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82nd Volta a Catalunya - 2.HC
Spain, June 17-23, 2002
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Stage 5 - June 21: Andorre-Llivia, 141.3 km
Relax the Master is Maestre
By Martin Hardie, Cyclingnews correspondent
José Manuel Maestre, of the Spanish outfit Relax Fuenlabrada, made his premier appearance in the elite palmares of the UCI when he rode away to a solo win in the fifth stage of the Volta today. The stage, raced under heavy heat over three categorised climbs, served again to show the form of leader, Roberto Heras as he prepares to ride in support of his teammate, Armstrong in the proximate Tour de France.
The parcours covered 141.3 kilometres from the capital of the Principality of Andorra to the Llivia in Gerona district of Catalonia. Maestre arrived 26 seconds ahead of a group of twenty seven that had reassembled on the descent of the final climb of the day the Cat. 1 Coll D'egat. The composition of the pursuing group was such that the overall has suffered no meaningful changes.
The stage was motivated from the beginning and the first real move of the day came just before the first categorised climb of La Masella that peaked at kilometre 58. The adventurers included the Czech, Rene Andrle, Spaniards, Manuel Beltrán, Julián Usano, Juan Antonio Flecha, José Vicente García, Nacor Burgos, and Carlos Torrent, Euskal Herria's Mikel Artetxe and the Italians, Marco Serpellini and Pietro Caucchioli. The group wasn't allowed to build up too great a margin, as some were relatively not that far behind and could if given too long a leash prove to be dangerous for Heras and others at the top of the overall. Caucchioli was in this respect a prime suspect.
As expected the group was stopped from going any further after the initial scare but the attacks did not desist until the going away of Juan Guillamon (Jazztel), José Manuel Maestre (Relax) and Iñigo Cuesta (Cofidis). The three were badly positioned in the general and thus were allowed to continue away creating themselves some space between the pursuing USPS-led peloton. Still to cover where the final two climbs of the day, de Eyne (Cat. 2) and Egat (Cat. 1) giving the three the terrain and time to tickle following the peloton.
The understanding of the three at the head of the race was perfect, frustrating both the pursuit of the peloton and the two riders inserted between, José Antonio Flecha (Banesto) and the Colombian of ONCE, Iván Ramiro Parra. Throughout much of the pursuit the peloton witnessed a nice little duel between USPS and Team Coast, who are well placed with three of their riders in the top five, and were conscious of the fact, along with others, that this might be the time to upset Heras. Luis Perez who sits 44 seconds behind Heras attempted to get away during the ongoing duel but Heras frustrated the attempts by not losing the slipstream of the Coast rider. As is the way with his team, Heras met each challenge fresh simply because of the excellent work of his teammates in keeping him protected on the road. Notable with him during the asphyxiating heat of the hour of truth was Christian Vandevelde.
On the final climb and with the coming of the last twenty kilometres the principal group had dwindled to between 12 and 15 riders, including those who were in principal position overall, such as Zarra, Perez, Garmendia, Escartin and Piepoli along with a few others among them, Roberto Laiseka, (Euskaltel) who was stretching his legs for the first real time this year. Yesterday's go slow effort on the part of the whole Euskaltel team saw them all arrive nearly 18 minutes after the leader and this probably helped fuel Laiseka's effort today. It is a timely return to climbing by Laiseka as he will be expected to perform again for the crowds during the Pyrenees in July.
Ahead of the group of principals things were changing. As the climb progressed Guillamon and Maestre held the lead alone while Cuesta had fallen back to follow with Parra and Flecha. Through the middle part of the climb the leader's had a margin of 1.29 to the peloton and between them and their nearest pursuers a gap of 22 seconds. Parra for his part was intent on turning the screws. As they passed through the switchbacks on the open slopes of Egat, Parra would get out of the saddle and drive forward leaving Flecha and Cuesta to make up the ground to retrieve his wake. Ahead of them Guillamon was in difficulty and not able to stay with Maestre. As if he could sense this Parra kept up the effort. Cuesta was the first to falter and Parra, with Flecha on his wheel reached Guillamon.
