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94th Tour de France - ProT
France, July 7-29, 2007
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Stage 3 - Tuesday, July 10: Waregem - Compiègne, 236.5km
Maillot Jaune Cancellara jumps clear
By Gregor Brown, Shane Stokes and Brecht Decaluwé in Compiègne with additional reporting from Laura Weislo
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Race leader Fabian Cancellara stunned the sprinters in the finish of the third stage in Compiègne, jumping clear of the peloton as they charged to the end of the 236.5 kilometre run from Waregem to Compiègne to take his second stage win of the Tour. The 26 year-old world time trial champion, who took the Maillot Jaune in the prologue in London, timed a powerful jump perfectly with 750 metres to go and rocketed past the day's four-man escape.
Cancellara held off the oncoming sprint led by Erik Zabel (Milram), with Danilo Napolitano (Lampre-Fondital) coming a close second. Tom Boonen (Quickstep-Innergetic) and Robert Hunter (Barloworld) filled out the top four, while CSC's Cancellara added to his race lead with the 20-second bonus gained on the line.
The winner of the 2006 Paris-Roubaix added to his successful Tour by winning the stage in the city which starts that legendary cobbled Classic, but it wasn't something that was in the plan for his day. "I didn't think that I could win this stage. I only wanted to get to the finish and not crash," said Cancellara after the finish. "I still need to register what I have done today. I think it was the hardest final kilometre of my life."
The day was marked by an early escape by Nicolas Vogondy (Agritubel) and Mathieu Ladagnous (Française Des Jeux), while the peloton enjoyed a slow and leisurely day in the saddle. But when Stéphane Augé (Cofidis) and Frederik Willems (Liquigas) bridged up to the pair with 62 kilometres to go, they turned a somewhat predictable stage into a nail-biting, tension-filled finale.
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Augé, who started the day tied on points with Saunier Duval's David Millar in the mountains classification moved himself into the jersey by taking maximum points on the day's only climb, the category four Blérancourt at 34 kilometres to go, but it was Willems who provided the impetus for the break to stay clear all the way to Compiègne.
The Belgian Willems opened attacked his three French companions with nine kilometres remaining when the pace began to slacken, but the three men rallied to come back to the Liquigas rider's wheel. After six and a half hours of racing, the 27 year-old Willems launched another attack with 2000 metres to go, but again the three men came back in a series of turns heading into the finale.
But as the peloton came rampaging down the finishing straight, hot on the tail of the four men, it would be the pavé for which this region is famous that would be the deciding factor. With an advantage of extra room to manoeuvre, the Frenchmen led by Vogondy held Willems in check as the peloton slowed slightly to negotiate the cobbles behind, but suddenly a bright yellow jersey shot off the front of the main bunch and barrelled down the road toward them.
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At first, it seemed as though Saunier Duval had sent one of its men up the road, but it was in fact the colours of the Maillot Jaune that had attacked the bunch at 750 metres to go. The men of speed had been caught napping in the finale of a decisively sleepy and long day. As Cancellara gritted his teeth to hold his advantage over the bunch, he caught and passed the quartet, and only Ladagnous could fight his way into the CSC rider's wake.
In the end, no rider could touch the speed of the yellow jersey, and Cancellara took his third Tour de France stage with a heaping helping of panache. "It is really great to win here in Compiègne," Cancellara declared after the finish. "I am in very good condition but I didn't think I could do that, to win here.
"I was scared about losing the jersey because the four riders at the front were riding well and had a good gap. My team worked with the other teams of sprinters and they helped me to be here at the front."
"It is fantastic, it is a surprise," said Directeur Sportif Kim Andersen. "It was not planned that he would have a go, but he could see that the jersey was hanging by a few seconds. He is strong, he is powerful and he hadn't worked the whole time. So it was perfect." Denied on a stage that should have been theirs, the sprinters expressed their disappointment after the line. Today, Boonen was looked after by stage two winner Gert Steegmans, but he could only managed to finish fourth.
