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92nd Tour de France - GT
France, July 2-24, 2005
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Stage 8 - Saturday, July 9: Pforzheim - Gérardmer, 231.5 km
Weening whips Klödi for stage win
Armstrong isolated from Discovery Channel Team on final climb
By Tim Maloney, European Editor in Gérardmer
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Long, lean Pieter Weening has been with the Rabobank program since 1999 and was esteemed as a major talent in the Netherlands since his junior days. Today in Gérardmer, the young climber confirmed it with his first pro win. The 24 year-old sophomore pro from Harkema, Netherlands, explained post-stage, "Today, my legs were not so good at the beginning of the stage. The first hour was really hard, but I decided to give it a try. Then I felt really strong in the break and when I got on the final climb, I went full gas to try for the win."
Earlier this season, Weening was caught in the final meters of a stage of the Tour of the Basque Country when he was alone in the lead. "When Klöden caught me at the top of the last climb, I said 'It's not possible today'. I was close before, but this time I made it!"
Weening made it to the podium by perfectly timing his match sprint with last year's Tour de France runner-up Klöden and took the victory by just 1 cm. "Today when I crossed the line, I didn't know I won; all I knew was that it was really close." Three summers ago, Weening dominated the difficult Transalsace U23 stage race, not far from where he took his first pro win today, and what a day it was today for Rabobank, as the Orange men also put Michael Rasmussen on the Tour de France podium with the maillot à pois jersey.
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For maillot jaune Lance Armstrong, it was a "shitty day" as he told French TV's Jean-Rene Godard in a post-race interview. Armstrong suffered on the day's last ascent of the Col de la Schlucht, finishing 20th on the stage, 0'27 behind Weening in a 32 man chase group. "Clearly the team was not really on today and I wasn't feeling really good either, and the other teams did feel good. With situations like (today), it'll be hard to win the Tour, day in and day out. So now we have to evaluate where we are and make some adjustments."
Armstrong seemed genuinely perplexed when asked what went wrong today, saying, "I don't know. Perhaps we've been a little too active in the race, worked a little too much, maybe the guys are tired. I can't really comment without actually sitting down with them and saying 'what's wrong with you, how did you feel, what's your problem, was it your legs, was it the rhythm?
"It's a strange climb too; it's a long climb but not very steep, so you can keep 30, 40, 50 guys there and they can take shots at you from the back. It's hard to follow those."
"Definitely was isolated, definitely was suffering...I have an idea of what to do in the next week. Not a great situation to be alone on a climb like that, with a fast downhill, it's difficult for my teammates to come back. I think we had a bad day; we have to go home and evaluate where we are and where the others are. We can't cry over spilt milk. There's a long way to go, but not a good start for us today, and I think definitely a good start for some others. We held on to the jersey, but I think there's some bruised egos on our team tonight".
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Armstrong's Discovery Channel teammate and 2005 Giro d'Italia winner Paolo Savoldelli was there for a while on the final ascent and told Alessandra Di Stefano of RAI-TV, "We were tired when we got to the base of the final climb. We tried to get rid of (maillot jaune) before but it just didn't happen. On the final climb, I closed a gap on Vinokourov and could have stayed there but Armstrong told me to back off. I wasn't even one of the riders who were supposed to stay with (Armstrong) today. I don't think that Lance could follow the attacks of Vinokourov because he was so strong...today things didn't go well but that's because it was a really fast stage (45.706 km/h avg.) with a high rhythm."
Armstrong knows that his team is designed for and well prepared for the tough Alpine and Pyrenean climbs to come and that today was likely an anomaly. The six time Tour de France champion explained, "So we'll see tomorrow and at Courchevel."
1997 Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich and his T-Mobile squad finally raced well today. They brought back an early attack with an impressive show of force and rode aggressively all day, culminating in a series of spectacular attacks by Vino on the final ascent to spring Klöden for the key move. "Today (T-Mobile) used the tactics that we have against Armstrong. Klöden was good today; his second place was worth more that just that. Now (T-Mobile) has three guys we can use against Armstrong."
