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Deutschland Tour - ProT
Germany, August 15-23, 2005
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Stage 3 - August 17: Bodenmais – Kufstein, 227 km
Bennati takes sprinter's third stage
By Hedwig Kröner
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Today's flat sprinter's stage of the Deutschland Tour from Bodenmais to Kufstein was won by Italian Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Caffita), who got his front wheel just ahead of his compatriot Filippo Pozzato's, who already scored a stage win yesterday. German Sebastian Siedler (Wiesenhof) came in third under finally sunny skies in Austria.
"I dedicate this win to my wife, Chiara, who is always with me, also in the bad moments, and to my teammates who did a wonderful job today: they all worked at 100 percent for me and I really want to thank them," said Bennati after the finish.
This is Bennati's second win of the year (as well as the Giro di Toscana) his next goal is to ride for the Italian national team in Madrid. "My dream is to participate in the next World Championships so I want to do well at the next races. You can be sure you will see me again in the next days." But not tomorrow, he admitted, as the stage between Kufstein and Sölden will be too tough for him. "Gruppetto," was his final comment.
No big changes occurred at the top of the general classification, and Bram Tankink will wear the leader's jersey again tomorrow in the Queen's stage of this year's Deutschland Tour, now leading by 17 seconds over Pozzato. Meanwhile, Gerolsteiner's Fabian Wegmann added one more mountain point to his score and slipped into the mountains jersey.
How it unfolded
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With one non-starter, Discovery's Antonio Cruz, 159 riders had gathered in Kufstein for the third day of wettish weather conditions, and at 11.10, the official start was given. The first 50 kilometres of the mostly flat, 227 km-long parcours to Austria saw lots of attacks and an equally high tempo. Finally, after one hour of hammering, Unai Etxebarria (Euskaltel-Euskadi) broke away from the bunch, and the peloton let him go. A fine move by Etxebarria, but certainly a hard one as nobody went up to join him in his quest - so the Venezuelan went on solo and quickly gained time on the exhausted peloton behind.
Etxebarria's lead grew steadily, and his maximum advantage was 15'40 minutes at around kilometre 95. From then on, the Quick.Step controlled peloton moved up on him again. Intermittent rain showers made the work quite miserable. At the second feed zone of the day at kilometre 158, Stuart O'Grady (Cofidis), Sandy Casar (Francaise des Jeux) and Enrico Franzoi (Lampre) abandoned the race. Etxebarria still had 8 minutes lead, which was continuously decreasing, and also looked like he didn't have much energy left - understandably.
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With 50 kilometres to go, Cofidis suffered the second loss today as Janek Tombak also quit the race. But as the bunch neared Austria, the sun finally came out, which must have been a great relief after three days of nasty weather conditions.
Gerolsteiner's Fabian Wegmann scored one more precious point at the Cat. 3 climb with 35 kilometres to go, where Alexandre Moos (Phonak) also sprinted to get two points. Moos then got a small gap and continued, with Etxebarria only two more minutes away. Inevitably, the race was open for the finale.
Belgian Nico Mattan (Lotto-Davitamon) counter-attacked as Moos was caught, which set off a series of further attacks around 30 km to go: Jens Voigt (CSC) and Vincenzo Nibali (Fassa Bortolo) first got away to join Mattan, and then Cédric Vasseur (Cofidis) set out, and passed the exhausted Etxebarria quickly at 28 kilometres before the stage finish.
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The bunch also flew at this point, Lampre leading with Liberty and T-Mobile also doing some work. Marco Milesi (Liquigas-Bianchi), Rory Sutherland (Rabobank), Davide Bramati (Quick.Step) were also in the lead for a little while, but with 21 kilometres to go, it was peloton groupé again. The attacks nevertheless continued, but nobody was able to get away, the race moving quickly at approximately 50 km/h on hilly terrain. Even Davide Rebellin tried, and yellow jersey wearer Tankink himself chased him down.
Kazakhstan champion Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile) was next to shake up the bunch as the race crossed the border to Austria with 16 kilometres to go. On a long descent, two riders finally managed to get a dangerous gap: Fabian Wegmann and Swiss Fabian Cancellara (Fassa Bortolo). The two of them were giving it all and managed a lead of 25 seconds as they passed the 10 kilometre mark. Bram Tankink was chasing again - this time with his teammates and some Liquigas riders. With 5 clicks to go, Wegmann was cooked and could work no more, barely holding on to Spartacus' wheel. The two were caught with 2.5 km to go, and the bunch sprint was definitely on by then.
