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62nd Tour de Romandie - ProT
Switzerland, April 29-May 4, 2008
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Stage 1 - April 30: Morges - Saignelégier, 182.4km
Iglinsky takes wet stage - Albasini steps into yellow
By Susan Westemeyer
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Maxim Iglinsky of Team Astana won the first stage of the Tour de Romandie, out-sprinting Michael Albasini of Liquigas and Markus Zberg of Gerolsteiner on a difficult uphill sprint. Albasini, who had finished third in the prologue, took over the leader's jersey with a one-second advantage over Iglinsky.
"Today I was really very cold at the beginning," Albasini said. He noted that in the finale, "I succeeded in being near the front to avoid a possible crash in the final tight turn. I would have preferred to win the stage, but you can't have everything...."
The 27-year-old Swiss rider was thrilled to take over the leader's jersey in his homeland race. He has done well in Switzerland in the past, winning a stage and the sprinter's jersey in the Tour de Suisse in 2005, and both the mountain and sprinter's jersey in that race in 2006. Albasini turned pro in 2003 for the Swiss team Phonak before joining Liquigas in 2005.
It was the first season win for Iglinsky, 27, and his sixth as a professional. The Kazahki national champion, who has won stages in the Dauphine Libere and the Deutschland Tour, pointed proudly to his national jersey after crossing the line, and said, "I am so happy with the confidence that the team gave me today. My personal ambitions for the next days are the team ambitions. In theory Andreas Klöden is our leader. We will know more after the time trial."
Astana Directeur Sportif Alain Gallopin said that the stage went as planned. "Already this morning we decided to do everything for Max", he noted. "On the last climb, I told our best rider today, Andreas Klöden, not to cooperate any more in the leading group, because Max was coming closer with a group that included three other Astana Cycling Team riders. When the two groups came together, I felt confident. I explained to Max that he had to take the last corner as the first rider, which he did perfectly. I am so glad for our riders and Kazakh sponsors." Astana now has four riders in the top 11 overall.
The stage, which led over three categorised climbs, was marked by a long escape group by Patxi Vila (Lampre), Morris Possoni (High Road) and Matti Breschel of CSC, but the category one climb Le Gruyere with 20 kilometres to go was their undoing. Astana led the charge to catch them, and as the 38-man strong group neared the finish line, last year's champion Thomas Dekker started the sprint. Iglinsky was able to take advantage of a momentary hesitation by the young Dutch rider and shot by him on the final tight corner to take the lead. He was followed by Albasini and Zberg with the same time, putting two Swiss riders on the podium. Dekker came in fourth, two seconds later.
Vila took the mountain climber's pink jersey, with the sprinter's green jersey going to Possoni. The white jersey for points leader went to Albasini.
Thursday's second stage runs 172 kilometres from Moutier to Fribourg, and features three ranked climbs of category one, three and two, with the final ascent just 34 kilometres before the finish line.
How it unfolded
The race got underway promptly at 12:50 under not-so-good weather conditions. It was raining at the start and the bad weather was expected to stay around, with snow even being reported on the last part of the course. Florant Brard of Cofidis, who finished last in yesterday's prologue, was too ill to start. The weather wasn't bad enough to keep away the vampires. Doping controllers did 102 blood checks on 13 of the 19 teams before the stage started.
Three riders got away at the 10 kilometre mark: Matti Breschel (CSC), Morris Possoni (High Road) and Patxi Vila Errandonea (Lampre). They were eventually followed by Daniel Wyss of BMC, who never quite caught up with them. After 80 km, the trio had a lead over the peloton of 7'40", with Wyss five minutes back. The bad weather must have inspired all the riders to hustle along, as they averaged 45 km/hour in the first hour.
With about 90 km to go, Wyss was absorbed back into the peloton. Breschel, Possoni and Vila kept their lead of over seven minutes as they started up the first climb of the day. Vila took the mountain points, followed by Possoni and Breschel. Much later, Steve Zampierei (Cofidis) went over as fourth, followed by Amets Zxurruka (Euskaltel)
Behind them, the entire Rabobank team moved up to the front in the continuing rain and picked up the tempo, bringing the trio's lead down to six minutes.
The second climb of the day saw the points go to Vila, Possoni, Breschel, Rick Flens (Rabobank) and Bram de Groot (Rabobank) in that order. Shortly thereafter came the first intermediate sprint in Le Noirmont, with Possoni this time taking the points ahead of Vila and Breschel. The peloton was then about five and a half minutes back.
With 50 km to go, the rain was still coming down, making the long descent to Glovelier tricky on the winding roads. The advantage of the leaders dropped to 4'20" with Rabobank still leading the chase with help from Caisse d'Epargne.
