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65th Paris-Nice - ProTour
France, March 11-18, 2007
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Stage 6 - March 17: Brignoles - Cannes, 200 km
Sánchez ascends as Rebellin holds on
By Jean-François Quénet in Cannes
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Luis Leon Sanchez from Caisse d'Epargne survived a long and brilliant breakaway to win a memorable stage and move up to third place on GC, but he didn't favor his compatriot and former team-mate Alberto Contador who had attacked race leader Davide Rebellin. Rebellin hung on to the lead group in a frantic finale to stay on the throne with one day to go.
Reaching the finishing line of Cannes alongside the Mediterranean sea, Sanchez took time for putting his arms up and giving his jersey the best possible look. It was risky for his final position on GC. "But I really wanted to celebrate this win", he said before dedicating it to his brother who died last year. The flamboyant winner of the 2005 Tour Down Under never won a race since the tragedy, although he claimed the overall classification of the Mallorca series this year.
"This is a big win for my new team who believed in me after that", he said. His current sponsor Caisse d'Epargne is a French bank, so the motivation was pretty high for producing a spectacular show on the roads to the Côte d'Azur.
The 2006 season of the 23 year-old was also affected by the fall out of the Liberty Seguros then Astana team, where he started his career under the guidance of Manolo Saiz three years ago. In the crucial finale of stage 6 in Paris-Nice, he entered a dilemma with his former team-mate Contador, now with Discovery Channel and clearly the best rider in this race.
The fading Contador got a helping hand-sling from Sanchez with six kilometers to go, and the pair, along with Sanchez' team-mate David Lopez Garcia agreed to combine forces in order to get the stage win for Sanchez and the yellow jersey for Contador. But Sanchez attacked strongly one kilometer further. "We had agreed, but the real decisions are made in the team cars", a bitter Contador commented. "If I knew it would happen like that, I would have gone solo in the climb because I wasn't going flat out. I wanted to keep a few guys with me for cooperation on the flat finale."
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Sanchez followed his team's the instructions, otherwise, he was facing the return of the 30-strong bunch including race leader Rebellin. For a while, the position of the Italian looked in danger, especially when he lost his entire Gerolsteiner team and was forced to set the pace by himself. But as the kilometres ticked down, Rebellin started to get help from other teams defending a fourth place on GC (Lampre for Tadej Valjavec), a fifth place (Liquigas for Franco Pellizotti), a sixth place (Française des Jeux for Sébastien Joly), a seventh place (Predictor-Lotto for Cadel Evans), or position on the team classification for the UCI Pro Tour (CSC).
This edition of Paris-Nice has been very passionate, but a similar result has occured every day, and this frustrates the people who take the initiative and make a spectacle. "I don't have any regret because we have given it all while we were away", said the new leader of the climber's competition, Thomas Voeckler.
"We played but we didn't win today", Discovery Channel's Dirk Demol said. "We wanted to make the race hard, but several teams consistently chased behind breakaways." Rebellin has kept the six seconds lead he got at the only uphill finish in Mende, but he doesn't feel calm yet. "It's not possible to control everyone," he said. "Contador is the strongest, I'm not able to follow him when he attacks in the climbs. I'm tired but I believe everyone is. I know the final stage in Nice, I know it's hard, I hope I'll have good legs for keeping the yellow jersey."
Nearing the end of his professional career, but determined to continue on through 2008, Rebellin might benefit from the good reputation he has developed over the years. This is his 16th season, and he's got no enemy in cycling which helps when it comes time to defend a yellow jersey. These days, common interests put aside, the politically correct Gerolsteiner team also looks likeit has less strength but more friends than Discovery Channel. The last stage of Paris-Nice promises a thrilling finale.
How it unfolded
Joost Posthuma (Rabobank), who had won the equivalent stage to Cannes two years ago was the most active riders in the initial skirmishes. Patrick Sinkewitz (T-Mobile) was another very motivated rider at the start. Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank), Philippe Gilbert (Française des Jeux) and Sylvain Chavanel (Cofidis) also made an attempt but the decision was made only at km 33 when six men broke clear: Chavanel again, Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Telecom), Christian Vandevelde (CSC), Luis Leon Sanchez (Caisse d'Epargne), Levi Leipheimer and Tom Danielson (Discovery Channel).
