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94th Tour de France - ProT
France, July 7-29, 2007
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Stage 11 - Thursday, July 19: Marseille - Montpellier, 182.5km
Hunter makes history in Montpellier madness
South Africa's first and Barloworld's second
By Gregor Brown and Brecht Decaluwé in Montpellier, with additional reporting by Tim Maloney
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Robert Hunter stomped the remaining sprint competitors in the finale of stage 11 to Montpellier and in the process has given South Africa its first ever stage win and Barloworld its second in the Tour de France. The 30 year-old rider kept on top of the bunch out of the final right hander on Avenue d'Heidelberg to claim glory over Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) and Murilo Fischer (Liquigas) while super-sprinter Tom Boonen was left behind in a crash at 800 metres to go. Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) continues to hold the Maillot Jaune after a tough and hot transitional stage that saw overall-favourite Christophe Moreau (Ag2r Prévoyance) lose over three minutes due to echelons formed at 72 kilometres out.
Claudio Corti's Barloworld men did it again and this time it was thanks to Robert Hunter. Barloworld's sprinter made good on the team's wildcard invite only two days after Soler's win in Briançon and once again proved that the Great Britain-based team deserved a place in the Tour. "It is hard to say what is exactly different. It was a long hard finish," noted an excited Hunter on what conditions were in place that allowed him to prevail.
Hunter hit the front out of the final turn with 200 metres to the line. It seemed early but the man who turned professional with Lampre in 1999 was able to hold Cancellara's charge heading towards Mas de la Paillade Park. The Swiss, already a winner of two stages in this Tour, hammered his handlebars while Hunter thrusted his fists in glory.
"There were a couple of really fast guys," Hunter continued. Tom was there [until the crash - ed.] And guys like Julian Dean, Pozzato were there too. ... It is always hard coming into a stage like that to think you can win, but today it worked. ... Sometimes you just need that little bit of extra luck.
"I started cycling at the age of 10. I was so competitive and I just wanted to beat my friends. So when they started racing, I started racing. At the end of it all I became better and better and I find myself here today," summarized Hunter fresh off the winner's podium.
The day was not without its madness. An escape containing Scot David Millar (Saunier Duval-Prodir) was nailed back under the Astana thunderstorm. "It was a bit unlucky with those cross-winds as the peloton was going extremely fast, there was nothing we could do about that," commented Millar.
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Alexander Vinokourov tried to prove that he is not yet out of this year's Tour overall picture and sent his men on the front. This move resulted in Moreau losing 3'20" and several sprinters losing contact with the main peloton, including Thor Hushovd (Crédit Agricole), Bernhard Eisel (T-Mobile) and Erik Zabel (Milram). The speed from then on was so fast that it prevented even the strongest from attacking.
Vinokourov tried to bolt free at 3.8 kilometres to go but the strong Kazakh was no match for the blue team of Tom Boonen. He gained only 50 metres and was swept up soon. The remaining sprinters' teams set about making pace for their men, notably the persistent Quickstep formation for Boonen. The winner of the stage to Bourg-en-Bresse handled Astana's echelons with ease but could not contend with the road furniture in the final kilometre.
Liquigas and Crédit Agricole made pace down the Avenue de la Liberté and into a roundabout on the right side. Francisco José Ventoso (Saunier Duval-Prodir), Fränk Schleck (Team CSC) and Julian Dean (Crédit Agricole) were victims of a lack of space on the left side of the road and went down while the 2005 World Champion was slowed by the wreckage.
"We just came around the corner and it wasn't quite like on the road book," New Zealander Dean noted to Jean-François Quénet of Cyclingnews. "The crash happened in front of me. I had no choice but crash as well. I am okay but I have a busted morale. I had my chance to win a sprint for myself today."
"I was on Fabian's wheel and I told them to stop pulling," explained Schleck. He first saw Dean go down and then he could not avoid the wreckage. "Suddenly Julian went too fast into the corner and I went down with the other guy."
