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94th Tour de France - ProT
France, July 7-29, 2007
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Stage 20 - Sunday, July 29: Marcoussis - Paris Champs-Élysées, 146km
Alberto Contador crowned Tour de France champion
Daniele Bennati kicks Champs-Élysées for second Tour win
By Gregor Brown in Paris, with additional reporting from Shane Stokes and Laura Weislo
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Daniele Bennati made the most of the Tour de France by adding a sprinters' dream win on the Champs-Élysées to his first stage win in Castelsarrasin on the final stage of the 2007 Tour de France. 'Benna' took the lead in the sprint early but was able to hold off a strong charge from Thor Hushovd (Crédit Agricole) and Erik Zabel (Milram).
The 26 year-old Italian followed the Quick.Step-Innergetic lead-out train down the Rue de Rivoli to the Avenue des Champs Élysées, and was left in the best position possible behind Tom Boonen's lead-out man Sébastien Rosseler. The Belgian pulled off with 300 metres to go, but Bennati was able to hold his acceleration to distance Hushovd and Zabel. Barloworld's Robert Hunter made an impressive acceleration to take fourth place, salvaging his second in the points classification with the 24 points gained.
"I still don't believe that I have won this great sprint," said Bennati after crossing the line. "As far as I am concerned it is a dream. As soon as I raised my arms I saw the Arc de Triomphe ahead of me, I had goose bumps right away. There were tears... It was the most beautiful win for me.
"It was long and hard for me to conquer. The 200 metres were so long over the cobbles but I had a huge sprint."
Young and yellow
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Alberto 'Kid' Contador of Discovery Channel enjoyed the cloudy and damp Parisian day riding in the maillot jaune which he easily kept after ending yesterday's time trial with 23 seconds on Cadel Evans (Predictor-Lotto) and 31 seconds on team-mate Levi Leipheimer. The 24 year-old Spaniard rode into Paris without a final challenge from Cadel Evans' Predictor-Lotto team to his small GC advantage; it was a gap that proved enough for him to be crowned king of the world's largest bike race.
"I want to celebrate it and to have parties, then go on holidays, enjoying this first win," commented Contador on the overall win. He came back from a near-death brain clot to capture the greatest cycle race. "I could not image when I was there [in the hospital] that today I would be here with all these people watching me and with these results."
Not only did Contador take home the prize of best overall rider after 3,569.9 kilometres of racing but also he showed he will be around for a few years by winning the maillot blanc of the best young rider. The next best rider was Soler at 16 minutes back. Bruyneel suggested before the Tour started that he should go for the young rider classification but he proved that he was out for more with his response.
"A week before the Tour I scanned the rivals for the Tour's white jersey and sent him an e-mail with names like Gerdemann and Dekker," explained Discovery Team Manager Bruyneel. "He answered, 'I hope my rivals will be Valverde and Evans.'"
Boonen's green dream
Tom Boonen's (Quickstep-Innergetic) dream of winning the maillot vert of best sprinter was finally achieved when he crossed the line fifth on the Champs-Élysées finish. The 26 year-old Belgian from Mol has worn the green jersey before but never taken it home in Paris. In fact, he only made it to Paris at all once before, in 2004. That year he won two stages including the final romp on the Champs-Élysées, but his inability to haul his huge body over the mountains spelled the end of his hopes for green. He won another two stages in 2005 but pulled out midway through with a knee injury. 2006 was winless for Boonen, and while he had consolation in the three days he spent in the maillot jaune, he still couldn't make it to Paris. Today was different.
Boonen took the maillot vert of best overall sprinter of the 2007 Tour de France on stage two, and only let it go to allow Milram's seasoned veteran Erik Zabel the opportunity to wear it for old times' sake. The green jersey will now go into his treasure chest along side the 2005 World Champion's jersey and add to his rock star status in Belgium as winner of Ronde van Vlaanderen in 2005 and 2006.
