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68th Tour de Suisse - 2.HC
Switzerland, June 12-20, 2004
Main page Results Stage profile Next stage Scott Sunderland's diary
Stage 1 - June 12: Sursee - Beromünster, 176km
Powerful Ullrich beats Camenzind in Beromünster
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An impressive ride by Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) has given him the victory in the first stage of the Tour de Suisse, which finished in Beromünster. Despite looking like a sprinters' stage on paper, the peloton finished in several fragments as Ullrich led home Oscar Camenzind, Fabian Jeker, Steve Zampieri and David Canada in the first group of five. A very nervous Ullrich started his sprint with 250m to go, and although Camenzind had his wheel, the downhill curves to the finish suited the rider in front and Ullrich was able to hold off the Swiss rider.
"We had already gone over the roads at the finish twice, so I knew what I had to do," said Ullrich, who took his first win of the season today. "If I was first around the last corner, then I knew I would win. I'm happy of course that I won, but I'm also quite tired, because the stage cost a lot more power than expected."
How it unfolded
The 176 km stage from Sursee to Beromünster was expected to suit the sprinters, as it only contained two Cat. 4 climbs. 144 riders from 18 teams followed out from Sursee at 12:50, but the peloton didn't stay together for long as by the first passage of the finish line after 30 km, a group of 39 riders had detached itself from the main field. The remaining 100 odd riders never saw the leaders again, eventually finishing over 18 minutes down at the end of the stage.
Besides Ullrich and Camenzind, the leading group also included last year's TdS winner Alexandre Vinokourov, Giuseppe Guerini, Steffen Wesemann and Santiago Botero (T-Mobile), Alexandre Moos (Phonak), Bobby Julich (CSC), Dario Cioni (Fassa Bortolo), Georg Totschnig (Gerolsteiner), Pavel Tonkov (Vini Caldirola), Axel Merckx (Lotto-Domo) and Tour of Germany winner Patrik Sinkewitz (Quick.Step), among others. After 76 km the group had 4 minutes advantage over the main field, which wasn't particularly interested in chasing as most of the main teams were represented. Alessio-Bianchi was the main team working, as while they had Scott Sunderland in the leading group, their main GC riders hadn't made it across.
Chocolade Jacques didn't have any riders in front, and when they began to work with Alessio with 90 km to go, they were able to pull back the leaders somewhat. The Lampre team lent a hand with 65 km to go, and 10 km later the advantage to the leaders was just 2'10, and it looked like the chase would be successful. But the tempo increased in front, and Vinokourov picked up a bonus second in the sprint at Gunzwil (127 km) behind Bodrogi and Camenzind, clearly signaling his intentions to gain time. The field stopped chasing and suddenly the gap ballooned out to 5, then 7, then 18 minutes.
The first climb of the day was the Cat. 4 Waldhaus (140.0 km), where David Canada (Saunier Duval) crossed first ahead of Steve Zampieri (Vini Caldirola). The pair had an 18 second lead over the front group at the top, and continued to increase their advantage as they rode a two man time trial. Their gap was 21 seconds when they crossed the finish line for the second time with 25 km to go, and at that moment Jan Ullrich attacked the peloton in pursuit, with Camenzind on his wheel. The pair took 2 km to catch the two leaders, and suddenly there was a very dangerous looking four man break with 45 seconds on the field.
The chase was disorganised but with 13 km to go the gap between the two groups was just 12 seconds as the leaders climbed the Waldhaus for the second time. Zampieri won the climb ahead of Canada, Camenzind and Ullrich, while Fabian Jeker (Saunier Duval) managed to jump across to the leaders on the climb.
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With five men working hard in front, the field was never able to come back, despite a bridging attempt by Rik Verbrugghe (Lotto-Domo), who immediately ended up with Vinokourov on his wheel. In the last kilometre, it was Canada pulling the break for his teammate Jeker, who was in fourth wheel behind Ullrich and Camenzind. Ullrich kept his position, constantly looking around at the others before launching his sprint with 250m to go. Camenzind tried to pass him on the inside but wasn't able to get round in time, and Ullrich led the Swiss rider over the line to victory.
Photography
Images by Jean-Bernard Sieber/Reuters/Picture Media
- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) wins the first stage of the Tour of Switzerland ahead of Oscar Camenzind (Phonak, R) and Fabian Jeker (Saunier Duval-Prodir)
- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) gets the traditional podium congratulations and his first yellow jersey of the year.
