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67th Circuit Franco-Belge - 2.1
Belgium, October 4-7, 2007
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Stage 2 - October 5: Maubeuge (France) - Templeuve (France), 204.8 km
Steegmans takes an aggressive stage
By Laura Weislo
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The season might be drawing to a close, but the men contesting the Circuit Franco-Belge are still taking the racing quite seriously. In a furious stage riddled with attacks and a high pace that shattered the field, Quick.Step-Innergetic's Gert Steegmans prevailed in the field sprint ahead of T-Mobile's' Mark Cavendish and Discovery's Allan Davis. Aurélien Clerc (Bouygues Telecom) finished with the group and held onto his lead in the overall classification.
"I am really pleased with this win," Steegmans said. "It was a difficult stage due to the echelons that characterised the first part of the race. After this there was a four-man breakaway, but our team worked really well in catching up with them. This win is an important signal for me as it proves the excellent form I am in at present, and allows me to be serene and positive about next weeks Paris-Tours."
T-Mobile drew first blood early in the 204.8 kilometre stage, with Bernhard Eisel going clear just 10 kilometres into the race. With no company, he was quickly brought back. A group of five by the rapidly moving peloton. The fast pace spelled the end of the race for Dutch rider Pim Lighthart who had crashed on stage one, and he abandoned at kilometre 25.
The first hour averaged nearly 48 km/h, and hardly let up after the first intermediate sprint, which was won by Mark Renshaw (Credit Agricole) in front of Graeme Brown (Rabobank) and Sébastien Chavanel (Française des Jeux). The acceleration spelled the end of the race for Troels Winther (Unibet.com), and split the peloton into five groups, with yellow jersey Aurélien Clerc safely in the front group.
The aggression did not let up after the second sprint at kilometre 78, which was taken by Philippe Gilbert (FdJ) ahead of Davis and Wouter Weylandt (Quick.Step). Only the first mountain sprint at kilometre 86.5 could slow the pace, allowing some of the groups to come back together. Maarten Wynants (Quick.Step) took the points ahead of Jimmy Engoulvent (Crédit Agricole) and his team-mate Steven De Jongh as the first two groups came together. The chasing peloton was more than three minutes behind as the race headed out of Belgium and into France.
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At kilometre 107, a group of four escaped from the lead peloton. Mathew Hayman (Rabobank) Sébastien Chavanel (FdJ), Hervé Duclos Lassalle (Cofidis) and Frédéric Gabriel (Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner) quickly gained two minutes on the peloton, which had decided to call a truce and allow the chasing group to return.
The lead four gained a maximum of 3'25 on the now intact peloton, but as they entered the closing circuits around Templeuve, the Bouygues Telecom team of began to chase in earnest to defend Clerc's overall lead, and brought the gap to the leaders to 2'50 by the end of the first circuit. With help from Quick.Step and Crédit Agricole, the gap came down to just over one minute by the final intermediate sprint at kilometre 180, which was won by Hayman ahead of Duclos Lassalle and Gabriel.
Midway through the final lap, the four escapees gave up the dream of staying away as the pressure of the sprinters' teams increased the pace to a ferocious level. Despite the high tempo being set by the T-Mobile squad, Discovery's Stephen Cummings attacked and gained a small gap before being brought back. Not one to give up easily, he attacked again, this time gaining a few more metres, but ultimately, the sprinters wanted to a chance to battle for victory and would not allow anyone to spoil their fun.
The stage ended as it started, with a huge burst of speed from T-Mobile's Bernhard Eisel keen to set up Mark Cavendish for the win, but the young Manxman was overpowered by the speed of Steegmans and had to settle for second.
