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58th Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré - PT
France, June 4-11, 2006
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Stage 7 - June 11: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne - Grenoble, 131 km
Thunder God takes final stage, Leipheimer wins the whole thing
By Jean-François Quénet in Grenoble
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In his lead up to the Tour de France, last year's green jersey Thor Hushovd wanted a stage win in the Dauphiné. He tried a lot, even in the mountains, but had to wait for the final stage to Grenoble to make it a reality. For Levi Leipheimer, who decided to give it all in a total opposite pre-Tour de France tactic as the one chosen by the very quiet Floyd Landis, Alexandre Vinokourov and Yaroslav Popovych, the overall victory is a big step in his career. He's the fourth American to win the Dauphiné after Greg LeMond (1983), Tyler Hamilton (2000) and Lance Armstrong (2002 and 2003).
"When I first got into cycling, LeMond was winning the Tour de France and I always heard about the Dauphiné," the Californian explained. "I've always thought this was one of the best races in the calendar. When Tyler won it, I was on the same team and I thought I could win it one day."
The Dauphiné is Leipheimer's second major stage race win after he claimed the Tour of Germany last year. "Finishing third in the Vuelta (2002) was a breakthrough for me but I prefer to win something." He was obviously frustrated that he couldn't keep the yellow jersey in the Dauphiné last year. "I definitely should have won it," he admitted. "But this race is very difficult to control as a team. What we've done this week shows a lot about Gerolsteiner and myself. I feel very happy. The guys have done three days of hard work. Sometimes people are afraid of doing it but this gives confidence for the future."
It hasn't been just a dream though. "My week started pretty badly. In the prologue my stem came loose and I had to race sideways. The next day I had a silly crash. A motorbike went over my back from behind. I was sore then. Fortunately things started to turn around for me. More than anything, I'm very proud to win this race. It was so challenging, so difficult with a hard time trial, a mountain top finish in the Mont Ventoux and a real high mountain alpine stage."
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Aged 33, Leipheimer could have turned into a different rider now that Armstrong's days are over. "It will be a different Tour de France," he reckoned. "Because of no favourite like Armstrong, I'll look for opportunities to attack. I'm prepared to take more risks, but it doesn't mean you do stupid things, you have to choose wisely."
The American also described the last stage of the Dauphiné "like a roller-coaster...The French teams were very strong all week. Today it was very hard and Crédit Agricole was ripping those hills apart."
That was confirmed by Hushovd who said: "Even Pietro [Caucchioli] who was well placed on GC did a lot of work for closing the gap. It was a real pleasure to see that. It was strange for me to have the guys chasing Stuart O'Grady down, because he's a good friend of mine and he's been on my team for such a long time, but we had to race as we said in the morning: let a breakaway of three riders or so go and then ride behind them. But at the end, I had no more teammates. It's a team victory anyway."
Left alone in the streets of Grenoble, the Norwegian looked at his rivals. "I chose Philippe Gilbert's wheel because I saw he was going to try something, and Sébastien Joly led him out. Then Samuel Dumoulin attacked but from too far I think. This was my goal to win a stage in the Dauphiné. The race ended up better than it started. I got no chance to sprint for the win in the first two stages because we were the only team working for a sprint finish. Then I passed the mountains really well. I did a nice breakaway onto the col d'Izoard. It's been good training for the Tour de France."
Hushovd knows the competition will be tight with Tom Boonen and Robbie McEwen. "I'm just happy to know that I'm in a good shape. McEwen was super at the Tour of Italy and Boonen is now super at the Tour de Suisse, but on a good day I can beat them", the Norwegian concluded.
The heat is now on for the Tour de France starting in Strasbourg on July 1st.
How it unfolded
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Sébastien Joly (Française des Jeux) showed his intentions to break clear as soon as the start was given. Cédric Coutouly (Agritubel) and Andy Flickinger (Bouygues Telecom) were the first riders to join him. But there were many attacks before Stuart O'Grady (CSC) found the right timing at km 14. Guido Trenti (Quick Step) and Coutouly, again, caught him but José Luis Arrieta (Ag2r) who went in between couldn't make it.
During the first hour, 48.7 kilometres were covered. At the hot spot sprint of Allevard (km 64.5), won by O'Grady, the gap between the three leaders and the bunch was 4'50. On the col du Barioz, with 57km to go, Trenti got dropped and the Gerolsteiner and Crédit Agricole teams of race leader Levi Leipheimer and stage favourite Thor Hushovd paced harder in front of the peloton.
