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71st Tour de Suisse - PT
Switzerland, June 16-24, 2007
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Stage 9 - June 24: Bern - Bern TT, 33.7 km
Flying Karpets grabs Tour de Suisse
Motoring Cancellara lands second stage win
By Shane Stokes in Bern, with additional reporting by Bjorn Haake
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It's been something of a dream month for Vladimir Karpets. Exactly four weeks ago he won the Tour de Catalunya. Now, with a fortnight to go until the start of the biggest race of the year, he has come out on top in the Tour de Suisse.
The former Tour de France white jersey started the day third overall but was best of the yellow jersey contenders in today's tough 33.7 kilometre race against the clock.
World time trial champion Fabian Cancellara was clearly quickest, beating Andreas Klöden (Astana) by 20 seconds and Stefan Schumacher by 33. Karpets was 1'06 back in sixth, taking 1'10 out of Kim Kirchen (T-Mobile) and 2'16 out of his own team-mate, overnight leader Vladimir Efimkin.
"This is my most important win to date, as the Tour de Suisse is bigger than the Tour of Catalunya," he said after the finish, speaking in good Spanish. "The time trial was pretty hard, due to the route and also the competitors.
"I am very, very happy because I lost only a minute to the winner Fabian Cancellara. I am also pleased that I succeeded in getting the final yellow jersey."
Teammate Efimkin said he would be motivated by the maillot jaune, but in the end he folded under the pressure and dropped to sixth overall. He was 38th in the test, conceding 3'22 to the stage winner.
Luxembourg road race champion Kim Kirchen fared better. He started the stage second in the general classification and finished in the same position, overtaking Efimkin but being himself leapfrogged by Karpets. The T-Mobile rider was six seconds ahead this morning; he was 1'04 back by the end of the day.
"I knew that Karpets would be very strong and in the end, I couldn't beat him," he told Cyclingnews at the crowd-thronged finish. "I had a bad day today, maybe I am tired. I thought I would be closer. It was a tough week, a very, very hard Tour de Suisse.
"I was not happy about the time trial but I am happy about the overall Tour de Suisse."
Kirchen won the Ronde van Nederland (now called the Eneco Tour of the Benelux) in 2002 and the following season won Paris-Brussels and was fourth overall in the Swiss Tour. In 2005 he won the Tour of Poland. "This is not my best result," he stated. "I was second in Tirreno and also did well in other races in the years before this.
"But I think that second in the Tour de Suisse is very good and also good for the morale for the Tour. I think that I did well."
The 28 year old has had an extremely consistent 2007, taking that runner-up slot in Tirreno-Adriatico, 12th in the Tour of California, 3rd in Milano-Torino, 10th in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, 13th in Milano-Sanremo and 14th in the Amstel Gold race. Michael Rogers pulled out of this Tour de Suisse injured but Kirchen played down any suggestions that he could end up leading the team for the Tour. "Michael sent me a text message to update things. He said that his knee is not that bad now. This is good news and I hope everything is better soon for him."
According to Karpets, the biggest surprise of the race was Stijn Devolder. The 27 year-old Belgian showed his stage race pedigree last season when he finished 11th in the Vuelta; he's taken another step forward in ending up on the final podium here in the Tour de Suisse.
The Discovery rider finished fourth in the time trial, 1'04 back, and vaulted from seventh to third overall. He ended the race on the same time as Matteo Carrara (Unibet.com) but was the one to make the top three.
As for stage four winner Fränk Schleck, he said beforehand that he would go all out to try to take back the yellow jersey. However his legs didn't cooperate with that aspiration; he was 29th, 2'50 down, and dropped to seventh.
Runaway train
Charging along with his race number 13 turned upside-down to ward off bad luck, Fabian Cancellara ended the Tour de Suisse as he had started it; winning against the clock in the rainbow jersey of the reigning world champion.
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Many expected him to deliver the goods today and he didn't disappoint. He was the 50th rider to start and smashed the previous best set by teammate Stuart O'Grady. The big Swiss rider was 2'20 faster than the Aussie and this proved enough to hold off the efforts of all the others. German duo Klöden and Schumacher were closest, going 20 and 33 seconds slower, respectively.
