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22nd Tour de Beauce - 2.2Canada, June 12-17, 2007Main Page Results Overall standings Stage Details Next Stage Stage 1 - June 12: Lac Etchemin, 180 kmWalters solos to win in Beauce openerBy Mark Zalewski, North American Editor in Lac-Etchemin, Québec
Kodak Gallery Canadians finish one, twoMark Walters (Kodak Gallery) took his first win for his new team today in Lac-Etchemin, and his first win in about a year. "This is the first race I have won in a long time and I did it solo, which is the way I prefer to win races," he told Cyclingnews after the race. "It's a new team and I am showing what I can do with teammates working for me." Walters attacked a breakaway of ten with 12 kilometres to go in a hilly opening stage of the Tour de Beauce. The six-time Canadian champion was sore and tired from racing (and crashing) in Philadelphia, just two days ago. "It was really hard with my crash in the final turn. My ribs were really sore - I didn't feel it at the end but in the beginning I felt it every time I stepped on my right pedal," he said. "There was a lot of attacking going on, but I just waited for a time between the hills where the guys were sitting up a little. I just took a shot at it and hoped I would catch them tired and getting lazy." Walters was followed by the nine riders left in the main break 26 second later. Leading this pack to the line was Walters' teammate, and current Canadian champion, Dominique Rollin. "I knew I was the only sprinter," said Rollin about the make-up of the break. "I won this stage two years ago, so I knew exactly where to go in the sprint, especially with the downhill drag." Two Navigators Insurance riders were present in the break, but that was not enough to satisfy team director Ed Beamon. "It wasn't an ideal situation with only two guys up there," he said. "So we attacked the last KOM to split it up which worked pretty good - that put the Mexicans out a little and they climb really well. We just didn't have the numbers up there and I didn't want to let it get 25 minutes." One of the two Navigators was David O'Loughlin, who drove up a lot of the climbs trying to catch Walters in the end. "We have a really strong team here and two is not really enough," he said. "We had our guys in the back smash it over the last climb and try to get across, but it was too big of a gap and we left it a little too late. I think the rest of the week is going to be a lot like this, with big time gaps." Walters is definitely satisfied with getting the first win of the season out of the way, but is optimistic about his chances for the overall. "There are still a lot of guys that are good time trialers, but we will see how it goes," said Walters. "This shows that I am going well and I am certainly no more fresh than any of the other guys that did Philly week."
How it unfoldedThere was certainly no hurry to start racing today. With beautiful clear to partly cloudy skies and mild temperatures, the peloton sat back and enjoyed the spectacular Beauce countryside. The fact that almost a third of the field suffered through Philly week last week likely added to the slow start. "I could not believe how hard a 181km could be!" said Svein Tuft who rode hard in Philadelphia. Finally, while the peloton chatted away, Jean-Sebastian Beland (Volkswagen-Trek) took the opportunity to give his team some television time. He rode solo for a while, building an advantage of more than a few minutes. Eventually the field put their knitting away and turned on the gas. With the gap more than six minutes a few riders broke away to bridge across. After a few more kilometers and a KOM climb, a group of fifteen caught and passed Beland, including: Mark Walters and Dominique Rollin (Kodak Gallery), Jacob Erker and Svein Tuft (Symmetrics), Ben Day and David O'Loughlin (Navigators Insurance), Danny Pate (Team Slipstream), Philipp Mamos (Team Sparkasse) and Dominique Perras (Équipe du Quebec). At first the group rolled rather steady but not really motivated. "Once the gap went up without doing much work, guys started really rolling," said Tuft. However, after a while the gap got too big for Navigators and the remaining teammates back in the peloton drove the pace. "Initially they pulled but then the chase group developed so they stopped pulling," said Walters. But the timing was too late - over the third and final KOM of the day the break still had four minutes and looked to stay away. Thirty kilometres from the finish the attacks started, and never really stopped. "You had to [attack]," said Pate. "The hills were small enough and you were either attacking or accelerating on the guys wheel, which is about the same." The attacking shrunk the break down to a final 10 before Walters made his move with 12km to go - and never looked back. "For us it was the perfect move - I had Jacob there covering a million moves," said Tuft, who was content to finish in the lead group behind his countryman. "I was happy for Mark to win - we weren't going to chase that back. He fought hard for the win." Tomorrow's second stage is a brand new parcours starting and finishing in Vallée-Jonction, and is a 171km loop with three KOM climbs. PhotographyFor a thumbnail gallery of these images, click here Images by Mark Zalewski/Cyclingnews.com
