 12 RAGT Semences 9.26 13 Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 9.39 14 Auber 93 14.49 15 Team LPR 26.10 16 Agritubel 40.33 17 Jartazi-Revor 1.04.37 18 Flanders 1.08.22 Results courtesy velomania.net
