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Deutschland Tour - ProT
Germany, August 15-23, 2005
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Stage 2 - August 16: Pegnitz – Bodenmais, 180 km
Pozzato likes his hair
By Hedwig Kröner
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Filippo Pozzato (Quick.Step), who recently won the HEW Cyclassics in Hamburg, Germany, has proved his good form once again by beating Jörg Jaksche (Liberty Seguros) in a stunning finale of the 2005 Deutschland Tour's second stage. The 23 year-old crossed the finish line in Bodenmais only a few millimetres in front of the German, and the photo finish had to decide on the winner as only a hair separated the Italian's wheel from the German's.
Jaksche, whose home region is near the Bavarian Forest where the stage took place, raced very aggressively throughout the last 35 kilometres where two Cat. 2 climbs had to be mastered. He attacked again with two kilometres to go, but the hammering chasers led by Pozzato still caught him. Colombian Mauricio Ardila Cano (Davitamon-Lotto) came in third in a final sprint of about thirty riders, including the race favourites.
After crossing the two final climbs leading to the stage finish, a group of 29 riders proved to be the strongest in the peloton, including the GC favourites Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile), Levi Leipheimer, Davide Rebellin (both Gerolsteiner), Cadel Evans (Davitamon-Lotto), Philippe Gilbert (Francaise des Jeux) as well as defending champion Patrick Sinkewitz (Quickstep).
Yellow jersey wearer Bram Tankink (Qucik.Step) was able to limit his losses and finished 1.44 minutes behind, thereby defending his overall lead for one more day.
How it unfolded
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160 riders took the start again this morning in sunny Pegnitz and set out on the 199.3 km long parcours, which was going to be mostly flat except for the last 35 kilometres. Two Cat. 2 climbs awaited the peloton in the stage finale before the finish line in Bodenmais - the first test for the General Classification contenders.
The stage began quietly, but as soon as the first riders started to jump, the tempo was significantly increased. Carlos Barredo (Liberty Seguros) did a good job, getting a gap together with Christian Knees (Wiesenhof) before being joined by Matti Breschel (CSC), Bram Schmitz (T-Mobile) and Ronny Scholz (Gerolsteiner). But their lead didn't last, and after getting caught by the bunch, Barredo took his chances again with Enrico Poitschke (Wiesenhof) - and finally succeeded. Mauro Facci (Fassa Bortolo) then managed his counter-attack up to them while Quick.Step controlled the bunch, willing to let those three go.
Just before the first intermediate sprint of the day, the trio's lead had exceeded the 3.19 minutes separating them from the Yellow jersey, and as the German took the points and bonus seconds in Amberg before Barredo and Facci, he was virtually leading the race. Quick.Step chased them moderately, constantly allowing a gap of around four minutes as the bunch was sparing its energy for the final climbs before Bodenmais.
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Around kilometre 140, Poitschke had a mechanical, forcing him to deviate on a mowed grass stretch beside the road amongst spectators - but his rear wheel was changed quickly, and the three set forth.
At the foot of the climb, with about 35 kilometres to go, the break's lead was still 3'20, but Quick.Step's efforts in the front of the peloton paid off: the bunch moved up on them quickly. Liberty Seguros made the pace as the breakaway was caught, and under the hammering in front, even Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile) was dropped within the first kilometres of the climb up to Scheiben (1.050 m). Tankink also suffered and had to let go as Liberty and T-Mobile made the pace, as Cristian Fertonani (Domina Vacanze) appeared in front of the peloton.
But Jörg Jaksche (Liberty) and Davide Rebellin (Geroslteiner) moved up on him, as well as the remaining bunch, and with three kilometres to go before the GPM, the main contenders of about 40 riders were together again. Giuseppe Guerini (T-Mobile) was doing the work for Jan Ullrich, with further overall favourites also in the group. Soon after, Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner) attacked on the damp and very cool 'Scheiben' mountain, got a gap and managed to take the mountain points.
David Etxebarria Alkorta (Liberty), 'Spartacus' Fabian Cancellara (Fassa Bortolo) and Wegmann then managed to break away after the GPM, still 16 km to go, racing down the the cescent to the next difficulty under a light drizzle. But the roads being wide and not too twisty, the group caught them again.
On the second and last climb of the day, the 'Bretterschachten', Liberty Seguros' Etxebarria challenged the reduced bunch of about 30 riders. T-Mobile's Jan Ullrich was meanwhile left without any teammates as Guerini had to let go. Philippe Gilbert (Francaise des Jeux) and Tadej Valjavec (Phonak) were leading with Jaksche and 2004 winner Patrik Sinkewitz increasing the pace over and over again, until American Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) took up the rigns and went flat out to get to the Bretterschachten GPM first.
