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68th Tour de Suisse- 2.HC
Switzerland, June 12-20, 2004
Main page Results Previous stage Next stage Scott Sunderland's diary
Stage 8 - June 19: Buchs - Bellinzone, 191km
Bettini plays a solo
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Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step-Davitamon) claimed a solo victory in stage 8 of the Tour de Suisse, powering a three-man break into the final 10 kilometres, dropping his companions Alessandro Cortinovis (Lampre) and Patrick Calcagni (Vini Caldirola) and negotiating the tricky descent to the finish. In another wet and unpleasant day, Bettini received his reward for a week of constant attacking. It's been a somewhat quiet spring for the Italian champion, but Bettini looks to be hitting his stride just in time for the Tour de France in two weeks time.
"I felt I was getting stronger every day," Bettini said after his win. "Today was a special day. I want to go home this evening so I really wanted to win my last race in the Italian national jersey. It was hard to pick the right break; everybody wanted to go all the time. It's been like that every day."
Bettini helped produce the winning move, but he had two riders for company: the Swiss Calcagni and Lampre's Alessandro Cortinovis. Even before the final climb, the pressure was too great for Cortinovis, who dropped off the pace. Calcagni rode well, but knew that he had a tough finish to come with Bettini at the helm. He didn't shy away from working before the climb, but once the going got steep there was no holding Bettini, who simply upped the tempo to drop his only challenger. With dark skies and rain making life treacherous, Bettini crested the climb alone and dove into Bellinzone, for once having time to savour a victory.
"This stage was really something for me," he explained. "It's the first time in my eight seasons as a pro that I finished alone!"
Bettini won't finish the Tour de Suisse, preferring to bypass the final day's time trial to return home and prepare for his defense of the Italian national championship in a week.
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Race leader Fabian Jeker (Saunier Duval-Prodir) managed to add a few seconds to his slender advantage, taking time from his key rivals Jan Ullrich and Georg Totschnig on the final climb, which splintered the main field despite its modest fourth category rating. Jeker now heads into the closing time trial with 41 seconds in hand over Ullrich, who jumped ahead of Totschnig to move into second overall.
"The attack was the best defense, I thought," said an obviously pleased Jeker. "I saw Ullrich didn't feel that good today. I did, and this is the result. I haven't looked at the time trial yet. I feel excellent and will do my best, but Ullrich remains the favourite. This jersey really motivates me though. After this tour I'm going on holiday with my family and then I'll prepare for the Tour of Spain."
How it unfolded
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Today's 191 km stage took the riders between Buchs and Bellinzone, via the Cat. 1 Lukmanier climb, which had its summit 70 km from the finish. With only tomorrow's 25.6 km time trial in Lugano to finish the Tour de Suisse, almost everyone realised that today would be their last chance of a stage win.
After 20 km of high speed racing, a group of 14 riders finally managed to get a gap, prompted by an attack from Alessio's Scott Sunderland: Sébastian Joly and Stéphane Augé (Credit Agricole), Alessandro Cortinovis (Lampre), Santiago Perez (Phonak), Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step-Davitamon), Marco Serpellini (Gerolsteiner), Grischa Niermann (Rabobank), David Bernabeu (Milaneza), Kim Kirchen (Fassa Bortolo), Patrick Calcagni (Vini Caldirola), Glenn D'Hollander (Lotto-Domo), Juan Fuentes (Saeco), Scott Sunderland (Alessio-Bianchi) and Santiago Botero (T-Mobile). The most dangerous rider in the group was Niermann, who started the day 8 minutes down on GC, thus the group wasn't allowed too much leeway by the GC teams.
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The first hour saw an incredible 50 km covered by the leaders, who built up a sub-three minute gap to the Saunier Duval/Chocolade Jacques driven peloton. By the time the group hit the first climb of the day, it began to break up as the riders started attacking to get rid of Niermann. Bettini was first to the top of the Cat. 3 climb of Flims (km 61), and eventually a group with Perez, Botero, Kirchen, Bernabeu, Fuentes and Serpellini formed around him on the Lukmanier climb. Niermann was chasing with the rest of the break at a minute back, while the peloton followed at 6 minutes.
The gap grew to more than seven minutes between the leaders and the peloton, which picked up the pace on the climb to reduce the deficit to a more manageable level. Juan Fuentes was first to the top of the mountain, followed by Bettini, Serpellini, Bernabeu and Perez. The main peloton passed the summit five minutes behind the leaders, who were now negotiating a very fast descent made dangerous by rain that was starting to fall in buckets.
