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53rd International UNIQA Classic - 2.1
Austria, May 2-5, 2005
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Stage 1 - May 3: St. Pölten - Traismauer, 185km
First Brazilian victory by Fischer
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Naturino-Sapore Di Mare rider Murillo Fischer has won the first stage if the Uniqa-Classic from St. Pölten to Traismauer in a bunch sprint, making it the first Brazilian victory in the Austrian stage race ever. Werner Riebenbauer from the local Team Apo Sport Wiesbauer Linz got second, and Liquigas-Bianchi's Enrico Gasparotto placed third. In GC, Ondreij Sosenka finished in the bunch to keep his lead by three seconds over Fischer.
How it unfolded
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Early in the stage, Florian Stadler (Team Ed' Systems ZVVZ) and Michael Pichler (Resch & Frisch) jumped and succeeded to break away, leading by 30 seconds after 15 km. Ondreij Sosenka's team, Acqua & Sapone, decided to let them go, and as the pair passed the first GPM of the stage, the peloton was already eight minutes behind. Just before the top of the climb however, Stadler had dropped his break partner and continued on by himself - only to get caught by two chasers, Hans Peter Obwaller (Sava) and Przemyslav Niemec (Miche) with 70 km to go. These two then continued up front, as Stadler had no more strength left and was swallowed by the main bunch of about 40 riders soon after.
Obwaller and Niemec held their pace but couldn't put a significant distance between them and the chasing bunch. With 50 km to go, their lead was only 1.30, as the Italian teams Liquigas-Bianchi and Aqua & Sapone reacted. A few more attacks just before the stage finish in Traismauer by Uwe Hardter (Lamonta) and Martin Fischerlehner (Resch & Frisch) didn't make a difference: the sprinters got into position, the field driving hard. Finally, a fotofinish had to decide upon the winner, as Austrian Werner Riebenbauer was beaten only by a hair, with stage victory being attributed to Murillo.
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- Acqua e Sapone set the tempo for Sosenka
- Hans-Peter Obwaller (Sava) leads Przemyslaw Niemec (Miche) during their breakaway
- The peloton rides past Melk
- Sosenka well placed in the peloton
- Ondrej Sosenka (Acqua e Sapone) rides in the leader's jersey
- Ondrej Sosenka (Acqua e Sapone) is a big lad
- The sprint was taken out by Brazilian Murilo Fischer (5th from L)
- Murilo Fischer (Naturino) gets a big podium kiss
- Werner Riebenbauer (Team Apo Sport Linz) scored some podium time for finishing second
- Ondrej Sosenka (Acqua e Sapone) is still the leader
Results
1 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 4.46.20 2 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Apo Sport Linz 3 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 4 Artur Krzeszowiec (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 5 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 6 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 7 Borut Bozic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 8 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank 9 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Team Lamonta 10 Matej Stare (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 11 Enrico Griggoli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 12 Rene Weissinger (Ger) Volksbank Leingruber Ideal 13 Maurizio Carta (Ita) Miche 14 Alessandro Bertuola (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 15 Petr Herman (Cze) Team Apo Sport Linz 16 Mitja Mahoric (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 17 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Team Lamonta 18 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 19 Aleksand Kuschynski (Blr) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 20 Massimilian Gentili (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 21 Paul Kasis (Aut) Sky Plastic-Kruschitz 22 Uros Silar (Slo) Sava 23 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 24 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 10.08 25 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 0.00 26 Vasili Anastopoulos (Gre) Volksbank Leingruber Ideal 27 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 28 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 29 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 30 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit 31 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 32 Rok Jerse (Slo) Sava 33 Patrick Riedesser (Aut) Team Apo Sport Linz 34 Harald Morscher (Aut) Volksbank Leingruber Ideal 35 Hrovje Miholjevic (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 36 Klaus Steinkeller (Aut) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 37 Mickael Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 38 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 39 Paul Crake (Aus) Corratec-Graz-Cyl 40 Jindrich Vana (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 41 Gilles Conquet (Fra) Agritubel 42 Massimo Amichetti (Ita) Miche 43 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 44 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 45 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 46 Timo Scholz (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit 47 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 48 Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 49 Adam Hansen (Aus) Elk Haus-Simplon 50 Mariano De Fino (Uru) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 51 Thomas Liese (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit 52 Ondreij Sosenka (Cze) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 53 Gregor Gazvoda (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 54 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Team Lamonta 55 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 56 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 57 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 58 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 59 Robert Nagy (Svk) Sky Plastic-Kruschitz 60 Maurizio Vandelli (Ita) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 61 Marti Fischerlehner (Aut) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 62 Boris Premuzic (Slo) Sava 63 Domenico Passuello (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 64 Walter Bonca (Slo) Sava 65 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Volksbank