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90th Giro d'Italia - GT
Italy, May 12-June 3, 2007
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Stage 14 - Saturday, May 26: Cantù - Bergamo, 192 km
Garzelli rips into Bergamo from power-escape
Giro's Champions turn the screws on Maglia Rosa Di Luca
By Gregor Brown and Tim Maloney
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Today was supposed to be a mountain transitional stage but, instead, the Giro's champions attacked over the top of the first climb, the Passo di San Marco. Garzelli, Simoni and Savoldelli used their domestiques to put Maglia Rosa Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) in difficulty. Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo) won the escape's seven-man sprint into Bergamo while a fatigued Di Luca led the chase home at 38".
"I have not won a stage in the Giro since 2004 and now I have added a really beautiful stage," noted the 2000 Giro Champ, 33 year-old Garzelli. The Acqua e Sapone captain escaped with teammate Codol and Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval-Prodir) over the top of San Marco.
The three were eventually joined by Astana's Paolo Savoldelli and Eddy Mazzoleni. This small group bridged to the early morning escape to form the final elite group of seven; Simoni, Garzelli, Mazzoleni, Savoldelli, Paolo Bettini (Quickstep-Innergetic), Fortunato Baliani (Ceramica Panaria-Navigare) and Ivan Parra (Cofidis).
Simoni surprised many by launching an attack from the seven-man gruppo on the pavé climb to Bergamo Alta, at 500 metres to the top. Garzelli and Bettini were the only two to respond to Simoni, and they each chased on their own through Porta San Lorenzo, over the top (at -3.4km) and down to Bergamo Bassa.
The two-time Giro Champ led though the final bends, including the right-hander at -250m to go into Piazza Cavour but his rival was coming on strong. Garzelli caught, looked at and passed Simoni on the left with only 60 metres to go.
"In the finale, up to Bergamo, I really did not think of Simoni but he went strong on the pavé," continued Garzelli.
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He commented on the tactics of Passo di San Marco. "It worked well thanks to my team. I know that today we used a lot of force but I think that the others are feeling tired too. Thanks to [teammate Massimo] Codol; he really goes well in descent and then he also did a huge turn on the flat."
"We had a group of strong men," noted Codol, who grew up near by, in Lecco. "We went all out to distance Lampre and Liquigas. Those two teams went so strong and they did well in the chase."
World Champion Paolo Bettini tried hard for the win but could not compete against the men who build their season for the three-week Giro. He rolled over the line in third. "Simoni did a great number on the pavé and I was just trying to save myself!" he recalled. "Garzelli and Simoni train to be strong in the final week of the Giro."
Astana successfully joined forces with Acqua e Sapone and Saunier Duval. The teams' three captains added precious time to maglia Rosa Danilo Di Luca. "Today was a stage in my home area," noted Savoldelli, who finished sixth. He used his descent skills to their maximum to put Di Luca in the red. "I felt better today. ... I had talked to Mazzoleni at the start of the stage and we wanted to try something. We went all out in the descents."
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Three GC favourites were left to pull back the front seven; Di Luca, Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Fondital) and Andy Schleck (Team CSC). Liquigas and Lampre pulled hard for their captains while Schleck was left on his own. The 21 year-old Luxemburger, current best young rider, crashed on the descent of La Trinità-Dossena but was able to chase back to the Gruppo Maglia Rosa.
"I wanted to win? I want to win everyday," responded Schleck after the stage. He is now in third overall, 1'57" back on Di Luca. "Maybe tomorrow I will have another go."
He remarked on his crash into Evgeni Petrov (Tinkoff Credit Systems). "I feel fine after the crash with Petrov. It was unfortunate but I was able to catch on to the Di Luca group."
Cunego lost a few seconds to his rivals, and is now in fourth (at 2'40") overall. "It was hard work for the team today," said the 2004 Giro Champ. "The escape did well to fly down the descent. Also, thanks to my team and Liquigas, they did a lot of pulling today.
"I have good condition and it is rising but every day is hard, hard for everyone."
At one point Di Luca was in danger of losing more than a minute to his rivals but the 31 year-old from Abruzzo limited his loses on the run into Bergamo. "I thought that Savoldelli would attack on the descent but then Garzelli and Simoni also went," he noted at the finish. He was pleased with his team's collaboration with Lampre. "It was good that they worked with us."
