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59th Vuelta a España - GT
Spain, September 4-26, 2004
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Stage 12 - September 16: Almería - Observatorio Meteorológico de Calar Alto, 145 km
Heras soars to the stars
By Martin Hardie in Calar Alto
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Roberto Heras has taken the stage win and the overall lead in the Vuelta a España as Liberty Seguros continued its charge in the mountains in today's brutal 12th stage from Almería to Observatorio Meteorológico de Calar Alto. After his team had shredded most of the peloton to pieces on the final climb, Heras attacked with just over 7 km to go to pass early breakaway Paco Lara (Paternina) and solo away to victory. In second place, showing a lot of resilience was Santi Perez (Phonak), who conceded just 34 seconds to Heras in the end, while Paco Mancebo (Illes Balears) took third at 0'53, followed by Valverde and Nozal at 2'17. And after finishing 15th at 3'06, race leader Floyd Landis finally lost the gold jersey to the defending champion of the Vuelta.
"Everything came out real good today," Heras told Cyclingnews after the stage. "We are here to try and win the Vuelta a España but with guys in the category of Valverde and Mancebo it is not easy. Both of them are equally dangerous. Valverde seems to be recovering from the fall, he is dangerous and very brave...Mancebo is also very dangerous."
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Heras doesn't think he has yet won the race. "The Vuelta is not over, there is still a great part of it in the mountains so we have to take it little by little...the hardest stage for me will be the time trial in Madrid so we will see what happens there, but it isn't that long and it doesn't have long flat straights. The mountain time trial is in my favour as should be the stage in Bejar, so we will see what happens. Cycling is not mathematics." All he could add was that, "From the start today the whole team worked incredibly hard and Isidro like all the team are great professionals."
Today's stage headed out through Sergio Leone territory, and you could almost imaging the sounds of Ennio Morricone ringing in your head, past wild west towns especially built for the director's films, expecting to see Clint Eastwood appear on the horizon rather than witness one of the great climbing stages of this year's Vuelta. When you first enter the valley, with its stone and shale ruins, you slowly start to rise to the foot of the Alto de Alto de Velefique, and it was through here that the Liberty Seguros squad decided to turn on the pace and see who could stick around with them.
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The Velefique, a monster, was the first of three mountains that have never been climbed in the Vuelta before. Velefique and the two faces of the Calar Alto traversed today covered in excess of 60 kilometres. Each climb averaged over six percent but at times, the grades reached 16 percent. They are each monsters that rise out of the Andulacian desert to form the bulk of this particular Sierra and over each, the legs struggle to turn the pedals. Despite all of this within a fairly short 145 kilometre stage, one never expected to see the differences to emerge in the way they did. Roberto Heras soared to the summit of the northeast face of the Calar Alto to take the stage win. A couple of Saturday's back his team were a disaster in the opening team time trial, a discipline in which the squads of Manolo Saiz excel. That day they lost over just 28 kilometres 1'28 to the USPS team. It seems like an eternity ago but the losses have kept Roberto Heras a long way off the pace for the stages that followed.
In 13 kilometres today, the tiny Roberto Heras got his own back and a lot more when he robbed Floyd Landis of his golden jersey by an astounding margin of 3'06. Landis, who has been the majority leader for the first half of the race now finds himself in 5th place 2'19 back. Maybe not a great surprise, but Floyd has been hanging in with the strongest. Maybe a surprise to Heras who inferred afterwards that today's stage went much better than the result that they had set themselves. "Our idea today was to try and lessen the gap to those above us on G.C. we weren't thinking about the stage or the lead, simply to lessen the differences, nothing more," he told Cyclingnews.
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Heras attacked the tiny group that survived the first 14 kilometres of the final climb and roared up the slopes solo never looking back, never slowing down and always increasing his advantage over those that tried to follow him. Out of the saddle for the majority of the time, his tiny body turned the pedals with what seemed like ease and calm, but equally with force. Heras maintained a stellar pace in his personal race to the top, only sitting down when the grade allowed it and no doubt he suffered, always at the limit, all of the way, to the finish buried in a hollow, fog bound, just below the astronomical observatory that gives this peak its man-made purpose.