Photography
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- Steegmans took the win in stride
- Gert Steegmans (Quick-Step) takes the win ahead of Mark Cavendish (T-Mobile)
- Gert Steegmans (Quick-Step) enjoys the spoils of victory
- Steegmans celebrates the win
- The podium celebration was set amidst some lovely trees
- Steegmans on the podium
- T-Mobile amasses at the front
- Freddy Bichot (Agritubel) kept the mountains jersey
- Racing was aggressive and the peloton strung out in a line most of the race
Results
1 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 4.34.20 (44.792 km/h) 2 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 3 Allan Davis (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Unibet.com 7 Aliaksandr Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 8 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 9 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 10 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 11 Kenny Dehaes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 12 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 13 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 14 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick.Step - Innergetic 15 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 16 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française des Jeux 17 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 18 Nikolas Maes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 19 Borut Bozic (Slo) Team L.P.R. 20 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 21 David Boucher (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 22 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 23 Benoît Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 24 Kevyn Ista (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 25 Walt de Winter (Bel) Belgium 26 Steven Tronet (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 27 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 28 Daniele Callegarin (Ita) Team L.P.R. 29 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 30 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Crédit Agricole 31 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile Team 32 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 33 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 34 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 35 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 36 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 37 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 38 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 39 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 40 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 41 Kevin Neyrinck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 42 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Team L.P.R. 43 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 44 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 45 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 46 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 47 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team L.P.R. 48 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 49 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 50 Evert Verbist (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 51 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel 52 Robby Meul (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 53 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux 54 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Gerolsteiner 55 Tim Mertens (Bel) Belgium 56 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 57 Yauheni Hutarovitch (Blr) Roubaix Lille Metropole 58 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 59 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 60 Rene Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 61 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 62 Pedro Horillo (Spa) Rabobank 63 Thomas Wagner (Ger) Gerolsteiner 64 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Unibet.com 65 Jean-Noel Wolf (Fra) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 66 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 67 Gerben Lowik (Ned) Rabobank 68 Kurt Hovelmijnck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 69 Hervé Duclos Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 70 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick.Step - Innergetic 71 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 72 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 73 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 74 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 75 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC 76 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 77 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 78 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 79 Luca Solari (Ita) Team L.P.R. 80 Marcel Beima (Ned) T-Mobile Team 81 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 82 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 83 Yohann Gene (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 84 Monier Damien (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 85 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 86 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 87 Daniele Nardello (Ita) Team L.P.R. 88 Sebastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 89 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 90 Peter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 91 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 92 Jonathan Dufrasne (Bel) Belgium 93 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Unibet.com 94 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 95 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 96 Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 97 Blaise Sonnery (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 98 Johan Coenen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 99 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 100 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 101 Brian Vandborg (Den) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 102 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Roubaix Lille Metropole 103 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 104 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 105 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 106 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 107 Fabio Polazzi (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 108 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 109 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 110 Nazareno Rossi (Swi) Team L.P.R. 111 Steven De Decker (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 112 Sébastien Delfosse (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 113 Joost Van Leijen (Ned) Netherlands 114 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 115 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 116 Sven Renders (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 117 Dario Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 118 Marvin Van Der Pluijm (Ned) Netherlands 119 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 120 Matti Helminen (Fin) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 121 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 122 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 123 Servais Knaven (Ned) T-Mobile Team 124 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 125 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 126 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 127 Nico Mattan (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 128 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 129 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 130 Michael Vanderaerden (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 131 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 132 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française des Jeux 133 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 134 Romain Zingle (Bel) Belgium 135 Luca Celli (Ita) Team L.P.R. 136 Stephen Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 137 Laurent Fontaine (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 138 Kane Oakley (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 139 Kenny De Ketele (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 140 Olivier Pardini (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 141 Philippe Pratte (Bel) Belgium 142 Maurice Vrijmoed (Ned) Netherlands 143 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Belgium 144 Sven De Weerdt (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 145 Laurent Mars (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 146 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 147 Cédric Pineau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 148 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 149 Florian Vachon (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 150 Jonathan Henrion (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 151 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 0.32 152 Paul Van Schalen (Ned) Netherlands 0.38 153 Jean Zen (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 154 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 155 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.15 156 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.17 157 François Roossens (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 158 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 159 Bram Schmitz (Ned) Netherlands 1.23 160 Olilver Kaisen (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 161 Roel Egelmeers (Ned) Netherlands 2.18 162 Erki Putsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 4.32 163 Rudy Rouet (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 4.48 164 Ian Stannard (GBr) T-Mobile Team 165 Kévin Van Melsen (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 166 Nicolas Baiolet (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 167 Ingmar De Poortere (Bel) Belgium 168 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 169 Kasper Klostergaard (Den) Team CSC Points Place de Quevaucamps - km 44.5 1 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 5 pts 2 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 3 3 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 Saint-Maur - km 78.9 1 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 5 pts 2 Allan Davis (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3 3 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 1 Finish - third lap - km 179.8 1 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 5 pts 2 Hervé Duclos Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 3 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 1 Finish - km 214.8 1 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 25 pts 2 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 20 3 Allan Davis (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 16 4 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 14 5 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 12 6 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Unibet.com 10 7 Aliaksandr Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 9 8 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 8 9 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 7 10 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 6 11 Kenny Dehaes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 5 12 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 4 13 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 3 14 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick.Step - Innergetic 2 15 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 1 Mountains Tournai - km 86.5 1 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 6 pts 2 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 4 3 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 4 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick.Step - Innergetic 1 Young rider 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 4.34.20 2 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 4 Kenny Dehaes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 5 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 6 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 7 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française des Jeux 8 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 9 Nikolas Maes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 10 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 11 Benoît Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 12 Kevyn Ista (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 13 Walt de Winter (Bel) Belgium 14 Steven Tronet (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 15 Daniele Callegarin (Ita) Team L.P.R. 16 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Crédit Agricole 17 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 19 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 20 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 21 Kevin Neyrinck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 22 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team L.P.R. 23 Evert Verbist (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 24 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Gerolsteiner 25 Tim Mertens (Bel) Belgium 26 Yauheni Hutarovitch (Blr) Roubaix Lille Metropole 27 Rene Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 28 Thomas Wagner (Ger) Gerolsteiner 29 Jean-Noel Wolf (Fra) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 30 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 31 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 32 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC 33 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 34 Marcel Beima (Ned) T-Mobile Team 35 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 36 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 37 Monier Damien (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 38 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 39 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 40 Jonathan Dufrasne (Bel) Belgium 41 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Unibet.com 42 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 43 Blaise Sonnery (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 44 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 45 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 46 Fabio Polazzi (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 47 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 48 Nazareno Rossi (Swi) Team L.P.R. 49 Steven De Decker (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 50 Sébastien Delfosse (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 51 Joost Van Leijen (Ned) Netherlands 52 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 53 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 54 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 55 Michael Vanderaerden (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 56 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française des Jeux 57 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 58 Romain Zingle (Bel) Belgium 59 Laurent Fontaine (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 60 Kenny De Ketele (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 61 Olivier Pardini (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 62 Philippe Pratte (Bel) Belgium 63 Maurice Vrijmoed (Ned) Netherlands 64 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Belgium 65 Laurent Mars (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 66 Cédric Pineau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 67 Florian Vachon (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 68 Jonathan Henrion (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 69 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 0.32 70 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.38 71 Olilver Kaisen (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 72 Rudy Rouet (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 4.48 73 Ian Stannard (GBr) T-Mobile Team 74 Kévin Van Melsen (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 75 Nicolas Baiolet (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 76 Ingmar De Poortere (Bel) Belgium 77 Kasper Klostergaard (Den) Team CSC Teams 1 T-Mobile Professional Cycling 13.43.00 2 Discovery Channel 3 Agritubel 4 Gerolsteiner 5 Predictor-Lotto 6 Française des Jeux 7 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 8 Unibet.com 9 Quickstep-Innergetic 10 Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 11 Team LPR 12 Crédit Agricole 13 AG2r Prévoyance 14 Rabobank 15 Bouygues Telecom 16 Team CSC 17 Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 18 Belgian National Team 19 Roubaix Lille Metropole 20 DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed 21 Storez-Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 22 Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol-Euro Millions 23 Dutch National Team General classification after stage 2 1 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 8.38.24 2 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 3 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 0.01 4 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team L.P.R. 5 Allan Davis (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.04 