As the green teams of Crédit Agricole and Liquigas faded, T-Mobile came to the front for the 500 metres after the roundabout. It could not contain the jump of Hunter as the riders passed through the turn on Avenue d'Heidelberg and into view of the finish line. Hunter was clear and kept off the charge of Cancellara on his right and, a little further back, Brazilian Murilo Fischer.
Michael Rasmussen safely finished after another tricky day in the Tour de France. He continues to lead in the overall by 2'35" over Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne). The Dane commented on Astana's move, "It just shows, even though they are 10 minutes down on GC, that they can make a difference. We are a long ways from Paris and we can't write them off yet." He believes that Moreau (14th at 6'38") is now out of the fight for the race overall. "He definitely lost his chance of winning the Tour today. Usually when a top contender misses out, he is out for good. Last year was different but that was an exception."
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Outspoken Jens Voigt did not appreciate Astana's manoeuvres. "Christophe had crashed, it is not fair to make him lose the Tour de France because of that," he explained to Quénet.
"It was a black day for Ag2r," said the French Champion Moreau to Quénet. "My crash happened when Grivko took out my front wheel. Then I was between the bunch and the back group on the small climbs. Gerrans also crashed and Calzati pulled out with knee tendonitis.
"My cleat was broken after my crash and I asked the team car to fix it, and that was when Astana attacked. The team did a tremendous job to help me but at the end of the day, it was a catastrophe but we limited the losses. Today was my bad day, Vino had his... We can't point to anyone [as a GC favourite.]"
How It Unfolded
On paper, Stage 11 seemed like a typical transition stage at the Tour. It headed north from Marseille, then swung due west from Marseille near the Mediterranean coastline. And as predicted, the heat and wind played an important role.
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After a long neutral zone through the gritty suburbs north of Marseille with crowds from the seedy French HLM projects, 171 riders started to race at 13.12 CET. It was a hot and windy afternoon, with no non-starters.
An early attack composed of David Arroyo (Caisse d’Epargne), Jens Voigt (CSC), Daniele Bennati (Lampre - Fondital), Heinrich Haussler (Gerolsteiner), Pierrick Fédrigo (Bouygues Telecom), Sylvain Chavanel and Nick Nuyens (Cofidis), Benoit Vaugrenard (Française des Jeux) and Kanstantsin Siutsou (Barloworld) got an early gap, but Caisse d'Epargne's Arroyo was too dangerous to let go far.
The first sprint took place in La Fare-Les Oliviers after 31.5km and was won by Bennati. Back in the peloton, French champ Moreau and his Ag2r Prévoyance team-mate Simon Gerrans crashed, but both were able to continue.
Milram, Discovery Channel et Maillot Jaune Rasmussen's Rabobankers picked up the pace behind around this time. The Dane is also leading the KOM classification but as he was back in the peloton he didn’t worry about the day's only climb, the category 4 ascent of the Côte de Calissanne. This 1.7 kilometre ascent averaged 5.6% and was won by 2004 World U23 champion Siutsou.
The break was working well together and thanks to a strong tailwind from the south, it had covered 50.8 kilometres in the first hour of racing. By this point it had built a lead of 1'45, but this started to drop quickly as it changed direction and the tailwind became a sidewind, blowing from the Mediterranean up the Rhone River valley.
Sylvain Calzati (Ag2r Prévoyance) abandoned after 53km in Eyguieres. Then twelve kilometres later Vaugrenard, Bennati and Chavanel attacked the break near Aurielle, pressing on without the others who had decided to sit up and wait for the fast-approaching peloton.
This was the perfect moment for a counterattack by Vincente Garcia Acosta (Caisse d’Epargne), Kurt-Asle Arvesen (CSC), Haimar Zubeldia (Euskaltel Euskadi), Alessandro Ballan (Lampre Fondital), Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Telecom) , Enrico Poitschke (Milram), 1998 King of the Mountains Christophe Rinero and Saunier Duval sprinter Fran Ventoso, who all set off in pursuit.