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Fuentes took the lead on the descent, but was caught with 57 km to go as the lead group briefly swelled back to 11 riders, Niermann included. But with 54 km left, Bettini attacked with Cortinovis and Calcagni, and the trio quickly rode away from the rest of the group, gaining a minute with 35 km to go.
With 12 km to go, Cortinovis couldn't hang on any more and Bettini and Calcagni were alone. When they reached the final climb of Artore with 5 km left, it was Bettini who had the best legs, dropping Calcagni near the bottom and riding solo to the stage victory. The rain was still coming down and it was no easy task for Bettini to negotiate all the bends in the last 3 km, but the Italian champion succeeded and crossed the line 1'04 ahead of Calcagni and 1'53 in front of Kim Kirchen and Santi Perez.
The peloton broke into bits on the last climb as well, and Fabian Jeker was able to put a small gap into Jan Ullrich, crossing the line in 12th place, 9 seconds clear of the German. Worse off was yesterday's winner Georg Totschnig, who finished 41st and lost 42 precious seconds to Jeker.
Jeker now has a 41 second lead over Ullrich (50 to Totschnig) going into tomorrow's final time trial in Lugano, but will it be enough?
Photography
Images by Franklin Tello Photography/Cyclingnews/franklintellophoto.com
- Axel Merkx (Lotto-Domo) riding to the start area.
- Scott Sunderland (Alessio-Bianchi) enjoying his morning cup of java.
- Bobby Julich (CSC) savouring the short few minutes to relax before the start.
- Alexandre Moos (Phonak) in great spirits on the second last stage of the Tour de Suisse.
- Robert Hunter (Rabobank) the points jersey leader.
- A Gerolsteiner rider looks over today's news stating Fabian Jeker as the new leader.
- The leader of the Fassa Bartolo squad, Fabian Cancellara.
- Santiago Botero (T-Mobile) would be involved in a breakaway shortly after the start of today's stage.
- The winner of yesterday's uphill finish Georg Totschnig (Gerolsteiner)
- Fabian Jeker (Saunier Duval) could hardly stop smiling at today's start.
- Roger Hammond (Mr. Bookmaker) always ready to take on the day.
- Ullrich seemed confident of today's results.
- Jan Ullrich and some members of the Lampre squad.
- The breakaway group containing the eventual winner Paolo Bettini of Quick Step-Davitamon.
- Serguei Ivanov (T-Mobile)
- Alex Zulle leads the peloton over the Rhein River.
- The breakaway group through the town of Tamins.
- The back of the breakaway that would decide today's stage winner.
- The Saunier Duval team did a great job today at controlling the race.
- The Chocolade Jacques squad was working with the Saunier Duval team to bring back the breakaway.
- Jan Ullrich never left the sight of the yellow jersey of Fabian Jeker.
- The yellow jersey group.
- Alex Zulle (Phonak)
- As the riders made their way towards the last mountain of this Tour, the storm weather started to move in.
- Paolo Bettini claims stage 8 of the Tour de Suisse in Bellinzona, a small town near the Swiss-Italian border.
- Patrick Calcagni (Vini Caldirola) is second, over one minute behind Bettini.
- Kim Kirchen (Fassa Bartolo) crosses the line for third
- Santiago Perez Fernandez (Phonak) was fourth
- Juan Fuentes Angullo (Saeco) looking bedraggled
- Marco Serpellini (Gerolsteiner)
- Grisha Niermann (Rabobank) and Santiago Botero (T-Mobile) were 2'55 seconds behind Paolo Bettini across the line.
- The golden jersey of Fabian Jeker (Saunier Duval) crosses the line still the leader of the Tour de Suisse.
- Dario David Cioni (Fassa Bartolo) after a long and wet 191 km.
- Patrick Sinkewitz (Quick Step-Davitamon) and Jan Ullrich were at 3'28 across the line.
- Giuseppe Guerini (T-Mobile) crosses the line 3'37 behind the winner.
- Paolo Bettini (Quick Step-Davitamon) was very excited to take this stage so close to Italy.
- Fabian Jeker (Saunier Duval) was embraced warmly by the Swiss-Italian crowd.
- Robert Hunter keeps the points jersey again.
