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Tour de Georgia - 2.HC
USA, April 21-27, 2008
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Stage 1 - April 21: Tybee Island - Savannah, 70.4mi/113.3km
Sprinters delight in short, flat Georgia opener
By Mark Zalewski, North American Editor in Savannah, Georgia with additional reporting by Kirsten Robbins and Laura Weislo
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The opening stage of the Tour de Georgia was a short, flat out-and-back leg-opener for the peloton. While the flat profile of the stage meant ideal conditions for the sprinters, and at only 113km in length, just about any rider in the peloton could have aspirations for the win. A narrow and winding final sprint with so many riders made for some dicey maneuvers, but it was Toyota-United's Ivan Dominguez who emerged for the win and the first leader's jersey.
"I came through the chicane out front and I looked back and the distance between me and the others stayed the same, so I guess I was pretty fast," a smiling Dominguez told Cyclingnews. "It was a little dangerous but I felt safe for the most part. The last part was a pain, it was fast and there were people all over the place. Guys were trying to get their sprinters up to the front."
"I was sitting there trying to stay relaxed and telling my guys to stay relaxed and don't worry about the other sprinters, we go in the right moment. Henk went with a kilometer to go and he got stuck behind George Hincapie so with five hundred meters to go, Dominique had to go and I stayed on his wheel until two hundred meters and came out around him on the right."
"Gerolsteiner and High Road were doing most of the work trying to push everyone away," Toyota-United's Dominique Rollin told Cyclingnews. "It was dangerous with guys trying to push each other out, so we just followed the swarm. Henk [Vogels] brought me up with about 500 meters with Ivan on my wheel, and I knew he could hold it. I looked back and saw him and Hilton [Clarke] on my wheel so it was perfect."
A surprising second was Jelly Belly's new Australian acquisition, Nicholas Sanderson. "I had a team-mate up the road and that took pressure off me," he said about the set-up. "I had my team around me in the end and with about three hundred meters to the end I jumped on Dominguez wheel and couldn't quite come over the top of him."
Sanderson, who hails from Victoria, came to the U.S. and Jelly Belly in a roundabout way. "I was a member of the junior world championships in the team pursuit in 2002," he said. "I signed a contract with Davitamon-Lotto but I got injured, so I sort of had 2006 off with that injury. Then I joined up with the Australian national team. I hooked up with Jelly Belly because I knew [Danny] Pate and he got me in touch with this team last year. I'm really happy to be in America."
Absent from the final meters of the sprint was High Road, with two fast sprinters in Greg Henderson and André Greipel. "I was up there until about the 1km banner. Just as George hit the gas, Greipel lost the wheel and then it was 800 meters to go and we were thirty [places] back, so I just had to go on my own on the left.," said Henderson. "You can't win from thirtieth even though I was going full gas up the side, it's just too many places to make up."
Despite the miscalculation in the sprint, Henderson did take a first and a second in two of the intermediate sprints and finished eighth in the final, showing he is sprinting well. "I'm happy with my top-end speed," he said. As for whether he will be aiming for the points jersey, Henderson said, "It all depends on how the GC plays out, but it's always in the back of my mind."
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Hincapie did what he could to start the lead-out for 'Hendy' and Greipel because he knew he would not have enough to contend for the finish. "I'm pretty tired from the Classics and I was really tired after Roubaix, so I don't know what I'll be doing this week," he said about a possible GC place. "I'll go back to Spain after this week and take a break."
Also absent from the sprint was CSC's go-to sprinter Juan Jose Haedo, who was hampered by one of the many flat tyres in the run-in to the finish. This combined with a still-healing wrist fracture suffered during training a few weeks ago kept him from contesting the sprint today. "I had a flat and then I was trying to decide if I wanted to sprint," he said. "I had a fractured hand and it still hurts. More than anything it [hurt] on the bumps; and I don't think I can afford another crash right now, so I have to be more careful."