Cancellara was thus true to the promise made last Sunday to perform strongly in front of his home crowd in Bern.
After the race he travelled by helicopter to a TV studio in Zurich, thus missing the press conference. However he later expressed his satisfaction with the result.
"I'm extremely happy to have won here in my hometown. I'd hoped to win both time trials in this race, so it was perfect, really. The fact that I got three days in yellow was a nice bonus, too.
"I had some problems with my bike at the beginning, where the officials were saying that my bike was the wrong size. That took some of my focus away right at the very start of the stage, but I quickly regained my rhythm."
Apart from those two victories and three days in yellow, his performance saw him finish just three points behind Daniele Bennati in the points classification.
Earlier in the stage, teammate Jens Voigt had said that the race against the clock was a very stiff test. "It was a terrible course, way too difficult for the end of such a hard race." At that point he felt it was likely that the other CSC rider would take the victory. "Fabian is head and shoulders ahead of everybody else, in terms of being a favourite, and I think he will hold on to win today."
Like many others, Voigt rode the Tour de Suisse with twin aims; riding well was important [although he ultimately sacrificed any personal ambitions for Cancellara and Schleck], and so was preparing for July's big event.
"I think that is what I needed in order to get ready for the Tour de France," he said. "Some hard kilometres, some hard climbing, and overall a good workout. I will have a little bit of recovery time, then do the German championships before going to London."
Of course, the results of the other competitions were finalised today. Vladimir Gusev's long break on stage seven earned him the mountains classification and Florian Stalder (Team Volksbank) took the intermediate sprints jersey. Rigoberto Uran rode very strongly for a 20 year-old, winning stage eight and then today succeeding in his goal of moving into the top ten overall. He finished the race ninth, one place ahead of Klöden, and helped his Unibet.com squad finish second overall in the team standings behind Caisse d'Epargne. We'll be hearing more of him in the years ahead.
How it unfolded
The first rider to go off at 13:48 local time was last-placed American Guido Trenti (Liquigas), who was competing with the Belgian Leif Hoste (Predictor-Lotto) for the precious honour to finish last. Hoste did not want to have anything to do with that competition however and rode to a respectable 44'34.
Stuart O'Grady from CSC was the one who could push Hoste's time off the leader board by about 30 seconds. But his best time didn't stand for long as local hero Fabian Cancellara started soon after his Australian teammate and was in a hurry to get off the course again. He set a time of 41'46, relegating O'Grady to second by a good two minutes.
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Shortly after the Swiss World Champion had finished his race, German Stefan Schumacher was reported to be only 26 seconds behind Cancellara at the second time check, but he eventually had to settle for second for the time being.
A big roar in the crowd was created by Astana's Andreas Klöden, who was ahead of Cancellara by the first time check, 8.3 kilometres into the race. But the German had started quickly and slowed down a fraction in the middle part of the course. At the second check, he was reported being ten seconds behind the current leader and eventually finished behind the Swiss, but ahead of compatriot Schumacher.
While the battle in the front seemed to involve only German speaking folks, it was shortly after 16:00 when the remaining hopefuls for the overall battle got ready. CSC's Fränk Schleck of Luxembourg was the first one to go, followed by Unibet's Carrara.
At the end there was only a trio left in the form of a Caisse d'Epargne sandwich: Kim Kirchen of T-Mobile started next to last between the two Russians from the Spanish squad.
In the mean time, Vladimir Gusev of the Discovery Channel team was doing a good ride and got the third best time at the second split. He would eventually finish fifth.
The five guys were approaching the first time check, which would already give an early indicator on what was happening. Karpets was on a roll and only one second behind Cancellara, whereas all the other contenders for the GC were a half minute behind.
While this battle was going on Damiano Cunego quietly rode a good race. Not known to be a specialist he ended up 16th, 2'20 behind. Chris Horner, who undoubtedly felt his attacks from the previous days, finished 45th, 3'39 in arrears.
The second time check confirmed that Karpets was on target to get yellow when the clock showed him in fifth place at 36 seconds. Kirchen is ranked 15th at the same spot whereas Efimkin is already two minutes behind.