- Fabian Jeker in gold with one day to go
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step-Davitamon) gives it full gas in the rain
- Patrick Calcagni (Vini Caldirola) on his own behind Bettini
- Kim Kirchen (Fassa Bartolo) leads Perez
- Santiago Perez Fernandez (Phonak) en route to fourth
- Juan Fuentes Angullo (Saeco) wonders when it will finish
- Marco Serpellini (Gerolsteiner) really enjoying things
- Jeker has a small gap to Ullrich and Cioni
- Cioni rides up with Ullrich on his wheel
- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) trying to see
- Evgeni Petrov (Saeco) on the final climb
- Alexandre Moos (Phonak) tries to avoid the raindrops
- Camenzind is all wet
- Guerini grits his teeth
- Jose Maria Del Olmo (Milaneza Maia) is almost smiling
- Axel Merkx (Lotto-Domo) on the last climb
- Tonkov struggles through the rain
- Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step-Davitamon) crosses the line to win
- Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step-Davitamon) waves from the podium
- Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step-Davitamon) satisfied with the stage win
- Fabian Jeker (Saunier Duval) is very happy with the leader's jersey
Results
1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 4.30.25 (42.446 km/h) 2 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.04 3 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 1.53 4 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 5 Juan Fuentes Angullo (Spa) Saeco 2.27 6 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 2.37 7 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.41 8 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 2.55 9 Santiago Botero Echeverry (Col) T-Mobile Team 10 David Bernabeu (Spa) Milaneza Maia 2.57 11 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 3.03 12 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.19 13 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3.24 14 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step-Davitamon 3.28 15 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 16 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.30 17 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Saeco 18 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 19 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 3.32 20 Jose Maria Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza Maia 3.37 21 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 22 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre 23 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 24 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 3.44 25 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Milaneza Maia 3.48 26 Davy Commeyne (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 3.51 27 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) Milaneza Maia 28 Angel Castresana (Spa) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 29 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze 30 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 31 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 32 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 33 Rui Sousa (Por) Milaneza Maia 34 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 35 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 36 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 3.54 37 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 38 Julian Dean (NZl) Credit Agricole 39 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 4.00 40 Axel Merckx (Bel) Lotto-Domo 4.01 41 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 42 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 43 Bekim Christensen (Den) Team CSC 4.03 44 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 4.04 45 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4.11 46 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 47 Vladimir Gousev (Rus) Team CSC 48 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 49 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 4.13 50 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 51 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Saeco 52 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 53 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 54 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 55 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco 4.26 56 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza Maia 57 Marcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4.41 58 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Domina Vacanze 4.59 59 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 5.03 60 Peter Wuyts (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 5.10 61 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 62 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco 63 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco 64 Roger Hammond (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 65 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 66 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5.19 67 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 5.39 68 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre 5.44 69 Bruno Castanheira (Por) Milaneza Maia 70 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 5.50 71 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 72 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 5.57 73 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 5.59 74 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre 6.16 75 Robert Hunter (RSA) Rabobank 76 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio-Bianchi 6.19 77 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Domina Vacanze 78 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 79 Alex Zülle (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 80 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Domo 81 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Lotto-Domo 82 Glenn d'Hollander (Bel) Lotto-Domo 83 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 84 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 85 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 86 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 87 Ben Day (Aus) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 88 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Team CSC 89 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 90 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 91 René Joergensen (Den) Alessio-Bianchi 6.41 92 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 6.50 93 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 6.52 94 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre 7.37 95 Martin Hvastija (Slo) Alessio-Bianchi 7.53 96 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 97 Scott Sunderland (Aus) Alessio-Bianchi 98 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 99 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 100 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole 101 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 102 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 103 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 8.52 104 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 105 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 17.30 106 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 21.55 107 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 108 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 109 Damien Nazon (Fra) Credit Agricole DNF Andoni Aranaga Azkune (Spa) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf DNF Christophe Stevens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf DNF Alexandre Bazhenov (Rus) Domina Vacanze DNF Timothy Jones (Zim) Domina Vacanze DNF Tom Danielson (USA) Fassa Bortolo DNF Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir Points 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 25 pts 2 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 20 3 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 16 4 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 13 5 Juan Fuentes Angullo (Spa) Saeco 11 6 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 10 7 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 9 8 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 8 9 Santiago Botero Echeverry (Col) T-Mobile Team 7 10 David Bernabeu (Spa) Milaneza Maia 6 11 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 5 12 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 13 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3 14 