Tomorrow's second stage begins north in Statesboro and then skirts along the state of South Carolina before finishing into Augusta, the start of the race in 2006. Only one KOM is on offer tomorrow, a short category four on the finishing circuit. Two intermediate sprints and the final sprint have time bonuses that could see the change of the yellow jersey.
How it unfolded
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119 riders rolled out from Tybee Island under brilliant blue skies and mild temperatures. The only rider not to start was Jon Devine (Team High Road) who fell ill and could not make the trip to Georgia. Health Net's Kirk O'Bee stepped in for Phil Zajicek after the latter did not receive a therapeutic use exemption for medicine to treat his Crohn's disease from the UCI in time for the race. After a neutral parade lap around the island, the peloton headed inland, passing Fort Pulaski on their way across Mcqueens Island along highway 80. Tom Zirbel was the first rider to attack just 14 miles into the stage, but he was quickly brought back on the flat, fast road.
Matthew Crane (Health Net Presented By Maxxis) and Mike Sayers (BMC Racing Team) were the next to go, with the BMC team continuing its aggressive tactics seen earlier in the year at the Tour of California. Yilin Liu (GE Trek - Marco Polo) bridged across, but this move was also short-lived since the first intermediate sprint was approaching.
Just 22.1 miles into the stage, Greg Henderson (High Road) took the first sprint bonus ahead of Tyler Farrar (Slipstream) and Ivan Stevic (Toyota United). The sprint was countered by Mike Sayers (BMC Racing Team), Eric Wohlberg (Symmetrics Cycling Team) and Trent Wilson (Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team), who were joined by Valery Kobzarenko (Team Type 1). The four men gained only 15 seconds before the lead-outs for the second intermediate sprint closed down the gap.
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Matt Cooke (Health Net) attacked solo before the second sprint and opened up a promising lead only to be mowed down by the sprint freight train. Farrar took the three second bonus ahead of Henderson and Stevic, putting Farrar and Henderson tied for the 'virtual' lead with five bonus seconds apiece.
After the mid-way point of the race, four riders attacked: Garrett Peltonen (Bissell Pro Cycling), Scott Nydam (BMC Racing Team), Christian Meier (Symmetrics Cycling Team) and Bernard Van Ulden (Jelly Belly Cycling Team), and were joined by Health Net's Frank Pipp. The five riders established a solid gap, and, sensing the danger, Toyota launched Stevic up the road to join in the fun. Now six, the lead group set out building its advantage over the next several miles as the peloton digested its lunch.
The leaders built up just over one minute before the Gerolsteiner, High Road, Astana and Slipstream teams began putting some effort into the chase. That advantage lasted until the final intermediate sprint with 11 miles to go, where Meier just held off a charging Ivan Stevic to take the bonus, with Peltonen in third.
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Once inside the 10 mile to go mark, the peloton began chasing in earnest. The gap plummeted, and sensing the danger, the break began attacking itself. Peltonen, Van Ulden and Nydam were the last three to survive, and once the Bissell rider lost contact, the rest were quickly reeled in.
As the peloton thundered into historic downtown Savannah, Rock Racing took control in an attempt to deliver Fred Rodriguez to victory. They had to battle with High Road, Gerolsteiner and Slipstream for control of the front, but once Tyler Farrar suffered an untimely puncture, the argyle Slipstream squad pulled its men off the front.
High Road made a strong push coming into the final kilometre to set up Henderson for the GC lead on time bonuses, but before the 'red kite', the Gerolsteiner train rumbled past and seized the lead. It looked like a sure win for the speedy German Robert Förster, but with a bumpy, narrow, technical final 500m, the Gerolsteiner man lost his advantage and was easily passed by Ivan Dominguez and then pipped at the line by Jelly Belly's Australian sprinter, Nic Sanderson.
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- Ivan Dominguez (Toyota United) gets the opening stage in the 6th Tour de Georgia.
- The beach at Tybee Island provided the scenic backdrop for the start of todays stage.
- The historic Tybee Island lighthouse looms over the peloton.
