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Tour de Romandie - 2.HC
Switzerland, April 27 - May 2, 2004
Prologue - April 27: Genèva ITT, 3.4 km
First win for McGee
Australia's Brad McGee (FDJeux.com) showed once more that he is a true specialist in short tests against the clock, storming to a prologue victory at the Tour de Romandie. At only 3.4 kilometres, the narrow, technical parcours in the old sections of Geneva offered no room for error, and barely a moment for riders to click into the biggest gears between corners. McGee was among the last starters, beating the time of fellow specialist Olaf Pollack of Gerolsteiner.
Defending champion Tyler Hamilton, riding his first Swiss event for new sponsor Phonak, kept in contact with the leaders but couldn't match the fastest times. Hamilton's Phonak teammates were out in force, however, as Martin Elmiger and Alexandre Moos took third and fourth, respectively, and an unlucky Alex Zülle finished ninth despite a spill in the hairpin bend shortly before the finish. The Swiss veteran was on a good ride and would almost certainly have been among the top times had he not fallen.
Down the list on the general classification are other team leaders such as CSC's Jörg Jaksche, Aitor Gonzalez (Fassa Bortolo) and Francisco Mancebo (Illes Balears), but the short parcours offered a chance for almost all riders to stay within reasonable range of the new leader McGee.
Results
1 Bradley McGee (Aus) FDJeux.com 4.24.40 2 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.14 3 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6.98 4 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 7.45 5 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 8.58 6 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 9.21 7 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 9.40 8 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) FDJeux.com 11.34 9 Alex Zülle (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 11.75 10 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 12.18 11 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 13.19 12 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 13.20 13 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 13.56 14 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 13.86 15 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 14.37 16 Iker Camańo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 14.38 17 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Saeco 14.46 18 Ludovic Martin (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 14.53 19 Andoni Aranaga Azkune (Spa) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 14.62 20 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 14.64 21 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 14.65 22 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Saeco 14.71 23 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 14.87 24 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 14.90 25 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 14.97 26 Aitor Gonzalez Jimenez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 15.03 27 Alberto Ardila Cano Mauricio (Col) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Ni 15.16 27 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 29 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r-Prevoyance 15.27 30 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15.31 31 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 15.57 32 Denis Kostyuk (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 15.62 33 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 15.73 34 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 15.86 35 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 15.88 36 Benoit Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJeux.com 16.03 37 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 16.04 38 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 16.06 39 Maxim Rudenko (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 16.11 40 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 16.19 41 Tom Danielson (USA) Fassa Bortolo 16.61 42 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 16.93 43 Peter Lüttenberger (Aus) Team CSC 17.13 43 David Loosli (Swi) Saeco 45 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 17.25 46 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 17.28 47 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 17.38 48 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 17.53 49 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 17.68 50 Florent Brard (Fra) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 17.73 51 Christophe Rinero (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 17.79 52 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 17.89 53 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 18.02 54 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 18.12 55 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 18.47 56 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 18.50 57 Dario Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 18.53 58 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18.67 59 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Gerolsteiner 18.73 60 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 18.74 61 Bert de Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 18.96 62 Christophe Laurent (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 19.38 63 Massimo Strazzer (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 19.44 63 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 65 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 19.45 66 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 19.56 67 Ińigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19.70 68 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 19.85 69 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 20.19 70 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 20.24 71 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20.90 72 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 21.01 73 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 21.09 74 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Illes Balears-Banesto 21.15 75 Eric Berthoud (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 21.23 76 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 21.25 77 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo 21.29 78 Pierre Bourquenoud (Swi) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 21.65 79 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 22.13 80 John Gadret (Fra) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 22.36 81 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 23.02 82 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 23.07 83 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 23.18 84 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Saeco 23.25 85 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre 23.69 86 Nicki Sörensen (Den) Team CSC 24.50 87 Julian Sanchez Pimienta (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 24.99 88 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Lampre 25.25 89 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner 25.37 90 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 25.41 91 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25.43 92 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) FDJeux.com 25.55 93 Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Saeco 25.62 94 Jan Svorada (Cze) Lampre 25.68 95 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 26.01 96 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 26.11 97 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 26.18 98 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 26.22 99 Johan Verstrepen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 26.39 100 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 27.33 101 Sylwester Szmyd (Pol) Saeco 27.57 102 Roberto Sgambelluri (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 27.78 103 Stefano Casagranda (Ita) Saeco 28.19 104 Ińigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 28.37 105 Ruslan Gryschenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 29.08 106 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco 29.70 107 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Lampre 31.05 108 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 31.23 109 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 31.28 110 Matthew Wilson (Aus) FDJeux.com 33.22 111 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 34.18 112 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 35.75 113 Sergiy Adyeyev (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 38.57 114 Santo Anza (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 38.71 115 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 41.78 116 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre 47.31 117 Francis Mourey (Fra) FDJeux.com 1.49.01 Points 1 Bradley McGee (Aus) FDJeux.com 15 Pts 2 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12 3 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 10 4 