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62nd Tour of Poland - ProT
Poland, September 12-18, 2005
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Stage 3 - September 14: Ostróda – Bydgoszcz , 198 km
Kirsipuu wins the third bunch sprint
By Daniel Marszalek
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Estonian champion and superb sprinter Jaan Kirsipuu (Credit Agricole) won third stage of the 62nd Tour de Pologne from Ostróda to Bydgoszcz. Italian Luca Paolini (Quick Step) once again came second but this allowed him to consolidate his lead in the general standings. Paolini now leads the race with a 6 seconds advantage on German Robert Forster (Gerolsteiner), who is the clear leader in the intermediate sprints competition.
How it unfolded
Jose Cayetano Julia (Illes Balears) became one of the heroes of the third stage of the Tour de Pologne after he escaped from the bunch after just 5 kilometres from the start proper in Morliny. The Spanish rider quickly gained a massive lead on peloton, which was not at all interested in his early action. This allowed Julia to build a maximum gap of 21'40 on the big bunch at km 60. At this moment, he was already chased by Polish rider Piotr Chmielewski (Intel-Action) who attacked at km 45, while the peloton was riding at a very slow pace of around 30 km/h.
At the first intermediate sprint in Jablonowo Pomorskie (at km 76,5), Julia had an advantage of 9'15 on Chmielewski and 18'15 on the peloton led by German Robert Forster (Gerolsteiner). From this moment on, at every time check Chmielewski was closing the gap to the leading Julia, with the peloton also cutting down its deficit to the Spaniard. At km 90, Julia had 7'15 on Chmielewski and 14'50 on main bunch. Since peloton started this stage very slowly, after some 100 kilometres race director Czeslaw Lang decided to shorten the stage from 212 to 198 kilometres, reducing the number of finishing laps in Bydgoszcz from four to just two. At the second intermediate sprint in Wabrzezno (km 105,4), the order was exactly the same as in Jablonowo (although Julia had already just 4'40 advantage on Chmielewski) with Forster again the fastest rider from big group some 12'40 behind the lone leader.
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Forster also took third place at the third intermediate sprint in Chelmza (km 134,9), collecting yet another second's time bonus, which meant he was now equal on time with overnight race leader Italian Luca Paolini (Quick Step). Finally at km 145, Chmielewski caught Julia, while the peloton was now just 3'40 behind the leading duo. On the streets of Bydgoszcz, even before the finishing laps, Chmielewski dropped Julia and reached the finish line for the first time with just 0'14 advantage on the peloton led by Lampre and Quick Step riders. Shortly after that, just before being swallowed by the bunch, Chmielewski also managed to win the Cat. 5 mountain sprint ahead of his teammate and leader in this competition, Bartosz Huzarski.
On the two finishing laps, as ever there were brave attempts to escape from very fast moving peloton. After Chmielewski was caught, first to have a go was very well known for his attacking style of riding, German Jens Voigt (Team CSC), but his action was short lived. At the beginning of the second, and this time the last lap, Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel (Cofidis) made a jump from peloton, but he could only win the sprint for points in the climber's competition ahead of the vigilant Huzarski.
There were still two more attempts to spoil the work of the sprinters' teams, one taken by T-Mobile rider and the other by Belgian champion Serge Baguet (Davitamon), but just like in Elblag and Olsztyn, it ended in a bunch sprint. On the final straight, Dutchman Max van Heeswijk (Discovery Channel) looked to be in best position, but on this very wide road to the line, more riders had their chances. Estonian 'old fox' Jaan Kirsipuu proved to be the fastest on the day, winning his eighth Tour de Pologne stage since his first start in the race in 1997. Luca Paolini, for the third time in a row, came across the finish line in second, while the next places went to van Heeswijk and yesterday's winner Daniele Bennati (Lampre).
