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64th Paris-Nice - ProTour
France, March 5-12, 2006
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Stage 5 - March 10: Avignon - Digne-les-Bains, 201.5 km
Joaquin Rodriguez signs his debut with Caisse d'Épargne
By Jean-François Quénet in Digne-les-Bains
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For the second time in his career, Spain's Joaquin Rodriguez has won a stage in Paris-Nice. He finished alone in Digne-les-Bains where French riders missed out once again. Floyd Landis was left with no teammate on the col de Corobin, but didn't get any scares and kept his lead with two days to go.
The finish line was the same as the one in the 2005 Tour de France, when David Moncoutié made French fans proud by winning a stage on Bastille Day. Thus, it wasn't a surprise to hear that the Cofidis rider, whose fiancée is expecting their first child in the next few days, took part in a breakaway although there was still more than 150km to go.
Would he be the first Frenchman to win a stage in Paris-Nice since Laurent Jalabert in 2002? He tried his best in the col de Corobin but unlike in July, he couldn't drop all of his breakaway companions. "I don't usually get pissed off on my bike," he said. "But I've never seen bike riders taped onto my back wheel to such an extent before! As soon as I attacked, they all reacted but when someone else did it, they let me close the gap all the time. They were all good riders though. Rodriguez wasn't born yesterday."
Rodriguez won the second last stage of Paris-Nice in 2003, an edition of "the race to the sun" which is sadly remembered for Andreï Kivilev's death. Runner up Joost Posthuma is another former winner of Saturday's stage to Cannes. The Dutchman tried to repeat his triumph one day earlier than last year, but the Spaniard who was the king of mountain in the 2005 Vuelta is definitely more of a climber than the Rabobank time triallist.
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Three years ago, Rodriguez was riding for ONCE. After two seasons with Saunier Duval, he has just moved to Caisse d'Épargne-Illes Balears that now has a French bank as a title sponsor, which increases their motivation to be brilliant in France. This is also the reason why they have signed four French riders, one of them having paired with Rodriguez in today's breakaway. "I dedicate this win to my entire team and particularly to Portal who did a lot of work for me before the final climb," the Catalan rider declared. "He did a lot softening the opposition for me. I didn't know that last climb, neither the descent and there were very dangerous guys in the breakaway."
Behind the group on his way to the stage win, there wasn't much of a fight for the yellow jersey. As planned by Team CSC in the morning, Fränk Schleck attacked a few times because he still intends to take place on the final podium in Nice, but he wasn't successful. Most of the GC contenders were still fresh. Landis lost all of his team-mates on the climb, but wasn't afraid of losing the lead at all. He controlled the situation behind the Lampre-Fondital trio formed of Evgeni Petrov, Matteo Carrara and 'Patxi' Vila who is still 2nd overall and seems happy to stay there.
Jalabert isn't only the last French stage winner in Paris-Nice. He's also the last overall winner: in 1997.
How it unfolded
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Today's students' demonstration in Avignon was a peaceful one and didn't even slow down any rider in the neutral zone. The friendly atmosphere gave Thierry Marichal (Cofidis) the inspiration to attack inside the first kilometre of racing. But Sandy Casar (Française des Jeux) and Nicolas Crosbie (Agritubel) were more successful at km 17.
They were joined by eight riders and then by the bunch at km 40, where, in the first corners of the col de Notre-Dame-des-Abeilles, Francis Mourey (Française des Jeux) and Alberto Contador (Liberty Seguros) broke clear, they were soon accompanied by David Moncoutié (Cofidis) and Joaquin Rodriguez (Caisse d'Épargne-Illes Balears). At the same time, three times runner-up Allan Davis (Liberty Seguros) pulled out due to stomach troubles. He chose to rest before Milan-San Remo.
Five riders chased the four leaders down in the col de Notre-Dame-des-Abeilles: Joost Posthuma (Rabobank), Nicolas Portal (Caisse d'Épargne-Illes Balears), Jérôme Pineau and Stef Clement (Bouygues Telecom) and Mario Aerts (Davitamon-Lotto). They bridged the gap at km 58. The nine attackers reached a maximum lead of 4:15 at the intermediate sprint of Oraison (km 128) won by Posthuma ahead of Contador and Portal.
