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35th Etoile de Bessèges - 2.1
France, February 2-6, 2005
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Stage 4 - February 5: Casino Les Fumades - Casino Les Fumades, 152.3 km
Second stage for Steels
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Belgian champion Tom Steels (Davitamon-Lotto) has won his second stage of this year's Etoile de Bessèges, beating Saulius Ruskys (Agritubel) and Jaan Kirsipuu (Crédit Agricole) to the line in a bunch sprint finale to the 152km circuit stage in Allègre-les-Fumades. Freddy Bichot (La Française des Jeux) retained the leader jersey after strong support from his team.
Once again the day started with a flurry of attacks, but Bichot's team-mates shut them down and the only escape that looked remotely serious formed at the halfway mark. Preben Van Hecke (Davitamon-Lotto), Matthé Pronk (MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech), Cédric Vasseur (Cofidis), Mikel Astarloza (Ag2r Prévoyance) and Jussi Veikkanen (La Française des Jeux) enjoyed a spell in the limelight as they managed to build a gap on the peloton, but as the finish approached the sprinters' teams began to set up for a finale and the escape was caught with 11km to go.
Davitamon-Lotto and Crédit Agricole moved to the front in the last few kilometres to get their sprinters Tom Steels and Jaan Kirsipuu in position. Kirsipuu went a shade too early and his hopes of grabbing his first win of the year were dashed as Steels and Saulius Ruskys overhauled him on the line.
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- Tom Steels (Davitamon-Lotto) wins the fourth stage ahead of Saulius Ruskys (Agritubel) and Jaan Kirsipuu (Crédit Agricole)
- Tom Steels smiles on the podium with the stage trophy
- Tom Steels waves to the crowd after his stage win
Results
1 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3.35.59 2 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 3 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Crédit Agricole 4 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 5 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis 6 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team LPR 7 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 8 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 9 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 10 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 11 Lilian Jegou (Fra) La Française des Jeux 12 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 13 John Nilsson (Swe) Auber 93 14 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 15 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 16 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 17 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 18 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Française des Jeux 19 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis 20 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 21 Björn Cornelissen (Ned) Flanders 22 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23 Robby Meul (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 24 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prévoyance 25 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 26 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 27 William Bonnet (Fra) Auber 93 28 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Auber 93 29 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 30 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 31 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 32 Guillaume Auger (Fra) RAGT Semences 33 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) La Française des Jeux 34 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) Team Miche 35 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 36 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 37 Serguey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 38 Ivaïlo Gabrovski (Bul) Team Miche 39 Kevin Ista (Bel) RAGT Semences 40 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Jartazi-Revor 41 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 42 Hubert Dupont (Fra) RAGT Semences 43 Kristof Trouve (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 44 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 45 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 46 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 47 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 48 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 49 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Agritubel 50 Claude Pauwels (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 51 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 52 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 53 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Auber 93 54 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 55 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 56 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 57 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 58 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 59 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Team Miche 60 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 61 Matthé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 62 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance 63 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 64 Ludovic Auger (Fra) La Française des Jeux 65 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 66 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 67 David Breard (Fra) Auber 93 68 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders 69 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) La Française des Jeux 70 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 71 Alessandro Maserati (Ita) Team LPR 72 Glen D'Hollander (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 73 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 74 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis 75 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 76 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 77 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 78 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 79 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 80 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 81 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 82 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 83 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 84 Christophe Rinero (Fra) RAGT Semences 85 Koen Barbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 86 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 87 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 88 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 89 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Crédit Agricole 90 Christian Muller (Ger) Team CSC 91 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Team LPR 92 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team LPR 93 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 94 Mikhail Khalilov (Ukr) Team LPR 95 Luca Nardello (Ita) Team LPR 96 Bart Dockx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 97 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 98 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) La Française des Jeux 99 Marc Staelen (Fra) Agritubel 100 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) La Française des Jeux 101 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 102 Yann Pivois (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 103 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 104 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Cofidis 105 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) RAGT Semences 106 David Le Lay (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 107 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 108 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 109 Alex Coutts (GBr) Flanders 110 Florent Brard (Fra) Agritubel 111 Antonio D'Aniello (Ita) Team Miche 112 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 113 Armando Rupa (Ita) Team Miche 114 Tony Bracke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 115 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Jartazi-Revor 116 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 117 Geert Omloop (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 118 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 119 Steven Thys (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 120 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 121 Dimitri Konychev (Rus) Team LPR 122 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 123 Alexandre Girout (Fra) Agritubel 1.04 124 Peter Ronsse (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 125 Daniele Masolino (Ita) Team LPR 1.34 126 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1.55 DNF Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h DNF Olivier Kaisen (Bel) RAGT Semences DNF Tristan Valentin (Fra) Auber 93 DNF Thierry Masschelein (Bel) Flanders DNF Kenneth Mercken (Bel) Flanders General classification after stage 4 1 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 14.35.59 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 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 