- The bunch crosses the causeway that brought the race to the mainland from Tybee Island.
- The marshes and of the intracoastal waterway line the road to Tybee Island.
- Things start to happen as riders begin to get off the front.
- Jason McCartney (CSC) rides in the bunch on the way to Savannah.
- Riders get a little more serious as the pace picks up.
- Train tracks caused some problems today with riders getting flats on the crossings.
- The intermediate sprint gets going with Tyler Farrar (Slipstream) winding it up against Greg Henderson (High Road).
- Tyler Farrar (Slipstream) just gets it on the line.
- The break starts to materialize.
- Bernard Van Ulden (Jelly Belly) works at the front of the break.
- The break continues to get a little more time on the bunch.
- Chris Baldwin (Toyota United) brings teammate Ivan Dominguez back up to the main bunch.
- Ivan Stevich (Toyota United) keeping the break rolling along.
- Smooth work in the break got them up to an advantage of 1’20” at one point.
- Gerolsteiner comes to the front to get the break in check.
- The Gerolsteiner team drives the pace to bring back the escapees.
- Gerolsteiner did much of the work hoping for a stage win.
- Scott Nydam (BMC) was most aggressive.
- Ivan Stevic (Toyota) wears the bands of B World Champion.
- The break of six only gained just over a minute, and was never a serious threat to the sprinters.
- The Astana team leads as the finish draws near.
- Ivan Dominguez (Toyota United) describes how he outfoxed the ProTour sprinters.
- Dominguez is descended upon by the press after taking the win.
- Nic Sanderson (Jelly Belly) pips Förster but could not get past Dominguez.
- The podium for jersey winners.
- Most aggressive Scott Nydam with stage winner Dominguez and points leader Sanderson.
Images by John Pierce/Photosport International
- Tyler Farrar (Slipstream) takes out an intermediate sprint ahead of Greg Henderson (High Road) and Ivan Stevic (Toyota)
- Ivan Dominguez (Toyota United) takes stage one ahead of Jelly Belly's Nic Sanderson.
- Dominguez took the overall classification thanks to time bonuses on the finish line.
Images by Kurt Jambretz /www.actionimages.cc
- Levi Leipheimer (Astana) looking relaxed before the start.
- Bobby Julich (CSC) shares a moment with Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) during call-ups.
- Rory Sutherland (HealthNet-Maxxis) on the line and ready to go.
- They're off and racing... one parade lap on Tybee Island and then out to the open road.
- It’s great to see Ivan Stevic (Toyota-United) back in the peloton for his first race of the season.
- George Hincapie (High Road) prepares for the start.
- The field rolls down a side street on a neutral circuit just after the start.
- Many enthusiastic young cycling fans were on hand for the start.
- Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) dominates the field sprint for the win.
- Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) takes the podium for the jersey presentation.
- Nicholas Sanderson (Jelly Belly) occupies the second step of the podium.
- Scott Nydam (BMC Pro Cycling) receives the best young rider’s jersey.
- Scott Nydam (BMC Pro Cycling) enjoys the jersey presentation.
- Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) in yellow after the first stage.
- Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) enjoys the spoils of his victory.
- All today’s jersey winners take to the stage (L-R): Scott Nydam (BMC Pro Cycling), Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United), and Nicholas Sanderson (Jelly Belly).
Images by Mitch Clinton/www.clintonphoto.com
- The pack closing in on the feed zone on Stage 1.
- The pack and some of the entourage on the opening day.
- Podium (L-R): Nicholas Sanderson (Jelly Belly), Ivan Dominguez (Toyota United) and Robert Forster (Gerolsteiner).
- The leader's jerseys: Most aggressive, Scott Nydam (BMC), leader, Ivan Dominguez (Toyota United) and best young rider, Nicholas Sanderson (Jelly Belly).