"I did not go for the victory because the last two weeks I have been going for the stages. Not today because I did not want to have a crash and lose my green on the stones," stated Boonen in the green sprinter's jersey. "I stayed in the neighbourhood of Zabel and Hunter. If you stay near them, you know that you cannot win the stage but it is more important to have the green.
"My legs were good but here I was tired after the fight over two weeks."
Boonen's major competitor for the green jersey should have been three time points competition winner Robbie McEwen (Predictor-Lotto), but the Australian, winner of stage one to Canterbury, left the race after missing the time cut on stage eight. Boonen's closest competition instead came in the surprise form of Barloworld's Robert Hunter, the winner of stage 11. 2005's green jersey Hushovd finished the race, but only managed 186 (to Boonen's 256) points and second in the final sprint that he won in 2006.
Evans raises Australian status
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Evans would have had to fight for a time gap on Contador to make his yellow quest a possibility, however, the last day is into Paris is typically ruled by the sprinters' teams and Contador's Discovery soldiers would have quashed any attempt for freedom had one been tried.
It was the highest ever placing by an Australian in Paris at the end of the three week test. Prior to Evans' fifth in 2006, there was the fifth of Phil Anderson in 1982 and 1985.
"It was very special to stand on the podium," added Evans to Cyclingnews' John Trevorrow. "I can't really come to terms with it yet; it is so huge. I felt numb up there on the podium. It will take about a week for this to settle down and for me to appreciate what happened."
Disco dominates
Levi Leipheimer rode the best Tour of his life and added to Discovery Channel's haul at the Tour. The American came close to stealing the Tour overall when he blasted to yesterday's time trial win and closed to within eight seconds of Evans and 31 from the overall win. The ride garnered him his first-ever stage win at the Tour while adding to Discovery's earlier stage victory with Contador on the Plateau de Beille and its overall win in the team's classification.
Doping clouds Grand Boucle
Despite a sunny, warm welcome to the Tour in London on July 6th, a black storm cloud of doping scandal was brewing even before the race began, and it hit the Tour with its first clap of thunder with news of a positive doping control from T-Mobile's Patrik Sinkewitz on July 18th. Sinkewitz had already crashed out of the Tour, and the positive sample came from before the Tour started, but the Tour organisers criticised the UCI for making the results known only after the Tour had started.
That first bit of news was only a warning shot, and the real barrage hit the Tour on July 24th when it was announced that Astana's battered Kazakh, Alexandre Vinokourov, who had thrilled fans with double stage victories after battling back from serious crash injuries, had tested positive for homologous blood transfusions. Astana was then invited to exit from the Tour, and they did, taking GC hopeful Andreas Klöden with them.
The gale-force winds of doping controversy continued to buffet the Tour the very next day when another positive control was announced. Cofidis' Cristian Moreni embarrassed his vocally antidoping team by testing positive for testosterone, and the team packed up and left in disgrace. But those rumblings were nothing compared with what came out the next morning. The race's own maillot jaune, Michael Rasmussen, was withdrawn from the race by his own Rabobank team over his failure to inform antidoping authorities of his correct whereabouts prior to the Tour.
However, nothing can stop the power and popularity of the Tour, and the riders, fans and race organisers pushed through the difficulties despite an undercurrent of rumblings about new yellow jersey Alberto Contador and mountains classification winner Mauricio Soler (Barloworld), rumours which the Tour director, Christian Prudhomme, himself had to quash.
Youth dominates the Tour
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Alberto Contador took home his first Tour win at just 24 years of age, but he wasn't the only young rider to stand on a podium in Paris. Both Contador and king of the mountains Mauricio Soler already had their jerseys, so the young Basque rider Amets Txurruka (Euskaltel-Euskadi), who was third behind the Contador and Soler in the best young rider classification, wore the maillot blanc on the jersey podium. Txurruka was also awarded the overall Prix de la Combativite for most aggressive rider. Together, the three made green jersey winner Tom Boonen seem old at the ripe age of 26.
How it unfolded
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The Tour's final day began at a very relaxed pace, with the141 remaining riders enjoying the traditional procession until they hit the outskirts of Paris. The early part of the stage saw the riders cross the final two climbs of the race, the Côte de Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuse and the Côte de Châteaufort. Both were category four and came 51 and 54.5 kilometres after the start.