How it unfolded
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184 Tour de France riders left the warm, sunny center of jewelry city Pforzheim, across a band of gold foil at 11:45 AM in front of huge crowds of German cycling fans. Stage 8 was a 231.5km romp through the hills of the Black Forest, across the Rhine River valley, back to France and up into the Vosges Mountains of eastern France for the finish in the tiny lakeside resort of Gérardmer. Christophe Mengin (FDJ) didn't start Saturday as he broke his left cheekbone in his crash in Nancy and couldn't continue. Serguei Gonchar (Domina Vacanze) was the other non-starter.
First attack of the day was from Ludewig (Domina Vacanze) at km 0 and he was chased and caught by Bertogliati (Saunier Duval) and the duo gained a 0'20 lead up the Côte de Dobel, a Cat. 3 climb averaging 5.9% for 5.9 km. Gerolsteiner Discovery and CSC were riding tempo, while Ludewig dropped Bertogliati. Boogerd and Voigt hit the front and caught Ludewig while Sylvain Calzati (Ag2r) abandoned after 14km. Voigt was joined by Hincapie up front, while Boogerd launched Rasmussen (Rabobank) who took the first KOM among the huge Saturday morning crowds, followed by Voigt, Hincapie (Discovery Channel), Kashechkin (Credit Agricole) and Casar (FDJ).
After 29km, Rasmussen took the 2nd KOM on the Cote de Bad-Herrenalb, then waited for the other four. In the peloton. T-Mobile was riding the chase 1'30 behind, while Galvez (Illes Balears) abandoned. On the Zimmerplatz climb, a 1.9km ascent at 6.7%, Rasmussen won again and was now six points clear of current maillot à pois Wegmann.
T-Mobile cranked up the pace even more to chase back the break containing Voigt and Hincapie, and the gap fell to 1'09. After 64.5km in Sasbach, the Hincapie took the sprint ahead of Voigt and after 70km, the break was caught with the exception of Casar, who went on solo; mission accomplished by Rasmussen and Hincapie. Sørensen (CSC) tried to bridge to Casar but was pulled back. The FDJ man was riding solo through huge crowds as Cancellara (Fassa Bortolo) bridged across to Casar after 75km in Appenweier. Dutch champion Leon Van Bon abandoned, while Sørensen successfully bridged to Cancellara in pursuit of Casar. After 89km, Hushovd came across the 0'30 gap as others tried to get across, but failed.
Massive crowds lined the roads on both sides as the four escapees were still in Germany and in the feed zone at Freisenheim after 103km of racing, the break had 2'42. After his crash yesterday, maillot vert Boonen was distanced during the T-Mobile chase and was still trying to get back on. Davitamon-Lotto was driving the chase with Brandt and tall boy Van Summeren on the front of the peloton, while Hushovd was working hard up front to try and take the intermediate points sprint in Kenzingen.
With 106km to go, it was also mission accomplished for big Thor as he took the sprint in Kenzingen and he, Cancellara and Casar, with the exception of Sørensen, sat up after 126km with the peloton breathing down their necks. The CSC man just kept going and another group of six bridged across, including Weening (Rabobank), Commesso (Lampre), Vasseur (Cofidis), Scholz (Gerolsteiner), Jalabert (Phonak) and Flecha (Fassa Bortolo), and as the seven man break du jour passed over the Rhein River into France, they had a lead of 5'05. Sørensen was maillot jaune virtuel and as the Discovery Channel team rode tempo on the front of the peloton, the break still gained time. With 69km to race at the final intermediate sprint of the day in Illhaeusern, home of the famous three star restaurant l'Auberge sur l'Ill, it was Toto Commesso who grabbed the points 6'30 ahead of the peloton.
The gap rang the alarm bells behind, as Discovery Channel had nothing to chase for, so Liquigas-Bianchi and Illes Balears began chasing hard. After almost an hour of hard chasing, the break was just 2'00 ahead of the peloton at the base of the Col de la Schlucht. Weening got the word in his earpiece that the chase was closing and attacked hard at the base of the ascent. He rode a hard steady tempo, because behind, the ever diminishing peloton was blasting up the gentle 4% gradient in their big chainrings at almost 40km/h! With 5km to go to the summit, Weening was 0'30 ahead of a now thirty man strong groupe maillot jaune, where Armstrong was isolated: his Discovery Channel teammates had surprisingly already gone out the back!