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 9 5 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 8 6 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 7 7 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 8 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) FDJeux.com 5 9 Alex Zülle (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 10 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 3 11 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 12 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 1 Teams 1 Phonak Hearing Systems 13.34 2 FDJeux.com 0.01 3 Gerolsteiner 0.13 4 Iles Baleares - Banesto 0.15 5 Team CSC 0.20 6 Saunier Duval - Prodir 0.23 7 Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 0.24 8 Saeco 9 Euskaltel - Euskadi 10 Fassa Bortolo 0.25 11 Vini Caldirola - Nobili Rubinetterrie 0.26 12 Ag2r Prevoyance 0.27 13 RAGT Semences - MG Rover 0.28 14 Lampre 0.29 15 Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 0.37 General classification after prologue 1 Bradley McGee (Aus) FDJeux.com 4.24 2 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.03 3 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.07 4 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 5 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.08 6 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 0.09 7 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 9.00 8 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) FDJeux.com 0.11 9 Alex Zülle (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.12 10 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 11 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.13 12 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 13 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 14 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 0.14 15 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 16 Iker Camańo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 17 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Saeco 18 Ludovic Martin (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 19 Andoni Aranaga Azkune (Spa) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 0.15 20 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 21 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 22 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Saeco 23 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 24 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 26 Aitor Gonzalez Jimenez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 27 Alberto Ardila Cano Mauricio (Col) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 27 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 29 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r-Prevoyance 30 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 31 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 32 Denis Kostyuk (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 0.16 33 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 34 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 35 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 36 Benoit Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJeux.com 37 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 38 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 39 Maxim Rudenko (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 40 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 41 Tom Danielson (USA) Fassa Bortolo 42 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.17 43 Peter Lüttenberger (Aus) Team CSC 43 David Loosli (Swi) Saeco 45 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 46 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 47 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 48 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 49 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 0.18 50 Florent Brard (Fra) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 51 Christophe Rinero (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 52 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 53 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 54 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 55 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 56 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 57 Dario Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 58 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.19 59 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Gerolsteiner 60 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 61 Bert de Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 62 Christophe Laurent (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 63 Massimo Strazzer (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 63 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 65 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 66 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 67 Ińigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.20 68 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 69 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 70 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 71 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.21 72 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 73 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 74 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Illes Balears-Banesto 75 Eric Berthoud (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 76 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 77 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo 78 Pierre Bourquenoud (Swi) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 0.22 79 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 80 John Gadret (Fra) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 81 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.23 82 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 83 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 84 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Saeco 85 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre 0.24 86 Nicki Sörensen (Den) Team CSC 87 Julian Sanchez Pimienta (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 0.25 88 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Lampre 89 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner 90 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 91 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 92 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) FDJeux.com 93 Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Saeco 0.26 94 Jan Svorada (Cze) Lampre 95 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 96 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 97 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 98 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 99 Johan Verstrepen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 100 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) RAGT Semences-MG Rover 0.27 101 Sylwester Szmyd (Pol) Saeco 102 Roberto Sgambelluri (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterrie 0.28 103 Stefano Casagranda (Ita) Saeco 104 Ińigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 105 Ruslan Gryschenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.29 106 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco 0.30 107 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Lampre 0.31 108 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 109 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 110 Matthew Wilson (Aus) FDJeux.com 0.33 111 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 0.34 112 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 0.36 113 Sergiy Adyeyev (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.38 114 Santo Anza (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.39 115 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.42 116 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre 0.47 117 Francis Mourey (Fra) FDJeux.com 1.49 Points classification 1 Bradley McGee (Aus) FDJeux.com 15 Pts 2 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12 3 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 10 4 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 9 5 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 8 6 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 7 7 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 8 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) FDJeux.com 5 9 Alex Zülle (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 10 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 3 11 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 12 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 1 Teams classification 1 Phonak Hearing Systems 13.34 2 FDJeux.com 0.01 3 Gerolsteiner 0.13 4 Iles Baleares - Banesto 0.15 5 Team CSC 0.20 6 Saunier Duval - Prodir 0.23 7 Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 0.24 8 Saeco 9 Euskaltel - Euskadi 10 Fassa Bortolo 0.25 11 Vini Caldirola - Nobili 0.26 12 Ag2r Prevoyance 0.27 13 RAGT Semences - MG Rover 0.28 14 Lampre 0.29 15 Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 0.37
