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59th Vuelta a España - GT
Spain, September 4-26, 2004
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September 15: Rest day 1
USPS leads by a hair; Spanish contenders line up
By Martin Hardie & John Stevenson
La Vuelta has made it to Andalucia, the deep south where Spain almost touches Africa and day 12, the first rest day has been most welcome for all that comprise La Vuelta's caravan. In this Rest Day wrap up, we summarise where we have been, where we are and what we might expect in the coming days.
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The US Postal Service team were the surprise beneficiaries of the opening day's team time trial and subsequently swapped the jersey around between team members for a few days before it came to rest with Floyd Landis. At the race's halfway point, Landis holds a lead of just nine seconds over Alejandro Valverde (Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme) and less than a minute separates the rest of the top six as Spain's climbing specialists queue up to try and knock Landis from his precarious perch.
As one of those six, Manuel Beltran, is a team-mate of Landis', he'll ride in support and be ready to step up to the plate should Landis falter. But Francisco Mancebo (Illes Balears-Banesto) and Liberty Seguros's dangerous duo of Isidro Nozal and defending champion Roberto Heras will all be looking for their chance in the mountains to come.
Several favourites have already fallen by the wayside. After winning stage 8's time trial, Tyler Hamilton cracked the following day and is now ten minutes adrift. Joseba Beloki has not been able to regain his form of early 2003 after a tumultuous season of recovery and team uncertainty; his Saunier Duval team has changed tactics and is chasing stage wins, a goal already achieved with Leonardo Piepoli's victory atop the Alto de Aitana in stage 9.
The last two days have seen some of the most exciting racing of any stage race this year as contenders in every category battled for points in stage 10, with Eladio Jimenez victorious for the embattled Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme team and sprinter Stuart O'Grady (Cofidis) a startling second place after the brutal 20 percent climb of Xorret de Catí. Finally, yesterday saw a heroic solo escape by USPS's Dave Zabriskie, riding alone for 162 of the day's 165km.
Stage 1 - September 4: León - León (T.T.T.), 28 km
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The now traditional opening team time trial saw a surprising victory to USPS. Not because they are not strong but because this event has been dominated by the squads of Manolo Saiz under the guise of ONCE-Eroski in recent years, and because Illes Baleares has been superb in this discipline of late.
The USPS victory by a more than comfortable margin gave us a leader board stacked with the members of the U.S. based team and saw the ever smiling Floyd Landis emerge as the first wearer of La Vuelta's golden fleece.
Stage 2 - September 5: León - Burgos, 207 km
Enter the road and with it the wind that always seems to fall on the high plains of northern Spain. Flat, but not fast until the race entered the cathedral city of Burgos, where the Fassa train launched the opening of the sprinter's sprinter, Alessandro Petacchi's account. As a result of contesting the sprint and finishing ahead of his teammate Landis, Max van Heeswijk took over the wearing of the gold.
Stage 3 - September 6: Burgos - Soria, 157 km
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For a while, Stage 3 saw a little respite from the wind as it skirted the Sierra de Demanda and passed through the Zone of the Pines. Greeting the arrival in Soria was a heavy storm complete with rain, hail and a wet cobbled stoned bridge. And then what looked like not to be a testing climb to the town finish turned into two kilometres that ripped the race apart. Alejandro Valverde benefited when he roared past Stuart O'Grady to take the win. The final selection with the likes of Heras and Valverde amongst them proved to be telling as to what would follow. USPS' Benoît Joachim did enough to take over the lead from Van Heeswijk.
Stage 4 - September 7: Soria - Zaragoza, 167 km
Across the stark mud bricked landscape past decaying castles of the Counts of Aragon, the route continued its steady, windy path east. There were some scares along the way as the wind caused echelons to form but on the slightly rising finishing run in Zaragoza, Petacchi went from what seemed too far out to hold off all challengers again. Benoît Joachim continued in gold.
Stage 5 - September 8: Zaragoza - Morella, 186.5 km
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Out of Aragon and into Valencia. The first part of the stage was again into an almighty head and cross wind but the real action came in less than three kilometres at the end with the climb to the ancient walled town of Morella. Nozal was awesome, Aitor Gonzalez strong but Dennis Menchov kicked past them on the steepest sections to solo through the final 500 metres to the finish. Triki Beltran took over the race lead as USPS continued to play pass the jersey.
