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Tour of Britain - 2.1
Great Britain, September 9-15, 2007
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Stage 1 - September 10: Reading - Southampton, 138.9 km
Cavendish powers to victory in Southampton
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"The team did an amazing job for me today," said Cavendish: "The first 50km were tough with riders trying to get away all the time and we trying to control things but it wasn't happening. It was very windy out there and any team could have done a hell of a lot of damage. Ian (Stannard) did a great job today and he paid for his efforts at the end but will be first on the massage table tonight. The team did a great job of riding on the front all day and I was just sitting comfortably. Roger (Hammond) and Frankie (Rabon) did a wonderful job for me in the sprint. Roger took me further than I needed to go at 200m and it I couldn't lose really. It was perfect."
"Robbie (McEwan) got seven or eight European wins in his first season and a few in Australia to give him ten wins, and I have matched that now and I am really happy. I have one more victory to go before I reach my season target"
Cavendish is still not sure about holding onto the leader's yellow jersey for the whole week with only a gap of 14 seconds back to Russian Nikolai Trusov (Tinkoff Credit Systems) and a long list of riders up only seconds away. "The margin is not very big and we will have to see what happens tomorrow. I am quite scared of tomorrow as it is a tough parcours. If I don't keep the yellow jersey tomorrow I know that there are other people in the team that are going well. Frankie (Rabon) is going great so if I don’t have it tomorrow I hope that he will."
How it unfolded
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Tony Gibb (Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles) was the first rider to attack at mile zero and the constant attacking of many riders brought the race home ahead of schedule. Cavendish took the sprint prime at Pamber Heath to move further ahead in the GC on the road. Martin Garrido (Duja Tavira) took second spot with Trusov limiting the damage in third.
The field were all together as they climbed White Hill after 25km and Frantisek Rabon attacked the field just before the top taking maximum EON king of the mountain points ahead of Samuel Caldeira (Duja Tavira), Ben Swift (Barloworld) and last year's race winner Martin Pedersen (Team CSC).
Two riders had managed to break away after 40km to forge a narrow lead on the main field that chased for a while and then let the duo of Mikel Artetxte Gezeuraga (Fuerteventura-Canarias) and Piet Rooijakkers (Skil-Shimano) slip away into a two minute lead. The duo worked hard to stay clear with Rooijakkers taking both sprint primes and Gezeuraga taking the final KOM prime at Kent’s Oak. Cavendish took the final second bonus at the Hatchet Pond sprint prime.
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The leaders were now 2'50" in front with alarm bells ringing in the main field.T-Mobile hit the front to lead the chase. Barloworld, Agritubel and CSC joined the charge for line in the closing kilometres with the young Great Britain team also seeing the action at the head of the bunch. The duo must have thought there was a slim chance of staying clear as the blackboard showed a 50 second lead with eight kilomters to go but they were finally brought to heel in the closing stages after over 80km of freedom in tough racing conditions.
Cavendish came round the final corner moving to the front and he held his position all the way to the line
A crash on the run in spoiled the chances of Robbie Hunter (Barloworld) who trailed in over four minutes behind the winner but is he set to start Tuesday's 169km tough Yeovilton to Taunton stage. The riders will have a taste of a first category hill after 80km. A fast run in to the finish will greet any riders who manage to go clear on the Somerset stage.
Photography
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- Mark Cavendish (T-Mobile) wins the first stage.
- The Plowman Craven team helps the their founder and CEO celebrate his birthday.
- Youngsters Russell Hampton (Team GB) and Simon Richardson (Plowman Craven / Evans Cycles) ride steadily up the first prime of the race.
- Roger Hammond (T-Mobile) not quite ready to face the world before the stage start.
- Tour of Britain Eon gals were all decked out.
- T-Mobile's Frantisek Rabon attacks at the top of White Hill to take max points and the lead in the KOM competition.
