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35th Etoile de Bessèges - 2.1
France, February 2-6, 2005
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Stage 5 - February 6: Gagnières - Bessèges, 148.5 km
FDJ team-work delivers Bichot victory
Final stage to Casper
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Thanks to strong support from his team, Freddy Bichot (La Française des Jeux) hung on to his slender eight-second leqad in the final stage of the Etoile de Bessèges to take his first overall victory in a significant professional stage race.
The day's 148.5 km stage from Gagnières - Bessèges was won by Jimmy Casper (Cofidis) who comfortably beat Jaan Kirsipuu (Crédit Agricole) in the bunch sprint.
The day's major action came in a lengthy escape by Bart Dockx (Davitamon), John Nillson (Auber 93), Guillaume Auger (RAGT), Christophe Oriol (AG2R) and Christophe Edaleine (Cofidis). However, once again, Bichot's team-mates organized the chase to close down any threat to their race leader and the peloton reassembled with 15km to go.
It was no procession to a bunch finish from there, though, as Cofidis went on the attack, launching first Nicolas Inaudi, then Nicolas Roche and finally Thierry Marichal off the front. None of the attempts stuck, but Casper was able to take advantage of the resultant disorganization among the sprinters' teams as they approached the finish to eclipse usually faster riders.
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- Freddy Bichot (La Francaises des Jeux) admires the trophy for overall winner of the Etoile de Bessèges
- Jimmy Casper (Cofidis) crosses the line ahead of Jaan Kirsipuu (Credit Agricole)
- Jimmy Casper (Cofidis) celebrates his victory
Results
1 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis 3.27.20 2 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Crédit Agricole 3 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team LPR 4 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 5 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 6 Mikhail Khalilov (Ukr) Team LPR 7 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 8 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 9 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 10 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 11 Alessandro Maserati (Ita) Team LPR 12 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 13 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 14 Glen D'Hollander (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 15 Serguey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 16 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 17 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 18 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) La Française des Jeux 19 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 20 William Bonnet (Fra) Auber 93 21 Ludovic Auger (Fra) La Française des Jeux 22 Robby Meul (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 23 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Jartazi-Revor 24 Matthé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 25 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) La Française des Jeux 26 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 27 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Auber 93 28 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 29 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 30 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 31 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 32 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis 33 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) La Française des Jeux 34 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Team Miche 35 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 36 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 37 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prévoyance 38 Koen Barbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 39 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Auber 93 40 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 41 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 42 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 43 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 44 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 45 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance 46 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 47 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) Team Miche 48 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 49 Claude Pauwels (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 50 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 51 Alex Coutts (GBr) Flanders 52 Christian Muller (Ger) Team CSC 53 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 54 Luca Nardello (Ita) Team LPR 55 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 56 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 57 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Crédit Agricole 58 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 59 Hubert Dupont (Fra) RAGT Semences 60 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 61 Christophe Rinero (Fra) RAGT Semences 62 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 63 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 64 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 65 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 66 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Jartazi-Revor 67 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 68 John Nilsson (Swe) Auber 93 69 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Cofidis 70 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team LPR 71 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) La Française des Jeux 72 David Breard (Fra) Auber 93 73 Yann Pivois (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 74 Florent Brard (Fra) Agritubel 75 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 76 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 77 Ivaïlo Gabrovski (Bul) Team Miche 78 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 79 David Le Lay (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 80 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 81 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 82 Tony Bracke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 83 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 84 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 85 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 86 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 87 Armando Rupa (Ita) Team Miche 88 Guillaume Auger (Fra) RAGT Semences 89 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 90 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 91 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 92 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 93 Matthé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 94 Antonio D'Aniello (Ita) Team Miche 95 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 96 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis 97 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 98 Steven Thys (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 99 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Française des Jeux 100 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 101 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Agritubel 102 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 103 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 104 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 105 Bart Dockx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 106 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 107 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 108 Alexandre Girout (Fra) Agritubel 109 Marc Staelen (Fra) Agritubel 110 Lilian Jegou (Fra) La Française des Jeux 111 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 112 Peter Ronsse (Bel) Jartazi-Revor DNS Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom DNS Geert Omloop (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech DNF Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto DNF Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto DNF Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Team Miche DNF Kevin Ista (Bel) RAGT Semences DNF Eddy Seigneur (Fra) RAGT Semences DNF Kristof Trouve (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech DNF Steven Kleynen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim DNF Björn Cornelissen (Ned) Flanders DNF Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders DNF Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Team LPR DNF Dimitri Konychev (Rus) Team LPR DNF Daniele Masolino (Ita) Team LPR Final general classification 1 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 18.03.19 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 Matthé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 5.19 8 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 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 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 14 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 15 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 16 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Crédit Agricole 17 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Team Miche 5.40 18 John Nilsson (Swe) Auber 93 6.19 19 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prévoyance 6.20 20 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6.24 21 Hubert Dupont (Fra) RAGT Semences 6.25 22 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 23 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 24 Koen Barbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 25 Christophe Rinero (Fra) RAGT Semences 26 