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88th Giro d'Italia - PT
Italy, May 7-29, 2005
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Stage 4 - May 11: Giffoni Valle Piana - Frosinone, 220 km
Brutto sprint in Frosinone
Maglia Rosa Bettini DQ'ed from stage, Cooke hits the deck
By Tim Maloney, European Editor, with additional reporting from John Trevorrow
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To Italians, the desire to put on a good image, a "bella figura", is fundamental, as is the desire to avoid a "brutto figura" (bad image) at all costs. Today, despite the bella figura of his pink tunic of Giro race leadership today, Paolo Bettini made a "brutto figura". As Bettini was sprinting for the stage win in Frosinone on Stage 4, with 100m to go, a fast closing Baden Cooke (Francaise des Jeux) tried to pass Bettini on the left into a small gap, but the Quick.Step rider closed the door on Cooke and the Australian appeared to touch Bettini's wheel, lose his balance and then crashed spectacularly into the barriers.
After reviewing the TV replay, the Jury of Commissaires decided to disqualify Bettini from the win and relegate him to last place in the front group, 4th place, but he was given the same time as stage winner Luca Mazzanti (Ceramiche Panaria-Navagare). Once he heard the Jury's decision, Bettini went on the Giro post-race show to watch the replay and exclaimed, "I started my sprint, it was a long sprint and I was riding my line. I moved to the center of the road, then moved left towards the barriers to cover my position. I looked around twice to see if anyone was coming around. I checked again (at 150m) and shifted to my highest gear. That's where my chain slipped...if (Cooke's crash) is my fault, with the rest of the road wide open, I should just leave the Giro now and go home. Grazie e arrivederci."
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Covered in road dust and dried sweat, an astonished Cooke told RAI-TV post stage, "It's pretty clear what happened...I was feeling good today and was going for the win. I didn't want to pass out in the wind...I want to see (the replay) on TV; I think everybody who sees it can figure out what happened."
Cooke was a bit more colourful in his comments to Cyclingnews: "F***! I f**king got over the hill no worries. None of the sprinters were left, I got on Bettini's wheel, he hit out early, I gave him a length, and I was f***ing absolutely cruising. Dropped it down the gears, ran at him, just about to blow his helmet off as I went past him...and he's just turned left and put me in the barrier. I had it won, I was just about to throw my hands in the air. Instead I did five somersaults down the road!"
Although Cooke looked like he might get past Bettini in the last 100m, RAI-TV commentator and 1996 Olympic Points Champion Silvio Martinello disagreed, explaining after the stage that "the rules are clear; a rider can't change their line in the last 200m, but Cooke made a mistake to try and pass on the inside." Francesco Moser agreed with Martinello, saying that "according to rules, what Bettini did is not correct, but it was not that bad...he didn't do it on purpose. The same thing happened to Bettini (at the finish of Stage 3) and nobody was disqualified."
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Although Bettini tried to talk to Cooke after the stage, the Australian was having nothing to do with the Italian and refused to shake his hand after the stage. As the soap opera continued, the monumentally pissed-off Bettini made the Giro organizers wait almost a half-hour until he showed up for the Maglia Rosa ceremony. When he finally calmed down enough to get the Maglia Rosa, Bettini showed his anger by turning the champagne bottle upside down on the podium.
Lost in the post-stage mix in Frosinone was eventual stage winner Luca Mazzanti, who was the second rider over the finish line in Frosinine and is now third on GC. It was Mazzanti's third win of the 2005 season and his first career Giro stage win, albeit a bittersweet one. "Well, it's like half a win because Paolo is a friend of mine. I saw the crash, but I was riding all out with my head down, so I really don't know exactly what happened... but something must have happened if the judges disqualified (Bettini)."
