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95th Tour de France - GT
France, July 5-27, 2008
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Stage 15 - Sunday, July 20: Embrun - Prato Nevoso, 183km
See-saw day for Australian cycling as Schleck takes over
Gerrans wins, Evans loses race lead
By Shane Stokes and Bjorn Haake, with additional reporting by Gregor Brown, Hedwig Kröner and Brecht Decaluwé in Prato Nevoso
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Suffering on the climb but shining in the sprint, an ecstatic Simon Gerrans sped to his first ever Tour de France stage at the summit finish of Prata Nevoso in Italy. The Australian from Crédit Agricole was away for much of the tough, wet Alpine stage with Egoi Martinez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Danny Pate (Garmin-Chipotle) and Jose Luis Arrieta (AG2R La Mondiale), and decisively out-galloped the first two in the final 200 meters. Arrieta finished 55 seconds back.
There was a ferocious scrap behind for the yellow jersey, with Fränk Schleck and his CSC -Saxo Bank team-mates Andy Schleck and Carlos Sastre putting considerable pressure on race leader Cadel Evans on the final climb. Bernhard Kohl (Gerolsteiner), Sastre, Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) and Denis Menchov (Rabobank) managed to jettison the maillot jaune, while Fränk Schleck was more conservative, waiting for the final few hundred metres to jump away in a bid for yellow. Schleck finished 4'41" behind Gerrans, but more importantly nine seconds ahead of Evans.
This saw the Luxembourg national road race champion seize the yellow jersey, ending the day seven seconds ahead of Kohl and a further second up on the previous GC leader.
Menchov had initially appeared the strongest in the finale, and had launched a dangerous attack but slipped and crashed on a hairpin bend, then had to chase back to the group he had previously left behind. He was later part of the Kohl break, yet cracked towards the end and lost 20" to the new King of the Mountains leader. The net result was that he moved to fourth overall, 38 seconds off the race lead.
American Christian Vande Velde (Garmin Chipotle) is a further second back, gaining a little time on Evans but dropping two places to fifth, while Sastre is now sixth overall, 49" away from team-mate Schleck.
Gerrans was delighted with his stage victory. "It is a very big surprise for me that I climbed with Martinez and Pate, because they are normally much stronger than me in the mountains," he stated. "I was dropped, but fought back and then won the sprint. I wasn't sure about my legs on the last climb. The Tour is a super race, I am very happy."
He was asked about his compatriot's day. "I am sorry Cadel lost the jersey. I don't know by how much, but I think he can get it back."
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Schleck had a lot of reason to celebrate. He won the stage to Alpe d'Huez two years ago, but this moment clearly eclipses that. "Every day people asked me when I would take that one second.... I first want to thank my team. Sastre was really strong. Andy put everyone in the red. Andy may take the maillot blanc, too. Luxembourg will do all we can! And my father is here, too… this is so great!"
"It didn't start too well with the rain. We had all the cards to play, we had all the possibilities. Too bad Andy had a fringale [hunger knock] in Hautacam, otherwise we would have been three today. Sastre is always good in the last week of the Tour. Today, he went in a very good moment. And my brother did great work today... merci, brother!"
The younger of the two was delighted with the family success. "This is super," he said, responding to Fränk's comment while speaking to French television. "I saw that he was very good. I am very content. Having jaune in the team and in the family is great!"
Kohl was visibly distressed after the finish, both due to the effort he had put out and also the disappointment to go so close to the jersey without taking it. However he soon saw the positive side of things, having jumped to second overall and taken over from team-mate Sebastian Lang in the King of the Mountains jersey.
"I dreamed about getting up on that podium once in my life, so it's unbelievable. Moreover, to be second on the classification is enormous. My fan-club was here today, too; my whole family cheered me on with two kilometres to go. That gave me so much motivation.
"It was a really hard race today. Sebastian Lang sacrificed himself to get me to through the first climb and to the mountain points at the top. I don't take that for granted, you know."