Vinokourov began a series of attacks, countered by Valverde (Illes Balears), then Vino went again and was pulled back by Valverde's teammate Paco Mancebo. T-Mobile's Andreas Klöden countered this move and quickly got a gap as Vino and Ulle closed down the chase. Klöden bridged across to Weening at the summit of the Col de la Schlucht ascent and the two began the fast descent to Gérardmer with the groupe maillot jaune 0'20 behind. For a moment, it looked like the two escapees might be caught on the upper slopes, but by the finish in Gérardmer, the gap had grown to almost half a minute.
Klöden got beat by Weening by less than a tyre width - 0.0002 seconds officially - but the T-Mobile man moved into the top 10 and is now in 9th place, 1'50 behind Armstrong. T-Mobile now has three men in the top 10 (Vino 3rd, Ullrich 6th, Klöden 9th), while CSC has four: Voigt is 2nd, Julich 4th, Basso 5th and Sastre 7th. Rounding out the top ten is Floyd Landis (Phonak), and all nine are within 1'50 of maillot jaune Armstrong.
Almost an hour after today's winner, a battered but still game Dave Zabriskie struggled through the huge crowds on the final climb that made it almost impossible for the CSC man to get through to the summit to finish just minutes inside the day's time limit. The former maillot jaune, now last in classement generale may no longer be a contender, but he's no palooka and deserves a prize for most gutsy rider at this year's Tour de France.
Stage 9 - Sunday, July 10: Gérardmer-Mulhouse, 171km
Starting in Gérardmer, Stage 9 has the first serious mountain climbs of the 2005 Tour, culminating in the steep Cat. 1 Ballon d'Alsace. Once Stage 9 is over, the Tour de France entourage will make a post-stage transfer via air from Mulhouse to Grenoble.
Stage 9 rated climbs:
Cat. 3 / 6.5km: Col de Grosse Pierre-955m. / 3.1km climb-6.4% grade
Cat. 3 / 22km: Col des Feignes-992m. / 9km climb-2.9% grade
Cat. 3 / 32.5km: Col de Bramont-956m. / 3.4km climb-6.5% grade
Cat. 2 / 64km: Le Grand Ballon-1338m. / 21.9km climb-3.6% grade
Cat. 3 / 98km: Col de Bussang-731m. / 6.2 km-4.5% grade
Cat. 1 / 115km: Le Ballon d'Alsace-1171m. / 9.1km-6.8% grade
Photography
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- Big crowds at the start in Pforzheim, Germany.
- Known for its gold Pforzheim presented the Tour with a golden start line.
- The peloton makes its way through the German town of Kippenheim.
- Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) on the way to his win.
- George Hincapie (Discovery) leads the chase after the first climb.
- Another of the little German villages along the route before heading into France.
- Peter Wrolich Gerolsteiner's sprinting ace, works to catch back on.
- A median strip splits the bunch.
- Erik Dekker (Rabobank) keeps things in check.
- Fans watch the race on a small TV on the Col de la Schlucht.
- Now that the flat stages are behind us, the Tour heads into the hills.
- Fans packed the final climb today and created some major traffic problems.
Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net
- This is what the crowd saw
- Weening and Kloden throw for the line
- Not much in it
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- So who got it?
