22nd Tour de Normandie - 2.5
France, March 25-31, 2002
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Stage 5 - March 30: Cherbourg-Octeville - Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, 201 km
Frenchman Pineau takes over in Normandy
By Jean-Francois Quenet in Bagnoles-de-l'Orne
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The Tour of Normandy has a new leader with one day to go: French neo-pro Jérôme Pineau of Bonjour. He was clever taking the first bonus sprint, which allowed him to overtake Fakta's Jorgen Bo Petersen on the virtual GC. Then he had his team-mate Anthony Geslin away together with Laurent Paumier of St-Quentin and Frédéric Delalande from Jean Floc'h at the time of the second bonus sprint.
In the finale, there was no danger for him as Filippo Pozzato showed up like a "fuoriclasse": in the hill located eight kilometers before the finish, he attacked, dropped off his wheel his former team-mate Philippe Koehler now racing for St-Quentin, and overtook the riders already away, Alejsander Klimienko of MROZ, Cédric Coutouly from Credit Agricole and Porta da Ravessa's Francisco Perez.
"I surprised everyone because they still think I'm a sprinter but I'm not!" Pozzato declared.
With seven victories this year, he is near the top of the world's wins tally. Not bad for a 20 and half years old rider!
The new leader of the Tour of Normandy is also a young one: Jérôme Pineau, 23, was the best U23 in France last year. "I've not won yet but I'm in the best position", he said. There are 146 kilometers left and some tensions are expected in the bunch...
Photography
Photo's courtesy of Jean-Francois Quenet
- Filippo Pozzato (Mapei) - smiles on the podium with his flowers after winning stage 5
- Filippo Pozzato - congratulated by a teammate after winning yet another
- Filippo Pozzato - not surprisingly in the green jersey
- Jerome Pineau (Bonjour) - took over the leader's jersey after stage 5
Results
1 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs 4.58.22 2 Dominique Pere (Fra) Panorimmo-23 3 Mark Vlijm (Ned) Axa-VVZ 4 Benoit Legrix (Fra) Normandie 5 Marc Vanacker (Lux) Marlux 6 Tony Mace (Fra) Normandie 7 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bonjour 8 Yanto Barker (GBr) VC Roubaix 9 Pedro Martins (Por) Porta da Ravessa 10 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom 11 Rune Jogert (Nor) Team Krone 12 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 13 Bogdan Bondriew (Ukr) Mroz 14 David Breard (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 15 Giuseppe Ribolzi (Ita) Team Jura Suisse 16 Kilian Patour (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 17 Oliver Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour 18 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) Mapei Quick-Step 19 Kasper Sowinski (Pol) Legia 20 Vincent Templier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin 21 David Chassot (Swi) Team Jura Suisse 22 Marcel Luppes (Ned) Axa-VVZ 23 Branko Filip (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom 24 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Nürnberger 25 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 26 Jacek Walczak (Pol) Legia 27 Serguey Polukhin (Rus) Moscou CS 28 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bonjour 29 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta 30 Mitje Mahoric (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom 31 Ludovic Lanceleur (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 32 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux 33 Andrey Pchtelkine (Fra) Moscou CS 34 Tony Cavet (Fra) Normandie 35 Domingo Segado (Spa) Porta da Ravessa 36 Helder Lopes (Por) Porta da Ravessa 37 Rene Jorgensen (Den) Team fakta 38 Christophe Thebault (Fra) Jean Floc'h 39 Camille Bouquet (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 40 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team fakta 41 Pierre Ackermann (Swi) Team Jura Suisse 42 Jos Lucassen (Ned) Axa-VVZ 43 Thomas Buchacek (Cze) Joko-Velamos 44 Arkadius Wojtas (Pol) Nurnberger 45 Samuel Gicquel (Fra) Jean Floc'h 46 Nicolas Andre (Fra) Panorimmo-23 47 Mariusz Kaminski (Pol) Legia 48 Nicolas Meret (Fra) VC Rouen 76 49 