Menchov is now fourth overall, 38 seconds back, and is surely rueing his crash while on the attack. "It was a dangerous road and very slippery," he told Cyclingnews. "I don't know how I would have done had that not happened. I was pulling hard and feeling good…I was strong [today], but I was a bit unlucky.
"It will be a good finale, lots of riders and it will be really close. There are six or seven riders who can win the tour."
Americans chasing stage and yellow
One of those in contention is Vande Velde, now 39" in arrears. "I am very happy. I would say 'break even'," he stated. "I am very happy with how I rode. The break [by Pate] could have helped more than it did, but it is always nice to have numbers up the road. I took time out of Cadel Evans, so I don't think I did so bad. I limited my loses on a really hard climb."
Team-mate and compatriot Pate had an excellent ride, growing stronger as the stage went on and actually appearing to be the most powerful on the final mountain. However the time trial specialist was unable to shake off the other two and had to be content with third.
"I thought we only had a slim chance in the escape, and then when we had 15 minutes it looked better," he stated. "It depended who would chase behind."
Pate had clearly been in a little difficulty on the first big ascent, yet improved. "I was the worst on the HC climb. I was worried about Prato Nevoso. I skipped on a few pulls on the end, because they had proved stronger than me before. I was a little better in the end than I thought. I had a good chance for the win but Simon was too fast."
It was part of a pre-conceived team plan. "We wanted to get into a escape and to keep an eye on a big move going free. We needed a guy up the road in case Christian needed help. He gained some time on Cadel today, but he is not in yellow. Everyone wants this, but maybe it is better so that we don't have to defend it yet. I am not looking [too far] ahead now…only to the rest day for now."
Martinez had attacked early on the final climb, the first category Prato Nevoso, but Pate and then Gerrans got back up to him. The latter was the weakest of the three on the climb but had the necessary explosiveness to win the sprint.
Arrieta was expected to be closer to that fight. "It was important to get into the break today; we had tried a lot of times already. In the end, I thought that one of us Spaniards maybe could have won but, after hitting the final climb so hard, neither of us could make it in the end."
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Meanwhile CSC's strong driving softened up the peloton prior to those slopes, with Andy Schleck setting the pace much of the way up the final mountain. Menchov was the most impressive of the GC contenders there but went from a solo breakaway to a solo chaser due to his crash on a slippery uphill bend. CSC stepped off the gas to allow the Russian to rejoin, and he was then able to combine with the other classification riders to put Evans under pressure with repeated attacks.
Kohl, Sastre, Valverde and the Russian Rabobank rider finally managed to get clear of the yellow jersey near the summit, finishing in that order, while Schleck, Vande Velde and Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas) all gained a handful of seconds just before the line. That reshuffled the general classification but, with first to sixth place separated by just 49 seconds, the Tour de France remains wide open in advance of tomorrow's rest day and the remaining two Alpine stages.
One big name who is still 4'11 adrift is Alejandro Valverde. Had he not lost 5'24 to Schleck on stage ten, he would be in the race lead by a clear 1'13 now. "After Pereiro crashed, I just had to continue," said the Spanish champion. "This stage was important. I made up some time today so I'm happy. But to say that I'm back in contention for the podium is exaggerated."
Schleck's team-mate Jens Voigt will be happy to hear Valverde and the other big names playing down their chances, given that CSC-Saxo Bank has riders in first and sixth overall. "We took control of it and showed we are a team that wants to decide this race," he said. "I guess it worked out pretty well so far. I think now Fränk needs two more minutes to be safe."
How it unfolded
156 riders tackled the 15th stage, with only Mark Cavendish (Columbia), who has had enough success for this year's Tour with his four stage wins, deciding to quit the race in order to prepare for the Olympic Games. The first Alpine climbing stage began under dreary weather. It was 16 degrees at the start and raining and there was speculation that there could be snow on the first climb of the day.
Unfazed by this news, Egoi Martínez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Danny Pate (Garmin Chipotle - H30) and José Luis Arrieta (AG2R La Mondiale) took off at kilometre 12. The first sprint in Guillestre after 14.5 kilometres was taken by Martínez, ahead of Arrieta and Pate. Shortly thereafter the three were joined by Simon Gerrans (Crédit Agricole).
