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62nd Tour of Poland - ProT
Poland, September 12-18, 2005
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Stage 7 - September 18: Jelenia Góra – Karpacz, 61 km
New leader in TdP
By Daniel Marszalek in Karpacz Orlinek
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Luxembourgois Kim Kirchen (Fassa Bortolo) won the morning's seventh stage of the 62nd Tour de Pologne, disputed on a short 61 kilometres course from Jelenia Góra to Karpacz Orlinek. Kirchen beat Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) in a tough uphill finish, getting his revenge for this year's Flèche Wallonne, where he was outsprinted by the Italian on the Mur de Huy. Third place went to young Swede Thomas Lövkvist (Francaise des Jeux). Overnight race leader Pieter Weening (Rabobank) came just 8th, losing nine seconds to the stage winner. Therefore Kim Kirchen became the new race leader before this afternoon's deciding time trial.
How it unfolded
After two tough days with awful weather, the remaining riders must have welcomed Sunday's chilly, but sunny morning in Jelenia Góra with great relief. The first mountain sprint at Karpacz Górny, which was named after Joachim Halupczok (amateur world champion in 1989, who died prematurely in February 1994), was won by Swiss Rubens Bertogliati (Saunier Duval), who at this moment was in a breakaway with his compatriot Beat Zberg (Gerolsteiner), Spaniards Jesus Hernandez, Daniel Navarro (both Liberty Seguros) and Frank Schleck (Team CSC) from Luxembourg. On a descent to Sosnówka, there was some regoupment with a new five man group now at the front, among them Navarro and Schleck plus TdP 2002 winner Frenchman Laurent Brochard (Bouygues Telecom), Ukrainian Volodymir Gustov (Fassa Bortolo) and the leader in the mountains competition, Bartosz Huzarski (Intel-Action).
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The only intermediate sprint in this stage was in the centre of Karpacz centre (km 36,5), and was won by Navarro ahead of Huzarski and Schleck. They were all caught on the second ascent to Karpacz Górny with Spaniard Carlos Barredo (Liberty Seguros) taking first place on the line situated near the wooden Wang church, which was specially brought to Karpacz from Norway in the 19th century. On the second descent to Sosnówka, Slovenian Janez Brajkovic (Discovery Channel) attacked from the still 50 strong peloton and was allowed a couple kilometres of freedom. Still, he was swallowed by the bunch just before the entrance to Karpacz. Croatian Vladimir Miholjevic and Italian Andrea Noè' were doing great work for Di Luca at the front with five Dutchmen from Rabobank including race leader Pieter Weening sitting just behind the Liquigas riders.
When Noè's turn on the front was over, Michael Boogerd (Rabobank) - working for Weening - upped the pace. Spaniard Ruben Lobato (Saunier Duval) made a jump from the melting group but his action was short lived. With 1500 metres to the finish, Lobato's compatriot David Arroyo (Illes Balears) tried his luck but he also was soon caught. With 600 metres to go, it was Marek Rutkiewicz who accelerated from the leading group, but he was quickly followed by Weening and Di Luca. At the hardest part of the final kilometre with 300 metres before Orlinek, he started his dash for the line, immediately making a gap over all his opponents. Still, Kim Kirchen (who already was fourth overall in the TdP 2001) chose the best place to start the sprint. He went very strongly from fifth or sixth position and came around Di Luca with less than 150 metres before the end. Kirchen managed to reach the finish line with a few seconds advantage on Di Luca and Lövkvist, and most importantly, with clear gap to Weening.
Before this afternoon's 19 kilometre long time trial, Kirchen now leads the race with an 11 second advantage on Weening and 0'33 on Di Luca. Lövkvist fourth at 0'41, Dekker is fifth at 0'42, and Boogerd sixth at 1'01. The best Polish rider Marek Rutkiewicz is still 11th with a 2'34 deficit to Kirchen.
