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10th Deutschland Tour - ProT
Germany, August 10-18, 2007
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Stage 7 - August 16: Kufstein - Regensburg, 192.2km
Ciolek does it again
By Susan Westemeyer
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T-Mobile's 20 year-old Gerald Ciolek made it two in a row, out-sprinting 37 year-old Erik Zabel of Milram by two bike lengths on the wet roads of Regensburg, Germany, in the seventh stage of the Deutschland Tour. Jens Voigt sat snugly in the peloton during the mass sprint and held onto his leader's jersey.
A five-man escape group stayed away for about 160 kilometres during the stage, and the "virtual yellow jersey" sat on the shoulders of Florian Stalder of the Austrian Professional Continental Volksbank for much of the afternoon. But the sprinters' teams weren't ready to let the stage go, and pulled them back with 12 kilometres to go, setting up the mass sprint on a tricky city course.
Tomorrow's eighth stage is a 33.1-kilometre individual time trial on a mostly flat course around the city of Furth, which will establish the final winner of the Tour.
How it unfolded
170 riders took the start Thursday midday in Kufstein, Austria, Björn Leukemans of Predictor-Lotto did not start. The first attacks started as soon as the neutralized phase was over, but Cofidis kept an eye on things and held the peloton together. Magnus Backstedt (Liquigas) tried his luck and even gathered a small group, but they were not able to get more than 12 seconds ahead of the peloton, which gobbled them up a few kilometres later.
12 kilometres into the seventh stage, the Tour returned to Deutschland. Five riders took advantage of the border crossing to make their escape, and the day's successful breakaway group formed. Rene Mandri (Ag2r), Christian Leben (Wiesenhof), Raivis Belohvosciks (Saunier Duval), Erki Pütsep ( Bouygues Telecom) and Florian Stalder (Volksbank) got away before the first intermediate sprint. Mandri took that sprint, followed by Belohvosciks and Leben.
The tempo in the field was high, but the group worked well together. 50 kilometres into the stage they had built up a lead of nearly four minutes, while CSC kept things calm back in the peloton.
The quintet had built up a lead of over five minutes as it passed the day's only ranked climb, the Cat. three Wasserburg. Belohvosciks took the points ahead of Pütsep and Stalder. Shortly thereafter, Stalder took over the "virtual leader's jersey" from Jens Voigt. Going into the day's stage, the Austrian had been in 23rd place, 5'27 behind Voigt.
That seemed to wake up the peloton. Milram and T-Mobile were motivated by being on their home turf again to send their riders to the head of the group, in a an attempt to keep things under control. Other teams took up the fight, too, but the group's advantage stays pretty much the same.
The organizers placed the day's second intermediate sprint right outside a kindergarten, and all the little ones came out to cheer as Beohvosciks won it ahead of Pütsep and Stalder.
At the stage's halfway point the lead remained at 5'35. Shortly thereafter, Predictor-Lotto's Preben van Kecke took advantage of the feeding zone to drop out of the race.
With 60 kilometres to go, Stalder could say goodbye to his "virtual yellow," as the lead dropped to four minutes.
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André Greipel of T-Mobile had a mechanical, but was quickly brought back into the field. Not so lucky was Thomas Rohregger (Elk Haus-Simplon), whose left pedal broke off and stayed in his shoe. It took forever for him to get together with his team car and when it finally arrived, he gave up and climbed into the car, dropping out of the race. Later Bingen Fernández of Cofidis had to have his front wheel changed.
With only 42 kilometres to go, the lead had dropped to 2'15. Milram and T-Mobile were helping to push things forward so that their sprinters could battle it out at the end.
The day saw its third rider drop out, as Liquigas' Roman Kreuziger decided to stop.
The lead at 28 kilometres had dropped to 70 seconds, as it started to sprinkle lightly. The peloton will probably let the group dangle out there alone a little while longer in its cat-and-mouse game, before pouncing and clearing the way for the sprinters.