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step-Davitamon 2 15 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1 Mountains Flims - Cat. 3, 61.2 km 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 5 pts 2 David Bernabeu (Spa) Milaneza Maia 3 3 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 4 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 1 Lukmanier - Cat. 1, 120.3 km 1 Juan Fuentes Angullo (Spa) Saeco 12 pts 2 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 8 3 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 6 4 David Bernabeu (Spa) Milaneza Maia 4 5 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 Artore - Cat. 4, 187.9 km 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 3 pts 2 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 2 3 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 1 Postfinance sprints Olivone, 141.5 km 1 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 6 pts 2 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 3 3 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1 Bellinzona, 183.9 km 1 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 6 pts 2 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 3 3 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 1 Feldschlosschen sprints Flims, 61.2 km 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 6 pts 2 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 3 David Bernabeu (Spa) Milaneza Maia 1 Teams 1 Quick.Step-Davitamon 13.38.27 2 Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.34 3 Phonak Hearing Systems 1.41 4 Fassa Bortolo 1.56 5 T-Mobile Team 2.48 6 Saeco 2.58 7 Milaneza Maia 3.10 8 Credit Agricole 3.17 9 Team CSC 4.00 10 Gerolsteiner 4.07 11 Lampre 5.12 12 Saunier Duval-Prodir 5.37 13 MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 5.40 14 Rabobank 6.36 15 Domina Vacanze 7.57 16 Lotto-Domo 8.18 17 Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 9.30 18 Alessio-Bianchi 12.07 General classification after stage 8 1 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 33.47.08 2 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.41 3 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.50 4 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.51 5 Jose Maria Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza Maia 0.53 6 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step-Davitamon 2.23 7 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Saeco 2.32 8 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 2.33 9 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.19 10 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.28 11 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 3.58 12 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre 4.32 13 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 4.53 14 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze 5.43 15 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Milaneza Maia 5.44 16 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 6.31 17 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 7.48 18 Axel Merckx (Bel) Lotto-Domo 8.11 19 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 8.48 20 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 9.49 21 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) Milaneza Maia 10.54 22 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco 11.14 23 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 11.29 24 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 13.43 25 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 14.14 26 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 16.49 27 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 18.41 28 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 18.58 29 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 19.46 30 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 21.26 31 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 23.55 32 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 24.21 33 Rui Sousa (Por) Milaneza Maia 26.52 34 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 28.05 35 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Saeco 30.14 36 Angel Castresana (Spa) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 31.01 37 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 31.04 38 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 31.15 39 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza Maia 31.33 40 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 31.56 41 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 32.47 42 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 33.23 43 Scott Sunderland (Aus) Alessio-Bianchi 33.57 44 Marcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 33.58 45 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre 34.00 46 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 36.12 47 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco 36.42 48 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Domina Vacanze 37.48 49 Davy Commeyne (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 38.58 50 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 38.59 51 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 39.04 52 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 41.55 53 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 42.44 54 David Bernabeu (Spa) Milaneza Maia 44.16 55 Alex Zülle (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 44.43 56 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 45.17 57 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 45.47 58 Santiago Botero Echeverry (Col) T-Mobile Team 46.42 59 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 46.59 60 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 48.55 61 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 48.56 62 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 49.32 63 Bekim Christensen (Den) Team CSC 50.07 64 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio-Bianchi 54.58 65 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 55.11 66 Robert Hunter (RSA) Rabobank 55.29 67 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 57.25 68 Vladimir Gousev (Rus) Team CSC 59.10 69 René Joergensen (Den) Alessio-Bianchi 1.00.06 70 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 1.01.05 71 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Domina Vacanze 1.03.24 72 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.03.44 73 Julian Dean (NZl) Credit Agricole 1.04.07 74 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.04.56 75 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 1.06.46 76 Roger Hammond (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 1.07.16 77 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 1.07.51 78 Bruno Castanheira (Por) Milaneza Maia 1.07.58 79 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco 1.11.01 80 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 1.12.18 81 Peter Wuyts (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 1.12.41 82 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 1.13.40 83 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 1.13.45 84 Juan Fuentes Angullo (Spa) Saeco 1.14.08 85 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 1.14.36 86 Ben Day (Aus) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 1.15.10 87 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 1.15.46 88 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre 1.15.47 89 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 1.16.06 90 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre 1.16.41 91 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.16.56 92 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Lotto-Domo 1.17.25 93 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.18.39 94 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 1.18.53 95 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 1.19.01 96 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 1.19.14 97 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 1.19.39 98 Martin Hvastija (Slo) Alessio-Bianchi 1.20.28 99 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Domo 1.21.08 100 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 1.23.27 101 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1.25.17 102 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Team CSC 1.28.11 103 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole 1.29.16 104 Glenn d'Hollander (Bel) Lotto-Domo 1.30.59 105 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.31.22 106 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.33.22 