"We lost a lot of energy to catch those guys," said Belgian Steegmans, who crashed earlier in the stage. "[In the lead-out] Tom lost my wheel, after that I lost the wheel of Steven De Jongh. ... On the pavé [during the sprint] I could not get my way back to the front because of my crash."
The Robs came in fifth to seventh - with Barloworld's Robert Hunter, Robert Förster (Gerolsteiner) and Robbie McEwen (Predictor-Lotto) rolling in in quick succession. The Aussie was quick to the bus after the stage finish, reportedly upset with the sprint tactics of the South African that preceded him. Bernhard Eisel (T-Mobile), Mark Cavendish (T-Mobile) and Heinrich Haussler (Gerolsteiner) rounded-out the top ten.
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32 year-old Augé moved into the Maillot Blanc à Pois Rouges of best mountain-man thanks to his day's escape and now leads with a slim three points over Scot David Millar (Saunier Duval-Prodir). "I will lose the jersey tomorrow but at least I had it for one day. That is what I wanted when I broke away on stage one.
"The pavé slowed us down, we played cat-n-mouse," the winner of this year's Cholet-Pays de Loire commented on the finale. "In the final kilometre, we missed that win by very little."
How it unfolded
A battered and bruised peloton rolled out at high noon from the Belgian town of Waregem to begin their 236.5 kilometre journey into France for the finish in Compiègne, just metres from the traditional start of Paris-Roubaix. Tomas Vaitkus (Discovery Channel) had overnight surgery to repair a broken thumb he sustained in the crash of the stage two finish and did not start, but the rest of the 187 riders took to the streets under sunny skies.
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As is normal with the Tour de France, the attacks began from the first few kilometres, and after a very active start, two riders were able to break clear just six kilometres into the stage.
Frenchman Nicolas Vogondy (Agritubel) and Mathieu Ladagnous (Française des Jeux), winner of the 4 Days of Dunkerque, built up a lead of 20 seconds by kilometre 10, and then Vogondy, who was 54 seconds behind leader Fabian Cancellara on the general classification, became the 'virtual' yellow jersey just a few minutes later.
By the time the leading duo reached the first intermediate sprint in Tournai (km 33.5), the peloton, riding piano on the longest stage of the Tour, seemed content to have an easy day to soothe the wounds of the crash victims. Vogondy crossed the line ahead of Ladagnous, both spinning in their small ring, and it was 11 minutes and 35 seconds before Mikel Astarloza (Euskaltel) jumped to take third place and two bonus seconds.
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The gap reached its maximum at 13'50 at kilometre 44 before the CSC team decided enough is enough and picked up the pace ever so slightly. Still, after the first hour, the average was just over 40 km/h in the first hour.
The second hour would see the peloton practically competing with the breakaway to see who could ride slower, and the race fell farther and farther behind the scheduled time as the riders averaged a mere 30.7 km/h in the second hour, and the riders passed by the roads near Paris-Roubaix's famed Arenberg forest 45 minutes behind schedule.
It was a sleepy summer afternoon for the fans, and former Tour director Jean-Marie Leblanc must have been shaking his head in dismay as the race passed through his hometown of Fontaine-au-Bois, where he stood with the rest of the spectators on the side of the road.
Still in their small chain rings, Ladagnous and Vogondy rolled through intermediate sprint number two in front of Leblanc without even a change in effort. Eight minutes later, Frenchman Roman Feillu (Agritubel) decided to liven things up for the crowds as he took a risky dive up the curb and across the gutter to attack around the bunch and take the remaining points.
After Laurent Lefevre rolled ahead to wave to family and friends in the feed zone town of Landrecies, the peloton, fuelled by their mid-afternoon snack, finally got to chasing in earnest once the race turned the halfway point, with Quickstep and Crédit Agricole leading the effort.
The moderate amount of work being done in the field halved the advantage of the two escapees in just 20 minutes, showing that the pair didn't seriously consider their chances of staying clear to the finish. But the chasers weren't ready to catch the duo yet, and let the gap hover around the five minute mark for another hour until 61 kilometres to go when Cofidis' Stéphane Augé decided to attack.