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After 25 kilometres the gap had already gone out to five minutes. The peloton let the four get a good gap quickly. With four kilometres covered on the first climb, the Col Agnel, the gap was at 12 minutes. The 20.5-kilometre climb averages 6.6 % and is an hors catégorie climb.
During that climb, Mark Renshaw and Stijn Devolder (Quick Step) were dropped and abandoned the race, but it was not due to a high pace in the peloton. Two kilometres from the top, the gap was 13'40. Over the top of the Col Agnel, Martínez went over ahead of Arrieta. Gerrans struggled a bit in third to get his vest on, while Pate was busy pulling a rain jacket out of his musette.
The bunch followed 11'37 later. Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Telecom) edged out Bernhard Kohl (Gerolsteiner) for the fifth spot in the mountains sprint. Kohl still received 10 points. Rémy Di Gregorio (Française des Jeux), Yaroslav Popovych (Silence-Lotto), John-Lee Augustyn (Barloworld) and Fränk Schleck (CSC-Saxo Bank) were the remaining riders to get polka dot points.
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Voeckler decided to keep going after taking out the mountain sprint from the peloton and pedaled ahead 45 seconds ahead of the bunch.
The weather over the top wasn't as bad as expected, and the descent was mostly dry, but on the lower part of the mountain the roads became suddenly wet and slick. Oscar Pereiro suffered a terrible crash just before a switchback turn to the right. He went over the guard rail and fell down onto the lower part of the road and was out of the race.
Voeckler found his way back to the bunch once the peloton, which had waited on the 2006 Tour winner after his crash, began to pick up the pace again. Once the bunch got rolling, the gap had gone out to 17 minutes with 70 kilometres to go.
Gerrans led the break over the sprint in Rossana, with 68.5 kilometres to go. Pate followed his wheel, with Arrieta getting the final points. Martínez received no points. The peloton passed the sprint line 17'10 minutes later.
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With 50 kilometres to go the gap finally started to come down and was at a bit more than 14 minutes, but once again the peloton was stopped by a crash. This time a large portion of the peloton slid out on a roundabout. Included in the fall was maillot blanc Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas) and polka dot Sebastian Lang (Gerolsteiner). Maillot jaune Cadel Evans remained upright.
With just 31 kilometres to go, the mayhem had disrupted the chase enough to ensure that the four leaders, with a 14'40 gap, would stay ahead of the peloton at the finish in Prato Nevoso.
26 kilometres from the finish the break went over the Colle del Morte, a cat 3 climb. Arrieta accelerated. Martínez initially countered but then let the Arrieta go over the top first. Gerrans followed in third, with Pate hanging on the back. The peloton followed less than 13 minutes later.
On the final climb the action started front and back. Martínez put in several accelerations with eight kilometres to go. It did shell his compatriot Arrieta off the back. The Anglophones Gerrans and Pate bravely fought back and the trio continued to ride up the final climb, still with a good lead of almost ten minutes.
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At the bottom of the climb the main bunch accelerated enough to quickly thin the group. When the group was only a good dozen, Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) attacked. But he was quickly brought back, with the group down to 10 riders. Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto), Denis Menchov (Rabobank), Christian Vande Velde (Garmin Chipotle - H30), Bernhard Kohl (Gerolsteiner), Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne), Carlos Sastre, Fränk Schleck and Andy Schleck (CSC-Saxo Bank), Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas), Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi).
Andy Schleck set an incredible pace at the front. Menchov was the first to attack. Andy Schleck went after him. Menchov was still leading when he slipped and fell in a left hand turn. The group passed him and waited for the Russian to return.
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The trio in front started to play cat and mouse. The group of favourites did almost the same, some five minutes further down the slopes. Andy Schleck accelerated hard, taking Kreuziger with him. Menchov got back on, then Kohl countered. With Kreuziger dropping back, it was eventually Kohl, Menchov and Sastre who emerged at the front, with Evans having some trouble with the attacking and change of pace.
In the very front the trio entered the finishing straight, with Gerrans taking a convincing victory.
