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10th Deutschland Tour - ProT
Germany, August 10-18, 2007
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Stage 2 - August 11: Bretten TTT, 42.2km
CSC all the way, yellow to Voigt
By Susan Westemeyer, with additional reporting from Bjorn Haake in Bretten
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The leader's jersey at the Deutschland Tour changed hands from one German to another, ending up with last year's winner Jens Voigt of Team CSC. Fabian Cancellera led the team over the finish line, but Voigt took the leader's jersey based on the one-second time bonus he picked up in an intermediate sprint in the first stage. The Danish team won the team time trial in a time of 51.09, with Discovery Channel finishing second, 25 seconds back, and Team Gerolsteiner third.
"Everything went well today, even though there was a lot of pressure on us as the favourite," Voigt said after the stage. "The course was very challenging and almost disgustingly hilly. That makes me all the happier to have the jersey."
He may have been happy to have the jersey, but didn't wear it to the post-stage press conference ("too warm"). He told race organiser Kai Rapp, "You picked a hard course. It went up right from the beginning. The second part was flatter, on good wide roads."
It was the first team time trial ever held in a Deutschland Tour. As usual, time was marked at the arrival of the fifth rider crossing the line. Some teams, such as CSC, made it in with all eight riders, while others had only the necessary five.
The technically demanding course started in the old town of Bretten, a picturesque setting with half-timbered houses and narrow, hilly roads. It later went through a forest, where the road was still wet from the previous day's rain, and eventually past the area's famous vineyards. Had the riders had time, they could have looked up at the hills surrounding them, laden with grape vines. There were no ranked climbs on the course, but it was rarely flat.
How it unfolded
Warmer temperatures and dryer conditions greeted the riders Saturday afternoon, even if the sun played hide-and-seek much of the time. The controversial Austrian Team Elk Haus-Simplon was first off the starters' ramp. The Professional Continental team had its wild-card invitation rescinded earlier in the week, but forced its way back in with a preliminary injunction. An appeal of that injunction is scheduled for Wednesday, but until then, the team can start. It hadn't expected to do well in the team time trial, which it rarely if ever has to ride, and finished dead last, three and a half minutes slower than the winner and nearly thirty seconds behind the next-slowest team, Credit Agricole.
The third team to start was Rabobank, which set the first notable mark, finishing in 52.35. The Dutch team ended up a respectable sixth.
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Starting sixth, Discovery Channel blasted its way along the course. No doubt the riders were hoping for good performances to recommend themselves to new employers, in light of yesterday's announcement that the team would stop at the end of the season. It set new best times at both checkpoints. Levi Leipheimer led five of his team-mates over the finish line in 52.06, nearly 40 seconds faster than previous leader Rabobank.
The American team's time was to stand for a long time, but there were indications of what was to come. CSC set a new record at the first time check, five seconds faster than Discovery after only 21.6 km. Sprinter Juan Jose Haedo had already given up the struggle to stay with his team-mates by that point.
The next team to start was T-Mobile, which is celebrating its sponsor's decision to honour its contract through 2010. The team's equipment didn't honour its part of the deal though, with two flat tires hurting the team. Gerald Ciolek was the first victim, puncturing early on. The team waited for its young sprinter, which threw it down to seventh place at the first time check. The second puncture did more damage, as it took out Marco Pinotti, a time trial specialist who is now Italy's time-trial champion, following the doping disqualification of Luca Ascani. The team had been counting on Pinotti to lead it on the stage. In his absence, Ciolek led four of his team-mates across the finish in a time of 52.39, fifth overall.
T-Mobile was followed by Team Volksbank, another Austrian Professional Continental team with little experience in team time trials. It came in 16th, at 54.29, a result with which the team was more than satisfied. "We had an uncomfortable feeling going it, but it went very well," said team manager Thomas Kofler. "It was surely an advantage that we had ridden the course in the morning." He was proud of his riders. "When you consider that we didn't have any specialists on our team, then I think that we did exceptionally well."