Paternina-Costa Almeria's Paco Lara was one of the day's brave but unsuccessful protagonists. Lara was one of a number who escaped the main bunch as the Velefique got under way, but he was the only one who continued with it, staying away on his own. He continued on alone, up and down the slopes of the Sierra until he was finally joined and immediately passed by the attacking Heras under the seven kilometre to go banner. Behind Lara, Felix Cardenas continued Cafes Baque's Plan Colombia picking up the second place mountain points on both the Velefique and the south face of Calar Alto. But Cardenas and those caught in between Lara and the bunch of race leader's were run down after the summit.
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Heras was of course one of the 40 strong group that was created with the merging of the Cardenas group and what was still then the Landis group. But if they arrived at the bottom of the final ascent in number, it was as soon as the climb got under way they started to shed riders. Some of them fought and fought to stay in contact, some of them even regained contact. But often enough they did so only to be shed again by the mighty pace set by Baranowski, Serrano and Nozal. That’s how the day panned out for most all the way from the coastal heat of Almeria and over the succession of climbs where the weather was found to be a good 12 or more degrees cooler.
On the final climb Landis was the first of the leaders to crack. Valverde attacked to increase the gap to and damage as the American was left behind to suffer. After Liberty had set the almighty pace Heras took over and left all the others behind. He caught Lara and passed him and his gap increased all the way to the top. Valverde then himself cracked after fighting to stay with Mancebo. Then it was Mancebo's turn after he had caught Santi Perez, who had tried to chase Heras.
Heras also told us that he was, "A little surprised by the attack of Valverde I didn't expect it...in the condition he is in just now it was pretty incredible."
Tomorrow is one of the two remaining flat stages. Let's wait and see who survived today and might be around to contest the sprints tomorrow before we make any predictions.
Photography
Images by Lavuelta.com
- Today we are in Almeria
- It was a fast start as usual
- Attacks string out the peloton
- Oscar Sevilla (Phonak) and Alejandro Valverde (Com.Valenciana-Kelme) go back to visit the race doctor
- Victor Pena (C) and Igor Gonzalez (CR) were part of a front group that formed on the Velefique
- Giampaolo Caruso sets the pace in the peloton for Liberty
- Floyd Landis (USPS) and Manuel Beltran were hurting on the first climb
- Paco Mancebo was too
- Tyler Hamilton (Phonak) looked OK early on, but ended up in the autobus
- Koldo Gil gives a bidon to his teammate
- Francisco Jose Lara (Paternina) spent most of the day on his own
- Liberty Seguros begin the death march
- Serrano and Cardenas went in pursuit of Lara for a while, but couldn't close the gap
- Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile) is starting to gain some form again
- The Liberty Seguros axe man Isidro Nozal
- Lara starts to feel it on the last climb
- Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros) goes it alone
- Santi Perez (Phonak) finished a strong second
- Paco Mancebo tries to lose Valverde
- Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros) can see victory
- Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros) wins on the Calar Alto
- Valverde comes in ahead of Nozal for fourth
- Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros) on the podium in gold
- Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros) also has the mountains jersey by a single point
- Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros) is the best rider in the combined classification too
Results
1 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 4.19.30 (33.52 km/h) 2 Santiago Perez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.34 3 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 0.53 4 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1.27 5 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 6 Angel Gomez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 1.38 7 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 8 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 2.02 9 Peio Arreitunandia (Spa) Cafes Baque 2.17 10 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 2.28 11 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 12 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 13 David Blanco (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 2.35 14 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 3.06 15 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 16 Miguel A. M. Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.36 17 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros 18 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 3.54 19 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 5.37 20 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 6.30 21 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 22 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 23 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 8.10 24 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 David Plaza (Spa) Cafes Baque 26 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 27 Hernan Buenahora (Col) Cafes Baque 28 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 29 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 30 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.53 31 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 9.15 32 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 33 Ivan Parra (Col) Cafes Baque 9.57 34 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 35 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 36 Joan Horrach (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 37 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Relax-Bergasol 10.07 38 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 10.09 39 Jose Luis Rebollo (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 10.43 40 Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile Team 12.27 41 José Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 42 Rubén Plaza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 43 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 44 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 13.02 45 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 13.48 46 José Garrido (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 14.16 47 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 15.11 48 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 49 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 50 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros 15.33 51 David Latasa (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 52 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 53 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 16.32 54 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Saeco 17.08 55 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 56 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 57 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 58 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Saeco 59 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 18.24 60 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 19.43 61 José Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 62 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 24.12 63 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros 24.33 64 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 65 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 66 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 67 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 68 Julián Sanchez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 69 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 70 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros 24.49 71 Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros 72 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 26.42 73 Joaquin Lopez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 31.51 74 Iñigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 