Valverde countered from the back, but neither Evans nor Fränk Schleck were too concerned. Valverde joined up with the Kohl, Menchov and Sastre less than two kilometres from the finish.
The Evans-led chase group passed the flamme rouge 35 seconds behind the quartet in front. The quartet reduced to a trio when Menchov lost contact 500 metres from the line. Fränk Schleck then sprinted away from Evans and took the yellow jersey.
Photography
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- This image shows just how far Oscar Pereiro fell after going over the crash barrier.
- Simon Gerrans (Crédit Agricole) produced a masterful ride through the Alps to take his first Tour stage win.
- The Australian conserved his energy in the breakaway and pounced at the finish in Prato Nevoso.
- Fränk Schleck (CSC-Saxo Bank) sprints away from Cadel Evans to take a handful of seconds and the yellow jersey.
- Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) has lost the yellow jersey but is still well in contention for the race overall.
- Fränk Schleck gets his first feel of the golden fleece in Prato Nevoso.
- A determined look from Fränk Schleck who will now have to endure the intense media scrutiny of race leader.
Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net
- Silence-Lotto led the peloton over the 2744 metre high Col Agnel after 58 kilometres.
- Strong winds and intermittent showers made for tough racing conditions in the Italian Alps.
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) injured his shoulder after falling over a crash barrier and down to the road below.
- Pereiro's crash happened on the descent of the Col Agnel 80 kilometres into the stage.
- Andy and Fränk Schleck (CSC-Saxo Bank) put several of the favourites into difficulty with their pace on the final climb.
- Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) was in a world of pain on the final climb.
- Best young rider Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas) kept his jersey but lost time to Andy Schleck and Roman Kreuziger.
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre) had another disappointing performance as the race finished in Italy.
- Simon Gerrans (Crédit Agricole) left his breakaway companions for dead in the final 100 metres.
- Simon Gerrans (Crédit Agricole) did everything to get in the breakaway and made it count at the finish.
- Bernhard Kohl (Gerolsteiner) came within seconds of the yellow jersey today.
- Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) showed improved climbing form to finish with the favourites.
- Denis Menchov (Rabobank) crashed on the final climb but still gained time on Evans and Fränk Schleck.
- Evans tried desperately to limit his losses in the final kilometres.
- Evans was wearing his 'Free Tibet' t-shirt under his race jersey as usual.
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre) and Amaël Moinard (Cofidis) approach the outskirts of the Prato Nevoso ski station.
- Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas) approaches the finish followed by Sandy Casar (Française des Jeux).
- Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas) sprints up to the finish.
- Marzio Bruseghin (Lampre) finished alongside team-mate Damiano Cunego.
- Fränk Schleck (CSC-Saxo Bank) receives the yellow jersey after dropping Evans in the final kilometre.
- The Luxemburger has a seven-second lead over Austrian Bernhard Kohl (Gerolsteiner).
