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3rd Eneco Tour of Benelux - ProT
Netherlands & Belgium, August 22-29, 2007
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Stage 6 - August 28: Beek (Ned) - Landgraaf (Ned), 177.4km
Lastras wins the stage, Dekker takes over from fallen Nuyens
By Susan Westemeyer
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Pablo Lastras of Caisse d'Epargne caught an early breakaway group, and was able to break out of it again with 56 kilometres to go in Tuesday's sixth stage of the Eneco Tour. The Spaniard won ahead of former escape companions Anders Lund (CSC) and Steven Caethoven (Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen).
The leader's jersey changed shoulders, landing on those of Rabobank's Thomas Dekker after Nick Nuyens (Cofidis) had to drop out of the race after crashing. The young Dutchman leads by four seconds over Jose Gutierrez of Caisse d'Epargne and is six seconds ahead of Saunier Duval's David Millar in third place.
Lastras knew precisely how long it had been since his last win. "I had to wait exactly two years, two months and ten days for this victory, which is a very long time. He knew his only chance for success was to be in an escape group, and he was lucky enough to get into the right one. Near the end, he was happy to lose companion Lund, who had taken off with him, "because I knew he was faster in the sprint. For this reason, I drove away from him in the final."
The 31 year-old was tired as he approached the final kilometer. "But I persisted and got what I wanted: the win. At last I could win again!"
A mass crash 44 km into the race took down a number of riders, including the numbers one and two in the general classification, Nuyens and Dekker. Nuyens was unable to continue due to pain in his right arm. Dekker went on to take over the race lead, but was obviously in pain after the race, with nasty bumps and scrapes on his right shoulder and thigh. Dekker fell heavily on his right hip, with which he already had problems.
Once again, the day's escape group got away early and this time stayed successfully away to the end. A group of 12 around Skil-Shimano's Maarten Tjillingii built a lead of up to seven and a half minutes. With 56 km to go, Lastras and Lund split off again, and Lastras was finally able to drop the Dane. The following group had crumbled to four as they finally saw him again at the one kilometer mark, but they were unable to catch the Spainiard. The thundering peloton rolled across the finish line not far behind.
Looking to Wednesday's closing time trial stage, the 22 year-old Dekker said, "At least I have the leader's jersey for one day, and I will defend it in the time trial." He picked Millar to end up winning the stage and race, because "he has the best form of all."
The time trial on Wednesday runs 29.6 km from Sittard to Geleen, with a two kilometer detour into Germany's western-most corner.
How it unfolded
148 riders left the Markt at Beek promptly at 12:05 Tuesday afternoon. Heinrich Haussler of Team Gerolsteiner decided not to start the stage. After five kilometres Roger Hammond of T-Mobile flatted, but was able to catch back up.
Just as Hammond flatted, an escape group formed of, among others, Volodymyr Bileka (Discovery Channel), Aleksandr Kuschynski (Liquigas), Paolo Bossoni (Lampre), Franck Renier (Bouygues Telecom), Alberto Losada (Caisse d'Epargne), Markus Eichler (Unibet), Maarten Tjallingii (Skil-Shimano), Christoph Meschenmoser (Skil-Shimano) and Steven Caethoven (Chocolade Jacques). After going 15 kilometres, they had only a 30 second lead over the peloton, with Mauro Facci (Quick.Step), Pablo Lastras (Caisse d'Epargne) and Sébastien Hinault (Crédit Agricole) caught in between.
Lastras and Hinault fall back into the peloton, but Facci stays in the middle, 12 seconds behind the escape group.
The leading group built up a lead of 4'25" by the time it came to the first climb of the day, the Cauberg. Lastras was the first one over, followed by Galdos and Bossoni. The leading group is composed of Tjallingii, Bileka, Kuschynski, Bossoni, Renier, Anders Lund (CSC), Gregory Henderson (T-Mobile), Lastras, Eichler and Aitor Galdos (Euskaltel). Facci was still 27 seconds behind them.
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Shortly thereafter, Tom Stubbe of Chocolade Jacques dropped out of the race.
44 kilometres into the race, a mass crash took down a number of riders, including GC leader Nick Nuyens (Cofidis). The peloton put on the brakes to help them get back. Thomas Dekker of Rabobank was one of those who went down, but he made it back to the group.
GC leader Nick Nuyens wasn't so lucky and had to drop out, as did Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Cofidis) and Anthony Geslin (Bouygues Telecom).
With 110 to go, Facci had given up his struggle and fallen back into the peloton. Because of the big crash, the escape group built up its lead to nearly seven and a half minutes. Tjallingii led the group over the Loorberg ahead of Lastras and Renier, and 5 kilometres later, Bileka took the next climb, the Camerig, ahead of Galdos and Eichler. The lead had fallen to 6'35".