With just a little over 12 kilometres to go, the peloton swallowed up four of the escapees. Stalder refused to accept his fate and continued on ahead in the light rain.
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The magenta trikots of T-Mobile spearheaded the peloton as it passed the 10-kilometre marker. The next attacks came instantly: Marten Den Bakker of Skil-Shimano and Niki Terpstra, who wears the mountain jersey over his Milram kit. They passed Stalder who is finally absorbed back into the field. The two Dutchmen weren't able to get more than a 10 second lead, and the peloton rolled by them at five kilometres.
Caisse d'Epargne and Wiesenhof-Felt showed themselves at the head, but as expected, most of the work was done by Milram and T-Mobile, followed closely by Gerolsteiner.
The stage had a difficult finish, bringing the riders around 180 degree-corner in the last kilometre with a series of left hand turns, bad enough under normal circumstances, but potentially very dangerous on these wet roads. Fortunately, all the riders were able to stay upright.
The complicated course reduced the sprint preparations to the last 500 metres. Lampre-Fondital opened the festivities, but André Greipel did his work perfectly, allowing his young sprinter teammate Gerald Ciolek to break into the lead with 200 metres to go. Once again, the bullish young man was able to power his way to the finish line and take the win by two bike lengths, with his hands raised in the air and a huge smile on his face.
The young champion beat the old champion, as Erik Zabel took second. José Joaquín Rojas of Caisse d'Epargne finished third.
Photography
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- Gerald Ciolek (T-Mobile) wins in the rain
- It's always nice to win and even nicer to win twice
- Gerald Ciolek powers away with the stage seven win
- Victory again Ciolek took the bunch sprint for the second consecutive day
- Ciolek looks surprised to have one two days in a row
- Jens Voigt has had lots of kisses since taking the leader's jersey on stage two
- Ciolek gets his second podium visit in as many days
- Erik Zabel (Milram) took over the sprinters' jersey
Results
1 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4.08.20 2 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 3 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 Aurélien Clerc (Sui) Bouygues Telecom 5 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 6 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 7 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 8 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 9 Sven Teutenberg (Ger) Team Volksbank 10 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 13 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Volksbank 14 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 15 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 16 Martin Elmiger (Sui) AG2r Prévoyance 17 Patrick Calcagni (Sui) Liquigas 18 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 19 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 20 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 21 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 22 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 23 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 24 André Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 25 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 26 René Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 27 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 28 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 29 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 30 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 31 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 32 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 33 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 33 Gil Suray (Bel) Unibet.com 35 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 36 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 37 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 38 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 39 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Liquigas 40 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 41 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 42 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 43 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 44 Bingen Fernandez Bustinza (Spa) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 45 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux 46 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 47 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 48 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 49 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Team Milram 50 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 51 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 52 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 53 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance 54 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas 55 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 56 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 57 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 58 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 59 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 60 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Predictor-Lotto 61 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 62 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 63 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 64 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank 65 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 66 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 67 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Team 68 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 69 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 70 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 71 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 72 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 73 Maarten Wijnants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 74 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 75 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 76 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 77 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Gerolsteiner 78 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 79 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 80 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 81 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 82 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 83 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 84 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 85 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 86 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 87 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 88 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 89 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 90 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 91 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 92 Markus Zberg (Sui) Gerolsteiner 93 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 94 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 95 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 96 Steffen Wesemann (Sui) Team Wiesenhof Felt 97 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 98 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 99 Mariusz Witecki (Pol) Team Volksbank 100 Addy Engels (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic 101 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 102 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 103 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 104 Christian Pfannberger (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 105 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 106 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 107 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 108 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 109 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 110 Unai Uribarri Artabe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 111 Dionisio Galparsoro Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 112 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 113 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 114 Rubens Bertogliati (Sui) Saunier Duval-Prodir 115 Jon Bru Pascal (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 116 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 117 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano 118 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 119 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 120 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 121 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 122 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 123 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 124 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2r Prévoyance 125 Bart Dockx (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 126 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 127 Ian Mcleod (RSA) Française