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12th Vattenfall Cyclassics - ProT
Germany, August 19, 2007
Main Page Results Live report ProTour standings
Ballan blasts off for shocking Hamburg win
Sprinters foiled as crash mars finish
By Gregor Brown and Bjorn Haake
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Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital) has continued his bash of a season by putting his stamp on yet another big win, the 12th Hamburg Cyclassics. On the sunny streets of Hamburg, following a crash at the two-kilometre marker, the 27 year-old Italian darted away seemingly unintentionally at 500 metres remaining. The winner of this spring's Ronde van Vlaanderen held his gap over the final metres and looked back one last moment to see the charge of Gerald Ciolek (T-Mobile) on his right, third, while 2006 winner Oscar Freire (Rabobank) came on Ballan's left for second.
"I was not really thinking about it," said the rider from Castelfranco after the win. "I was thinking about [Daniele] Bennati [for the sprint]. I really did not think I could do it, seriously."
Ballan had indicated his form was on target two weeks prior in the Basque one-day Clásica San Sebastián. "I left the Tour [de France] in good shape, then a fourth place in San Sebastián. I continued to ride well and came here with good form."
As normal, the final artilleries were fired after the group was whittled down over the third ascent of the Waseberg. German champion Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner) and 2005 winner Filippo Pozzato (Liquigas) helped form the final selection but it was one that swelled as the riders approached Hamburg.
Pablo Lastras (Caisse d'Epargne), Jussi Veikkanen (Française Des Jeux), Riccardo Riccò (Saunier Duval-Prodir), Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step Innergetic), Jens Voigt (Team CSC) and Wegmann formed the most dangerous move but it was only for a brief time. It was the Aussie/Russian duo of Simon Gerrans (Ag2r Prévoyance) and Vladimir Gusev (Discovery Channel), attacking at 6.5 kilometres to go, that looked like it could go the distance.
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Gerrans and Gusev teetered on the brink of success and failure as the mighty magenta squad of T-Mobile was gearing up for in-form Gerald Ciolek. Rabobank for Freire and Lampre for Daniele Bennati were there as well and the fans along Hamburg streets were ready for a sprint show-down. However, another massive crash put paid to a 'bunch' sprint.
Claudio Corioni (Lampre-Fondital) went flying on the right side of the road at two kilometres remaining and came down tangled with Norwegian Thor Hushovd (Crédit Agricole). The damage seemed to hamper Lampre's chances while Rabobank's Juan Antonio Flecha held the pole position for compatriot Freire and put the end to Gerrans and Gusev's break.
Flecha and company were surprised when a Lampre rider blasted off at 500 metres out, through a semi-curve. The move was made by Ballan but it was unconvincing as he looked over his left shoulder seeming to decide if the move was worth it or if he should wait to lead out Bennati. As the sun beat down from the back, Ballan saw his gap and decided to put the gas into his move.
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He shifted across the road, continuing to jam hard down the left side. He looked back periodically to gauge his gap. A final check over his right shoulder at the last moment saw Ciolek charging. The German could not catch Ballan, finishing third, while 2006 winner, Freire, snuck up on Ballan's left for second.
"That's a big success for me, I am very happy to be third here in such an important race," said Ciolek. He had come of a week's worth of racing in the Deutschland Tour that saw him take three sprint wins.
Ballan, with Ronde, Hamburg and a stage in the Three Days of De Panne in his 2007 treasure chest, is set to sign a big contract for 2008 and beyond, but there is still no indication if it will be a renewal with Lampre.
How it unfolded
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The action started before the actual race, with 50 riders having to donate blood for the doping controls, including Danilo Di Luca.
As the 167 riders took the start on the Mönckebergstrasse at 11:10 am, the weather conditions were near perfect: 22°C, a light breeze, and sunny skies.
After 12 kilometres, a lead group of three riders formed with Luke Roberts (Team CSC), Gerben Löwik (Rabobank) and Floris Goesinnen (Skil-Shimano). When the trio crossed the Köhlbrandbrücke after 91 kilometres, their lead was 14 minutes. Five kilometres later, they were back in the inner city of Hamburg.