Results
1 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4.07.56 (42.665 km/h) 2 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 5 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.15 7 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 8 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze 9 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 10 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Lotto-Domo 11 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre 12 Axel Merckx (Bel) Lotto-Domo 13 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 14 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 15 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 16 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 17 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 18 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre 19 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 20 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 21 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 22 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 23 Scott Sunderland (Aus) Alessio-Bianchi 24 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) Milaneza Maia 25 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Saeco 26 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 27 Gonçalo José Amorim Valada (Por) Milaneza Maia 28 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 29 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco 30 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Milaneza Maia 31 Jose Maria Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza Maia 32 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 33 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 34 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step-Davitamon 35 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 36 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 2.30 37 Angel Castresana (Spa) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 3.57 38 Santiago Botero Echeverry (Col) T-Mobile Team 4.51 39 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5.21 40 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 18.31 41 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 42 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio-Bianchi 43 Rui Sousa (Por) Milaneza Maia 44 Juan Fuentes Angullo (Spa) Saeco 45 Davy Commeyne (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 46 Robbie Mcewen (Aus) Lotto-Domo 47 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 48 Andoni Aranaga Azkune (Spa) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 49 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza Maia 50 Bruno Castanheira (Por) Milaneza Maia 51 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco 52 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 53 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 54 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre 55 David Bernabeu (Spa) Milaneza Maia 56 John Gadret (Fra) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 57 Robert Hunter (RSA) Rabobank 58 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 59 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 60 Peter Wuyts (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 61 Ben Day (Aus) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 62 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 63 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 64 Tom Danielson (USA) Fassa Bortolo 65 David Clinger (USA) Domina Vacanze 66 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 67 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 68 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 69 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Team CSC 70 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 71 Alex Zülle (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 72 Martin Hvastija (Slo) Alessio-Bianchi 73 René Joergensen (Den) Alessio-Bianchi 74 Glenn D'hollander (Bel) Lotto-Domo 75 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step-Davitamon 76 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Lampre 77 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 78 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 79 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Saeco 80 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre 81 Peter Lüttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 82 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 83 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 84 David Loosli (Swi) Saeco 85 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 86 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 87 Andris Nauduzs (Lat) Domina Vacanze 88 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 89 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 90 Marcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 91 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 92 Vladimir Gousev (Rus) Team CSC 93 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 94 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco 95 Antonio Bucciero (Ita) Saeco 96 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 97 Alexandre Bazhenov (Rus) Domina Vacanze 98 Claus Michael Moller (Den) Alessio-Bianchi 99 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 100 Bekim Christensen (Den) Team CSC 101 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 102 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Domo 103 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Lotto-Domo 104 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Domina Vacanze 105 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 106 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 107 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 108 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 109 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 110 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 111 Roger Hammond (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 112 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 113 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 114 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 115 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 116 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 117 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 118 Gianni Faresin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 119 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 120 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Lampre 121 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole 122 Julian Dean (NZl) Credit Agricole 123 Timothy Jones (Zim) Domina Vacanze 124 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 125 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 126 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Domina Vacanze 127 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 128 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 129 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 130 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 131 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 132 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 133 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 134 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 135 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 136 Damien Nazon (Fra) Credit Agricole 137 Christophe Stevens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 138 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 139 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 140 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 141 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Team CSC 142 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 143 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans DNF Juan Gomis Lopez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir Points 1 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 25 pts 2 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 20 3 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 4 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 13 5 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 11 6 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 10 7 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 9 8 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze 8 9 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 7 10 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Lotto-Domo 6 11 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre 5 12 Axel Merckx (Bel) Lotto-Domo 4 13 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 3 14 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2 15 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 1 Mountains Waldhaus - Cat. 4, 140.0 km 1 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 pts 2 Gonçalo José Amorim Valada (Por) Milaneza Maia 2 3 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1 Herlisberg - Cat. 4, 165.7 km 1 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 3 pts 2 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 3 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Postfinance sprints Gunzwil, 127.3 km 1 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 6 pts 2 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 3 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 1 Neudorf after 147.7 km 1 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 6 pts 2 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 3 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 1 Feldschlosschen sprints Oberkirch after 17.5 km 1 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6 pts 2 Andris Nauduzs (Lat) Domina Vacanze 3 3 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 1 Teams 1 Phonak Hearing Systems 12.24.18 2 T-Mobile Team 3 Lotto-Domo 0.15 4 Lampre 5 Fassa Bortolo 6 Milaneza Maia 7 Saunier Duval-Prodir 18.01 8 Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 18.16 9 Credit Agricole 18.31 10 Saeco 11 Quick.Step-Davitamon 12 Gerolsteiner 23.37 13 Team CSC 36.47 14 Alessio-Bianchi 15 Rabobank 16 Domina Vacanze 17 MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 