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In the decisive climb of col du Corobin, Posthuma accelerated and dropped everyone but Rodriguez, Contador and Moncoutié. Rodriguez reacted, came across to Posthuma and continued by himself one kilometre away from the top (km 185). He kept a steady pace till the finishing line in Digne-les-Bains, where Posthuma managed to stay away from the chasing group comprising all the GC contenders except for Stefan Schumacher.
Photography
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- The pack strings out during the fifth stage
- Nicolas Crosbie (Agritubel) takes teammate Christophe Laurent with him in pursuit of more mountain points
- David Moncoutie (Cofidis) was a marked man today
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) surrounded by CSC riders
- It's hard getting a feed while going upwards
- Joaquin Rodriguez (Caisse d'Epargne) attacks with Joost Posthuma, David Moncoutie and Alberto Contador
- Alberto Contador (Liberty Seguros) tries to get a gap
- Joaquin Rodriguez (Caisse d'Epargne) accelerates
- Frank Schleck (CSC) tried several times to break clear
- Joaquin Rodriguez (Caisse d'Epargne) wins the fifth stage
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) more comfy in yellow
- Joaquin Rodriguez (Caisse d'Epargne) with his haul
- Joaquin Rodriguez (Caisse d'Epargne) celebrates his victory
Images by Hedwig Kröner/Cyclingnews.com
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) prepares for another tough stage
- Floyd's bike a shiny red and black BMC
- Patxi Vila (Lampre-Fondital) is happy where he is, but may try to do something
- Danilo Napolitano (Lampre-Fondital) wouldn't finish today
- Chris Horner (Davitamon-Lotto) at the start
- Grischa Niermann (Rabobank) before the stage start
- Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) was suffering a little before the start
- The riders gather at the start outside the walled city of Avignon
- The feed zone at Focalquier
- The road towards Digne-les-Bains
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Joaquin Rodriguez (Caisse d'Epargne) shows the effort of his solo attack
- Joaquin Rodriguez (Caisse d'Epargne) claims victory - the pain rewarded
Results
1 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 4.43.34 (42.635 km/h) 2 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 0.19 3 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.33 4 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 5 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 6 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 7 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 8 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 9 Christopher Horner (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 10 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 11 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Agritubel 12 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Credit Agricole 14 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 15 Patxi Xabier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 16 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 17 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 18 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 19 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 21 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 22 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 23 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 24 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Fondital 25 José Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 26 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 27 Antonio Colom (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 28 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 29 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 30 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 31 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 0.39 32 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.50 33 Vladimir Guysev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 34 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 35 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 36 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 37 Dario Cioni (Ita) Liquigas 38 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 39 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 40 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 41 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 42 Juan Jose Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 43 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick Step-Innergetic 44 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 45 Aitor Osa (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 46 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 47 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 48 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 49 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Phonak Hearing Systems 50 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Française des Jeux 2.00 51 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 2.55 52 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 53 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Française des Jeux 4.03 54 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 55 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 56 Arkaitz Duran Aroca (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5.02 57 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 58 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 59 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 60 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 5.15 61 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 62 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 63 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 64 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 65 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française des Jeux 66 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 67 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 68 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 69 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 70 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 71 Axel Merckx (Bel) Phonak Hearing Systems 72 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 73 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team 74 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 6.47 75 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 76 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 9.35 77 Jorg Ludewig (Ger) T-Mobile Team 78 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 79 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 80 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 81 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 82 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 83 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 84 Aitor Perez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 85 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 86 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 87 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 88 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step-Innergetic 11.14 89 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 90 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 91 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 92 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 93 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) AG2R Prevoyance 94 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 95 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 96 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 97 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic 98 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 99 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 100 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 101 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 102 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 103 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Team Milram 104 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 105 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 106 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 107 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 108 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 109 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 110 Jose Antonio Redondo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 111 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 112 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 113 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 114 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Agritubel 115 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 116 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) T-Mobile Team 117 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 118 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 119 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 120 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 121 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 122 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 123 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 124 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 125 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 126 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 127 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 128 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 129 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 130 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 131 Eric Berthou (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 132 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 133 Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 134 Javier Meijas (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12.36 135 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 13.03 136 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC DNF Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team DNF Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team DNF Aleixei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears DNF Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone DNF Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital DNF Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Lampre-Fondital DNF Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram DNF Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi Points 1 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 25 pts 2 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 22 3 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 20 4 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 18 5 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 16 6 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 15 7 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 14 8 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 13 9 Christopher Horner (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 12 10 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 