71st Critérium International - 2.1
France, March 30-31, 2002
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Stage 3 - March 31: Charleville Mezieres ITT, 8.5 km
Hungry Martinez finally tastes victory at Critérium International
Incredible Armstrong pedals to runner-up
By Tim Maloney, European editor
If Alberto Martinez were at home in San Sebastian, Spain, he might have been hungry for some roast baby goat on Easter, but as it turned out, the talented young Euskaltel-Euskadi rider was even hungrier for the winner's trophy at the '02 edition of Critérium International.
Last year, after a solid ride on the second day of competition at C-I, Martinez was runner up in the TT and runner up overall to eventual winner Rik Verbrugghe (Lotto-Addeco). The bitter taste that remained in the Basque's bocca was certainly washed away by champagne today, as Martinez not only snatched the overall GC from fading Frenchman David Moncoutié with a brilliant runner-up in the TT; Martinez relegated an already resurgent Lance Armstrong to second, keeping the American triple Tour De France winner from his first win of the 2002 season by less than one second!
Armstrong's effort showed that, fitness-wise, the American is already on track to defend his 4th Tour De France title in July. Pedaling a smaller gear at a higher cadence than the others all day Sunday, Armstrong's power and class propelled him to second spot at C-I '02 in only his second race of the season.
"I was lacking a little in the time trial," said Armstrong. "I am satisfied. For the legs, it's not bad."
David Moncoutie tried hard, but the lightly built Cofidis climber just didn't have the power to keep his Maillot Jaune until the end. Cofidis is crying out for David Millar, who were he recovered from mononucleosis, could have given winner Martinez a run for his roast baby goat, not to mention the overall win.
Kudos to Credit Agricole power ranger Jens Voigt, who won the Stage 3 time trial and shows that he just keeps getting stronger every year. Australian Brad McGee showed his stuff in the TT too; he had an excellent performance to propel him into the top 10 at C-I '02.
In taking his 5th career win in the overall GC at C-I '02, Alberto Martinez showed that he is yet another emerging Basque rider to bring the orange colours of Euskaltel-Euskadi to the top level of cycling.
Photography
- Richard Virenque (Domo) looks reflective before the start
- Lance Armstrong (US Postal) before the off
- Marco Pantani (Mercatone) waits to start
- Lance Armstrong's TT efforts were enough to land him second on GC
- Alberto Martinez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) realises he's forgotten his orange nasal strip
- David Moncoutie (Cofidis) didn't have the power to retain the leader jersey
- David Moncoutie struggles to keep up the speed
- Richard Virenque (Domo) going hard in the TT
- The GC podium: Moncoutie, Martinez and Armstrong
Results
1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole 10.23 2 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.07 3 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 0.08 4 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 0.12 5 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 6 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team Telekom 7 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 0.14 8 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 0.15 9 Jean Nuttli (Swi) Saint-Quentin Oktos 10 Matthias Buxhofer (Aut) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.16 11 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 0.17 12 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 0.24 13 Jakob Piil (Den) Team CSC Tiscali 14 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) iBanesto.com 0.25 15 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.26 16 David Zabriskie (USA) US Postal Service 0.27 17 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service 0.28 18 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 19 Glenn D'hollander (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 20 Xavier Florencio (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 0.29 21 Christian Vandevelde (USA) US Postal Service 22 Anthony Morin (Fra) Credit Agricole 23 Jan Hruska (Cze) ONCE-Eroski 0.31 24 Inigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 0.32 25 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) iBanesto.com 0.33 26 Ren Andrle (Cze) ONCE-Eroski 27 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour 0.34 28 Mario Aerts (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 29 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal Service 30 Rafael Diaz (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 0.35 31 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour 32 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 33 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) US Postal Service 34 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Team Coast 0.36 35 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.37 36 Bobby Julich (USA) Team Telekom 37 Steffen Kjaergaard (Nor) US Postal Service 38 Félix Garcia Casas (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 0.39 39 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 40 Fabrice Salanson (Fra) Bonjour 0.40 41 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.41 42 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.42 43 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Alessio 44 Franck Bouyer (Fra) Bonjour 45 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 46 César Solaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.44 47 Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) iBanesto.com 48 Dimitri Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 0.45 49 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.46 50 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali 51 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 0.47 52 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Bonjour 53 Alexandre Grux (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 54 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Saeco-Longoni Sport 0.48 55 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 0.49 56 Aleksandr Sheffr (Kaz) Alessio 57 Olivier Asmaker (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali 58 David Arroyo (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 59 Bekim Christensen (Den) Team Coast 60 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Alessio 0.50 61 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 0.52 62 Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) iBanesto.com 63 Cédric Fragniere (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.53 64 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.54 65 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 0.55 66 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) ONCE-Eroski 67 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 