Results
1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 4.50.44 (37.77 km/h) 2 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.03 3 Danny Pate (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 0.10 4 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 0.55 5 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 4.03 6 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 7 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4.12 8 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 4.23 9 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 4.41 10 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 4.43 11 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 4.46 12 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 4.50 13 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 14 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 4.58 15 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team Columbia 5.34 16 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 5.42 17 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 18 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 5.44 19 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale 5.46 20 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 21 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 22 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 6.00 23 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6.09 24 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 25 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 6.26 26 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 6.48 27 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre 28 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 29 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 7.14 30 Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 7.35 31 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Columbia 7.46 32 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 33 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 34 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Silence - Lotto 35 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 7.52 36 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 8.15 37 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 38 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 8.27 39 David Le Lay (Fra) Agritubel 9.00 40 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Quick Step 9.11 41 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 9.20 42 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9.35 43 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 10.54 44 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 45 Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez (Spa) Agritubel 46 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre 47 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 48 George Hincapie (USA) Team Columbia 49 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld 50 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 51 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 52 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 53 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre 54 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram 55 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 14.03 56 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 15.11 57 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 16.29 58 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 59 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 60 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 61 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 62 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 63 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 64 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia 65 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 66 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step 67 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 68 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 20.46 69 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 70 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 71 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 72 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 73 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 74 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 75 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 76 Gianpaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 77 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 78 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 79 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 80 Gorka Verdugo Markotegi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 81 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 82 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Française des Jeux 83 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 84 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 85 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 86 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 87 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 88 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 89 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 90 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quick Step 91 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 92 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 93 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 94 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 95 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 96 Trent Lowe (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 97 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 98 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step 99 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre 100 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 101 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia 20.54 102 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 21.08 103 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 104 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 21.25 105 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 21.57 106 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 23.31 107 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 108 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 25.33 109 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 110 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 111 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 112 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 113 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 114 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 115 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 116 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 117 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 118 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Lampre 119 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 120 Adam Hansen (Aus) Team Columbia 121 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 122 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 123 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 124 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 125 Juan José Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 126 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 127 Christopher Froome (Ken) Barloworld 128 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 129 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 130 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team Columbia 131 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 132 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 133 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 134 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 135 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 136 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 137 William Frischkorn (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 138 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 139 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 140 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 141 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia 142 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 143 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 144 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 145 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 146 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Silence - Lotto 147 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 148 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Silence - Lotto 26.39 149 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Agritubel 26.56 150 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 29.46 151 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 30.52 152 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Silence - Lotto 153 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 42.59 DNF Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step DNF Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole DNF Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne DNS Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia Sprints Guillestre - 14.5 Km 1 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6 pts 2 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 4 3 Danny Pate (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 2 Rossana - 114.5 Km 1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 6 pts 2 Danny Pate (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 4 3 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 2 Prato Nevoso - 183 km 1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 20 pts 2 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 17 3 Danny Pate (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 15 4 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 13 5 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 12 6 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 10 7 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 9 8 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 8 9 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 7 10 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 6 11 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 5 12 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 4 13 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 3 14 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 2 15 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team Columbia 1 Mountains Col Agnel (Hors Categorie), 58.0 Km 1 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 20 pts 2 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 18 3 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 16 4 Danny Pate (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 14 5 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 12 6 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 10 7 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 8 8 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Silence - Lotto 7 9 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld 6 10 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 5 Colle del Morte (Cat. 3), 157.0 Km 1 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 4 pts 2 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 3 3 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 2 4 Danny Pate (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 1 Prato Nevoso (Cat. 1), 183 km 1 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 30 pts 2 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 26 3 Danny Pate (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 22 4 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 18 5 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 16 6 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 14 7 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 12 8 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 