Stéphane Poulhiès and Nicolas Rousseau, both of Ag2r Prévoyance, were next to drop out of the race with 97 kilometres to go.
Kuschynski's chances in the escape were hampered when he took a nasty spill as his front wheel just slid right out from under him. He ripped open both his thigh and shorts on the right side. The tough Russian quickly caught up with his escape-mates.
Rabobank and Saunier Duval took up the lead in the peloton. Rabobank's Dekker was number two on GC going into the stage, but Tjallingii has moved into the "virtual lead" at the moment. The escape group's lead had been cut to less than five minutes with 71 kilometres to go.
Kuschynski dropped back to the race doctor's car to have his wounds tended to. At 56 kilometres to go, the lead was down to 3'41".
The lead group started to come apart. Lund and Lastras took off on their own. Henderson fell off the back of the group and the rest struggled to stay together.
Johan Van Summeren (Predictor-Lotto) jumped out of the following group, but Rabobank refused him any space. Up ahead, Lund and Lastras tore through the rolling green countryside, quickly opening up a decent sized gap. The peloton moved to within three minutes.
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At 38 kilometres to go, Lund and Lastras have opened up a lead of more than a minute over their former companions. Tjallingii didn't want to give up without a fight and took off in pursuit, but he had left it too late and was unable to put any real distance between himself and the now-crumbling escape group.
Lund and Lastras crossed the finish line for the first time on the closing round course 45 seconds ahead of Tjallingii and five others. The former escape group had splintered due to the high speed. The peloton came through 3'26" after the two leaders.
Tjallingii kept the pressure on, and he did everything he could to stay as far ahead of the peloton as possible in hopes of taking over the leader's jersey. He closed the gap to the two in front to 35 seconds. Behind him, the peloton overtook the first to fall out of the former escape group.
The two in front were 18 seconds ahead of the following group at 28 kilometres, with the peloton 2'20" behind. Predictor-Lotto had moved up to share the lead work with Rabobank.
Tjallingii took advantage of a climb to turn on the speed and drop some of his companions, but they caught him again. Sébastien Rosseler attacked out of the Rabobank-led peloton and was soon joined by Kim Kirchen of T-Mobile. They stayed a few seconds ahead of the peloton.
With eight kilometres to go, Lund fell back and was caught by Tjallingii, Caethoven and Hinault. The other four weren't far behind, but neither was the chasing peloton.
As the group of four passed under the one kilometre banner, they had Lastras in its sights. However, the group was unable to catch him as he crossed the finish line alone. Tjallingii tried again to get away but was overtaken by his companions and finished fourth, behind Lastras, Lund and Caethoven. The peloton rolled over the finish line only seconds later.
Photography
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- Nick Nuyens (Cofidis) crashed while leading the overall classification.
- The most painful way to end a bike race is to have to abandon while in the lead.
- Thomas Dekker (Rabobank) was also involved in the crash but at least could continue and even became the new leader.
- Wilfried Cretskens (Quick.Step Innergetic) gets medical attention following the mass crash.
- Nuyens follows the tradition that at the Eneco tour the leader crash out of potential overall wins.
- Pablo Lastras (Caisse d'Epargne) survived his solo effort to win the stage.
- Lastras celebrates as the chasers came close but not close enough.
- Thomas Dekker (Rabobank) took over the lead but would have preferred to do it in a less controversial way.
- Dekker came to the podium but his face reveals that he would have liked to win in the time trial rather than take advantage of a crash.
- Pablo Lastras (Caisse d'Epargne) was really happy on the podium on the other hand.
- Mark Cavendish (T-Mobile) continues to lead the points classification
Images by Elmar Krings
- The leaders with one lap to go.
- One lap to go for the chase group as well.
- Cavendish recieving his sprinter jersey.
- Dekker took over the lead but not how he would have liked.
- Lastras on the podium for his stage win today.
- Lastras salutes as he crosses the line in first.
- Martin Pedersen is the leader of the mountain trophy.
- Pagliarini came in some 13 minutes down, but happy.
- Hayman leads Dekker at the head of the peloton.