Just behind Mazzanti in second was Maglia Verde clad Dario Cioni (Liquigas-Bianchi). The likeable Anglo-Italian, a former mountain biker, grabbed a 0'12 time bonus and is now sitting 4th overall in the 2005 Giro. Despite having a mechanical in the last 3 km, Serguei Gonchar (Domina Vacanze) made a bike change and got back to the front group, while GC favourites who lost 0'43 today on the tricky finish in Frosinone were Paolo Savoldelli (Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team), Juan Manuel Garate (Saunier Duval-Prodir), Vladimir Karpets (Illes Balears), and Tom Danielson (Discovery Channel), who lost 0'51.
How it unfolded
It was sunny and warm as Stage 4 of the 88th Giro d'Italia started with 193 riders. Due to a re-measurement of the stage, the length was increased to 220km. This morning, five teams had health controls by the UCI and no rider was found inapt to ride. The stage began in the small Salernitano town of Giffoni Valle Piana in the hinterlands east of Napoli at 12:03, and after less than a kilometre, Saunier Duval-Prodir sent Cobo on the attack. There was action from the get-go today, with SDV and Selle Italia particularly active. On the first descent of the day near Nocera Inferiore overlooking the Gulf of Salerno, Vasseur (Cofidis) attacked and was joined by Pinotti (Saunier Duval-Prodir). After 30 minutes, the average speed was almost 48km/h, but the group sat up and the two escapees began to gain time on the gruppo.
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Near Sarno after 34km, Krauss (Gerolsteiner) attacked to bridge across to the break, which was 1'30 up the road. After one hour of racing. the average speed was still high at 48 km/h, and Vasseur and Pinotti had 1'25 on Krauss, with the peloton at 5'00. 25km later in San Clemente, Krauss was starting to lose time sandwiched between the two strong riders out front and the gruppo, which was starting to up the pace before the Intergiro in Caserta. As the weather improved and the bright sunshine returned, Pinotti took the Intergiro in Caserta after 71km and once Krauss took the third place bonus 2'45 behind, he slowed his tempo and was absorbed by the 190 strong gruppo after 94km near Vitulazio, but had kept his lead in the Intergiro classification. The gruppo had lost one rider, Nicolas Inaudi (Cofidis) who crashed on the streets of Caserta after 76km and abandoned.
Vasseur and Pinotti continued to pound away up front, but the sprinters teams had upped the tempo behind and at the feed zone in Calvi Vecchia after 107km, the duo were 3'30 up the road. As the gruppo hit the feed zone for lunch, the lead of the two frontrunners went back up to 5'45. After three hours, the pace had calmed down with the average speed now at 42.6km/h with 80km to go. After 144km, a crash put ten riders on the deck, with DiLuca (Liquigas), Gonchar (Domina Vacanze), Peron (CSC), Dekker (Rabobank), Cooke (FDJ), Zubeldia and Nick Gates (Davitamon-Lotto) among them. Gates climbed out of a ditch. No one was seriously hurt and after a 5km chase, everyone got back to the gruppo.
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Quick.Step had been riding tempo on the front with 70km to go as the gap to the break was still 5'00 up the road, but as the gruppo entered the region of Lazio near Cassino, Fassa Bortolo sent Gustov to the front to up the pace. As the leaders passed under the Abbey of Monte Cassino, site of terrible fighting between American and German troops 61 years ago, Vasseur and Pinotti were still working well together, but the lead had dropped to 4'15 as the pace behind was increasing.
With 50km to go in Villa S.Lucia, the break had lost more time to 3'15 and as Frosinone approached, the cloud cover increased as the temps stayed in the upper 20's. Vasseur and Pinotti had been away for 150km and after 4 hours, the average speed remained just over 42km/h. As the gruppo came within 1'00 of the break, Vasseur and Pinotti's team cars pulled over and the break riders slowed and started stoking up on food. Vasseur and Pinotti knew after being away all day that it would be tough to hang on at the end when the sprinters teams cranked up at the end.
At 30km from Frosinone, Davitamon-Lotto hit the front, with the break just 0'20 up the road. Finally the dynamic duo were caught after 164km of liberty, but there was no gruppo compatto as Trent "Willo" Wilson (Selle Italia) attacked solo off the front. The lanky Aussie timed his move well, but the Fassa Bortolo train was replaced by two other Aussies, Matty White (Cofidis) and Gates trying to bring Willo to heel. Wilson came back after three kilometres and Francaise des Jeux then hit the front with 25km to go to set up the sprint for Baden Cooke.