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- And now a word from our sponsor
- The Tour of Poland peloton races on the finishing circuits
- Saunier Duval keeping things active
- Kirsipuu gets his nose in front of Paolini (L) in the sprint
- Jaan Kirsipuu (Credit Agricole) was the winner of stage 3
- Robert Forster (Gerolsteiner) is the leader of the sprints classification
Results
1 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 5.38.09 2 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick Step 3 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Discovery Channel 4 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 5 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française Des Jeux 6 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 7 Andrus Aug (Est) Fassa Bortolo 8 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Intel-Action 9 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 10 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 11 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 12 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 14 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick Step 15 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 16 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 17 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 18 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 19 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 20 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 21 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 22 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 23 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 24 David Etxebarria (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 25 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 26 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 27 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 28 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 29 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 30 Sergio Escobar (Spa) Illes Balears 31 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears 32 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 33 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française Des Jeux 34 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 35 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Intel-Action 36 Tomas Konecny (Cze) T-Mobile Team 37 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 38 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action 39 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 40 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 41 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 42 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 43 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team CSC 44 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 45 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 46 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 47 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Discovery Channel 48 Leonardo Caneschi (Ita) Miche 49 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Fassa Bortolo 50 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 51 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 52 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 53 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 54 Janes Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 55 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 56 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 57 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 58 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 59 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 60 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 61 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 62 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 63 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) Discovery Channel 64 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 65 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 66 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 67 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 68 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 69 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 70 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 71 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 72 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 73 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 74 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 75 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 76 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 77 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Française Des Jeux 78 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 79 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) Intel-Action 80 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Illes Balears 81 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 82 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 83 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 84 Cezary Zamana (Pol) Intel-Action 85 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 86 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 87 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 88 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 89 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 90 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 91 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 92 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 93 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 94 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 95 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 96 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick Step 97 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 98 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears 99 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 100 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 101 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 102 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 103 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Miche 104 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 105 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 106 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 107 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 108 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 109 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 110 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Intel-Action 111 Arkaitz Daran (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 112 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 113 Gustav E. Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo 114 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 115 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quick Step 116 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 117 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 118 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 119 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 120 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 121 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 122 René Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 123 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 124 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 125 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 126 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 127 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 128 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 129 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 130 Thomas Bruun Eriksen (Den) Team CSC 131 Nicholas Roche (Irl) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 132 Sascha Urweider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 133 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 134 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 135 Antonio d'Aniello (Ita) Miche 136 Massimo Amichetti (Ita) Miche 137 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 138 Marco Righetto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 139 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 140 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick Step 57.00 141 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 1.00.00 142 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française Des Jeux 1.05.00 143 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Française Des Jeux 144 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 1.11.00 145 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.44.00 146 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 147 Jonathan Patrick McCarty (USA) Discovery Channel 148 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 149 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Lampre-Caffita 150 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 151 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 152 Anton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 153 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 7.51.00 154 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick Step 155 Jose C. Julia (Spa) Illes Balears 11.06.00 Points 1 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 20 pts 2 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick Step 19 3 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Discovery Channel 18 4 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 17 5 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française Des Jeux 16 6 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 15 7 Andrus Aug (Est) Fassa Bortolo 14 8 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Intel-Action 13 9 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 12 10 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 11 11 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 10 12 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9 13 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 8 14 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick Step 7 15 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 6 16 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 5 17 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 4 18 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 3 19 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2 20 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1 General classification after stage 3 1 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick Step 14.53.51 2 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.06 3 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française Des Jeux 0.08 4 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 5 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 6 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.10 7 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Intel-Action 0.12 8 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Discovery Channel 0.14 9 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0.15 10 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.16 11 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Française Des Jeux 12 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.17 13 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française Des Jeux 14 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 15 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.18 16 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 17 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 18 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 19 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 20 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Intel-Action 21 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 22 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 23 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 24 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 25 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 26 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 27 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action 