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Meanwhile, Team Gerolsteiner took off in the sunshine, which was reflected in Robert Förster's yellow jersey, shoe covers and sunglass frames. The sprinter knew that his stay in the leader's jersey would be a short one and hoped just to come in with his team-mates at the end.
CSC set another new best time at the second check point, four seconds ahead of Discovery Channel.
Milram, with its team full of sprinters, came in a surprising fifth at the first time check. That exactly fulfilled the expectations of team captain Erik Zabel, who picked his team to finish fifth overall. However, it lost two riders fairy early on, Enrico Poitschke and Ralf Grabsch who had admitted before the race that he had slept badly the night before because of worrying about the stage. Milram was unable to hold its good position and Zabel led the team across the finish line in 53.13, ninth overall. The two stragglers came in together over six and a half minutes down.
Yet another Professional Continental team, Skil-Shimano, which had started next to last, held that position, coming in next to last at the first time check. It rallied to finish 18th.
Gerolsteiner came into the first time check with seven riders, in the fifth fastest time. All seven of those riders then stayed together until the end, where they astounded their own team management by finishing third, only 55 seconds slower than CSC. "Third place is sensational for us," said team manager Hans-Michael Holczer. The team had previously specialised in time trials, but the retirements of Michael Rich and Uwe Peschel change that.
The clear winner of the day was CSC, which had been favoured going in. Or, as the team modestly put it, "Team CSC once again proved to be an excellent team time trial outfit."
Sunday's third stage runs 181.8 km from Pforzheim to Offenburg through the northern part of the Black Forest. The whole course is up-and-down, with two Cat. 1 climbs, but the long flat ride in to the finish might well provide a sprint finish.
Photography
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Images by Bjorn Haake/Cyclingnews.com
- George Hincapie warms up.
- Levi Leipheimer anxious to start.
- The Discovery line-up or at least six of them.
- Off they go!
- Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step-Innergetic) looks after his team.
- A last minute wheel change brimgs hectic into Bouygues Telecom.
- Juan José Oroz (Euskaltel-Euskadi) affirms that he will ride today.
- Puttin on the fighting gloves.
- Robert Wagner (Wiesenhof-Felt) seems to feel the weight of being last.
- Steffen Wesemann (Wiesenhof-Felt) relaxing after the sign-in.
- Wiesenhof is ready for some chicken.
- Do you want to switch heart rate monitors and confuse our coaches?
- Give the heart rate monitor to me. Now.
- Euskaltel was happy with the start. It went uphill right away.
- Caisse d'Epargne riders wait after signing in.
- Levi Leipheimer (Discovery) warms up
- George Hincapie (Discovery) rolls to the weigh-in area.
- Tom Danielson (Discovery) in the start area.
- Danielson a few moments away from lining up on the start line.
- Leipheimer before the race of the truth which to some feels like hell.
- Levi decided to move the whole team to the left one minute before the start.
- When the captain talks everyone listens
- and then everyone moves to the left...
- But they were lined-up alright to start the second stage on time.
- Discovery takes off with power.
- Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step-Innergetic) his helmet makes up for the missing rainbow jersey.
- Bettini before the start.
- The Italian opts for regular bars with a TT extension.
- Française des Jeux takes off.
- Saunier Duval gets ready.
- Yann Huguet (Cofidis) heading to the weighing procedure.
- One of the last team time trials for the Discovery team.
- Maarten Wynants (Quick.Step-Innergetic) before the start.
- The Belgian must have a light-hearted radio program.
- The world champion Bettini is not thrilled about time trialing.
- Bettini adjusts the antenna which broadcasts the instructions to racing on the German roads.
- The Française des Jeux bottles contain gyummy stuff that make you lick your tongue.
- It is the road ahead that doesn't look like a delicatessen.
- Machine and legs are ready for the 42 kilometres.