11 11 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Agritubel 10 12 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 13 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Credit Agricole 8 14 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 7 15 Patxi Xabier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 6 16 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 17 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 18 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 3 19 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 20 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1 Mountains Col Notre Dame des Abeilles - Cat. 1, km 48.5 1 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 10 pts 2 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 8 3 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 6 4 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 4 5 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 3 6 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 7 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 Côte de Sault - Cat. 3, km 61 1 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 pts 2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 2 3 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1 Col du Corobin - Cat. 1, km 185 1 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 10 pts 2 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 8 3 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 6 4 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 4 5 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 3 6 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 7 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1 Sprints Oraison, km 128.5 1 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 3 pts 2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 2 3 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1 Mezel, km 164 1 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 3 pts 2 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 2 3 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 Young rider 1 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 4.43.53 2 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 0.14 3 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 4 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 5 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 6 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 7 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.31 8 Vladimir Guysev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 9 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 10 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 11 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 12 Juan Jose Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 13 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 14 Arkaitz Duran Aroca (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4.43 15 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 4.56 16 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 9.16 17 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 18 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 19 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 20 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 10.55 21 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) AG2R Prevoyance 22 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 23 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 24 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 26 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 27 Jose Antonio Redondo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 28 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 29 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 30 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 31 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 32 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 33 Javier Meijas (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12.17 Teams 1 Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 14.11.48 2 Lampre-Fondital 0.33 3 Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 5 Davitamon-Lotto 1.50 6 Discovery Channel Team 7 Credit Agricole 8 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 1.56 9 Francaise Des Jeux 2.00 10 Ag2R Prevoyance 3.07 11 Rabobank 4.48 12 Phonak Hearing Systems 6.19 13 Liquigas 6.32 14 Saunier Duval-Prodir 7.36 15 Gerolsteiner 7.49 16 Team CSC 8.04 17 Agritubel 8.45 18 Bouygues Telecom 9.57 19 T-Mobile Team 15.34 20 Quick Step-Innergetic 17.00 21 Team Milram 21.33 General classification after stage 5 1 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 24.11.04 2 Patxi Xabier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 0.09 3 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.13 4 Antonio Colom (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1.23 5 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6 José Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.35 7 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.37 8 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 1.39 9 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.40 10 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 1.41 11 Christopher Horner (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 1.43 12 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.50 13 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 3.02 14 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 3.51 15 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 16 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 4.00 17 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Credit Agricole 4.02 18 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Fondital 4.05 19 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 4.13 20 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 4.22 21 Vladimir Guysev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4.29 22 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 23 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick Step-Innergetic 4.50 24 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 5.18 25 Aitor Osa (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 5.19 26 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 5.20 27 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 5.21 28 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 29 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Agritubel 5.50 30 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 6.21 31 Axel Merckx (Bel) Phonak Hearing Systems 6.29 32 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 7.11 33 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 7.18 34 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7.37 35 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 7.45 36 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 8.46 37 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team 8.49 38 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Phonak Hearing Systems 9.59 39 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 10.01 40 Juan Jose Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10.20 41 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 10.43 42 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 11.12 43 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 12.10 44 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12.26 45 Dario Cioni (Ita) Liquigas 12.45 46 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 12.57 47 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 13.01 48 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 13.15 49 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 13.35 50 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 13.46 51 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 14.16 52 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 14.36 53 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 15.01 54 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 15.05 55 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 56 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 15.20 57 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 16.00 58 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 16.36 59 Aitor Perez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 16.52 60 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Française des Jeux 17.52 61 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 17.54 62 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 17.58 63 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 17.59 64 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 18.10 65 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 18.18 66 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 18.40 67 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Française des Jeux 18.56 68 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 19.19 69 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 19.42 70 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 20.12 71 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 21.07 72 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 21.28 73 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 21.29 74 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 22.01 75 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 22.18 76 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 22.47 77 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 23.10 78 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 23.12 79 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 23.50 80 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 24.28 81 Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 24.35 82 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 24.42 83 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 24.44 84 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 24.51 85 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic 25.15 86 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 25.21 87 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 25.58 88 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 26.48 89 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 26.50 90 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 26.53 91 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française des Jeux 26.58 92 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 27.07 93 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 27.12 94 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 27.17 95 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 27.58 96 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 28.23 97 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 28.24 98 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 28.30 99 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 28.55 100 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 29.42 101 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 30.52 102 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 31.08 103 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 31.23 104 Jorg Ludewig (Ger) T-Mobile Team 31.26 105 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 