Maestre managed to keep holding the gap, building on it at times so that as he crossed the mountain pass with its yellow flowered heather and odd stands of pine trees scattered like islands in a sea of green he was 36 seconds ahead of Parra and Flecha, the peloton followed a further 14 seconds behind them. As the descent started Zarra had a little go, thinking back to the valuable time he managed to pick up on the descents of last week's Euskal Bizikleta, but he wasn't allowed the chance. Still on the way down, which was not steep, the front was composed of two types of yellow and black, both trying to pull the race away from Heras. Sooner rather than later Vandevelde took control of the head of the group and lead the way safely down for his team leader.
The descent bottomed out with less than five kilometres to go and Maestre had managed to hold off the wolves with a gap of 32 seconds. He would build upon that on the run into the line as attempts were still being made now the road was flat by the yellow jersey combination to have one last go. With 2km to go Maestre managed to get to a lead of 38 seconds and then the pace picked up again as riders jostled for the prime positions. Rumsas made a run at it in the last kilometre but was chased down by the now sprinting pursuers. In the meantime Maestre had crossed the line, taking his first pro win and leaving a window of 26 seconds for the pursuers to fight it out for second.
Maestre was understandably delighted. "It is the most important day for me since my debut as a professional. My first victory and it is the fruit of many years of work. At no time did I see myself as the winner, well nothing had happened and I did not have good sensations at the star. Fortunately with the heat and the kilometres my fears disappeared." Maestre dedicated his win, as every good boy should, to his parents and his girlfriend.
Results
1 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 3.20.06 2 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 0.26 3 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 4 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 5 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 7 Jose Antonio Garrido (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 8 Raimondas Rumsas (Ltu) Lampre-Daikin 9 Jose Luis Rebollo (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 10 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Itera 11 Eddy Ratti (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 12 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 13 David Plaza (Spa) Team Coast 14 Roberto Heras (Spa) U.S. Postal Service 15 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 16 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 17 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bartolo 18 Luis Perez (Spa) Team Coast 19 Jose Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 20 Jav Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) iBanesto.com 21 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis 22 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) ONCE-Eroski 23 Juan Carlos Guillamon (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 24 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 25 Christian Vandevelde (USA) U.S. Postal Service 26 Alvaro Gonzalez (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 27 Iņigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 28 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 29 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) iBanesto.com 0.45 30 Mario Aerts (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 1.42 31 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bartolo 32 Francisco Jose Lara (Spa) Team Coast 33 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 3.17 34 Jordi Riera (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 35 David Caņada (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 36 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 37 Raphael Schweda (Ger) Team Coast 38 Maxim Smirnov (Rus) Itera 39 Udo Bolts (Ger) Telekom 40 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 41 Rafael Diaz (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 42 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 43 Matthew White (Aus) U.S. Postal Service 44 Rafael Casero (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 45 Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) iBanesto.com 46 Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita) Cofidis 47 Gustavo M. Toledo (Arg) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 48 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 7.12 49 Roberto Lozano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 50 Mikel Pradera (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 8.48 51 Jose Vicente Garcia (Spa) iBanesto.com 52 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 53 Andrea Brognara (Ita) Alessio 54 Pietro Cauchioli (Ita) Alessio 55 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 56 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Lampre-Daikin 57 Xabier Zandio (Spa) iBanesto.com 58 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 59 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 60 Igor Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 61 René Andrle (Cze) ONCE-Eroski 62 Xavier Florencio (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 63 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 64 Jon Odriozola (Spa) iBanesto.com 65 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 66 Oscar Freire (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 67 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis 68 Dmitri Konyshev (Rus) Fassa Bartolo 69 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Team Coast 70 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Fassa Bartolo 71 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Telekom 72 Andreas Klier (Ger) Telekom 73 George Hincapie (USA) U.S. Postal Service 74 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 75 Luca Paolini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 76 Serguei Smetanine (Rus) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 11.09 77 Roberto Petito (Ita) Fassa Bartolo 78 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 79 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Itera 80 Edouard Gritsoun (Rus) Itera 81 Lander Euba (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 82 Julian Usano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 83 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 84 Jaime Hernandez (Spa) Team Coast 85 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 86 Chann Mcrae (USA) U.S. Postal Service 87 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Fassa Bartolo 88 Michael Barry (Can) U.S. Postal Service 89 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 90 Alberto Vinale (Ita) Alessio 91 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Telekom 14.34 92 German Nieto (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 93 Glenn D'hollander (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 94 Mauro Zanetti (Ita) Alessio 95 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger) Telekom 96 Chris Peers (Bel) Cofidis 97 Tom Boonen (Bel) U.S. Postal Service 98 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bartolo 99 Davide Frattini (Ita) Alessio 100 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 101 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Lotto-Adecco 102 Serguei Klimov (Rus) Itera 103 Denis Smyslov (Rus) Itera 104 Jose Angel Vidal (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 105 Hans De Clercq (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 106 Tom Steels (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 107 Jan Hruska (Cze) ONCE-Eroski 108 Alexei Markov (Rus) Itera 30.04 109 Alexander Serov (Rus) Itera Points 1 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 25 pts 2 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 20 3 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 16 4 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 14 5 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 6 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 10 7 Jose Antonio Garrido (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 9 8 Raimondas Rumsas (Ltu) Lampre-Daikin 8 9 Jose Luis Rebollo (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 7 10 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Itera 6 11 Eddy Ratti (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 5 12 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 4 13 David Plaza (Spa) Team Coast 3 14 Roberto Heras (Spa) U.S. Postal Service 2 15 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 1 Mountains Alt De Masella - Cat. 1 1 Jose Antonio Garrido (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 16 pts 2 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 12 3 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Team Coast 10 4 Iņigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 8 5 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 6 6 Jose Vicente Garcia (Spa) iBanesto.com 4 7 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) ONCE-Eroski 3 8 Juan Carlos Guillamon (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 2 9 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Alt D'eyne - Cat. 2 1 Iņigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 10 pts 2 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 7 3 Juan Carlos Guillamon (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 5 4 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) ONCE-Eroski 3 5 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) iBanesto.com 2 6 Jose Antonio Garrido (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 1 Coll D'egat - Cat. 1 1 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 16 pts 2 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) ONCE-Eroski 12 3 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) iBanesto.com 10 4 Jose Antonio Garrido (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 8 5 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 6 6 Roberto Heras (Spa) U.S. Postal Service 4 7 David Plaza (Spa) Team Coast 3 8 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 2 9 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 1 Metas volantes Martinet - km 32.3 1 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 3 pts 2 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) iBanesto.com 2 3 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 1 Bellver De Cerdanya - km 40.3 1 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 3 pts 2 Julian Usano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 2 3 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 1 Special sprints Llivia - km 86.7 1 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 3 pts 2 Juan Carlos Guillamon (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 2 3 Iņigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 1 Sallagosa - km 92.7 1 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 3 pts 2 Iņigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 2 3 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 1 Teams 1 Relax-Fuenlabrada 10.01.10 2 Team Coast 0.26 3 iBanesto.com 4 Cofidis 5 Once-Eroski 6 Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 3.17 7 U.S. Postal Service 8 Kelme-Costa Blanca 6.08 9 Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.48 10 Lampre-Daikin 10.03 11 Fassa Bartolo 10.04 12 Mapei-Quick Step 11.39 13 Itera 14.00 14 Telekom 20.01 15 Lotto-Adecco 20.47 16 Alessio 27.53 General classification after stage 5 1 Roberto Heras (Spa) U.S. Postal Service 10.32.28 2 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 0.31 3 Luis Perez (Spa) Team Coast 0.44 4 