- Alejandro Valverde (Illes Balears) won the sprint for third
- Ullrich rolls in for a top 10
- Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) showed signs of form today
- Christophe Moreau (CA) had a good day today
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) comes across the line
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) after the finish
- Dario Frigo (Fassa Bortolo) finished in the front group
- Laurent Brochard (Bouygues Telecom) finishes
- A group makes its way through the crowd at the finish
- Boonen and McEwen come in together
- Tom Boonen (Quick.Step) after a tough day
- Tom Boonen (Quick.Step) has doubts
- Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner) paid for his effort yesterday
- Pieter Weening (Rabobank) enjoying his time on the podium
- Pieter Weening (Rabobank) salutes from the podium
- Pieter Weening (Rabobank) is a happy chappy
- Lance puts on the jersey
- Still number 1 Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel)
- It may have been a tough day, but I've still got the stuffed Lion
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) survived in yellow
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) still the man
- Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) now in dots
- Smile! It doesn't look that bad on you
- Vladimir Karpets (Illes Balears) is the new best young rider
- Vladimir Karpets (Illes Balears) looks good in white
Images by Luc Claessen/www.actiefotos.be
- George Hincapie (Discovery Channel) in the first break
- Rasmussen leads the break through Zimmerplatz
- The peloton comes through Zimmerplatz
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) at Zimmerplatz
- It's not easy being green
- Mathieu Sprick (Bouygues Telecom) at Zimmerplatz
- Wim Vansevenant (Davitamon-Lotto) on his own at Zimmerplatz
- Thor Hushovd (Crédit Agricole) takes the second sprint
- Johan Vansummeren (Davitamon-Lotto) did another bucketload of work today
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) at the second sprint
- Christophe Brandt (Davitamon-Lotto) at the second sprint
- How far to go? Asks Tom Boonen
Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net
- Billions and billions of fans watch the Tour in Germany
- The early break speeds through town
- One of CN's satellite balloons takes a break
- You have to be quick to see the Tour go past
- Tom Boonen (Quick.Step) has had better days
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) descends in yellow
- Pieter Weening (Rabobank) is chased by a mad fan on the Col de la Schlucht
- The group flies to the top of the Col de la Schlucht
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) through the throng
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) leads Vinokourov and McGee on the Col de la Schlucht
Images by AFP Photo
- Can I…tempt you? Mmm, tunafish!
- T-Mobile were forced on the defensive early on
- Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) leads the break
- Thor Hushovd (Crédit Agricole) attacks in pursuit of the three leaders
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) shadowed by Ullrich and Moreau
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) stretches while Beloki has a pained look on his face
- Pieter Weening (Rabobank) takes a flyer on the last climb
- Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile Team) puts the hurt on Savoldelli and Armstrong
- Andreas Klöden (T-Mobile Team) in pursuit of Weening
- The photo finish showed how close it was
Images by Andrea Hübner/www.velo-photos.com
- Big crowds at Pforzheim before the start of stage 8.
- Kjell Carlström (Liquigas-Bianchi)
- Happy with his mountain jersey: Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner).
- CSC team bikes before the start.
- Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas-Bianchi)
- Agent Garzelli
- Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros)
- Servais Knaven (Quickstep-Innergetic)
- Iban Mayo (Euskaltel-Euskadi)
- Patrick Sinkewitz (Quickstep-Innergetic) had to sign a lot af sheets today.
- Ivan Basso (Team CSC) smiles at the fans while checking his bike.
- Chris Horner (Saunier Duval)
- Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile Team)
- Spanish Champion 2005 Juan Manuel Garate (Saunier Duval) smiles for the camera
- Alberto Contador Velasco (Liberty Seguros-Würth)
- Andreas Klöden (T-Mobile Team)
- Paolo Savoldelli (Discovery Channel)
- Maillot Jaune Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel)
- Thor Hushovd (Crédit Agricole) and Fabian Cancellara (Fassa Bortolo) after having passed the feed zone
- Davitamon-Lotto leads the peloton on the way back to France.
- Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile Team)
- The peloton passes Lahr on their way to Gérardmer.