- Française des Jeux starts with full energy in front of a "bikes prohibited" sign.
- Angel Gomez (Saunier Duval) is the reigning time trial champion.
- Saunier Duval at the start.
- This team was riding to raise money for SOS Kinderdoerfer.
- Some rolled up their sleeves and could not wait to start the time trial.
- while others were hot even before the start.
- The back numbers featured the new slogan (Stay clean - live clean). This is the back of Joan Horrach.
- André Greipel (T-Mobile) at the sign-in.
- Gerald Ciolek (T-Mobile) gets his bike weighed. He suffered a flat on the course.
- The riders who finished were dripping wet on a humid day.
- André Greipel (T-Mobile) all smiles before the start.
- Giuseppe Guerini (T-Mobile) aligns his jersey to be more aerodynamic.
- Philipp Ludescher in white as the best young rider. He was in the break yesterday.
- As Mugerli still warms up a happy Unibet rider already returned from the day's work.
- Erik Zabel (Milram) gets the thumbs up before the start.
- Zabel sprinted right from the start to lead his team into the first corner.
- Matej Mugerli (Liquigas) was in no danger to lose his polka dot, even though there was a hill right from the start.
- The devil cools off with some ice cream.
- Unibet has some question marks about its sponsorship, which should be answered this week.
- George Hincapie after the race.
- Mugerli and Liquigas take off.
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Fondital) before the start.
- The Italian concentrates before the start.
- Napolitano all smiles despite not getting the victory yesterday.
- Robert Förster (Gerolsteiner) heads to the chair after signing in.
- Gerolsteiner before the start.
- And off they go.
- Förster enjoyed the day in yellow.
- Euskaltel at the finish happy to have survived a race that is not the strength of the Basques.
- Caisse d'Epargne in the roundabout after the finish, checking the large screen TV to their right.
- World Champion Fabian Cancellara takes off his helmet on a humid day.
- Jens, where did you say were the chairs?
- Voigt wipes off the sweat.
- Schleck, Cancellara, Voigt after the race.
- Cancellara cools down with no more desire to listen to anything o the headphones.
- Marco Pinotti (T-Mobile) flatted and had to finish by himself.
- The Italian was dripping wet from his solo effort.
- The time trial helmets with antenna do look a bit funky.
- Rolf Aldag checks out the gearing of this bike. The Magentas didn't have a stress-free ride with two flats.
- Gerdemann with spokesman Stefan Wagner.
- Gerdemann interviewed by German TV.
- Napolitano finished by himself
- Gerolsteiners arrived in third place.
- Matthias Russ (Gerolsteiner) finds out he has to go to the doping control.
- His number was held up as they finished, but he was able to get a bottle of Gerolsteiner Apfelsaftschorle.
- Then the Chaperon accompanied him all the way to the bathroom.
- CSC heads to podium after beating all the other teams.
- Voigt and Julich often room together and aren't far from each other on the podium, either.
- Bobby Julich (CSC) is an outstanding time trialer.
- Bobby Julich in the centre of his team-mates.
- The winning CSC formation.
- Jens Voigt (CSC) won a one second time bonus yesterday, which makes him the leader of his team.
- Jens Voigt tries on the leader's jersey
- Jens Voigt is happy to be back in the lead.
- Robert Förster smiles as he is back in 'his' jersey for best sprinter.
- Förster won yesterday and there were no points today.
- Bobby Julich (CSC) walks back from the podium.
- Matej Mugerli (Liquigas) is still leading the mountains classification.
- Fabian Cancellara shares a laugh with a friend as he heads back from the podium.
- The Swiss kept the flowers on his handle bars unlike others who threw them to the spectators.
- Andy Schleck is the best young rider rider.
- The rider from Luxembourg enjoyed the podium ceremonies.