They didn't build too much of a gap to the bunch although they rode hard, covering 47.8 kilometers in the first hour on a very difficult course. With such a demanding stage, a few riders retired, including stage one winner Jean-Patrick Nazon (Ag2r), three more from Bouygues Telecom after Xavier Florencio was a non-starter, and polka-dot-jersey wearer Heinrich Haussler, who was the first of four members of Gerolsteiner to give up.
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On the côte de Taraudeau (km 73.5), Voeckler started his campaign to take over from Haussler and the advantage of the six men away went up to 2'15. Voeckler was first at the top of seven consecutive classified climbs. En route to Cannes, the gap went up and down. It was two minutes again at the Col de Saint-Arnoux (km 117.5). On the hardest climb of the day, the Col de Bourigaille (km 138.5), race leader Davide Rebellin and the leftovers of his Gerolsteiner team-mates took the reigns of the bunch but didn't bring the escapees back.
As the peloton closed in to 1'10 at km 156, Chavanel decided to go by himself, and built up a 52 second advantage. Sanchez was the only one of the breakaway riders not to be swallowed by the bunch. He had enough strength left to follow Alberto Contador (Discovery Channel) and his team-mate David Lopez Garcia, who had gone clear in the final challenge of the day, the Col de Tanneron. Contador went over the top first ahead of Lopez Garcia, Sanchez and Chavanel, all together 20 seconds in front of Rebellin's group.
Chavanel was dropped with 6km to go, and the Spanish trio increased their lead to 35 seconds. Sanchez attacked with 5km to go, leaving Contador in the unlucky position of towing Lopez Garcia along. Lopez Garcia then attacked to try and lose Contador, but went too soon and both riders faded and got caught by the peloton. 28 seconds behind Sanchez, Mirko Lorenzetto (Milram) won the bunch and put his arms up the air, the same way Tom Boonen did it three days before when he thought he had won stage 3, not knowing that Luis León Sánchez was still away.
Photography
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- A brilliant win by Sánchez moves him up to third on GC
- Sánchez posts it after a well-earned win
- Luis León Sánchez celebrates on the podium after winning stage six
- Rebellin had a hard day thanks to help from CSC kept his overall lead
- Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) kept the jersey, but lost half his team in the process
- Luis León Sánchez attacks the break of three, dropping Contador and his teammate Lopez.
Results
1 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4.46.32 (41.879 km/h) 2 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Milram 0.28 3 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 5 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 6 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 7 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 8 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 10 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 11 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 12 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 13 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 14 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 15 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 16 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 17 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 18 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 19 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 20 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval-Prodir 21 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 22 Iban Mayo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 23 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 24 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 25 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 26 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 27 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 28 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 29 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 30 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 31 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor-Lotto 0.36 32 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Milram 4.28 33 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas 34 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis 35 Josep Jufré (Spa) Predictor-Lotto 36 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas 37 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 38 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 39 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 40 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 41 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 42 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 43 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 44 Francisco Pérez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 45 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r Prévoyance 5.38 46 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 47 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 48 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile 49 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 50 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 51 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 52 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 53 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 54 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 55 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 56 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 57 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 58 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 59 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 60 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 61 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile 62 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 63 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 64 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 65 Bert Roesems (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 10.19 66 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 67 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 68 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 69 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel 70 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 71 Iker Camaño (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 72 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis 73 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 74 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 75 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel 15.21 76 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana 77 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana 78 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 79 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 80 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile 81 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 82 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 83 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 84 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic 85 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 86 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 87 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 88 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 89 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 90 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 91 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 92 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 93 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis 94 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 95 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 96 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram 97 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Milram 98 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 99 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile 100 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 101 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 102 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 103 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 104 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 105 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 106 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 107 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 108 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 109 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 110 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram 111 Jakob Piil (Den) T-Mobile 112 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 113 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel 114 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 115 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 116 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 117 Rubén Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 17.47 118 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 119 Martin Müller (Swi) Milram 19.08 120 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Milram 121 Gregory Henderson (NZl) T-Mobile 122 Kasper Klostergård (Den) Team CSC 123 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 124 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Milram 125 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 126 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 23.35 DNS Francisco José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir DNS Iban Velasco Murillo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi DNS Xavier Florencio (Spa) Bouygues Telecom DNF Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom DNF Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom DNF Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom DNF Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre-Fondital DNF Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Saunier Duval-Prodir DNF Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel DNF Mikel Gaztañaga Echeverria (Spa) Agritubel DNF Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner DNF Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner DNF Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital DNF Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank DNF Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Predictor-Lotto