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However the peloton wasn't letting them go and eventually pulled back all the escapees. It was peloton groupée after 83km, at the foot of the Alpilles hills. This didn't last long, though, as Gilbert (Française des Jeux) made a strong move and was quickly joined by German champ Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner), Dmitriy Fofonov (Crédit Agricole) and Xavier Florencio (Bouygues Telecom). David Millar (Saunier Duval - Prodir) attacked solo and tried to bridge across to make it a quintet off the front on the hot, windy road to Montpellier.
At the sprint in Arles, picturesque city to the north of the Camargue marshes, it was Florencio who took the points ahead of Wegmann. Millar made it across at the 97 kilometre point, bridging after a ten kilometre chase through the beautiful city of Arles, famous for it's Roman arena.
The gap back to the peloton had soared after the feed zone and was up to 7'30". However that wouldn't last long. After the peloton passed through the feed zone and moved into the Departement du Gard, Astana decided to take advantage of the strong sidewinds in the open farm roads west of Arles and the Kazakh squad attacked hard. As the temperatures hovered around 35 degrees, this surprising move split the peloton in two, with Moreau, Thor Hushovd (Crédit Agricole) and Erik Zabel (Milram) caught behind.
Astana was joined in the action by Quick.Step - Innergetic, Barloworld and Saunier Duval - Prodir and outside the village of Lunel, with 38 kilometres left to race, the inexorable progression of the Astana steamroller rolled over the break.
The second peloton went all out to try and close the gap, with Ag2r and Milram desperately looking to get back on terms with the front of the race. However the power of Astana and Quick.Step, combined with Barloworld, Saunier Duval and CSC, was just too much. Up front almost all the GC favourites were in the sixty strong group; maillot jaune Rasmussen and his teammate Erik Dekker, Alexandre Vinokourov, Andreas Klöden (both Astana), Alejandro Valverde and Vladimir Karpets (Caisse d’Epargne), Cadel Evans (Predictor Lotto), Frank Schleck (CSC), Iban Mayo (Saunier Duval – Prodir), George Hincapie, Alberto Contador, Levi Leipheimer (Discovery Channel), Kim Kirchen (T-Mobile), Felix Cardenas (Barloworld) and sprinters Tom Boonen (QuickStep – Innergetic), Julian Dean (Crédit Agricole), Robert Hunter (Barloworld) and Filippo Pozatto (Liquigas).
With 20km to race, Moreau and the second peloton had lost two minutes. Riders like David Arroyo (Caisse d’Epargne), Michael Boogerd, Peter Weening (Rabobank), Jose Luis Arrieta, Martin Elmiger (Ag2r Prévoyance), Stéphane Goubert (Ag2r Prévoyance), Robert Förster, Bernhard Kohl (Gerolsteiner), Patrice Halgand (Crédit Agricole), Moises Duenas Nevado (Agritubel), Sylvain Chavanel, Stéphane Augé (Cofidis), Erik Zabel, Alessandro Cortinovis (Milram) and David De la Fuente (Saunier Duval – Prodir) were here.
The race pace was getting faster and faster, more rapid than the fastest schedule laid out by the race organizers, and the second peloton was continuing to lose time. On the outskirts of Montpellier with some 10 kilometres to go, the gap was up to 2'45 and the pace was simply too fast for anyone to try to attack. An improving Vinokourov did manage to go it alone at the four kilometre to go point, but the Quick.Step and Liquigas teams pulled the Kazakh commando back after one kilometre.
As the road narrowed with 1500m to go, Liquigas hit the front to wind it up for their two sprinters Fischer and Pozatto. This strung out the rest of the peloton.