With 20km, Phonak leader Valjavec punctured and five Phonak riders came back to pace him back. Just as the Phonaks made it to the back of the gruppo with 15km to go, there was a crash in the middle of the gruppo that brought down Lorenzetto (Domina Vacanze), Schleck, Zabriskie (CSC), Schnider (Phonak) and Grillo (Panaria), which split off 40 riders who were 15 behind the front gruppo with 10km to go. Calcagni (Liquigas) abandoned with a possible broken collarbone. In the second group were names like Valjavec, Karpets, Kolobnev, Pozzovivo but it was very hard to get across to the front of the race on the up and down roads of the run-in to Frosinone.
Fassa had disappeared, while Davitamon-Lotto tried to keep control with 4km to go. Aitor Gonzalez (Euskaltel) made his move on a climb and got a gap as Bettini and Sella closed him down. With 3km to go, the finale entered Frosinone Alto with a short, sharp 400m climb perfect for an attack, then a 2km twisting, technical descent with seven turns that ended 700m from the finish. Maglia Verde Cioni (Liquigas) hit the front, but just behind him was Celestino. The Domina rider is one of the best descenders in the peloton and his big move down the descent into the center of Frosinone allowed six riders to get a gap on the rest of the gruppo. Maglia Rosa Bettini was there, along with Cioni, Celestino, Mazzanti (Ceramiche Panaria-Navagare), Scarponi (Liberty Seguros) and Cooke (FDJ).
Although Celestino tried desperately to get away, once the front sextet was on the flat final 700m, Bettini tried to go long, but Cooke came up to him in the last 150m. But the talented Australian learned two lessons the hard way today: one, don't try and pass the Maglia Rosa on the inside for a stage win at the Giro d'Italia, especially a guy like Paolo Bettini. Two, in Italy it's not about the rules, but how the rules are interpreted and enforced.
Stage 5 - May 12: Celano-L'Aquila, 223km
This is a difficult, nervous stage in the heart of Abruzzo designed by former pro and local Vito Taccone. After a flat start, Stage 5 climbs into the Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo with two KOM's within 60km. Then there's a long 30km descent that leads to the toughest GPM of the day, Goriano Sicoli, a steep 4km ramp with some sections up to 16%. From there, it's a rolling romp to the finish in L'Aquila 36km later, with the last 1300m uphill to the tough finish. Look for Maglia Rosa Bettini, ProTour leader DiLuca and defending Giro champ Cunego to fight it out in the difficult finale.
Photography
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Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step) with Cooke on his wheel
- Cooke against the barriers
- Cooke halfway through his somersault
- Oh s***!
- Mazzanti leads the others out of the way
- Cooke comes full circle
- Cooke nearly there
- Nothing for it now but to go for the line
- Dang… Cooke sits on the ground
- Cooke gets up as Bettini prepares to salute
- Bettini celebrates as Cooke picks himself up off the ground
- Bettini had a big lead over Mazzanti across the line
- Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step) celebrates his 'victory'
- Baden Cooke walks to the finish line
- Marzio Bruseghin and others discuss the Cooke crash as they cross the line
- Gilberto Simoni (Lampre) comes across in 26th
- Baden Cooke and Paolo Bettini have a short discussion about what happened.
- Baden Cooke restrains himself
- Cooke walks by Bettini
- Baden Cooke is an angry man
- That hurt
- Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step) is swamped by journalists as he tries to explain what happened
- Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step) moments after the stage
- Bettini protests while Quick.Step's PR man Alessandro Tegner looks concerned
- Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step) explains to Milesi how he travelled in a straight line...using a bit of Einsteinian physics
- Luca Mazzanti (Panaria) gets a podium kiss
- Luca Mazzanti (Panaria) reflects on a bittersweet win
- Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step) celebrates his maglia rosa in an appropriate fashion
Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net
- What, no pink?
