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56th Tour de Romandie - 2.HC

Switzerland, April 30-May 5, 2002

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Prologue - April 30: Genève ITT, 3.2 km

Verbrugghe beats Phonak duo

Rik Verbrugghe
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Belgian Rik Verbrugghe (Lotto) is the first leader of the 56th Tour de Romandie, after winning the 3.2 kilometre prologue time trial in Geneva this afternoon. Verbrugghe, who is something of a prologue specialist, finished just 1.45 seconds in front of Phonak's Alexandre Moos, whose teammate Martin Elmiger was third at 2.23 seconds.

Moos was the race's early leader for some time, and gave the Swiss some hope of a local victory. However that was dashed when Verbrugghe clocked 4.13.48 over the technical 3.2 kilometre parcours, averaging 45.45 km/h to set the new best time.

"I thought that this prologue was too short and too technical for me," said Verbrugghe, who is using the Tour de Romandie to prepare for the Giro d'Italia. "The Tour de Romandie is a prestigious race. You cannot deny that! My team has the means to control the race. From now on, the question is knowing how I will fare on Saturday on the mountain top finish."

Last year's Romandie winner Dario Frigo (Tacconi) finished 9th, followed by David Millar (Cofidis) in 10th, who is starting his season late due to suffering from glandular fever. Fassa Bortolo's Volodomir Gustov was not allowed to start, due to a too high a hematocrit level.

Tomorrow's first stage will take the riders 187 km between Genèva-Malleray and Bévilard.