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Just inside the flamme rouge at 1km to go, there was a crash in 15th position. Milram's Sieberg, Crédit Agricole's Dean and Freddy Rodriguez (Predictor Lotto) crashed. Both Boonen and Valverde were caught behind the crash on the right hand curve. T-Mobile's Burghardt led into the right hand turn on to the finishing straight on Avenue de Heidelburg with 300m to go, but had jumped too soon. Liquigas had a great leadout from Karlstrom, yet in the end it was Robbie Hunter who gave wild-card team Barloworld their second stage win in three days.
Hunter, the first South African to win a Tour De France stage, finished just ahead of prologue and stage three winner Cancellara, who was going for the hat-trick. Speedy Brazilian Fisher was third, finishing just ahead of Italians Pozatto and Ballan.
The average speed was quick, 48.08 kilometres per hour, and the Astana tactics had worked as Klöden moved into 6th on general classification. The Moreau group finished at 3'19 and the French champion dropped from 6th to 12th overall.
Stage 12: Friday 20 July Montpellier-Castres / 178,5 km
Friday will be another hot day. It starts from Montpellier, capital of the Languedoc-Roussillon region, and another transitional stage the Tour heads inland from the Mediterranean coast to the textile town of Castres. Although an early break should get away in the flat first half of the stage, a counter-attack on the tough 10.4 km climb of Montée de la Jeante with 60km to go could be successful.
Climbs:
Km 27.5: Côte de Cantagal: 1.6 km climb @ 4.3 % grade / 4th Cat.
Km 58: Côte du Mas-Rouet: 2.4 km climb @ 4.3 % grade / 4th Cat.
Km 74.5: Col du Buis: 2.6 km climb @ 4.8 % grade / 4th Cat.
Km 130.5: Montée de la Jeante: 10.4 km climb @ 6.1 % grade / 2nd Cat.
Sprints: Km 81.5: Herepian
Km 101: Olargues
Photography
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- Cédric Vasseur (Quickstep-Innergetic) ponders his stage win.
- Cédric Vasseur (Quickstep-Innergetic) is a two-time stage winner.
- The first kilometre out of Marseille.
- Marseille attractions greet the riders in the first kilometres.
- Marseille was hot (at 27°C) but beautiful for the start of stage 11.
- Cadel Evans (Predictor-Lotto) signs in.
- Cédric Vasseur (Quickstep-Innergetic) won yesterday in Marseille.
- Cédric Vasseur (Quickstep-Innergetic) interviewed at the start.
Images by AFP Photo
- Packing it ZDF and ARD, the public German channels, stopped their broadcasts starting with stage 10, following the positive controlew of Patrik Sinkewitz.
- Marseille offered a unique backdrop to the start of stage 11, after also hosting the finish the day before.
Images by Cyclingnews.com
- Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) came close but didn't quite manage to pull off the sprint win.
- Robert Hunter gave Barloworld the second stage win.
- Hunter is the first South African to win a stage in the Tour de France.
- Hunter shows the winning smile on the podium
- Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) celebrating another polka dot, which he doesn't get to wear because yellow goes first and it's too hot for two jerseys anyway.
- Tom Boonen has solidified his points classification lead.
- Rasmussen in yellow and happy about it.
- It takes three to put on a green jersey.
- Hunter is one of two sprinting Roberts left in the race, but Förster was stuck behind. McEwen is already out.
- The Tour podium is quite large but the centre of attention is still clearly visible.
- Hunter gets the first team hugs right after the finish.
- The first South African to win a Tour stage, right after the finish.
- Roadside distractions but the riders were going too fast today to notice anything.
- The break that was doomed by Astana cleaning up behind.
- The American Champion George Hincapie before the start.
- Mauricio Soler sheds hair to be lighter for the Pyrénées; he'll try for another win.
- Former KOM subscriber Richard Virenque works for Eurosport and poses in front of yellow.
- Patrick Lefevere, the Quickstep boss
- Soler in the Tour village that offers all kinds of perks.
- A signed yellow jersey
- David Millar checks out the hardware before the stage. He carried his bike into a break, but it was doomed due to the overall and points battles.