5.17 7 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 5.19 8 Matthé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 9 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 10 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 5.20 11 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 5.22 12 Serguey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 5.23 13 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 14 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 15 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 16 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 17 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 19 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Crédit Agricole 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 John Nilsson (Swe) Auber 93 6.25 25 Hubert Dupont (Fra) RAGT Semences 26 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 27 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Française des Jeux 28 Christophe Rinero (Fra) RAGT Semences 29 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 30 Koen Barbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 31 Luca Nardello (Ita) Team LPR 32 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 33 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 34 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 35 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 36 Yann Pivois (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 37 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 38 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 8.20 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 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 49 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Jartazi-Revor 50 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) RAGT Semences 15.19 51 Florent Brard (Fra) Agritubel 15.57 52 Alex Coutts (GBr) Flanders 53 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 16.16 54 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis 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 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) La Française des Jeux 19.41 61 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 19.42 62 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 63 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 64 Bart Dockx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 65 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 66 Antonio D'Aniello (Ita) Team Miche 20.04 67 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 21.42 68 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 69 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 22.49 70 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 23.09 71 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 72 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 73 Claude Pauwels (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 74 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 75 Dimitri Konychev (Rus) Team LPR 76 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 23.27 77 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance 25.09 78 Alessandro Maserati (Ita) Team LPR 79 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 25.12 80 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team LPR 25.55 81 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 27.21 82 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 27.46 83 Armando Rupa (Ita) Team Miche 84 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) La Française des Jeux 28.55 85 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) La Française des Jeux 28.56 86 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 29.05 87 William Bonnet (Fra) Auber 93 29.17 88 Ludovic Auger (Fra) La Française des Jeux 29.22 89 Mikhail Khalilov (Ukr) Team LPR 90 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 91 Geert Omloop (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 92 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 29.25 93 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 29.34 94 Tony Bracke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 29.40 95 Christian Muller (Ger) Team CSC 29.46 96 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 97 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 32.03 98 Marc Staelen (Fra) Agritubel 99 Alexandre Girout (Fra) Agritubel 33.01 100 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 33.34 101 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders 34.23 102 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 35.17 103 David Breard (Fra) Auber 93 104 Daniele Masolino (Ita) Team LPR 35.20 105 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Crédit Agricole 35.24 106 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team LPR 35.25 107 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Agritubel 35.30 108 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 35.34 109 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 110 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis 35.42 111 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Jartazi-Revor 36.26 112 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 36.48 113 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Cofidis 38.03 114 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 38.36 115 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Auber 93 39.09 116 Robby Meul (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 40.02 117 Björn Cornelissen (Ned) Flanders 40.11 118 Ivaïlo Gabrovski (Bul) Team Miche 119 Peter Ronsse (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 41.15 120 David Le Lay (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 41.32 121 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 41.42 122 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 123 Steven Thys (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 124 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 43.13 125 Kevin Ista (Bel) RAGT Semences 44.51 126 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 45.01 Points classification 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 64 pts 2 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 50 3 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 49 4 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Crédit Agricole 36 5 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 33 6 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 26 7 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team LPR 24 8 Lilian Jegou (Fra) La Française des Jeux 23 9 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23 10 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 23 11 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 20 12 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Auber 93 20 13 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 16 14 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 16 15 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 16 16 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 15 17 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 14 18 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 14 19 Matthé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 13 20 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 13 Mountains classification 1 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 26 pts 2 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Auber 93 18 3 Serguey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 16 4 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 12 5 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) RAGT Semences 12 6 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 12 7 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 8 8 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 8 9 Matthé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 6 10 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 11 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 6 12 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 4 13 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 4 14 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 4 15 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 4 16 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 4 17 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 4 18 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 4 19 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 2 Under 23 classification 1 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 14.36.07 2 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 6.17 3 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 8.12 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 28.47 12 William Bonnet (Fra) Auber 93 29.09 13 Christian Muller (Ger) Team CSC 29.38 14 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 31.55 15 Alexandre Girout (Fra) Agritubel 32.53 16 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 36.40 17 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Cofidis 37.55 18 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 41.34 19 Kevin Ista (Bel) RAGT Semences 44.43 Teams classification 1 La Française des Jeux 44.01.00 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 58.37 18 Flanders 1.08.22 Results courtesy velomania.net