Juan Mauricio Soler (Barloworld) was already certain of victory in the mountains classification and so that fact combined with the light-hearted atmosphere meant that it was perhaps unsurprising that the riders didn't take those hills very seriously. Known non-climber Gert Steegmans (Quickstep-Innergetic) was first over the top of both, with Thomas Lövkvist (Française Des Jeux) and Frederik Willems (Liquigas) second and third on the first and Michael Albasini (Liquigas) and Yaroslav Popovych (Discovery) the runners-up on the second.
The peloton ambled onwards and approached the first of two intermediate sprints, situated at Chatenay-Malabry, the location of the French antidoping lab. Maillot jaune Alberto Contador (Discovery Channel) had started the day just 23 seconds clear of Levi Leipheimer (Predictor Lotto) who was in turn just eight seconds ahead of Contador's team-mate Levi Leipheimer. Mathematically it was still possible for Evans to win and also for Leipheimer to overtake him for second, and so this could have made the outcome of the intermediate sprints [which offered bonuses of six, four and two seconds] an interesting one. So too the fact that the green jersey competition was yet to be decided.
However the contenders in each of those two classifications decided to hold back on the first intermediate sprint, which came some 74 kilometres after the start. Instead, Boonen's team-mates Carlos Barredo and Steven de Jongh moseyed clear of the bunch to soak up the points and while they were passed by a stealth-like Lilian Jegou (Française des Jeux) just before the line, they were happy that the first possible threat to Boonen's points classification lead was averted.
The riders continued on towards Paris, passing the offices of the Tour organisers, the ASO, in Issy les Moulineaux. With approximately 60 kilometres to go the mood and pace changed, with the Discovery Channel riders moving to the front and ramping up the speed. The team led the peloton up the Seine and past the Eiffel tower, then headed over the Grenelle Bridge, along the Rue de Rivoli, onto the Place de la Concorde and then over the finish line for the first of eight complete laps.
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George Hincapie and the rest of the team led the peloton across the line and, with 52 kilometres to go, the racing really started in earnest. The bunch headed up the road towards the Arc de Triomphe, then rounded the 180 degree bend and accelerated down the other side of the Champs Elysées. With 48 kilometres to go Agritubel rider Freddy Bichot attacked and had a 15 second lead when he finished that first lap. Several riders tried to get clear in the hope of joining up with him but the peloton covered all the moves, then gobbled the lone Frenchman on the fast run down towards the Place de la Concorde. Vicente Garcia Acosta (Caisse d'Epargne) and Marcus Burghardt (T-Mobile) then tried their luck but were unable to break the elastic.
With 40 kilometres to go Murilo Fisher (Liquigas) and Christian Knees (Milram) gave it a go and managed to slip away. Australian Ag2r Prévoyance rider Simon Gerrans set off in pursuit and others then joined up to make it a ten man break. The remainder of the move was made up of Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Nicolas Portal (both Caisse d'Epargne), Ronny Scholz (Gerolsteiner), Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital), Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank), Mickael Delage (Francaise Des Jeux) and Anthony Charteau (Credit Agricole).
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On the third lap of the finishing circuit Gerrans took the final intermediate sprint ahead of Ballan and Portal. The ten riders continued to work well together and with 34 kilometres to go they had an advantage of 27" over the peloton. The bunch was led by the Barloworld riders who were keen to set up Robert Hunter for both a stage win and a possible shot at the green jersey. However, despite their driving, the break continued to pull ahead. With 25 kilometres remaining the gap was 37 seconds and then three kilometres later this reached its maximum of 45 seconds. It stayed around this mark for several clicks but then the pendulum swung the other way as the Crédit Agricole team of last year's Paris stage winner Thor Hushovd joined the chase.