- George Hincapie (Discovery Channel) is reflective.
- Bram Tankink (Quickstep-Innergetic) before the start of the race.
- Cédric Vasseur (Quickstep-Innergetic) won the day before and can now retire happily, having won his second Tour stage 10 years after the first.
- Feed zone is danger time as the musettes can get stuck in an opponent's wheel by accident.
- Feed zone offers a break from racing and some delicious foods as well.
- Christophe Moreau in the feed zone when overall situation was still OK.
- Rasmussen shadowed Vino all day, which turned out to be a good idea.
- Alexander Vinokourov (Astana) in the feed zone.
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Fabian Cancellara does the Tiger but it didn't help against Hunter
- Rob Hunter celebrates the victory in Montpellier
- He's the first South African to win a stage at Le Tour.
- Hunter was overjoyed by his feat.
- Tom Boonen couldn't get points due to his holdup behind the crash. Amazingly, he didn't go down
- Vinokourov showed his aggressiveness today and even attacked the sprinters a few kilometres before the end.
- His face shows the effort involved, but he is a true fighter.
- Barloworld gets its second victory. of the Tour
- Hunter is all smiles as he wrote South African and Tour history.
- Michael Rasmussen said that we have seen that Vino hasn't given up yet.
- The Dane rode clever and easily stayed in yellow.
- It's celebration time at Barloworld
- Soler's and Hunter's victories make the boss happy.
- Hunter right after the win and still exhausted from the effort.
- The podium arrives.
- The two Liquigas' cannot prevail.
- The sprint into Montpellier in full swing.
- A tête à tête of the three guys fighting it out for the victory.
- Hunter hunts the victory and is successful.
- Robert Hunter wins the first for South Africa
- Christophe Moreau (Ag2r Prévoyance) comes in more than three minutes later.
- Française Des Jeux had a bad day in the office.
- The French Champ Moreau is bruised and battered after what was thought to be a transitional stage.
- Lampre was looking for stage win, but couldn't get it.
- Christophe Moreau was humble in defeat and didn't think all was lost.
- Robert Hunter (Barloworld) didn't mind that all sprinters were eliminated when the sprint started.
- The South African could handle Fabian Cancellara and the Liquigas team.
- Hunter would have liked to sprint against all the top guys and come out on top, but didn't mind winning the way he did.
- Rob Hunter gets the congrats from five-time Tour winner Bernard Hinault.
- Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) keeps yellow by not missing the crucial cut in the field.
- Rasmussen already thinks about the time trial in Albi.
- The Dane would prefer the Pyrénés right away
- Rasmussen doesn't want to surrender his yellow jersey and the yellow lion.
Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net
- The excitement of Hunter clearly shows.
- In contrast he seemed shy to get onto the podium.
- But once up there he actually enjoied it very much.
- Cancellara and Fisher sprint for podium, while the big screen shows the action live.
- Filippo Pozzato (Liquigas) shows his shoes.
- YEAH! Hunter wins and shows his emotions.
- With a little help from Bernard Hinault Robbie Hunter finds the way around the podium.
- Michael Rasmussen's thoughts are spinning these days. Will the time trial in Albi put him out of contention?
- Sunflowers are an integral part of thh Tour de France and rumour has it they are planted just for the race.