Augé was quickly marked by Liquigas' Frederick Willems, and the two successfully bridge to Ladagnous and Vogondy 9 kilometres later, lending serious weight to the move. Now taking the breakaway more seriously, the CSC team put some men back on the front to protect Cancellara's yellow jersey and brought the leaders within 2'50 by the 40 kilometre to go mark.
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However, as the pace heated up, a minor crash in the field took down stage two winner Gert Steegmans and Alexandre Botcharov (Crédit Agricole), but both were relatively unscathed and returned to the peloton. The peloton briefly eased as Quickstep stepped off the gas to let their man rejoin, and Augé was able to take the mountain points on the category four Côte de Blérancourt while the break maintained a 3'20 advantage. Ladagnous and Willems rolled through in second and third.
When the breakaway still held a 2'27 advantage with 20 kilometres to go, all the French fans were on tenterhooks hoping the three-fourths French break would hold on, and as the kilometres ticked down, it was clear the catch would be inside the last kilometre, if at all.
While Quickstep tried to get organised at the front, and CSC pitched in to raise the speed, the four men dangling just 90 seconds ahead of the ravenous clutches of the peloton got nervous, and with 9 kilometres to go, Willems bolted from the three Frenchmen.
An ever attentive Augé jumped right up to the Belgian's wheel, and soon enough the four were back together. The energetic rider from Liquigas encouraged his companions to keep working, and the four gathered themselves for the final push to the line.
With the peloton rampaging into Compiègne just metres behind at the 2 kilometres to go sign, Willems attacked again, but in a series of sharp turns, he did not get far, and the four were together as they hit a section of cobblestones with 1500 metres to go.
As the breakaway entered the final straightaway, Willems put in his final effort, and once more jumped away from the other three. But from the charging peloton, the yellow jersey himself launched out of the pack with 750 metres to go, and putting his time trialling prowess to good use, powered his way past the fading escape and held off Erik Zabel to win the stage. Zabel led the charge to the line ahead of Sicilian bulldog Danilo Napolitano (Lampre).
Stage 4 - Wednesday, July 11: Villers-Cotterêts - Joigny, 193km
Stage four is a classic early Tour de France stage run in the countryside to the east of Paris that traverses the rolling hills of the Champagne region, the wide plains of Brie before the final hills across the Yonne. Once again, an early break will certainly escape before the sprinters' teams pull it back in the final 50 kilometres before the finish in Joigny.
Climbs:
Km 23.5: Côte de Veuilly-la-Poterie: 1.0 km climb @ 5.2% avg. grade / 4th Cat.
Km 62.5: Côte de Doucy: 1.9 km climb @ 4.9% avg. grade / 4th Cat.
Km 144: Côte de Galbaux: 2.4 km climb @ 3.8% avg. grade / 4th Cat.
Km 148.5: Côte de Bel-Air: 1.3 km climb @ 5.4% avg. grade / 4th Cat.
Sprints:
Km 69: La Ferte-Gaucher
Km 122.5: Soligny-Les-Etangs
Photography
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- The early breakaway Mathieu Ladagnous and Nicolas Vogondy
- Mathieu Ladagnous (FdJ) and Nicolas Vogondy (Agritubel)
- Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) shocks everyone by taking the sprint victory
- George Hincapie (Discovery) crashed in stage two
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- Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) tricked all the sprinters with a bold move triggered by the famous cobbles.
- Tom Boonen (Quickstep-Innergetic) with another green jersey and the objective to keep it until Paris.
- 'Tommeke' likes the colour green.
- And Cancellara likes yellow, although he won't have the objective to arrive in Paris with it.
- Flowers, Lions and the podium ladies. What else do you need?
- How can you tell a happy man? Just look at Cancellara.
- Cancellara was "very proud to have won in France with the yellow jersey."
- During the stage the Swiss must have already thought about the stage finish and "his" cobbles that were closely located to the finish.
- The break that was gone most of the day but couldn't pull it off due to tactical errors.