The second time check was also the highest point of the course, so the last ten kilometres were very fast. In the end Schleck faded be outside the top 25, ending just behind Australian Matthew White and dropping two places in the overall.
Unibet's Carrara fought hard to get 22nd, but missed the podium by a hair, having the same overall time as Stijn Devolder. The latter rode a brilliant time trial to end up in fourth for the day.
Kim Kirchen managed to get 15th in the stage and hung on to second overall, easily beating Efimkin, who got relegated to sixth overall. However, Kirchen was not able to match Caisse d'Epargne's other Russian, Vladimir Karpets, who got sixth for the day and won the race overall by a good minute.
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- Fabian Cancellara (CSC) wears the rainbow jersey for a reason
- Stijn Devolder (Discovery) rode a brilliant time trial to get onto the podium for the overall
- Vladimir Karpets (Caisse d'Epargne) used his long legs to win the Tour de Suisse 2007
- Kim Kirchen (T-Mobile) rode a decent time trial but could not advance in the overall
- Vladimir Efimkin (Caisse d'Epargne) did not have his best day and slipped six places in the overall
- Fabian Cancellara (CSC) sweeps through the fields
- Cancellara gets encouragement from his hometown fans
- Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) takes a turn and had a great day
- Erik Zabel (Milram) was missing the rubbing of elbows in a tight sprint
- Michael Boogerd (Rabobank riding through the fields
- Marzio Bruseghin (Lampre-Fondital) the Italian time trial champion
- Thomas Dekker (Rabobank) trying to get really low
- Jens Voigt (CSC) thought the time trial was too hard at the end of a tough race
- Patrik Sinkewitz (T-Mobile
- Linus Gerdeman (T-Mobile) the team's hope for the future
- Carlos Sastre (CSC) glad to get some TT trainignbefore the Tour
- Laurent Brochard (Bouygues Telecom)
- Cancellara the local hero on the podium
- The final podium Kirchen, Karpets, Devolder (l-r)
- The trophy for the winner of the Tour de Suisse
- Vladimir Gusev (Discovery) in the final TT
- Andreas Kloden took second in the final TT
- Gerrit Glomser (Volksbank)
- Gilberto Simoni climbs in the final TT
- Stijn Devolder (Discovery) climbs in a full aero tuck
- Damiano Cunego on the hill
- Frank Schleck (CSC)
- Matteo Carrara (Unibet.com) was fourth overall
- Efimkin rides through the beautiful Swiss landscape
- Efimkin lost the yellow and gave up more than two minutes to Karpets
- A happy Cancellara and daughter on the podium
- Stijn Devolder (Discovery) at the start
- Kim Kirchen (T-Mobile) couldn't overtake Karpets for the overall
- Vladimir Karpets (Caisse d'Epargne) the final overall winner
- Karpets on the podium
- Fabian Cancellara (CSC) and his world champion's helmet
- Carlos Sastre (CSC) used the TT as a tune up for the Tour
- Gerrit Glomser (Volksbank) comes to the finish
- Simoni looking relaxed in the final TT
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre)
- Frank Schleck (CSC) approaches the line
- Vladimir Karpets on his way to the overall win
- Kim Kirchen (T-Mobile) tries to eke out every watt from his tired body
- Vladimir Efimkin (Caisse d'Epargne) lost a lot of time in the final TT
- Cancellara and child on the stage winner's podium
- Florian Stalder (Volksbank) earned the sprint jersey
- Vladimir Gusev (Discovery) took home the climber's jersey
- Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Fondital) is the winner of the points competition
- Caisse d'Epargne took the team prize
Images by AFP Photo
- Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) gets a custom paint job to match his rainbow skinsuit.
- Cancellara was licking his lips at the prospect of another TT win.
- The world champ focuses on the start ramp.
- Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Fondital) waits for the off.
- Vladimir Karpets (Caisse d'Epargne) did enough claim the overall victory off team-mate Vladimir Efimkin.
- Karpets suffering during his TT ride.
- Kim Kirchen (T-Mobile) held onto second overall with a solid ride against the clock.