Simoni moved up the GC board and the rider from Trento is worrying Di Luca on the eve of stage 15 to Le Tre Cime di Lavaredo. "He keeps getting stronger, and tomorrow will really be a hard stage," he concluded.
How it unfolded
The Giro weekend opened with a stage from the furniture city of Cantù, north of Milano, to the dynamic city of Bergamo. 157 riders took the start at 12:11 under rainy skies and headed northeast to the Lecco arm of Lake Como, then due north to the end of the lake, then due east into Valtellina and the city of Morbegno. There were numerous attacks along the lakeside on the way to the beginning of the climb, most notably a 15 rider group headed by Tinkoff's Totò Commesso - But Liquigas chased them all down.
Just after Morbegno and 90 kilometres, 11 riders attacked early on the interminable ascent. The group included Fortunato Baliani (Ceramica Panaria-Navigare), Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank), Sylvester Szmyd (Lampre-Fondital), Ivan Parra (Cofidis), José Luis Rubiera (Discovery Channel), , former Maglia Rosa Pinotti (T-Mobile), Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Team CSC), World Champion Paolo Bettini (Quickstep-Innergetic), Iban Mayo (Saunier Duval-Prodir) and Alberto Losada (Caisse d'Epargne).
This group rode to a 2'00" lead until 10 kilometres left to the GPM of Passo San Marco. Stefano Garzelli sent his Acqua e Sapone team to the front to up the pace and with three kilometres to the summit, Garzelli made his move but Di Luca's Liquigas boys were there to increase the pace and keep Garzelli in check.
At the GPM it was Baliani ahead of Rasmussen, Szmyd, Parra and Rubiera with Pinotti gapped and then Arvesen, Bettini and Mayo at 40" and Losada at 54". The Gruppo Maglia Rosa was at 1'58" with Liquigas on the Pellizotti, Noè, Wegelius and Spezialetti chasing with 79 kilometres to race.
Acqua e Sapone's Codol got out ahead on the crazy, technical descent, while Francesco Bellotti (Crédit Agricole) crashed hard into the wall and broke his bike in two. The audacious downhill attack of Savoldelli and Mazzoleni was quickly followed by Garzelli with Gruppo Maglia Rosa at 15" as Di Luca didn't want to take risks. Savoldelli and Mazzoleni were covered by Pellizotti but Garzelli just couldn't keep up with the best descenders in the peloton.
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Halfway down the descent from Passo San Marco, the break was riding out front, with the Savoldelli, Mazzoleni, Pellizotti trio at 1'25", while a trio with Simoni, Garzelli and Codol was at 1'45" and closing; further back was the Gruppo Maglia Rosa of 25 riders at 2'15" from the break. With Wegelius and Noè riding hard as they could while Lampre's Cunego and Bruseghin were sitting back. The two chase groups behind the break had now joined together so Savoldelli, Mazzoleni, Pellizotti, Simoni, Garzelli and Codol were trying hard to get across to the original break. Mayo had dropped back to the chasers to help his captain Simoni.
At 50 kilometres to go in San Giovanni Bianco at the base of the day's penultimate climb, the counter-attackers joined the break and 16 riders were now together off the front as they started the climb of Trinità-Dossena, with the Gruppo Maglia Rosa at 1'02".
The ascent covered 9.4 kilometres with an average gradient of 6.4% and points at up to 12%. As Mayo went to the front for Simoni and set an infernal pace, first Rasmussen, then Losada dropped out of the break. Saunier Duval, Astana and Acqua e Sapone were putting a lot of pressure on Di Luca and Liquigas as well as Cunego's Lampre squad.
Once Mayo dropped back after a few kilometres of the ascent, Simoni hit the front and kept the pace high. Savoldelli, Mazzoleni and Garzelli were going all out to gain time on the Gruppo Maglia Rosa. Szmyd and Arvesen dropped out of the break to go back to the Gruppo Maglia Rosa to help with the chase as Di Luca had his secret weapon Charlie Wegelius taking monster pulls in the chase along with Lampre's Paolo Tiralongo and Nibali of Liquigas.
