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63rd Paris-Nice - ProTour
France, March 6-13, 2005
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Stage 1 - Monday, March 7: Etampes - Chabris, 186.5km
A crash favours Boonen's win, Dekker takes the lead
By Jean-François Quénet in Chabris
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Stage 1 in Paris-Nice can often create more damage than people would generally expect. Last year, it was because of CSC putting the hammer down in a crosswind section. This year, the 41 second gap between the 23 men away and the main pack was a result of a crash just within 10km to go. The crash made life slightly easier for Tom Boonen and his Quick.Step team, who were well placed at the front when it happened and were able to keep him out of trouble until the finish, when he won the stage comfortably from Luciano Pagliarini (Liquigas) and Jaan Kirsipuu (Credit Agricole).
"The road was pretty narrow and some guys were riding on the dirt on the side," second placed Pagliarini explained. That's how the crash happened." Almost the whole Liberty Seguros team, including the defending champion Jörg Jaksche, went to the ground. It inspired their team manager Manolo Saiz to make this philosophical comment: "What a spectacle!"
The crash took away from the front group GC contenders like Sylvain Chavanel, who was also involved in the crash, Franco Pellizotti, Thomas Lövkvist, Gilberto Simoni, Cadel Evans, Michael Rogers and Lance Armstrong, although the six time winner of the Tour de France didn't look like racing Paris-Nice for the overall win since he wore leg warmers during the prologue. The win of "the race to the sun", whose first stage was actually held in much better conditions than expected with a dry climate and an average temperature of 6°C, is traditionally decided by a small margin. That's why every bonus sprint is more important in this event than in any other of the cycling calendar.
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Erik Dekker must be aware of that. He competed in the two hot spot sprints, finishing second in the first one behind Fred Rodriguez and winning the bunch sprint for third place later on, which gave him 3 seconds bonus, just enough to take the yellow jersey from Jens Voigt. The two men are now equal on time but Dekker has an advantage of 34 hundredths of a second from the prologue. "During the time trial, I surprised myself because I've been ill for almost all of the early part of the season," the Dutchman commented. "Last week I even had the feeling that I'd never be good for the classics this year, and suddenly the form came back. Today was my chance for taking the lead. I don't know if I'll be able to win Paris-Nice. I don't think I'll be good enough for Friday's stage up to the Mont Faron. This climb suits Jens Voigt better than me, he won up there at the Tour of the Mediterranean last month. Even the best Erik Dekker struggles on the Mont Faron."
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Voigt may have lost the yellow jersey, his CSC team looks in an even better situation than after the inaugural time trial. None of their five top riders missed the front group at the end. Voigt, Vladimir Gussev, Kurt-Asle Arvesen, Bobby Julich and Franck Schleck are all in the top 12 on GC, which gives the Danish team many options for the coming days. As Paris-Nice is heading South, stage 2 to Thiers may be affected by some route changes due to the snow in the center of France. Alternative itineraries have been issued by the race organisation, so it's unsure how many of the six climbs will be visited. The riders will still sign on in La Châtre - where Cédric Vasseur took the yellow jersey in the 1997 Tour de France - but they will start either at km 94, km 144.5 or km 163 of the initial 191km long course. If the third possibility becomes a reality, it may remind Bjarne Riis how short the stage to Sestrières was when he took the yellow jersey - for good - in the 1996 Tour de France.
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Stage 1 was the only dead flat stage of the week, and it was no surprise that Tom Boonen was the winner. The gradient of the finishing line was exactly what he prefers. "1 to 3 percent is the best for me, but I think Oscar Freire and Max van Heeswijk are still better than me when it's 4 or 5 percent," he explained to Cyclingnews on Saturday. Freire and Van Heeswijk aren't competing here. "I dedicate this victory to my best friend Dieter who died last week aged 27 while skiing in Germany," Boonen said after winning in Chabris. "On the day of his funeral, I promised his dad to win a stage of Paris-Nice for him."
Boonen made it in the absence of Robert Hunter (Phonak), who was another hot favourite in case of a bunch sprint. The South African crashed at km 81 and was taken to the hospital in Châteauroux for a little while. He went out with six stitches. "It could have been more but the doctor wanted to keep the leak instead of risking an infection," Hunter declared. "I didn't hurt anything but I have a big cut in my right arm. It's a U. The whole thing was all open! It was a stupid crash actually. Someone from Euskaltel-Euskadi went off, everyone stood on their brakes. I was about to pull my foot out of the pedal when someone hit me from behind. I fell down on my right hand side and landed on my elbow."
