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28th International Bayern Rundfahrt - 2.HC
Germany, May 30-June 3, 2007
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Stage 3 - June 1: Eichstätt - Kitzingen, 181.1 km
Zabel wins again
Erik Zabel did it again, winning the third stage of the Bayern Rundfahrt Friday, with team-mates Sebastian Siedler finishing third and Marcel Sieberg sixth. Javier Benitez Pomares of Benfica finished second on the day. Zabel also defended his leader's jersey, with Siedler moving up into third and CSC's Stuart O'Grady staying in second.
"Athletic successes or losses have lost their meaning over the last days and years, and even more so because of the events of the last week," Zabel said. "It is easier when I'm on the bike, but even then I can't forget everything that has happened. On the bike my head is free. And the win certainly means a lot to me."
53 kilometres into the stage, Christoph von Kleinsorgen (Heinz von Heiden Focus) made a solo escape which the peloton allowed to stay clear for over 100 km. The German built up a maximum lead of over nine minutes before the peloton got to work, and he was finally swallowed up on the first of two final closing laps.
Zabel leader's jersey came under threat midway through the stage, as O'Grady picked up bonus seconds in intermediate sprints to take over the virtual lead, something that Zabel wasn't too concerned about. "Actually we had already accepted that O'Grady would take over the jersey today," Zabel said.
However, O'Grady lost his chance at the jersey when he was involved in a crash shortly before the finish line, in which he was not injured. "I heard the crash," Zabel said. "It sounded bad." The worst off in the crash was Alberto Loddo of Selle Italia, who was taken to the hospital with a broken collarbone.
Saturday's stage is a 24 km time trial in which Zabel fully expects to lose his leader's jersey. "To be perfectly honest, of course I know my possibilities," the sprinter said. "It wouldn't be realistic if I tried to ride for the podium tomorrow. I figure more with two to three minutes loss." Favorites to win the stage and take over the lead are Andreas Klöden of Astana, Stefan Schumacher of Gerolsteiner, and CSC's Jens Voigt.
Photography
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- Team Milram and their leader Erik Zabel
- Hard at work the peloton is lined out along the Bavarian roads
- The beautiful rolling roads of Bavaria
- Christoph von Kleinsorgen (Heinz von Heiden)
- Jens Voigt (CSC) Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) and Stuart O'Grady (CSC) on the last lap
- André Schulze (Wiesenhof)
- The back end of the peloton
- The final sprint Zabel (Milram) against Benitez (Benfica)
- Second stage win for Erik Zabel
- Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner) in the king of the mountains jersey
- A happy Fabian Wegmann gets the white jersey
- Zabel keeps an eye out for low flying planes?
- Zabel gets the blue jersey of the points leader
- Erik Zabel (Milram) went two for two in the Bayern Rundfahrt
- Zabel receives his accolades and kisses from the misses
- The first three of stage 3 (Benitez, Zabel, Siedler)
- The podium of stage 3
- Best team after stage 2
- Bert Grabsch on his way to the start of stage 3 (T-Mobile)
- Gerald Ciolek (T-Mobile)
- André Schulze (Wiesenhof)
- Patrick Sinkewitz (T-Mobile)
- Stephan Schreck (T-Mobile)
- Andreas Klöden (Astana)
- Matthias Kessler (Astana)
- The crowd was very interested in Andreas Klöden
- Karsten Kroon (Team CSC)
- Carlos Sastre (Team CSC)
- Leader after stage 2 Erik Zabel (Milram)
- The peloton on its way to Kitzingen
- Stretching their legs during a brief respite in the pace
- White line fever has its grip on the peloton
Images by Hans Will
- Erik Zabel won the stage and continues to lead on GC.
- Erik Zabel (Team Milram) put a tough week behind to extend his lead over Stuart O'Grady (Team CSC) to six seconds.
- The 181.1 kilometre stage was easy it was the giant beer that was a challenge for Peter Velits (Team Wiesenhof Felt).
- Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner) in the king of the mountains jersey.