DNF Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis DNF Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance DNF Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance DNF Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance DNF Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Astana Points Tavernes (D.554-d.71) (km 25) 1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 3 pts 2 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 3 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 1 Montauroux (Près) (km 165) 1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 3 pts 2 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 2 3 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Mountains Côte De Réal Martin (km 5) 1 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 4 pts 2 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 3 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 1 Côte De Taradeau (km 73.5) 1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7 pts 2 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 5 3 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 3 4 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 5 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 1 Côte Des Tuillières (km 88) 1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7 pts 2 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 5 3 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 3 4 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 2 5 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Col De Saint-andrieux (km 96.5) 1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7 pts 2 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 5 3 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3 4 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 2 5 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 1 Col Du Défens (D.955-d.19) (km 103.5) 1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7 pts 2 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 5 3 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 3 4 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 5 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 1 Col De Saint-arnoux (km 117.5) 1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 pts 2 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 2 3 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Col De Bourrigaille (km 138.5) 1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10 pts 2 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 8 3 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 4 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 4 5 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 3 6 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 2 7 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Côte De Mons (km 143) 1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 pts 2 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 2 3 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 1 Col Du Tanneron (km 180) 1 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 7 pts 2 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 5 3 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 3 4 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 5 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 1 Young rider 1 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4.46.32 2 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 0.28 3 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 4 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 5 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 6 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 7 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 8 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4.28 9 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 10 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 11 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 5.38 12 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile 13 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 10.19 14 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 15 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana 15.21 16 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 17 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 18 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 19 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 20 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 21 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 22 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 23 Kasper Klostergård (Den) Team CSC 19.08 24 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 26 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 23.35 Teams 1 Caisse d'Epargne 14.20.32 2 Team CSC 0.28 3 Predictor-Lotto 0.36 4 Liquigas 4.28 5 Cofidis 6 Saunier Duval-Prodir 7 Française Des Jeux 8 Discovery Channel 9 Bouygues Telecom 5.38 10 Euskaltel-Euskadi 9.38 11 Ag2r Prévoyance 10.48 12 Crédit Agricole 13 Astana 14 T-Mobile 14.48 15 Lampre-Fondital 15.21 16 Milram 19.21 17 Gerolsteiner 18 Agritubel 20.39 19 Rabobank 25.12 20 Quickstep-Innergetic 25.41 General classification after stage 6 1 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 26.39.39 (42.407 km/h) 2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 0.06 3 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.16 4 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 0.23 5 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 0.31 6 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0.32 7 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 0.35 8 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.42 9 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 10 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 0.43 12 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 13 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.46 14 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 0.51 15 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 0.54 16 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.03 17 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 1.05 18 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 1.06 19 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 1.13 20 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1.17 21 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 1.20 22 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.26 23 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 1.38 24 Iban Mayo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.39 25 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 1.48 26 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 1.51 27 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 1.52 28 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor-Lotto 2.58 29 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 4.48 30 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 5.15 31 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5.38 32 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.03 33 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6.08 34 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 6.44 35 Francisco Pérez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6.59 36 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 7.00 37 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 7.09 38 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas 7.20 39 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.19 40 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r Prévoyance 8.41 41 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 8.57 42 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 9.04 43 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 9.17 44 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Milram 9.26 45 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 9.50 46 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile 9.55 47 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 10.27 48 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile 10.56 49 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 12.33 50 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 15.13 51 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas 15.19 52 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis 16.14 53 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 16.18 54 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 55 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel 16.20 56 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Milram 16.41 57 Jakob Piil (Den) T-Mobile 16.48 58 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 16.57 59 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 17.08 60 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 18.33 61 Josep Jufré (Spa) Predictor-Lotto 19.44 62 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 19.49 63 Bert Roesems (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 20.31 64 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 20.40 65 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20.48 66 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 20.50 67 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 21.15 68 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis 21.23 69 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 21.39 70 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 21.40 71 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 22.07 72 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 22.58 73 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 24.02 74 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 24.25 75 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 24.57 76 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram 25.01 77 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 25.07 78 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana 25.13 79 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 25.52 80 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 26.34 81 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile 26.36 82 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 28.09 83 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 28.21 84 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 28.52 85 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana 28.54 86 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 28.55 87 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 29.28 88 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 29.42 