Leingruber Ideal 66 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 67 Christoph Koch (Ger) Team Lamonta 68 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 69 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Miche 70 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas-Bianchi 71 Kamil Vrana (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 72 Florian Stalder (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 73 Jan Barta (Cze) Elk Haus-Simplon 74 Leonardo Moser (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 75 Jure Golcer (Slo) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 76 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 77 Martin Mares (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 78 Fraser Macmaster (NZl) Volksbank Leingruber Ideal 79 Christian Pömer (Aut) Team Apo Sport Linz 80 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 81 Hans-Peter Obwaller (Aut) Sava 82 Dainius Kairelis (Ltu) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 83 Marco Righetto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 84 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi 85 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 0.12 86 Alexander Gut (Ger) Team Lamonta 10.08 87 Siegfried Bauer (Aut) Corratec-Graz-Cyl 88 Michael Knopf (Aut) Sava 89 Josef Soukup (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 90 Kimmo Kananen (Fin) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 91 Samuel Farhun (Ger) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 92 Christian Lener (Aut) Team Apo Sport Linz 93 Michael Pichler (Aut) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 94 Christian Bonfanti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 95 David Pavilcek (Cze) Sky Plastic-Kruschitz 96 Mario De Sarraga (Spa) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 97 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 98 Udo Müller (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit 23.07 99 Florian Moser (Aut) Corratec-Graz-Cyl 100 Werner Faltheiner (Aut) Corratec-Graz-Cyl 25.32 101 Gregor Gut (Swi) Volksbank Leingruber Ideal 102 Friedrich Berein (Aut) Team Apo Sport Linz 103 Andreas Legler (Aut) Sky Plastic-Kruschitz 104 Michael Neuweg (Aut) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl DNF Bostjan Mervar (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj DNF Marco Düchting (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit DNF Christop Kerschbaum (Aut) Sky Plastic-Kruschitz DNF Hanno Hofmeister (Aut) Sky Plastic-Kruschitz DNF Christi Groszschedl (Aut) Corratec-Graz-Cyl DNS Lubor Tesar (Cze) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit Points 1 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 15 pts 2 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Apo Sport Linz 12 3 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 10 4 Artur Krzeszowiec (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 8 5 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 7 6 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 6 7 Borut Bozic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 5 8 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank 4 9 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Team Lamonta 3 10 Matej Stare (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 2 Mountains Climb 1 - Cat. 3, km 44,0 1 Florian Stalder (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 4 pts 2 Michael Pichler (Aut) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 2 3 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 1 Climb 2 - Cat. 2, km 74,54 1 Florian Stalder (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 6 pts 2 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 4 3 Hans-Peter Obwaller (Aut) Sava 3 4 Paul Crake (Aus) Corratec-Graz-Cyl 2 5 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 1 Sprints Sprint 1 - km 59,0 1 Florian Stalder (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 4 pts 2 Michael Pichler (Aut) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 2 3 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 1 Sprint 2 - km 101,0 1 Florian Stalder (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 4 pts 2 Hans-Peter Obwaller (Aut) Sava 2 3 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 1 Sprint 3 - km 143,0 1 Hans-Peter Obwaller (Aut) Sava 4 pts 2 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 2 3 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1 Teams 1 Perutnina Ptuj 14.19.00 2 Naturino-Sapore di Mare 3 Team Apo Sport Linz 4 Miche 5 Elk Haus-Simplon 6 Domina Vacanze 7 Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 8 Volksbank Leingruber Ideal 9 Team Lamonta 10 Rabobank 11 Liquigas-Bianchi 12 Sava 13 Agritubel 14 Akud Arnolds Sicherheit 15 Ed' System-Zvvz 16 Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 17 Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl General classification after stage 1 1 Ondreij Sosenka (Cze) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 4.56.27 2 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 0.03 3 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.05 4 Thomas Liese (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit 0.09 5 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 0.10 6 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 7 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 0.16 8 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank 0.17 9 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 0.20 10 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 0.21 11 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Apo Sport Linz 0.22 12 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 0.24 13 Adam Hansen (Aus) Elk Haus-Simplon 0.25 14 Mitja Mahoric (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 15 Matej Stare (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 0.26 16 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Volksbank Leingruber Ideal 0.27 17 Patrick Riedesser (Aut) Team Apo Sport Linz 18 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.28 19 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 0.29 20 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 21 Hans-Peter Obwaller (Aut) Sava 0.31 22 Timo Scholz (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit 0.32 23 Fraser Macmaster (NZl) Volksbank Leingruber Ideal 24 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 25 