Under the red flag indicating the last kilometre, UCI ProTour jersey wearer Danilo Di Luca was working for his Liquigas teammate Luciano Pagliarini, then Lampre took over, with the main sprinters all in front of the race. Finally, Bennati came out from Pozzato's wheel as Pozzato tried to surprise by going on the inside of the last curve, and the 24 year-old Lampre rider was able to outsprint his compatriot.
Photography
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- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) wonders what the day will bring
- Bernhard Eisel (FDJ) chats with Jan Ullrich
- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) at the front of the bunch, with O'Grady and Wesemann
- The peloton rides at a relaxed pace during stage 3
- Unai Etxebarria (Euskaltel) during his long escape
- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) grabs his feed bag
- Leader Bram Tankink in action during stage 3
- Fans wave the Bavarian flag as the peloton rides near Markt Arnstorf on the third stage
- Fans wave the German flag as the peloton rides near Deggendorf on the third stage
- Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Caffita) beats Pozzato and Siedler to win stage 3
- Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Caffita) wins the third stage
- Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Caffita) gets a podium kiss
- Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner) is the new mountains leader
Results
1 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 5.12.04 2 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quickstep 3 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Wiesenhof 4 Luciano André Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas - Bianchi 5 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française des Jeux 6 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 7 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 8 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 9 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10 Enrico Grigoli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 11 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 12 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof 13 André Greipel (Ger) Wiesenhof 14 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel 15 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 16 Sergio Escobar Roure (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 17 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval - Prodir 18 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 19 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 20 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 21 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep 22 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 23 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile 24 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 25 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 26 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 27 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 28 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 29 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 30 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 31 Matej Jurco (Svk) Domina Vacanze 32 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 33 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 34 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 35 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 36 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 37 Alexandre Naulleau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 38 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas - Bianchi 39 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 40 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quickstep 41 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 42 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 43 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 44 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 45 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 46 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 47 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 48 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 49 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 50 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 51 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 52 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile 53 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 54 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 55 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 56 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 57 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 58 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 59 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 60 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon - Lotto 61 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 62 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 63 Björn Schröder (Ger) Wiesenhof 64 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 65 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 66 Christian Knees (Ger) Wiesenhof 67 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 68 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 69 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 70 Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 71 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 72 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems 73 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 74 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 75 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 76 Rafael Casero Moreno (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 77 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 78 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 79 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 80 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française des Jeux 81 René Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 82 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 83 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 84 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 85 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC 86 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 87 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 88 Saul Raisin (USA) Crédit Agricole 89 Gennady Mikhaylov (Rus) Discovery Channel 90 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 91 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile 92 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre - Caffita 93 Marco Righetto (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 94 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Wiesenhof 95 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 96 Frédéric Mainguenaud (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 97 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 98 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 99 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 100 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 101 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 102 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 103 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep 104 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 105 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 106 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 107 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel 108 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Crédit Agricole 109 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 110 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 111 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 112 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 113 Mads Christensen (Den) Quickstep 114 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile 115 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 116 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 117 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quickstep 118 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 119 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Crédit Agricole 120 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 121 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 122 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quickstep 123 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile 124 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 125 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Wiesenhof 126 Iker Flores Galarza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 127 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 128 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 129 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep 130 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 131 Joseba Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 132 Marco Fertonani (Ita) Domina Vacanze 0.25 133 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 134 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 135 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 136 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas - Bianchi 137 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 138 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 139 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 0.32 140 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile 141 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 142 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 0.45 143 Kilian Patour (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2.18 144 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 2.23 145 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 146 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.18 147 Martin Müller (Ger) Wiesenhof 3.32 148 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4.27 149 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 5.50 150 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 6.36 151 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Française des Jeux 152 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Discovery Channel 9.33 153 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi DNS Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne DNS Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Lampre - Caffita DNS Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone DNS Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone DNS Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone DNS Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux DNS Antonio Cruz (USA) Discovery Channel Points 1 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 25 pts 2 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quickstep 20 3 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Wiesenhof 16 4 Luciano André Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas - Bianchi 13 5 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française des Jeux 11 6 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 10 7 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 9 8 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 8 9 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7 10 Enrico Grigoli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 6 11 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5 12 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof 4 13 André Greipel (Ger) Wiesenhof 3 14 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel 2 15 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Mountains Chiemsee, km 191,6 1 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 pts 2 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 3 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Sprints Neuötting, km 122,7 1 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 pts 2 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 4 3 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 Aschau, km 198,4 1 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 pts 2 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4 3 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 Teams 1 Team Wiesenhof 15.36.12 2 Bouygues Telecom 3 Française Des Jeux 4 Quick Step - Innergetic 5 Team CSC 6 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 Domina Vacanze 8 Liquigas-Bianchi 9 Gerolsteiner 10 Saunier Duval - Prodir 11 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 12 Lampre - Caffita 13 Credit Agricole 14 Phonak Hearing Systems 15 Illes Balears - Caisse d'Epargne 16 Rabobank 17 T-Mobile Team 