89 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 30.13 90 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 30.19 91 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 30.42 92 Iker Camaño (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 31.02 93 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 31.36 94 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 32.01 95 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile 32.40 96 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 32.48 97 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 33.05 98 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 33.31 99 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 33.51 100 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 33.54 101 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 34.11 102 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 34.22 103 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 34.30 104 Rubén Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 34.50 105 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel 35.14 106 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 36.00 107 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 37.37 108 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 38.17 109 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 38.30 110 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 111 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic 38.32 112 Kasper Klostergård (Den) Team CSC 38.33 113 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 39.06 114 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 39.18 115 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Milram 39.23 116 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram 39.27 117 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 40.20 118 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 40.55 119 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis 41.22 120 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 41.39 121 Gregory Henderson (NZl) T-Mobile 42.20 122 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Milram 42.43 123 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Milram 43.30 124 Martin Müller (Swi) Milram 44.09 125 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel 45.32 126 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 46.46 Points classification 1 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 75 pts 2 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 72 3 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 67 4 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 49 5 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 49 6 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 48 7 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Milram 44 8 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 43 9 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 38 10 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas 38 11 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 38 12 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 37 13 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 36 14 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 35 15 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval-Prodir 34 16 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 34 17 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 32 18 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 31 19 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 31 20 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 30 21 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 30 22 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 28 23 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 27 24 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 27 25 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 27 26 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 24 27 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram 23 28 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Milram 22 29 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 21 30 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana 20 31 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 19 32 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 19 33 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 18 34 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 18 35 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas 16 36 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 16 37 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 15 38 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 14 39 Josep Jufré (Spa) Predictor-Lotto 12 40 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 11 41 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 11 42 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 11 43 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11 44 Gregory Henderson (NZl) T-Mobile 10 45 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 7 46 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 7 47 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7 48 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 6 49 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 50 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 5 51 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5 52 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 4 53 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 4 54 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 55 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Milram 4 56 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis 3 57 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 3 58 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3 59 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 3 60 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 3 61 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 2 62 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile 2 63 Jakob Piil (Den) T-Mobile 2 64 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2 65 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 1 66 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile 1 67 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 1 Mountains classification 1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 48 pts 2 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 24 3 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 20 4 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 17 5 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 17 6 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 17 7 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 17 8 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 17 9 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 15 10 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 13 11 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis 12 12 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile 11 13 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 11 14 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 11 15 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 8 16 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 8 17 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 8 18 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 19 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 6 20 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 5 21 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 4 22 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 4 23 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 4 24 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 4 25 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 4 26 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 3 27 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 28 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 3 29 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 2 30 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 2 31 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 32 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 2 33 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1 34 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 1 35 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 1 36 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1 37 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 1 38 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Young rider classification 1 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 26.39.45 2 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.10 3 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 0.45 4 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 0.48 5 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1.11 6 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 1.14 7 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 1.32 8 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5.32 9 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 6.38 10 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile 9.49 11 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 16.12 12 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 19.43 13 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 21.09 14 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 22.01 15 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 24.51 16 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 28.03 17 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 28.15 18 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana 28.48 19 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 29.22 20 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 31.30 21 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 33.45 22 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 34.05 23 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 38.11 24 Kasper Klostergård (Den) Team CSC 38.27 25 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 41.33 26 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 46.40 Teams classification 1 Caisse d'Epargne 80.00.45 2 Team CSC 1.43 3 Predictor-Lotto 2.13 4 Discovery Channel 4.30 5 Française Des Jeux 4.53 6 Saunier Duval-Prodir 5.05 7 Bouygues Telecom 6.29 8 Cofidis 9 Liquigas 6.59 10 Euskaltel-Euskadi 12.38 11 Ag2r Prévoyance 15.09 12 Astana 15.12 13 Lampre-Fondital 19.11 14 T-Mobile 22.47 15 Crédit Agricole 25.30 16 Gerolsteiner 29.31 17 Quickstep-Innergetic 42.38 18 Milram 47.17 19 Rabobank 51.04 20 Agritubel 56.16