Images by Jerome Lessard
Results1 Mark Walters (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 4.48.59 2 Dominique Rollin (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 0.26 3 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics 4 Ben Day (Aus) Navigators Insurance 5 David O'loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance 6 Danny Pate (USA) Team Slipstream 7 Juan Pablo Magallanes Arawda (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 8 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 9 Dominique Perras (Can) Québec 10 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 11 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 12 Soren Petersen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 1.32 13 Craig Mccarney (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 5.11 14 Jacob Nielsen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 9.29 15 Charles Dionne (Can) Québec 14.02 16 Tilo Schüler (Ger) Team Sparkasse 17 Ryan Mckenzie (Can) Volkswagen Trek 18 Jamie Sparling (Can) La_Z_Boy 14.07 19 Derrick St-John (Can) Garneau - Crocs 20 Peter Morse (Can) Tean Spin 12 21 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Team Sparkasse 22 Rob Britton (Can) La_Z_Boy 23 Ben Raby (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 24 Luis Fernando Macias (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 25 Glen Alan Chadwick (NZl) Navigators Insurance 26 Francois Parisien (Can) Team Slipstream 27 Joel Dion-Poitras (Can) Eva-Devinci 28 Connor Trevor (Can) La_Z_Boy 29 Hector Hugo Rangel (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 30 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Sparkasse 31 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics 32 Buck Milller (Can) Team R.A.C.E 33 Mathieu Roy (Can) Eva-Devinci 34 Ivor Bruin (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 35 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics 36 David Pell (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 37 Alex Howes (USA) Team Slipstream 38 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 39 Timo Honstein (Ger) Team Sparkasse 40 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Sparkasse 41 Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics 42 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance 43 Pascal Bussières (Can) Québec 44 Dirk Müller (Ger) Team Sparkasse 45 Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukr) Navigators Insurance 46 John Fredy Parra Calada (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 47 Heberth Gutierrez Garcia (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 48 Mike Dietrich (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 49 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics 50 Ciarán Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 51 Greg Reain (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 52 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics 53 Ian Macgregor (USA) Team Slipstream 54 Dustin Macbernie (Can) Team R.A.C.E 55 Peter Mueller (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 56 Dan Timmerman (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 57 Tim Hucker (Aus) Garneau - Crocs 18.59 58 William Goodfellow (Can) Volkswagen Trek 59 Benjamin Martel (Can) Garneau - Crocs 60 Jamie Lamb (Can) Garneau - Crocs 61 Michael Joanisse (Can) Garneau - Crocs 62 Peter Ladd (Aus) Garneau - Crocs 63 Rene Ahrenkiel (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 64 Mark Batty (Can) Team R.A.C.E 65 André Tremblay (Can) Volkswagen Trek 66 Maxime Vives (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 67 Jean-François Racine (Can) Garneau - Crocs 68 David Veilleux (Can) Québec 69 Cody O'rielly (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 70 Ryan Beliveau (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 71 Charly Vives (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 72 Will Dickison (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 73 Thorben Wieditz (Can) Tean Spin 12 74 Matt Guse (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 19.02 75 Mark Pozniak (Can) Team R.A.C.E 76 Martin Gilbert (Can) Québec 77 Adam Thuss (Can) Team R.A.C.E 78 Keven Lacombe (Can) Volkswagen Trek 79 Morten Christiansen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 80 Charlie Bryer (Can) Tean Spin 12 81 Jean-Sebastien Perron (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 82 Dave Vukets (Can) Tean Spin 12 83 Éric Boily (Can) Eva-Devinci 84 