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Tour de Picardie - 2.1
France, May 16-18, 2008
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Stage 2 - May 17: Ribemont Clermont-de-l’Oise, 181 km
Swiss Elmiger runs right on time
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AG2R's Martin Elmiger had timing worthy of his Swiss heritage when he took the win on stage two of the Tour de Picardie. Elmiger steered clear of a crash by Geoffry Lequatre (Agritubel) to take the sprint from his other breakaway companions, and put enough seconds into the rest of the field to take over the leader's jersey by four seconds over the morning's leader, Sebastian Siedler (Skil Skimano).
"I'm delighted with this victory," Elmiger declared. "Tomorrow I will give all I have to try and keep my yellow jersey. Whatever happens, the team is the most important thing. We'll have to see what happens in the race".
The 133 riders of the peloton began the 181 kilometre journey from Ribemont to Clermont-de-l'Oise at 12:49, and immediately after the start, attacks flew. The high pace of the group meant no riders could escape until the terrain took hold and slowed things down. At the first climb, the Côte de Saint-Gobain (km 25) Alexander Moos (BMC) took maximum points ahead of Janek Tombak (Mitsubishi) and Jerome Pineau (AG2R).
Moos repeated his efforts on the Côte de Septvaux, this time getting up ahead of Rein Taaramae (Cofidis) and Pierre Rolland (Credit Agricole). On the descent, Taaramae kept the pressure on, being joined by Sébastien Duret (Bretagne - Armor Lux) and then by a group of counter-attackers including Robert Hunter (Barloworld), Maarten Tjallingii (Silence Lotto), Alexandre Blain (Cofidis), Jimmy Casper (Agritubel), Franck Rénier (Bouygues Telecom), Mike Friedman and Christophe Laurent (Slipstream), Piet Rooijakkers (Skil Shimano), Sébastien Chavanel (FdJ), Niko Eeckhout (Topsport Vlaanderen), Alexandr Pliushin (AG2R), Laszlo Bodrogi (Credit Agricole), and Moos.
The gap between the fifteen leaders and the pack reached 1'35 at the top of the Côte de Blérancourt (km 51), where Moos once more took the win ahead of Taaramae and Pliushin.
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Behind the pack started organising a chase, and held the gap steady. At the top of the Côte de Saint-Albin (km 76,5), Moos continued his winning ways ahead of Pliushin and Taaramae, and the three repeated that order over the Côte des Bocages (km 88). On the intermediate sprint line at Conchy-les-Pots (km 98,5), Chavanel outsprinted Casper and Blain, while the pack began closing down the leader's advantage. At kilometre 106.5, Tjallingii, Taaramae, Laurent, Rooijakkers, Eeckhout and Moos forged ahead while the others gave up and went back to the peloton.
Together the six men increased their advantage to 2'15 lead at Angivillers (km 123). Moving closer to the final circuit, the pack reacted, being now led by the Française des Jeux for Chavanel and Skil-Shimano for Siedler. The gap that had reached a maximum 2'50 at kilometre 140, dropped down to 1'50 with 30 kilometres to go.
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At the second bonus sprint of the day completed at the first passage of the finish line at Clermont, Eeckhout lead ahead of Rooijakkers and Tjallingii while the chasing pack was just one minute behind. Just after the sprint, Eeckhout was called back to work for second placed overall Kenny De Haes, and was reabsorbed at kilometre 158. With twenty kilometres to go, the remaining five still had a 40" lead. At the top of the Côte de Thury-sous-Clermont (km 166.5), Moos padded out his lead in the climber's competition and took the last points ahead of Rooijakkers and Tjallingii as the peloton closed to just 30".
With ten kilometres to go, the front group was caught and immediately countered by thirteen riders, among them Elmiger, Sergey Lagutin (Collstrop) and Lequatre, who managed to hold off the main field by just a few seconds. With 200 metres to go, Lequatre suffered a fall while Elmiger battled his way to victory beating Lagutin and Van Avermaet (Silence Lotto), the fastest from the peloton.
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- Niko Eeckhout (Topsport Vlaanderen) leads the breakaway across the line with one lap to go.
- Elmiger was jubilant after winning stage two and taking the overall lead.
- Martin Elmiger (AG2R-La Mondiale) gets the win on stage two.
- Elmiger put three seconds into the rest of the field to take yellow.
- The peloton hits the line just seconds behind the winner.
- The leader Sebastian Siedler rolls in, losing the yellow to Elmiger.
- Erki Pütsep (Bouygues Telecom)
- This Agritubel rider didn't seem too happy with the finish.
- Siedler hit the deck and ended up losing the overall lead.
- Elmiger gets his prizes.
- Elmiger with the traditional prizes for race leader.