des Jeux 128 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 129 Florian Stalder (Sui) Team Volksbank 130 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 131 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 132 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 0.27 133 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 134 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 0.29 135 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 0.40 136 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 1.00 137 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval-Prodir 138 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 139 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) Française des Jeux 1.04 140 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 141 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 142 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 143 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 144 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2r Prévoyance 145 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 146 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 147 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 148 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 149 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 150 Guido Trentin (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 151 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 152 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 153 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 154 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 155 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 156 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 157 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 158 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 159 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 160 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 161 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 162 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 163 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 164 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 165 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2.31 166 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 3.09 167 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 3.21 DNF Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas DNF Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor-Lotto DNF Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon DNF Björn Leukemans (Bel) Predictor-Lotto Points Zielsprint - km 192,2 1 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 25 pts 2 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 20 3 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 16 4 Aurélien Clerc (Sui) Bouygues Telecom 13 5 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 11 6 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 10 7 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 9 8 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 8 9 Sven Teutenberg (Ger) Team Volksbank 7 10 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 11 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5 12 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 4 13 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Volksbank 3 14 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 2 15 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Sprintwertung - km 123,6 1 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 pts 2 René Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 4 3 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2 Sprintwertung - km 91,6 1 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 pts 2 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 4 3 Florian Stalder (Sui) Team Volksbank 2 Sprintwertung - km 24,7 1 René Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 6 pts 2 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 3 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2 Mountains 1 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 pts 2 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 2 3 Florian Stalder (Sui) Team Volksbank 1 Young rider 1 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4.08.20 2 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 4 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 5 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 6 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 André Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 8 René Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 9 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 10 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 11 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 12 Gil Suray (Bel) Unibet.com 13 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 14 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 15 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 16 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 17 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 18 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 19 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 20 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 21 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 22 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 23 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 24 Maarten Wijnants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 25 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 26 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Gerolsteiner 27 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 28 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 29 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 30 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 31 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 32 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 33 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 34 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 35 Unai Uribarri Artabe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 36 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 37 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 38 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 39 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2r Prévoyance 40 Florian Stalder (Sui) Team Volksbank 41 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 42 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 0.29 43 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 0.40 44 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 1.00 45 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.04 46 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 47 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 48 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 49 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 50 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 51 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 52 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 53 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 54 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2.31 55 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 3.09 Teams 1 Team Volksbank 12.25.00 2 Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 Team Wiesenhof Felt 4 Caisse d'Epargne 5 Bouygues Telecom 6 Elk Haus-Simplon 7 T-Mobile Team 8 Liquigas 9 AG2r Prévoyance 10 Lampre-Fondital 11 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 12 Unibet.com 13 Française des Jeux 14 Gerolsteiner 15 Predictor-Lotto 16 Team Milram 17 Quickstep-Innergetic 18 Rabobank 19 Crédit Agricole 20 Skil-Shimano 21 Team CSC 22 Cofidis 23 Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.00 General classification after stage 7 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 27.00.44 2 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.33 3 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 1.14 4 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 1.24 5 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.31 6 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas 2.19 7 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 2.34 8 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.48 9 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 3.27 10 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 3.45 11 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Predictor-Lotto 4.30 12 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 4.33 13 Christian Pfannberger (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 4.34 14 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 4.35 15 Martin Elmiger (Sui) AG2r Prévoyance 4.37 16 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 4.40 17 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 5.02 18 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5.03 19 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 5.09 20 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 21 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 5.16 22 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 5.22 23 Florian Stalder (Sui) Team Volksbank 