- Michael Albasini (Liquigas-Bianchi) and Sébastien Hinault (Crédit Agricole)
- Stéphane Augé (Cofidis)
- Jean-Patrick Nazon (Ag2r)
- Dave Zabriskie (Team CSC) and Luciano Pagliarini (Liquigas-Bianchi) were the last riders on the road
Results
1 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 5.03.54 (45.705 km/h) 2 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 0.27 4 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 5 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 6 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 7 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 8 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 9 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 11 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 12 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 13 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 14 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth 15 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 16 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 17 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 18 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 19 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step 20 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel 21 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 22 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 23 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 24 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 25 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 26 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 27 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 28 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 29 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 30 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 31 Bradley McGee (Aus) Française Des Jeux 32 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 33 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 34 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 35 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.23 36 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.25 37 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 38 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 39 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 40 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 41 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 42 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 43 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 44 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 45 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 46 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step 47 Jose Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel 48 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 49 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 50 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 51 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 52 Jose Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 53 Maxim Iglinski (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 54 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 55 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 56 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 57 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 2.20 58 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 2.57 59 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 60 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 61 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Lampre-Caffita 62 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 63 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 64 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 65 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 66 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 67 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 68 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel 69 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 70 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 71 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 72 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 73 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 74 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel 75 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel 76 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step 77 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 78 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 79 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 80 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 81 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel 82 Dario Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 83 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 84 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 85 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 86 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 87 Andrei Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 5.25 88 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 5.43 89 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 90 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Domina Vacanze 6.41 91 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 92 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 93 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 94 David Canada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 95 Nicki Sörensen (Den) Team CSC 96 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 97 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 7.19 98 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 99 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 100 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 101 Walter Bénéteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 102 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 103 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 104 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 105 Volodimir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 106 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 7.50 107 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 8.24 108 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 109 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 110 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 111 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 112 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 10.03 113 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12.59 114 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r-Prevoyance 115 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 116 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française Des Jeux 117 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 118 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner 119 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 120 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC 121 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 122 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 123 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 124 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 125 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 126 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 127 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 128 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 129 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth 130 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 131 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 132 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 133 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 17.41 134 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 135 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick.Step 136 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick.Step 137 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 138 Daniel Becke (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 139 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick.Step 140 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 141 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 142 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 143 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak Hearing Systems 144 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick.Step 145 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 146 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 147 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze 148 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 149 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 150 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 151 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step 152 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 153 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 154 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 155 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas-Bianchi 156 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 157 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 158 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 159 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 160 Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 161 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi 162 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 163 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 164 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 165 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r-Prevoyance 166 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française Des Jeux 167 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 168 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 169 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 170 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française Des Jeux 171 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 172 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 173 Jose Vicente García Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 174 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française Des Jeux 175 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 21.45 176 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 43.02 177 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 178 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 46.05 179 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 49.04 180 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 51.12 DNF Isaac Gálvez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne DNF Leon van Bon (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto DNF Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance DNS Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française Des Jeux DNS Sergei Gonchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze Points 1 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 25 pts 2 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile Team 22 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 20 4 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 18 5 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 16 6 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 15 7 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 14 8 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 13 9 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 10 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 11 11 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 10 12 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 9 13 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 8 14 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth 7 15 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 6 16 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 5 17 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 4 18 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 3 19 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step 2 20 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel 1 Mountains Côte de Dobel - Cat. 3, km 14.5 1 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 4 pts 2 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 3 3 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 4 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 1 Côte de Bad-Herrenalb - Cat. 3, km 27 1 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 