- The Swiss rider took yellow and leads now by four seconds over Siedler.
- Sebastian Siedler (Skil Shimano) kept the points jersey.
- Alexander Moos (BMC) is the mountains leader.
Results
1 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 4.12.08 (43.07 km/h) 2 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Cycle Collstrop 0.03 3 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.04 4 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 5 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 6 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 7 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 8 Baden Cooke (Aus) Barloworld 9 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 10 Stéphane Bonsergent (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 11 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 12 Steve Chainel (Fra) Auber 93 13 Jonathan Thire (Fra) Auber 93 14 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 15 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 16 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 17 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Agritubel 18 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Crédit Agricole 19 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 20 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Agritubel 21 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 22 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 23 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 24 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 25 Benoît Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 26 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 27 Niko Eeckhout (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 28 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 29 Jean-Marc Bideau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 30 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 31 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 32 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 33 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Silence - Lotto 34 Ronning Vinther Troels (Den) Cycle Collstrop 35 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 36 Nick Ingels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 37 Steven Cozza (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 38 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 39 Antonio Cruz (USA) BMC Racing Team 40 Cédric Pineau (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 41 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Bretagne - Armor Lux 42 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 43 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 44 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Silence - Lotto 45 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 46 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 47 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 48 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 49 Cyril Gautier (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 50 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 51 Sven Nevens (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 52 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 53 Gil Suray (Bel) Cycle Collstrop 54 Evert Verbist (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 55 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Crédit Agricole 56 Jérémie Galland (Fra) Auber 93 57 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 58 Jens Mouris (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 59 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 60 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team 61 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 62 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 63 Michael Friedman (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 64 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 65 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 66 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 67 Guillaume Le Floch (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 68 Franck Rénier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 69 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 70 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 71 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 72 William Frischkorn (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 73 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano 74 Pierre Cazaux (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 75 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 76 Scott Nydam (USA) BMC Racing Team 77 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 78 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 79 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 80 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 81 Paul Moucheraud (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 82 Janek Tombak (Est) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 83 Florian Guillou (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 84 Stéphane Poulhies (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 85 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 86 Kilian Patour (Fra) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 87 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 88 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 89 Niels Brouzes (Fra) Auber 93 90 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 91 Benoit Polivet (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 92 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Auber 93 93 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 94 Glenn d'Hollander (Bel) Silence - Lotto 95 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Silence - Lotto 96 Huub Duyn (Ned) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 97 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 98 Kristof Vandewalle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 99 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 100 Tom Criel (Bel) Cycle Collstrop 101 Anthony Roux (Fra) Française des Jeux 102 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld 103 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Roubaix Lille Metropole 104 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 105 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 106 Alexandre Lemair (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 107 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 108 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 109 Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld 110 Gianpaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 111 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 112 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 113 Florian Morizot (Fra) Auber 93 114 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 115 Steve Schets (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 0.30 116 Sergey Rudaskov (Rus) Cycle Collstrop 0.32 117 Ignas Konovalovas (Ltu) Crédit Agricole 0.36 118 Mickael Larpe (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 1.02 119 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 0.03 120 Jarno Van Mingeroet (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 3.15 121 Rob Peeters (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 122 Yohan Cauquil (Fra) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 123 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 124 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 4.01 125 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 6.53 126 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 127 Fabien Bacquet (Fra) Skil-Shimano 128 Christophe Diguet (Fra) Auber 93 129 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 130 Tom Steels (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 131 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 132 Edward Clancy (GBr) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner Sprints Conchy-Les-Pots - 98.5 km. 1 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 3 pts 2 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Agritubel 2 3 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 Clermont de l'Oise 1 - 155.0 km. 1 Niko Eeckhout (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 3 pts 2 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2 3 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 1 Clermont de l'Oise 2 - 181.0 km. 1 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 25 pts 2 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Cycle Collstrop 22 3 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence - Lotto 20 4 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 18 5 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 16 6 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 15 7 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 14 8 Baden Cooke (Aus) Barloworld 13 9 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 12 10 Stéphane Bonsergent (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 11 11 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 10 12 Steve Chainel (Fra) Auber 93 9 13 Jonathan Thire (Fra) Auber 93 8 14 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 7 15 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 6 16 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 5 17 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Agritubel 4 18 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Crédit Agricole 3 19 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 2 20 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Agritubel 1 Mountains Côte de Saint-Gobain - 25.0 km. 1 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 4 pts 2 Janek Tombak (Est) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 2 3 Cédric Pineau (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1 Côte de Septvaux - 30.0 km. 1 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 4 pts 2 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2 3 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1 Côte de Blérancourt - 51.0 km. 1 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 4 pts 2 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2 3 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 1 Côte de Saint-Albin - 76.5 km. 1 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 4 pts 2 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 2 3 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 Côte des Bocages - 88.0 km. 1 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 4 pts 2 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 2 3 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 Côte de Thury-sous-Clermont - 166.5 km. 1 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 4 pts 2 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2 3 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 1 Young rider 1 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence - Lotto 4.12.12 2 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 3 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 4 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 5 Steve Chainel (Fra) Auber 93 6 Jonathan Thire (Fra) Auber 93 7 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 8 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 9 Benoît Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 10 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 11 Jean-Marc Bideau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 12 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 13 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 14 Ronning Vinther Troels (Den) Cycle Collstrop 15 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 16 Nick Ingels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 17 Steven Cozza (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 18 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 19 Cédric Pineau (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 20 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Bretagne - Armor Lux 21 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 22 Cyril Gautier (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 23 Sven Nevens (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 24 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 25 Gil Suray (Bel) Cycle Collstrop 26 Evert Verbist (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 27 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Crédit Agricole 28 Jérémie Galland (Fra) Auber 93 29 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 30 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 31 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 32 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 33 Guillaume Le Floch (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 34 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 35 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 36 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano 37 Pierre Cazaux (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 38 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 39 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 40 Stéphane Poulhies (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 41 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 42 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 43 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Auber 93 44 Huub Duyn (Ned) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 45 Kristof Vandewalle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 46 Tom Criel (Bel) Cycle Collstrop 47 Anthony Roux (Fra) Française des Jeux 48 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld 49 Alexandre Lemair (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 50 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 51 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 52 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 53 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 54 Florian Morizot (Fra) Auber 93 55 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 56 Steve Schets (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 0.26 57 Sergey Rudaskov (Rus) Cycle Collstrop 0.28 58 Ignas Konovalovas (Ltu) Crédit Agricole 0.32 59 Mickael Larpe (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 0.58 60 Rob Peeters (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 3.11 61 Yohan Cauquil (Fra) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 62 Fabien Bacquet (Fra) Skil-Shimano 6.49 63 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 64 Edward Clancy (GBr) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner Teams 1 AG2R-La Mondiale 12.36.32 2 Cycle Collstrop 0.03 3 Agritubel 4 Silence - Lotto 0.04 5 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 6 Francaise Des Jeux 7 Topsport Vlaanderen 8 Auber 93 9 Bouygues Telecom 10 Bretagne - Armor Lux 11 Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 12 BMC Racing Team 13 Mitsubishi-Jartazi 14 Credit Agricole 15 Barloworld 16 Skil-Shimano 17 Slipstream Chipotle 18 Roubaix Lille Metropole General classification after stage 2 1 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 8.11.52 2 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 0.04 3 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 0.05 4 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Cycle Collstrop 0.07 5 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 0.08 6 Niko Eeckhout (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 7 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.10 8 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Agritubel 0.11 9 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 10 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 0.12 11 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.13 12 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 13 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 14 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 15 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 0.14 16 Stéphane Bonsergent (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 17 Steve Chainel (Fra) Auber 93 18 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 19 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 20 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 21 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Crédit Agricole 22 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 23 Jonathan Thire (Fra) Auber 93 24 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 25 Baden Cooke (Aus) Barloworld 26 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 27 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 28 Jérémie Galland (Fra) Auber 93 29 Benoît Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 30 Steven Cozza (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 31 Cyril Gautier (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 32 Sven Nevens (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 33 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 34 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 35 Nick Ingels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 36 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 37 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 38 Evert Verbist (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 39 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 40 Jean-Marc Bideau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 41 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 42 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 43 Antonio Cruz (USA) BMC Racing Team 44 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 45 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Silence - Lotto 46 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Crédit Agricole 47 Franck Rénier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 48 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Silence - Lotto 49 Pierre Cazaux (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 50 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 51 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 52 Stéphane Poulhies (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 53 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 54 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 55 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 56 William Frischkorn (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 57 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 58 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Bretagne - Armor Lux 59 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Agritubel 60 Guillaume Le Floch (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 61 Michael Friedman (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 62 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 63 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 64 Gil Suray (Bel) Cycle Collstrop 65 Ronning Vinther Troels (Den) Cycle Collstrop 66 Florian Guillou (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 67 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Silence - Lotto 68 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 69 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 70 Alexandre Lemair (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 71 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 72 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 73 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 74 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 75 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano 76 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 77 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 