Results
1 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 2.30.18 (45.43 km/h) 2 Nicholas Sanderson (Aus) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 3 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 Richard England (Aus) Bissell Pro Cycling 5 Serguei Koudentsov (Rus) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 6 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 7 Bradley McGee (Aus) Team CSC 8 Gregory Henderson (NZl) Team High Road 9 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 10 Kari Menzies (Aus) Health Net Presented By Maxxis 11 Cody Stevenson (Aus) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 12 Matt Rice (Aus) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 13 Taylor Tolleson (USA) BMC Racing Team 14 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing 15 Dominique Rollin (Can) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 16 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 17 Jonathan Cantwell (Aus) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 18 Chris Horner (USA) Astana 19 André Greipel (Ger) Team High Road 20 Fabio Calabria (Aus) Team Type 1 21 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana 22 Jackson Stewart (USA) BMC Racing Team 23 Kayle Leogrande (USA) Rock Racing 24 Jeremy Powers (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 25 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 26 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 27 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 28 Evan Elken (USA) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 29 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Astana 30 Kirk O'Bee (USA) Health Net Presented By Maxxis 31 Valery Kobzarenko (Ukr) Team Type 1 32 Leon Van Bon (Ned) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 33 Moises Aldape Chavez (Mex) Team Type 1 34 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 35 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana 36 Thomas Danielson (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 37 Timothy Duggan (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 38 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 39 Ben Day (Aus) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 40 Jonathan Garcia (USA) BMC Racing Team 41 Francois Parisien (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 42 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Team High Road 43 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team High Road 44 George Hincapie (USA) Team High Road 45 Darren Lill (RSA) BMC Racing Team 46 Emile Abraham (Tri) Team Type 1 47 David Galvin (USA) BMC Racing Team 48 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 49 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 50 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing 51 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Rock Racing 52 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 53 Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 54 Santiago Botero Echeverry (Col) Rock Racing 55 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 56 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 57 Doug Ollerenshaw (USA) Rock Racing 58 Jared Barrilleaux (USA) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 59 Nicholas Reistad (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 60 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 61 Danny Pate (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 62 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team High Road 63 Neil Shirley (USA) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 64 Fuyu Li (Chn) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 65 Scott Nydam (USA) BMC Racing Team 66 Trent Lowe (Aus) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 67 Jason McCartney (USA) Team CSC 68 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 69 Mike Sayers (USA) BMC Racing Team 70 Yilin Liu (Chn) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 71 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 72 Michael Lange (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 73 Ben Jacques Maynes (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 74 Christopher Jones (USA) Team Type 1 75 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 76 Edward King (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 77 Matthew Crane (USA) Health Net Presented By Maxxis 78 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) Astana 79 Tim Johnson (USA) Health Net Presented By Maxxis 80 Lasse Bøchman (Den) Team CSC 81 Jeremy Vennell (NZl) Bissell Pro Cycling 82 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 83 Yan Dong Xing (Chn) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 84 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 85 Rhys Pollock (Aus) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 86 Matthew Shriver (USA) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 87 Trent Wilson (Aus) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 88 David Zabriskie (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 89 Aaron Tuckerman (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 90 Corey Collier (USA) Health Net Presented By Maxxis 91 Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Astana 92 Lucas Euser (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 93 Tom Zirbel (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 94 Matt Cooke (USA) Health Net Presented By Maxxis 95 Glen Chadwick (Aus) Team Type 1 96 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Spa) Team CSC 97 Aaron Olson (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 98 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 99 Garrett Peltonen (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 100 Justin England (USA) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 101 Frank Pipp (USA) Health Net Presented By Maxxis 102 Henk Vogels (Aus) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 103 Ian MacGregor (USA) Team Type 1 104 Ryan Sullivan (Aus) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 