75 David Cañada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 76 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 77 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 78 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros 79 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 80 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 81 Klaus Möller (Den) Alessio-Bianchi 82 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Alessio-Bianchi 83 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 84 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 85 Michael Barry (Can) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 86 Francisco Garcia (Spa) Cafes Baque 87 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 88 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 89 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 90 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 91 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 92 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 93 Frank Høj (Den) Team CSC 94 José Julia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 95 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 96 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 97 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Saeco 98 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 99 Guido Trenti (USA) Fassa Bortolo 100 Jose Antonio Pecharroman (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 101 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 102 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Saeco 103 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 104 Erki Pütsep (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 105 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 106 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 107 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 108 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 109 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 110 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 111 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 112 Roberto Sgambelluri (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 113 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Saeco 114 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 115 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 116 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step-Davitamon 117 David Herrero (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 118 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Rabobank 119 Bert Roesems (Bel) Relax-Bergasol 120 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 121 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 122 David Fernandez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 123 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 124 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 125 Iñaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 126 Antonio Cruz (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 127 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 128 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco 129 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 130 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 131 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 132 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 133 Aitor Perez (Spa) Cafes Baque 134 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 135 Hebert Gutierrez (Col) Cafes Baque 136 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 137 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 138 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 139 Rene Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros 140 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 141 David Zabriskie (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 142 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Saeco 143 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 144 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 145 Ellis Rastelli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 146 José Garcia Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 147 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 148 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio-Bianchi 149 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre Outside time limit TC Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Cafes Baque 47.49 DNF Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance DNF Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance DNF Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone DNF Joseba Albizu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi DNF Michele Scotto (Ita) Lampre DNF Ion Del Rio (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria DNF Gonzalo Bayarri (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems DNF Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank DNF Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank DNF Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir DNF Thomas Bruun (Den) Team CSC DNF Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie DNS Igor Astarloa (Spa) Lampre Points 1 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 25 pts 2 Santiago Perez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 20 3 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 16 4 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 14 5 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 12 6 Angel Gomez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 10 7 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 9 8 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 8 9 Peio Arreitunandia (Spa) Cafes Baque 7 10 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 6 11 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 5 12 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 4 13 David Blanco (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 3 14 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 2 15 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 1 16 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance -10 17 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre -10 18 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre -10 19 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie -5 20 Aitor Perez (Spa) Cafes Baque -5 21 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo -5 22 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto -5 23 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto -5 24 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Relax-Bergasol -5 25 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC -5 Mountains Alto de Velefique - Cat. 1, km 56 1 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 16 pts 2 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 12 3 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros 10 4 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 8 5 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 6 6 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 7 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 3 8 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros 2 9 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1 Alto de Calar Alto - Cat. 1, km 88 1 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 16 pts 2 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 12 3 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 10 4 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 8 5 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros 6 6 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros 4 7 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 8 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 2 9 Angel Gomez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 1 Obs. Calar Alto - Cat. E, km 145 1 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 30 pts 2 Santiago Perez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 25 3 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 20 4 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 16 5 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 12 6 Angel Gomez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 10 7 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 8 8 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 6 9 Peio Arreitunandia (Spa) Cafes Baque 4 10 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 3 11 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 2 12 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 1 Sprints Tabernas - km 25.8 1 Miguel A. M. Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 pts 2 José Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 3 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros 1 Bacares - km 70.3 1 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 4 pts 2 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1 Gérgal - km 124 1 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 4 pts 2 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros 2 3 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros 1 Teams 1 Liberty Seguros 13.03.33 2 Comunidad Valenciana - Kelme 2.53 3 Costa de Almeria - Paternina 4.40 4 US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 10.28 5 Illes Balears - Banesto 12.17 6 Cafes Baque 13.34 7 Team CSC 13.45 8 Phonak Hearing Systems 13.50 9 Saunier Duval - Prodir 14.53 10 Relax-Bodysol 21.31 11 Cofidis, le credit par telephone 26.10 12 Saeco 32.19 13 Euskaltel - Euskadi 43.56 14 Fassa Bortolo 45.53 15 T-Mobile Team 52.17 16 Rabobank 55.27 17 Vini Caldirola -Nobili Rubinetterie 1.00.41 18 Quick Step - Davitamon 1.12.55 19 Lampre 1.18.42 20 Alessio - Bianchi 1.30.30 21 AG2R Prevoyance 1.30.50 General classification after stage 12 1 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 44.50.50 2 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 0.35 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 0.49 4 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 1.12 5 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 2.19 6 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 2.40 7 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 3.16 8 Santiago Perez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 4.22 9 Angel Gomez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 5.07 10 David Blanco (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 6.12 11 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 7.26 12 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 7.36 13 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 7.51 14 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 8.39 15 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 9.45 16 Peio Arreitunandia (Spa) Cafes Baque 10.15 17 Miguel A. M. Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10.41 18 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 11.18 19 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros 12.49 20 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 14.42 21 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 15.26 22 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 15.43 23 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 17.06 24 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 17.34 25 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 17.51 26 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 18.16 27 Rubén Plaza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 18.47 28 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 18.57 29 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 19.30 30 David Plaza (Spa) Cafes Baque 19.38 31 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 20.10 32 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 20.45 33 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 22.48 34 Joan Horrach (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 25.17 35 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 25.28 36 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 27.46 37 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 27.50 38 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Relax-Bergasol 28.17 39 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 29.49 40 Hernan Buenahora (Col) Cafes Baque 30.24 41 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros 30.51 42 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 30.52 43 José Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 32.22 44 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 34.19 45 Jose Luis Rebollo (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 39.40 46 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 39.44 47 Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile Team 39.56 48 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 40.03 49 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 41.15 50 José Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 41.20 51 Ivan Parra (Col) Cafes Baque 43.07 52 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 44.09 53 Iñigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 44.59 54 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 45.06 55 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 48.48 56 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 49.10 57 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 49.31 58 Francisco Garcia (Spa) Cafes Baque 49.39 59 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros 50.19 60 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 50.37 61 David Cañada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 50.44 62 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Saeco 51.09 63 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 51.10 64 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 51.47 65 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Rabobank 54.00 66 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros 55.10 67 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 55.18 68 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 55.57 69 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 56.52 70 Jose Antonio Pecharroman (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 57.47 71 Aitor Perez (Spa) Cafes Baque 58.38 72 David Latasa (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 59.35 73 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 59.54 74 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 59.55 75 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.00.20 76 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 1.01.24 77 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 1.02.45 78 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Saeco 1.02.52 79 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 1.03.06 80 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 1.03.37 81 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 1.03.42 82 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 1.05.29 83 Joaquin Lopez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 1.06.03 84 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.06.19 85 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 86 Roberto Sgambelluri (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.08.09 87 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.09.47 88 Antonio Cruz (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 1.09.58 89 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step-Davitamon 1.12.16 90 David Herrero (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 1.12.56 91 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 1.13.19 92 Michael Barry (Can) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 1.13.46 93 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Alessio-Bianchi 1.14.45 94 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Saeco 1.16.23 95 Klaus Möller (Den) Alessio-Bianchi 1.16.35 96 Iñaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.17.16 97 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 1.18.00 98 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.18.21 99 David Fernandez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 1.24.03 100 Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros 1.25.25 101 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 1.25.27 102 David Zabriskie (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 1.26.10 103 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.26.15 104 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Saeco 1.26.18 105 