The roads were wet and slippery as the leaders drove the last nine kilometres down towards Bodenmais, Jaksche and Leipheimer in front. But nobody managed to ride away, and the riders reached the flat together. Jan Ullrich was also working as his fellow German Jaksche attacked with two kilometres to go - his gap was small, but it was there. Unfortunately, as the last few hundred metres were uphill, the Liberty rider wasn't able to force no more and looked back too much. The fresher Pozzato, whose Quick.Step team had worked well for him, played his card and played it right.
Photography
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- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) gets ready for another day in the saddle
- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) looks focused at the start
- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) does his usual pre-start bike check. Is that a new Lightweight wheel?
- Bram Tankink (Quick.Step) enjoying his day in yellow
- A local supporter cheers on the peloton during stage 2
- Bram Tankink (Quick.Step) rides in the company of Patrik Sinkewitz and Jan Ullrich
- Leader Bram Tankink with Ullrich in tow
- Jorg Jaksche (Liberty Seguros) looks back and sees Pozzato coming
- Filippo Pozzato (Quick.Step, R) overhauls Jaksche to win stage 2
Results
1 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quickstep 4.49.40 2 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 3 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon - Lotto 4 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 5 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 6 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 7 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 8 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 9 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 10 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 11 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval - Prodir 13 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 14 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 15 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 16 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quickstep 17 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 18 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 19 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 21 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 22 Saul Raisin (USA) Crédit Agricole 23 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 24 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 25 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile 26 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 27 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 28 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 29 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 30 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 0.33 31 Sergio Escobar Roure (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 0.56 32 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 33 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 1.19 34 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 1.25 35 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 36 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 37 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 38 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 39 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 40 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 41 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 42 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 43 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 44 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas - Bianchi 45 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 46 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel 47 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile 48 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre - Caffita 49 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 50 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 51 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 52 Marco Fertonani (Ita) Domina Vacanze 53 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 54 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 55 Iker Flores Galarza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 56 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 57 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC 58 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 59 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 60 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 61 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quickstep 62 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 1.44 63 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 64 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Crédit Agricole 65 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 66 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile 67 Björn Schröder (Ger) Wiesenhof 2.56 68 Christian Knees (Ger) Wiesenhof 69 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 70 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 71 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep 72 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 73 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 74 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 75 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 3.04 76 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 77 Rafael Casero Moreno (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4.09 78 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 79 Mads Christensen (Den) Quickstep 80 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française des Jeux 81 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 82 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Wiesenhof 83 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.46 84 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6.14 85 André Greipel (Ger) Wiesenhof 86 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 87 Matej Jurco (Svk) Domina Vacanze 88 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 89 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 90 Kilian Patour (Fra) Crédit Agricole 91 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 92 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Crédit Agricole 93 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 94 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 95 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 96 Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 97 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 98 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 99 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel 100 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 101 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 102 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 103 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas - Bianchi 104 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems 105 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 106 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 107 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 108 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 109 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 110 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 111 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 112 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7.00 113 Alexandre Naulleau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11.08 114 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Wiesenhof 115 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 116 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 117 Luciano André Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas - Bianchi 118 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 119 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 120 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 121 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 122 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 123 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 124 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 125 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile 126 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile 127 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 128 René Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 129 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof 130 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Wiesenhof 131 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 132 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 133 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 134 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 135 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 136 Frédéric Mainguenaud (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 137 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 138 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 15.02 139 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 140 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quickstep 141 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française des Jeux 142 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep 143 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile 144 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Discovery Channel 145 Marco Righetto (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 146 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 147 Antonio Cruz (USA) Discovery Channel 148 Enrico Grigoli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 149 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 150 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 151 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Française des Jeux 152 Gennady Mikhaylov (Rus) Discovery Channel 153 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 154 Martin Müller (Ger) Wiesenhof 155 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 156 Joseba Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 157 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 158 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep 159 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 160 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne Points 1 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quickstep 25 pts 2 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 20 3 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon - Lotto 16 4 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 13 5 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 11 6 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 10 7 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 9 8 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8 9 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 7 10 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 6 11 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 12 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4 13 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 3 14 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2 15 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 1 Mountains Scheiben - Cat. 2, km 177,3 1 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6 pts 2 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 4 3 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3 4 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 2 5 Sergio Escobar Roure (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1 Bretterschachten - Cat. 2, km 190,3 1 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 6 pts 2 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4 3 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon - Lotto 3 4 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 2 5 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 1 Sprints Amberg, km 53,3 1 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Wiesenhof 6 pts 2 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4 3 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2 Sprint 2 1 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 6 pts 2 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Wiesenhof 4 3 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 2 Most aggressive rider 1 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team Teams 1 Davitamon-Lotto 14.29.00 2 Phonak Hearing Systems 3 Gerolsteiner 4 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 0.56 5 Illes Balears - Caisse d'Epargne 6 Quick Step - Innergetic 1.25 7 Saunier Duval - Prodir 8 Euskaltel - Euskadi 9 Team CSC 10 Fassa Bortolo 1.58 11 Rabobank 2.44 12 Liquigas-Bianchi 2.50 13 T-Mobile Team 14 