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Le Tour du Grand Montréal - 2.1
Canada, May 29-June 1, 2006
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Stage 2 - May 30: Rigaud circuit, 117.8km
Gollan solos to a win at Rigaud
By Kirsten Robbins in Montreal, Canada
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Nobili rider Olivia Gollan won stage two of the 2006 Tour du Grand Montreal in a solo win over the top riders of the day. T-Mobile's Judith Arndt and Nurnberger's Trixi Worrack sprinted for second and third.
There were multiple attacks by the Nobili team during the first half of the difficult stage. Walter Zin, directeur sportif of Nobili told Cyclingnews, "Our goal in coming to Montreal was really for the World Cup. But, Olivia crashed there, broke her bike and she also has had allergies."
"It is very difficult for us to go for the general classification here because we arrived without the time trial bikes," said Zin. "So for this race we are going to focus on the stage wins. It would be very hard for us to get in the top three of the general classification because of losing the time in the time trial and there are so many good riders here - a top ten is good."
The Rigaud route was 118km long, starting with four 23km circuits that included a three-kilometer climb and an intermediate sprint each lap. Two 10km circuits followed that included a steep two-kilometer Queen of the Mountain (QOM) each lap.
There were multiple accidents in today's stage including spills by Webcor-Platinum's Erinne Willock and Victory Brewing's Rachel Heal. Both riders were able to get back on their bikes after their separate accidents and finish with the front group.
Webcor-Platinum's Christine Thornburn retains the lead just eight seconds a head of Nurnberger's Trixi Worrack. Worrack accumulated eleven seconds today combining the intermediate sprint bonuses and her third place time bonus. She has also captured the sprinter's jersey to be worn in tomorrow evening's criterium.
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No breaks were successful in staying away until the beginning of the small circuits. Webcor-Platinum rider Erinne Willock launched her attack and was followed by several other riders. Willock drove it over the top winning the first QOM and creating a split of fifteen riders off the front.
"I attacked and the field was on me so I kept going really hard and then I caused the split and I was alone," said Willock. "I wanted someone to come with me because it is so hard to stay away. It gave Christine a chance to sit in and other team to work."
Willock remained off the front until the beginning of the final climb. "Ann Samplonious [Biovail] bridged up to her but we all caught both of them at the start of the climb and Beutler won that QOM," said Thorburn.
Elk Haus rider Annette Beutler accumulated enough QOM points to capture the lead the climbers competition.
Over the top of the final climb the race was led by a group of eleven riders including two from T-Mobile. In the last kilometer the group swelled to fifteen that contained both Kristin Armstrong and Kori Seehafer from TEAm Lipton.
"They took turns attacking and I had to cover both of them," said Thorburn. "There were so many attacks but I decided I only had to really cover Kori and Kristin."
Gollan attacked the group with two kilometers to go and got a gap. "No one really had to chase her because she is not too high in the general classification so she won by two seconds," said Thorburn. "Then Kori attacked with eight hundred meters to go and I caught her with three hundred meters to go."
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The sprint for second place began with two hundred meters to go where Arndt nipped Worrack at the line.