Up front, just Codol, Garzelli, Savoldelli, Mazzoleni, Pellizotti, Lucky Baliani, World Champ Bettini, Parra and Mayo were left and with five kilometres to go on Trinità-Dossena. As road got steeper Simoni upped the pace, then his teammate Mayo hit the front and upped the pace. Bettini was suffering like a dog trying to hold on to the break as Mayo and Codol dropped off with two kilometres to go.
The Astana helped keep the pace high up front but as Di Luca had lost all his teammates, Pellizotti dropped back from the front group to help the Maglia Rosa. Up the ascent lined by thousands of crazed tifosi Bergamaschi, at the GPM in Dossena with 38 kilometres to go, Garzelli, Savoldelli, Mazzoleni, Baliani, Parra and World Champ Bettini were left ahead of the chasing Gruppo Maglia Rosa, led by a brilliant Tiralongo and now Pellizotti.
The gap was still at 1'03", and after the 1 km of descent on a sharp right-hand hairpin, Petrov crashed and took down Schleck in the Gruppo Maglia Rosa. Petrov had to change his bike while Schleck was gapped and without a teammate on the tricky technical descent; the CSC youngster was having trouble getting back to the Di Luca group.
At San Pellegrino Terme, home of the famous sparkling mineral water spring and former Giro d'Italia winner Ivan Gotti, Savoldelli and Mazzoleni had bombed the descent and with 28 kilometres to race, the break had gained 10" on the Gruppo Maglia Rosa thanks to Savoldelli's brilliant descending.
Schleck had almost made it back to the Gruppo Maglia Rosa, and after service on his rear brake he finally made it back. Di Luca's teammate Pellizotti is a great descender and he was on the front keeping the gap close. The road had flattened out somewhat and the break was working well together, while in the Gruppo Maglia Rosa, Di Luca had gone back to the team car to get a bottle for his teammate Pellizotti.
Despite a Savoldelli that was going full gas for his teammate Mazzoleni, the gap of the breakaway was now down to 1'00" and falling as Lampre and Liquigas were chasing harder than ever. The final two kilometres climb up to Bergamo Alto started with five kilometres to go, then the plunge down through the Città Bassa to the finish at Piazza Matteotti would likely decide the stage and the all star break desperately wanted to maintain their lead despite the strong headwind and frenetic pace behind. The gap was now 50" and the race officials had pulled the team cars out of the gap.
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Local lad Mazzoleni really wanted to win, but he had to get rid of Bettini first. Used many times for the finale of the Giro di Lombardia, the first kilometre was steep but smooth, but the there was 800m of pavé that went through the Porta Garibaldi, then along Via della Boccola before emerging from Bergamo Alto to descend to the finish.
As the pavé' began, Simoni just rode away from the break and only Garzelli could stay close to the Trentino tough man, who was getting stronger every stage. Simoni stayed ahead of Garzelli through Bergamo Alta as Bettini and the Astana boys faded, while Maglia Rosa made his own attack 38" behind, popping Cunego again, while only Bruseghin and Riccò could stay with him. As Simoni made the left turn to descend to Bergamo Bassa, he had 5" on Garzelli and the rest of the break of 8", with Di Luca, Riccò and Bruseghin still at 38".
Simoni was magnificent as he flew down to the descent to the finish in Piazza Matteotti, but the tenacious Garzelli, perhaps with the inadvertent assistance of a few TV motorcycles was closing fast. As Gibo bombed the right-hander into Piazza Matteotti, Garzelli made a very risky move and it worked; he was only 10m behind Simoni and the fast Acqua e Sapone man launched his sprint, catching and passing a disappointed Simoni in the last 100 metres.
Acqua e Sapone's strategy to win the stage that had started almost 100 kilometres earlier on Passo San Marco worked and it was Garzelli's first win at the Giro d'Italia since 2004, where he beat Simoni in a stage to Presolana. Di Luca crossed the line at the head of the Gruppo Maglia Rosa and had kept things in control, but just barely.
Cunego had chased back on and was just a few places behind Di Luca. Although he was first loser in the stage finish, the great riding of Simoni in the all-star break to Bergamo paid off for the 35 year-old Saunier Duval rider. Simoni was the big winner on the day as far as GC was concerned; he moved up three places to fifth, 2'42" behind Di Luca, just 2" behind 4th place Cunego and less than 1'00" from Schleck. Simoni was now in striking distance of the podium at the Giro d'Italia and if Di Luca has a bad day, there is no doubt that Simoni would go after the Maglia Rosa.