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 0.51 5 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 1.00 6 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 1.04 7 David Plaza (Spa) Team Coast 1.38 8 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 1.47 9 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 1.48 10 Jose Antonio Garrido (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 1.51 11 Raimondas Rumsas (Ltu) Lampre-Daikin 1.56 12 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Itera 1.58 13 Jose Luis Rebollo (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 2.27 14 Jav Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) iBanesto.com 2.28 15 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 2.38 16 Alvaro Gonzalez (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 2.53 17 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis 2.57 18 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 3.19 19 Eddy Ratti (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 3.19 20 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bartolo 3.21 21 Jose Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 3.36 22 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) iBanesto.com 4.31 23 Iņigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 5.11 24 Mario Aerts (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 6.11 25 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 6.14 26 Raphael Schweda (Ger) Team Coast 6.22 27 Juan Carlos Guillamon (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeri 6.33 28 Christian Vandevelde (USA) U.S. Postal Service 6.50 29 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 7.47 30 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) ONCE-Eroski 8.03 31 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 8.16 32 Francisco Jose Lara (Spa) Team Coast 9.17 33 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 9.18 34 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bartolo 9.33 35 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 9.59 36 Udo Bolts (Ger) Telekom 10.18 37 Jordi Riera (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 11.16 38 David Caņada (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 12.37 39 Pietro Cauchioli (Ita) Alessio 12.40 40 Rafael Casero (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 13.20 41 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 14.19 42 Maxim Smirnov (Rus) Itera 14.44 43 Mikel Pradera (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 15.36 44 Edouard Gritsoun (Rus) Itera 15.47 45 Gustavo M. Toledo (Arg) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 16.18 46 Rafael Diaz (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 18.06 47 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Fassa Bartolo 18.17 48 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19.58 49 George Hincapie (USA) U.S. Postal Service 20.24 50 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20.47 51 Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) iBanesto.com 21.47 52 Jon Odriozola (Spa) iBanesto.com 22.57 53 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Lampre-Daikin 22.57 54 Jose Vicente Garcia (Spa) iBanesto.com 23.59 55 Davide Frattini (Ita) Alessio 24.05 56 Dmitri Konyshev (Rus) Fassa Bartolo 24.30 57 René Andrle (Cze) ONCE-Eroski 24.56 58 Michael Barry (Can) U.S. Postal Service 25.00 59 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 25.15 60 Xavier Florencio (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 25.20 61 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Fassa Bartolo 26.17 62 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 26.34 63 Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita) Cofidis 26.37 64 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Itera 27.01 65 Jan Hruska (Cze) ONCE-Eroski 27.56 66 Roberto Petito (Ita) Fassa Bartolo 28.14 67 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 28.42 68 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 28.50 69 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 29.04 70 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 29.22 71 Roberto Lozano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 30.08 72 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 30.18 73 Oscar Freire (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 30.22 74 Luca Paolini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 30.29 75 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 30.36 76 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 30.49 77 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Telekom 31.00 78 German Nieto (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 31.05 79 Andrea Brognara (Ita) Alessio 31.41 80 Matthew White (Aus) U.S. Postal Service 31.50 81 Jose Angel Vidal (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 31.55 82 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Team Coast 32.06 83 Jaime Hernandez (Spa) Team Coast 32.26 84 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 32.32 85 Glenn D'hollander (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 34.48 86 Serguei Smetanine (Rus) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 35.30 87 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger) Telekom 36.09 88 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 36.26 89 Alberto Vinale (Ita) Alessio 37.36 90 Chann Mcrae (USA) U.S. Postal Service 38.11 91 Serguei Klimov (Rus) Itera 39.02 92 Lander Euba (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 40.02 93 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis 40.14 94 Julian Usano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 41.27 95 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 41.46 96 Chris Peers (Bel) Cofidis 43.18 97 Igor Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 43.57 98 Andreas Klier (Ger) Telekom 44.10 99 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bartolo 