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- Nobili Rubinetteie Menikina Cogeas riders Elodie Touffet and Marta Vilajosana Andreu wait for the start
- Judith Arndt (T-Mobile) grabbed 2nd spot on the day
- The peloton early on
- Nicky Wangsgard (Colorado Premier)
- Oenone Wood (Nurnberger) in the pack early in the race
- Milena Pirola sits in the pack
- Ina Teutenberg (T_mobile) up close
- Grace Fleury (TEAm Lipton) at speed down the hill
- Hand Off - Megan Elliott gets a bottle on the go
- Lisa Sweeney (Colorado Premier Training) up close
- TEAm Lipton directeur sportif Thomas Liese is all smiles
- Ya im going to win today - Nobili rider Olivia Gollan
- Webcor’s Katheryn Curi
- Team Victory Brewing brings back Rachel Heal after her crash
- Marta Vilajosana Andreu gets a bottle from the Nobili team car
- TEAm Lipton’s Kori Seehafer
- Elodie Touffet tries to get away
- Kimberly Baldwin (T-Mobile) up the hill the first time
- Ina Teutenberg (T-Mobile) wishing for tomorrow's crit in Little Italy
- Elk Haus No rider Annette Beutler attacks the hill
- Olivia Gollan goes up the hill the last time and then drives it home
- Nurnberger rider Katherine Bates goes up the hill
- Olivia Gollan takes stage 2 of the Tour of Montreal in Rigaud, Canada
- A happy Olivia Gollan with Walter Ricci, her directeur sportif
Results
1 Olivia Gollan (Aus) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 3.12.01 (36.8km/h) 2 Judith Arndt (Ger) T-Mobile 0.02 3 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 4 Annette Beutler (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 5 Edwige Pitel (Fra) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 6 Anne Samplonius (Can) Biovail 7 Alexandra Le Henaff (Fra) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 8 Kori Seehafer (USA) Lipton 9 Christine Thorburn (USA) Webcor-Platinum 10 Oenone Wood (Aus) Nurnberger Versicherung 11 Alex Wrubleski (Can) Équipe du Canada 12 Rachel Heal (GBr) Victory Brewing 13 Kimberly Bruckner Baldwin (USA) T-Mobile 14 Kristin Armstrong (USA) Lipton 15 Erinne Willock (Can) Webcor-Platinum 16 Miho Oki (Jpn) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 2.59 17 Katie Mactier (Aus) Argon 18 -Champion system 18 Elodie Touffet (Fra) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 19 Gussepina Grassi (Mex) Équipe Nationale - Mexique 20 Amy Moore (Can) T-Mobile 21 Patricia Schwager (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 22 Toni Bradshaw (NZl) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 23 Felicia Gomez (Can) Webcor-Platinum 24 Lang Meng (Chn) Giant pro cycling 25 Xiangyin Ruan (Chn) Giant pro cycling 26 Min Gao (Chn) Giant pro cycling 27 Betina Hold (Can) Webcor-Platinum 28 Jennifer Stephenson (Can) Biovail 29 Amanda Shaw (Can) Biovail 30 Liza Rachetto (USA) Lipton 31 Lauren Franges (USA) Victory Brewing 32 Kirsten Robbins (Can) Victory Brewing 33 Meredith Miller (USA) Lipton 34 Marisa Asplund (USA) Colorado Premier Training 35 Elisabeth Chevanne Brunel (Fra) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 36 Sigrid Corneo (Ita) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 37 Leigh Hobson (Can) Victory Brewing 38 Kimberly Anderson (USA) T-Mobile 39 Johanna Buick (NZl) Équipe nationale Nouvelle-Zélande 40 Marta Vilajosana Andreu (Spa) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 41 Tina Liebig (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 42 Katherine Bates (Aus) Nurnberger Versicherung 43 Helen Kelly (Aus) Elk Haus No (EHN) 4.48 44 Jessica Phillips (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system 45 Marina Duvnjak (NZl) Équipe nationale Nouvelle-Zélande 5.10 46 Heather Lamson (Can) Équipe