Gerrans and Ballan were amongst the most active but as the pursuit accelerated behind, the break's efforts started to become less co-ordinated. The gap dropped to 35 seconds with 18 kilometres remaining; a few splatters of rain fell but fortunately the threat of showers held off. At the ten kilometre go to point the ten riders were just twenty seconds ahead and this gap then fell more rapidly as the break started to lose hope.
Flecha had been sitting on, feigning tiredness in a bid to get out of doing his share of the work, but his trickery was exposed when he and Gutierrez attacked with eight kilometres to go. However, despite some strong driving from the Rabobank rider the duo were caught with six kilometres remaining. From that point on the sprinters teams turned on the gas to prevent any further riders trying to go clear. Lampre were very prominent, then with a kilometre to the finish Crédit Agricole hit the front to set Hushovd up for what they hoped would be his second win here in a row. Like the Norwegian, maillot vert rivals Boonen, Hunter and Zabel manoeuvred themselves into position but it was Daniele Benatti who was the quickest, exploding off the front of the peloton and hitting the line just ahead of Hushovd.
Zabel had been trying to get the best of Boonen throughout the Tour but the Belgian was more consistent in the sprints, thus explaining their third and first place overall in the points classification. However, the German was quicker today, finishing ahead of Hunter and Boonen and placing third, but that wasn't enough to see him take the maillot vert. Boonen netted points for fifth and finishing 22 ahead of the South African and 24 up on Zabel.
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Sébastien Chavanel (Française des Jeux) was best placed Frenchman in sixth, with Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) and David Millar (Saunier Duval – Prodir) showing good sprinting speed in placing seventh and eighth. However many eyes were focussed further back in the field, where Alberto Contador was rolling across the line with his arms in the air. He finished right behind closest rival Cadel Evans (Predictor Lotto) and just ahead of team-mate Levi Leipheimer, winning the Tour de France at just 24 years of age. Evans took the best ever Australian result in placing second, and Leipheimer landed his best Tour result with third.
Carlos Sastre (CSC), Haimar Zubeldia (Euskaltel Euskadi) and Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) were fourth, fifth and sixth. Contador's dominant ride also saw him land the white jersey while his Discovery Channel squad beat Caisse d'Epargne in the team classification. The King of the Mountains award went to Juan Mauricio Soler, who continued an old Colombian tradition of coming to France and shining on the climbs. As for the most aggressive rider award, that went to the promising Euskaltel – Euskadi youngster Amets Txurruka.
Photography
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- Alberto Contador (Discovery Channel) wins the 2007 Tour de France.
- Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Fondital) wins the sprint on the Champs Elysées.
- The Italian held off Hushovd and Zabel.
- Mauricio Soler (Barloworld) dons polka dots as final mountains classification winner for 2007
- Daniele Bennati on the final stage podium
- Cadel Evans waves while the skies weep overhead
- Cadel Evans takes his lap with the Australian flag
- New Zealander Julian Dean the new Mayor of Credit Agricole, with team-mates Charteau and Fofonov.
- Lance Armstrong watches on during the final stage as his Discovery Channel team completes a successful Tour de France.
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- The tired peloton finally made it to Paris after a long, emotionally taxing Tour
- Gloomy skies loomed over the peloton but they all arrived safe to the line.
- Contador on his new bike yellow clad and focused
- Contador is attentive knowing the race isn't over until it's over.
- The peloton heads up the Champs Elysées again.
- Discovery protected the yellow very well throughout the Tour and in the final day.
- The break stayed away for a few laps.
- Soler is more comfortable in the mountains but staying close to Boonen in green wasn't a bad choice.
- Barloworld had a great Tour but couldn't get the ultimate sprinter's dream through Robby Hunter.
- The peloton near Place de la Concorde during the spectator-friendly spectacle.
- The break still ahead but the peloton is closing in.
- Discovery Channel protects their man on the finishing circuits
- Contador on a special yellow Trek
- Contador in the best seat in the house behind big George Hincapie
- Barloworld tried to set up Hunter but their sprinter came in 4th.
- Alberto Contador concentrates on getting through the final stage safely
- Daniele Bennati capitalised on Quick.Step's lead-out train to win the final stage.