Stage 15 - Sunday, May 27: Trento - Tre Cime Di Lavaredo, 184 km
For Stage 15, the Giro transitions east to the Dolomiti Mountains for a mythical, monumental Sunday for the big stage, or "tappone" of the 90th Giro d'Italia.
Starting in the Trento, the capital of the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige, stage 15 rolls north through the vineyards of the Adige River Valley for 35 kilometres, then turns right at Ora to ascend to the Val di Fiemme, through Moena and up the first climb of the steep 11.8-kilometre ascent of Passo San Pellegrino, then down to the Val di Cadore, up and over the even steeper (9.4% average) 9.8-kilometre ascent of the 2236m Passo Giau and then down to the world-famous mountain resort city of Cortina d'Ampezzo with 22 kilometres still to race.
Stage 15 then heads northeast from Cortina, first climbing the eight-kilometre ascent of Passo Tre Croci, then making the final assault on the Tre Cime di Lavaredo from Misurina. Only 7.2 kilometres long, the super-steep ascent averages 7.6% with pitches up to 20%. This climb is where the climbers of Saunier Duval, Piepoli and Simoni, will look to gain time on Maglia Rosa Di Luca and Damiano Cunego.
Photography
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Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net
- Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval-Prodir) hammers it though Bergamo Alta.
- Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) chases the escape group through Bergamo.
- Garzelli does it! Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo) wins over Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval-Prodir).
- Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo) wins.
- Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo) enjoys his first Giro win since 2004.
- Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) kept the Maglia Rosa.
- Giro Miss at the finish in Bergamo.
- Welcome Giro fans.
- Giro fan in Bergamo.
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval-Prodir) leads the charge.
- Simoni enters Bergamo Alta.
- Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval-Prodir) on the pavé.
- Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo) in the finale.
- Paolo Bettini (Quickstep-Innergetic) follows Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo).
- Astana chase.
- Astana chases.
- Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) chases.
- Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas).
- Riccardo Riccò (Saunier Duval-Prodir)
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Fondital) climbs.
- Emanuele Sella (Ceramica Panaria-Navigare) pushes hard.
- Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas) rode well.
- Leonardo Piepoli (Saunier Duval-Prodir) had a day off.
- Axel Merckx (T-Mobile) climbs well.
- Up to Bergamo Alta.
- Climbing to the finale.
- The descent to Bergamo.
- Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo) on the podium.
- Kisses for Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo).
- Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo) with Gimondi.
- Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) kept the Maglia Rosa.
- Di Luca lets the bubbly flow.
- Paolo Bettini (Quickstep-Innergetic) rolls in.
- Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) finishes and closes the time gap.
- Riccardo Riccò (Saunier Duval-Prodir) finishes.
- Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval-Prodir).
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Fondital).
- Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas).
- Paolo Savoldelli (Astana) finishes at home.
- Paolo Bettini (Quickstep-Innergetic) was in the escape all day.
- Di Luca keeps pink.
- Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo) wins in Bergamo.
- Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo) wins.
- Garzelli gets it.
- Kisses from Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo).
- Yes! Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo) wins.
- Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo) on the podium.
- Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo) takes first Giro win since 2004.
- Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) finishes.
- Riccò rolls into Bergamo.
- Bettini and wife in Bergamo.
- Garzelli goes wild on the podium.
- Di Luca tries on the Maglia Rosa.
- Kisses for Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas).
- Andy Schleck (Team CSC) rode strong again.
Images by Luc Claessen/www.ctm-images.com
- Stefano Garzelli takes victory as Gilberto Simoni protests that Garzelli drafted off the TV motorbike.
- Garzelli enjoying the limelight after his first Giro win since 2004.
- That feels good...
- Uh, Stefano, you're supposed to spray the crowd...
- Garzelli savours the moment of his Stage 14 win.