68 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 0.56 69 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 0.57 70 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bonjour 71 Florent Brard (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.58 72 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Alessio 73 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 0.59 74 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 75 Roberto Heras (Spa) US Postal Service 1.00 76 Richard Virenque (Fra) Domo-Farm Frites 1.02 77 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.04 78 David Munoz (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 79 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Jean Delatour 1.06 80 Daniel Clavero (Spa) Mercatone Uno 81 Xabier Zandio (Spa) iBanesto.com 82 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Mercatone Uno 83 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 84 Christian Charriere (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.07 85 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Team Telekom 86 Santiago Blanco (Spa) iBanesto.com 1.08 87 Santiago Perez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1.09 88 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 89 Lylian Lebreton (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 90 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 1.10 91 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Jean Delatour 1.11 92 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Telekom 1.13 93 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.14 94 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.15 95 Rolf Huser (Swi) Team Coast 96 Médéric Clain (Fra) Cofidis 1.18 97 Thierry Loder (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.20 98 Steve De Wolf (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 1.21 99 Marco Pantani (Ita) Mercatone Uno 1.22 100 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 1.23 101 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 102 Gustavo Otero (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1.25 103 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.27 104 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 105 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 1.29 106 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 1.32 107 Danny Jonasson (Den) Team CSC Tiscali 1.39 108 Christophe Capelle (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 1.55 109 Eddy Lembo (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 1.56 110 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 2.08 DNS Axel Merckx (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites Points 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole 15 pts 2 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 3 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 10 4 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 8 5 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 7 6 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team Telekom 6 7 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 5 8 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 4 9 Jean Nuttli (Swi) Saint-Quentin Oktos 3 10 Matthias Buxhofer (Aut) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 Teams 1 US Postal Service 32.12 2 Bonjour 0.01 3 Credit Agricole 0.05 4 Lotto - Adecco 0.11 5 La Francaise Des Jeux 0.28 6 Once - Eroski 0.30 7 Jean Delatour 0.34 8 Ibanesto.Com 0.39 9 Cofidis 10 Team Coast 11 Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.43 12 Phonak Hearing Systems 0.48 13 Team Telekom 0.53 14 Team CSC Tiscali 0.56 15 Alessio 1.18 16 Kelme 1.35 17 Ag2R Prevoyance 18 Big.Mat-Auber 93 1.55 19 Oktos-Saint-Quentin 2.13 20 Mercatone Uno 2.31 Final general classification 1 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7.33.03 2 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 0.01 3 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 0.12 4 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole 0.17 5 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.19 6 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 0.21 7 Inigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 0.25 8 Mario Aerts (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 0.27 9 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 0.31 10 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 11 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team Telekom 12 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 0.33 13 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 0.34 14 Matthias Buxhofer (Aut) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.35 15 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 16 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 0.36 17 Aleksandr Sheffr (Kaz) Alessio 0.42 18 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 0.43 19 Jakob Piil (Den) Team CSC Tiscali 20 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) iBanesto.com 0.44 21 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) iBanesto.com 22 Cédric Fragniere (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.46 23 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service 0.47 24 Christian Vandevelde (USA) US Postal Service 0.48 25 Jan Hruska (Cze) ONCE-Eroski 0.50 26 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour 27 Ren Andrle (Cze) ONCE-Eroski 0.52 28 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Alessio 0.53 29 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) US Postal Service 0.55 30 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Team Coast 31 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.56 32 Bobby Julich (USA) Team Telekom 33 Steffen Kjaergaard (Nor) US Postal Service 34 Félix Garcia Casas (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 0.58 35 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.59 36 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.01 37 Franck Bouyer (Fra) Bonjour 38 César Solaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.03 39 Dimitri Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 1.04 40 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 1.06 41 David Zabriskie (USA) US Postal Service 1.07 42 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Saeco-Longoni Sport 43 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 1.08 44 Bekim Christensen (Den) Team Coast 45 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Alessio 1.09 46 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.14 47 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 1.15 48 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 1.16 49 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Alessio 1.17 50 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1.18 51 Roberto Heras (Spa) US Postal Service 1.19 52 Richard Virenque (Fra) Domo-Farm Frites 1.21 53 Daniel Clavero (Spa) Mercatone Uno 1.25 54 