Stage 6 - September 9: Benicarló - Castellón de la Plana, 157 km
Along the Valencian coast, the other sprinter's teams had to come up with something if they were going to have a look in at the end. Towards the day's final climb, the Alto de Desierto de las Pinas, which peaked just over 20 kilometres from the end, Rabobank drove the peloton and in doing so made sure Petacchi was not going to make it over the top in one of the two leading groups. Despite Cofidis working well for O'Grady into the finish in Castellon, the Aussie sprinter had the win stolen from him by a faster Freire. In gold remained Beltran.
Stage 7 - September 10: Castellón de la Plana - Valencia, 165 km
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In Stage 7, the wind had now been well and truly exchanged for heat and humidity and despite the conditions not being to his liking, Petacchi felt well enough to survive the mid race mountains to once again prove himself to be the fastest finisher around.
Another day in gold for Beltran as the USPS run continued.
Stage 8 - September 11: Factoría FORD - Factoría FORD (I.T.T.), 40.1 km
Blast furnace conditions, heat humidity and 40 kilometres of pan flat roads saw Tyler Hamilton repeat his Athens performance and take out the first of la Vuelta's three individual time trials. A strong ride by Landis saw him return to wear gold. But a dangerous sign was the remarkable rides of the smaller guys. Heras, Valverde, Mancebo all held their own with credit. Powerful was Isidro Nozal.
Stage 9 - September 12: Xátiva - Alto de Aitana (Alicante), 170 km
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With Beloki obviously not going to be a threat in the general after his poor time trial performance, Saunier Duval decided to change the chip on the road to Aitana. The day was marked by Cafes Baque's Felix Cardenas, who commenced his campaign to repeat his mountains competition of last year by getting himself in a break and begin to soak up the points in a Virenque-style display. But the break was reeled in close to the finish due in a great part to the tireless efforts of Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano, Dariusz Baranowski and Isidro Nozal.
Leonardo Piepoli (Saunier) left Heras behind in the last five hundred metres after the latter had attacked a depleted climbing group. The big loser of the day was Tyler Hamilton, who cracked badly en route. Landis hung in there enough to remain in gold but saw the start of the reduction of his advantage.
Stage 10 - September 13: Alcoi - Xorret de Catí (Castalla-Alicante), 174.5 km
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You rarely see a stage of a cycle race as beautiful as this one. Complete with the victory of Eladio Jimenez, the sprinter's brawl in which Zabel, O'Grady and Freire jostled for points along the way, and behind the race for GC, where Valverde and Heras tried to put the hurts on Landis over the cruel 20% slopes of the Xorret de Cati. Again Floyd hung in there, but now saw his advantage dwindle to a mere nine seconds over Valverde.
Stage 11 - September 14: San Vicente del Raspeig - Caravaca de la Cruz, 165 km
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Stage 11 was made on paper for the sprinters as the race edged its way south into the deserts of Murcia. That was until Zabriskie set off in kilometre 3 and never looked back for the next 162. The young USPS rider arrived with a minute and a bit to spare, sweat stained and very sore but in doing so pulled off a rare solo win. It was a once in a lifetime dream victory, spelling out the loneliness of the route very loudly. Behind a crash saw Valverde shaken but not out. Landis maintained his nine second advantage.
Coming up
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Ten stages to go, two of them flat, two of them against the clock - one being an epic cronoescalada up the Sierra Nevada that is nearly 30 kilometres long. The other six stages are crowded with two Special category climbs, twelve Cat. 1's, three cat. 2's and eight Cat. 3's to break the field apart. Landis and Beltran still can wave the flag for USPS, but there is no doubt the climbers are going to really try their hardest to destroy them day after day after day. The keys apart from the climbs of course will be the two races against the clock. And along with that, so long as O'Grady and Freire stick around and don't leave early to get ready for the World's, there will be the classic battle for points which has been played out in recent days. And for good measure Cardenas, Fernandez and a host of others will try and hold their own against some bigger climbing guns in an attempt to take the mountains jersey into Madrid.