Results
1 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 4.58.34 2 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 3 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 4 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 5 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Astana 6 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 0.03 7 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 8 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas 0.38 9 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 10 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 11 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 12 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 13 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 14 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre - Fondital 15 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 16 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 17 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 18 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.03 19 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 20 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 1.45 21 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 22 Massimo Codol (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 23 Branislau Samoilau (Blr) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 24 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 2.34 25 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 3.53 26 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre - Fondital 4.14 27 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2r Prévoyance 7.16 28 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 29 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 30 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 31 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 32 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 33 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Astana 34 Bingen Fernandez Bustinza (Spa) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 35 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 36 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile Team 37 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 7.58 38 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 8.23 39 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 14.46 40 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 41 Andrei Kunitski (Blr) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 42 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 43 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 44 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 45 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 46 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 47 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 17.06 48 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance 49 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 50 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 51 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas 52 Carl Naibo (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 53 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre - Fondital 54 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 55 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Team 56 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 57 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas 58 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 59 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 60 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas 61 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 62 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Liquigas 63 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 64 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 65 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 66 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 67 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 68 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 69 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 70 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 71 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 72 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 73 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 74 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Milram 20.32 75 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 76 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française des Jeux 77 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 78 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Rabobank 79 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval - Prodir 80 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 81 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 82 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 83 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 84 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 85 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Predictor - Lotto 86 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 87 Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 88 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 89 Maxim Gourov (Kaz) Astana 90 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 91 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 92 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 93 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T-Mobile Team 94 Nick Gates (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 95 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 96 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 97 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 98 Steven Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 99 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 100 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank 101 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 102 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 103 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 104 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 105 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 106 Ricardo Serrano Gonzalez (Spa) Tinkoff Credit System 107 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 108 Aitor Perez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 109 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 110 Nikolai Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 111 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 112 Iban Velasco (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 113 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 114 Dmitry Kozontchouk (Rus) Rabobank 115 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 116 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 117 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 118 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 119 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 120 Andrea Pagoto (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 121 Aketza Pena Iza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 122 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Gerolsteiner 123 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas 124 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 125 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 126 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 127 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 128 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 129 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 130 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 131 Aaron Olson (USA) T-Mobile Team 132 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 133 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Crédit Agricole 134 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 135 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 136 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 137 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Astana 138 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 139 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 140 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 141 Addy Engels (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 142 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 143 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 144 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quickstep - Innergetic 145 Eric Berthou (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 146 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 147 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole DNS Ivan Rovny (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System DNF Brian Vandborg (Den) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team DNF Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Team Milram DNF Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic DNF Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner DNF Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo DNF Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Crédit Agricole DNF Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone DNF Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone DNF Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Rabobank DNF Joseba Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi Points 1 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 25 pts 2 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 20 3 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 20 4 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 20 5 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Astana 12 6 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 10 7 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 10 8 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas 8 9 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 8 10 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 7 11 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 6 12 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 5 13 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 14 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 3 15 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre - Fondital 3 16 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre - Fondital 2 17 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 2 18 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 1 19 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas -5 20 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas -5 21 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana -5 Mountains Passo Di S. Marco (112.1 km) 1 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 10 pts 2 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 6 3 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre - Fondital 4 4 