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Deutschland Tour - ProT
Germany, August 15-23, 2005
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Stage 7 - August 21: Singen (Hohentw.) – Feldberg (Schwarzwald), 173 km
A fine victory for Evans as Ullrich loses more time
By Hedwig Kröner
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Australian Cadel Evans showed in today's seventh stage of the Deutschland Tour that he is back to his best level, by winning the exciting mountain finish finale ahead of Saunier's Fabian Jeker and Liberty's Jörg Jaksche.
The 28 year-old outsprinted his rivals in the last kilometre, with race leader Levi Leipheimer finishing fourth. T-Mobile's Jan Ullrich lost some time again and now has to make up 1'26 in tomorrow's time trial if he still wants to win this race.
"Towards the end, Ullrich got dropped and Totschnig was dropped. They were in second and third so it was in my interest to ride," said Evans after the cold, wet and windy stage which couldn't have been nastier. "I saw my chances at 600m to go. I went with everything from there." The former mountain bike rider was really happy with his win. "I've had a good season, and been in a good position for the races. But it's been a long time to wait for a win. I hope this is a start to return to my own level."
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Evans also thanked his team Davitamon-Lotto for their support. "I have a lot of thanks to give to Davitamon-Lotto," he added. "I had a bit of a rough run leading into the Tour. They've always been behind me and the good work is bearing fruit. I was surprised that Ullrich was dropped. The other day I thought he was climbing better than he was in the Tour. Today to see him dropped, for me it was good."
Asked what he made of the bad weather conditions, the 28 year-old said, "Right now at my house in Melbourne, the weather is the same. But it's winter there..."
How it unfolded
The start of today's stage seven was given in Singen at 11.55 a.m., and even then it was clear that the day would be a tough one: not only was there the dreaded finale involving two Cat. 1 climbs, but also the rain, the wind, and temperatures below 10° Celsius. The real European August seemed to be happening somewhere else, certainly not in Southwestern Germany.
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There were still 126 riders present, excluding Filippo Pozzato (Quick.Step) who did not start although he was placed second in the points classification behind Daniele Bennati (Lampre).
After even kilometres, Wilfried Cretskens (Quick.Step), Axel Merckx (Davitamon), Yannick Talabardon (Crédit Agricole), René Andrle (Liberty) and Björn Schröder (Wiesenhof) got a 20 second-advance but were soon caught by the bunch led out by Euskaltel.
Five minutes later, Christian Müller (Team CSC), Carlos Barredo (Liberty Seguros), Rory Sutherland (Rabobank) and Volodymir Gustov (Fassa Bortolo) were the ones who tried to get away...and succeeded. The peloton's reaction was close to none, so the break's lead quickly increased to a couple of minutes. But the Spaniard, who was in the breakaway yesterday already, had trouble holding on to his companions on the ascending terrain, and got dropped 45 seconds behind the leaders. Barredo nevertheless fought hard, and eventually re-joined the group on the Cat. 3 climb at km 38.8, won by Australian Rory Sutherland.
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The weather meanwhile remained as bad as it possibly could: the rain and wind did not cease, and at times it was foggy. The bunch rode at the slowest average speed, and the break's maximum lead amounted to 10'50, before Italian team Liquigas got to the front of the bunch and lined up just in a team time trial to make a serious pace. The work paid off, as the gap decreased: at the sprint in Stegen (140.8 km), the break's lead was only 5'10.
On the penultimate climb to the Cat. 1 'Notschrei' (literally: emergency scream - one wonders how that name came about - ed.), Barredo couldn't hold the pace and the three others continued without him as he dropped back. Gustov climbed the best, with Sutherland only a few metres back. With 25 km to go, Cofidis' Cédric Vasseur jumped out of the Gerolsteiner-controlled peloton, which was still more than three minutes adrift from the leaders Gustov and Sutherland.
Ronny Scholz (Gerolsteiner) led the favourites' train when Wesemann countered Vasseur's move with Julich on his wheel. Barredo got caught, and also Vasseur. Next to attack was Alexandre Moos (Phonak) but Julich went after him too - and so did Alberto Contador (Liberty), who was still strong enough to get a real gap. The young Spaniard first caught Sutherland and then the suffering Gustov before the summit. But the Ukrainian struggled on and was first to cross the top of the climb with the Spaniard, who courteously let him get the points. A seven-kilometre wet and cold descent awaited the riders, who had approximately one minute lead in front of the bunch.