- Tom Boonen came in behind Bennati happy to take home green for once
- Bennati gets the final stage
- Thumbs up, Contador rode the last stage uncontested into Paris
- Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Fondital) got his dream win in Paris
- Contador's yellow jersey made possible by Rabobank's decision to pull Rasmussen from the Tour
- By just 23 seconds, Alberto Contador wins the Tour
- Alberto Contador isn't much bigger than the young podium assistant below him
- Contador has a few stuffed lions to take home after the Tour
- Alberto Contador (Discovery Channel) holds the cup high
- The Tour win was no pie in the sky for Alberto Contador
- Contador receives the trophy for the Tour winner
- Contador embraces Leipheimer the team-mates were 1-3 on the final classification
- Cadel Evans, Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer on the final GC podium
- Discovery Channel was best team and received what looks like a copy of Windows Vista for their efforts?
- The jersey podium Mauricio Soler (KOM), Tom Boonen (Points), Alberto Contador (GC) and Amets Txurruka (Young rider)
- The final podium in Paris Evans, Contador and Leipheimer, from left to right.
- Boonen and Contador congratulate each other.
- The polka-dot arm grabs the yellow as the celebrations make the round.
- The 2007 Tour and its jersey winners.
- Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Fondital) gets the congrats from team-mates after winning the final stage.
- The podium is very much yellow o all accounts.
- Contador is led home by the Discovery Channel team.
- Peloton on the cobbles
- L'Arc de Triomphe is the familiar sight on the final day.
- The peloton on the back side coming down the Champs Elysées.
- Contador hasn't won the stage but the accounting after three weeks, which is why he raises his arms across the line.
- Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Fondital) wins the final stage into Paris.
- Tom Boonen in green and dream come true.
- Mauricio Soler (Barloworld) doesn't quite fit into the polka dot anymore after three weeks of calorie-burning labour, but is happy nonetheless.
- Alberto Contador (Discovery Channel) also wins the young rider classification.
- The top three with flowers on the podium.
- Discovery won big and also took the teams classification.
- The jersey winners Soler, Boonen, Contador and the most aggressive rider, Amets Txurruka of Euskaltel.
- The polka dot prize.
- Alberto 'the Kid' Contador won the young rider's award.
- But Contador really wanted yellow and the 'real' award.
- Cadel Evans can be very proud of what he has accomplished and will try again next year.
- Evans is the first Aussie on the podium.
- Contador listens to the Spanish national anthem
- The podium smile
- Shake-hand between Evans and Leipheimer
- Contador wins the overall.
- The men in the suits didn't catch on to the fact that the colour of choice is yellow.
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- Tom Boonen concentrates on the cobbles in Paris.
- Alberto Contador's only goal was to not crash.
- Cadel Evans is the first Podium Aussie in the history of the Tour de France.
- Discovery Channel in the lap of honour
- Boonen and Contador share the podium. You can tell they are about the same height.
- Podium wavers Evans, Contador, Leipheimer (l-r)
- Tom Boonen gets green flowers to go with his jersey.
- Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Fondital) realizes the sprinter's dream come true.
- Bennati beats Hushovd (l, green/white) and Zabel (far left).
- Contador with family.
- The most beautiful cycling avenue in the world.
- Aussie Simon Gerrans (Ag2r) was in a break for a while up and down the Champs.
- The most talked about topic in this year's Tour.
- Lots of dots here as Soler gets celebrated.
- The peloton rides in Paris at high speeds.
- Team-mates on the podium Leipheimer and Contador do a group hug.
- Bruyneel guided Contador do his first TdF win, but it's Bruyneel's eighth.
- The remnants of the Quick.Step Innergetic team after the race.
- Bennati gets the congrats from a team-mate.
- Julian Dean (Crédit Agricole) did not get arrested for speeding, he just poses with a 'flic'.
- Gerolsteiner riders don't always drink water.
- Oscar Pereiro takes over from Robbie McEwen for the traditional wheelie as Garcia Acosta looks on in amusement.