Results
1 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 3.47.50 (48.06 km/h) 2 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 3 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 4 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 5 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 6 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 7 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 8 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 9 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 10 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 11 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 13 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 14 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Astana 15 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 16 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 17 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 18 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 19 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 20 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 21 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 22 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 23 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 24 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 25 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 26 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 27 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 28 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 29 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 30 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile Team 31 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 32 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 33 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor - Lotto 34 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 35 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 36 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 37 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 38 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 39 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 40 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 41 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 42 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 43 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 44 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 45 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 46 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 47 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 48 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 49 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 50 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Astana 51 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 52 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 53 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 54 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Astana 55 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 56 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 57 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 58 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 59 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 60 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 61 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 62 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 63 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 64 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Astana 65 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 66 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 67 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 68 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 69 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 70 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 71 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 72 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 73 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo (Col) Barloworld 74 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 75 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 76 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 77 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 78 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 79 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 80 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 81 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 3.20 82 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 83 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 84 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 85 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Milram 86 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 87 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 88 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 89 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 90 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 91 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 92 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quickstep - Innergetic 93 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 94 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile Team 95 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 96 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 97 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 98 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 99 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 100 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 101 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 102 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 103 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 104 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 105 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 106 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 107 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 108 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 109 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 110 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 111 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 112 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre - Fondital 113 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 114 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 115 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 116 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Liquigas 117 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 118 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 119 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 120 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 121 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 3.29 122 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 123 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 124 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 125 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 126 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 127 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 128 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 129 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Spa) Team CSC 130 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 131 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 132 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 133 Moises Duenas Nevado (Spa) Agritubel 134 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin (Spa) Agritubel 135 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 136 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre - Fondital 137 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 138 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 139 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 140 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 141 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance 3.38 142 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 3.40 143 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 3.41 144 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 145 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 146 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 3.50 147 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 148 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 3.54 149 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 3.58 150 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2r Prévoyance 4.44 151 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 152 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Predictor - Lotto 153 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2r Prévoyance 8.20 154 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10.13 155 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 156 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 157 John Gadret (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 158 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 159 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 160 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 161 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 162 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 163 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 164 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 165 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 166 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 167 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 168 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 12.26 DNF Igor Antón (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi DNF Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance hors délais David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC Points La Fare-les-oliviers - km 31.5 1 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 6 pts 2 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 4 3 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 Arles (D.570-c.144) - km 96.5 1 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 6 pts 2 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 2 Montpellier - km 182.5 1 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 35 pts 2 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 30 3 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 26 4 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 24 5 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 22 6 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 20 7 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 19 8 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 18 9 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 17 10 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 16 11 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 15 12 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 14 13 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 13 14 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Astana 12 15 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 16 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 10 17 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 9 18 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 8 19 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 7 20 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 6 21 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 5 22 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 4 23 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 3 24 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 2 25 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1 Mountains Côte De Calissanne - km 38.0 1 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 3 pts 2 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 3 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 Young Rider 1 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 3.47.50 2 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 3 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 4 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 5 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 6 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 7 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 8 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 9 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 10 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 11 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 3.20 12 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 13 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 14 