6 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 7 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 8 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 0.05 9 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 10 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 0.07 11 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 0.08 12 Hervé Duclos Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 13 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick.Step - Innergetic 0.09 14 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 15 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 16 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.10 17 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 18 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 19 Kenny Dehaes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 20 Aliaksandr Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 21 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 22 Borut Bozic (Slo) Team L.P.R. 23 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 24 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick.Step - Innergetic 25 David Boucher (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 26 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile Team 27 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Unibet.com 28 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 29 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 30 Daniele Callegarin (Ita) Team L.P.R. 31 Kevyn Ista (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 32 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française des Jeux 33 Steven Tronet (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 34 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 35 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 36 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 37 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 38 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 39 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 40 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Crédit Agricole 41 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 42 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 43 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 44 Nikolas Maes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 45 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 46 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux 47 Gerben Lowik (Ned) Rabobank 48 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 49 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Team L.P.R. 50 Cedric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 51 Pedro Horillo (Spa) Rabobank 52 Rene Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 53 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 54 Yauheni Hutarovitch (Blr) Roubaix Lille Metropole 55 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Gerolsteiner 56 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 57 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 58 Evert Verbist (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 59 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC 60 Walt de Winter (Bel) Belgium 61 Sebastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 62 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 63 Kevin Neyrinck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 64 Robby Meul (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 65 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Unibet.com 66 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel 67 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 68 Thomas Wagner (Ger) Gerolsteiner 69 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 70 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 71 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 72 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 73 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 74 Sven Renders (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 75 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 76 Jean-Noel Wolf (Fra) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 77 Benoît Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 78 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 79 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 80 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 81 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 82 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 83 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 84 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Unibet.com 85 Luca Solari (Ita) Team L.P.R. 86 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 87 Brian Vandborg (Den) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 88 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française des Jeux 89 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 90 Kurt Hovelmijnck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 91 Monier Damien (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 92 Stephen Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 93 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 94 Matti Helminen (Fin) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 95 Yohann Gene (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 96 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 97 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 98 Jonathan Dufrasne (Bel) Belgium 99 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 100 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 101 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 102 Joost Van Leijen (Ned) Netherlands 103 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 104 Daniele Nardello (Ita) Team L.P.R. 105 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 106 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 107 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 108 Florian Vachon (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 109 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 110 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 111 Tim Mertens (Bel) Belgium 112 Sébastien Delfosse (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 113 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 114 Romain Zingle (Bel) Belgium 115 Jonathan Henrion (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 116 Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 117 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 118 Peter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 119 Fabio Polazzi (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 120 Dario Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 121 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 122 Blaise Sonnery (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 123 Nico Mattan (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 124 Marcel Beima (Ned) T-Mobile Team 125 Steven De Decker (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 126 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 127 Nazareno Rossi (Swi) Team L.P.R. 128 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Roubaix Lille Metropole 129 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 130 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 131 Michael Vanderaerden (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 132 Olivier Pardini (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 133 Johan Coenen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 134 Laurent Fontaine (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 135 Olilver Kaisen (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 136 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 137 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 138 Marvin Van Der Pluijm (Ned) Netherlands 139 Kenny De Ketele (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 140 Luca Celli (Ita) Team L.P.R. 141 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 142 Kane Oakley (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 143 Cédric Pineau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 144 Philippe Pratte (Bel) Belgium 145 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Belgium 146 Maurice Vrijmoed (Ned) Netherlands 147 Laurent Mars (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 148 Sven De Weerdt (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 149 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 0.42 150 Jean Zen (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 0.48 151 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 152 Paul Van Schalen (Ned) Netherlands 153 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.25 154 