4 pts 2 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 3 3 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 2 4 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 1 Côte de Nachtigal - Cat. 3, km 38.5 1 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 4 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 3 3 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 2 4 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 1 Côte de Zimmerplatz - Cat. 3, km 48 1 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 4 pts 2 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 3 3 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 4 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 1 Col de la Schlucht - Cat. 2, km 216 1 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile Team 20 pts 2 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 18 3 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 16 4 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 14 5 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 12 6 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 10 Sprints Sasbach - km 64.5 1 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 6 pts 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 4 3 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 2 Kenzingen - km 125.5 1 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 6 pts 2 Nicki Sörensen (Den) Team CSC 4 3 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2 Illhaeusern - km 162 1 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 6 pts 2 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 4 3 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 2 Young rider 1 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 5.03.54 2 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 0.27 3 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 4 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.25 5 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 6 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 7 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step 8 Jose Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 9 Maxim Iglinski (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 10 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 11 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 2.57 12 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 13 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 14 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 15 Andrei Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 5.25 16 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 5.43 17 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 18 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7.19 19 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12.59 20 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 21 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 22 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth 23 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick.Step 17.41 24 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 25 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 26 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas-Bianchi 27 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r-Prevoyance 28 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 29 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française Des Jeux 30 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 31 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française Des Jeux Most combative 1 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank Teams 1 T-Mobile Team 15.12.36 2 Rabobank 3 Illes Balears-Caisse D’Epargne 0.27 4 Team Csc 5 Phonak Hearing Systems 6 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 7 Fassa Bortolo 1.25 8 Saunier Duval - Prodir 9 Discovery Channel Team 2.23 10 Liquigas - Bianchi 2.57 11 Gerolsteiner 3.55 12 Lampre - Caffita 13 Francaise Des Jeux 14 Quick Step - Innergetic 15 Credit Agricole 16 Euskaltel - Euskadi 17 Bouygues Telecom 4.51 18 Ag2R Prevoyance 4.53 19 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 6.25 20 Davitamon - Lotto 8.48 21 Domina Vacanze 8.53 General classification after stage 8 1 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel 28.06.17 2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 1.00 3 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 1.02 4 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 1.07 5 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 1.26 6 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.36 7 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 8 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 1.47 9 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.50 10 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 11 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 2.13 12 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 2.14 13 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.18 14 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 2.31 15 Jose Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel 2.35 16 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 2.43 17 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.48 18 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.54 19 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.58 20 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 21 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3.02 22 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth 23 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 3.24 24 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 3.29 25 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 3.33 26 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 3.39 27 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 3.44 28 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 3.53 29 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel 3.56 30 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel 4.02 31 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel 4.03 32 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 4.04 33 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 4.06 34 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 4.07 35 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 4.08 36 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 37 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 4.10 38 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 4.11 39 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step 40 Bradley McGee (Aus) Française Des Jeux 4.12 41 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 4.38 42 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel 4.42 43 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 4.53 44 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 45 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4.54 46 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 5.17 47 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 5.23 48 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 5.26 49 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 5.29 50 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5.40 51 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step 5.47 52 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.48 53 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.51 54 Dario Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 5.54 55 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 5.57 56 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 6.09 57 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6.11 58 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 6.14 59 Maxim Iglinski (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 6.18 60 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 6.20 61 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 6.22 62 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 63 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 6.23 64 Jose Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6.32 65 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 6.39 66 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 6.53 67 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 6.55 68 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 7.05 69 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 7.06 70 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 71 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 7.38 72 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7.54 73 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Lampre-Caffita 74 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.04 75 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step 8.08 76 Nicki Sörensen (Den) Team CSC 8.11 77 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 8.23 78 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 8.28 79 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 8.40 80 Andrei Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 8.52 81 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 9.18 82 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 9.30 83 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 9.35 84 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 9.41 85 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 9.57 86 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 10.10 87 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 10.20 88 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Domina Vacanze 10.25 89 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 10.31 90 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 10.42 91 Walter Bénéteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10.50 92 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 11.03 93 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 11.20 94 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 11.23 95 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 11.29 96 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 11.51 97 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11.54 98 David Canada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 11.57 99 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12.03 100 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 12.04 101 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 12.51 102 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 13.13 103 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 13.26 104 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 13.57 105 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 14.04 106 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 14.11 107 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 15.08 108 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 15.15 109 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 15.30 110 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth 15.54 111 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 16.06 112 Volodimir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 16.45 113 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 17.14 114 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 17.19 115 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 17.47 116 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 17.49 117 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 17.56 118 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 18.00 119 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18.30 120 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner 18.50 121 Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 18.58 122 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 19.03 123 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19.19 124 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 19.44 125 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 19.50 126 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick.Step 20.15 127 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 20.34 128 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 20.35 129 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 20.43 130 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 20.45 131 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 21.15 132 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r-Prevoyance 21.17 133 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 21.22 134 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 21.26 135 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC 21.27 136 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 22.04 137 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française Des Jeux 22.12 138 David Herrero (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 22.42 139 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 22.56 140 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 23.11 141 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française Des Jeux 23.48 142 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 24.27 143 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 25.01 144 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi 25.42 145 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française Des Jeux 25.59 146 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 26.06 147 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas-Bianchi 26.21 148 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 26.29 149 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 26.32 150 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 26.40 151 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick.Step 26.43 152 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 26.45 153 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick.Step 26.55 154 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak Hearing Systems 27.05 155 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 27.17 156 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 157 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r-Prevoyance 27.20 158 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 27.29 159 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 27.33 160 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 28.14 161 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 28.40 162 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 28.44 163 Daniel Becke (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 28.56 164 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française Des Jeux 28.59 165 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 29.27 166 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 29.50 167 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 29.57 168 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze 30.07 169 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick.Step 30.09 170 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step 30.44 171 Jose Vicente García Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 30.52 172 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 32.01 173 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 32.19 174 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 36.47 175 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 38.06 176 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 48.31 177 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 53.16 178 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 56.48 179 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 1.01.13 180 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.01.54 Points classification 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick.Step 133 pts 2 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 128 3 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 96 4 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 91 5 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 75 6 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 73 7 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française Des Jeux 69 8 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 60 9 Baden Cooke (Aus) Française Des Jeux 59 10 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth 58 11 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 55 12 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 51 13 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 50 14 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Lampre-Caffita 49 15 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 49 16 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 48 17 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 41 18 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 41 19 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 40 20 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 37 21 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 35 22 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 34 23 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 29 24 Daniel Becke (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 29 25 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 28 26 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 27 27 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 26 28 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 24 29 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 24 30 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak Hearing Systems 24 31 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 24 32 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 24 33 Maxim Iglinski (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 23 34 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile Team 22 35 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick.Step 21 36 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 20 37 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 19 38 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 19 39 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 19 40 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 18 41 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18 42 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 17 43 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 16 44 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 45 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 15 46 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 15 47 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 48 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 14 49 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 14 50 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 14 51 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel 13 52 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 13 53 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 13 54 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 13 55 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r-Prevoyance 12 56 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 11 57 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 11 58 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 11 59 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 10 60 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 10 61 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 10 62 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 10 63 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 9 64 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 9 65 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 9 66 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 8 67 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 7 68 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth 7 69 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi 6 70 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 5 71 Bradley McGee (Aus) Française Des Jeux 5 72 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 5 73 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 4 74 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 4 75 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 4 76 Nicki Sörensen (Den) Team CSC 4 77 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 78 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 3 79 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 3 80 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 3 81 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 2 82 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 2 83 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step 2 84 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2 85 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Domina Vacanze 2 86 David Canada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 87 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 2 88 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 89 Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 1 90 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r-Prevoyance -5 Mountains classification 1 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 32 pts 2 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile Team 20 3 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 18 4 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 14 5 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 12 6 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 10 7 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 10 8 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 10 9 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 8 10 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 8 11 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 7 12 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7 13 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 6 14 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 6 15 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 16 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 3 17 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 18 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3 19 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 2 20 David Canada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 21 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi 2 22 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 2 23 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 24 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1 25 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole 1 Young rider classification 1 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 28.08.30 2 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 0.01 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.11 4 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 1.20 5 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 1.53 6 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 2.25 7 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step 3.34 8 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.58 9 Maxim Iglinski (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 4.05 10 Jose Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4.19 11 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 4.26 12 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 6.10 13 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 6.15 14 Andrei Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 6.39 15 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 7.57 16 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth 8.07 17 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9.51 18 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 11.58 19 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth 13.41 20 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 13.53 21 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 17.31 22 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 17.37 23 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick.Step 18.02 24 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Française Des Jeux 19.59 25 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas-Bianchi 24.08 26 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r-Prevoyance 25.07 27 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 25.20 28 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 26.31 29 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française Des Jeux 26.46 30 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 27.14 31 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 29.48 Teams classification 1 Team Csc 81.59.40 2 T-Mobile Team 1.50 3 Discovery Channel Team 1.58 4 Phonak Hearing Systems 3.02 5 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 3.22 6 Illes Balears-Caisse D’Epargne 5.16 7 Fassa Bortolo 5.24 8 Rabobank 5.39 9 Gerolsteiner 7.13 10 Credit Agricole 7.57 11 Liquigas - Bianchi 8.48 12 Quick Step - Innergetic 9.52 13 Saunier Duval - Prodir 10.30 14 Bouygues Telecom 11.13 15 Francaise Des Jeux 11.32 16 Euskaltel - Euskadi 13.03 17 Lampre - Caffita 13.12 18 Ag2R Prevoyance 14.38 19 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 14.48 20 Davitamon - Lotto 14.51 21 Domina Vacanze 14.54