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Navigators Insurance 85 Phil Cortes (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 19.27 86 Brett Aitken (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 25.12 87 Jesse Athony (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 26.57 88 Jeffrey Dirksen (Ned) Team R.A.C.E 32.26 89 Jean-Sébastien Beland (Can) Volkswagen Trek 32.29 90 Troy Wells (USA) Tean Spin 12 91 Ugo Lapierre (Can) Farso Denmark Nat 39.01 92 Charles Thibault (Can) Eva-Devinci 93 Eric Robertson (Can) Team R.A.C.E 94 Jesper Lund (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 44.46 95 Tyler Trace (Can) La_Z_Boy 1.03.05 96 Dave Brooks (Can) La_Z_Boy 97 Ryan Mcnamara (Can) La_Z_Boy 98 Ian Manning (Can) Tean Spin 12 1.13.46 99 Camron Holt (NZl) Tean Spin 12 DNF Mike Friedman (USA) Team Slipstream DNF Charles Bradley Huff (USA) Team Slipstream DNF Christian Deshaies (Can) Volkswagen Trek DNF Frédéric Boivin (Can) Eva-Devinci DNF Raphael Tremblay (Can) Eva-Devinci DNF Alexandre Cloutier (Can) Québec Points 1 Dominique Rollin (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 17 pts 2 Mark Walters (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 15 3 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics 13 4 Ben Day (Aus) Navigators Insurance 12 5 David O'loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance 11 6 Danny Pate (USA) Team Slipstream 10 7 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 9 8 Juan Pablo Magallanes Arawda (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 9 9 Dominique Perras (Can) Québec 7 10 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 6 11 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 5 12 Soren Petersen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 4 13 Jean-Sébastien Beland (Can) Volkswagen Trek 3 14 Craig Mccarney (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 3 15 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Team Sparkasse 2 16 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Sparkasse 2 17 Jacob Nielsen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 2 18 Ryan Mckenzie (Can) Volkswagen Trek 1 19 Charles Dionne (Can) Québec 1 Mountains 1 1 Jean-Sébastien Beland (Can) Volkswagen Trek 7 pts 2 Dustin Macbernie (Can) Team R.A.C.E 5 3 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 3 4 Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukr) Navigators Insurance 2 5 Glen Alan Chadwick (NZl) Navigators Insurance 1 Mountains 2 1 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 10 pts 2 Ben Day (Aus) Navigators Insurance 8 4 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 6 3 Dominique Perras (Can) Québec 5 9 David O'loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance 4 11 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 3 7 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Sparkasse 2 6 Mark Walters (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 1 Teams 1 Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 14.41.30 2 Navigators Insurance 0.26 3 Tecos Trek Vh 4 Symmetrics 5 Farso Denmark Nat 10.55 6 Team Sparkasse 14.02 7 Québec 8 Team Slipstream 14.07 9 Savings And Loans Cycling Team 18.52 10 La_Z_Boy 28.08 11 Team R.A.C.E 32.40 12 Eva-Devinci 32.43 13 Volkswagen Trek 37.27 14 Garneau - Crocs 37.32 15 Calyon-Litespeed 16 Tean Spin 12 37.35 General Classification after Stage 1 1 Mark Walters (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 4.48.49 2 Dominique Rollin (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 0.27 3 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics 0.32 4 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 0.35 5 Ben Day (Aus) Navigators Insurance 0.36 6 David O'loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance 7 Danny Pate (USA) Team Slipstream 8 Juan Pablo Magallanes Arawda (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 9 Dominique Perras (Can) Québec 10 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 11 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 12 Soren Petersen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 2.02 13 Craig Mccarney (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 5.21 14 Jacob Nielsen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 9.39 15 Ryan Mckenzie (Can) Volkswagen Trek 14.11 16 Charles Dionne (Can) Québec 14.12 17 Tilo Schüler (Ger) Team Sparkasse 18 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Team Sparkasse 14.15 19 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Sparkasse 20 Derrick St-John (Can) Garneau - Crocs 14.17 21 Peter Morse (Can) Tean Spin 12 22 Rob Britton (Can) La_Z_Boy 23 Ben Raby (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 24 Luis Fernando Macias (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 25 Glen Alan Chadwick (NZl) Navigators Insurance 26 Francois Parisien (Can) Team Slipstream 27 Joel Dion-Poitras (Can) Eva-Devinci 28 Connor Trevor (Can) La_Z_Boy 29 Hector Hugo Rangel (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 30 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Sparkasse 31 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics 32 Buck Milller (Can) Team R.A.C.E 33 Mathieu Roy (Can) Eva-Devinci 34 Ivor Bruin (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 35 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics 36 David Pell (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 37 Alex Howes (USA) Team Slipstream 38 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 39 Timo Honstein (Ger) Team Sparkasse 40 Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics 41 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance 42 Pascal Bussières (Can) Québec 43 Dirk Müller (Ger) Team Sparkasse 44 Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukr) Navigators Insurance 45 John Fredy Parra Calada (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 46 Heberth Gutierrez Garcia (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 47 Mike Dietrich (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 48 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics 49 Ciarán Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 50 Greg Reain (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 51 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics 52 Ian Macgregor (USA) Team Slipstream 53 Dustin Macbernie (Can) Team R.A.C.E 54 Peter Mueller (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 55 Dan Timmerman (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 56 Jamie Sparling (Can) La_Z_Boy 14.37 57 Tim Hucker (Aus) Garneau - Crocs 19.09 58 William Goodfellow (Can) Volkswagen Trek 59 Benjamin Martel (Can) Garneau - Crocs 60 Jamie Lamb (Can) Garneau - Crocs 61 Michael Joanisse (Can) Garneau - Crocs 62 Peter Ladd (Aus) Garneau - Crocs 63 Rene Ahrenkiel (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 64 Mark Batty (Can) Team R.A.C.E 65 André Tremblay (Can) Volkswagen Trek 66 Maxime Vives (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 67 Jean-François Racine (Can) Garneau - Crocs 68 David Veilleux (Can) Québec 69 Cody O'rielly (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 70 Ryan Beliveau (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 71 Charly Vives (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 72 Will Dickison (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 73 Thorben Wieditz (Can) Tean Spin 12 74 Matt Guse (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 19.12 75 Mark Pozniak (Can) Team R.A.C.E 76 Martin Gilbert (Can) Québec 77 Adam Thuss (Can) Team R.A.C.E 78 Keven Lacombe (Can) Volkswagen Trek 79 Morten Christiansen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 80 Charlie Bryer (Can) Tean Spin 12 81 Jean-Sebastien Perron (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 82 Dave Vukets (Can) Tean Spin 12 83 Éric Boily (Can) Eva-Devinci 84 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Navigators Insurance 85 Phil Cortes (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 19.37 86 Brett Aitken (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 25.22 87 Jesse Athony (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 27.07 88 Jeffrey Dirksen (Ned) Team R.A.C.E 32.36 89 Jean-Sébastien Beland (Can) Volkswagen Trek 90 Troy Wells (USA) Tean Spin 12 32.39 91 Ugo Lapierre (Can) Farso Denmark Nat 39.11 92 Charles Thibault (Can) Eva-Devinci 93 Eric Robertson (Can) Team R.A.C.E 94 Jesper Lund (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 44.56 Mountains classification 1 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 21 pts 2 Ben Day (Aus) Navigators Insurance 18 3 Dominique Perras (Can) Québec 10 4 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 8 5 Jean-Sébastien Beland (Can) Volkswagen Trek 7 6 Mark Walters (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 7 7 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Sparkasse 5 8 Dustin Macbernie (Can) Team R.A.C.E 5 9 David O'loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance 4 10 Juan Pablo Magallanes Arawda (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 4 11 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 3 12 Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukr) Navigators Insurance 2 13 Glen Alan Chadwick (NZl) Navigators Insurance 1 14 Dominique Rollin (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 1 Teams classification 1 Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 14.41.30 2 Navigators Insurance 0.26 3 Tecos Trek Vh 4 Symmetrics 5 Farso Denmark Nat 10.55 6 Team Sparkasse 14.02 7 Québec 8 Team Slipstream 14.07 9 Savings And Loans Cycling Team 18.52 10 La_Z_Boy 28.08 11 Team R.A.C.E 32.40 12 Eva-Devinci 32.43 13 Volkswagen Trek 37.27 14 Garneau - Crocs 37.32 15 Calyon-Litespeed 16 Tean Spin 12 37.35 |
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