Results
1 Fabian Cancellara (Sui) Team CSC 51.40 (49.0 km/h) 2 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 3 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 4 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 0.00 5 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 0.00 6 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.00 7 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 0.00 8 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.25 9 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.25 10 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.26 11 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.26 12 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.26 13 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.26 14 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.55 15 Markus Zberg (Sui) Gerolsteiner 0.55 16 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.55 17 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 0.55 18 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.56 19 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.56 20 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.56 21 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.56 22 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.57 23 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.57 24 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.57 25 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 26 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 27 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 0.57 28 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.58 29 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.59 30 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 0.59 31 André Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.59 32 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.59 33 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Team 34 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 1.03 35 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 36 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 1.03 37 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 1.03 38 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 1.04 39 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 40 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 1.04 41 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 1.11 42 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas 1.20 43 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 44 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 1.20 45 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 1.20 46 Patrick Calcagni (Sui) Liquigas 47 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 1.20 48 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 1.20 49 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.23 50 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.23 51 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.23 52 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 53 Bingen Fernandez Bustinza (Spa) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.23 54 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.23 55 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.27 56 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 1.32 57 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 1.32 58 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2r Prévoyance 1.32 59 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Team Milram 1.33 60 René Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 61 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.33 62 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 1.33 63 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2r Prévoyance 64 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 65 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 66 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance 1.33 67 Martin Elmiger (Sui) AG2r Prévoyance 1.33 68 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.33 69 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 1.44 70 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.47 71 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux 72 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) Française des Jeux 1.47 73 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 1.47 74 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.47 75 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 1.47 76 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 1.50 77 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 1.50 78 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 79 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 1.50 80 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 81 Addy Engels (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic 82 Maarten Wijnants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 1.51 83 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 1.53 84 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 1.53 85 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Unibet.com 1.53 86 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 1.53 87 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 88 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 1.54 89 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 2.15 90 Steffen Wesemann (Sui) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2.17 91 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 92 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2.17 93 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 94 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2.18 95 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2.18 96 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2.19 97 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2.19 98 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2.35 99 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.35 100 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 101 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.35 102 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 103 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 2.35 104 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 105 Florian Stalder (Sui) Team Volksbank 2.49 106 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank 107 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 2.49 108 Mariusz Witecki (Pol) Team Volksbank 2.49 109 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 110 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank 2.50 111 Sven Teutenberg (Ger) Team Volksbank 2.50 112 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.50 113 Aurélien Clerc (Sui) Bouygues Telecom 114 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.50 115 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.50 116 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.50 117 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2.51 118 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano 119 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 2.51 120 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 2.51 121 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2.51 122 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 2.52 123 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.52 124 Unai Uribarri Artabe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.52 125 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 2.52 126 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.52 127 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.52 128 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 129 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 2.53 130 Dionisio Galparsoro Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 131 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 132 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Predictor-Lotto 2.53 133 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 134 Jon Bru Pascal (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.53 135 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 2.53 136 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 137 Bart Dockx (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 2.53 138 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 2.53 139 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.55 140 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.55 141 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.56 142 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.56 143 Rubens Bertogliati (Sui) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.56 144 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.56 145 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.00 146 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 147 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.00 148 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 3.00 149 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.00 150 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 3.00 151 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 3.00 152 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.01 153 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 3.29 154 Christian Pfannberger (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 3.29 155 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 156 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 3.29 157 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 3.30 158 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 3.30 159 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 3.30 160 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 3.30 161 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.16 162 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Gerolsteiner 5.20 163 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5.26 164 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 5.37 165 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Volksbank 5.42 166 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Liquigas 5.42 167 Ian Mcleod (RSA) Française des Jeux 5.52 168 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 5.53 169 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 6.39 170 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 6.39 171 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7.01 172 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 7.10 173 Gil Suray (Bel) Unibet.com 7.17 174 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 