- Axel Merckx (T-Mobile) in a 'break' during the lap of honour in his last Tour.
- Contador with lion and yellow flowers on the podium.
- Contador with white flowers on the podium.
- Cadel Evans (Predictor-Lotto) smiles as he carries the Australian flag around the Champs Elysées.
- This happens when the Gerolsteiners celebrate with a lass of wine. They are only used to sparkling mineral water.
- Yaroslav Popovych (Discovery Channel) celebrates.
- Alberto Contador (Discovery Channel) poses with the special Guards.
- Tom Boonen points out his green socks.
Results
1 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 3.51.03 (37.91 km/h) 2 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 3 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 4 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 5 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 6 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 7 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 8 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 9 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 10 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 11 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance 12 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 13 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 14 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 15 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 16 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 17 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 18 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 19 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 20 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 21 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 22 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 23 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 24 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 25 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 26 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 27 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 28 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 0.05 29 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 30 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 31 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 32 Moises Duenas Nevado (Spa) Agritubel 33 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 34 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 35 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 36 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 37 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 38 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 39 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 40 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 41 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 42 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 43 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 44 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 45 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 46 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 47 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 48 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 49 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 50 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 51 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 52 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 53 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 54 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 55 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 56 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 57 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre - Fondital 58 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 59 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 60 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 61 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 62 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.15 63 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre - Fondital 64 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Liquigas 65 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 66 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 67 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 68 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 69 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 70 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 71 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 72 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 73 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2r Prévoyance 74 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Milram 75 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 76 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 77 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 78 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 79 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor - Lotto 80 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile Team 81 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 82 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 83 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 84 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 85 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 86 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 87 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 88 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 89 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 90 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 91 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 92 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 93 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 94 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 95 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 96 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2r Prévoyance 97 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 98 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 99 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile Team 100 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 101 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 102 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 103 John Gadret (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 104 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 105 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 106 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo (Col) Barloworld 107 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 108 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 109 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 110 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 111 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 112 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 113 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Spa) Team CSC 114 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 115 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 116 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 117 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 118 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 119 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 120 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 121 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 122 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 123 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 124 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quickstep - Innergetic 125 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin (Spa) Agritubel 0.25 126 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 127 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 128 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 129 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 0.29 130 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 131 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 0.32 132 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 0.42 133 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 0.51 134 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 0.59 135 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.06 136 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 1.12 137 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 138 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 139 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 140 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.34 141 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4.08 Points Châtenay-Malabry (D.128-d.986-d.2) - km 74.0 1 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 6 pts 2 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 4 3 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 2 Haut Des Champs-Elysées - km 108.5 1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2r Prévoyance 6 pts 2 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 4 3 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 2 Finish Champs-Elysées - km 146 1 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 35 pts 2 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 30 3 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 26 4 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 24 5 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 22 6 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 20 7 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 19 8 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 18 9 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 17 10 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 16 11 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance 15 12 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 14 13 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 13 14 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 12 15 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 11 16 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 10 17 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 9 18 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 8 19 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 7 20 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 6 21 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 5 22 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4 23 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 3 24 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2 25 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 1 Mountains Côte De Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuse - Km 51.0 1 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 3 pts 2 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 2 3 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 1 Côte De Châteaufort - Km 54.5 1 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 3 pts 2 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 2 3 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1 Young Rider 1 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.51.03 2 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.05 4 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 8 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 9 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 10 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 11 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 0.15 12 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 13 