The peloton had a rougher start to the race, with a crash in a right-hand bend. As two riders touched wheels, about half a dozen riders went down, with Gorka Verdugo (Euskaltel-Euskadi) being the worst off. His race ended with a suspected broken shoulder.
Tim Klinger of Gerolsteiner and Thomas Ziegler of T-Mobile were doing much of the lead work in peloton, which reduced the gap to 11 minutes after 100 kilometres of racing accomplished. 20 kilometres further the lead had dropped down to 10 minutes, where it held steady.
With 95 kilometres to go, the lead trio reached the Waseberg for the first time. The 81 metres of altitude aren't as much the problem as the steepness (15%) and today wetness was an additional danger factor, as the street was still wet from rain that had come down before the start. Over the top it was Goesinnen in front of Roberts and Löwik.
As the peloton headed up the Waseberg some ten minutes after the leaders, Peter Wrolich of Gerolsteiner had a flat tyre. Tom Boonen of Quick.Step-Innergetic led the bunch over the top. The high speed up the climb resulted in a split with ten riders being clear, including Boonen, Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner) and Marcus Burghardt (T-Mobile).
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But the stunt on the front was brief and the peloton was all together after the climb, including Wrolich, who came back from his mechanical. As the front group was riding along the river Elbe the lead had shrunk to 8'20" to a peloton that was starting to get a little more serious.
80 kilometres from the finish, the first of three laps of 40 kilometres was accomplished as leaders and peloton crossed the finishing line 7'55" from each other.
13 kilometres into the second lap, it was Alessandro Ballan of Lampre who suffered a flat, but was brought back to the field quickly by two team-mates. Under the pressure from Milram and other German teams, the lead had dropped down to under seven minutes.
Five kilometres later a crash brought down three riders, Christian Knees (Milram), Bram Tankink (Quick.Step Innergetic) and Martin Velits (Wiesenhof-Felt).
52 kilometres from the finish it was the second time over the climb for the leaders, who came across in a different order (Goesinnen, Lüwik and Roberts). Marcus Burghardt (T-Mobile) put the pressure up front and the lead had dropped to under five minutes. With almost 50 kilometres still to race, it was not looking too good for the break.
The lead as the front group crossed the finish line to start its final 40-kilometre lap kept dropping and as they raced along the Hafenstrasse in Hamburg, six kilometres into the final circuit, it was down to less than three minutes.
As both groups were heading towards the final climb of the Waseberg, the lead kept dropping but just before they were about to be caught a crash took out one of the favourites, Tom Boonen of Belgium. A kilometre later, the 200-kilometre break was over and the peloton headed into the Waseberg together, with Fabian Wegmann and Filippo Pozzato across the top slightly ahead of the rest.
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But the descent and subsequent flat part brought everything together and was then marked by several small attacks, but no one could get a gap. With ten kilometres to go, two riders had a gap and under the guidance of Jens Voigt, who was the first to react, a group of five formed, which besides Voigt included World Champion Paolo Bettini (Quickstep-Innergetic), Riccardo Riccò (Saunier Duval-Prodir), Pablo Lastras (Caisse d'Epargne) and Jussi Veikkanen (Française Des Jeux).
They worked well together, but T-Mobile wanted to keep it together and three kilometres later, the five were caught. An immediate counter-attack followed by Simon Gerrans (Ag2r Prévoyance) and Vladimir Gusev (Discovery Channel), but they never got much more than about 100 metres.
The field was again led by T-Mobile which was trying to get Ciolek's fourth win in four days. But Lampre for Bennati and Rabobank for Freire also shared the work load.
Two kilometres from the line another crash, this time in a construction zone, brought down Thor Hushovd, who would have had a good chance in a sprint. Half a kilometre later the escape for the duo up front was finally over, and Rabobank kept the pace super-high, to discourage attacks. But Ballan somehow found a way to accelerate past the Dutch team anyway. He had a small gap in the last kilometre and the surprise attack threw off the sprinters' teams. The disorganized chase behind was getting close in the end but not close enough.