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The springbok is tough and he wanted to ride Tirreno-Adriatico starting on Wednesday. The whole staff of Phonak including team owner Andy Rihs, team manager John Lelangue and directeur sportif Jacques Michaud went to the headquarters of the race asking for the special permission to line him up in Italy. ASO okayed it but the UCI refused, because of riders in the past who pulled out from a race, pretending to be sick, then they went to another race. "But I need the racing before Milan-San Remo!" an extremely upset Hunter reacted. "Does that mean my next race is the Three Days of De Panne?" he questioned. "I'm not a cheat, I was injured, I pulled out for going to the hospital."
"For us it's a huge loss," a sad Michaud added.
Hunter is out but Pagliarini is in. The Brazilian who was known for winning stages in Le Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia during his years with Lampre has gone one step forward this year. He came second to Boonen in Chabris. "But I'm not happy with that, no," he said. "I was on Boonen's wheel when I got blocked in with 400 metres to go, then I found myself in 8th position with 100 metres to go, I passed everyone except Boonen who was already away from all of us. I've been second a few times this year already, behind Alessandro Petacchi in the GP Etruschi, but I desperately want a win. I'm obviously racing at a higher level now, I'm happy at Liquigas, it's a nice team." He's their sprinter on the French front while Mario Cipollini is winning on the Italian one.
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The other event of stage 1 was a long breakaway with Fabien Sanchez of la Française des Jeux and Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano from Liberty Seguros. "It was our plan to try and do something," the French pursuiter (6th at Athens Olympics) said. "We want to show ourselves and leave our leaders (especially Philippe Gilbert, 7th on GC) quiet in the bunch. Personally, I feel myself better up the road than inside the bunch but I didn't believe too much in our success. If I didn't believe at all, I'd better try nothing but I still hoped for something unusual to happen in the bunch. At first, I didn't recognise who I was away with, but then, I saw the name Igor on his gloves and I also heard his name through radio Tour. He also asked me 'what's your name' and he said 'we're friends', which meant we wouldn't attack each other. It was nice to ride with a former yellow jersey of the Tour de France."
Photography
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- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) straps on the battle helmet
- It looks chilly
- The peloton rides through fields of snow in stage 1
- The peloton rides through fields of snow in stage 1
- Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile) rides in the centre of the peloton
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) rides during the first stage
- Yaroslav Popovych (Discovery Channel) obviously likes the cold better than Armstrong (R)
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) and Mick Rogers (Quick.Step) talk turkey
- Armstrong and Totschnig discuss the weather
- A crash creates problems
- Bram Tankink leads the Quick.Step train
- Tom Boonen (Quick Step) wins the first stage ahead of Pagliarini and Kirsipuu
- Tom Boonen (Quick Step) on the podium
- Erik Dekker (Rabobank) pulls on the leader's jersey after stage 1
Images by Jean Francois Quenet
- Jens Voigt (CSC) was a popular race leader at the start in Etampes
- Robert Hunter (Phonak) had strong intentions to win the stage before pulling out due to a crash
- Thomas Lovkvist (Francaise des Jeux) is one of the very young guns to watch in Paris-Nice
- Nicolas Fritsch (Saunier Duval) greets his former FDJ teammates
Results
1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 4.19.15 2 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 3 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 4 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 5 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Rabobank 6 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 7 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 8 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step 9 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 11 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 12 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 13 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 14 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 15 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 16 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 17 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 18 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 19 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 20 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 21 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 22 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.07 23 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 0.10 24 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 0.21 25 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth 0.41 26 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 27 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 28 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Domina Vacanze 29 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 30 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 31 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 32 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 33 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 34 Patxi Xabie Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 35 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 36 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 37 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 38 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 39 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 40 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 41 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 42 José Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 43 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 44 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 45 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 46 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth 47 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 48 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 49 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 50 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 51 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 52 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 53 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 54 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 55 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 56 Aketza Pena (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 57 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 58 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 59 Marc Lotz (Ned) Quick Step 60 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 61 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 62 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 63 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 0.58 64 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 65 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 66 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 67 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick Step 68 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 69 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 70 Aitor Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 71 Jose Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 72 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 73 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 74 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 75 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 76 Koen De Kort (Ned) Liberty Seguros-Würth 77 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 78 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 79 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 80 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 81 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Würth 82 Viatceslav Ekimov (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 83 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 84 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 85 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 86 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 87 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas-Bianchi 88 Frédéric Finot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 89 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 90 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Credit Agricole 91 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 92 M. Angel Martin Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 93 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 94 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 95 Matej Jurco (Svk) Domina Vacanze 96 Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 97 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 98 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 99 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 100 David Navas (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.28 101 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 102 Dario Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 103 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 104 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 105 Ian Mcleod (RSA) Française Des Jeux 106 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 107 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 108 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 109 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 110 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 111 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Quick Step 112 Jorg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 113 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Quick Step 114 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 115 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 116 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 117 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 118 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 119 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 120 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 121 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 122 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 123 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 124 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 125 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 126 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Lampre-Caffita 