- Dan Fleeman (DFL - cyclingnews.com - Litspeed) on the climb of White Hill.
- Enrico Degano (Barlowworld) sports an EON KOM hat before the start.
- Mark Cavendish (T-Mobile) looks comfortable in yellow.
- Double kisses for winner Cavendish.
- Mark Cavendish (T-Mobile) throws his arms up in celebration.
- Mark Cavendish (T-Mobile) makes it two for two.
- Mark Cavendish (T-Mobile) celebrates with champagne with mountains leader Frantisek Rabon (T-Mobile) and sprints competition leader Piet Rooijakkers (Skil Shimano-SKS)
- Mark Cavendish (T-Mobile) sprints to the line.
Results
1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T- Mobile 3.07.46 (44.38km/h) 2 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 3 Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 4 Roger Hammond (GBr) T- Mobile 5 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 6 Martin Garrido (Arg) Duja Tavira 7 Simon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 8 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC 9 Tom Veelers (Ned) Rabobank 10 Ben Swift (GBr) Barloworld 11 Nikolai Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 12 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil-Shimano 13 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 14 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 15 John Bellis (GBr) Great Britain 16 Bernie Sulzberger (Aus) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 17 Johnnie Walker (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 18 Christoff Van Heerden (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 19 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 20 Michael Wolf (USA) Navigators Insurance 21 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) Rabobank 22 Evert Verbist (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 23 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 24 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 25 Gene Bates (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 26 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 27 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Rabobank 28 Jose Adrian Bonilla Bonilla (CRc) Fuerteventura-Canarias 29 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 30 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T- Mobile 31 Thomas Berkhout (Ned) Rabobank 32 Martin Pedersen (Den) Team CSC 33 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 34 Samuel Caldeira (Por) Duja Tavira 35 Coen Vermelfoort (Ned) Rabobank 36 Evan Oliphant (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 37 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 38 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 39 Christopher Froome (Ken) Team Konica Minolta 40 Kenny De Ketele (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 41 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 42 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 43 David Munoz Banon (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 44 David Blanco (Spa) Duja Tavira 45 Paul Sneeboer (Ned) Duja Tavira 46 Manuel Lloret Zaragozi (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 47 Paul Manning (GBr) Great Britain 48 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 49 Mikel Artetxte Gezeuraga (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 50 Emilien Berges (Fra) Agritubel 51 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 52 Bernardo Riccio (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems 53 Hamish Haynes (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 54 Cristopher Newton (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 55 Adrian Palomares Vilaplana (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 56 Bert De Backer (Bel) Navigators Insurance 57 Vicente David Bernabeu Armengol (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 58 Andrew Tennant (GBr) Great Britain 0.15 59 Giosue' Bonomi (Ita) Barloworld 60 Simon Richardson (GBr) Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 0.20 61 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Rabobank 62 Ryan Bonser (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 63 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 64 Rob Partridge (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 0.23 65 Russell Hampton (GBr) Great Britain 66 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 67 Nico Mattan (Bel) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 68 Servais Knaven (Ned) T- Mobile 69 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems 70 Adam Bonser (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 71 Kristian House (GBr) Navigators Insurance 72 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 73 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 74 Tony Gibb (GBr) Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 75 Travis Allen (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 76 Rodney Green (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 77 David Rodriguez (USA) Navigators Insurance 78 Simon Gaywood (GBr) Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 79 Cedrid Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 0.27 80 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems 0.28 81 Gordon McCauley (NZl) Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 0.29 82 Roel Vanmuysen (Bel) Navigators Insurance 0.31 83 Tom Diggle (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 0.56 84 Simon Holt (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 85 Ian Stannard (GBr) T- Mobile 1.00 86 Dennis Van Niekerk (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 87 Enrico Degano (Ita) Barloworld 1.18 88 Ed Clancy (GBr) Great Britain 1.26 89 Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld 2.03 90 Matt Cooke (USA) Navigators Insurance 91 Jay Thompson (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 2.03 92 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Great Britain 93 James Millard (GBr) Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 2.11 94 James McCallum (GBr) Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 2.12 95 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Duja Tavira 2.24 96 Ricardo Mestre (Por) Duja Tavira 97 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T- Mobile 2.43 98 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems 3.46 99 Robbie Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 4.07 100 Kurt Hovelijnck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 101 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 5.31 Mountains KOM 1: Cat 3, White Hill 1 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T- Mobile 4 pts 2 Samuel Caldeira (Por) Duja Tavira 3 3 Ben Swift (GBr) Barloworld 2 4 Martin Pedersen (Den) Team CSC 1 KOM 2: Cat 3, Kent's Oak 1 Mikel Artetxte Gezeuraga (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 4 pts 2 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3 3 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T- Mobile 2 4 Samuel Caldeira (Por) Duja Tavira 1 Sprints Sprint1 : Pamber Heath 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T- Mobile 5 pts 2 Martin Garrido (Arg) Duja Tavira 3 3 Nikolai Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 2 4 Christoff Van Heerden (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 1 Sprint 2: Stockbridge 1 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 5 pts 2 Mikel Artetxte Gezeuraga (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 3 3 Thomas Berkhout (Ned) Rabobank 2 4 Servais Knaven (Ned) T- Mobile 1 Sprint 3: Hatchet Pond 1 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 5 pts 2 Mikel Artetxte Gezeuraga (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 3 3 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T- Mobile 2 4 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1 Team 1 T- Mobile 9.23.18 2 CSC 3 South Australia.com-AIS 4 Rabobank 5 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 6 DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 7 Skil-Shimano 8 Duja Tavira 9 Agritubel 10 Tinkoff Credit Systems 11 Fuerteventura-Canarias 12 Navigators Insurance 13 Barloworld 0.15 14 Great Britain 15 Team Konica Minolta 0.23 16 Recycling.co.uk 0.43 17 Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 1.06 General classification after stage 1 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T- Mobile 3.09.59 2 Nikolai Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 0.14 3 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 0.16 4 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 0.18 5 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 6 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 7 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T- Mobile 0.19 8 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 9 Martin Garrido (Arg) Duja Tavira 0.20 10 Cristopher Newton (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 11 Emilien Berges (Fra) Agritubel 12 Tom Veelers (Ned) Rabobank 0.21 13 David Blanco (Spa) Duja Tavira 14 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0.22 15 Coen Vermelfoort (Ned) Rabobank 16 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC 17 Gene Bates (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 18 Paul Manning (GBr) Great Britain 19 Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 20 Simon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 0.23 21 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 22 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 23 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 24 Manuel Lloret Zaragozi (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 0.24 25 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil-Shimano 26 John Bellis (GBr) Great Britain 27 Bernardo Riccio (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems 28 Thomas Berkhout (Ned) Rabobank 29 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 30 Samuel Caldeira (Por) Duja Tavira 31 David Munoz Banon (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 0.25 32 Johnnie Walker (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 33 Paul Sneeboer (Ned) Duja Tavira 0.26 34 Vicente David Bernabeu Armengol (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 35 Evan Oliphant (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 0.27 36 Roger Hammond (GBr) T- Mobile 37 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Rabobank 38 Ben Swift (GBr) Barloworld 39 Jose Adrian Bonilla Bonilla (CRc) Fuerteventura-Canarias 40 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) Rabobank 41 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 42 Christoff Van Heerden (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 0.28 43 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 44 Adrian Palomares Vilaplana (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 45 Kenny De Ketele (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 46 Martin Pedersen (Den) Team CSC 0.29 47 Evert Verbist (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 48 Christopher Froome (Ken) Team Konica Minolta 0.30 49 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 50 