28 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 29 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Intel-Action 30 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team CSC 31 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 32 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick Step 33 David Etxebarria (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 34 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 35 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 36 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 37 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 38 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 39 Tomas Konecny (Cze) T-Mobile Team 40 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 41 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 42 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 43 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 44 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 45 Sergio Escobar (Spa) Illes Balears 46 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 47 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 48 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Discovery Channel 49 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 50 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 51 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 52 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 53 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 54 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 55 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 56 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 57 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 58 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 59 Cezary Zamana (Pol) Intel-Action 60 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 61 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 62 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 63 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 64 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 65 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Illes Balears 66 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 67 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) Intel-Action 68 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 69 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 70 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 71 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quick Step 72 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 73 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 74 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 75 Marco Righetto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 76 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears 77 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 78 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 79 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 80 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 81 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) Discovery Channel 82 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 83 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 84 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 85 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 86 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 87 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 88 René Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 89 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 90 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 91 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 92 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 0.40 93 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.41 94 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.42 95 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 96 Janes Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 97 Gustav E. Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo 98 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 99 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 100 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 101 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 102 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.47 103 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.50 104 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Fassa Bortolo 0.52 105 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 106 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 107 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick Step 1.15 108 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 1.42 109 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Miche 1.45 110 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.01 111 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 2.52 112 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick Step 3.05 113 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.06 114 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears 3.08 115 Leonardo Caneschi (Ita) Miche 116 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 117 Antonio d'Aniello (Ita) Miche 118 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 119 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 120 Sascha Urweider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 121 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 122 Massimo Amichetti (Ita) Miche 123 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 124 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 125 Nicholas Roche (Irl) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 126 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 127 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 4.45 128 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5.52 129 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 6.00 130 Andrus Aug (Est) Fassa Bortolo 131 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 132 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 133 Thomas Bruun Eriksen (Den) Team CSC 7.13 134 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 8.26 135 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 136 Arkaitz Daran (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 137 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 138 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 139 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick Step 8.33 140 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 141 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 9.20 142 Anton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9.28 143 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française Des Jeux 9.31 144 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11.10 145 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 11.21 146 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Française Des Jeux 11.54 147 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Lampre-Caffita 12.20 148 Jose C. Julia (Spa) Illes Balears 12.42 149 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 14.25 150 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15.42 151 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 16.25 152 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 17.39 153 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 19.04 154 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 20.15 155 Jonathan Patrick McCarty (USA) Discovery Channel 20.38 Points classification 1 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick Step 57 pts 2 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française Des Jeux 50 3 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 46 4 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 37 5 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Discovery Channel 34 6 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 31 7 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Intel-Action 30 8 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 29 9 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 29 10 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 27 11 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 25 12 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 21 13 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick Step 20 14 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française Des Jeux 15 15 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 15 16 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 15 17 Andrus Aug (Est) Fassa Bortolo 14 18 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 12 19 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 10 20 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 10 21 David Etxebarria (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 9 22 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 8 23 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 8 24 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7 25 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) T-Mobile Team 6 26 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 6 27 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick Step 6 28 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Intel-Action 5 29 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 5 30 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 4 31 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action 4 32 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Intel-Action 3 33 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 3 34 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 3 35 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 36 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 2 37 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 1 38 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1 Mountains classification 1 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 17 pts 2 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick Step 9 3 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 8 4 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) Intel-Action 7 5 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quick Step 7 6 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Intel-Action 3 7 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 3 8 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 3 9 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 2 10 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 1 11 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 12 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 1 13 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 1 14 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1 15 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1 Sprints classification 1 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12 pts 2 Jose C. Julia (Spa) Illes Balears 9 3 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Intel-Action 6 4 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3 5 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 3 6 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick Step 3 7 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 2 8 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2 9 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 2 10 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 11 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 12 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 13 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 1 14 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Teams classification 1 Phonak Hearing Systems 44.42.27 2 Domina Vacanze 3 Quick Step 4 Française Des Jeux 5 Intel-Action 6 Fassa Bortolo 7 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 8 Bouygues Telecom 9 Miche 10 Team CSC 11 Lampre-Caffita 12 T-Mobile Team 13 Gerolsteiner 14 Liquigas-Bianchi 15 Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 16 Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 17 Rabobank 18 Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 19 Davitamon-Lotto 20 Credit Agricole 0.24 21 Saunier Duval-Prodir 22 Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.46