- Stijn Devolder (Discovery Channel) produced the surprise of the day to leapfrog into third overall.
- Fabian Cancellara thunders up the finishing straight.
- Matteo Carrara (Unibet.com) receives encouragement from the fans.
- Cancellara wipes away the sweat after his ride.
- The winner receives the customary post-race treatment from journalists and photographers.
- Stage winner Fabian Cancellara grabs his daughter Juliana before heading to the podium.
- A possible dress rehearsal for the Tour de France prologue in two week's time?
- Vladimir Karpets dons the final yellow jersey of the Tour de Suisse.
- Karpets straightens up his yellow jersey.
- A double smooch for the winner.
- Karpets joins some illustrious names on the Tour de Suisse winners list, including Lance Armstrong and Jan Ullrich.
- The final podium (l-r): Kim Kirchen (T-Mobile), Vladimir Karpets (Caisse d'Epargne) and Stijn Devolder (Discovery Channel).
Results
1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 41.46 (48.412 km/h) 2 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 0.20 3 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.33 4 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.04 5 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.05 6 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 1.06 7 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Astana 1.26 8 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 1.31 9 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 1.36 10 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 1.57 11 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 2.01 12 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2.02 13 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 2.04 14 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quick Step - Innergetic 2.15 15 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 2.16 16 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.20 17 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 18 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Unibet.com 2.22 19 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank 20 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 2.34 21 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.35 22 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 23 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quick Step - Innergetic 2.43 24 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 25 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC 2.45 26 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Quick Step - Innergetic 2.46 27 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 2.48 28 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2.50 29 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 30 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2.51 31 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 2.58 32 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 3.05 33 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 34 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 3.07 35 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3.14 36 William Bonnet (Fra) Credit Agricole 3.15 37 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 3.20 38 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 3.22 39 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 3.27 40 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3.28 41 Christophe Riblon (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 3.30 42 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3.31 43 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team CSC 44 Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 3.34 45 Christopher Horner (USA) Predictor-Lotto 3.39 46 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 3.41 47 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 3.42 48 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 49 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 3.45 50 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Ag2r Prevoyance 3.46 51 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 3.49 52 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3.52 53 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 3.57 54 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 3.58 55 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 4.00 56 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 4.04 57 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4.05 58 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 4.06 59 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quick Step - Innergetic 60 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 4.08 61 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4.14 62 Alexandre Usau (Blr) Ag2r Prevoyance 4.16 63 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 4.17 64 Arkaitz Duran Aroca (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 65 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 4.19 66 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step - Innergetic 67 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 4.23 68 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 4.26 69 Bart Dockx (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 4.27 70 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4.28 71 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 4.29 72 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4.33 73 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 4.41 74 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4.43 75 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4.46 76 Luis Pasamontes Rodriguez (Spa) Unibet.com 77 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 78 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 79 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 4.47 80 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4.54 81 Rene Mandri (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 82 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 4.55 83 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 84 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prevoyance 4.56 85 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile Team 4.57 86 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 87 Florian Stalder (Swi) Team Volksbank 4.58 88 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 4.59 89 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Volksbank 5.00 90 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 91 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 5.01 92 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française Des Jeux 5.05 93 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 94 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5.06 95 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 5.09 96 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 5.11 97 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas 5.16 98 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 99 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 5.17 100 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française Des Jeux 5.20 101 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 102 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Credit Agricole 5.21 103 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 5.23 104 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 5.25 105 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 5.35 106 Victor Hugo Pena Grisales (Col) Unibet.com 5.38 107 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5.39 108 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Credit Agricole 5.43 109 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Team Milram 5.48 110 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 5.52 111 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 5.53 112 Josef Benetseder (Aut) Team Volksbank 5.54 113 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank 5.55 114 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 6.00 115 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 6.01 116 Ivan Velasco Murillo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6.03 117 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française Des Jeux 6.05 118 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 119 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6.07 120 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 6.09 121 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 6.11 122 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 6.17 123 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 6.21 124 