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2 5 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1 La Trinta (153.2 km) 1 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 5 pts 2 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 3 3 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Astana 1 Most Combative 1 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 13 pts 2 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 7 3 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 6 4 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 5 5 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 5 6 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 4 7 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre - Fondital 4 8 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 4 9 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Astana 3 10 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 Azzurri d'Italia 1 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 4 pts 2 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 2 3 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 1 Trofeo fast team 1 Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 14.56.58 2 Lampre - Fondital 0.38 3 Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.56 4 Acqua & Sapone - Caffe' Mokambo 2.14 5 Liquigas 5.10 6 Astana 6.03 7 Quick Step - Innergetic 13.16 8 Cofidis, Le Credit P. Telephone 23.09 9 Team Csc 23.44 10 Ag2R Prevoyance 24.09 11 T-Mobile Team 12 Caisse D'epargne 33.34 13 Tinkoff Credit Systems 40.26 14 Discovery Channel Pro CyclingTeam 41.19 15 Predictor - Lotto 43.38 16 Gerolsteiner 47.04 17 Rabobank 48.48 18 Francaise Des Jeux 19 Bouygues Telecom 53.28 20 Team Milram 54.34 21 Credit Agricole 22 Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.00.20 Trofeo super team 1 Saunier Duval - Prodir 31 pts 2 Astana 31 3 Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 29 4 Lampre - Fondital 28 5 Acqua & Sapone - Caffe' Mokambo 20 6 Quick Step - Innergetic 18 7 Cofidis, Le Credit P. Telephone 14 8 Liquigas 14 9 Caisse D'epargne 9 10 Tinkoff Credit Systems 6 11 Team Csc 5 12 Ag2R Prevoyance 3 13 T-Mobile Team 2 14 Predictor - Lotto 15 Gerolsteiner 16 Discovery Channel Pro CyclingTeam 17 Team Milram 18 Rabobank 19 Credit Agricole 20 Francaise Des Jeux 21 Bouygues Telecom 22 Euskaltel - Euskadi General classification after stage 14 1 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas 62.10.40 2 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 0.55 3 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1.57 4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 2.40 5 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 2.42 6 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre - Fondital 2.44 7 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2.51 8 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 3.11 9 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Astana 3.15 10 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 3.52 11 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 5.24 12 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 5.26 13 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 6.54 14 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 8.54 15 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 10.23 16 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 12.26 17 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 13.08 18 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 14.57 19 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 17.00 20 Branislau Samoilau (Blr) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 18.48 21 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 19.20 22 Massimo Codol (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 20.29 23 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Astana 20.58 24 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 22.03 25 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 22.16 26 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 23.06 27 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 23.15 28 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas 24.48 29 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 25.39 30 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre - Fondital 25.53 31 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 26.08 32 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 29.21 33 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Astana 30.47 34 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 31.59 35 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 32.14 36 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 32.49 37 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 34.50 38 Bingen Fernandez Bustinza (Spa) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 34.54 39 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 35.44 40 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2r Prévoyance 36.06 41 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quickstep - Innergetic 36.29 42 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 37.00 43 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 37.15 44 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 37.45 45 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank 38.01 46 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 38.48 47 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 38.56 48 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 40.33 49 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 41.19 50 Aitor Perez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 42.34 51 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 42.42 52 Carl Naibo (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 46.08 53 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 46.09 54 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 46.55 55 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 47.05 56 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 47.23 57 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas 49.41 58 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 52.35 59 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 52.59 60 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 57.44 61 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 58.06 62 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile Team 58.11 63 Aketza Pena Iza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 59.20 64 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.01.17 65 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 1.01.50 66 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.02.31 67 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Liquigas 1.03.05 68 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance 1.04.20 69 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.06.33 70 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 1.06.49 71 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.08.50 72 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 1.09.24 73 Addy Engels (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.09.42 74 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 1.10.15 75 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 1.10.52 76 Andrei Kunitski (Blr) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 1.13.14 77 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.13.48 78 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 1.13.50 79 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.14.14 80 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Predictor - Lotto 1.14.48 81 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 1.14.59 82 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 1.16.24 83 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.18.37 84 Iban Velasco (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.18.51 85 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.19.53 86 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T-Mobile Team 1.20.14 87 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 1.20.25 88 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.21.19 89 Andrea Pagoto (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 1.21.38 90 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 1.22.37 91 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas 1.23.11 92 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 1.23.12 93 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre - Fondital 1.24.36 94 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 1.25.59 95 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.27.16 96 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Team 1.27.21 97 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 1.27.22 98 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 1.28.11 99 Eric Berthou (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 1.28.15 100 Ricardo Serrano Gonzalez (Spa) Tinkoff Credit System 1.29.15 101 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.30.01 102 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas 1.31.03 103 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.31.36 104 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.32.08 105 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.32.48 106 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 1.33.03 107 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.34.13 108 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 1.34.40 109 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 1.35.04 110 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.35.46 111 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 1.37.34 112 Steven Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.38.20 113 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.38.43 114 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.39.16 115 Dmitry Kozontchouk (Rus) Rabobank 1.40.56 116 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 1.41.33 117 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.43.21 118 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Milram 1.43.34 119 Maxim Gourov (Kaz) Astana 1.44.04 120 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.44.33 121 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 1.45.24 122 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 1.45.50 123 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 1.46.00 124 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 1.47.52 125 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Rabobank 1.47.57 126 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.49.32 127 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.49.51 128 Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.51.26 129 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.52.20 130 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Crédit Agricole 1.55.58 131 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.56.05 132 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.56.17 133 