Results
1 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 4.08.21 (43.75 km/h) 2 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 3 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 4 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 5 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 6 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 7 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 8 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Volksbank 9 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 10 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank 11 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel - Action 12 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 13 Alessandro Bertuola (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 14 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 15 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 16 Honorio Machado Perez (Ven) Tenax Salmilano 17 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 18 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 19 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 20 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 21 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 22 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 23 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 24 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 25 Sven Renders (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 26 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile Team 27 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 28 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 29 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Regiostrom - Senges 30 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 31 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 32 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 33 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 34 Santo Anza (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 35 Erik Hoffmann (Nam) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 36 Renato Silva (Por) Benfica 37 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 38 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 39 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 40 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team 41 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 42 Wolfram Wiese (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 43 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 44 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 45 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 46 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 47 Bruno Miguel Castanheira Gomes (Por) Benfica 48 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team CSC 49 Steffen Wesemann (Swi) Team Wiesenhof Felt 50 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 51 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 52 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 53 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 54 Florian Stalder (Swi) Team Volksbank 55 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 56 Christian Murro (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 57 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Benfica 58 Helder Miranda (Spa) Benfica 59 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 60 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 61 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 62 Felix Gniot (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 63 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Intel - Action 64 Koen Barbé (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 65 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 66 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 67 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 68 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 69 René Obst (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 70 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elk Haus - Simplon 71 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Volksbank 72 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 73 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Volksbank 74 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 75 Jan Valach (Svk) Elk Haus - Simplon 76 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 77 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 78 Samuel Plouhinec (Fra) Agritubel 79 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 80 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 81 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 82 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 83 Maint Berkenbosch (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 84 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 85 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 86 Jure Golcer (Slo) Tenax Salmilano 87 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 88 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 89 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel - Action 90 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 91 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel 1.02.00 92 Dariusz Rudnicki (Pol) Intel - Action 93 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 94 Tobias Erler (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 95 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 96 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 97 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Intel - Action 98 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank 99 Leonardo Moser (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 100 Hans-Jürgen Juretzek (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 101 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner 102 Malte Urban (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 103 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 104 Mattia Turrina (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 2.13.00 105 Luca Sabatino (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 106 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 107 Serge Herz (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 108 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 109 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 2.13.00 110 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 111 Jason Phillips (Aus) Heinz von Heiden Focus 112 Christoph Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 113 Martin Hebik (Cze) Heinz von Heiden Focus 114 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 115 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Intel - Action 116 Emiliano Donadello (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 117 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia Sprints km. 20.1 1 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 3 pts 2 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2 3 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 km. 41.5 1 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 3 pts 2 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2 3 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 km. 172.5 1 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 3 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 1 Finish 1 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 5 pts 2 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 4 3 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 3 4 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 2 5 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 1 Mountains Cat 2 - km. 91.1 1 Christoph Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 3 pts 2 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2 3 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 1 Teams 1 Team Milram 12.25.03 2 Benfica 3 Gerolsteiner 4 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 5 Team Volksbank 6 Elk Haus-Simplon 7 T-Mobile Professional Cycling 8 Team Wiesenhof Felt 9 Tenax-Menikini 10 Agritubel 11 Team Regiostrom-Senges 12 Astana 13 Team CSC 14 Team 3C-Gruppe Lamonta 2.13 General classification after stage 3 1 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 13.20.59 2 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 0.06 3 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 0.10 4 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 0.11 5 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 6 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.15 7 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 8 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 0.19 9 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 0.20 10 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Volksbank 11 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 12 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 13 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 14 Sven Renders (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 15 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 16 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel - Action 17 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile Team 18 Renato Silva (Por) Benfica 19 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 20 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 21 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 22 Alessandro Bertuola (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 23 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 24 Christian Murro (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 25 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 26 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Intel - Action 27 Bruno Miguel Castanheira Gomes (Por) Benfica 28 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 29 Santo Anza (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 30 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team 31 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 32 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 33 Florian Stalder (Swi) Team Volksbank 34 Erik Hoffmann (Nam) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 35 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 36 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team CSC 37 Wolfram Wiese (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 38 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 39 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Benfica 40 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 41 Helder Miranda (Spa) Benfica 42 Steffen Wesemann (Swi) Team Wiesenhof Felt 43 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Intel - Action 44 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 45 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 46 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Regiostrom - Senges 47 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 48 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Volksbank 49 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 50 Jure Golcer (Slo) Tenax Salmilano 51 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 52 Malte Urban (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 53 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 54 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.54 55 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.56 56 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 57 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 0.58 58 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 59 René Obst (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 60 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank 61 Koen Barbé (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 62 Samuel Plouhinec (Fra) Agritubel 63 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 64 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elk Haus - Simplon 65 Felix Gniot (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 66 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Volksbank 67 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 68 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 69 Jan Valach (Svk) Elk Haus - Simplon 70 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 71 Maint Berkenbosch (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 72 Leonardo Moser (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 2.00 73 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 2.14 74 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 2.16 75 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 76 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 77 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel - Action 78 Mattia Turrina (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 2.33 79 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 3.11 80 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 81 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 3.13 82 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 3.18 83 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 84 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 3.31 85 Honorio Machado Perez (Ven) Tenax Salmilano 86 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 87 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 88 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 89 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 90 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 91 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Intel - Action 4.33 92 Christoph Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 5.44 93 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 5.48 94 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 5.49 95 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 96 Emiliano Donadello (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 6.09 97 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 6.27 98 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 6.41 99 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank 6.53 100 Hans-Jürgen Juretzek (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges 101 Martin Hebik (Cze) Heinz von Heiden Focus 8.04 102 Luca Sabatino (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 103 Serge Herz (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 104 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 8.49 105 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 8.54 106 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 9.31 107 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 108 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 109 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 9.41 110 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 9.42 111 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 9.44 112 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 113 Dariusz Rudnicki (Pol) Intel - Action 10.33 114 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel 115 Tobias Erler (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 116 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner 117 Jason Phillips (Aus) Heinz von Heiden Focus 11.44 Points classification 1 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 12 pts 2 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 11 3 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 10 4 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 9 5 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 7 6 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 7 7 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5 8 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 5 9 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 5 10 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 5 11 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 3 12 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 13 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2 14 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2 15 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 2 16 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 2 17 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 2 18 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 2 19 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 2 20 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 1 21 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 1 22 Honorio Machado Perez (Ven) Tenax Salmilano 1 Mountains classification 1 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 9 pts 2 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 7 3 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Tenax Salmilano 5 4 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 3 5 Christoph Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus 3 6 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 3 7 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 2 8 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2 9 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 2 10 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges 1 11 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Volksbank 1 12 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 1 13 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 1 Team classification 1 Team Milram 40.03.05 2 Benfica 3 Team CSC 4 Team Volksbank 5 T-Mobile Professional Cycling 6 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 7 Intel-Action 8 Team Wiesenhof Felt 9 Tenax-Menikini 10 Team 3C-Gruppe Lamonta 11 Team Regiostrom-Senges 12 Gerolsteiner 0.38 13 Elk Haus-Simplon 14 Astana 15 Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia 1.40 16 Agritubel 2.34 17 Heinz von Heiden Focus 6.02