107 Damien Nazon (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.33.27 108 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.37.07 109 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.48.56 Points classification 1 Robert Hunter (RSA) Rabobank 56 pts 2 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 51 3 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 46 4 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 38 5 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 37 6 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 30 7 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 26 8 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze 22 9 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 21 10 Jose Maria Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza Maia 21 11 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 20 12 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 19 13 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 19 14 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 15 15 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 15 16 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 15 17 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 15 18 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step-Davitamon 13 19 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 13 20 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 13 21 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 12 22 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 12 23 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Domina Vacanze 12 24 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 11 25 Roger Hammond (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 11 26 Juan Fuentes Angullo (Spa) Saeco 11 27 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 10 28 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 10 29 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 10 30 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 10 31 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 10 32 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 10 33 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 9 34 Julian Dean (NZl) Credit Agricole 9 35 Davy Commeyne (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 8 36 Peter Wuyts (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 8 37 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre 7 38 Axel Merckx (Bel) Lotto-Domo 7 39 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Saeco 7 40 Santiago Botero Echeverry (Col) T-Mobile Team 7 41 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco 7 42 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 43 David Bernabeu (Spa) Milaneza Maia 6 44 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 5 45 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 5 46 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 5 47 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Saeco 4 48 Angel Castresana (Spa) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 4 49 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Domina Vacanze 4 50 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 4 51 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 4 52 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 53 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 1 Mountains classification 1 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 48 pts 2 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 30 3 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 24 4 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 21 5 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 20 6 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 17 7 Robert Hunter (RSA) Rabobank 13 8 Juan Fuentes Angullo (Spa) Saeco 12 9 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 10 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 8 11 David Bernabeu (Spa) Milaneza Maia 8 12 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 13 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 6 14 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco 6 15 Ben Day (Aus) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 5 16 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 17 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 5 18 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Domina Vacanze 5 19 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 4 20 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 4 21 Peter Wuyts (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 4 22 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4 23 Jose Maria Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza Maia 4 24 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 25 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 4 26 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 27 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Domina Vacanze 3 28 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 3 29 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 3 30 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 2 31 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 2 32 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 2 33 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 2 34 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1 35 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 36 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 37 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 1 38 Roger Hammond (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 1 39 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 1 Postfinance sprints classification 1 Robert Hunter (RSA) Rabobank 24 pts 2 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 13 3 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 13 4 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 12 5 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 10 6 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 7 7 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 7 8 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 7 9 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 6 10 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 6 11 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 6 12 Peter Wuyts (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 6 13 Ben Day (Aus) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 6 14 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 4 15 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Domina Vacanze 4 16 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 17 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 18 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 19 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 1 20 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 21 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 1 22 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 1 23 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 1 Feldschlosschen sprints classification 1 Bekim Christensen (Den) Team CSC 13 pts 2 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 12 3 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 4 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 6 5 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 6 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 3 7 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 8 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 3 9 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 3 10 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 11 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 3 12 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 2 13 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 1 14 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 1 15 David Bernabeu (Spa) Milaneza Maia 1 16 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre 1 Teams classification 1 Phonak Hearing Systems 101.22.20 2 Milaneza Maia 10.54 3 Fassa Bortolo 11.14 4 T-Mobile Team 26.56 5 Saeco 36.44 6 Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 36.45 7 Quick.Step-Davitamon 46.14 8 Lampre 48.50 9 Team CSC 51.15 10 Saunier Duval-Prodir 57.33 11 Credit Agricole 1.00.14 12 Gerolsteiner 1.02.48 13 Lotto-Domo 1.12.24 14 Rabobank 1.14.14 15 Domina Vacanze 1.40.10 16 MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 1.42.42 17 Alessio-Bianchi 1.46.30 18 Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 2.14.55
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