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 15 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 16 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 17 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 3.29 18 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 19 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 20 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 21 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 22 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 3.50 23 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 24 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 10.13 25 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 26 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 12.26 Most Aggressive Rider 1 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux Teams 1 Lampre-Fondital 11.23.30 2 Liquigas 3 Barloworld 4 T-Mobile Team 5 Gerolsteiner 6 Team CSC 7 Crédit Agricole 8 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 9 Astana 10 Bouygues Telecom 11 Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 Predictor-Lotto 13 Team Milram 14 Caisse D’epargne 15 Rabobank 16 Quickstep-Innergetic 17 Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.20 18 Française des Jeux 6.40 19 Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 10.00 20 Agritubel 10.09 21 AG2r Prévoyance 10.18 General Classification After Stage 11 1 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 53.11.38 2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2.35 3 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 2.39 4 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 2.41 5 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3.08 6 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 3.39 7 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 3.50 8 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3.53 9 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 5.06 10 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 5.20 11 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Astana 5.34 12 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 5.56 13 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6.36 14 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 6.38 15 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6.42 16 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 6.45 17 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 6.49 18 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 7.10 19 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Astana 8.05 20 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 8.16 21 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 8.51 22 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 9.00 23 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor - Lotto 9.11 24 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 11.02 25 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre - Fondital 11.05 26 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 13.05 27 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Liquigas 13.29 28 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 29 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 13.44 30 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 15.49 31 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 17.19 32 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 18.58 33 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 20.07 34 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 20.12 35 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 22.37 36 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 22.45 37 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 26.21 38 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 28.10 39 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre - Fondital 29.28 40 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 29.41 41 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 30.41 42 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 31.52 43 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 32.46 44 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Astana 33.06 45 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 46 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Predictor - Lotto 33.09 47 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 33.18 48 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 33.20 49 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 34.07 50 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin (Spa) Agritubel 36.16 51 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 37.28 52 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quickstep - Innergetic 39.25 53 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 40.15 54 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 40.43 55 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 43.10 56 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 44.14 57 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 44.21 58 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 44.49 59 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Astana 47.43 60 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 47.48 61 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 48.14 62 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Spa) Team CSC 49.27 63 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 52.02 64 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 52.06 65 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 52.56 66 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 53.35 67 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 54.39 68 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 55.28 69 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 55.50 70 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 55.52 71 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 56.33 72 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 57.01 73 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 57.03 74 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 57.14 75 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile Team 58.59 76 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 1.00.51 77 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance 1.00.55 78 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.02.13 79 Moises Duenas Nevado (Spa) Agritubel 1.02.39 80 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 1.02.56 81 John Gadret (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.03.00 82 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 1.04.19 83 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2r Prévoyance 1.05.37 84 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.05.49 85 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 1.06.21 86 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 1.06.27 87 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 1.06.58 88 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 1.07.10 89 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 1.07.47 90 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 1.07.52 91 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.08.00 92 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.09.23 93 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.09.26 94 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.09.36 95 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.09.45 96 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.10.07 97 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 1.11.56 98 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2r Prévoyance 1.12.20 99 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.13.24 100 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1.14.52 101 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 1.14.58 102 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 1.15.41 103 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.15.57 104 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.16.18 105 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 1.16.19 106 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1.17.28 107 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.18.56 108 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 1.19.35 109 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.19.42 110 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1.21.02 111 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 1.21.11 112 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 1.21.31 113 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.21.36 114 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 1.22.29 115 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.23.55 116 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 1.24.35 117 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 118 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.25.02 119 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.26.41 120 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.27.20 121 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.28.16 122 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.28.22 123 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo (Col) Barloworld 1.28.58 124 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 1.29.17 125 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 1.29.22 126 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 1.29.35 127 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Predictor - Lotto 1.29.36 128 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 1.29.47 129 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.29.55 130 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 1.29.59 131 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 1.30.15 132 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.30.24 133 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 1.30.37 134 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 1.31.04 135 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.31.05 136 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 1.31.11 137 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.31.21 138 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.31.29 139 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.31.35 140 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1.31.45 141 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 1.31.51 142 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 1.32.03 143 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.33.09 144 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.33.39 145 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.33.49 146 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 1.35.24 147 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 1.35.39 148 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 1.35.41 149 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Milram 1.36.14 150 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.37.43 151 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 1.37.51 152 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.37.56 153 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.38.25 154 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 1.38.30 155 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.38.34 156 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 1.39.34 157 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.41.45 158 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 1.42.00 159 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 1.42.28 160 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 1.43.13 161 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 1.44.34 162 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.44.58 163 Leif Hoste (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 1.45.24 164 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.45.36 165 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.47.36 166 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.48.34 167 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 1.50.47 168 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 1.57.10 Points Classification 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 160 pts 2 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 149 3 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 144 4 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 110 5 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 108 6 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 93 7 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 78 8 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 78 9 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 73 10 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 