The rain finally began to let up and the feared snow stayed away, but in the enduring cold the leaders continued to lose ground on the chasing bunch. By the 40 km to go mark the lead was down to 3'40" and dropped further as they neared the final climb of the day, the category one Le Gruyere. On the long climb, Possoni and Vila dropped Breschel in a desperate attempt to fend off a charging chase group.
With 22 km to go, Denis Menchov pulled a 10-man group clear of the peloton, which included Dekker and Astana's Vladimir Gusov. The powerful Russian pulled the train up the mountain, pulling steadily away from the rest of the bunch. Up ahead, Vila took the mountain points ahead of Possoni, but their lead had shrunk to under a minute.
Possoni held on to take the points at the second sprint at Lajoux just 4.5 kilometres later, and held onto a slim advantage as the third group on the road fought to close the gap to the ten men ahead. Mikel Astarloza (Euskaltel-Euskadi) broke out of the Dekker group to go after the two leaders with 15 km to go.
The move inspired Alexander Botcharov (Credit Agricole) to try his luck, and the Russian passed Astarloza, overtook Possoni and Vila and then took off on his own. The two former leaders were absorbed by the first chase group behind, while Astarloza fought to get on terms with Botcharov. Behind, the group of chasers had grown to about 25 riders, but there was little organisation and several attacks before Astana took over control and set about chasing.
With six kilometres to go, Astarloza joined Botcharov in the lead while Jussi Veikkanen (Francaise des Jeux) was trying to bridge across. As the Astana team continued setting pace, more riders joined the chasing bunch. With just four kilometres to go, Finn managed to catch up to the two leaders, but the larger group wasn't far behind.
The steam train in teal, yellow and white finally closed down the breakaway inside two kilometres to go, and Gusov and Maxim Iglinksy led the charge under the red kite with Dekker in tow. Dekker opened the sprint early with 350 metres to go, but he hesitated for a moment when he realized how far he had to go, and Iglinsky took advantage of that, shooting around him on a sharp curve. The Kazakh champion was able to hold on to his lead and finished ahead of Albasini and Markus Zberg of Gerolsteiner, with Dekker finishing fourth, two seconds later.
Photography
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- Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana wins stage one of the Tour of Romandie.
- Iglinsky gives the standard Astana salute - pointing to the team logo to indicate that the embattled team is the best.
Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net
- Maxim Iglinsky (Astana ) takes stage 1 in wet conditions.
- Michael Albasini (Liquigas) took the yellow jersey in his home country.
- Denis Menchov (Rabobank) was bundled up against the elements.
- Vila in front and Possoni during their break.
- A jubilant Iglinsky takes the sprint.
Results
1 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 4.47.28 (38.07 km/h) 2 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 3 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 4 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 0.02 5 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step 6 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 7 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 8 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 9 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 10 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 11 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 12 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 13 John Gadret (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 14 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 15 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Liquigas 16 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 17 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 18 Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 19 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team High Road 20 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team High Road 21 Mathias Frank (Swi) Gerolsteiner 22 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Silence - Lotto 23 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 24 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 25 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 26 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 27 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 28 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank 29 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Scott 30 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quick Step 31 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 32 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre 33 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Astana 34 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 35 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 36 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 37 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 38 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 39 Alberto Fernandez De La Puebla Ramos (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 0.29 40 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.18 41 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r - La Mondiale 42 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 43 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 44 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 45 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 46 Mickaël Chérel (Fra) Française des Jeux 47 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 48 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Française des Jeux 49 René Mandri (Est) AG2r - La Mondiale 50 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 51 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram 52 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 53 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 54 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 55 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 56 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 57 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Astana 58 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Silence - Lotto 59 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quick Step 60 Francesco De Bonis (Ita) Gerolsteiner 61 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Quick Step 62 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC 63 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas 64 Nick Gates (Aus) Silence - Lotto 65 Adam Hansen (Aus) Team High Road 66 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 67 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 68 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 69 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 70 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 71 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 72 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 73 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 74 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 75 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 76 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 77 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.52 78 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 1.56 79 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 4.26 80 Ignas Konovalovas (Ltu) Crédit Agricole 8.19 81 Evgeny Sokolov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom 82 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 83 Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 84 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 85 Julien El Farès (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 86 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 87 Scott Davis (Aus) Team High Road 88 Matej Jurco (Svk) Team Milram 89 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) Team High Road 90 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step 91 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 92 Julien Mazet (Fra) Astana 93 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 94 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 95 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 96 Eric Berthou (Fra) Crédit Agricole 97 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 98 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team 99 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 100 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2r - La Mondiale 101 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 102 Addy Engels (Ned) Quick Step 103 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 104 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 105 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Saunier Duval - Scott 13.10 106 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 107 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2r - La Mondiale 108 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r - La Mondiale 109 Ian McKissick (USA) BMC Racing Team 110 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Team Milram 111 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 112 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Team Milram 113 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 114 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram 115 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 116 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 117 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 118 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 119 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Team CSC 120 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC 121 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 122 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 123 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 124 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team High Road 125 Christian Kux (Ger) Team Milram 126 Dominique Cornu (Bel) Silence - Lotto 127 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 128 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Liquigas 129 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre 130 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 131 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 132 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 133 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre 134 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 135 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 136 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 16.26 137 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 138 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 139 Tony Martin (Ger) Team High Road 140 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Team High Road 141 Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 20.38 142 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 143 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner 20.57 144 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Quick Step 145 Bert Roesems (Bel) Silence - Lotto 146 Nathan Miller (USA) BMC Racing Team 31.22 General classification after stage 1 1 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 4.49.30 2 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 0.01 3 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 0.08 4 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 5 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 0.09 6 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.10 7 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 8 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 9 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 10 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 0.11 11 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 12 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Scott 13 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Astana 14 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team High Road 15 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.12 16 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quick Step 17 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 18 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 19 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.13 20 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 21 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank 22 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step 23 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 0.14 24 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team High Road 25 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre 0.15 26 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Liquigas 0.16 27 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 28 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 29 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 30 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 0.17 31 Mathias Frank (Swi) Gerolsteiner 32 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 33 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.18 34 John Gadret (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 0.19 35 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 0.20 36 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.21 37 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 38 Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.23 39 Alberto Fernandez De La Puebla Ramos (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 0.48 40 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas 1.23 41 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 1.24 42 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r - La Mondiale 1.25 43 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.26 44 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC 45 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quick Step 46 Adam Hansen (Aus) Team High Road 47 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 48 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 49 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.27 50 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Silence - Lotto 1.28 51 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram 52 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.29 53 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 54 Francesco De Bonis (Ita) Gerolsteiner 55 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 56 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Astana 1.31 57 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 58 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 59 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 60 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 61 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 62 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.32 63 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 64 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 65 Nick Gates (Aus) Silence - Lotto 66 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 1.33 67 René Mandri (Est) AG2r - La Mondiale 68 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 1.34 69 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 70 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 71 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 72 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 1.35 73 Mickaël Chérel (Fra) Française des Jeux 74 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Quick Step 1.36 75 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 76 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC 77 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2.10 78 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 2.15 79 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 4.41 80 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 8.26 81 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 8.27 82 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) Team High Road 8.28 83 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 84 Ignas Konovalovas (Ltu) Crédit Agricole 85 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team 8.29 86 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 87 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8.30 88 Eric Berthou (Fra) Crédit Agricole 8.31 89 Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 90 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 91 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 92 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 8.32 93 Matej Jurco (Svk) Team Milram 94 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 95 Evgeny Sokolov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom 96 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 97 Addy Engels (Ned) Quick Step 8.33 98 Julien El Farès (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 99 Scott Davis (Aus) Team High Road 8.34 100 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 101 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 102 Julien Mazet (Fra) Astana 103 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step 8.35 104 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2r - La Mondiale 8.51 105 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team High Road 13.15 106 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 13.17 107 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Team Milram 13.18 108 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 109 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 110 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r - La Mondiale 13.19 111 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2r - La Mondiale 112 Dominique Cornu (Bel) Silence - Lotto 113 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 13.20 114 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre 115 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 116 Christian Kux (Ger) Team Milram 117 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 13.21 118 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram 119 Ian McKissick (USA) BMC Racing Team 120 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13.22 121 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 122 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Liquigas 13.23 123 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 124 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 13.24 125 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 126 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Team Milram 13.25 127 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 128 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 129 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 130 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Team CSC 131 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Saunier Duval - Scott 132 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 13.26 133 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre 134 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC 135 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 13.28 136 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Team High Road 16.32 137 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 16.35 138 Tony Martin (Ger) Team High Road 139 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 16.38 140 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 16.39 141 Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 20.48 142 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 20.50 143 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner 21.07 144 Bert Roesems (Bel) Silence - Lotto 21.14 145 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Quick Step 21.15 146 Nathan Miller (USA) BMC Racing Team 31.37 Points classification 1 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 30 pts 2 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 25 3 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 17 4 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 16 5 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team High Road 15 6 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 14 7 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas 12 8 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step 11 9 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 10 10 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 9 11 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 9 12 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 8 13 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Team High Road 8 14 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 6 15 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6 16 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 5 17 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r - La Mondiale 5 18 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 4 19 John Gadret (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 3 20 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 3 21 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 22 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux 2 23 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Liquigas 1 24 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 Sprint classification 1 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team High Road 6 pts 2 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 4 3 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1 4 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 1 Mountains classification 1 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 28 pts 2 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team High Road 20 3 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 8 4 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 6 5 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 4 6 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 2 7 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2 8 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank 2 9 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1 10 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 1