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At the foot of the final 11-kilometre Cat. 1 climb, the Feldberg, Gustov's machine exploded and Contador started the ascent alone, looking easy. Behind, David Arroyo (Illes Balears) set out on his pursuit, with the GC contenders still together. Leipheimer's teammate Scholz was again driving hard, and Arroyo's move did not last. Contador had a minute halfway up the climb, and still looked very smooth.
Pieter Weening (Rabobank) then attacked as the main rivals focused on each other, immediately joined by Sergio Paulinho (Liberty), Bobby Julich (CSC) and Vincenzo Nibali (Fassa Bortolo). Liberty Seguros was definitely riding aggressively today. But Jeker (Saunier) finally went, and Jan Ullrich took his wheel, with all the GC contenders behind him - except Jaksche, who had a mechanical at that crucial moment. His front wheel punctured, but he finally fought his way back into the main group. Jeker attacked again, and that's when Ullrich fell back out of the group, while Leipheimer, Jaksche and Evans were hammering in front. Ullrich was joined by Julich and Totschnig. Contador was caught, but continued in the front group with two kilometres to go to the line, before the final accelerations.
Jaksche attacked 700m before the finish, but it proved to be too soon, as Evans reacted and was able to move ahead of the German in the uphill sprint. Jeker also held on and placed second, ahead of Jaksche and Leipheimer, while Ullrich struggled home in 11th place, 44 seconds behind Evans and 30 behind Leipheimer.
Photography
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- A man on a horse wonders what on earth these lunatics are doing riding in this weather
- Leipheimer and Ullrich follow each other in the rain
- Leipheimer, Jaksche, and Ullrich suffer in the rain
- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) in damage control mode
- Cadel Evans (Davitamon-Lotto) wins the seventh stage on top of the Feldberg
- Cadel Evans (Davitamon-Lotto) celebrates his win
- Cadel Evans (Davitamon-Lotto) salutes from the podium
- Cadel Evans (Davitamon-Lotto) is kissed on the podium
- Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) realises that it's not over yet
- One more kiss for Levi
- Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) extended his lead today
Images by Sabine Jost
- Cadel Evans (Davitamon-Lotto) drives it home
- Fabian Jeker (Saunier Duval) with Jorg Jaksche on his wheel
- Fabian Jeker (Saunier Duval) nearly there
- Marzio Bruseghin (Fassa Bortolo) powers home with Totschnig in tow
- Wim Van Huffel (Davitamon-Lotto) finishes in the top 10
- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) has had enough of this climb
- Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas-Bianchi) guts it out
- Peter Luttenberger (CSC) leads Brochard on the run to the line
- Cadel Evans (Davitamon-Lotto) enjoys some podium time
- Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) on the podium in yellow
- Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) also the mountains leader
Results
1 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 4.56.10 2 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 0.11 3 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 0.14 5 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 0.26 6 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 7 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.29 8 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 9 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 0.33 10 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 0.35 11 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile 0.44 12 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 13 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.56 14 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 1.05 15 Saul Raisin (USA) Crédit Agricole 16 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 17 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.09 18 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 1.37 19 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 1.40 20 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 21 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 22 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 23 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.45 24 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.48 25 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 26 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quickstep 27 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.25 28 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel 2.36 29 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 30 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval - Prodir 3.09 31 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 32 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3.38 33 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3.49 34 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4.03 35 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile 4.38 36 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 5.42 37 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 38 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre - Caffita 39 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 7.49 40 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 9.31 41 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 42 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 9.55 43 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 44 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 10.56 45 Christian Knees (Ger) Wiesenhof 46 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 47 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 48 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 49 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 50 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 51 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas - Bianchi 52 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 53 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 54 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel 55 Mads Christensen (Den) Quickstep 56 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 57 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 58 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 59 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep 13.48 60 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 61 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 62 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 63 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 64 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 65 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 66 Joseba Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 67 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 68 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 16.10 69 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 70 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 16.52 71 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 72 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Crédit Agricole 16.56 73 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC 17.15 74 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 17.32 75 René Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 18.07 76 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 77 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 21.20 78 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 79 Luciano André Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas - Bianchi 80 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 81 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 82 Marco Righetto (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 83 Matej Jurco (Svk) Domina Vacanze 84 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 85 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Wiesenhof 86 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Wiesenhof 87 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile 88 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 89 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 90 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 91 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 92 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 93 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas - Bianchi 94 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quickstep 95 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française des Jeux 96 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 97 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 98 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Française des Jeux 99 Gennady Mikhaylov (Rus) Discovery Channel 100 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Discovery Channel 101 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Wiesenhof 