7.17 175 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7.27 176 Kaoru Ouchi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 7.31 177 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 7.31 178 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 7.33 179 Guido Trentin (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7.35 180 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 8.31 181 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 8.37 DNS Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre-Fondital Young rider 1 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 51.40 2 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 3 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.26 4 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.55 5 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.56 6 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.57 7 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 9 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.59 10 André Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 11 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 12 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 1.03 13 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 14 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 1.11 15 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 1.20 16 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 17 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.23 18 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 19 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 20 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 21 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 22 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.27 23 René Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 1.33 24 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 25 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2r Prévoyance 26 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 27 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.47 28 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 29 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 30 Maarten Wijnants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 1.50 31 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 1.53 32 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 33 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Unibet.com 34 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2.17 35 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 36 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 37 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.35 38 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 39 Florian Stalder (Sui) Team Volksbank 2.49 40 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 41 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.50 42 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 43 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 44 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 45 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 2.51 46 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 47 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 48 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 49 Unai Uribarri Artabe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.52 50 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 51 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 52 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 2.53 53 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.56 54 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 3.00 55 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 3.29 56 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 57 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Gerolsteiner 5.20 58 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7.01 59 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 7.10 60 Gil Suray (Bel) Unibet.com 7.17 61 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 62 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 7.31 Teams 1 Team CSC 2.35.00 2 Discovery Channel 1.18 3 Gerolsteiner 2.45 4 Caisse d'Epargne 2.51 5 T-Mobile Professional Cycling 2.57 6 Rabobank 3.09 7 Liquigas 4.00 8 Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 4.09 9 Team Milram 4.39 10 AG2r Prévoyance 11 Française des Jeux 5.21 12 Quickstep-Innergetic 5.30 13 Unibet.com 5.39 14 Team Wiesenhof Felt 6.51 15 Lampre-Fondital 7.45 16 Team Volksbank 8.27 17 Bouygues Telecom 8.30 18 Skil-Shimano 8.33 19 Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.36 20 Predictor-Lotto 21 Saunier Duval-Prodir 8.48 22 Crédit Agricole 9.00 23 Elk Haus-Simplon 10.27 General classification after stage 2 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 5.15.55 2 Fabian Cancellara (Sui) Team CSC 0.01 3 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 4 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 5 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 7 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 8 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.27 9 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 10 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 11 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 12 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 13 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 14 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.46 15 Markus Zberg (Sui) Gerolsteiner 0.56 16 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 17 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 18 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 19 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.57 20 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 21 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.58 22 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 23 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 24 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 25 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 26 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 27 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 28 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 29 André Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.59 30 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.00 31 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 32 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Team 33 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 34 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 1.04 35 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 36 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 37 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 38 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 39 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 40 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 1.05 41 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 1.12 42 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 1.16 43 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 1.21 44 Patrick Calcagni (Sui) Liquigas 45 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas 46 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 47 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 48 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 49 Bingen Fernandez Bustinza (Spa) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.24 50 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 51 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 52 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 53 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 54 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 55 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.28 56 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 1.30 57 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.34 58 Martin Elmiger (Sui) AG2r Prévoyance 59 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 60 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance 61 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 62 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Team Milram 63 René Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 64 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 65 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 66 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2r Prévoyance 67 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 68 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2r Prévoyance 69 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 1.44 70 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) Française des Jeux 1.48 71 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 72 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux 73 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 74 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 75 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 76 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 1.51 77 Addy Engels (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic 78 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 79 Maarten Wijnants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 80 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 81 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 82 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 83 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 1.54 84 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 85 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 86 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Unibet.com 87 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 88 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 89 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 2.16 90 Steffen Wesemann (Sui) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2.18 91 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 92 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 93 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 94 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2.19 95 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2.20 96 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2.35 97 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.36 98 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 99 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 100 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 101 