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 1.57.36 134 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.57.37 135 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 2.00.17 136 Nikolai Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 2.00.53 137 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2.04.07 138 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française des Jeux 2.04.11 139 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 2.07.49 140 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 2.14.21 141 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 2.15.25 142 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2.15.54 143 Nick Gates (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 2.16.09 144 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2.21.29 145 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Gerolsteiner 2.24.42 146 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.26.09 147 Aaron Olson (USA) T-Mobile Team 2.31.41 Points classification 1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 135 pts 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas 98 3 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 96 4 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 65 5 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 59 6 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 58 7 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 56 8 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 52 9 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 51 10 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 49 11 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 47 12 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 41 13 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 37 14 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 36 15 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Astana 34 16 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 33 17 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 32 18 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 31 19 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 31 20 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 29 21 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 28 22 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 24 23 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 24 24 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 20 25 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 20 26 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 20 27 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 18 28 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas 17 29 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 17 30 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quickstep - Innergetic 16 31 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 15 32 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 13 33 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre - Fondital 12 34 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance 12 35 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 12 36 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 12 37 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 12 38 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 11 39 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 11 40 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 10 41 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 10 42 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 10 43 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Liquigas 10 44 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 9 45 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9 46 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Astana 8 47 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 8 48 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas 8 49 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2r Prévoyance 8 50 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8 51 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 7 52 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Team 7 53 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Rabobank 7 54 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre - Fondital 6 55 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 6 56 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 57 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 6 58 Aitor Perez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 5 59 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 5 60 Branislau Samoilau (Blr) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 4 61 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 4 62 Andrei Kunitski (Blr) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 4 63 Nikolai Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 4 64 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 3 65 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank 3 66 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 3 67 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française des Jeux 3 68 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 2 69 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 2 70 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 2 71 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 72 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 2 73 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 2 74 Ricardo Serrano Gonzalez (Spa) Tinkoff Credit System 2 75 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1 76 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1 77 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1 78 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 1 79 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 1 80 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 1 81 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Gerolsteiner 1 82 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas -5 83 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas -5 84 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC -5 85 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital -6 86 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram -9 87 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team -10 88 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone -10 89 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana -15 Mountains classification 1 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas 41 pts 2 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 35 3 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 23 4 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 21 5 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 20 6 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 16 7 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 15 8 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 15 9 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 14 10 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 14 11 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 12 12 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 11 13 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 8 14 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 8 15 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quickstep - Innergetic 8 16 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 6 17 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 5 18 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Astana 5 19 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 5 20 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre - Fondital 4 21 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 4 22 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 3 23 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 3 24 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 25 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre - Fondital 2 26 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 2 27 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 2 28 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 2 29 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2 30 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Team 2 31 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 32 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1 33 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank 1 34 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 35 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance 1 36 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 37 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 1 38 Eric Berthou (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Best Young Rider classification 1 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 62.12.37 2 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4.57 3 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 8.26 4 Branislau Samoilau (Blr) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 16.51 5 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 21.09 6 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 23.42 7 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quickstep - Innergetic 34.32 8 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 35.18 9 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank 36.04 10 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 38.36 11 Carl Naibo (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 44.11 12 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 44.12 13 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 59.53 14 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.00.34 15 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 1.07.27 16 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 1.08.18 17 Andrei Kunitski (Blr) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 1.11.17 18 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 1.14.27 19 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T-Mobile Team 1.18.17 20 Andrea Pagoto (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 1.19.41 21 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 1.20.40 22 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas 1.21.14 23 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.30.11 24 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 1.33.07 25 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.37.19 26 Dmitry Kozontchouk (Rus) Rabobank 1.38.59 27 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 1.43.53 28 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.47.54 29 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Crédit Agricole 1.54.01 30 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.54.08 31 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.54.20 32 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.55.40 33 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 1.58.20 34 