Photography
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- Laurent Brochard (Bouygues) leads a breakaway
- Kim Kirchen (Fassa Bortolo) wins the seventh stage
- Jesus Hernandez (Liberty Seguros) finishes fourth
- Kim Kirchen (Fassa Bortolo) on the podium as stage winner
Results
1 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 1.39.00 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.02 3 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 0.04 4 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 0.07 5 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.09 6 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 7 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action 8 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 9 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 10 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 0.15 11 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 0.19 12 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 0.22 13 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 14 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 15 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 16 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 17 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 18 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.28 19 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 20 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 21 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 22 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 23 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears 24 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 0.51 26 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.01 27 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 1.11 28 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Fassa Bortolo 1.13 29 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.22 30 Cezary Zamana (Pol) Intel-Action 31 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 1.30 32 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.33 33 Anton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.37 34 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 35 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 36 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Intel-Action 37 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 38 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 39 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 40 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 1.46 41 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 42 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 2.06 43 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 3.26 44 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 45 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3.51 46 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 47 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 4.19 48 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 49 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 50 Janes Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 51 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) Discovery Channel 52 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 53 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française Des Jeux 54 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 5.45 55 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 56 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 5.54 57 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 6.35 58 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Illes Balears 6.25 59 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 60 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 61 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 62 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 63 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6.32 64 Sergio Escobar (Spa) Illes Balears 8.22 65 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10.07 66 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) Intel-Action 67 Sascha Urweider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 68 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 69 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 11.40 70 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Française Des Jeux 11.42 71 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 72 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 73 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank DNF Wim De Vocht (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto DNF Gustav E. Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo DNF Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi DNF Marco Righetto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi DNF Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears DNS Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita Points 1 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 20 pts 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 19 3 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 18 4 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 17 5 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 6 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 15 7 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action 14 8 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 13 9 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 12 10 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 11 11 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 10 12 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 9 13 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 8 14 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 7 15 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6 16 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 5 17 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 4 18 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 19 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 2 20 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 1 Mountains Climb 1 - Cat. 1, 20,1 km 1 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 pts 2 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 8 3 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6 4 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 4 5 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 2 Climb 2 - Cat. 1, 41,8 km 1 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 6 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 4 3 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3 4 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 2 5 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 Sprints Karpacz 36,5 km 1 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 3 pts 2 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 2 3 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1 General classification after stage 7 1 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 31.40.33 2 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 0.11 3 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.33 4 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 0.41 5 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 0.42 6 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 1.01 7 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 1.55 8 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 2.07 9 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 10 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 2.29 11 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action 2.34 12 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 3.24 13 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 4.18 14 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4.27 15 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 4.49 16 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears 4.51 17 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 5.08 18 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 5.29 19 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6.03 20 Cezary Zamana (Pol) Intel-Action 6.34 21 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6.55 22 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 7.18 23 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8.06 24 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 8.29 25 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 9.28 26 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 14.25 27 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15.42 28 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 15.47 29 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 16.19 30 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 16.45 31 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 18.16 32 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 18.27 33 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 19.12 34 Janes Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 19.39 35 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 19.53 36 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 21.45 37 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 23.39 38 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 23.51 39 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 24.09 40 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Illes Balears 24.29 41 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 26.58 42 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 27.07 43 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) Discovery Channel 28.34 44 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française Des Jeux 29.13 45 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Fassa Bortolo 29.18 46 Sergio Escobar (Spa) Illes Balears 29.37 47 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 31.23 48 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 31.52 49 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 33.08 50 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 33.58 51 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 36.56 52 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 36.59 53 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Intel-Action 37.58 54 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 38.19 55 Sascha Urweider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 39.25 56 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 42.20 57 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 43.11 58 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 43.50 59 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 44.10 60 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 47.34 61 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 48.04 62 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 51.40 63 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) Intel-Action 52.02 64 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 54.09 65 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 57.42 66 Anton Luengo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 59.43 67 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 59.50 68 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1.09.40 69 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 1.11.23 70 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.11.55 71 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Française Des Jeux 1.13.27 72 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 1.16.18 73 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.19.27 Points classification 1 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 55 pts 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 53 3 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 43 4 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Intel-Action 41 5 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action 40 6 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 36 7 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 35 8 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 35 9 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 34 10 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 33 11 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 33 12 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 27 13 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 25 14 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 23 15 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 21 16 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 19 17 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 17 18 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 16 19 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 20 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 15 21 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française Des Jeux 15 22 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 13 23 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Team CSC 11 24 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 11 25 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 11 26 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 10 27 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 9 28 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 7 29 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel 7 30 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 31 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 5 32 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 5 33 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears 4 34 Cezary Zamana (Pol) Intel-Action 3 35 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 36 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 Mountains classification 1 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 34 pts 2 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 26 3 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 12 4 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 11 5 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 9 6 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 8 7 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 8 8 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 8 9 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action 7 10 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 11 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) Intel-Action 7 12 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 6 13 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 6 14 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 6 15 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6 16 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 6 17 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 5 18 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 4 19 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 3 20 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 3 21 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 3 22 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 2 23 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 2 24 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 2 25 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 26 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Fassa Bortolo 1 27 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 Sprints classification 1 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 21 pts 2 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel-Action 4 3 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 3 4 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 3 5 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 3 6 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3 7 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 2 8 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Intel-Action 1 9 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 10 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1 11 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 1 12 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 13 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 1 14 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Teams classification 1 Rabobank 95.03.49 2 Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 9.30 3 Intel-Action 10.23 4 Team CSC 21.42 5 Liquigas-Bianchi 33.39 6 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 34.02 7 Bouygues Telecom 35.17 8 Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 47.30 9 Gerolsteiner 47.34 10 Française Des Jeux 53.34 11 Fassa Bortolo 55.34 12 Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 56.47 13 Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.06.28 14 Credit Agricole 1.23.54 15 Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.46.06