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 14 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 15 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 16 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 17 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 18 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 19 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 0.25 20 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.29 21 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 0.51 22 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 0.59 Most Aggressive Rider 1 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel Teams 1 Quickstep-Innergetic 11.33.09 2 Gerolsteiner 3 Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.05 4 Agritubel 5 Team CSC 0.10 6 T-Mobile Team 7 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 8 Team Milram 9 Française des Jeux 10 Lampre-Fondital 11 Crédit Agricole 0.15 12 Caisse D'Epargne 13 Liquigas 0.20 14 Saunier Duval-Prodir 15 Rabobank 16 Bouygues Telecom 17 AG2r Prévoyance 0.30 18 Barloworld 19 Predictor-Lotto 0.35 Final General Classification 1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 91.00.26 2 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 0.23 3 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.31 4 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 7.08 5 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 8.17 6 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 11.37 7 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 12.18 8 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 12.25 9 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 14.14 10 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 14.25 11 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 16.51 12 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 21.15 13 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 21.49 14 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 24.15 15 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor - Lotto 25.19 16 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 27.09 17 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 31.48 18 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Liquigas 34.14 19 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre - Fondital 37.08 20 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 37.14 21 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 38.16 22 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 45.42 23 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 49.34 24 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 54.50 25 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 55.50 26 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 56.23 27 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.06.30 28 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 1.08.22 29 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre - Fondital 1.09.37 30 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.12.45 31 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 1.13.27 32 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 1.15.16 33 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 1.22.25 34 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.30.12 35 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 1.30.34 36 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.30.47 37 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.33.06 38 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.33.50 39 Moises Duenas Nevado (Spa) Agritubel 1.36.33 40 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.36.44 41 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 42 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.36.46 43 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.36.50 44 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.44.54 45 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 1.46.25 46 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 1.52.19 47 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 1.53.23 48 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.53.32 49 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.54.50 50 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.56.15 51 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Spa) Team CSC 1.58.45 52 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2r Prévoyance 2.00.07 53 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 2.05.17 54 John Gadret (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 2.06.50 55 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quickstep - Innergetic 2.08.14 56 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 2.10.42 57 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 2.15.14 58 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.15.17 59 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 2.18.35 60 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.19.36 61 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2.20.16 62 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile Team 2.21.00 63 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 2.21.57 64 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 2.22.50 65 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2.23.31 66 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.24.34 67 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 2.24.36 68 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.24.59 69 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 2.32.07 70 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 2.32.58 71 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 2.33.46 72 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2.37.25 73 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 2.37.30 74 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance 2.37.41 75 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 2.38.30 76 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 2.39.34 77 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 2.40.59 78 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 2.41.41 79 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 2.42.28 80 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin (Spa) Agritubel 2.44.27 81 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.44.39 82 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2.50.30 83 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 2.50.54 84 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.53.42 85 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 2.55.58 86 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 2.56.09 87 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.56.30 88 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 2.57.05 89 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 2.58.46 90 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2.59.37 91 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3.00.38 92 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 3.00.50 93 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 3.07.19 94 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2r Prévoyance 3.09.19 95 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 3.09.56 96 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 3.10.35 97 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 3.14.11 98 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.14.15 99 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 3.14.19 100 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 3.15.48 101 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 3.16.08 102 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 3.16.58 103 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 3.17.19 104 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 3.18.25 105 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3.19.58 106 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo (Col) Barloworld 107 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 3.21.57 108 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 3.22.14 109 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.22.59 110 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 3.23.02 111 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 3.23.11 112 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 3.23.17 113 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 3.23.42 114 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 3.24.02 115 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3.24.13 116 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 3.24.35 117 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 3.24.46 118 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 3.26.12 119 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 3.26.19 120 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 3.26.48 121 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 3.26.57 122 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Milram 3.27.04 123 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 3.27.45 124 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 3.27.48 125 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 3.28.59 126 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 3.29.26 127 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3.29.37 128 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 3.31.49 129 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.32.30 130 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 3.35.25 131 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 3.35.28 132 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.35.37 133 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 3.36.05 134 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 3.37.46 135 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.40.10 136 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.40.44 137 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.40.51 138 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 3.41.38 139 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 3.41.57 140 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 3.46.51 141 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 3.52.54 Points Classification 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 256 pts 2 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 234 3 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 232 4 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 186 5 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 181 6 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 160 7 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 140 8 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 112 9 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 109 10 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 88 11 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 88 12 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 84 13 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance 78 14 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 78 15 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 75 16 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 71 17 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 65 18 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 64 19 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 63 20 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 59 21 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 56 22 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 56 23 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 55 24 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 54 25 