- Gert Steegmans (Quickstep-Innergetic) takes a well-deserved drink to get some energy back after his crash.
- Française Des Jeux shows up on the front.
- Tom Boonen rode into France with the green jersey on his shoulders.
- The long straight roads with their rollers really took everything out of the four-man break.
- Jersey holder's talk.
- Steegmans assures the officials that the crash didn't affect him too much.
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Cancellara went out of the saddle and squeezed every ounce of energy to win the stage.
- Cancellara just before the line
- The stage winner celebrates before Zabel, who is not unfamiliar with runner-up.
- Robbie McEwen is on the very left, behind Zabel, and is still suffering from his injuries sustained in stage one.
- Cancellara used the cobbles to beat the sprinters at their own game.
- The yellow jersey shows tremendous panache to take a stage designed for sprinters.
- Zabel beat all the top sprinters today but it wasn't enough to win.
- Fabian Cancellara crosses the line in first.
- German speakers Haussler, Cancellara, Eisel (left to right).
- Cancellara gets a well-deserved hug.
- CSC is one happy family these days.
- The Swiss power attacker gets to wear another yellow jersey.
- He is wearing the real version behind a picture of the same.
- Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis finally got what he wanted since stage 1 - the polka-dot jersey.
- The bunch at the finish. You can tell by the happy smile of Christian Vande Velde (37) that a CSC guy won.
- Cancellara didn't stretch his overall lead, but he sure stretched the sprinters' patience today.
- Cancellara does not mind the ceremonial trying on of clothing.
- Tom Boonen didn't win again but was comforted with the green jersey.
- Fabian Cancellara celebrates his unexpected stage victory on the podium.
Images by Bjorn Haake/Cyclingnews.com
- Fans across Flanders waiting for the "Ronde van Frankryk".
- Velo course is on hand with information for the fans
- The French Gendarmerie is very experienced with the event and they clear the roads for the riders.
- The "Lion of Flanders" is everywhere, of course. It's the official flag for the province.
- The French theme in form of music was not missing, of course.
- The fans lined the Belgian roads in anticipation of the peloton.
- The car number three of the assistant t director drives by. The field can't be far.
- The moment that every fan waits for.
- Tom Boonen (Quickstep) has the flag of Flanders handy.
- Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) smiling in yellow, seemingly having left the stress and pain of the crash the day before.
- Robert Förster (Gerolsteiner) was pretty banged up to and wears a bandage on his left arm.
- David Zabriskie (Team CSC) on the left and teammate Stuart O'Grady on the right.
- Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner) smiles away in the neutral rollout in Waregem in his black-red-gold jersey.
- Kjell Carlström (Liquigas) leaves Waregem together with his fellow riders.
- Wim Vansevenant (Predictor-Lotto) who got the go ahead yesterday to be able to greet his family in his hometown.
- Sprinter's talk between Thor Hushovd (Crédit Agricole) on the left and Bernhard Eisel (T-Mobile).
- Sébastien Rosseler (Quickstep-Innergetic) on the left talks to someone who apparently has not had breakfast yet.
- Marcus Burghardt (T-Mobile) drops back to the team car early, in the neutral rollout.