68 11 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 68 12 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 63 13 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 59 14 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 48 15 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 48 16 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile Team 47 17 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 46 18 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 45 19 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 44 20 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 43 21 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quickstep - Innergetic 41 22 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 39 23 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 39 24 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 38 25 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 37 26 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 36 27 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 36 28 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 35 29 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 34 30 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 34 31 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 33 32 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 30 33 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 30 34 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 30 35 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 29 36 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 26 37 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 26 38 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Astana 26 39 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 26 40 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 25 41 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 25 42 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 24 43 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 24 44 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 23 45 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 22 46 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 22 47 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 21 48 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 21 49 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 21 50 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 21 51 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 21 52 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 20 53 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 20 54 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 19 55 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance 19 56 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 18 57 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18 58 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 16 59 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 15 60 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 15 61 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 15 62 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 15 63 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 15 64 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 15 65 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 15 66 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep - Innergetic 14 67 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 14 68 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 14 69 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13 70 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 13 71 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 12 72 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 12 73 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 11 74 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 10 75 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 9 76 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 9 77 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 9 78 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 9 79 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 8 80 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 7 81 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor - Lotto 7 82 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 7 83 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval - Prodir 7 84 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6 85 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 6 86 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 5 87 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 5 88 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 5 89 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 90 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Astana 4 91 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre - Fondital 4 92 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 4 93 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 4 94 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 4 95 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 4 96 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 3 97 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 3 98 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Liquigas 2 99 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 2 100 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 2 101 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Astana 2 102 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 2 103 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2 104 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 105 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 106 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 2 107 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 2 108 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 109 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 1 110 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep - Innergetic 1 111 Lilian Jégou (Fra) Française des Jeux 112 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld -3 113 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Predictor - Lotto -4 114 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin (Spa) Agritubel -5 115 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner -5 116 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir -5 117 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC -5 118 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone -20 Mountains Classification 1 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 98 pts 2 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 79 3 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 70 4 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 51 5 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 50 6 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 46 7 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 43 8 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 42 9 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 42 10 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 33 11 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 30 12 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 30 13 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 26 14 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 26 15 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 23 16 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 20 17 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 20 18 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Astana 20 19 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 19 20 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 18 21 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 17 22 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 16 23 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Astana 16 24 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 16 25 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 15 26 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 15 27 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 15 28 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval - Prodir 14 29 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 14 30 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 14 31 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 13 32 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 12 33 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance 12 34 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 11 35 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 11 36 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10 37 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 10 38 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 10 39 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 9 40 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8 41 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 8 42 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6 43 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quickstep - Innergetic 6 44 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6 45 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6 46 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 5 47 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 5 48 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 5 49 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 5 50 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 4 51 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 4 52 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 3 53 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3 54 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 3 55 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 3 56 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 3 57 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 2 58 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 2 59 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 60 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 2 61 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 62 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2 63 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 64 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1 65 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 1 66 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 1 67 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 Young Rider Classification 1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 53.14.46 2 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3.37 3 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 3.41 4 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld 5.52 5 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 12.41 6 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 19.29 7 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 28.44 8 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux 45.06 9 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 52.44 10 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 53.55 11 Andry Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 59.48 12 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.06.15 13 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 1.12.33 14 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.12.49 15 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.13.10 16 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.20.47 17 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 1.26.39 18 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.26.47 19 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.28.21 20 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.28.27 21 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 1.28.37 22 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram 1.28.43 23 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.30.01 24 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 1.34.43 25 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.34.48 26 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 1.47.39 Teams Classification 1 Team CSC 159.44.19 2 Caisse D’epargne 5.02 3 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5.08 4 Rabobank 5.19 5 Astana 8.04 6 Euskaltel-Euskadi 17.08 7 Saunier Duval-Prodir 25.32 8 Predictor-Lotto 31.28 9 T-Mobile Team 32.32 10 AG2r Prévoyance 40.32 11 Crédit Agricole 41.07 12 Quickstep-Innergetic 46.07 13 Lampre-Fondital 55.53 14 Liquigas 59.11 15 Gerolsteiner 1.15.48 16 Barloworld 1.19.06 17 Bouygues Telecom 1.19.28 18 Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.51.47 19 Agritubel 2.16.06 20 Française des Jeux 2.32.46 21 Team Milram 2.33.21