10 Young riders 1 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 4.55.30 2 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.12 3 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 1.00 4 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.23 5 Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez (Spa) Agritubel 6.08 6 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld 7 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram 8 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 11.43 9 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia 10 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 16.00 11 Trent Lowe (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 12 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia 16.08 13 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 18.45 14 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 20.47 15 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 16 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 17 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 18 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 19 Christopher Froome (Ken) Barloworld 20 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 21 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia 22 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 23 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 25.00 Most aggressive rider 1 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi Teams 1 Euskaltel - Euskadi 14.43.14 2 AG2R-La Mondiale 1.23 3 Team CSC Saxo Bank 2.40 4 Credit Agricole 3.39 5 Lampre 8.16 6 Silence - Lotto 9.09 7 Garmin Chipotle 10.20 8 Rabobank 12.07 9 Bouygues Telecom 12.48 10 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 12.49 11 Team Columbia 13.12 12 Liquigas 15.59 13 Team Milram 18.00 14 Caisse d'Epargne 21.42 15 Gerolsteiner 23.07 16 Agritubel 25.21 17 Francaise des Jeux 31.55 18 Quick Step 35.24 19 Barloworld 41.24 General classification after stage 15 1 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 63.57.21 2 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.07 3 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 0.08 4 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 0.38 5 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 0.39 6 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.49 7 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team Columbia 2.48 8 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 3.36 9 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4.11 10 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 4.34 11 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 5.18 12 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 5.22 13 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale 6.27 14 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 7.15 15 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 7.43 16 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 8.34 17 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 9.01 18 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 9.52 19 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 12.33 20 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 13.55 21 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 14.00 22 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre 15.30 23 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 15.59 24 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Quick Step 16.28 25 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Columbia 19.06 26 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 19.11 27 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Silence - Lotto 21.13 28 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 21.23 29 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 22.30 30 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 22.46 31 Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez (Spa) Agritubel 24.27 32 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 28.28 33 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 32.04 34 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 33.25 35 Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 33.31 36 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 34.17 37 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 35.28 38 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 37.29 39 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 40.04 40 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia 41.38 41 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 42.25 42 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 44.22 43 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre 45.44 44 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 45.56 45 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 45.58 46 George Hincapie (USA) Team Columbia 46.03 47 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 46.21 48 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 46.25 49 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 48.37 50 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Silence - Lotto 51.28 51 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 52.37 52 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 54.07 53 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 54.46 54 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 55.57 55 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 58.36 56 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 59.27 57 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1.01.11 58 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 1.01.26 59 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.01.28 60 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.01.48 61 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 1.02.11 62 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld 1.02.45 63 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 1.03.13 64 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 1.03.42 65 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.08.28 66 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.09.36 67 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 1.10.07 68 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1.12.05 69 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 1.12.41 70 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1.13.13 71 Trent Lowe (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 1.13.17 72 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre 1.13.41 73 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.14.56 74 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.15.34 75 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram 1.16.59 76 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 1.18.11 77 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 1.18.21 78 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 1.18.54 79 David Le Lay (Fra) Agritubel 1.19.54 80 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.22.23 81 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step 1.24.07 82 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 1.26.04 83 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step 1.27.15 84 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre 1.28.03 85 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 1.28.23 86 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 1.28.53 87 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.28.56 88 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.29.04 89 Danny Pate (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 1.29.57 90 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 1.31.23 91 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 1.32.23 92 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.32.26 93 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.32.37 94 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 1.36.41 95 Christopher Froome (Ken) Barloworld 1.37.12 96 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quick Step 1.38.11 97 Gorka Verdugo Markotegi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.38.41 98 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 1.39.13 99 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.41.00 100 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 1.41.22 101 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 1.41.59 102 Juan José Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.44.17 103 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.44.24 104 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.44.33 105 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.44.44 106 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 1.44.45 107 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia 1.45.57 108 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 1.47.33 109 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 1.51.37 110 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 1.53.22 111 Adam Hansen (Aus) Team Columbia 1.54.02 112 Gianpaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 1.56.28 113 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 1.57.03 114 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1.58.29 115 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 2.00.53 116 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 2.01.16 117 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.02.12 118 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 2.02.20 119 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 2.02.24 120 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 2.03.52 121 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 2.04.44 122 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 2.05.15 123 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 2.07.43 124 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 2.08.23 125 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Lampre 2.08.25 126 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 2.09.13 127 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 2.10.03 128 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 2.10.09 129 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.10.22 130 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 2.10.24 131 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 2.10.28 132 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 133 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia 2.13.24 134 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 2.13.28 135 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 2.14.28 136 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Silence - Lotto 2.14.32 137 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 2.14.59 138 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 2.15.02 139 William Frischkorn (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 2.17.05 140 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 2.17.24 141 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 2.18.11 142 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2.19.04 143 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2.19.21 144 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Agritubel 2.21.16 145 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2.23.25 146 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2.23.44 147 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.24.06 148 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team Columbia 2.25.43 149 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2.25.59 150 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 2.29.18 151 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.31.44 152 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Silence - Lotto 2.37.42 153 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 2.42.15 Points classification 1 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 219 pts 2 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 172 3 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 167 4 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team Columbia 145 5 