Results
1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 6.36.15 (35.81km/h) 2 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 3 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 4 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 5 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 6 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 7 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 8 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 9 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 10 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 11 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 12 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 13 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 14 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 15 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 16 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 17 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 18 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 19 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 20 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 21 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Astana 22 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 23 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 24 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 25 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 26 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 27 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 28 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance 29 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 30 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 31 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 32 Enrico Degano (Ita) Barloworld 33 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 34 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 35 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 36 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 37 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 38 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 39 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 40 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Liquigas 41 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 42 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 43 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 44 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 45 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 46 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Astana 47 Cédric Hervé (Fra) Agritubel 48 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre - Fondital 49 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 50 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 51 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 52 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile Team 53 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 54 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Astana 55 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 56 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 57 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 58 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 59 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre - Fondital 60 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 61 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 62 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 63 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 64 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 65 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2r Prévoyance 66 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 67 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 68 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 69 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 70 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 71 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 72 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 73 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 74 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 75 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 76 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor - Lotto 77 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 78 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 79 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 80 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 81 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 82 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile Team 83 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 84 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 85 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 86 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Predictor - Lotto 87 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Milram 88 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 89 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 90 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 91 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 92 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 93 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 94 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 95 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 96 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 97 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 98 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 99 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 100 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 101 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 102 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 103 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 104 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 105 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 106 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 107 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 108 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 109 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 110 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 111 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 112 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 113 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 114 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 115 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 116 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team 117 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 118 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 119 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 120 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 121 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 122 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 123 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 124 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 125 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 126 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 127 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 128 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 129 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 130 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 131 John Gadret (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 132 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 133 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 134 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 135 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 136 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 137 Moises Duenas Nevado (Spa) Agritubel 138 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 139 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 140 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 141 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2r Prévoyance 142 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 143 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 144 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 145 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 146 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 147 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 148 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Astana 149 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 150 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 151 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 152 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quickstep - Innergetic 153 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 154 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin (Spa) Agritubel 155 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 156 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 157 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 158 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 159 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 160 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile Team 161 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 162 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 163 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 164 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo (Col) Barloworld 165 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 166 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 167 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 168 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 169 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 170 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 171 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 172 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 173 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 174 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 0.37 175 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.43 176 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 177 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.49 178 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.52 179 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Spa) Team CSC 180 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 181 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 182 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 183 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 184 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 0.57 185 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 186 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 187 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 1.05 DNS Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel Sprints Tournai - 33.5 Km 1 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 6 pts 2 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 4 3 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2 Fontaine-Au-Bois - 104.5 Km 1 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 6 pts 2 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 4 3 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 2 Achery - 167.5 Km 1 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 6 pts 2 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 4 3 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2 Compiègne - 236.5 Km 1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 35 pts 2 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 30 3 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 26 4 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 24 5 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 22 6 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 20 7 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 19 8 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 18 9 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 17 10 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 16 11 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 15 12 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 14 13 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 13 14 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 12 15 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 11 16 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 10 17 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 9 18 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8 19 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 7 20 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6 21 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Astana 5 22 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 23 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 24 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 2 25 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 Mountains Côte de Blérancourt - 202.5 Km 1 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 pts 2 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 3 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 1 Young rider 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 6.36.15 2 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 4 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 5 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 6 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 7 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 8 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 9 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 10 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 11 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 12 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 13 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 14 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 15 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 16 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 17 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 18 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 19 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 20 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 21 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 22 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 23 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 24 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 25 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 26 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 27 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 28 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 29 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 30 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.43 General classification after stage 3 1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 15.12.08 2 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 0.33 3 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 0.41 4 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.43 5 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.45 7 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 0.46 8 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 9 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 0.49 10 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 11 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Astana 0.50 12 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 0.51 13 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 0.52 14 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 15 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.53 16 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 17 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 0.55 18 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 19 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Astana 20 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 0.56 21 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 22 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 23 