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Krone 50 Jerome Riglet (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 51 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour 52 Frederic Lecrosnier (Fra) Jean Floc'h 53 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) Mapei Quick-Step 54 Jose Sousa (Spa) Porta da Ravessa 55 Carlo Meneghetti (Fra) VC Roubaix 56 Ronny Lauke (Ger) Nürnberger 57 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 58 Wojtech Muchka (Cze) Joko-Velamos 59 Lars Breiseth (Nor) Team Krone 60 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux 61 Bostjan Mervar (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom 62 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quickstep 63 Aidan Duff (Ire) Panorimmo-23 64 Helder Miranda (Por) Porta da Ravessa 65 Alexandre Kozlov (Blr) VC Roubaix 66 Frederic Mainguenaud (Fra) Bonjour 67 Florian Ludi (Fra) Team Jura Suisse 68 Vladimir Sidorenkov (Rus) Moscou CS 69 Remigijus Lupeikis (Ltu) Mroz 70 Damien Pommereau (Fra) VC Rouen 76 71 Jan Faltynek (Cze) Joko-Velamos 72 Frederic Lubach (Fra) VC Roubaix 73 Jure Golser (Ger) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom) 74 Dany Caprais (Fra) VC Rouen 76 75 Bjornar Vestol (Nor) Team fakta 76 Laurent Paumier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin) 77 Michel Klinger (Swi) Team Jura Suissa 78 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Legia 79 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Mroz 80 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Team Krone 81 Frederic Delalande (Fra) Jean Floc'h 82 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Mroz 83 Kjetil Loitegaard (Nor) Team Krone 84 Walter Bonca (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom 85 Radek Blahut (Cze) Joko-Velamos 86 Stephane Petilleau (Fra) VC Roubaix 87 Morten Sonne (Den) Team fakta 88 Aleksander Klimienko (Kaz) Mroz 89 Stephane Ravaleu (Fra) VC Rouen 76 90 Marc Chanoine (Bel) Marlux 91 Jacques Chapatte (Swi) Team Jura Suisse 92 Jean-Philippe Yon (Fra) VC Rouen 76 0.43 93 Credic Coutouly (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 94 Francisco Perez (Spa) Porta da Ravessa 95 Philippe Koehler (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin 0.48 96 Tomas Hanauer (Cze) Joko-Velamos 1.13 97 Pavel Zugaj (Pol) Mroz 1.16 98 Alexei Garanine (Rus) Moscou CS 1.29 99 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nurnberger 2.20 100 Vincent Greneche (Fra) Panorimmo-23 2.40 101 Guillaume Judas (Fra) Jean Floc'h 102 Nicolas L'hote (Fra) VC Roubaix 103 Sylvain Anquetil (Fra) VC Rouen 76 104 Daniel Van Elven (Ned) Axa-VVZ 3.04 105 Cyril Bos (Fra) Normandie 3.20 106 Fabien Merciris (Fra) Normandie 107 Armin Kroniger (Ger) Nurnberger 108 Cedric Jourdan (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 DNF Arnaud Pretot (Fra) Oktis-ST-Quentin DNF Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs DNF Marek Blazej (Pol) Legia DNF David Lelay (Fra) Jean Floc'h DNF Philippe Gascon (Fra) Panorimmo-23 DNF Niels Brouzes (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 DNF Serguei Koudentsov (Rus) Moscou CS General classification after stage 5 1 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bonjour 22.00.43 2 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta 0.01 3 Branko Filip (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom 4 Arkadius Wojtas (Pol) Nurnberger 0.02 5 Christophe Thebault (Fra) Jean Floc'h 0.06 6 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom 0.20 7 Helder Lopes (Por) Porta da Ravessa 0.36 8 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Mroz 0.52 9 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs 1.06 10 Frederic Mainguenaud (Fra) Bonjour 1.16 11 Benoit Legrix (Fra) Normandie 1.23 12 Rune Jogert (Nor) Team Krone 1.26 13 Oliver Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour 1.33 14 Andrey Pchtelkine (Fra) Moscou CS 1.40 15 Pierre Ackermann (Swi) Team Jura Suisse 1.43 16 Carlo Meneghetti (Fra) VC Roubaix 1.45 17 Samuel Gicquel (Fra) Jean Floc'h 1.46 18 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team fakta 1.47 19 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour 1.54 20 Frederic Delalande (Fra) Jean Floc'h Courtesy of velomania.net