40.29 18 Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 55.03 General classification after stage 1 1 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4.07.46 2 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.02 3 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.06 4 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 0.07 5 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.08 6 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.22 7 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 0.24 8 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 9 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.25 10 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze 11 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 12 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Lotto-Domo 13 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre 14 Axel Merckx (Bel) Lotto-Domo 15 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 16 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 17 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 18 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre 19 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 20 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 21 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 22 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 23 Scott Sunderland (Aus) Alessio-Bianchi 24 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus) Milaneza Maia 25 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Saeco 26 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 27 Gonçalo José Amorim Valada (Por) Milaneza Maia 28 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 29 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco 30 Rui Lavarinhas (Por) Milaneza Maia 31 Jose Maria Del Olmo (Spa) Milaneza Maia 32 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 33 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 34 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step-Davitamon 35 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 36 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 2.40 37 Angel Castresana (Spa) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 4.07 38 Santiago Botero Echeverry (Col) T-Mobile Team 5.01 39 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5.31 40 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 18.41 41 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio-Bianchi 42 Rui Sousa (Por) Milaneza Maia 43 Juan Fuentes Angullo (Spa) Saeco 44 Davy Commeyne (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 45 Robbie Mcewen (Aus) Lotto-Domo 46 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 47 Andoni Aranaga Azkune (Spa) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 48 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Milaneza Maia 49 Bruno Castanheira (Por) Milaneza Maia 50 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco 51 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 52 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 53 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre 54 David Bernabeu (Spa) Milaneza Maia 55 John Gadret (Fra) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 56 Robert Hunter (RSA) Rabobank 57 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 58 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 59 Peter Wuyts (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 60 Ben Day (Aus) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 61 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 62 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 63 Tom Danielson (USA) Fassa Bortolo 64 David Clinger (USA) Domina Vacanze 65 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 66 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 67 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 68 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Team CSC 69 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 70 Alex Zülle (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 71 Martin Hvastija (Slo) Alessio-Bianchi 72 René Joergensen (Den) Alessio-Bianchi 73 Glenn D'hollander (Bel) Lotto-Domo 74 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step-Davitamon 75 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Lampre 76 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 77 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 78 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Saeco 79 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre 80 Peter Lüttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 81 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 82 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 83 David Loosli (Swi) Saeco 84 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 85 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 86 Andris Nauduzs (Lat) Domina Vacanze 87 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 88 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 89 Marcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 90 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 91 Vladimir Gousev (Rus) Team CSC 92 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 93 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco 94 Antonio Bucciero (Ita) Saeco 95 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 96 Alexandre Bazhenov (Rus) Domina Vacanze 97 Claus Michael Moller (Den) Alessio-Bianchi 98 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 99 Bekim Christensen (Den) Team CSC 100 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 101 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Domo 102 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Lotto-Domo 103 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Domina Vacanze 104 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 105 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 106 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 107 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 108 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 109 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 110 Roger Hammond (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 111 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 112 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 113 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 114 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 115 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 116 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 117 Gianni Faresin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 118 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 119 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Lampre 120 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole 121 Julian Dean (NZl) Credit Agricole 122 Timothy Jones (Zim) Domina Vacanze 123 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 124 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 125 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Domina Vacanze 126 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 127 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 128 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 129 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 130 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 131 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 132 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 133 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 134 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 135 Damien Nazon (Fra) Credit Agricole 136 Christophe Stevens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 137 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 138 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 139 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 140 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Team CSC 141 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 142 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 143 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 19.01 Points classification 1 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 25 pts 2 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 20 3 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 4 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 13 5 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 11 6 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 10 7 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 9 8 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze 8 9 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 7 10 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Lotto-Domo 6 11 Francisco Vila (Spa) Lampre 5 12 Axel Merckx (Bel) Lotto-Domo 4 13 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 3 14 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2 15 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 1 Mountains classification 1 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 pts 2 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 4 3 Gonçalo José Amorim Valada (Por) Milaneza Maia 2 4 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Postfinance sprints classification 1 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 6 pts 2 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 6 3 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 4 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 5 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 1 6 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 1 Feldschlosschen sprints classification 1 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6 pts 2 Andris Nauduzs (Lat) Domina Vacanze 3 3 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 1 Teams classification 1 Phonak Hearing Systems 12.24.18 2 T-Mobile Team 3 Lotto-Domo 0.15 4 Lampre 5 Fassa Bortolo 6 Milaneza Maia 7 Saunier Duval-Prodir 18.01 8 Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 18.16 9 Credit Agricole 18.31 10 Saeco 11 Quick.Step-Davitamon 12 Gerolsteiner 23.37 13 Team CSC 36.47 14 Alessio-Bianchi 15 Rabobank 16 Domina Vacanze 17 MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 40.29 18 Chocolade Jacques Wincor-Nixdorf 55.03