5.26 24 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5.49 25 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6.07 26 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 6.10 27 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 6.11 28 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 6.21 29 René Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 6.22 30 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 31 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 6.32 32 Rubens Bertogliati (Sui) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6.38 33 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 6.47 34 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 7.05 35 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 7.16 36 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 7.20 37 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 7.24 38 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7.40 39 Patrick Calcagni (Sui) Liquigas 7.41 40 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 7.54 41 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 8.11 42 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 8.56 43 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 8.58 44 Jon Bru Pascal (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9.11 45 Dionisio Galparsoro Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9.49 46 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 10.00 47 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10.13 48 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 10.27 49 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 10.32 50 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 11.08 51 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 11.17 52 Addy Engels (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic 11.38 53 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 11.44 54 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 12.23 55 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2r Prévoyance 12.34 56 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 13.07 57 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 13.47 58 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Team 13.48 59 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 13.52 60 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 13.54 61 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 14.08 62 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 14.45 63 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2r Prévoyance 14.46 64 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 15.16 65 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 15.19 66 Gil Suray (Bel) Unibet.com 15.32 67 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 15.46 68 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 15.49 69 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Team Milram 15.53 70 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 16.23 71 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano 16.28 72 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance 16.42 73 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 17.17 74 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 17.19 75 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank 17.21 76 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 17.22 77 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 17.23 78 Bingen Fernandez Bustinza (Spa) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 18.13 79 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 18.33 80 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 18.44 81 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 19.05 82 Steffen Wesemann (Sui) Team Wiesenhof Felt 19.10 83 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) Française des Jeux 19.16 84 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 19.45 85 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 20.09 86 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 20.17 87 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 21.07 88 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 21.11 89 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 21.12 90 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 21.43 91 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 22.35 92 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 23.49 93 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25.14 94 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 26.23 95 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 26.28 96 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 27.00 97 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 27.25 98 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 29.13 99 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 29.20 100 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 29.38 101 Mariusz Witecki (Pol) Team Volksbank 29.47 102 Maarten Wijnants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 29.55 103 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 29.59 104 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 30.02 105 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 30.03 106 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 30.36 107 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval-Prodir 31.08 108 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 31.24 109 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 31.30 110 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 31.31 111 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 31.33 112 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 31.59 113 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Gerolsteiner 32.43 114 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 33.07 115 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 33.18 116 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 33.26 117 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 34.09 118 Ian Mcleod (RSA) Française des Jeux 34.32 119 Markus Zberg (Sui) Gerolsteiner 35.24 120 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 35.44 121 Guido Trentin (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 35.59 122 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 36.18 123 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 37.17 124 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 38.22 125 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 38.24 126 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 127 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux 38.33 128 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 39.13 129 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 39.32 130 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 39.37 131 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 132 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 39.38 133 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 39.40 134 Aurélien Clerc (Sui) Bouygues Telecom 40.01 135 Bart Dockx (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 40.07 136 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 40.16 137 Unai Uribarri Artabe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 40.49 138 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 40.52 139 André Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 41.21 140 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 42.30 141 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 44.01 142 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 44.15 143 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 44.42 144 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 44.45 145 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 44.48 146 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 46.41 147 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 47.34 148 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 49.29 149 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Volksbank 49.33 150 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 49.38 151 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 50.06 152 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 50.17 153 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 50.22 154 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 51.49 155 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 52.19 156 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 53.19 157 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 54.22 158 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 54.35 159 Sven Teutenberg (Ger) Team Volksbank 54.54 160 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 55.55 161 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 56.33 162 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Liquigas 57.50 163 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 57.54 164 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 58.11 165 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 58.47 166 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 1.02.29 167 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.05.46 Points classification 1 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 78 pts 2 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 78 3 