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 102 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 103 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2.44 104 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 2.47 105 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 2.50 106 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank 107 Florian Stalder (Sui) Team Volksbank 108 Mariusz Witecki (Pol) Team Volksbank 109 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank 110 Aurélien Clerc (Sui) Bouygues Telecom 2.51 111 Sven Teutenberg (Ger) Team Volksbank 112 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 113 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 114 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 115 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 116 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2.52 117 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 118 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 119 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 120 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 121 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.53 122 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 123 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 124 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 125 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 126 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 127 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 128 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Predictor-Lotto 129 Dionisio Galparsoro Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 130 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 131 Unai Uribarri Artabe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 132 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 2.54 133 Bart Dockx (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 134 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 135 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 136 Jon Bru Pascal (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 137 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.57 138 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 139 Rubens Bertogliati (Sui) Saunier Duval-Prodir 140 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval-Prodir 141 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Saunier Duval-Prodir 142 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 143 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 3.01 144 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 145 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 146 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 147 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 148 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 149 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 150 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 151 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 3.25 152 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 3.30 153 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 154 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 155 Christian Pfannberger (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 156 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 157 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 3.31 158 Harald Starzengruber (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 159 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 160 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 3.47 161 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.17 162 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Gerolsteiner 5.21 163 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5.27 164 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 5.38 165 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Volksbank 5.43 166 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Liquigas 167 Ian Mcleod (RSA) Française des Jeux 5.53 168 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 5.54 169 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 6.39 170 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 6.40 171 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7.02 172 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 7.11 173 Gil Suray (Bel) Unibet.com 7.18 174 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 175 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7.28 176 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 7.32 177 Kaoru Ouchi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 178 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 7.34 179 Guido Trentin (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7.36 180 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 8.32 181 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team Points classification 1 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 25 pts 2 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 20 3 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 16 4 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano 16 5 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 13 6 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 11 7 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 10 8 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 10 9 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Volksbank 9 10 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8 11 Aurélien Clerc (Sui) Bouygues Telecom 7 12 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 6 13 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 6 14 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 5 15 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 16 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) Française des Jeux 3 17 André Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2 18 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2 19 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 2 20 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Mountains classification 1 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 6 pts 2 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano 4 3 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 2 Young rider classification 1 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 5.15.56 2 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 3 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.26 4 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.55 5 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.56 6 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.57 7 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 9 André Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.58 10 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.59 11 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 12 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 1.03 13 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 14 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 1.11 15 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 1.20 16 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas 17 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.23 18 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 19 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 20 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 21 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 22 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.27 23 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.33 24 René Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 25 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 26 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2r Prévoyance 27 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 1.47 28 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 29 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 30 Maarten Wijnants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 1.50 31 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 1.53 32 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Unibet.com 33 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 34 Christian Leben (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 2.17 35 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 36 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.35 37 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 38 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 2.46 39 Florian Stalder (Sui) Team Volksbank 2.49 40 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.50 41 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 42 Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 43 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 44 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 2.51 45 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 46 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 47 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 48 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.52 49 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 50 Unai Uribarri Artabe (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 51 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 2.53 52 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.56 53 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 3.00 54 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 3.29 55 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon 56 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 3.46 57 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Gerolsteiner 5.20 58 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7.01 59 Davide Vigano (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 7.10 60 Gil Suray (Bel) Unibet.com 7.17 61 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 62 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 7.31 Team classification 1 Team CSC 15.47.48 2 Discovery Channel 1.18 3 Gerolsteiner 2.45 4 Caisse d'Epargne 2.51 5 T-Mobile Professional Cycling 2.57 6 Rabobank 3.09 7 Liquigas 4.00 8 Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 4.09 9 Team Milram 4.39 10 AG2r Prévoyance 11 Française des Jeux 5.21 12 Quickstep-Innergetic 5.30 13 Unibet.com 5.39 14 Team Wiesenhof Felt 6.51 15 Lampre-Fondital 7.45 16 Team Volksbank 8.27 17 Bouygues Telecom 8.30 18 Skil-Shimano 8.33 19 Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.36 20 Predictor-Lotto 21 Saunier Duval-Prodir 8.48 22 Crédit Agricole 9.00 23 Elk Haus-Simplon 10.27