32.55 106 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 33.06 107 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step-Innergetic 33.13 108 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 33.15 109 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 33.54 110 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 34.04 111 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 34.08 112 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Team Milram 34.14 113 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Agritubel 34.23 114 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 34.24 115 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 34.35 116 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 35.13 117 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 35.33 118 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 35.46 119 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 35.52 120 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 36.17 121 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 122 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 37.01 123 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 37.43 124 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 38.02 125 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 39.26 126 Eric Berthou (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 39.28 127 Jose Antonio Redondo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 40.03 128 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 40.28 129 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 41.01 130 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) AG2R Prevoyance 42.05 131 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 42.15 132 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 42.20 133 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 42.26 134 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) T-Mobile Team 42.52 135 Arkaitz Duran Aroca (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 43.40 136 Javier Meijas (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 43.47 Points classification 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 91 pts 2 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 53 3 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 51 4 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 50 5 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 47 6 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 38 7 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française des Jeux 38 8 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 36 9 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 35 10 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 32 11 Patxi Xabier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 31 12 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 30 13 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 29 14 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 28 15 Roger Hammond (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 26 16 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 25 17 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 23 18 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 23 19 Vladimir Guysev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 23 20 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 23 21 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 23 22 Antonio Colom (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 22 23 Christopher Horner (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 21 24 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 20 25 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 20 26 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 19 27 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 19 28 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Agritubel 17 29 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole 17 30 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 16 31 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 32 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 15 33 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 14 34 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 14 35 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 13 36 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 12 37 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 38 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 11 39 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 11 40 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 11 41 José Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 10 42 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Credit Agricole 9 43 Axel Merckx (Bel) Phonak Hearing Systems 8 44 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 8 45 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 7 46 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 7 47 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 48 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 6 49 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick Step-Innergetic 6 50 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 6 51 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 5 52 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 4 53 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3 54 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Française des Jeux 3 55 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 3 56 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 3 57 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3 58 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R Prevoyance 3 59 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 60 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 2 61 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 2 62 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 2 63 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 2 64 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1 65 Juan Jose Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 66 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 1 67 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 Mountains classification 1 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 42 pts 2 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 35 3 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Française des Jeux 23 4 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 19 5 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 16 6 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 12 7 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 11 8 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 10 9 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 8 10 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8 11 Patxi Xabier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 8 12 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 8 13 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 8 14 Aitor Osa (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 8 15 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 7 16 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 17 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 5 18 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Agritubel 4 19 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 4 20 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 4 21 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 4 22 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 23 Antonio Colom (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 3 24 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 3 25 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 3 26 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 3 27 José Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2 28 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 2 29 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 2 30 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 31 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 32 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1 33 Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1 34 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick Step-Innergetic 1 35 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 1 36 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 1 Young rider classification 1 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 24.13.54 2 Luis Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 0.12 3 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 1.01 4 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 1.32 5 Vladimir Guysev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.39 6 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 2.31 7 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 8 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 4.21 9 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 4.28 10 Juan Jose Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7.30 11 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 7.53 12 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12.11 13 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 12.15 14 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 17.22 15 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 19.28 16 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 19.57 17 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 21.00 18 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 21.54 19 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 22.01 20 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 22.31 21 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 23.58 22 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 24.03 23 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 24.22 24 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 28.18 25 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 33.02 26 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 35.12 27 Jose Antonio Redondo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 37.13 28 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 37.38 29 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) AG2R Prevoyance 39.15 30 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 39.30 31 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 39.36 32 Arkaitz Duran Aroca (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 40.50 33 Javier Meijas (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 40.57 Teams classification 1 Discovery Channel Team 72.40.55 2 Lampre-Fondital 0.37 3 Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 1.54 4 Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.45 5 Credit Agricole 3.13 6 Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 6.38 7 Phonak Hearing Systems 7.13 8 Davitamon-Lotto 8.41 9 Francaise Des Jeux 9.07 10 Rabobank 10.11 11 Ag2R Prevoyance 10.14 12 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 11.25 13 Gerolsteiner 18.16 14 Saunier Duval-Prodir 20.25 15 Quick Step-Innergetic 22.31 16 T-Mobile Team 28.38 17 Agritubel 30.45 18 Team CSC 32.05 19 Bouygues Telecom 32.14 20 Liquigas 45.43 21 Team Milram 1.03.43