Results
1 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4.15.28 (41.664 km/h) 2 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 3 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 4 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 5 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil - Shimano 0.03 6 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 0.13 7 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 8 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 9 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 10 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC 11 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 12 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 13 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 14 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 15 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas 16 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 17 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 18 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 19 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 20 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile Team 21 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 22 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 23 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 24 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 25 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 26 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 27 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 28 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 29 Benat Albizuri Aransolo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 30 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil - Shimano 31 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 32 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 33 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil - Shimano 34 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 35 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 36 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 37 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 38 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 39 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 40 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 41 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Crédit Agricole 42 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 43 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 44 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 45 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2r Prévoyance 46 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 47 Sven Renders (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 48 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 49 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 50 Francisco Perez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 51 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 52 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 53 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 54 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 55 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 56 Iban Mayoz (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 57 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 58 Aitor Perez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 59 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 60 Victor Hugo Pena Grisales (Col) Unibet.com 61 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel - Euskadi 62 Steven Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 63 Brian Vandborg (Den) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 64 Martin Pedersen (Den) Team CSC 65 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 66 Carlo Scognamiglio (Ita) Team Milram 67 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 68 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 0.30 69 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 0.32 70 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 0.43 71 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.54 72 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil - Shimano 73 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Unibet.com 74 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.37 75 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil - Shimano 1.39 76 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Milram 2.36 77 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Team Milram 78 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 79 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 80 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil - Shimano 81 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 82 Johan Coenen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 83 Koen Barbé (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 84 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 85 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 86 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil - Shimano 87 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC 88 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 89 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 90 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 91 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 92 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 93 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 94 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 95 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 96 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) Quickstep - Innergetic 97 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 98 Yohann Gène (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 99 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 100 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 101 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 102 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 103 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 104 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Française des Jeux 105 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 106 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 107 Ludovic Auger (Fra) Française des Jeux 108 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 6.00 109 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 6.07 110 Gregory Henderson (NZl) T-Mobile Team 7.10 111 Servais Knaven (Ned) T-Mobile Team 112 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 113 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 114 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 115 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 116 Johan Lindgren (Swe) Française des Jeux 117 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 118 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 119 José Alberto Benitez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 120 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval - Prodir 121 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 122 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 123 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 124 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 125 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 9.08 126 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Predictor - Lotto 9.52 127 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Skil - Shimano 12.41 128 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 129 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 130 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Milram 131 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 132 Raul Alarcon (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 13.51 133 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 134 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre - Fondital DNF Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner DNF Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Gianni Meersman (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team DNF Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team DNF Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française des Jeux DNF Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank DNF Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom DNF Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC DNF Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone DNF Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone DNF Stéphane Poulhies (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance DNF Nicolas Rousseau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance DNF Jimmy Casper (Fra) Unibet.com DNF Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen Sprint Sprint 1 1 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil - Shimano 8 pts 2 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 5 3 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 Sprint 2 1 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8 pts 2 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 5 3 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil - Shimano 3 Sprint 3 1 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8 pts 2 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 5 3 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil - Shimano 3 End of Stage Sprint 1 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 30 pts 2 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 25 3 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 22 4 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 19 5 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil - Shimano 17 6 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 15 7 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 13 8 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 12 9 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 11 10 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC 10 Mountains Mountain 1 1 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 5 pts 2 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 3 3 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1 Mountain 2 1 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 pts 2 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 3 3 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 1 Mountain 3 1 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 5 pts 2 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3 3 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil - Shimano 1 Teams 1 Team CSC 12.46.50 2 Crédit Agricole 3 Caisse d'Epargne 4 Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 5 Skil - Shimano 0.03 6 Quickstep - Innergetic 0.13 7 Team Milram 8 Rabobank 9 Predictor - Lotto 10 Gerolsteiner 11 Liquigas 12 Euskaltel - Euskadi 13 Unibet.com 14 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 15 Lampre - Fondital 0.43 16 T-Mobile Team 2.36 17 Bouygues Telecom 4.00 18 Française des Jeux 4.59 19 Saunier Duval - Prodir 7.10 20 AG2r Prévoyance 9.08 21 Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 9.33 General classification after stage 6 1 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 25.28.48 2 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.04 3 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 0.06 4 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 0.15 5 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 0.27 6 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 0.31 7 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 0.38 8 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil - Shimano 0.39 9 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil - Shimano 0.40 10 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 11 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 0.41 12 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 0.42 13 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 14 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 0.48 15 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil - Shimano 0.50 16 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.51 17 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 18 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.54 19 