102 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 103 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 104 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile 105 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 106 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 107 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 108 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 109 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 110 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof 111 Björn Schröder (Ger) Wiesenhof 112 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 113 Martin Müller (Ger) Wiesenhof 114 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 115 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Crédit Agricole 116 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep 117 Iker Flores Galarza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 118 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 119 Frédéric Mainguenaud (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 120 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française des Jeux DNF Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quickstep DNF Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom DNF Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi DNF Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze DNF Marco Fertonani (Ita) Domina Vacanze DNF Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir DNS Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quickstep Points 1 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 25 pts 2 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 20 3 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 16 4 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 13 5 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 11 6 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 10 7 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 9 8 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 8 9 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 7 10 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 6 11 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile 5 12 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 4 13 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 3 14 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 2 15 Saul Raisin (USA) Crédit Agricole 1 Mountains Ewattingen - Cat. 3, km 38,8 1 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 3 pts 2 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 2 3 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 1 Notschrei - Cat. 1, km 158 1 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 10 pts 2 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 8 3 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 6 4 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 5 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 Feldberg - Cat. 1, km 177,7 1 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 10 pts 2 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 8 3 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 6 4 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 4 5 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 2 Sprints Titisee, km 82,3 1 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC 6 pts 2 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4 3 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 2 Stegen, km 140,8 1 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 6 pts 2 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 4 3 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC 2 Most aggressive rider 1 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC Teams 1 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 14.50.47 2 Team CSC 0.48 3 Saunier Duval - Prodir 2.51 4 Phonak Hearing Systems 2.53 5 Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 6.15 6 Gerolsteiner 7.57 7 Davitamon-Lotto 9.14 8 Fassa Bortolo 9.47 9 Rabobank 10.47 10 Illes Balears - Caisse d'Epargne 11.11 11 T-Mobile Team 12.36 12 Liquigas-Bianchi 15.58 13 Credit Agricole 20.40 14 Quick Step - Innergetic 24.15 15 Euskaltel - Euskadi 26.28 16 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 28.47 17 Bouygues Telecom 34.31 18 Lampre - Caffita 35.41 19 Française Des Jeux 41.28 20 Team Wiesenhof 51.19 General classification after stage 7 1 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 32.53.37 2 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.33 3 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 0.58 4 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 1.21 5 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile 1.26 6 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.42 7 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 3.07 8 Saul Raisin (USA) Crédit Agricole 3.47 9 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 4.19 10 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4.50 11 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quickstep 12 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 5.43 13 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 6.08 14 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 6.46 15 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 7.19 16 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 7.30 17 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 8.38 18 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 8.50 19 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 10.12 20 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 10.20 21 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 10.27 22 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel 11.06 23 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13.03 24 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 13.23 25 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval - Prodir 14.24 26 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 14.36 27 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 16.15 28 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre - Caffita 17.31 29 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 17.48 30 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 20.51 31 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21.10 32 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 22.53 33 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 23.00 34 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile 23.51 35 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 24.22 36 Christian Knees (Ger) Wiesenhof 24.26 37 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 25.31 38 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 26.26 39 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 26.48 40 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 27.02 41 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 28.09 42 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 29.57 43 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 30.20 44 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 30.39 45 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 31.58 46 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 32.05 47 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 32.19 48 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas - Bianchi 33.18 49 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 34.00 50 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 34.29 51 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 36.11 52 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 36.28 53 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 37.26 54 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 38.31 55 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 39.15 56 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 39.20 57 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile 40.52 58 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 41.56 59 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 43.17 60 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 44.20 61 Iker Flores Galarza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 44.24 62 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 45.50 63 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 46.24 64 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 47.28 65 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 47.29 66 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 48.04 67 Mads Christensen (Den) Quickstep 49.08 68 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 49.16 69 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 49.20 70 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 49.48 71 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 52.37 72 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 53.23 73 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel 53.24 74 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC 53.37 75 