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 1.27 155 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 156 Servais Knaven (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1.29 157 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 2.09 158 Roel Egelmeers (Ned) Netherlands 2.28 159 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2.33 160 Bram Schmitz (Ned) Netherlands 3.56 161 François Roossens (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 4.06 162 Erki Putsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 4.42 163 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 4.58 164 Kasper Klostergaard (Den) Team CSC 165 Ian Stannard (GBr) T-Mobile Team 166 Rudy Rouet (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 167 Nicolas Baiolet (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 168 Ingmar De Poortere (Bel) Belgium 6.14 169 Kévin Van Melsen (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 7.21 Points classification 1 Allan Davis (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 33 pts 2 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 29 3 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 25 4 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 25 5 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 24 6 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 20 7 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 17 8 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 16 9 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 16 10 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team L.P.R. 15 11 Kenny Dehaes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 13 12 Aliaksandr Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 12 13 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 10 14 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Unibet.com 10 15 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 9 16 Borut Bozic (Slo) Team L.P.R. 9 17 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française des Jeux 8 18 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 7 19 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 7 20 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile Team 7 21 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 5 22 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 5 23 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 4 24 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 4 25 Hervé Duclos Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 26 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick.Step - Innergetic 2 27 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick.Step - Innergetic 1 28 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 1 29 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 Mountains classification 1 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 18 pts 2 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team L.P.R. 12 3 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 8 4 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 6 5 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 6 6 Peter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 4 7 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 8 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 3 9 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 3 10 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 3 11 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick.Step - Innergetic 1 12 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 13 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 1 14 Marcel Beima (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1 Young rider classification 1 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 8.38.25 2 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team L.P.R. 3 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 0.03 4 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 0.04 5 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 6 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.09 7 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 8 Kenny Dehaes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 9 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 10 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 11 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12 Daniele Callegarin (Ita) Team L.P.R. 13 Kevyn Ista (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 14 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française des Jeux 15 Steven Tronet (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 16 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 17 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Crédit Agricole 19 Nikolas Maes (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 20 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 21 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 22 Rene Mandri (Est) AG2r Prévoyance 23 Yauheni Hutarovitch (Blr) Roubaix Lille Metropole 24 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Gerolsteiner 25 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 26 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 27 Evert Verbist (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 28 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC 29 Walt de Winter (Bel) Belgium 30 Kevin Neyrinck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 31 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Unibet.com 32 Thomas Wagner (Ger) Gerolsteiner 33 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 34 Jean-Noel Wolf (Fra) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 35 Benoît Sinner (Fra) Agritubel 36 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 37 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 38 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 39 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française des Jeux 40 Monier Damien (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 41 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 42 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 43 Jonathan Dufrasne (Bel) Belgium 44 Joost Van Leijen (Ned) Netherlands 45 Florian Vachon (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 46 Tim Mertens (Bel) Belgium 47 Sébastien Delfosse (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 48 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 49 Romain Zingle (Bel) Belgium 50 Jonathan Henrion (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 51 Fabio Polazzi (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 52 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 53 Blaise Sonnery (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 54 Marcel Beima (Ned) T-Mobile Team 55 Steven De Decker (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 56 Nazareno Rossi (Swi) Team L.P.R. 57 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 58 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 59 Michael Vanderaerden (Bel) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 60 Olivier Pardini (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 61 Laurent Fontaine (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 62 Olilver Kaisen (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 63 Kenny De Ketele (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 64 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 65 Cédric Pineau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole 66 Philippe Pratte (Bel) Belgium 67 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Belgium 68 Maurice Vrijmoed (Ned) Netherlands 69 Laurent Mars (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 70 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 0.41 71 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.47 72 Kasper Klostergaard (Den) Team CSC 4.57 73 Ian Stannard (GBr) T-Mobile Team 74 Rudy Rouet (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 75 Nicolas Baiolet (Bel) Storez - Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 76 Ingmar De Poortere (Bel) Belgium 6.13 77 Kévin Van Melsen (Bel) Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol - Euro Millions 7.20 Teams classification 1 Quickstep-Innergetic 25.55.42 2 T-Mobile Professional Cycling 3 Discovery Channel 4 Bouygues Telecom 5 Agritubel 6 Rabobank 7 Gerolsteiner 8 Unibet.com 9 Team LPR 10 Predictor-Lotto 11 Française des Jeux 12 Crédit Agricole 13 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 14 Team CSC 15 Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 16 AG2r Prévoyance 17 Roubaix Lille Metropole 18 Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 19 Belgian National Team 20 Storez-Ledecq Matériaux Belgium 21 DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed 22 Pôle Continental Wallon Bergasol-Euro Millions 23 Dutch National Team