105 Jai Crawford (Aus) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 106 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 107 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Team Type 1 108 Ivan Stevic (Srb) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 109 Michael Creed (USA) Rock Racing 110 Bernard Van Ulden (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 111 Craig Lewis (USA) Team High Road 112 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) Rock Racing 113 Bryce Mead (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 114 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Health Net Presented By Maxxis 115 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Gerolsteiner 116 Sea Keong Loh (Mas) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 117 Tyler Farrar (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 118 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.33 119 Scott Zwizanski (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 0.48 Sprints 22.1 miles 1 Greg Henderson (NZl) Team High Road 2 Tyler Farrar (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented by H3O 3 Ivan Stevic (Srb) Toyota United Pro Cycling 32.8 miles 1 Tyler Farrar (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented by H3O 2 Greg Henderson (NZl) Team High Road 3 Ivan Stevic (Srb) Toyota United Pro Cycling 59.5 miles 1 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics 2 Ivan Stevic (Srb) Toyota United Pro Cycling 3 Garrett Peltonen (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling Most aggressive rider Scott Nydam (USA) BMC Racing Points 1 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 15 pts 2 Nicholas Sanderson (Aus) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 12 3 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 10 4 Richard England (Aus) Bissell Pro Cycling 7 5 Serguei Koudentsov (Rus) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 6 6 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 5 7 Bradley McGee (Aus) Team CSC 4 8 Gregory Henderson (NZl) Team High Road 3 9 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 2 10 Kari Menzies (Aus) Health Net p/b Maxxis 1 Teams 1 Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 7.30.54 2 Jelly Belly Cycling Team 3 BMC Racing Team 4 Astana 5 The Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 6 Team High Road 7 Team Type 1 8 Rock Racing 9 Team CSC 10 Gerolsteiner 11 Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 12 Symmetrics Cycling Team 13 Health Net presented by Maxxis 14 Slipstream Chipotle Presented by H30 15 Bissell Pro Cycling General classification after stage 1 1 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 2.30.08 2 Nicholas Sanderson (Aus) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 0.04 3 Gregory Henderson (NZl) Team High Road 0.05 4 Tyler Farrar (USA) Slipstream Chipotle p/b H30 5 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.06 6 Ivan Stevic (Srb) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 7 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 0.07 8 Garrett Peltonen (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 0.09 9 Richard England (Aus) Bissell Pro Cycling 0.10 10 Serguei Koudentsov (Rus) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 11 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 12 Bradley McGee (Aus) Team CSC 13 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 14 Kari Menzies (Aus) Health Net p/b Maxxis 15 Cody Stevenson (Aus) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 16 Matt Rice (Aus) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 17 Taylor Tolleson (USA) BMC Racing Team 18 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing 19 Dominique Rollin (Can) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 20 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 21 Jonathan Cantwell (Aus) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 22 Chris Horner (USA) Astana 23 André Greipel (Ger) Team High Road 24 Fabio Calabria (Aus) Team Type 1 25 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana 26 Jackson Stewart (USA) BMC Racing Team 27 Kayle Leogrande (USA) Rock Racing 28 Jeremy Powers (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 29 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 30 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 31 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 32 Evan Elken (USA) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 33 Antonio Colom Mas (Spa) Astana 34 Kirk O'Bee (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 35 Valery Kobzarenko (Ukr) Team Type 1 36 Leon Van Bon (Ned) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 37 Moises Aldape Chavez (Mex) Team Type 1 38 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 39 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana 40 Thomas Danielson (USA) Slipstream Chipotle p/b H30 41 Timothy Duggan (USA) Slipstream Chipotle p/b H30 42 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 43 Ben Day (Aus) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 44 Jonathan Garcia (USA) BMC Racing Team 45 Francois Parisien (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 46 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Team High Road 47 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team High Road 48 George Hincapie (USA) Team High Road 49 Darren Lill (RSA) BMC Racing Team 50 Emile Abraham (Tri) Team Type 1 51 David Galvin (USA) BMC Racing Team 52 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 53 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Slipstream Chipotle p/b H30 54 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing 55 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Rock Racing 56 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 57 Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 58 Santiago Botero Echeverry (Col) Rock Racing 59 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 60 Doug Ollerenshaw (USA) Rock Racing 61 Jared Barrilleaux (USA) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 