The surprise attack paid off and Ballan won ahead of all the sprinters, like Freire, Ciolek and Zabel.
Photography
For a thumbnail gallery of these images, click here
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Visconti and Bettini of Quick.Step-Innergetic before the race
- The Italian and the World Champion pose for the photographers.
- Jens Voigt (CSC) fresh off winning the Deutschland Tour signs autographs.
- Filippo Pozzato (Liquigas) rolls around in the start area.
- Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) arrives at the scene. He hopes to use the Waseberg for the winning move.
- Bettini chats with Di Luca but they didn't reveal each other's tactics.
- Di Luca and the World Champ Paolo Bettini before the race.
- Both Italians were quietly confident before the start of the race.
- Bettini quicker than Visconti at the sign-in. Will it be the same on the finish line?
- Bettini willingly signs autographs for the many fans who ask.
- Bettini enjoys the pre-race activities and enthusiasm of the fans.
- Tom Boonen (Quick.Step-Innergetic) in the hopes of a bunch sprint.
- Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) on the sign-in podium
- Di Luca gives yet another autograph only that this one is actually important.
- The Liquigas captain leaves the sign-in area and heads to the start.
- Gerald Ciolek (T-Mobile) is all smiles after winning three stages in the Deutschland Tour.
- The German has no pressure after his great performances in the last three days.
- Erik Zabel (Milram) is still popular with fans. He would repeat a result similar to stage 3 of the Deutschland Tour.
- Di Luca practices zipping up the jersey for the winning procedure.
- The streets of Hamburg.
- Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Fondital) celebrates with Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital).
- Thumbs up for Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital).
- Ballan celebrates with Oscar Freire (Rabobank).
- The three escapees: Luke Roberts (Team CSC), Gerben Löwik (Rabobank) and Floris Goesinnen (Skil-Shimano).
- The peloton chases.
- The gruppo in the streets of Hamburg.
- The back end of the chase.
- The chase is on in the finale.
- The day's major escape of Luke Roberts (Team CSC), Gerben Löwik (Rabobank) and Floris Goesinnen (Skil-Shimano) was closed down on the last climb of Waseberg.
- Lampre chase.
- Fumiyuki Beppu (Discovery Channel) looked good today.
- Giovanni Visconti (Quick.Step Innergetic) in the Italian Champ colours.
- Riccardo Riccò (Saunier Duval-Prodir).
- Gerald Ciolek (T-Mobile) on the podium.
- Riccardo Riccò (Saunier Duval-Prodir) corners.
- Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital) holds off the sprinters.
- Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital) rejoices.
- Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital) celebrates.
- Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital) over Gerald Ciolek (l) and Oscar Freire (r)
- Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital) barely held off Gerald Ciolek (T-Mobile), third, and Oscar Freire (Rabobank), second.
- Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital) takes the much deserved kisses.
- Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital) with the podium girls.
- Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital) and the traditional sprocket trophy.
- Oscar Freire (Rabobank) finished a close second.
- The Podium (l-r) Oscar Freire (Rabobank), Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital) and Gerald Ciolek (T-Mobile).
- The top three (l-r) Oscar Freire (Rabobank), Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital) and Gerald Ciolek (T-Mobile).
- Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) awarded the ProTour jersey.
Images by AFP Photo
- Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Fondital) surprises the sprinters
- The Italian's win was accompanied by someone flying the Flanders flag, where he won earlier this year.