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 53.49 76 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 54.05 77 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 55.29 78 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 56.07 79 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 56.36 80 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 57.04 81 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Crédit Agricole 57.07 82 Björn Schröder (Ger) Wiesenhof 57.44 83 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 58.19 84 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Crédit Agricole 58.54 85 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 59.22 86 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 59.25 87 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Wiesenhof 59.28 88 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française des Jeux 89 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 1.01.04 90 Matej Jurco (Svk) Domina Vacanze 1.01.37 91 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 92 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 93 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas - Bianchi 1.02.02 94 Joseba Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.02.53 95 René Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 1.03.18 96 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep 1.03.58 97 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.04.21 98 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 1.04.52 99 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Wiesenhof 1.06.26 100 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 1.06.31 101 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 102 Frédéric Mainguenaud (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 103 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.06.52 104 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 1.07.03 105 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Wiesenhof 1.07.29 106 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 1.08.16 107 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof 1.08.30 108 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 1.08.33 109 Luciano André Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas - Bianchi 1.09.02 110 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 1.10.19 111 Gennady Mikhaylov (Rus) Discovery Channel 1.10.25 112 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep 113 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quickstep 1.10.54 114 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 1.11.13 115 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile 1.14.17 116 Marco Righetto (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 1.14.22 117 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.15.58 118 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Discovery Channel 1.18.36 119 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Française des Jeux 1.26.02 120 Martin Müller (Ger) Wiesenhof 1.27.48 Points classification 1 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 64 pts 2 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 48 3 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 47 4 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Wiesenhof 39 5 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 38 6 Luciano André Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas - Bianchi 33 7 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 31 8 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 30 9 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 29 10 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 28 11 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 27 12 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française des Jeux 27 13 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 25 14 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 25 15 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 23 16 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 23 17 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 22 18 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile 21 19 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 21 20 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 20 21 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Discovery Channel 20 22 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 19 23 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval - Prodir 19 24 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 17 25 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 14 26 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 13 27 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel 13 28 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 29 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 12 30 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 12 31 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 11 32 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 11 33 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 10 34 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Wiesenhof 10 35 Saul Raisin (USA) Crédit Agricole 10 36 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quickstep 10 37 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 10 38 Björn Schröder (Ger) Wiesenhof 10 39 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 10 40 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 9 41 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC 8 42 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8 43 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 7 44 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7 45 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 7 46 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 6 47 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 48 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 6 49 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 5 50 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 51 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4 52 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 4 53 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 54 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 4 55 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof 4 56 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 3 57 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 2 58 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 1 Mountains classification 1 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 25 pts 2 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 20 3 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 18 4 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 16 5 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 15 6 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 13 7 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 12 8 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 12 9 Saul Raisin (USA) Crédit Agricole 12 10 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 10 11 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile 10 12 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 10 13 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 10 14 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 10 15 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 9 16 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 8 17 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Crédit Agricole 6 18 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 5 19 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 4 20 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 21 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4 22 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 23 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Discovery Channel 3 24 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3 25 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 3 26 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3 27 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 3 28 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel 2 29 Björn Schröder (Ger) Wiesenhof 2 30 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 1 31 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile 1 Teams classification 1 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 98.58.34 2 Gerolsteiner 3.31 3 Davitamon-Lotto 5.18 4 Phonak Hearing Systems 6.56 5 Saunier Duval - Prodir 8.00 6 Illes Balears - Caisse d'Epargne 19.26 7 Team CSC 21.32 8 Rabobank 22.15 9 T-Mobile Team 35.44 10 Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 36.40 11 Liquigas-Bianchi 37.12 12 Euskaltel - Euskadi 54.38 13 Quick Step - Innergetic 58.55 14 Credit Agricole 1.04.49 15 Fassa Bortolo 1.08.46 16 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.09.14 17 Bouygues Telecom 1.10.41 18 Française Des Jeux 1.42.23 19 Lampre - Caffita 1.45.57 20 Team Wiesenhof 2.03.58