78 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 79 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 80 Benoit Polivet (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 81 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 82 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 83 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 84 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 85 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 86 Scott Nydam (USA) BMC Racing Team 87 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team 88 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 89 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 90 Jens Mouris (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 91 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Roubaix Lille Metropole 92 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Auber 93 93 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 94 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 95 Huub Duyn (Ned) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 96 Glenn d'Hollander (Bel) Silence - Lotto 97 Niels Brouzes (Fra) Auber 93 98 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 99 Janek Tombak (Est) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 100 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 101 Gianpaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 102 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 103 Paul Moucheraud (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 104 Florian Morizot (Fra) Auber 93 105 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 106 Anthony Roux (Fra) Française des Jeux 107 Tom Criel (Bel) Cycle Collstrop 108 Kristof Vandewalle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 109 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 110 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 111 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 0.34 112 Ignas Konovalovas (Ltu) Crédit Agricole 0.46 113 Sergey Rudaskov (Rus) Cycle Collstrop 1.02 114 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld 1.06 115 Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld 116 Mickael Larpe (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 1.12 117 Steve Schets (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 3.21 118 Jarno Van Mingeroet (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 3.25 119 Yohan Cauquil (Fra) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 120 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 3.45 121 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 4.11 122 Kilian Patour (Fra) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 5.39 123 Cédric Pineau (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 7.02 124 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 7.03 125 Fabien Bacquet (Fra) Skil-Shimano 126 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 127 Christophe Diguet (Fra) Auber 93 128 Tom Steels (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 129 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 7.23 130 Rob Peeters (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 7.27 131 Edward Clancy (GBr) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 11.07 132 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 11.27 Points classification 1 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 39 pts 2 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 32 3 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 32 4 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 31 5 Steve Chainel (Fra) Auber 93 27 6 Stéphane Bonsergent (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 26 7 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 25 8 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 25 9 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Agritubel 23 10 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 23 11 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Cycle Collstrop 22 12 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence - Lotto 21 13 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 21 14 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 17 15 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 16 16 Baden Cooke (Aus) Barloworld 13 17 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 12 18 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Crédit Agricole 8 19 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 8 20 Jonathan Thire (Fra) Auber 93 8 21 Jérémie Galland (Fra) Auber 93 7 22 Niko Eeckhout (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 6 23 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 6 24 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 5 25 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 4 26 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2 27 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 28 Cédric Pineau (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2 29 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 1 30 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 31 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Agritubel 1 Mountains classification 1 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 30 pts 2 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 8 3 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 4 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 5 5 Janek Tombak (Est) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 4 6 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 1 7 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1 8 Cédric Pineau (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1 Young rider classification 1 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 8.12.00 2 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.02 3 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0.06 4 Steve Chainel (Fra) Auber 93 5 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 6 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 7 Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 8 Jonathan Thire (Fra) Auber 93 9 Jérémie Galland (Fra) Auber 93 10 Benoît Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 11 Steven Cozza (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 12 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 13 Nick Ingels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 14 Jean-Marc Bideau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 15 Cyril Gautier (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 16 Sven Nevens (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 17 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 18 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 19 Evert Verbist (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 20 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Crédit Agricole 21 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 22 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 23 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 24 Pierre Cazaux (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 25 Stéphane Poulhies (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 26 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Bretagne - Armor Lux 27 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 28 Gil Suray (Bel) Cycle Collstrop 29 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 30 Ronning Vinther Troels (Den) Cycle Collstrop 31 Guillaume Le Floch (Fra) Bretagne - Armor Lux 32 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 33 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 34 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 35 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 36 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano 37 Alexandre Lemair (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 38 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 39 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 40 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 41 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 42 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Auber 93 43 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 44 Huub Duyn (Ned) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 45 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 46 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 47 Anthony Roux (Fra) Française des Jeux 48 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 49 Florian Morizot (Fra) Auber 93 50 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 51 Tom Criel (Bel) Cycle Collstrop 52 Kristof Vandewalle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 53 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 54 Ignas Konovalovas (Ltu) Crédit Agricole 0.38 55 Sergey Rudaskov (Rus) Cycle Collstrop 0.54 56 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld 0.58 57 Mickael Larpe (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 1.04 58 Steve Schets (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 3.13 59 Yohan Cauquil (Fra) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 3.17 60 Cédric Pineau (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 6.54 61 Fabien Bacquet (Fra) Skil-Shimano 6.55 62 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 7.15 63 Rob Peeters (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 7.19 64 Edward Clancy (GBr) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 10.59 Teams classification 1 AG2R-La Mondiale 24.36.14 2 Agritubel 0.03 3 Cycle Collstrop 4 Auber 93 0.04 5 Skil-Shimano 6 Bretagne - Armor Lux 7 Silence - Lotto 8 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 9 Bouygues Telecom 10 Francaise Des Jeux 11 Topsport Vlaanderen 12 BMC Racing Team 13 Credit Agricole 14 Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 15 Barloworld 16 Mitsubishi-Jartazi 17 Roubaix Lille Metropole 18 Slipstream Chipotle