Results
1 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 5.21.05 (42.811 km/h) 2 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 3 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 5 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 6 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 7 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step Innergetic 8 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 9 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 10 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 11 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 12 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 13 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 14 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance 15 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 16 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil - Shimano 17 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 18 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 19 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 20 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 21 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 22 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 23 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.05 24 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quick.Step Innergetic 25 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 26 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 27 Jon Bru Pascal (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 28 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 29 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 30 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 31 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 32 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 0.10 33 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick.Step Innergetic 34 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2r Prévoyance 0.12 35 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 36 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 37 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 38 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 39 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 40 Adam Hansen (Aus) T-Mobile Team 41 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 42 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 43 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 0.19 44 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 0.24 45 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Quick.Step Innergetic 0.26 46 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 47 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 48 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 49 Steffen Wesemann (Swi) Team Wiesenhof Felt 50 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 51 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Team 52 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre - Fondital 53 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas 54 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 55 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 0.35 56 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick.Step Innergetic 0.39 57 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 0.42 58 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2r Prévoyance 0.55 59 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.16 60 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 61 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 62 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 63 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.19 64 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil - Shimano 65 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Unibet.com 66 Dionisio Galparsoro Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 67 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 68 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 69 David Deroo (Fra) Skil - Shimano 70 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 71 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval - Prodir 72 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux 73 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 74 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 75 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.36 76 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.42 77 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank 1.48 78 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.com 79 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 80 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 2.22 81 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 2.25 82 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 2.32 83 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 3.13 84 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 3.55 85 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 4.00 86 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC 87 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 88 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil - Shimano 89 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 90 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 91 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 92 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 93 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 94 Nicolas Rousseau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 95 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 96 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 97 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 98 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 99 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 100 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick.Step Innergetic 101 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC 102 Artur Gajek (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 103 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner 104 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 105 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 5.16 106 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 107 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 108 Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 109 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 110 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 111 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 112 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 113 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Skil - Shimano 114 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 115 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick.Step Innergetic 116 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil - Shimano 117 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Rabobank 11.20 118 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 119 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance 120 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 121 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 122 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 123 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 124 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 125 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 126 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 127 Yohann Gène (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 128 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 129 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 130 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 131 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 132 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 14.27 133 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 14.54 DNF Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram DNF Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram DNF Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Team Milram DNF Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas DNF Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step Innergetic DNF Guido Trentin (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir DNF Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Tim Klinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole DNF Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole DNF Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole DNF Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC DNF Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile Team DNF Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi DNF Steven Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team DNF Allan Davis (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team DNF Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team DNF Dimitri Champion (Fra) Bouygues Telecom DNF Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone DNF Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone DNF Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne DNF Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne DNF David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne DNF Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française des Jeux DNF Ian McLeod (RSA) Française des Jeux DNF Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux DNF Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux DNF Robbie McEwen (Aus) Predictor - Lotto DNF Stefano Zanini (Ita) Predictor - Lotto DNF Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com DNF Martin Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt DNF Felix Odebrecht (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt DNF Mashahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Skil - Shimano DNF Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Skil - Shimano
ProTour standings after the Vattenfall Cyclassics
Individual 1 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas 207 pts 2 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 191 3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 190 4 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 174 5 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 172 6 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 129 7 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 125 8 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 118 9 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 115 10 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 115 11 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 110 12 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 88 13 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 87 14 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 86 15 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 81 16 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 79 17 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 78 18 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 76 19 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Astana 74 20 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 74 21 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 71 22 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas 70 23 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 69 24 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 67 25 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 66 26 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 64 27 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 63 28 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 62 29 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 62 30 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 62 31 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 58 32 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 58 33 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 