Nikolai Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 1.58.56 35 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2.02.10 36 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française des Jeux 2.02.14 37 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 2.13.28 38 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Gerolsteiner 2.22.45 39 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.24.12 TV Garibaldi Classification 1 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 13 pts 2 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9 3 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 8 4 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 8 5 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 7 6 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6 7 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 6 8 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6 9 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 5 10 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Astana 5 11 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5 12 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 5 13 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 5 14 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 5 15 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 5 16 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 4 17 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 4 18 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 19 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance 4 20 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 4 21 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4 22 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 3 23 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 3 24 Andrei Kunitski (Blr) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 3 25 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 2 26 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 2 27 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre - Fondital 2 28 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 2 29 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 2 30 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 31 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 1 32 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 1 33 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1 34 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quickstep - Innergetic 1 35 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1 36 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 1 37 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 1 Most combative classification 1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 31 pts 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas 25 3 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 24 4 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 21 5 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 20 6 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 17 7 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 17 8 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 13 9 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 13 10 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 13 11 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 11 12 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 10 13 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 10 14 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 10 15 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9 16 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9 17 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 9 18 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 8 19 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quickstep - Innergetic 8 20 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 8 21 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 7 22 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Astana 7 23 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 7 24 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 7 25 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 7 26 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 7 27 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 6 28 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 6 29 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 6 30 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 6 31 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 6 32 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6 33 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Astana 5 34 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 5 35 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 5 36 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 5 37 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 5 38 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre - Fondital 4 39 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 40 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance 4 41 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 4 42 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 4 43 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 3 44 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 3 45 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 3 46 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 3 47 Andrei Kunitski (Blr) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 3 48 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française des Jeux 3 49 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 2 50 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 2 51 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 2 52 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2 53 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre - Fondital 1 54 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 1 55 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1 56 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1 57 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Team 1 58 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 1 Azzurri d'Italia classification 1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 15 pts 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas 11 3 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 6 4 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 6 5 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 4 6 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 4 7 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 4 8 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 4 9 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4 10 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 2 11 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 2 12 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 2 13 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1 14 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1 15 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 1 16 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 1 Fuga Gilera Classification 1 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 365 pts 2 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 314 3 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 304 4 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit System 303 5 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 268 6 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 248 7 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 245 8 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 206 9 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française des Jeux 206 10 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 178 11 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 174 12 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 172 13 Marco Pinotti (Ita) T-Mobile Team 149 14 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 148 15 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Rabobank 148 16 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 124 17 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 118 18 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 115 19 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance 109 20 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 104 21 Andrei Kunitski (Blr) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 94 22 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 94 23 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quickstep - Innergetic 92 24 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Tinkoff Credit System 92 25 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 92 26 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 79 27 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 70 28 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 70 29 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Astana 65 30 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 41 31 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 41 32 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre - Fondital 34 33 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 34 34 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 34 35 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas 25 36 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 25 37 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 24 38 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 15 40 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 11 41 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 9 42 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 8 43 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 8 Trofeo Fast Team classification 1 Lampre - Fondital 185.25.52 2 Liquigas 11.12 3 Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 12.33 4 Astana 20.42 5 Saunier Duval - Prodir 23.34 6 Acqua & Sapone - Caffe' Mokambo 35.47 7 Team Csc 1.04.58 8 Quick Step - Innergetic 1.11.03 9 Cofidis, Le Credit P. Telephone 1.12.19 10 Ag2R Prevoyance 1.13.32 11 Caisse D'epargne 1.20.47 12 Predictor - Lotto 1.21.28 13 Discovery Channel Pro CyclingTeam 1.45.06 14 T-Mobile Team 2.03.36 15 Rabobank 2.04.09 16 Credit Agricole 2.13.13 17 Tinkoff Credit Systems 2.13.41 18 Bouygues Telecom 2.14.21 19 Francaise Des Jeux 2.36.12 20 Gerolsteiner 2.40.20 21 Euskaltel - Euskadi 2.47.23 22 Team Milram 3.53.14 Trofeo Super Team Classification 1 Lampre - Fondital 316 pts 2 Liquigas 256 3 Ceramica Panaria - Navigare 245 4 Saunier Duval - Prodir 192 5 Acqua & Sapone - Caffe' Mokambo 176 6 Team Csc 167 7 Astana 167 8 Caisse D'epargne 163 9 Team Milram 148 10 Ag2R Prevoyance 146 11 Quick Step - Innergetic 139 12 Credit Agricole 120 13 Tinkoff Credit Systems 116 14 Predictor - Lotto 114 15 Gerolsteiner 92 16 Euskaltel - Euskadi 81 17 Discovery Channel Pro CyclingTeam 75 18 Bouygues Telecom 65 19 Rabobank 57 20 Cofidis, Le Credit P. Telephone 50 21 T-Mobile Team 42 22 Francaise Des Jeux 13