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Mercatone Uno 55 Christian Charriere (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.26 56 Santiago Blanco (Spa) iBanesto.com 1.27 57 Santiago Perez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1.28 58 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 59 Lylian Lebreton (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 60 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Jean Delatour 1.30 61 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) ONCE-Eroski 62 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.32 63 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.34 64 Steve De Wolf (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 1.40 65 Marco Pantani (Ita) Mercatone Uno 1.41 66 Gustavo Otero (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1.44 67 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 2.33 68 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 69 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.34 70 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 2.43 71 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bonjour 2.45 72 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 2.47 73 Alexandre Grux (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 3.10 74 Rolf Huser (Swi) Team Coast 3.24 75 Médéric Clain (Fra) Cofidis 3.27 76 David Munoz (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 3.35 77 Xavier Florencio (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 3.40 78 Rafael Diaz (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 3.42 79 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 3.51 80 Anthony Morin (Fra) Credit Agricole 3.54 81 Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) iBanesto.com 3.55 82 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 4.08 83 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal Service 4.10 84 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 4.17 85 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Team Telekom 4.18 86 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 4.31 87 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 4.50 88 Glenn D'hollander (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 5.50 89 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour 5.56 90 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 6.01 91 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Bonjour 6.09 92 Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) iBanesto.com 6.14 93 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 6.26 94 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Jean Delatour 6.28 95 Xabier Zandio (Spa) iBanesto.com 96 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Telekom 6.35 97 Eddy Lembo (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 6.36 98 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Saint-Quentin Oktos 6.37 99 Thierry Loder (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 6.42 100 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.49 101 David Arroyo (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 10.32 102 Jean Nuttli (Swi) Saint-Quentin Oktos 10.48 103 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali 11.19 104 Olivier Asmaker (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali 11.21 105 Florent Brard (Fra) Credit Agricole 11.31 106 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 11.43 107 Danny Jonasson (Den) Team CSC Tiscali 12.12 108 Christophe Capelle (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 12.28 109 Fabrice Salanson (Fra) Bonjour 14.31 110 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 14.54 Points classification 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole 17 pts 2 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 15 3 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 4 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 15 5 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 12 6 Inigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 10 7 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour 10 8 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 9 9 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 8 10 Cédric Fragniere (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 8 11 Bradley McGee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 7 12 Mario Aerts (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 7 13 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team Telekom 6 14 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 6 15 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 5 16 Christophe Capelle (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 5 17 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Bonjour 4 18 Aleksandr Sheffr (Kaz) Alessio 4 19 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 4 20 Rafael Diaz (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 4 21 Jean Nuttli (Swi) Saint-Quentin Oktos 3 22 Matthias Buxhofer (Aut) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 23 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 1 24 Olivier Asmaker (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali 1 Mountains classification 1 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 16 pts 2 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Jean Delatour 11 3 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 8 4 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) iBanesto.com 6 5 Cédric Fragniere (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 6 Mario Aerts (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 5 7 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 4 8 David Zabriskie (USA) US Postal Service 4 9 Rafael Diaz (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 4 10 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 4 11 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Alessio 4 12 Médéric Clain (Fra) Cofidis 4 13 Aleksandr Sheffr (Kaz) Alessio 3 14 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 15 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 2 16 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 2 17 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 18 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bonjour 2 19 Inigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 1 20 Ren Andrle (Cze) ONCE-Eroski 1 21 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 1 22 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1 Teams classification 1 Cofidis 22.40.21 2 US Postal Service 0.22 3 Lotto - Adecco 0.33 4 Bonjour 0.49 5 Jean Delatour 0.56 6 Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.05 7 Phonak Hearing Systems 1.10 8 Ibanesto.Com 1.19 9 Team Coast 1.27 10 Alessio 1.32 11 Once - Eroski 1.34 12 Kelme 1.50 13 La Francaise Des Jeux 2.07 14 Mercatone Uno 3.19 15 Ag2R Prevoyance 4.13 16 Team Telekom 4.33 17 Credit Agricole 5.00 18 Oktos-Saint-Quentin 8.07 19 Big.Mat-Auber 93 12.57 20 Team CSC Tiscali 22.12