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 0.55 20 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 21 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 0.57 22 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 23 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 24 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 0.59 25 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.01 26 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.02 27 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.03 28 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 29 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 1.04 30 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 1.05 31 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.08 32 Sven Renders (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 1.12 33 Francisco Perez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.14 34 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.18 35 Brian Vandborg (Den) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.24 36 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.39 37 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.41 38 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 1.50 39 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.59 40 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 2.23 41 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Team Milram 3.21 42 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 3.49 43 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3.55 44 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil - Shimano 4.39 45 Benat Albizuri Aransolo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 7.08 46 Martin Pedersen (Den) Team CSC 7.23 47 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 8.51 48 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2r Prévoyance 9.08 49 Carlo Scognamiglio (Ita) Team Milram 9.09 50 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 10.40 51 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas 10.47 52 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 10.49 53 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 10.50 54 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 10.59 55 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 11.02 56 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 11.03 57 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 11.05 58 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 11.09 59 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 11.18 60 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC 11.23 61 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11.26 62 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile Team 11.28 63 Iban Mayoz (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 11.29 64 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Crédit Agricole 11.33 65 Victor Hugo Pena Grisales (Col) Unibet.com 66 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 11.34 67 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Unibet.com 11.45 68 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 11.50 69 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 11.52 70 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil - Shimano 12.21 71 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil - Shimano 12.47 72 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 12.51 73 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 13.15 74 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 13.17 75 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 13.18 76 Johan Coenen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 77 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 13.31 78 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 13.35 79 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Milram 13.41 80 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) Quickstep - Innergetic 13.49 81 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 14.13 82 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 83 Aitor Perez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 14.14 84 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 14.28 85 Yohann Gène (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 14.33 86 Steven Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 14.37 87 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 14.44 88 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel - Euskadi 14.57 89 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 15.50 90 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 16.06 91 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 16.25 92 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 17.03 93 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval - Prodir 17.59 94 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 18.05 95 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 18.07 96 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18.21 97 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 18.29 98 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 18.30 99 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 18.39 100 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 18.50 101 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 19.04 102 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 20.16 103 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Predictor - Lotto 20.32 104 Koen Barbé (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 21.01 105 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 21.07 106 Ludovic Auger (Fra) Française des Jeux 21.27 107 Servais Knaven (Ned) T-Mobile Team 21.30 108 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 21.35 109 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC 21.39 110 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 21.42 111 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 112 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 21.48 113 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil - Shimano 24.14 114 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 24.30 115 Gregory Henderson (NZl) T-Mobile Team 25.28 116 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 25.31 117 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 26.01 118 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 27.42 119 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 29.25 120 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 30.31 121 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Skil - Shimano 30.50 122 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Française des Jeux 31.21 123 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 31.37 124 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 32.22 125 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 32.30 126 José Alberto Benitez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 32.53 127 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 33.13 128 Johan Lindgren (Swe) Française des Jeux 33.44 129 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 34.07 130 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 37.30 131 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 38.02 132 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Milram 39.53 133 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 41.54 134 Raul Alarcon (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.02.52 Sprint classification 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 74 pts 2 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 60 3 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 51 4 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 51 5 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 49 6 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 47 7 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 43 8 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 43 9 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 40 10 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Skil - Shimano 39 11 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 36 12 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC 32 13 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 32 14 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 32 15 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil - Shimano 31 16 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 30 17 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 27 18 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 25 19 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Predictor - Lotto 25 20 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 25 21 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 24 22 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 24 23 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 19 24 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 17 25 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 16 26 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 15 27 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 15 28 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 15 29 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 13 30 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 13 31 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 13 32 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 13 33 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 13 34 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 12 35 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 12 36 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil - Shimano 11 37 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Team Milram 11 38 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) Quickstep - Innergetic 11 39 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 40 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas 10 41 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 10 42 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 10 43 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 8 44 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 8 45 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 8 46 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 6 47 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 48 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 5 49 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel - Euskadi 5 50 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 3 51 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 3 52 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 53 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 54 Iban Mayoz (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 3 Mountains classification 1 Martin Pedersen (Den) Team CSC 15 pts 2 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 15 3 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8 4 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil - Shimano 6 5 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6 6 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 7 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 5 8 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 4 9 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 3 10 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil - Shimano 3 11 Benat Albizuri Aransolo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2 12 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil - Shimano 1 13 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 1 14 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 1 15 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1 16 Servais Knaven (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1 Team classification 1 Predictor - Lotto 76.27.29 2 Rabobank 0.19 3 Caisse d'Epargne 0.48 4 Skil - Shimano 1.00 5 Quickstep - Innergetic 1.14 6 Team Milram 1.17 7 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.41 8 Liquigas 1.45 9 T-Mobile Team 4.17 10 Euskaltel - Euskadi 7.47 11 Gerolsteiner 11.43 12 Crédit Agricole 11.45 13 Lampre - Fondital 12.07 14 Saunier Duval - Prodir 17.41 15 Team CSC 17.47 16 Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 20.19 17 AG2r Prévoyance 20.23 18 Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 21.27 19 Unibet.com 21.42 20 Française des Jeux 25.31 21 Bouygues Telecom 36.03