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 24 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile Team 0.57 25 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 26 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 0.58 27 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 28 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 29 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 30 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 0.59 31 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 32 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.00 33 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 34 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.03 35 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 36 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Astana 37 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 1.04 38 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 39 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 40 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.05 41 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 42 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 43 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 1.06 44 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 45 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 1.07 46 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 47 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 48 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 49 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Astana 1.08 50 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 51 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 52 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 53 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 54 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 55 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.09 56 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 57 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 58 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 59 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.10 60 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 1.11 61 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 62 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 63 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 64 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 65 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.12 66 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 67 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 68 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.13 69 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor - Lotto 70 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 71 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quickstep - Innergetic 72 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance 73 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 74 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 75 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.14 76 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 77 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre - Fondital 78 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile Team 79 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 1.15 80 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 81 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 82 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 83 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 84 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 85 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 86 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 87 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 88 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 1.16 89 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 90 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 91 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1.17 92 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 93 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 94 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 95 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 96 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 1.18 97 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 98 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 99 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 100 Moises Duenas Nevado (Spa) Agritubel 1.20 101 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 102 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 103 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 104 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 105 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 106 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 1.21 107 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 108 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2r Prévoyance 109 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 110 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 111 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.22 112 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 113 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Liquigas 114 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.23 115 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 116 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 117 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 118 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 119 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1.24 120 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 121 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 122 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 123 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Predictor - Lotto 1.25 124 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.26 125 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 126 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 127 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 128 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2r Prévoyance 129 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 130 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin (Spa) Agritubel 131 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 132 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.27 133 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.28 134 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 135 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 136 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Milram 1.29 137 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.30 138 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 139 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 140 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 141 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 142 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 1.32 143 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre - Fondital 144 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 145 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.33 146 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 147 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 148 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.34 149 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 1.35 150 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.36 151 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 152 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 153 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo (Col) Barloworld 1.38 154 John Gadret (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 155 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 156 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 157 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.39 158 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 159 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 1.40 160 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 161 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.41 162 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1.45 163 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 164 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 1.46 165 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 166 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 1.47 167 Enrico Degano (Ita) Barloworld 1.50 168 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1.55 169 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.59 170 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2.01 171 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2.05 172 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 173 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 2.06 174 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 2.11 175 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Spa) Team CSC 2.12 176 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2.19 177 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2.21 178 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2.31 179 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 2.35 180 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 2.40 181 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 2.44 182 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 3.57 183 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 4.14 184 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 4.21 185 Cédric Hervé (Fra) Agritubel 186 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 4.24 187 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 9.01 Points classification 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 80 pts 2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 74 3 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 62 4 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 57 5 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 54 6 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 53 7 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 51 8 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 47 9 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 46 10 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 44 11 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 40 12 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 39 13 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 36 14 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 34 15 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 33 16 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 28 17 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 25 18 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 24 19 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 24 20 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 22 21 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 21 22 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 20 23 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 17 24 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 16 25 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 16 26 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 15 27 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 15 28 Cédric Hervé (Fra) Agritubel 14 29 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 14 30 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 13 31 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 12 32 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 12 33 Enrico Degano (Ita) Barloworld 12 34 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 10 35 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 10 36 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 10 37 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 10 38 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 9 39 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 8 40 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 8 41 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8 42 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 6 43 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6 44 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 5 45 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Astana 5 46 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 4 47 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Astana 4 48 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 49 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 4 50 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 4 51 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 3 52 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 3 53 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 54 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 2 55 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 56 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 57 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 1 58 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC -5 Mountains classification 1 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 8 pts 2 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 5 3 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 3 4 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 2 5 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 6 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 2 7 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 1 8 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1 Young rider classification 1 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 15.12.53 2 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 0.06 3 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 0.07 4 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 0.08 5 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.10 6 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.11 7 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.13 8 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.19 9 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 0.21 10 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 0.22 11 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 12 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 0.23 13 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.25 14 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 0.26 15 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 0.30 16 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 0.32 17 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 0.33 18 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.35 19 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 0.38 20 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.39 21 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.43 22 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 0.45 23 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0.47 24 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 0.48 25 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 26 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.51 27 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 0.54 28 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 1.02 29 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.20 30 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 3.12 Most aggressive rider Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone Team classification 1 Astana 45.38.42 2 Team CSC 0.02 3 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.05 4 Caisse d'Epargne 0.18 5 Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.20 6 T-Mobile Team 0.45 7 Rabobank 0.47 8 Française des Jeux 0.48 9 Liquigas 0.52 10 Quickstep-Innergetic 0.54 11 Gerolsteiner 12 Crédit Agricole 13 Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.57 14 Team Milram 1.01 15 Predictor-Lotto 16 Bouygues Telecom 1.03 17 Lampre-Fondital 1.10 18 Saunier Duval-Prodir 19 Barloworld 1.23 20 Agritubel 1.25 21 AG2r Prévoyance