Française Des Jeux 4.09 15 Domina Vacanze 4.15 16 Credit Agricole 4.40 17 Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 7.39 18 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 9.04 19 Lampre - Caffita 9.23 20 Team Wiesenhof 10.01 21 Bouygues Telecom 11.48 General classification after stage 2 1 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep 8.52.49 2 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quickstep 0.13 3 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 0.17 4 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon - Lotto 0.19 5 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 0.23 6 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 7 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 8 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 9 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 10 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 11 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 12 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval - Prodir 14 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 15 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 16 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 17 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quickstep 18 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 19 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 20 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 22 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 23 Saul Raisin (USA) Crédit Agricole 24 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 25 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 26 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile 27 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 28 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 29 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 30 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 31 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 0.57 32 Sergio Escobar Roure (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.19 33 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 34 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 1.42 35 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 1.48 36 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 37 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 38 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 39 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 40 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 41 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 42 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 43 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 44 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 45 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas - Bianchi 46 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 47 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel 48 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile 49 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre - Caffita 50 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 51 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 52 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 53 Marco Fertonani (Ita) Domina Vacanze 54 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 55 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 56 Iker Flores Galarza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 57 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 58 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC 59 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 60 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 61 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 62 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quickstep 63 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 2.03 64 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2.07 65 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 66 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Crédit Agricole 67 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 68 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile 69 Björn Schröder (Ger) Wiesenhof 3.19 70 Christian Knees (Ger) Wiesenhof 71 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 72 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 73 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 74 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 75 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 76 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 3.28 77 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 78 Rafael Casero Moreno (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4.32 79 Mads Christensen (Den) Quickstep 80 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française des Jeux 81 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 82 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Wiesenhof 83 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.09 84 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6.37 85 André Greipel (Ger) Wiesenhof 86 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 87 Matej Jurco (Svk) Domina Vacanze 88 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 89 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 90 Kilian Patour (Fra) Crédit Agricole 91 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 92 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Crédit Agricole 93 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 94 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 95 Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 96 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 97 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel 98 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 99 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 100 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 101 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas - Bianchi 102 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems 103 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 104 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 105 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 106 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 107 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 108 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 109 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7.23 110 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 7.29 111 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 112 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8.04 113 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Wiesenhof 11.26 114 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 11.27 115 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 11.28 116 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Wiesenhof 11.31 117 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 118 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 119 Luciano André Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas - Bianchi 120 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 121 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 122 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 123 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 124 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 125 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 126 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 127 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile 128 René Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 129 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof 130 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 131 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 132 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 133 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 134 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 135 Frédéric Mainguenaud (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 136 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile 12.54 137 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française des Jeux 13.00 138 Alexandre Naulleau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13.03 139 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 15.25 140 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 141 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quickstep 142 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep 143 Marco Righetto (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 144 Antonio Cruz (USA) Discovery Channel 145 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 146 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 147 Gennady Mikhaylov (Rus) Discovery Channel 148 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 149 Joseba Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 150 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 151 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep 152 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Discovery Channel 16.17 153 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 16.47 154 Martin Müller (Ger) Wiesenhof 155 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 156 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile 18.45 157 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Française des Jeux 158 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 19.51 159 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 20.24 160 Enrico Grigoli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 26.28 Points classification 1 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep 29 pts 2 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française des Jeux 28 3 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 28 4 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quickstep 25 5 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 20 6 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon - Lotto 16 7 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 13 8 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 13 9 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 11 10 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 11 11 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 11 12 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Wiesenhof 10 13 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 10 14 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 10 15 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Wiesenhof 10 16 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 9 17 Luciano André Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas - Bianchi 9 18 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8 19 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8 20 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 8 21 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 7 22 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 6 23 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 6 24 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 25 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4 26 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 4 27 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quickstep 4 28 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2 29 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 2 30 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 1 Mountains classification 1 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 6 pts 2 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6 3 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep 6 4 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4 5 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 4 6 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4 7 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon - Lotto 3 8 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3 9 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 2 10 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 2 11 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française des Jeux 2 12 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 1 13 Sergio Escobar Roure (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1 Teams classification 1 Quick Step - Innergetic 26.37.54 2 Saunier Duval - Prodir 0.48 3 Davitamon-Lotto 1.42 4 Phonak Hearing Systems 5 Gerolsteiner 6 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 2.38 7 Illes Balears - Caisse d'Epargne 8 Team CSC 3.07 9 Euskaltel - Euskadi 10 Française Des Jeux 3.35 11 Fassa Bortolo 3.40 12 Rabobank 4.26 13 Liquigas-Bianchi 4.32 14 T-Mobile Team 15 Domina Vacanze 5.57 16 Credit Agricole 6.22 17 Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 9.21 18 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 10.46 19 Lampre - Caffita 11.05 20 Team Wiesenhof 11.43 21 Bouygues Telecom 13.30