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Team Milram 6.23 125 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Volksbank 6.26 126 Tom Criel (Bel) Unibet.com 6.28 127 Jon Bru Pascal (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6.33 128 Mariusz Witecki (Pol) Team Volksbank 129 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 6.37 130 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6.38 131 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 6.39 132 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 7.07 133 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 7.18 134 Guido Trenti (USA) Liquigas 7.29 135 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 8.20 136 Fernandez De La Puebla Ramos (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 9.47 137 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 10.16 Points 1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 15 pts 2 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 12 3 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 10 4 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 9 5 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 8 6 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 7 7 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Astana 6 8 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 5 9 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 4 10 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 3 11 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 2 12 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Teams 1 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2.10.17 2 Team CSC 0.06 3 Astana 0.07 4 Unibet.com 1.29 5 Caisse d'Epargne 1.31 6 Gerolsteiner 2.01 7 Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 2.33 8 Quickstep-Innergetic 2.45 9 T-Mobile Team 3.39 10 Bouygues Telecom 4.08 11 Lampre-Fondital 4.30 12 Française des Jeux 5.23 13 Rabobank 5.35 14 Predictor-Lotto 5.47 15 AG2r Prévoyance 5.59 16 Team Volkswagen-Trek 7.21 17 Liquigas 7.30 18 Saunier Duval-Prodir 8.18 19 Crédit Agricole 8.32 20 Euskaltel-Euskadi 9.32 21 Team Milram 11.00 Final general classification 1 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 30.07.23 2 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 1.04 3 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.30 4 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 5 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.41 6 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 1.46 7 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1.47 8 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank 2.50 9 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Unibet.com 3.16 10 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 3.19 11 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 4.41 12 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 5.16 13 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 5.25 14 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 6.00 15 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 6.04 16 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quick Step - Innergetic 6.48 17 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8.22 18 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8.42 19 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 8.50 20 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 9.08 21 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 9.11 22 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Astana 9.22 23 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team 10.39 24 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 11.05 25 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 11.58 26 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 13.06 27 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Ag2r Prevoyance 13.18 28 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 13.28 29 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 13.49 30 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 14.52 31 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 18.10 32 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 19.04 33 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step - Innergetic 19.35 34 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 20.29 35 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Quick Step - Innergetic 22.02 36 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 24.01 37 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 25.32 38 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 26.29 39 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 26.57 40 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 27.59 41 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 29.42 42 Christopher Horner (USA) Predictor-Lotto 30.19 43 Christophe Riblon (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 31.52 44 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 33.08 45 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 33.31 46 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 34.33 47 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quick Step - Innergetic 34.40 48 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC 35.30 49 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Credit Agricole 37.52 50 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 38.48 51 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 40.57 52 Arkaitz Duran Aroca (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 41.56 53 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 43.48 54 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 44.18 55 Florian Stalder (Swi) Team Volksbank 47.00 56 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank 47.42 57 Luis Pasamontes Rodriguez (Spa) Unibet.com 48.46 58 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 49.05 59 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 49.38 60 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 51.52 61 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prevoyance 52.49 62 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française Des Jeux 53.25 63 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas 53.58 64 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 55.17 65 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 56.10 66 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Volksbank 56.45 67 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 58.37 68 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 59.14 69 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 1.00.13 70 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Team Milram 1.00.41 71 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 1.00.46 72 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.02.04 73 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.02.41 74 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.03.08 75 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 1.03.17 76 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.03.53 77 Jon Bru Pascal (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.04.04 78 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 1.04.28 79 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 1.05.45 80 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 1.07.05 81 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.07.24 82 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.07.34 83 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 1.08.49 84 Ivan Velasco Murillo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.09.46 85 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 86 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.10.22 87 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 1.11.57 88 Mariusz Witecki (Pol) Team Volksbank 1.12.22 89 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.13.54 90 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.14.12 91 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 1.14.43 92 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.15.23 93 William Bonnet (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.15.26 94 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Volksbank 1.16.21 95 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.18.10 96 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.20.33 97 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 1.22.03 98 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 1.23.05 99 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 1.25.27 100 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 1.27.04 101 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 1.27.14 102 