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1.26.34 106 José Garrido (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 1.28.21 107 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1.28.26 108 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio-Bianchi 1.28.27 109 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.29.20 110 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.30.23 111 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.31.10 112 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 1.31.38 113 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 1.32.47 114 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 1.33.06 115 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco 1.33.46 116 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.34.05 117 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros 1.36.00 118 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1.38.45 119 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 1.38.58 120 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 1.39.27 121 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.39.42 122 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.41.13 123 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.41.33 124 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 1.43.18 125 Julián Sanchez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 1.46.52 126 Rene Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros 1.47.13 127 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 1.48.07 128 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.48.49 129 Hebert Gutierrez (Col) Cafes Baque 1.49.13 130 José Julia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1.49.48 131 Bert Roesems (Bel) Relax-Bergasol 1.50.15 132 Frank Høj (Den) Team CSC 1.50.43 133 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 1.53.32 134 Guido Trenti (USA) Fassa Bortolo 1.54.49 135 José Garcia Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1.57.04 136 Erki Pütsep (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.57.05 137 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 1.57.08 138 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.58.07 139 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 1.59.44 140 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 2.00.10 141 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2.00.55 142 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 2.02.15 143 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.02.55 144 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 2.03.05 145 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2.04.53 146 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Saeco 2.04.56 147 Ellis Rastelli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 2.05.09 148 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Saeco 2.05.13 149 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Cafes Baque 2.11.33 150 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 2.13.17 Points classification 1 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 130 pts 2 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 128 3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 95 4 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 86 5 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 72 6 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 59 7 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 57 8 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 51 9 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 50 10 David Zabriskie (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 49 11 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 44 12 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 43 13 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 38 14 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 38 15 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 37 16 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 36 17 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 35 18 Miguel A. M. Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 31 19 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 29 20 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 28 21 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 28 22 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 27 23 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 27 24 Santiago Perez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 22 25 Antonio Cruz (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 22 Mountains classification 1 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 57 pts 2 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 56 3 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 53 4 José Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 48 5 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 39 6 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 36 7 David Fernandez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 35 8 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 32 9 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 31 10 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 30 11 Santiago Perez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 25 12 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 20 13 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 19 14 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 17 15 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros 16 16 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 14 17 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 14 18 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 14 19 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 14 20 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 14 21 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio-Bianchi 14 22 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 13 23 Angel Gomez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 13 24 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 13 25 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Saeco 12 Combination classification 1 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 7 pts 2 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 11 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 17 4 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 19 5 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 43 6 Santiago Perez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 43 7 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 44 8 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 46 9 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 47 10 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 48 11 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 57 12 Angel Gomez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 58 13 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 59 14 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 64 15 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 64 16 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 67 17 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 72 18 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 81 19 José Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Bergasol 89 20 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 90 21 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 92 22 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 93 23 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 95 24 Peio Arreitunandia (Spa) Cafes Baque 104 25 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 119 Teams classification 1 Comunidad Valenciana - Kelme 134.38.56 2 Liberty Seguros 5.43 3 US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 13.05 4 Illes Balears - Banesto 19.40 5 Costa de Almeria - Paternina 20.14 6 Saunier Duval - Prodir 28.24 7 Team CSC 29.07 8 Phonak Hearing Systems 32.21 9 Cafes Baque 34.48 10 Relax-Bodysol 46.24 11 Cofidis, le credit par telephone 51.13 12 Saeco 1.06.22 13 T-Mobile Team 1.24.37 14 Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.41.14 15 Fassa Bortolo 1.46.16 16 Rabobank 1.52.53 17 Quick Step - Davitamon 2.03.18 18 Vini Caldirola -Nobili Rubinetterie 2.06.11 19 Lampre 2.23.53 20 Alessio - Bianchi 2.58.18 21 AG2R Prevoyance 3.02.47