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 137 6 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 110 7 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 107 8 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 105 9 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 94 10 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 88 11 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 80 12 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 79 13 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 78 14 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 77 15 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Agritubel 75 16 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 73 17 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 68 18 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 66 19 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 64 20 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 60 21 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia 60 22 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre 59 23 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 58 24 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 56 25 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 54 26 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 53 27 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 50 28 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 47 29 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 45 30 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 44 31 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 44 32 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 44 33 William Frischkorn (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 42 34 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 38 35 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 34 36 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 33 37 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 32 38 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 31 39 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 30 40 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 29 41 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 28 42 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 28 43 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 27 44 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Quick Step 27 45 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 26 46 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 26 47 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 25 48 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 24 49 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 24 50 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 20 51 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 20 52 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 20 53 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 19 54 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 19 55 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 18 56 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 18 57 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 17 58 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step 17 59 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 16 60 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 16 61 Danny Pate (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 16 62 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 15 63 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 15 64 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 14 65 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 13 66 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld 13 67 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 12 68 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 12 69 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 12 70 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 12 71 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 12 72 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12 73 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 12 74 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 12 75 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale 11 76 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 10 77 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 10 78 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 10 79 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 10 80 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 9 81 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Columbia 9 82 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 8 83 Christopher Froome (Ken) Barloworld 8 84 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Silence - Lotto 7 85 George Hincapie (USA) Team Columbia 7 86 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 87 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia 6 88 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6 89 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6 90 Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez (Spa) Agritubel 5 91 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 5 92 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 4 93 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 4 94 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 4 95 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quick Step 3 96 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 2 97 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 2 98 David Le Lay (Fra) Agritubel 2 99 Juan José Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2 100 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 101 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team Columbia 2 102 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 1 103 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Silence - Lotto -5 104 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre -5 105 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia -5 Mountains classification 1 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 85 pts 2 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 60 3 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 50 4 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 50 5 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 46 6 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 40 7 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 39 8 Danny Pate (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 37 9 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 35 10 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 34 11 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 31 12 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 31 13 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 30 14 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 30 15 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 30 16 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 27 17 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 24 18 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 22 19 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 20 20 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 20 21 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 19 22 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 16 23 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 15 24 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 14 25 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre 14 26 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 13 27 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 13 28 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team Columbia 12 29 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 12 30 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 12 31 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 12 32 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 33 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 10 34 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 10 35 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Columbia 10 36 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 10 37 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 10 38 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 9 39 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 9 40 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 8 41 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 8 42 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 8 43 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 8 44 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 8 45 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 8 46 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Silence - Lotto 7 47 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 48 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld 6 49 Gorka Verdugo Markotegi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6 50 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 6 51 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 5 52 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Quick Step 5 53 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 5 54 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 4 55 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 4 56 José Iván Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3 57 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 3 58 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 59 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2 60 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2 61 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 62 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 63 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2 64 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1 65 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 66 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 1 67 David Le Lay (Fra) Agritubel 1 68 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 1 Young rider classification 1 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 64.02.43 2 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 1.53 3 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3.12 4 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 3.39 5 Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez (Spa) Agritubel 19.05 6 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia 36.16 7 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 48.45 8 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 50.35 9 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld 57.23 10 Trent Lowe (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 1.07.55 11 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram 1.11.37 12 Christopher Froome (Ken) Barloworld 1.31.50 13 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia 1.40.35 14 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 1.55.54 15 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 1.59.22 16 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 2.03.01 17 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 2.03.51 18 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.05.00 19 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia 2.08.02 20 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 2.09.06 21 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 2.09.40 22 Arnaud Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux 2.12.02 23 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.18.44 Teams classification 1 Team CSC Saxo Bank 191.43.49 2 AG2R-La Mondiale 3.32 3 Rabobank 28.13 4 Euskaltel - Euskadi 33.05 5 Lampre 35.39 6 Gerolsteiner 35.50 7 Credit Agricole 42.48 8 Silence - Lotto 49.35 9 Caisse d'Epargne 51.47 10 Liquigas 57.34 11 Team Columbia 58.02 12 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 1.08.43 13 Garmin Chipotle 1.15.04 14 Francaise des Jeux 1.18.47 15 Bouygues Telecom 1.25.32 16 Team Milram 1.34.53 17 Barloworld 1.46.03 18 Quick Step 1.46.25 19 Agritubel 2.20.37