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Française des Jeux 27 Luca Nardello (Ita) Team LPR 28 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 29 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 30 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 31 Yann Pivois (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 32 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 33 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 34 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 8.20 35 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 8.50 36 Guillaume Auger (Fra) RAGT Semences 9.37 37 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) Team Miche 9.52 38 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 39 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis 40 Lilian Jegou (Fra) La Française des Jeux 9.55 41 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 12.46 42 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 13.06 43 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 44 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Jartazi-Revor 45 Florent Brard (Fra) Agritubel 15.57 46 Alex Coutts (GBr) Flanders 47 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 16.16 48 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis 49 Glen D'Hollander (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 50 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) La Française des Jeux 18.57 51 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 19.09 52 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 19.24 53 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 54 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) La Française des Jeux 19.41 55 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 19.42 56 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 57 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 58 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 59 Antonio D'Aniello (Ita) Team Miche 20.04 60 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 21.42 61 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 62 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 22.49 63 Bart Dockx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 22.54 64 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 65 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 23.09 66 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 67 Claude Pauwels (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 68 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 69 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 23.27 70 Alessandro Maserati (Ita) Team LPR 25.09 71 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance 72 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 25.12 73 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team LPR 25.55 74 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 27.19 75 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 27.46 76 Armando Rupa (Ita) Team Miche 77 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) La Française des Jeux 28.55 78 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) La Française des Jeux 28.56 79 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 29.05 80 William Bonnet (Fra) Auber 93 29.17 81 Mikhail Khalilov (Ukr) Team LPR 29.22 82 Ludovic Auger (Fra) La Française des Jeux 83 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 84 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 29.34 85 Tony Bracke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 29.40 86 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 29.46 87 Christian Muller (Ger) Team CSC 88 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 32.03 89 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 33.34 90 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 35.17 91 David Breard (Fra) Auber 93 92 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Crédit Agricole 35.18 93 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team LPR 35.21 94 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis 35.32 95 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 35.34 96 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 97 Marc Staelen (Fra) Agritubel 35.36 98 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Jartazi-Revor 36.26 99 Alexandre Girout (Fra) Agritubel 36.27 100 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 36.48 101 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Agritubel 37.30 102 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Cofidis 38.03 103 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Auber 93 39.09 104 Robby Meul (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 40.02 105 Ivaïlo Gabrovski (Bul) Team Miche 40.11 106 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 41.08 107 David Le Lay (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 41.32 108 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 41.42 109 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 43.13 110 Steven Thys (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 43.17 111 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 45.15 112 Peter Ronsse (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 45.53 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 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 12 6 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 8 7 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 8 8 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 7 9 Matthé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 6 10 Bart Dockx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 6 11 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 12 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 6 13 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 4 14 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 4 15 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 4 16 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 4 17 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 4 18 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 4 19 John Nilsson (Swe) Auber 93 3 20 Guillaume Auger (Fra) RAGT Semences 2 21 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 2 22 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 2 23 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 24 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 1 Points classification 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 76 pts 2 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Crédit Agricole 56 3 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 50 4 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 49 5 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 40 6 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team LPR 40 7 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis 37 8 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 33 9 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 29 10 Lilian Jegou (Fra) La Française des Jeux 23 11 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23 12 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 20 13 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Auber 93 20 14 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 18 15 John Nilsson (Swe) Auber 93 17 16 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 17 17 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 16 18 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 16 19 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 16 20 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 15 21 Matthé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 13 22 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Crédit Agricole 10 23 Mikhail Khalilov (Ukr) Team LPR 10 24 Antonio D'Aniello (Ita) Team Miche 9 25 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 9 26 Serguey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 8 27 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 7 28 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 7 29 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 30 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 6 31 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 6 32 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 6 33 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 5 34 Alessandro Maserati (Ita) Team LPR 5 35 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 5 36 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 4 37 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prévoyance 4 38 Guillaume Auger (Fra) RAGT Semences 4 39 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team LPR 4 40 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 4 41 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 4 42 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 4 43 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 3 44 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3 45 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 2 46 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2 47 Glen D'Hollander (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2 48 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) La Française des Jeux 2 49 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) La Française des Jeux 2 50 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1 Under-23 classification 1 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 18.03.27 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 36.19 16 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 36.40 17 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Cofidis 37.55 18 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 41.34 Teams classification 1 La Française des Jeux 54.23.00 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 Results courtesy velomania.net