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 51 Hamish Haynes (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 0.31 52 Mikel Artetxte Gezeuraga (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 53 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 0.32 54 Michael Wolf (USA) Navigators Insurance 0.34 55 Bernie Sulzberger (Aus) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 0.35 56 Andrew Tennant (GBr) Great Britain 0.37 57 Bert De Backer (Bel) Navigators Insurance 0.38 58 Matt Cooke (USA) Navigators Insurance 59 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems 0.45 60 Giosue' Bonomi (Ita) Barloworld 61 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Rabobank 0.46 62 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 63 Servais Knaven (Ned) T- Mobile 0.47 64 Tony Gibb (GBr) Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 0.48 65 Nico Mattan (Bel) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 0.49 66 Russell Hampton (GBr) Great Britain 0.50 67 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 0.51 68 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 0.52 69 Simon Gaywood (GBr) Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 0.53 70 Kristian House (GBr) Navigators Insurance 71 Simon Richardson (GBr) Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 0.54 72 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems 0.56 73 Rob Partridge (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 0.57 74 Cedrid Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 75 Gordon McCauley (NZl) Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 0.58 76 Travis Allen (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 77 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 0.59 78 Rodney Green (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 79 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1.01 80 David Rodriguez (USA) Navigators Insurance 81 Ryan Bonser (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 1.03 82 Adam Bonser (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 1.04 83 Roel Vanmuysen (Bel) Navigators Insurance 1.06 84 Ian Stannard (GBr) T- Mobile 1.27 85 Tom Diggle (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 1.31 86 Simon Holt (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 1.35 87 Dennis Van Niekerk (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 1.42 88 Enrico Degano (Ita) Barloworld 1.46 89 Ed Clancy (GBr) Great Britain 90 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Great Britain 2.26 91 Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld 2.33 92 James Millard (GBr) Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 2.37 93 Jay Thompson (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 2.45 94 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Duja Tavira 2.57 95 Ricardo Mestre (Por) Duja Tavira 96 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T- Mobile 3.09 97 James McCallum (GBr) Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 3.22 98 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems 4.07 99 Robbie Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 4.28 100 Kurt Hovelijnck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 4.44 101 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 5.59 Points classification 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T- Mobile 15 pts 2 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 14 3 Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 13 4 Roger Hammond (GBr) T- Mobile 12 5 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 11 6 Martin Garrido (Arg) Duja Tavira 10 7 Simon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 9 8 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC 8 9 Tom Veelers (Ned) Rabobank 7 10 Ben Swift (GBr) Barloworld 6 11 Nikolai Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 5 12 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil-Shimano 4 13 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 3 14 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 2 15 John Bellis (GBr) Great Britain 1 Mountains classification 1 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T- Mobile 8 pts 2 Samuel Caldeira (Por) Duja Tavira 7 3 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T- Mobile 4 4 Mikel Artetxte Gezeuraga (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 4 5 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3 6 Ben Swift (GBr) Barloworld 2 7 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 1 8 Martin Pedersen (Den) Team CSC 1 Sprint classification 1 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 10 pts 2 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T- Mobile 7 3 Mikel Artetxte Gezeuraga (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 6 4 Martin Garrido (Arg) Duja Tavira 3 5 Nikolai Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 2 6 Thomas Berkhout (Ned) Rabobank 2 7 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1 8 Christoff Van Heerden (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 1 9 Servais Knaven (Ned) T- Mobile 1 Team classification 1 Tinkoff Credit Systems 9.30.51 2 T- Mobile 0.03 3 South Australia.com-AIS 0.09 4 Agritubel 0.11 5 CSC 0.12 6 Duja Tavira 0.13 7 Rabobank 0.14 8 Skil-Shimano 0.15 9 Fuerteventura-Canarias 0.21 10 DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 0.22 11 Great Britain 0.25 12 Barloworld 0.28 13 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 0.30 14 Navigators Insurance 0.45 15 Team Konica Minolta 1.02 16 Recycling.co.uk 1.18 17 Plowman Craven-Evans Cycles 1.32