18 Davitamon-Lotto 19 Euskaltel - Euskadi 20 Fassa Bortolo 21 Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone General classification after stage 3 1 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep 14.04.53 2 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quickstep 0.07 3 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 0.17 4 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon - Lotto 0.19 5 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 0.21 6 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.22 7 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 0.23 8 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval - Prodir 9 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile 10 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 12 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 13 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 14 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quickstep 15 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 16 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 17 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 18 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 19 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 20 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 21 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 22 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 23 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 24 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 25 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 26 Saul Raisin (USA) Crédit Agricole 27 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 28 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 29 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 30 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 31 Sergio Escobar Roure (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.19 32 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 33 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 1.29 34 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 1.42 35 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.46 36 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.48 37 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 38 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas - Bianchi 39 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 40 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 41 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 42 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 43 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 44 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile 45 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 46 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 47 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 48 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 49 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC 50 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 51 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre - Caffita 52 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 53 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 54 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel 55 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 56 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 57 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quickstep 58 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 59 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 60 Iker Flores Galarza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 61 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2.06 62 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.07 63 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Crédit Agricole 64 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile 65 Marco Fertonani (Ita) Domina Vacanze 2.13 66 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 67 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 2.52 68 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.19 69 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 70 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 71 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 72 Björn Schröder (Ger) Wiesenhof 73 Christian Knees (Ger) Wiesenhof 74 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 75 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 3.28 76 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 77 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Wiesenhof 4.28 78 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française des Jeux 4.32 79 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 80 Rafael Casero Moreno (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 81 Mads Christensen (Den) Quickstep 82 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.09 83 André Greipel (Ger) Wiesenhof 6.37 84 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel 85 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 86 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 87 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 88 Matej Jurco (Svk) Domina Vacanze 89 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 90 Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 91 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems 92 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 93 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 94 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 95 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 96 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 97 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 98 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 99 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 100 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Crédit Agricole 101 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 102 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 103 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 7.02 104 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 105 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas - Bianchi 106 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8.04 107 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 8.39 108 Kilian Patour (Fra) Crédit Agricole 8.55 109 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 9.00 110 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 9.52 111 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10.41 112 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 11.21 113 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Wiesenhof 11.26 114 Luciano André Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas - Bianchi 11.31 115 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 116 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof 117 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 118 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 119 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 120 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 121 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 122 René Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 123 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Wiesenhof 124 Frédéric Mainguenaud (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 125 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 126 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 127 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 128 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 11.52 129 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 11.56 130 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 12.03 131 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile 132 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile 12.54 133 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française des Jeux 13.00 134 Alexandre Naulleau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13.03 135 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 15.25 136 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 137 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 138 Gennady Mikhaylov (Rus) Discovery Channel 139 Marco Righetto (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 140 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep 141 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quickstep 142 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep 143 Joseba Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 144 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 16.47 145 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 17.12 146 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 17.18 147 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile 18.45 148 Martin Müller (Ger) Wiesenhof 20.19 149 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 20.24 150 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20.58 151 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Française des Jeux 25.21 152 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Discovery Channel 25.50 153 Enrico Grigoli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 26.28 Points classification 1 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quickstep 45 pts 2 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 36 3 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep 29 4 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française des Jeux 28 5 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 28 6 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Wiesenhof 26 7 Luciano André Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas - Bianchi 22 8 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 22 9 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 20 10 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 19 11 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon - Lotto 16 12 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 13 13 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 14 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 12 15 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas - Bianchi 11 16 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française des Jeux 11 17 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Wiesenhof 10 18 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 10 19 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 10 20 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 9 21 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8 22 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 8 23 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8 24 David Etxebarria Alkorta (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 8 25 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 7 26 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7 27 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 6 28 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 6 29 Enrico Grigoli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 6 30 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 31 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5 32 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4 33 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quickstep 4 34 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4 35 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof 4 36 André Greipel (Ger) Wiesenhof 3 37 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2 38 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 39 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel 2 40 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 2 41 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon - Lotto 1 42 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 1 Mountains classification 1 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 7 pts 2 Levi Leipheimer (USA) 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 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 8 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon - Lotto 3 9 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3 10 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon - Lotto 2 11 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 12 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 2 13 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française des Jeux 2 14 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 1 15 Sergio Escobar Roure (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1 Teams classification 1 Quick Step - Innergetic 42.14.06 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 T-Mobile Team 4.32 14 Liquigas-Bianchi 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