du Canada 8.21 47 Joanie Caron (Can) Équipe du Québec 10.22 48 Karol-Ann Canuel (Can) Équipe du Québec 49 Yunmei Wu (Chn) Giant pro cycling 50 Lisa Sweeney (Can) Colorado Premier Training 51 Leah Guloien (Can) BC Coastal 52 Audrey Lemieux (Can) Équipe du Québec 53 Alison Testroete (Can) Équipe du Canada 54 Julie Bellerose (Can) Ann Arbor Velo club 55 Katheryn Curi (USA) Webcor-Platinum 10.25 56 Katharine Carroll (USA) Victory Brewing 57 Karin Ruso (Aut) Elk Haus No (EHN) 58 Claudia Hecht (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 59 Christina Ruiter (USA) Victory Brewing 60 Gina Grain (Can) Giant pro cycling 61 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) Colorado Premier Training 62 Hiroko Shimada (Jpn) Argon 18 -Champion system 63 Grace Fleury (USA) Lipton 64 Nicky Wangsgard (USA) Colorado Premier Training 65 Christen King (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system 66 Alison Shanks (NZl) Équipe nationale Nouvelle-Zélande 67 Anke Wichmann (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 68 Lnna Teutenberg (Ger) T-Mobile 69 Yanxia Jiang (Chn) Giant pro cycling 13.55 70 Christina Becker (Ger) T-Mobile 15.16 71 Megan Elliott (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system 72 Kami Tremblay (USA) Colorado Premier Training 20.23 73 Michelle Beltran (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system 74 Maribel Diaz (Mex) Équipe Nationale - Mexique 75 Wendy Caldwell (USA) Ann Arbor Velo club 20.41 76 Dawn Lovejoy (USA) Ann Arbor Velo club 21.06 77 Laura Johnson (USA) Ann Arbor Velo club 21.55 78 Stephanie Bourbeau (Can) Biovail 22.46 79 Moriah Macgregor (Can) Équipe du Canada 80 Élisa Gagnon (Can) Équipe du Québec 81 Anna Tratnyek (Can) Équipe du Canada 23.30 82 Berenice Castro (Mex) Équipe Nationale - Mexique 24.13 83 Dale Tye (NZl) Équipe nationale Nouvelle-Zélande 84 Amy Mosen (NZl) Équipe nationale Nouvelle-Zélande 85 Milena Pirola (Ita) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 86 Tamara Boyd (NZl) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 87 Marie-Caroline Côté (Can) Équipe mixte Cascades 28.20 88 Marie-Pier Bédard (Can) Équipe du Québec 28.52 89 Barbara Zimich (Can) BC Coastal 90 Emilie Roy (Can) Équipe du Québec 30.59 91 Joëlle Numainville (Can) Biovail 92 Amanda Cox (Can) Équipe mixte Cascades 41.38 93 Christina Briante (Can) BC Coastal 45.27 94 Anna Garnette (Can) Biovail DNF Krystal Jeffs (Can) Équipe du Canada DNF Annet Rios (Mex) Équipe Nationale - Mexique DNF Alena Radomsky (Can) BC Coastal DNF Jodi Bilek-Deville (Can) Équipe mixte Cascades DNF Catherine Bovet (Can) Équipe mixte Cascades Points 1 Olivia Gollan (Aus) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 15 pts 2 Judith Arndt (Ger) T-Mobile 13 3 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 11 4 Annette Beutler (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 9 5 Edwige Pitel (Fra) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 7 6 Anne Samplonius (Can) Biovail 5 7 Alexandra Le Henaff (Fra) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 4 8 Kori Seehafer (USA) Lipton 3 9 Christine Thorburn (USA) Webcor-Platinum 2 10 Oenone Wood (Aus) Nurnberger Versicherung 1 Teams 1 Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 9.39.06 2 T-Mobile (TMP) 3 Webcor-Platinum 4 Lipton 5 Nurnberger Versicherung (NUR) 6 Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas (NMC) 2.55 7 Biovail 2.57 8 Victory Brewing 9 Elk Haus No (EHN) 4.46 10 Giant pro cycling (GPC) 5.54 11 Argon 18 -Champion system 15.09 12 Équipe nationale Nouvelle-Zélande 15.31 13 Équipe du Canada 15.42 14 Colorado Premier Training 20.43 15 Équipe du Québec 28.03 16 Équipe Nationale - Mexique 44.32 17 Ann Arbor Velo club 49.06 18 BC Coastal 1.21.38 General classification after stage 2 1 Christine Thorburn (USA) Webcor-Platinum 3.26.51 2 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 0.08 3 Kori Seehafer (USA) Lipton 0.10 4 Kristin Armstrong (USA) Lipton 0.12 5 Judith Arndt (Ger) T-Mobile 0.21 6 Rachel Heal (GBr) Victory Brewing 0.25 7 Alex Wrubleski (Can) Équipe du Canada 0.29 8 Edwige Pitel (Fra) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 9 Anne Samplonius (Can) Biovail 0.32 10 Kimberly Bruckner Baldwin (USA) T-Mobile 0.33 11 Oenone Wood (Aus) Nurnberger Versicherung 0.35 12 Olivia Gollan (Aus) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 0.42 13 Erinne Willock (Can) Webcor-Platinum 1.00 14 Annette Beutler (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 1.06 15 Alexandra Le Henaff (Fra) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 1.59 16 Felicia Gomez (Can) Webcor-Platinum 3.32 17 Leigh Hobson (Can) Victory Brewing 3.35 18 Lauren Franges (USA) Victory Brewing 3.39 19 Meredith Miller (USA) Lipton 3.40 20 Kimberly Anderson (USA) T-Mobile 3.51 21 Marisa Asplund (USA) Colorado Premier Training 3.53 22 Amy Moore (Can) T-Mobile 3.56 23 Katie Mactier (Aus) Argon 18 -Champion system 3.59 24 Liza Rachetto (USA) Lipton 4.02 25 Jennifer Stephenson (Can) Biovail 4.07 26 Toni Bradshaw (NZl) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 4.08 27 Elodie Touffet (Fra) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 4.18 28 Katherine Bates (Aus) Nurnberger Versicherung 4.23 29 Gussepina Grassi (Mex) Équipe Nationale - Mexique 4.29 30 Sigrid Corneo (Ita) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 31 Marta Vilajosana Andreu (Spa) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 32 Tina Liebig (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 4.31 33 Amanda Shaw (Can) Biovail 4.33 34 Kirsten Robbins (Can) Victory Brewing 4.36 35 Min Gao (Chn) Giant pro cycling 4.42 36 Miho Oki (Jpn) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 4.46 37 Patricia Schwager (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 4.51 38 Xiangyin Ruan (Chn) Giant pro cycling 4.52 39 Elisabeth Chevanne Brunel (Fra) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 40 Lang Meng (Chn) Giant pro cycling 5.11 41 Johanna Buick (NZl) Équipe nationale Nouvelle-Zélande 5.15 42 Betina Hold (Can) Webcor-Platinum 5.30 43 Jessica Phillips (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system 44 Marina Duvnjak (NZl) Équipe nationale Nouvelle-Zélande 6.18 45 Helen Kelly (Aus) Elk Haus No (EHN) 6.19 46 Heather Lamson (Can) Équipe du Canada 9.30 47 Grace Fleury (USA) Lipton 10.50 48 Alison Shanks (NZl) Équipe nationale Nouvelle-Zélande 11.02 49 Christina Ruiter (USA) Victory Brewing 11.03 50 Katheryn Curi (USA) Webcor-Platinum 11.10 51 Katharine Carroll (USA) Victory Brewing 11.12 52 Nicky Wangsgard (USA) Colorado Premier Training 11.30 53 Joanie Caron (Can) Équipe du Québec 54 Lisa Sweeney (Can) Colorado Premier Training 11.32 55 Claudia Hecht (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 11.39 56 Alison Testroete (Can) Équipe du Canada 11.42 57 Audrey Lemieux (Can) Équipe du Québec 11.46 58 Karol-Ann Canuel (Can) Équipe du Québec 11.49 59 Christen King (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system 11.50 60 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) Colorado Premier Training 61 Hiroko Shimada (Jpn) Argon 18 -Champion system 11.56 62 Anke Wichmann (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 12.03 63 Gina Grain (Can) Giant pro cycling 12.07 64 Julie Bellerose (Can) Ann Arbor Velo club 12.18 65 Leah Guloien (Can) BC Coastal 12.24 66 Yunmei