57 34 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 56 35 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 56 37 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre - Fondital 54 38 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 53 39 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 50 40 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 48 41 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile Team 45 42 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 45 43 Allan Davis (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 43 44 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile Team 42 45 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 42 46 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 40 47 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 40 48 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 40 49 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 38 50 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor - Lotto 37 51 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas 36 52 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 35 53 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 35 54 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team 34 55 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 34 56 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 33 57 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 32 58 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 32 59 Roberto Petito (Ita) Liquigas 31 60 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 31 61 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 31 62 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 30 63 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 30 64 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 30 65 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team CSC 30 66 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 30 67 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 29 68 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 29 69 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 29 70 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 28 71 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 27 72 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 22 73 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 22 74 Chris Sörensen (Den) Team CSC 20 75 John Gadret (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 20 76 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 19 77 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 19 78 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Liquigas 17 79 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 15 80 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 15 81 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 15 82 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 15 83 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 15 84 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 15 85 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quickstep - Innergetic 15 86 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 15 87 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 15 88 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 13 89 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 13 90 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2r Prévoyance 11 91 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 10 92 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 10 93 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 10 94 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 10 95 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 10 96 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC 10 97 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 10 98 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 10 99 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 10 100 Christian Vandevelde (USA) Team CSC 10 101 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team CSC 10 102 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 9 103 Patxi Javier Vila Errandonea 9 104 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Unibet.com 8 105 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 8 106 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 8 107 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 8 108 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 8 109 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 8 110 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 8 111 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 8 112 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 8 113 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 8 114 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Milram 8 115 Volodymyr Dyudya (Ukr) Team Milram 8 116 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 8 117 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Rabobank 7 118 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 7 119 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.com 7 120 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 7 121 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre - Fondital 7 122 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 123 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 124 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 125 Steven Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 126 Fuyu Li (Chn) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 127 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 6 128 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 6 129 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 6 130 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 6 131 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Liquigas 6 132 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 6 133 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 134 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 6 135 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 6 136 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 5 137 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 5 138 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 5 139 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 5 140 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 5 141 Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 5 142 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 5 143 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick Step - Innergetic 5 144 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 5 145 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile Team 5 146 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 5 147 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 5 148 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) Quickstep - Innergetic 5 149 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 4 150 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 4 151 Alexei Markov (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 4 152 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 153 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4 154 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 4 155 Florent Brard (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 4 156 José Antonio Redondo Ramos 4 157 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 3 158 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 3 159 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 3 160 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance 3 161 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 3 162 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 3 163 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 3 164 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 3 165 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Crédit Agricole 3 166 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 3 167 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 168 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 169 Nicholas Roche (Irl) Crédit Agricole 3 170 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 171 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 172 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 173 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 3 174 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Astana 3 175 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas 3 176 Alessandro Proni (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 3 177 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 3 178 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2 179 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 2 180 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 2 181 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2 182 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 2 183 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 2 184 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 2 185 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 2 186 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2 187 Bert Roesems (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 2 188 Nick Ingels (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 2 189 Tom Steels (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 2 190 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 2 191 Dominique Cornu (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 2 192 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 2 193 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 2 194 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 2 195 Constantino Zaballa Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 196 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 1 197 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 1 198 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 1 199 Nicolas Rousseau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1 200 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance 1 201 Bradley McGee (Aus) Française des Jeux 1 202 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2r Prévoyance 1 203 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1 204 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 205 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1 206 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1 207 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1 208 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 209 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 210 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 211 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1 212 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 213 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 214 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1 215 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 1 Team 1 Team CSC 314 pts 2 Caisse d'Epargne 260 3 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 259 4 Liquigas 259 5 Ag2r Prevoyance 255 6 Saunier Duval - Prodir 253 7 Rabobank 230 8 Quick Step - Innergetic 220 9 Astana 207 10 Predictor-Lotto 202 11 Lampre-Fondital 198 12 T-Mobile Team 194 13 Gerolsteiner 161 14 Credit Agricole 157 15 Euskaltel - Euskadi 148 16 Bouygues Telecom 130 17 Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 122 18 Unibet.com 121 19 Team Milram 107 20 Française Des Jeux 101 Nations 1 Italy 675 pts 2 Spain 632 3 Australia 412 4 Germany 324 5 Luxembourg 296 6 Russian Federation 238 7 United States of America 213 8 Belgium 207 9 Netherlands 189 10 France 153 11 Kazakhstan 89 12 Slovenia 83 13 Ukraine 67 14 Great Britain 64 15 Norway 43 16 Switzerland 38 17 Denmark 32 18 Czech Republic 30 19 Lithuania 27 20 Colombia 25 21 Sweden 21 22 Poland 7 23 Portugal 7 24 People's Republic of China 7 25 Belarus 7 26 Hungary 5 27 Austria 3 28 Brazil 3 29 Ireland 3 30 Japan 2