Results

1 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Adecco                           4.13.48 (45.45 km/h)
2 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems                 0.01.45
3 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems                 0.02.23
4 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Gerolsteiner                           0.02.73
5 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Mapei-Quick Step                       0.03.20
6 Haimar Zubeldia Aguirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi             0.04.38
7 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez (Spa) Cofidis                            0.05.13
8 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Rabobank                                 0.05.37
9 Dario Frigo (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi                      0.05.58
10 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis                                 0.05.76
11 Robert Bartko (Ger) Team Telekom                           0.05.82
12 Michel Van Haecke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago            0.06.13
13 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi                  0.06.46
14 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre-Daikin                     0.06.48
15 Eddy Ratti (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                          0.07.10
16 Frank Hoj (Den) Team Coast                                 0.07.87
17 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) Team Telekom                        0.07.90
18 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Lampre-Daikin                     0.08.08
19 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport                   0.08.24
20 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems               0.08.26
21 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Team Coast                            0.08.42
22 Massimo Codol (Ita) Lampre-Daikin                          0.08.46
23 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo        0.08.72
24 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi                  0.08.85
25 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca       0.08.86
26 Marc Streel (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                  0.08.93
27 Cadel Evans (Aus) Mapei-Quick Step                         0.09.07
28 Massimo Strazzer (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems              0.09.17
29 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team Coast                           0.09.32
30 Luca Paolini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                        0.09.50
31 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis                              0.09.77
32 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) Gerolsteiner                      0.09.84
33 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago             0.09.99
34 Arrizabalaga Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                0.10.09
35 Igor Pugaci (Mda) Saeco-Longoni Sport                      0.10.45
36 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo      0.10.57
37 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Team Coast                            0.10.67
38 Denis Zanette (Ita) Fassa Bortolo                          0.10.73
39 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank                               0.10.87
40 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport               0.10.97
41 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Adecco                       0.11.01
42 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca                    0.11.05
43 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) Team Telekom                        0.11.27
44 Robert Hunter (Rsa) Mapei-Quick Step                       0.11.36
45 Biagio Conte (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport                     0.11.59
46 Guido Trenti (USA) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo            0.11.64
47 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis                           0.11.78
48 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Lotto-Adecco                    0.11.79
49 Alex Zuelle (Swi) Team Coast                               0.11.84
50 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo                         0.12.21
51 Oscar Cavagnis (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago               0.12.24
52 Christian Charriere (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems           0.12.55
53 Mauro Gianetti (Swi) Team Coast                            0.12.74
54 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca          0.12.84
55 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank                             0.13.12
56 Aitor Gonzalez Jimenez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca            0.13.16
57 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Telekom                            0.13.23
58 Oscar Mason (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport                      0.13.46
59 Dirk Reichl (Ger) Team Telekom                             0.13.64
60 Bingen Fernandez Bustinza (Spa) Cofidis                    0.13.67
61 Rolf Huser (Swi) Team Coast                                0.13.75
62 Domenico Romano (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago              0.13.85
63 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                        0.13.91
64 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago            0.13.93
65 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport                   0.13.98
66 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo                             0.14.01
67 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi                 0.14.02
68 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre-Daikin                        0.14.12
69 Stefan Rütimann (Swi) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi                 0.14.14
70 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis                                0.14.47
71 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Rabobank                                0.14.56
72 Sanstos Gonzalez Capilla (Spa) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo0.14.57
73 Cristian Pepoli (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport                  0.14.61
74 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Telekom                         0.14.75
75 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin                      0.14.86
76 Yuri Mitlushenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago             0.15.09
77 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC Tiscali                0.15.22
78 Kevin Livingston (USA) Team Telekom                        0.15.29
79 Gabriele Colombo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo        0.15.70
80 Andrea Noe (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                          0.15.70
81 Tom Stremersch (Bel) Lotto-Adecco                          0.15.80
82 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco                      0.15.84
83 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport                     0.15.93
84 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi                0.16.05
85 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi            0.16.14
86 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Fassa Bortolo                         0.16.22
87 Joaquim Lopez Torrella (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca            0.16.34
88 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank                                0.16.35
89 Milan Kadlec (Cze) Lampre-Daikin                           0.16.48
90 Mikel Artetxe Gezuraga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi             0.16.52
91 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre-Daikin                       0.16.53
92 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bortolo                            0.16.89
93 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo                         0.17.05
94 Glenn D'hollander (Bel) Lotto-Adecco                       0.17.18
95 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank                             0.17.20
96 Ief Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Adecco                          0.17.39
97 Danny Jonasson (Den) Team CSC Tiscali                      0.17.49
98 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Lampre-Daikin                           0.17.64
99 Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita) Cofidis                           0.17.70
100 Kurt Van Lancker (Bel) Lotto-Adecco                       0.17.73
101 Cédric Fragniere (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems             0.17.96
102 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step                0.18.20
103 Gianni Faresin (Ita) Gerolsteiner                         0.18.35
104 José Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca          0.18.38
105 Addy Engels (Ned) Rabobank                                0.18.57
106 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                   0.18.62
107 Raphael Jeune (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali                      0.18.72
108 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner                         0.18.83
109 Josu Silloniz Aresti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi              0.19.40
110 Federico Morini (Ita) Gerolsteiner                        0.19.53
111 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Team Coast                  0.19.68
112 Pietro Zucconi (Swi) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi                 0.19.96
113 Daniel Atienza Urendez (Spa) Cofidis                      0.20.30
114 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems                0.20.73
115 Ivan Basso (Ita) Fassa Bortolo                            0.21.11
116 Francisco Cerezo Perales (Spa) Team CSC Tiscali           0.21.48
117 Gorka Gonzales (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                    0.21.74
118 Martin Derganc (Slo) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo         0.21.80
119 Roberto Lozano Montero (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca           0.22.21
120 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC Tiscali                       0.22.57
121 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner                        0.22.76
122 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems                0.23.25
123 Zoran Klemencic (Slo) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi                0.24.01
124 Marcelino Garcia Alonso (Spa) Team CSC Tiscali            0.24.17
125 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo      0.28.29
126 Martin Rittsel (Swe) Team CSC Tiscali                     0.28.59
127 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner                            0.31.49
128 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago            0.42.50
129 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank                          0.45.60
130 Nicolay Bo Larsen (Den) Gerolsteiner                      0.56.17

Teams

1 Phonak Hearing Systems                   12.50
2 Mapei-Quick Step                          0.08
3 Tacconi Sport-Emmegi                      0.10
4 Cofidis
5 Lampre-Daikin                             0.11
6 Lotto-Adecco                              0.12
7 Team Telekom                              0.14
8 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago
9 Team Coast
10 Euskaltel-Euskadi                        0.17
11 Rabobank                                 0.18
12 Saeco-Longoni Sport
13 Gerolsteiner                             0.20
14 Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo             0.21
15 Kelme-Costa Blanca                       0.22

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