Wu (Chn) Giant pro cycling 12.26 67 Lnna Teutenberg (Ger) T-Mobile 12.47 68 Karin Ruso (Aut) Elk Haus No (EHN) 13.08 69 Yanxia Jiang (Chn) Giant pro cycling 16.16 70 Christina Becker (Ger) T-Mobile 16.38 71 Megan Elliott (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system 17.56 72 Kami Tremblay (USA) Colorado Premier Training 21.57 73 Maribel Diaz (Mex) Équipe Nationale - Mexique 22.15 74 Michelle Beltran (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system 22.27 75 Moriah Macgregor (Can) Équipe du Canada 24.08 76 Dawn Lovejoy (USA) Ann Arbor Velo club 77 Anna Tratnyek (Can) Équipe du Canada 24.23 78 Stephanie Bourbeau (Can) Biovail 24.29 79 Élisa Gagnon (Can) Équipe du Québec 24.59 80 Laura Johnson (USA) Ann Arbor Velo club 25.06 81 Tamara Boyd (NZl) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 25.33 82 Dale Tye (NZl) Équipe nationale Nouvelle-Zélande 25.53 83 Milena Pirola (Ita) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 25.58 84 Amy Mosen (NZl) Équipe nationale Nouvelle-Zélande 26.14 85 Berenice Castro (Mex) Équipe Nationale - Mexique 27.11 86 Marie-Caroline Côté (Can) Équipe mixte Cascades 30.40 87 Barbara Zimich (Can) BC Coastal 30.45 88 Marie-Pier Bédard (Can) Équipe du Québec 30.48 89 Wendy Caldwell (USA) Ann Arbor Velo club 30.57 90 Emilie Roy (Can) Équipe du Québec 32.28 91 Joëlle Numainville (Can) Biovail 32.50 92 Amanda Cox (Can) Équipe mixte Cascades 45.02 93 Christina Briante (Can) BC Coastal 47.58 94 Anna Garnette (Can) Biovail 48.26 Points classification 1 Olivia Gollan (Aus) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 15 pts 2 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 14 3 Judith Arndt (Ger) T-Mobile 13 4 Christine Thorburn (USA) Webcor-Platinum 12 5 Kori Seehafer (USA) Lipton 10 6 Annette Beutler (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 9 7 Edwige Pitel (Fra) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 7 8 Kristin Armstrong (USA) Lipton 5 9 Anne Samplonius (Can) Biovail 5 10 Alexandra Le Henaff (Fra) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 4 11 Rachel Heal (GBr) Victory Brewing 1 12 Oenone Wood (Aus) Nurnberger Versicherung 1 Sprint classification 1 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 17 pts 2 Olivia Gollan (Aus) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 10 3 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) Colorado Premier Training 8 4 Judith Arndt (Ger) T-Mobile 7 5 Elodie Touffet (Fra) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 5 6 Annette Beutler (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 3 7 Christine Thorburn (USA) Webcor-Platinum 2 8 Edwige Pitel (Fra) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 1 Mountains classification 1 Annette Beutler (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 17 pts 2 Erinne Willock (Can) Webcor-Platinum 10 3 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 8 4 Christine Thorburn (USA) Webcor-Platinum 8 5 Edwige Pitel (Fra) Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 7 6 Judith Arndt (Ger) T-Mobile 2 Team classification 1 Lipton 10.24.19 2 Webcor-Platinum 0.34 3 T-Mobile (TMP) 1.05 4 Nurnberger Versicherung (NUR) 1.21 5 Pruneaux d'agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 2.13 6 Victory Brewing 3.51 7 Biovail 5.26 8 Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas (NMC) 5.56 9 Elk Haus No (EHN) 8.30 10 Giant pro cycling (GPC) 10.31 11 Équipe du Canada 17.28 12 Argon 18 -Champion system 17.33 13 Équipe nationale Nouvelle-Zélande 18.13 14 Colorado Premier Training 23.09 15 Équipe du Québec 31.19 16 Équipe Nationale - Mexique 50.09 17 Ann Arbor Velo club 56.32 18 BC Coastal 1.26.52