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Coutouly couldn't follow O'Grady on the col des Mouilles, whose summit was located 39 kilometres before the finish line. Crédit Agricole was riding flat out but the gap stayed around two minutes for a long time. The bunch was reduced to around 60 riders. Among the supposed-to-be race favourites getting dropped were Floyd Landis (Phonak) and Yaroslav Popovych (Discovery Channel). With 24 km to go, the gap went under one minute. O'Grady still had 35 seconds lead at the top of the Côte des Roussets with 19.5 km to go.
The Australian kept going on the descent towards Grenoble, but he got caught two kilometres before the line. "The human roc" Vladimir Gusev (Discovery Channel) tried to go on his own but it ended up in a bunch sprint with Hushovd taking the right wheel of Française des Jeux riders Philippe Gilbert and Sébastien Joly. The Norwegian won the last stage and Leipheimer was finally able to appreciate being the overall winner of the 58th Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré.
Photography
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- Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) waits for the start
- Stuart O'Grady (CSC) attacks the peloton at 14 km
- Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) puts his head down
- Christophe Moreau (AG2R) prominent
- Leipheimer and Kashechkin ride together
- Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) concentrates on a descent
- Thor Hushovd (Credit Agricole) got his win in the last stage
- The final podium (L to R) Christophe Moreau (2nd), Levi Leipheimer (1st), and Bernhard Kohl (3rd)
Results
1 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 3.08.17 (41.746 km/h) 2 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 4 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 7 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 8 Alessand Spezialetti (Ita) Liquigas 9 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 10 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 11 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 12 Michael Barry (Can) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 13 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 14 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 15 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 16 Sebastien Joly (Fra) Française des Jeux 17 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) T-Mobile Team 18 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Team Milram 19 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Würth 20 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 22 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 23 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 24 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 25 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 26 Christopher Horner (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 27 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 28 Unai Osa (Spa) Würth 29 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 30 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Würth 31 Remy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 32 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 33 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Würth 34 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 35 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 36 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 37 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 38 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 39 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 40 Jose Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 41 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 42 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 43 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 44 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Credit Agricole 45 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Würth 46 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 47 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 48 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 49 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 50 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 51 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Quick Step-Innergetic 52 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Agritubel 53 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 54 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 55 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 56 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.12 57 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 58 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 59 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 0.14 60 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 61 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.08 62 Jose Rojas Gil (Spa) Würth 63 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.02 64 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 3.36 65 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 6.56 66 Josep Jufre (Spa) Davitamon-Lotto 9.58 67 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 68 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 69 Moises Duenas (Spa) Agritubel 70 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 71 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 72 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 73 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Credit Agricole 74 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step-Innergetic 75 Benoit Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 13.24 76 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 14.05 77 Florian Stalder (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 78 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 79 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 80 Stephane Auge (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 81 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 82 Eduardo Gonzalo (Spa) Agritubel 83 Aketza Pena Iza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 84 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 85 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 86 Guido Trentin (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 87 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Phonak Hearing Systems 88 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Würth 89 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 90 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 91 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 92 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) T-Mobile Team 93 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic 94 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 95 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 96 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Quick Step-Innergetic 97 Wilfried Cretskens BEL Quick Step-Innergetic 16.05 98 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 99 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 100 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank 101 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 102 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 103 Nicola Loda (Ita) Liquigas 104 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Credit Agricole 105 Frederic Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux 106 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 107 Kurt Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 108 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 109 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 16.08 110 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 111 Florent Brard (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 112 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas 113 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 114 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 115 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Team Milram 116 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Fondital 117 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 118 Peter Mazur (Pol) Saunier Duval-Prodir 119 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 120 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 121 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic 122 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 123 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 124 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 125 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 126 Andy Flickinger FRA Bouygues Telecom 127 Daniel Becke (Ger) Team Milram 128 Jose Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 16.12 DSQ Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank DNF Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas DNF Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto Points 1 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 20 pts 2 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 17 3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 15 4 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 13 5 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 6 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 10 7 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 9 8 Alessand Spezialetti (Ita) Liquigas 8 9 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 7 10 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 6 11 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 5 12 Michael Barry (Can) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4 13 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 14 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 2 15 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1 Mountains Col Du Barioz - km 74 1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 7 pts 2 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 5 3 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step-Innergetic 3 4 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 5 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Credit Agricole 1 Col Des Ayes - km 84 1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 5 pts 2 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 3 3 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step-Innergetic 1 Col Des Mouilles - km 92 1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 5 pts 2 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 3 3 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 Cote Des Roussets - km 111,500 1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 5 pts 2 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 3 3 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1 Sprints Aiguebelle - km 31 1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 6 pts 2 