44.33 100 Hans De Clercq (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 45.24 101 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Telekom 45.54 102 Xabier Zandio (Spa) iBanesto.com 46.39 103 Denis Smyslov (Rus) Itera 47.57 104 Tom Boonen (Bel) U.S. Postal Service 48.50 105 Tom Steels (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 49.08 106 Mauro Zanetti (Ita) Alessio 50.29 107 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Lotto-Adecco 57.59 Points classification 1 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 41 pts 2 Jose Antonio Garrido (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 38 3 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 33 4 Roberto Heras (Spa) U.S. Postal Service 32 5 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 31 6 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 27 7 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 25 8 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Telekom 25 9 Luis Perez (Spa) Team Coast 25 10 Raimondas Rumsas (Ltu) Lampre-Daikin 24 11 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 24 12 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 21 13 Oscar Freire (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 20 14 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 20 15 Jose Luis Rebollo (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 19 16 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Itera 17 17 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 16 18 Dmitri Konyshev (Rus) Fassa Bartolo 14 19 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 20 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 12 21 David Plaza (Spa) Team Coast 11 22 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger) Telekom 9 23 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 8 24 Rafael Casero (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 7 25 Iņigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 6 26 Eddy Ratti (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 5 27 George Hincapie (USA) U.S. Postal Service 5 28 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis 4 29 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Lampre-Daikin 3 30 Pietro Cauchioli (Ita) Alessio 2 31 German Nieto (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 2 32 Jav Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) iBanesto.com 1 33 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Fassa Bartolo 1 Mountains classification 1 Jose Antonio Garrido (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 76 pts 2 Roberto Heras (Spa) U.S. Postal Service 36 3 Luis Perez (Spa) Team Coast 34 4 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 30 5 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 28 6 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 24 7 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 23 8 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) iBanesto.com 22 9 Iņigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 21 10 Raimondas Rumsas (Ltu) Lampre-Daikin 20 11 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) ONCE-Eroski 18 12 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 17 13 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) iBanesto.com 15 14 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 14 15 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 12 16 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 12 17 Mikel Pradera (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 12 18 Juan Carlos Guillamon (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeri 11 19 Jose Luis Rebollo (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 10 20 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Team Coast 10 21 Udo Bolts (Ger) Telekom 8 22 David Plaza (Spa) Team Coast 6 23 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Itera 6 24 Francisco Jose Lara (Spa) Team Coast 4 25 Jose Vicente Garcia (Spa) iBanesto.com 4 26 Michael Barry (Can) U.S. Postal Service 4 27 Christian Vandevelde (USA) U.S. Postal Service 3 28 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 3 29 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 2 30 Jordi Riera (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 2 31 George Hincapie (USA) U.S. Postal Service 2 32 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Metas volantes classification 1 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 6 pts 2 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 6 3 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bartolo 6 4 Julian Usano (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 2 5 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) iBanesto.com 2 6 Alvaro Gonzalez (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 2 7 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 1 8 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 1 9 Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) iBanesto.com 1 Sprints classification 1 Carlos Torrent (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 12 pts 2 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 7 3 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 3 4 Iņigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 3 5 Juan Carlos Guillamon (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 2 6 Jose Antonio Garrido (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 2 7 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 1 Teams classification 1 Team Coast 31.39.35 2 iBanesto.com 3.08 3 Relax-Fuenlabrada 5.14 4 Cofidis 8.35 5 Once-Eroski 8.47 6 Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 17.26 7 U.S. Postal Service 19.32 8 Itera 23.19 9 Kelme-Costa Blanca 23.51 10 Fassa Bartolo 26.31 11 Mapei-Quick Step 27.15 12 Lampre-Daikin 28.12 13 Alessio 56.57 14 Lotto-Adecco 1.04.27 15 Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.07.32 16 Telekom 1.09.30