- Whoosh! And they're gone
- Moments after the crash
- Cooke ends up on his rear
- Bettini powers on as Cooke rips out an advertising barrier
- Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step) celebrates his win while Cooke lies on the ground 100m behind him
- Bettini gives his version of events to Marco Milesi. '"It's all to do with the curvature of space-time. No really."
Results
1 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 5.10.09 (42.56 km/h) 2 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 4 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 5 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 0.02 6 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick.Step 0.04 7 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 8 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 9 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 10 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quick.Step 11 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 12 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 13 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 14 Julian Dean (NZl) Credit Agricole 15 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 16 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 17 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears 18 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 19 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 20 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 21 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 22 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 23 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 24 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 25 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 26 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 27 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 28 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 29 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Gerolsteiner 30 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 31 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) Domina Vacanze 32 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 33 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 34 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 35 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 36 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon-Lotto 37 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 38 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 39 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 40 Francisco J. Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 41 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Illes Balears 42 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 43 Aitor Gonzalez Jimenez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 44 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 45 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) T-Mobile Team 46 Serguei Gonchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 47 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 48 Addy Engels (Ned) Quick.Step 49 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 50 Francisco J Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 0.15 51 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 0.31 52 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 53 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 0.35 54 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Rabobank 0.40 55 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.43 56 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 57 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 58 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 59 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 60 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 61 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 62 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 63 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 64 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears 65 Freddy Gonzalez Martinez (Col) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 66 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 67 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Lampre-Caffita 68 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 69 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 70 Unai Osa Eizaguirre (Spa) Illes Balears 71 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 72 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 73 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 74 Daniel Atienza Urendez (Spa) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 75 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Caffita 76 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 77 Javier Ramirez Abeja (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 78 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.51 79 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 80 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 81 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 82 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 83 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 84 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 85 Roberto Laiseka Jaio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 86 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 87 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 88 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 89 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 0.56 90 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.57 91 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 0.59 92 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick.Step 93 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 94 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 95 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 96 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 97 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 98 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 99 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 1.13 100 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 101 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 1.15 102 Joseba Beloki Dorronsoro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 1.18 103 Jose Luis Carrasco Gamiz (Spa) Illes Balears 104 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 1.21 105 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 106 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 107 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 108 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Credit Agricole 109 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick.Step 110 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 111 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole 1.31 112 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1.34 113 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.38 114 Marco Fertonani (Ita) Domina Vacanze 115 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 116 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Illes Balears 117 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 118 Rene' Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 1.42 119 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 120 Christian Vandevelde (USA) Team CSC 121 Bjoern Leukemans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1.45 122 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 123 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 124 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 125 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 126 Antonio Tauler Llull (Spa) Illes Balears 127 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 1.58 128 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 129 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears 130 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 131 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Domina Vacanze 2.02 132 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 2.04 133 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.11 134 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.13 135 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 2.19 136 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 137 Antonio Cruz (USA) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 2.24 138 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.29 139 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 140 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 2.41 141 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 2.53 142 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3.57 143 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Colombia 4.05 144 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 145 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC 146 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 147 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 148 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 149 Trent Wilson (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 150 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 151 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Rabobank 152 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 153 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 154 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 155 