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step-Innergetic 4 3 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 2 Bd Jules Ferry - km 64,500 1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 6 pts 2 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 4 3 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step-Innergetic 2 Teams 1 AG2R Prevoyance 9.24.51 2 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3 Française Des Jeux 4 Credit Agricole 5 Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 6 Bouygues Telecom 7 Würth Team 8 Gerolsteiner 0.12 9 Team CSC 10 Phonak Hearing Systems 1.08 11 Saunier Duval - Prodir 2.14 12 T-Mobile Team 9.58 13 Euskaltel - Euskadi 14.05 14 Rabobank 15 Cofidis 16 Lampre - Fondital 16.05 17 Agritubel 16.54 18 Davitamon-Lotto 19.56 19 Quick Step - Innergetic 24.03 20 Liquigas 28.10 21 Team Milram 30.13 Final General classification 1 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 28.07.06 2 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 1.48 3 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) T-Mobile Team 2.51 4 Jose Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3.00 5 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 3.29 6 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 4.14 7 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 4.21 8 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5.13 9 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 5.45 10 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 6.48 11 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 6.57 12 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 7.31 13 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Team Milram 9.10 14 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 9.44 15 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11.00 16 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 12.12 17 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Phonak Hearing Systems 14.45 18 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 15.00 19 Remy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 15.20 20 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 16.06 21 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 16.14 22 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 17.02 23 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18.51 24 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 21.05 25 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 23.56 26 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Würth 24.26 27 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 27.32 28 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Credit Agricole 29.30 29 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 29.46 30 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 30.00 31 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 31.40 32 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 31.52 33 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 33.17 34 Christopher Horner (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 34.49 35 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Würth 36.30 36 Unai Osa (Spa) Würth 36.57 37 Michael Barry (Can) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 39.33 38 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Fondital 41.38 39 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Quick Step-Innergetic 41.51 40 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 42.37 41 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Agritubel 43.35 42 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 44.07 43 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 47.40 44 Moises Duenas (Spa) Agritubel 48.36 45 Sebastien Joly (Fra) Française des Jeux 48.56 46 Josep Jufre (Spa) Davitamon-Lotto 49.35 47 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 49.45 48 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 50.04 49 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Würth 51.08 50 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 51.43 51 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 51.51 52 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Würth 52.15 53 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 55.00 54 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 55.15 55 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 55.53 56 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 56.18 57 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 56.22 58 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 56.23 59 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 56.50 60 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 57.06 61 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 58.37 62 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Quick Step-Innergetic 58.51 63 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Credit Agricole 59.41 64 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 1.02.29 65 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.02.47 66 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1.03.14 67 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.03.35 68 Alessand Spezialetti (Ita) Liquigas 1.03.39 69 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 1.03.45 70 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.05.59 71 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 1.06.38 72 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.06.39 73 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 1.08.17 74 Daniel Becke (Ger) Team Milram 1.10.29 75 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.10.46 76 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.12.00 77 Aketza Pena Iza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.14.01 78 Jose Rojas Gil (Spa) Würth 1.14.03 79 Florian Stalder (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.16.11 80 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) T-Mobile Team 1.16.57 81 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 1.17.22 82 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.18.59 83 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 1.19.00 84 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.19.10 85 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 1.19.25 86 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 1.20.49 87 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 1.21.16 88 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 1.21.23 89 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.22.00 90 Eduardo Gonzalo (Spa) Agritubel 1.22.25 91 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.23.11 92 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.24.14 93 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1.25.42 94 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Würth 1.26.49 95 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.28.18 96 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.29.15 97 Guido Trentin (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.29.53 98 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 1.29.57 99 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.30.03 100 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.30.41 101 Stephane Auge (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 1.30.49 102 Frederic Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.31.17 103 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 1.33.59 104 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 1.34.21 105 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic 1.34.37 106 Benoit Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.37.11 107 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 1.37.39 108 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 1.37.40 109 Florent Brard (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1.38.46 110 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Team Milram 1.39.25 111 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.39.30 112 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step-Innergetic 1.39.41 113 Peter Mazur (Pol) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.39.42 114 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 1.40.06 115 Kurt Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 1.40.22 116 Jose Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1.40.30 117 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 1.41.02 118 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.41.08 119 Wilfried Cretskens BEL Quick Step-Innergetic 1.41.52 120 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank 1.43.49 121 Andy Flickinger FRA Bouygues Telecom 1.43.56 122 Nicola Loda (Ita) Liquigas 1.44.26 123 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.49.19 124 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1.49.25 125 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 1.49.36 126 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 1.49.38 127 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas 1.50.05 128 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic 1.51.44 Points classification 1 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 69 pts 2 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 60 3 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 57 4 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 55 5 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 55 6 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 47 7 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 42 8 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 41 9 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 40 10 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 40 11 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 34 12 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 32 13 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 27 14 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) T-Mobile Team 26 15 Jose Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 26 16 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 26 17 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 18 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 24 19 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 19 20 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 19 21 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Team Milram 18 22 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 17 23 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 17 24 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 16 25 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 15 26 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 15 27 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 12 28 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 12 29 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 11 30 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 11 31 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Quick Step-Innergetic 10 32 