Standings after stage 11
1 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 40.30.33 2 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 0.09 3 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 0.29 4 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 0.32 5 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 0.47 6 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 0.59 7 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 1.35 8 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 2.42 9 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 2.50 10 Angel Gomez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 4.16 11 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 4.19 12 David Blanco (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 4.24 13 Santiago Perez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 4.35 14 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 5.17 15 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 6.33 16 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 6.43 17 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 7.00 18 Rubén Plaza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 7.07 19 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 7.24 20 Miguel A. 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Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7.52 21 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 8.04 22 Peio Arreitunandia (Spa) Cafes Baque 8.45 23 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 8.49 24 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 8.59 25 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 9.43 26 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9.45 27 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros 10.00 28 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 10.11 29 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 30 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 10.53 31 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 11.34 32 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12.07 33 David Plaza (Spa) Cafes Baque 12.15 34 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 13.01 35 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 13.05 36 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 13.22 37 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 38 José Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 13.26 39 Iñigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 13.55 40 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 15.20 41 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 15.58 42 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros 16.05 43 Joan Horrach (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 16.07 44 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 16.10 45 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 16.18 46 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16.48 47 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 17.05 48 Francisco Garcia (Spa) Cafes Baque 18.35 49 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 18.57 50 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 19.33 51 David Cañada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 19.40 52 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 20.06 53 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 20.43 54 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Rabobank 22.56 55 Hernan Buenahora (Col) Cafes Baque 23.01 56 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 24.14 57 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 24.57 58 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros 26.33 59 Jose Antonio Pecharroman (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 26.43 60 Aitor Perez (Spa) Cafes Baque 27.24 61 Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile Team 28.16 62 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 28.50 63 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 29.16 64 José Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 29.40 65 Jose Luis Rebollo (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 29.44 66 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 30.20 67 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros 31.08 68 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 31.31 69 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 32.02 70 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 32.27 71 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 32.38 72 Ivan Parra (Col) Cafes Baque 33.57 73 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 34.25 74 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Saeco 34.48 75 Joaquin Lopez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 34.59 76 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 35.05 77 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 36.09 78 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 36.57 79 Roberto Sgambelluri (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 37.05 80 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 37.38 81 Antonio Cruz (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 38.54 82 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 40.00 83 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 40.12 84 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 40.31 85 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 41.03 86 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step-Davitamon 41.12 87 David Herrero (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 41.52 88 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 42.15 89 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 42.33 90 Michael Barry (Can) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 42.42 91 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Alessio-Bianchi 43.41 92 David Latasa (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 44.49 93 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Saeco 45.19 94 Klaus Möller (Den) Alessio-Bianchi 45.31 95 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 46.01 96 Iñaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 46.12 97 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Saeco 46.31 98 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 46.56 99 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 47.17 100 Michele Scotto (Ita) Lampre 50.05 101 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 51.22 102 David Fernandez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 52.59 103 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 54.07 104 David Zabriskie (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 55.06 105 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 55.11 106 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Saeco 55.14 107 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 55.30 108 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 57.22 109 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio-Bianchi 57.23 110 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 58.16 111 Gonzalo Bayarri (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 58.30 112 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.00.06 113 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 1.00.34 114 Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros 1.01.23 115 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 1.01.42 116 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 1.01.43 117 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco 1.02.42 118 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.03.01 119 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros 1.04.56 120 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 1.07.40 121 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1.07.41 122 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 1.07.54 123 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.08.38 124 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.09.49 125 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.10.29 126 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 1.12.14 127 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Lampre 1.12.57 128 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 1.13.32 129 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.14.02 130 José Garrido (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 1.14.52 131 Rene Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros 1.16.09 132 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 1.17.03 133 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 1.17.14 134 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.17.45 135 Hebert Gutierrez (Col) Cafes Baque 1.18.09 136 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.18.24 137 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 1.18.34 138 José Julia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1.18.44 139 Bert Roesems (Bel) Relax-Bodysol 1.19.11 140 Frank Høj (Den) Team CSC 1.19.39 141 Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.22.03 142 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 1.22.28 143 Julián Sanchez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 1.23.06 144 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.23.35 145 Guido Trenti (USA) Fassa Bortolo 1.23.45 146 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Cafes Baque 1.24.31 147 José Garcia Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1.26.00 148 Erki Pütsep (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.26.01 149 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.26.53 150 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 1.28.40 151 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 1.29.06 152 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.29.51 153 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 1.30.52 154 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 1.31.11 155 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.31.51 156 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 1.32.01 157 Thomas Bruun (Den) Team CSC 1.32.50 158 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 1.33.43 159 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.33.48 160 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Saeco 1.33.52 161 Ellis Rastelli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 1.34.05 162 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Saeco 1.34.09 163 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 1.42.13 Points classification 1 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 130 pts 2 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 128 3 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 108 4 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 95 5 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 72 6 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 50 7 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 50 8 David Zabriskie (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 49 9 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 47 10 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 45 11 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 44 12 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 43 13 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 38 14 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 38 15 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 36 16 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 35 17 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 32 18 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 29 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 Miguel A. 