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 63 4 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 51 5 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 41 6 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 38 7 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 37 8 Aurélien Clerc (Sui) Bouygues Telecom 30 9 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 25 10 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 25 11 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 24 12 Patrick Calcagni (Sui) Liquigas 22 13 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 21 14 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) Française des Jeux 20 15 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 18 16 René Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 17 17 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 17 18 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano 16 19 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 20 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 16 21 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 16 22 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 16 23 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 15 24 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 14 25 Mariusz Witecki (Pol) Team Volksbank 14 26 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 14 27 Martin Elmiger (Sui) AG2r Prévoyance 14 28 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 14 29 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 13 30 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 12 31 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Volksbank 12 32 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 11 33 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 11 34 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas 10 35 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 10 36 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 9 37 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 9 38 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 9 39 Christian Pfannberger (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 8 40 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 8 41 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 7 42 Florian Stalder (Sui) Team Volksbank 7 43 Sven Teutenberg (Ger) Team Volksbank 7 44 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 6 45 Bingen Fernandez Bustinza (Spa) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 6 46 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 6 47 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Predictor-Lotto 6 48 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 6 49 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 5 50 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 5 51 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 4 52 Jon Bru Pascal (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 53 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 4 54 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2r Prévoyance 4 55 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 4 56 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 4 57 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 4 58 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 4 59 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 60 Gil Suray (Bel) Unibet.com 3 61 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 62 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 63 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2 64 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 2 65 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 2 66 André Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2 67 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 2 68 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 2 Mountains classification 1 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 23 pts 2 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 15 3 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 12 4 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 12 5 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 12 6 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 9 7 Jon Bru Pascal (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 8 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 8 9 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 8 10 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 6 11 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 4 12 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano 4 13 Mariusz Witecki (Pol) Team Volksbank 3 14 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 15 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 3 16 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 3 17 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 2 18 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 2 19 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 2 20 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 2 21 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1 22 Florian Stalder (Sui) Team Volksbank 1 23 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 24 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 1 Young rider classification 1 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 27.01.58 2 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 0.10 3 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 2.31 4 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 3.21 5 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3.55 6 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 4.02 7 Florian Stalder (Sui) Team Volksbank 4.12 8 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4.53 9 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4.56 10 René Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 5.08 11 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 12 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 6.02 13 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6.26 14 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 9.54 15 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 10.03 16 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 10.30 17 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 12.54 18 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2r Prévoyance 13.32 19 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 14.02 20 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 14.05 21 Gil Suray (Bel) Unibet.com 14.18 22 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 14.32 23 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 16.09 24 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 17.19 25 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 17.51 26 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 19.03 27 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 19.53 28 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 19.57 29 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 22.35 30 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 25.14 31 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 28.06 32 Maarten Wijnants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 28.41 33 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 28.48 34 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 30.16 35 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 30.17 36 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 30.19 37 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 30.45 38 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Gerolsteiner 31.29 39 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 31.53 40 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 32.55 41 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 35.04 42 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 36.03 43 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 37.10 44 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 38.18 45 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 38.23 46 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 47 Unai Uribarri Artabe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 39.35 48 André Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 40.07 49 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 41.16 50 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 43.01 51 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 43.31 52 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 45.27 53 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 48.15 54 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 52.05 55 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 55.19 Teams classification 1 Team CSC 81.09.02 2 Caisse d'Epargne 4.15 3 Rabobank 6.05 4 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7.17 5 Gerolsteiner 7.54 6 Unibet.com 8.38 7 Liquigas 8 Lampre-Fondital 10.13 9 AG2r Prévoyance 10.22 10 Cofidis 11.44 11 Predictor-Lotto 12.55 12 Elk Haus-Simplon 15.12 13 Quickstep-Innergetic 17.32 14 T-Mobile Team 20.28 15 Euskaltel-Euskadi 26.07 16 Saunier Duval-Prodir 28.27 17 Française des Jeux 32.28 18 Team Volksbank 33.10 19 Skil-Shimano 33.15 20 Crédit Agricole 33.29 21 Team Milram 48.36 22 Bouygues Telecom 51.47 23 Team Wiesenhof Felt 54.49