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10 33 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 9 34 Christopher Horner (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 9 35 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Würth 8 36 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 8 37 Alessand Spezialetti (Ita) Liquigas 8 38 Jose Rojas Gil (Spa) Würth 8 39 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 7 40 Florian Stalder (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 41 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Team Milram 6 42 Sebastien Joly (Fra) Française des Jeux 6 43 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6 44 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step-Innergetic 6 45 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 5 46 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 5 47 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 48 Peter Mazur (Pol) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 49 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 4 50 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 4 51 Michael Barry (Can) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4 52 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 53 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3 54 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 55 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Würth 2 56 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 2 57 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 2 58 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 59 Stephane Auge (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 2 60 Remy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 61 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 62 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Würth 1 63 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Würth 1 64 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 1 65 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) T-Mobile Team 1 66 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 1 67 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 1 68 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Fondital -3 69 Unai Osa (Spa) Würth -5 70 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank -5 71 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux -5 72 Frederic Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux -5 73 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team -5 74 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas -5 75 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner -5 Mountains classification 1 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 162 pts 2 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 126 3 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 119 4 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 95 5 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 93 6 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 90 7 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 64 8 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 60 9 Jose Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 51 10 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 45 11 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) T-Mobile Team 42 12 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 39 13 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Quick Step-Innergetic 32 14 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 29 15 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 22 16 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 22 17 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Credit Agricole 20 18 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Würth 19 19 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) T-Mobile Team 16 20 Sebastien Joly (Fra) Française des Jeux 14 21 Christopher Horner (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 14 22 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 13 23 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 13 24 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 12 25 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Team Milram 12 26 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Würth 12 27 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 10 28 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Quick Step-Innergetic 10 29 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 8 30 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 8 31 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 8 32 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 8 33 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 6 34 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 6 35 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5 36 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4 37 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step-Innergetic 4 38 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 3 39 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 2 40 Michael Barry (Can) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2 41 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Fondital 2 42 Remy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 43 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Credit Agricole 1 44 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 1 45 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 1 46 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 1 47 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Team Milram 1 Combination classification 1 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 244 pts 2 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 221 3 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 171 4 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 148 5 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 141 6 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 137 7 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 120 8 Jose Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 103 9 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 101 10 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) T-Mobile Team 98 11 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 79 12 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 77 13 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 72 14 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 71 15 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 63 16 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 58 17 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 53 18 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 42 19 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 41 20 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Team Milram 38 21 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 34 22 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Quick Step-Innergetic 32 23 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 29 24 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Würth 27 25 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 27 26 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 24 27 Christopher Horner (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 23 28 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 22 29 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 22 30 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 21 31 Sebastien Joly (Fra) Française des Jeux 20 32 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Quick Step-Innergetic 20 33 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Credit Agricole 20 34 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 19 35 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 19 36 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 18 37 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) T-Mobile Team 17 38 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 15 39 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Würth 13 40 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 13 41 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 12 42 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step-Innergetic 10 43 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10 44 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 9 45 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 8 46 Jose Rojas Gil (Spa) Würth 8 47 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 8 48 Alessand Spezialetti (Ita) Liquigas 8 49 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Team Milram 7 50 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 7 51 Michael Barry (Can) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 6 52 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 6 53 Florian Stalder (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 54 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6 55 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 6 56 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 6 57 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 5 58 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 59 Peter Mazur (Pol) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 60 Remy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 4 61 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 62 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 4 63 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 64 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3 65 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 66 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Würth 2 67 Stephane Auge (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 2 68 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 69 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 70 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 2 71 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 2 72 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Fondital 2 73 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Würth 1 74 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 1 75 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Credit Agricole 1 76 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 1 77 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 1 Teams classification 1 AG2R Prevoyance 84.40.11 2 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3.02 3 Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 7.43 4 Credit Agricole 19.57 5 Bouygues Telecom 32.43 6 T-Mobile Team 42.52 7 Saunier Duval - Prodir 47.22 8 Team CSC 49.21 9 Würth Team 57.13 10 Phonak Hearing Systems 1.07.32 11 Française Des Jeux 1.09.03 12 Lampre - Fondital 1.14.07 13 Rabobank 1.35.32 14 Davitamon-Lotto 1.36.04 15 Cofidis 1.39.51 16 Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.47.12 17 Gerolsteiner 1.51.39 18 Team Milram 1.56.39 19 Agritubel 1.58.50 20 Quick Step - Innergetic 2.29.34 21 Liquigas 3.19.27
