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63rd Vuelta Ciclista a la Comunidad Valenciana - 2.1
Spain, February 22-26, 2005
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Stage 3 - February 24: Sagunto - Alzira, 151.5 km
Kaiku gets its first
New Spanish Continental Pro team Kaiku recorded its first victory today in the third stage of the Vuelta a Valenciana. At the end of a 151 km stage, Andoni Aranaga outsprinted David Blanco (Comunidad Valenciana) after the pair finished 3'45 ahead of the disinterested peloton. Alessandro Petacchi (Fassa Bortolo) won the bunch kick for third, retaining his lead in the general classification.
The stage started at 12:17 in Sagunto in 4 degree temperatures, with Moises Duenas (Relax) the only non starter. After 2 km, David Blanco attacked and immediately got a gap. He was chased down by Aranaga at km 10, and by km 15 the pair already had 1'09 lead. Neither was a threat for the general classification, so Petacchi's Fassa Bortolo team was content to let them ride ahead for the whole stage.
"It's not right to monopolise all the races," said Petacchi afterwards. "My teammates pull hard all year and if the weight of the race is only on their shoulders, I prefer them to rest a little. When we approached the finale, I sprinted because I have the leader's jersey and it seemed the right thing to do for the team to retain it. My condition is excellent and my aim is to protect the lead for as long as possible."
The gap great to a maximum of 15'26 by kilometre 88, at which point Petacchi himself was at the front of the peloton. But Fassa finally turned the screws to prevent either rider from taking the GC lead, as they had started the day 11'36 behind. The gap came down steadily, and at the second intermediate sprint at Albalat de la Ribera (km 140), it was 7'17. The leaders could afford to slow and try to outwit each other in the closing kilometres, but in the end it was Aranaga who had the fastest legs, with Blanco taking second. The peloton, led once again by Petacchi, rolled in 3'45 later.
Results
1 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Kaiku 3.47.43 2 David Blanco (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3.45 4 Luciano A. Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 5 Fco.José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 7 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 8 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 9 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 10 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 11 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 12 Javier Benitez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 13 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 14 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 15 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Kaiku 16 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears 17 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 18 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 19 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 20 Aitor Perez (Spa) Spiuk 21 M.A. Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 22 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 23 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 24 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 25 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 26 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 27 Luis Perez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 28 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 29 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 30 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 31 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 32 Israel Nunez (Spa) Kaiku 33 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 34 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 35 Jesus Ramirez (Spa) Spiuk 36 David Etxebarria (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 37 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 38 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Illes Balears 39 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 40 Victor M. Gomes (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 41 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears 42 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 43 David Muñoz (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 44 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 45 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Kaiku 46 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 47 Javier Cherro (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 48 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 49 Joan Horrach (Spa) Illes Balears 50 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 51 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 52 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 53 José Ruiz (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 54 Juan Gomis (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 55 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 56 Carlos Zarate (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 57 Angel Edo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 58 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 59 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 60 Alberto Benitez (Spa) Spiuk 61 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 62 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 63 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 64 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 65 Aketza Peña (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 66 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 67 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 68 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 69 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 70 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 71 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 72 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 73 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 74 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 75 Pedro Romero (Spa) Spiuk 76 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis 77 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears 78 Angel L. Casero (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 79 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 80 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 81 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 82 José Enriqu Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 83 Julian Dean (NZl) Credit Agricole 84 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 85 David Latasa (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 86 Raul Garcia (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 87 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 88 Javier Perez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 89 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 90 Jaume Rovira (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 91 Iker Leonet (Spa) Illes Balears 92 Angel Rodriguez (Spa) Spiuk 93 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Illes Balears 94 Adrian Palomares (Spa) Kaiku 95 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis 96 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Spiuk 97 Efrain Gutierrez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 98 David Fernandez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 99 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 100 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis 101 Sergio Dominguez (Spa) Spiuk 102 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 103 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 104 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 105 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile Team 106 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 107 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 108 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 109 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 110 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 111 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis 112 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 113 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4.19 114 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 115 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 4.23 116 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 4.52 117 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Kaiku 5.11 118 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Kaiku 3.50 Points 1 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Kaiku 25 pts 2 David Blanco (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 20 3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 16 4 Luciano A. Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 14 5 Fco.José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 6 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 10 7 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 9 8 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 8 9 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 7 10 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 6 11 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 5 12 Javier Benitez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 4 13 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 3 14 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 2 15 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Kaiku 1 Metas Volantes Real De Montroi, km 97 1 David Blanco (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3 pts 2 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Kaiku 2 3 David Muñoz (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 1 Albalat, km 140 1 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Kaiku 3 pts 2 David Blanco (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 2 3 M.A. Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Teams 1 Kaiku 11.30.44 2 Comunitat Valenciana 0.05 3 Liquigas-Bianchi 3.40 4 Liberty Seguros-Wurth 5 Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.45 6 Fassa Bortolo 7 Rabobank 8 Relax-Fuenlabrada 3.50 9 Illes Balears 10 Andalucia-Paul Versan 11 Spiuk 12 Phonak Hearing Systems 13 T-Mobile Team 14 Credit Agricole 3.55 15 Euskaltel-Euskadi 16 Cofidis General classifications after stage three 1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 12.05.27 2 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.13 3 M.A. Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.20 4 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 0.25 5 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears 6 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 7 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 8 Aitor Perez (Spa) Spiuk 9 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 10 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 11 Fco.José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Kaiku 13 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 14 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 15 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 16 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 17 Javier Cherro (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 0.26 18 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears 0.27 19 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 0.28 20 David Muñoz (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 0.29 21 José Enriqu Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 22 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.30 23 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 24 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 26 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 27 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 28 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 29 David Etxebarria (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 30 Luis Perez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 31 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 32 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 33 José Ruiz (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 34 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 35 Carlos Zarate (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 36 Juan Gomis (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 37 Alberto Benitez (Spa) Spiuk 38 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 39 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 40 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 41 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 42 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 43 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 44 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 45 Jaume Rovira (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 46 Sergio Dominguez (Spa) Spiuk 47 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.47 48 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 0.57 49 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.11 50 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 3.20 51 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 5.03 52 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 53 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 54 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 55 Joan Horrach (Spa) Illes Balears 56 Efrain Gutierrez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 57 Angel L. Casero (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 58 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Kaiku 7.40 59 David Blanco (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 7.44 60 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 9.03 61 Luciano A. Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 11.36 62 Javier Benitez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 11.40 63 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 64 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 65 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 11.42 66 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis 11.43 67 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 11.44 68 Israel Nunez (Spa) Kaiku 11.45 69 Victor M. Gomes (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 70 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 71 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 72 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis 73 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 74 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 75 Angel Edo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 76 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 77 Aketza Peña (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 78 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 79 Javier Perez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 80 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Kaiku 81 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 82 David Fernandez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 83 Raul Garcia (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 84 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Illes Balears 85 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 86 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 87 David Latasa (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 88 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis 89 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 90 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 91 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 92 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile Team 93 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 12.14 94 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 95 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 12.18 96 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis 12.58 97 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Kaiku 13.06 98 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 13.28 99 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 13.46 100 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 101 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears 16.30 102 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 16.34 103 Pedro Romero (Spa) Spiuk 16.37 104 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 17.10 105 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Kaiku 19.37 106 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Illes Balears 107 Jesus Ramirez (Spa) Spiuk 108 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Spiuk 109 Julian Dean (NZl) Credit Agricole 110 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 111 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 112 Adrian Palomares (Spa) Kaiku 113 Iker Leonet (Spa) Illes Balears 114 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 115 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 116 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 21.46 117 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 23.14 118 Angel Rodriguez (Spa) Spiuk 23.49 Points classification 1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 66 pts 2 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 42 3 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Kaiku 30 4 Luciano A. Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 30 5 David Blanco (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 25 6 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 24 7 Fco.José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 22 8 M.A. Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 17 9 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 17 10 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 16 11 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 14 12 David Muñoz (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 14 13 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears 13 14 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 13 15 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 13 16 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Kaiku 12 17 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 12 18 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 12 19 Aitor Perez (Spa) Spiuk 12 20 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Kaiku 12 21 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 22 Javier Cherro (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 12 23 Javier Benitez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 12 24 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 12 25 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 12 Mountains classification 1 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 26 pts 2 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 17 3 Juan Gomis (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 15 4 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 12 5 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 10 6 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7 7 Aitor Perez (Spa) Spiuk 6 8 Adrian Palomares (Spa) Kaiku 6 9 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 5 10 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 4 11 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 3 Combined classification 1 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 pts 2 Aitor Perez (Spa) Spiuk 34 3 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears 57 4 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 62 5 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 81 6 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 98 7 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 110 8 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 141 9 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2 10 M.A. Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 11 11 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 13 Teams classification 1 Comunitat Valenciana 36.14.01 2 Liberty Seguros-Wurth 3.35 3 Rabobank 3.40 4 Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 Phonak Hearing Systems 3.45 6 Relax-Fuenlabrada 7 Spiuk 8 Andalucia-Paul Versan 9 Credit Agricole 3.50 10 Fassa Bortolo 3.56 11 Illes Balears 8.18 12 T-Mobile Team 13 Kaiku 11.10 14 Liquigas-Bianchi 14.50 15 Euskaltel-Euskadi 15.05 16 Cofidis 26.20