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 156 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 157 Paride Grillo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 4.41 158 Ivan Quaranta (Ita) Domina Vacanze 159 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 4.55 160 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 161 Mads Christensen (Den) Quick.Step 162 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 163 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 164 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 165 Jose' Antonio Garrido Lima (Spa) Quick.Step 166 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 167 Sergio Escobar Roure (Spa) Illes Balears 168 Angel Gomez Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 169 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 170 Nick Gates (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 171 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 5.16 172 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 173 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 6.10 174 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas-Bianchi 175 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 176 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6.37 177 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 178 Ignacio Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 179 Andre' Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 7.21 180 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 181 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 182 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 183 Michael Barry (Can) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 184 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 185 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 186 Sascha Urweider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 187 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 9.12 188 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 189 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 190 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 191 Baden Cooke (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 0.00 DNF Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone DNF Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas-Bianchi Points 1 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 25 pts 2 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 20 3 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 16 4 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 14 5 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 12 6 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick.Step 10 7 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 9 8 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 8 9 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 8 10 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 7 11 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quick.Step 6 12 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 6 13 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 5 14 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 4 15 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 16 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3 17 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 3 18 Julian Dean (NZl) Credit Agricole 2 19 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 2 20 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 1 21 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1 Intergiro 1 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.00.12 2 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 3 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 5 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 6 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 7 Ivan Quaranta (Ita) Domina Vacanze 8 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 9 Francisco J. Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team Most combative 1 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 6 pts 2 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 5 3 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 4 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 4 5 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 4 6 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 3 7 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 8 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 2 9 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 2 10 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick.Step 1 11 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 1 Azzurri d'Italia 1 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 4 pts 2 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 2 3 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 1 Trofeo Fuga Piaggio 1 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 168 pts 2 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 168 Trofeo Fast Team 1 Quick.Step-Innergetic 15.30.35 2 Liquigas-Bianchi 3 Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 4 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 5 Domina Vacanze 0.02 6 T-Mobile Team 0.04 7 Fassa Bortolo 8 Lampre-Caffita 9 Gerolsteiner 10 Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 0.43 11 Credit Agricole 12 Illes Balears-Caisse D'epargne 13 Saunier Duval-Prodir 14 Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 Davitamon-Lotto 0.56 16 Team CSC 0.59 17 Rabobank 1.11 18 Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 1.30 19 Bouygues Telecom 20 Phonak Hearing System 1.54 21 Française Des Jeux 2.01 22 Selle Italia-Colombia 3.34 Trofeo Super Team 1 Quick.Step-Innergetic 43 pts 2 Liquigas-Bianchi 40 3 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 26 4 Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 25 5 Domina Vacanze 16 6 T-Mobile Team 14 7 Davitamon-Lotto 12 8 Lampre-Caffita 10 9 Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 9 10 Credit Agricole 7 11 Illes Balears-Caisse D'epargne 4 12 Phonak Hearing System 3 13 Fassa Bortolo 1 14 Team CSC 15 Rabobank 16 Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 17 Gerolsteiner 18 Bouygues Telecom 19 Saunier Duval-Prodir 20 Euskaltel-Euskadi 21 Française Des Jeux 22 Selle Italia-Colombia General classification after stage 4 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 20.19.44 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.13 3 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 0.16 4 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.19 5 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 0.21 6 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.27 7 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 0.32 8 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon-Lotto 0.36 9 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 0.37 10 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 11 Serguei Gonchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 12 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 0.40 13 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 14 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 0.43 15 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quick.Step 0.44 16 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 17 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 0.45 18 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Illes Balears 0.46 19 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 20 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.49 21 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 0.55 22 Aitor Gonzalez Jimenez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.56 23 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 0.57 24 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 25 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 1.01 26 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 1.02 27 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Gerolsteiner 1.03 28 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 1.04 29 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 1.09 30 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 1.10 31 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 1.13 32 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 33 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears 1.19 34 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.22 35 Baden Cooke (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 1.31 36 Francisco J. Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.33 37 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.35 38 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick.Step 39 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 1.36 40 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.37 41 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 1.39 42 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.40 43 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 1.41 44 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.43 45 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 1.44 46 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.46 47 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.47 48 Julian Dean (NZl) Credit Agricole 1.48 49 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.49 50 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 1.50 51 Daniel Atienza Urendez (Spa) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 52 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.51 53 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 54 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 1.52 55 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 56 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 1.53 57 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 1.54 58 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.01 59 Francisco J Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 2.04 60 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.09 61 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2.12 62 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 2.16 63 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.18 64 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 2.20 65 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 66 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Credit Agricole 2.23 67 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 2.27 68 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 69 Unai Osa Eizaguirre (Spa) Illes Balears 2.28 70 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 2.35 71 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2.36 72 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2.38 73 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.40 74 Freddy Gonzalez Martinez (Col) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 2.46 75 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.49 76 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2.50 77 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.53 78 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 2.57 79 Roberto Laiseka Jaio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.59 80 Marco Fertonani (Ita) Domina Vacanze 3.01 81 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.07 82 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 3.15 83 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 3.24 84 Jose Luis Carrasco Gamiz (Spa) Illes Balears 3.25 85 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.34 86 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4.05 87 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4.13 88 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 4.14 89 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 4.23 90 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 4.26 91 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 4.45 92 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4.51 93 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 5.01 94 David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears 5.38 95 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears 6.07 96 Bjoern Leukemans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 6.22 97 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6.38 98 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 6.41 99 Addy Engels (Ned) Quick.Step 6.44 100 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC 101 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 6.51 102 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 7.09 103 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 7.20 104 Javier Ramirez Abeja (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 7.21 105 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7.22 106 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Rabobank 7.24 107 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 7.27 108 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Lampre-Caffita 109 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Caffita 7.28 110 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) Domina Vacanze 7.30 111 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 7.35 112 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 7.41 113 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 7.50 114 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 7.54 115 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 8.02 116 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick.Step 8.08 117 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole 118 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Illes Balears 8.10 119 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 8.13 120 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 8.16 121 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 8.19 122 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 8.21 123 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 8.36 124 Paride Grillo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 8.43 125 Andre' Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 8.54 126 Antonio Cruz (USA) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 8.56 127 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9.10 128 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Domina Vacanze 9.12 129 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 9.20 130 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 9.21 131 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9.30 132 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick.Step 9.31 133 Sergio Escobar Roure (Spa) Illes Balears 9.42 134 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 9.53 135 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 9.55 136 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas-Bianchi 9.56 137 Rene' Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 9.59 138 Joseba Beloki Dorronsoro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 10.06 139 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10.10 140 Christian Vandevelde (USA) Team CSC 10.39 141 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 10.55 142 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 10.57 143 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 11.03 144 Trent Wilson (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 11.25 145 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 11.33 146 Angel Gomez Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 11.36 147 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 11.41 148 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 12.04 149 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12.11 150 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 12.14 151 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 12.25 152 Antonio Tauler Llull (Spa) Illes Balears 12.30 153 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 12.31 154 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 12.35 155 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 12.57 156 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 13.11 157 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 13.15 158 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 13.16 159 Ivan Quaranta (Ita) Domina Vacanze 13.20 160 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 161 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13.24 162 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 13.38 163 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 13.48 164 Michael Barry (Can) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 165 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 13.57 166 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 14.02 167 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 14.05 168 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 14.07 169 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 170 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 14.24 171 Ignacio Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 14.51 172 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 14.59 173 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 15.18 174 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Rabobank 15.26 175 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 15.27 176 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Colombia 15.34 177 Sascha Urweider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 15.41 178 Nick Gates (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 15.44 179 Mads Christensen (Den) Quick.Step 16.23 180 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 17.36 181 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 17.47 182 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 18.31 183 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 18.47 184 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 18.53 185 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 19.09 186 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 19.12 187 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 19.13 188 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 21.09 189 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 22.08 190 Jose' Antonio Garrido Lima (Spa) Quick.Step 22.11 191 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 26.39 Points classification 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 55 pts 2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 52 3 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 44 4 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 34 5 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 34 6 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 34 7 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 32 8 Baden Cooke (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 26 9 Francisco J. Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 10 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 21 11 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 21 12 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 21 13 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears 20 14 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 19 15 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 16 16 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 16 17 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quick.Step 14 18 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick.Step 13 19 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 13 20 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 21 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 11 22 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 9 23 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 8 24 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 8 25 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Rabobank 8 26 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 7 27 Paride Grillo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 7 28 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 7 29 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon-Lotto 6 30 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 31 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 6 32 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 5 33 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5 34 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 4 35 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 4 36 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 4 37 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 4 38 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Colombia 4 39 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 40 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3 41 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 3 42 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 3 43 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 2 44 Julian Dean (NZl) Credit Agricole 2 45 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 46 Ivan Quaranta (Ita) Domina Vacanze 2 47 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 2 48 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Rabobank 2 49 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 2 50 Serguei Gonchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 1 51 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 1 52 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 1 Mountains classification 1 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 5 pts 2 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 5 3 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 3 4 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3 5 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 2 6 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1 7 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1 8 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Intergiro classification 1 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 9.48.58 2 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 0.44 3 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.52 4 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 5 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 0.54 6 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 0.58 7 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 8 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Colombia 1.04 9 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 10 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 11 Francisco J. Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.08 12 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 13 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 14 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 1.13 15 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 16 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 17 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Rabobank 18 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 1.14 19 Ivan Quaranta (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1.22 20 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team Most combative classification 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 14 pts 2 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 13 3 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 11 4 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 10 5 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 8 6 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 8 7 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 6 8 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 6 9 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 6 10 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 6 11 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 12 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 5 13 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 5 14 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 5 15 Baden Cooke (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 5 16 Francisco J. Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 17 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears 5 18 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 4 19 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 4 20 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 21 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 4 22 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 3 23 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Colombia 3 24 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 25 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 2 26 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2 27 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick.Step 1 28 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1 29 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 30 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 1 31 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Rabobank 1 Azzurri d'Italia classification 1 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 6 pts 2 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 4 3 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 4 4 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 4 5 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 2 6 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 2 7 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears 2 8 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1 9 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 1 10 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1 11 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Trofeo Fuga Piaggio classification 1 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 212 pts 2 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 168 3 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 168 4 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 166 5 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 154 6 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 144 7 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 119 8 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 118 9 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Rabobank 117 10 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 117 11 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Colombia 117 12 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 110 Trofeo Fast Team classification 1 Liquigas-Bianchi 60.56.35 2 Domina Vacanze 0.07 3 Lampre-Caffita 0.09 4 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 0.25 5 Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 0.34 6 Davitamon-Lotto 1.00 7 Quick.Step-Innergetic 1.08 8 Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.12 9 Credit Agricole 1.29 10 Gerolsteiner 1.36 11 Illes Balears-Caisse D'epargne 2.00 12 Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.04 13 Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 2.08 14 Phonak Hearing System 2.19 15 Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 2.33 16 Fassa Bortolo 2.46 17 Rabobank 3.05 18 T-Mobile Team 3.20 19 Team CSC 3.23 20 Française Des Jeux 4.45 21 Bouygues Telecom 6.17 22 Selle Italia-Colombia 16.16 Trofeo Super Team classification 1 Liquigas-Bianchi 110 pts 2 Quick.Step-Innergetic 102 3 Davitamon-Lotto 74 4 Domina Vacanze 60 5 Lampre-Caffita 53 6 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 52 7 Saunier Duval-Prodir 51 8 Fassa Bortolo 51 9 T-Mobile Team 39 10 Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 36 11 Française Des Jeux 33 12 Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 30 13 Gerolsteiner 26 14 Credit Agricole 25 15 Illes Balears-Caisse D'epargne 23 16 Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 23 17 Phonak Hearing System 19 18 Bouygues Telecom 19 19 Rabobank 13 20 Team CSC 1 21 Euskaltel-Euskadi 22 Selle Italia-Colombia Fair Play classification 1 Liquigas-Bianchi 2 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 3 Lampre-Caffita 4 Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 5 Davitamon-Lotto 6 Domina Vacanze 7 Team CSC 8 Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 Gerolsteiner 10 Illes Balears-Caisse D'epargne 11 Credit Agricole 12 Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 13 Rabobank 14 Fassa Bortolo 15 Française Des Jeux 16 Bouygues Telecom 17 Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 18 T-Mobile Team 19 Phonak Hearing System 20 Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 pts 21 Selle Italia-Colombia 25 22 Quick.Step-Innergetic 120