62 Nicholas Reistad (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 63 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 64 Danny Pate (USA) Slipstream Chipotle p/b H30 65 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team High Road 66 Neil Shirley (USA) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 67 Fuyu Li (Chn) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 68 Scott Nydam (USA) BMC Racing Team 69 Trent Lowe (Aus) Slipstream Chipotle p/b H30 70 Jason McCartney (USA) Team CSC 71 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 72 Mike Sayers (USA) BMC Racing Team 73 Yilin Liu (Chn) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 74 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 75 Michael Lange (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 76 Ben Jacques-Maynes (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 77 Christopher Jones (USA) Team Type 1 78 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 79 Edward King (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 80 Matthew Crane (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 81 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) Astana 82 Tim Johnson (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 83 Lasse Bøchman (Den) Team CSC 84 Jeremy Vennell (NZl) Bissell Pro Cycling 85 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 86 Yan Dong Xing (Chn) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 87 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 88 Rhys Pollock (Aus) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 89 Matthew Shriver (USA) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 90 Trent Wilson (Aus) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 91 David Zabriskie (USA) Slipstream Chipotle p/b H30 92 Aaron Tuckerman (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 93 Corey Collier (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 94 Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Astana 95 Lucas Euser (USA) Slipstream Chipotle p/b H30 96 Tom Zirbel (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 97 Matt Cooke (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 98 Glen Chadwick (Aus) Team Type 1 99 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Spa) Team CSC 100 Aaron Olson (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 101 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 102 Justin England (USA) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 103 Frank Pipp (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 104 Henk Vogels (Aus) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 105 Ian MacGregor (USA) Team Type 1 106 Ryan Sullivan (Aus) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 107 Jai Crawford (Aus) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 108 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 109 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Team Type 1 110 Michael Creed (USA) Rock Racing 111 Bernard Van Ulden (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 112 Craig Lewis (USA) Team High Road 113 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) Rock Racing 114 Bryce Mead (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 115 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Health Net p/b Maxxis 116 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Gerolsteiner 117 Loh Sea Keong (Mas) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 118 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.43 119 Scott Zwizanski (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 0.58 Points classification 1 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 15 pts 2 Nicholas Sanderson (Aus) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 12 3 Gregory Henderson (NZl) Team High Road 11 4 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 10 5 Tyler Farrar (USA) Slipstream Chipotle p/b H30 8 6 Richard England (Aus) Bissell Pro Cycling 7 7 Serguei Koudentsov (Rus) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 6 8 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 5 9 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 5 10 Ivan Stevic (Srb) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 5 11 Bradley McGee (Aus) Team CSC 4 12 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 2 13 Kari Menzies (Aus) Health Net p/b Maxxis 1 14 Garrett Peltonen (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 1 U23 classification 1 Nicholas Sanderson (Aus) Jelly Belly Cycling Team 2.30.12 2 Tyler Farrar (USA) Slipstream Chipotle p/b H30 0.01 3 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 0.03 4 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0.06 5 Taylor Tolleson (USA) BMC Racing Team 6 Fabio Calabria (Aus) Team Type 1 7 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana 8 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 9 Jared Barrilleaux (USA) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 10 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team High Road 11 Trent Lowe (Aus) Slipstream Chipotle p/b H30 12 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC 13 Yilin Liu (Chn) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 14 Matthew Crane (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 15 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team 16 Yan Dong Xing (Chn) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 17 Ryan Sullivan (Aus) Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 18 Craig Lewis (USA) Team High Road 19 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Gerolsteiner 20 Loh Sea Keong (Mas) GE Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team Teams classification 1 Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 7.30.54 2 Jelly Belly Cycling Team 3 BMC Racing Team 4 Astana 5 The Jittery Joe's Pro Cycling Team 6 Team High Road 7 Team Type 1 8 Rock Racing 9 Team CSC 10 Gerolsteiner 11 Trek - Marco Polo Cycling Team 12 Symmetrics Cycling Team 13 Health Net presented by Maxxis 14 Slipstream Chipotle Presented by H30 15 Bissell Pro Cycling