127 Inigo Cuesta (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 128 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 129 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 130 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 131 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 132 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 133 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 134 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 135 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 136 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 137 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 138 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 139 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 140 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 141 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 142 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 143 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 144 Luis Perez-Rodriguez (Spa) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 145 Unai Yus (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 1.50 146 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 147 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.11 148 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.22 149 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze 150 Alberto Lopez Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 151 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi 152 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 3.45 153 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 154 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 155 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4.01 156 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 157 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Française Des Jeux 158 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) Française Des Jeux 159 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 160 Jonathan Gonzalez Rios (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 161 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 162 Nicola Loda (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 6.40 163 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas-Bianchi 8.24 164 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 9.15 DNF Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak Hearing Systems DNS Marco Zanotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi DNS Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole DNS Antonio Tauler (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne Points 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 25 pts 2 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 22 3 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 20 4 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 18 5 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Rabobank 16 6 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 15 7 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 14 8 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step 13 9 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 10 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 11 11 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 10 12 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 9 13 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 8 14 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 7 15 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 6 16 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 5 17 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 4 18 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 3 19 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 2 20 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 Mountains Côte De Graviers - Cat. 3, 9.50 km 1 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 4 pts 2 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 3 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 Sprints Neuville-Au-Bois, 42.00 km 1 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 3 pts 2 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 2 3 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 Chabris, 174.50 km 1 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3 pts 2 Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 2 3 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 1 Young rider 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 4.19.15 2 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 4 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 5 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 6 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 8 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 9 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth 0.41 10 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 11 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 12 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 13 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 14 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 15 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 16 Aketza Pena (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 17 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 18 Jose Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.58 19 Koen De Kort (Ned) Liberty Seguros-Würth 20 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 21 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 22 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 23 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 24 Matej Jurco (Svk) Domina Vacanze 25 Ian Mcleod (RSA) Française Des Jeux 1.28 26 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Quick Step 27 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 28 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 29 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 30 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 1.50 31 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.11 32 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 3.45 33 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4.01 34 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 35 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) Française Des Jeux 36 Jonathan Gonzalez Rios (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne Teams 1 Team CSC 12.57.45 2 Fassa Bortolo 0.07 3 Quick.Step 0.21 4 Rabobank 0.41 5 Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 0.58 7 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 1.22 8 Davitamon-Lotto 9 Bouygues Telecom 10 Liquigas-Bianchi 1.39 11 Francaise Des Jeux 12 Credit Agricole 13 Liberty Seguros-Würth 2.03 14 T-Mobile Team 15 Euskaltel-Euskadi 16 Discovery Channel Team 17 Lampre-Caffita 2.20 18 Domina Vacanze 2.37 19 Gerolsteiner 20 Phonak Hearing Systems 21 Ag2R Prevoyance 2.54 General classification after stage 1 1 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 4.24.30 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 3 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 0.02 4 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 0.03 5 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 0.04 6 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 0.07 7 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 8 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 10 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 0.09 11 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.10 12 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.11 13 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 14 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 15 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.13 16 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.14 17 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 0.16 18 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 0.19 19 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 20 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Rabobank 0.22 21 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 0.24 22 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step 0.26 23 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 24 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.35 25 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 0.39 26 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 0.45 27 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 28 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.47 29 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 0.48 30 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 31 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.49 32 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth 33 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 34 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 35 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 0.50 36 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.51 37 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 38 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 0.53 39 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 40 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 0.54 41 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 42 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 0.55 43 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.56 44 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 0.58 45 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 46 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth 47 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 0.59 48 Marc Lotz (Ned) Quick Step 49 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 50 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.00 51 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 52 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 1.01 53 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1.02 54 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 55 Patxi Xabie Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 1.03 56 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick Step 1.04 57 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 58 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 1.06 59 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 60 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Würth 61 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 62 Koen De Kort (Ned) Liberty Seguros-Würth 63 Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 64 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 65 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.07 66 Aketza Pena (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 67 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Domina Vacanze 68 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 69 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1.08 70 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 