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas-Bianchi 26 Rene Weissinger (Ger) Volksbank Leingruber Ideal 0.33 27 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 28 Florian Stalder (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 29 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 30 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 31 Maurizio Carta (Ita) Miche 0.34 32 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit 33 Gregor Gazvoda (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 0.35 34 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi 35 Massimo Amichetti (Ita) Miche 36 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 37 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 0.36 38 Jure Golcer (Slo) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 39 Jan Barta (Cze) Elk Haus-Simplon 40 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 41 Walter Bonca (Slo) Sava 0.38 42 Christian Pömer (Aut) Team Apo Sport Linz 0.39 43 Gilles Conquet (Fra) Agritubel 0.40 44 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 45 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 46 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 47 Alessandro Bertuola (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 0.41 48 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Team Lamonta 49 Christoph Koch (Ger) Team Lamonta 50 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Miche 51 Aleksand Kuschynski (Blr) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 52 Harald Morscher (Aut) Volksbank Leingruber Ideal 0.43 53 Massimilian Gentili (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 0.44 54 Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 55 Uros Silar (Slo) Sava 0.45 56 Robert Nagy (Svk) Sky Plastic-Kruschitz 0.46 57 Mariano De Fino (Uru) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 58 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Team Lamonta 0.48 59 Leonardo Moser (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 0.49 60 Enrico Griggoli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 61 Mickael Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 0.50 62 Borut Bozic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 63 Hrovje Miholjevic (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 0.51 64 Rok Jerse (Slo) Sava 0.53 65 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 66 Boris Premuzic (Slo) Sava 0.54 67 Jindrich Vana (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 0.55 68 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 69 Marti Fischerlehner (Aut) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 70 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 1.00 71 Marco Righetto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.02 72 Kamil Vrana (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 1.03 73 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 1.04 74 Dainius Kairelis (Ltu) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 1.06 75 Vasili Anastopoulos (Gre) Volksbank Leingruber Ideal 1.09 76 Paul Kasis (Aut) Sky Plastic-Kruschitz 77 Martin Mares (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 1.11 78 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Team Lamonta 1.12 79 Klaus Steinkeller (Aut) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 1.15 80 Paul Crake (Aus) Corratec-Graz-Cyl 81 Petr Herman (Cze) Team Apo Sport Linz 1.17 82 Domenico Passuello (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 1.21 83 Artur Krzeszowiec (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 1.22 84 Maurizio Vandelli (Ita) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 1.24 85 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 10.23 86 Siegfried Bauer (Aut) Corratec-Graz-Cyl 10.57 87 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 88 Christian Bonfanti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 89 Alexander Gut (Ger) Team Lamonta 10.59 90 Michael Knopf (Aut) Sava 11.12 91 Mario De Sarraga (Spa) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 11.17 92 Josef Soukup (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 11.19 93 David Pavilcek (Cze) Sky Plastic-Kruschitz 11.22 94 Kimmo Kananen (Fin) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 11.23 95 Samuel Farhun (Ger) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 11.29 96 Michael Pichler (Aut) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 11.30 97 Christian Lener (Aut) Team Apo Sport Linz 98 Udo Müller (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit 24.10 99 Florian Moser (Aut) Corratec-Graz-Cyl 24.21 100 Friedrich Berein (Aut) Team Apo Sport Linz 25.54 101 Werner Faltheiner (Aut) Corratec-Graz-Cyl 26.47 102 Gregor Gut (Swi) Volksbank Leingruber Ideal 26.54 103 Andreas Legler (Aut) Sky Plastic-Kruschitz 27.18 104 Michael Neuweg (Aut) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 27.34 Points classification 1 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 15 pts 2 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 12 3 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Apo Sport Linz 12 4 Ondreij Sosenka (Cze) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 8 5 Artur Krzeszowiec (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 8 6 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 7 7 Thomas Liese (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit 6 8 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 6 9 Borut Bozic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 5 10 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 4 11 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank 4 12 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 3 13 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Team Lamonta 3 14 Matej Stare (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 2 Mountains classification 1 Florian Stalder (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 10 pts 2 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 5 3 Hans-Peter Obwaller (Aut) Sava 3 4 Paul Crake (Aus) Corratec-Graz-Cyl 2 5 Michael Pichler (Aut) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 2 6 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 1 Sprints classification 1 Florian Stalder (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 8 pts 2 Hans-Peter Obwaller (Aut) Sava 6 3 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 4 4 Michael Pichler (Aut) Arbö Resch & Frisch Eybl 2 5 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1