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 49 26 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 49 27 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 45 28 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 45 29 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 44 30 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 44 31 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 43 32 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 43 33 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 43 34 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 43 35 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 43 36 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 42 37 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quickstep - Innergetic 41 38 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile Team 40 39 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 39 40 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 39 41 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 38 42 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 37 43 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 37 44 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 36 45 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 36 46 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 36 47 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 36 48 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 36 49 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 35 50 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 33 51 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 30 52 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 30 53 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 29 54 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 27 55 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 27 56 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 26 57 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 25 58 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 24 59 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 23 60 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 23 61 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 22 62 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 21 63 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 21 64 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 20 65 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 18 66 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 18 67 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 18 68 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 17 69 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 17 70 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 17 71 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 16 72 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 16 73 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 16 74 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 15 75 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 15 76 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 15 77 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 14 78 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 14 79 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 14 80 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 14 81 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 13 82 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 10 83 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 9 84 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 9 85 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 8 86 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 8 87 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 8 88 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor - Lotto 7 89 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 7 90 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 7 91 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6 92 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 6 93 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2r Prévoyance 6 94 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 6 95 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 6 96 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre - Fondital 4 97 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 4 98 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 3 99 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 3 100 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 3 101 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Liquigas 2 102 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 2 103 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 2 104 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 2 105 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 2 106 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 2 107 Moises Duenas Nevado (Spa) Agritubel 1 108 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC -1 109 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld -3 110 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2r Prévoyance -5 111 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin (Spa) Agritubel -5 112 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner -5 113 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir -10 Mountains Classification 1 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 206 pts 2 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 128 3 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 105 4 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 92 5 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 85 6 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 77 7 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 74 8 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 68 9 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 64 10 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 64 11 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 61 12 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 54 13 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 53 14 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 52 15 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 51 16 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 50 17 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 45 18 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 43 19 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 43 20 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 42 21 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 41 22 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 31 23 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 30 24 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 30 25 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 27 26 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 26 27 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 25 28 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 25 29 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 25 30 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 24 31 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 23 32 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 22 33 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 18 34 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 16 35 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 16 36 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 15 37 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 15 38 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 15 39 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 14 40 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 14 41 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance 14 42 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 14 43 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 13 44 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 13 45 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 12 46 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 12 47 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 12 48 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 12 49 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10 50 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 10 51 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 10 52 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 10 53 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 9 54 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 8 55 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8 56 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 6 57 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 6 58 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 6 59 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 5 60 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 5 61 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 5 62 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4 63 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 3 64 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 3 65 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 3 66 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 2 67 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 2 68 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 69 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 2 70 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 2 71 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 72 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 1 Young Rider Classification 1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 91.00.26 2 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 16.51 3 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 49.34 4 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 1.13.27 5 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 1.15.16 6 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 1.30.34 7 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.30.47 8 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.33.50 9 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 2.22.50 10 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 2.41.41 11 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2.50.30 12 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 2.50.54 13 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 3.07.19 14 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.22.59 15 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 3.23.17 16 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 3.24.46 17 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 3.26.48 18 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 3.29.26 19 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3.29.37 20 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.32.30 21 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.40.51 22 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 3.46.51 Most Aggressive Rider Classification 1 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi Teams Classification 1 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 273.12.52 2 Caisse D'Epargne 19.36 3 Team CSC 22.10 4 Rabobank 36.24 5 Euskaltel-Euskadi 46.46 6 Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.44.33 7 Predictor-Lotto 1.50.21 8 Lampre-Fondital 2.19.41 9 Crédit Agricole 2.25.44 10 AG2r Prévoyance 2.26.08 11 Liquigas 2.28.30 12 Quickstep-Innergetic 2.57.15 13 T-Mobile Team 3.17.26 14 Bouygues Telecom 3.49.53 15 Barloworld 3.59.12 16 Gerolsteiner 4.09.28 17 Agritubel 6.17.20 18 Team Milram 6.48.28 19 Française des Jeux 6.48.45