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Perdiguero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 27 24 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 27 25 Antonio Cruz (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 22 26 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 21 27 Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile Team 20 28 Michael Barry (Can) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 20 29 David Fernandez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 20 30 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 18 31 Erki Pütsep (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 17 32 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 15 33 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio-Bianchi 15 34 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 12 35 Rubén Plaza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 12 36 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Saeco 12 37 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 12 38 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 12 39 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 11 40 Angel Gomez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 11 41 José Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 11 42 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 10 43 Iñaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 44 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 9 45 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 9 46 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 9 47 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 7 48 Aitor Perez (Spa) Cafes Baque 7 49 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 7 50 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step-Davitamon 6 51 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 6 52 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 5 53 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 5 54 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 5 55 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 4 56 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 4 57 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Alessio-Bianchi 4 58 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 4 59 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 4 60 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 4 61 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 3 62 Roberto Sgambelluri (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 3 63 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 64 Hebert Gutierrez (Col) Cafes Baque 3 65 Santiago Perez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 66 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 67 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2 68 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 2 69 Michele Scotto (Ita) Lampre 2 70 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 2 71 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Cafes Baque 2 72 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2 73 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 74 Iñigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 1 75 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1 76 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Rabobank 1 77 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 1 78 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1 79 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 1 80 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Lampre 1 81 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 1 Mountains classification 1 José Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 48 pts 2 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 38 3 David Fernandez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 35 4 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 33 5 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 32 6 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 31 7 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 27 8 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 20 9 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 20 10 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 17 11 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 14 12 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 14 13 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 14 14 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 14 15 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 14 16 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio-Bianchi 14 17 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 13 18 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 13 19 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Saeco 12 20 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 11 21 Hebert Gutierrez (Col) Cafes Baque 11 22 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 10 23 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10 24 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 9 25 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 8 26 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 7 27 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Alessio-Bianchi 6 28 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 6 29 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 6 30 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 5 31 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 5 32 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 4 33 Michele Scotto (Ita) Lampre 4 34 David Zabriskie (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 4 35 Francisco José Lara (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 3 36 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 3 37 Erki Pütsep (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 3 38 Angel Gomez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 2 39 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 2 40 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 2 41 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 2 42 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 2 43 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 1 44 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 1 45 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 1 46 Francisco Garcia (Spa) Cafes Baque 1 47 Iñaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Combined classification 1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 19 pts 2 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 19 3 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros 21 4 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros 23 5 Denis Menchov (Rus) Illes Balears-Banesto 26 6 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 29 7 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 43 8 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 47 9 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 49 10 Aitor Gonzalez (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 49 11 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 55 12 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 63 13 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 66 14 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 72 15 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 77 16 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 78 17 José Miguel Elias (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 80 18 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cafes Baque 83 19 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 86 20 Angel Gomez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 88 21 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 89 22 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 94 23 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 105 24 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 106 25 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 128 26 David Fernandez (Spa) Paternina-Costa De Almeria 134 27 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 137 28 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 142 29 David Zabriskie (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 146 30 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Saeco 148 31 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio-Bianchi 158 32 Unai Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 167 33 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 172 34 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Alessio-Bianchi 175 35 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 175 36 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 182 37 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax-Bodysol 184 38 Iñaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 186 39 Michele Scotto (Ita) Lampre 202 40 Erki Pütsep (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 216 41 Hebert Gutierrez (Col) Cafes Baque 220 42 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 241 43 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme 242 Teams classification 1 Comunidad Valenciana - Kelme 121.32.30 2 US Postal Service presented by B. 5.30 3 Liberty Seguros 8.36 4 Illes Balears - Banesto 10.16 5 Saunier Duval - Prodir 16.24 6 Team CSC 18.15 7 Costa de Almeria - Paternina 18.27 8 Phonak Hearing Systems 21.24 9 Cafes Baque 24.07 10 Relax-Bodysol 27.46 11 Cofidis, le credit par telephone 27.56 12 T-Mobile Team 35.13 13 Saeco 36.56 14 Quick Step - Davitamon 53.16 15 Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.00.11 16 Rabobank 1.00.19 17 Fassa Bortolo 1.03.16 18 Lampre 1.08.04 19 Vini Caldirola -Nobili Rubinetterie 1.08.23 20 Alessio - Bianchi 1.30.41 21 AG2R Prevoyance 1.34.50