71 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 72 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.09 73 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1.10 74 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 75 Frédéric Finot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 76 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 77 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 1.11 78 José Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 79 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.12 80 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Credit Agricole 81 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.13 82 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 1.14 83 Aitor Osa (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.15 84 M. Angel Martin Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.17 85 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 86 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 87 Matej Jurco (Svk) Domina Vacanze 1.18 88 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 1.19 89 Jose Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 90 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1.20 91 Viatceslav Ekimov (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 92 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1.21 93 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 1.22 94 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 95 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 1.23 96 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.24 97 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.27 98 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1.29 99 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 1.30 100 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 1.33 101 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1.37 102 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.38 103 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Quick Step 104 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 1.39 105 Dario Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 106 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.41 107 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 108 David Navas (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.42 109 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.44 110 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 111 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 112 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 1.45 113 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 1.46 114 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 1.47 115 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 116 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.48 117 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 118 Luis Perez-Rodriguez (Spa) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 1.49 119 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 120 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 121 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Quick Step 122 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 1.50 123 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 1.51 124 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 125 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 126 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1.53 127 Inigo Cuesta (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 128 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.54 129 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 130 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 131 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 132 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 133 Jorg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 1.55 134 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 1.56 135 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.57 136 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 1.58 137 Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 138 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 139 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.00 140 Ian Mcleod (RSA) Française Des Jeux 2.01 141 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 142 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.02 143 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Lampre-Caffita 2.03 144 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 2.05 145 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 2.10 146 Unai Yus (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 2.13 147 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.46 148 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 149 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi 150 Alberto Lopez Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.57 151 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze 152 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 4.02 153 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 4.06 154 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4.12 155 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 4.13 156 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) Française Des Jeux 4.17 157 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4.22 158 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Française Des Jeux 4.24 159 Jonathan Gonzalez Rios (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 4.29 160 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 4.32 161 Mikel Artetxe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.39 162 Nicola Loda (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 7.12 163 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas-Bianchi 8.48 164 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 9.25 Points classification 1 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 34 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 31 3 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 28 4 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 25 5 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 25 6 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 22 7 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 22 8 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 20 9 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 18 10 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 16 11 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Rabobank 16 12 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 16 13 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 15 14 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 15 15 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 14 16 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step 13 17 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 13 18 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 19 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 12 20 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick Step 11 21 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 10 22 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 9 23 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8 24 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 8 25 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 6 26 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 6 27 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 5 28 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 5 29 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 4 30 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3 31 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 3 32 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 33 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 2 34 Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 2 35 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth 1 36 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 Mountains classification 1 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 4 pts 2 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 3 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 Young rider classification 1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 4.24.32 2 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 0.01 3 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 0.02 4 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 0.05 5 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 0.07 6 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.09 7 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 8 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.12 9 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 0.47 10 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.49 11 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 0.51 12 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 0.52 13 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.54 14 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Rabobank 0.56 15 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth 16 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 1.02 17 Koen De Kort (Ned) Liberty Seguros-Würth 1.04 18 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.05 19 Aketza Pena (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 1.08 21 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 1.09 22 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 1.15 23 Matej Jurco (Svk) Domina Vacanze 1.16 24 Jose Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.17 25 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1.35 26 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.42 27 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Quick Step 1.47 28 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.52 29 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 30 Ian Mcleod (RSA) Française Des Jeux 1.59 31 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.44 32 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4.10 33 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 4.11 34 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) Française Des Jeux 4.15 35 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4.20 36 Jonathan Gonzalez Rios (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 4.27 Teams classification 1 Team CSC 13.13.38 2 Fassa Bortolo 0.21 3 Quick.Step 0.43 4 Rabobank 0.55 5 Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.16 6 Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.20 7 Davitamon-Lotto 1.35 8 Bouygues Telecom 1.40 9 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 1.44 10 Francaise Des Jeux 1.55 11 Credit Agricole 2.08 12 Liquigas-Bianchi 2.09 13 Liberty Seguros-Würth 2.15 14 Discovery Channel Team 2.30 15 T-Mobile Team 2.31 16 Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.51 17 Lampre-Caffita 2.59 18 Phonak Hearing Systems 3.04 19 Gerolsteiner 3.05 20 Ag2R Prevoyance 3.26 21 Domina Vacanze 3.31