Rene Mandri (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 1.27.28 103 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.28.26 104 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.28.29 105 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team CSC 1.28.59 106 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.29.51 107 Fernandez De La Puebla Ramos (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.30.01 108 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 1.30.50 109 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.30.57 110 Bart Dockx (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 1.33.46 111 Tom Criel (Bel) Unibet.com 1.34.08 112 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 1.34.57 113 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.35.03 114 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 1.36.54 115 Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 1.36.56 116 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1.39.52 117 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.41.07 118 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.41.32 119 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Team Milram 1.42.46 120 Alexandre Usau (Blr) Ag2r Prevoyance 1.44.03 121 Victor Hugo Pena Grisales (Col) Unibet.com 1.46.00 122 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.46.27 123 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 1.46.28 124 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.47.22 125 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.47.30 126 Josef Benetseder (Aut) Team Volksbank 1.48.20 127 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1.48.34 128 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 1.49.22 129 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 1.50.28 130 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 1.54.12 131 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile Team 1.54.33 132 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quick Step - Innergetic 1.54.38 133 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.55.55 134 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 1.56.16 135 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 1.56.31 136 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 1.58.22 137 Guido Trenti (USA) Liquigas 2.04.52 Points classification 1 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 60 pts 2 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 57 3 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 50 4 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 41 5 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 40 6 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 38 7 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 35 8 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 33 9 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 33 10 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 31 11 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Unibet.com 30 12 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 30 13 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 27 14 William Bonnet (Fra) Credit Agricole 26 15 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank 25 16 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 24 17 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team CSC 24 18 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 23 19 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 23 20 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 19 21 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Ag2r Prevoyance 18 22 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 17 23 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir 17 24 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 17 25 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 17 26 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 17 27 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 12 28 Christopher Horner (USA) Predictor-Lotto 12 29 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 10 30 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 9 31 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 8 32 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 8 33 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 8 34 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 7 35 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 7 36 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 7 37 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Astana 6 38 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 6 39 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas 6 40 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 6 41 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step - Innergetic 5 Mountains classification 1 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 45 pts 2 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 36 3 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 34 4 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 25 5 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 24 6 Christopher Horner (USA) Predictor-Lotto 18 7 Luis Pasamontes Rodriguez (Spa) Unibet.com 15 8 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Prodir 13 9 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 10 10 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 9 11 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 8 12 Arkaitz Duran Aroca (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 8 13 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 8 14 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 6 15 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 6 16 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 6 17 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 5 18 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 4 19 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quick Step - Innergetic 4 20 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 3 21 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 3 22 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Quick Step - Innergetic 2 23 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 2 24 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2 25 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank 1 26 Florian Stalder (Swi) Team Volksbank 1 27 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 1 28 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1 29 Bart Dockx (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 1 Sprints Classification 1 Florian Stalder (Swi) Team Volksbank 29 pts 2 Luis Pasamontes Rodriguez (Spa) Unibet.com 14 3 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 12 4 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 9 5 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 9 6 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank 6 7 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 6 8 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Ag2r Prevoyance 6 9 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 6 10 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 6 11 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Volksbank 6 12 Victor Hugo Pena Grisales (Col) Unibet.com 6 13 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 4 14 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quick Step - Innergetic 3 15 Arkaitz Duran Aroca (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 3 16 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 3 17 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3 18 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 1 19 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1 20 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 1 21 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 1 22 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 1 23 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1 24 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1 Teams Classification 1 Caisse d'Epargne 90.27.56 2 Unibet.com 4.29 3 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 8.50 4 Astana 11.36 5 Team CSC 14.27 6 T-Mobile Team 15.04 7 Quickstep-Innergetic 17.49 8 Saunier Duval-Prodir 19.54 9 AG2r Prévoyance 20.07 10 Bouygues Telecom 35.27 11 Lampre-Fondital 37.17 12 Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 37.21 13 Rabobank 51.34 14 Team Volkswagen-Trek 1.18.37 15 Française des Jeux 1.33.08 16 Liquigas 1.35.36 17 Predictor-Lotto 1.40.49 18 Crédit Agricole 1.43.19 19 Gerolsteiner 1.47.17 20 Team Milram 2.10.17 21 Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.24.53
