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4th Eneco Tour - ProT
Netherlands and Belgium, August 20-27, 2008
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Stage 2 - August 22 : Roermond (NL) - Nieuwegein (NL), 173.2km
Greipel takes 10th season win
By Susan Westemeyer
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Andre Greipel of Team Columbia won the rain-soaked mass sprint in the second stage of the Eneco Tour for his tenth win of the year. The German beat out Juan Jose Haedo (CSC) and Robert Förster (Gerolsteiner) in a close dash to the line. Jose Ivan Gutierrez of Caisse d'Epargne held on to his overall lead, but only just, as Columbia's Edvald Boassan Hagen pulled even with him on time through the intermediate sprints.
"I've lost count of how many sprints Andre has won this year," said Columbia Directeur Sportif Tristan Hoffman. "He dominated the Tour Down Under in Australia and has won another ProTour stage here. He and all the team were good today. John Devine and Servais Knaven worked with other teams to chase the break and then the boys dominated the sprint. There were two lead out trains: Columbia and Liquigas for Bennati but we were the fastest yet again."
Gutierrez now leads Boassan Hagen by a mere 16 hundredths of a second, the advantage he had in the opening prologue. "That's close and so perhaps we can get the lead in the next few days. However, we don't want to wear out the team and then lose the race by several minutes. We're going to ride smart," said Hoffman.
An escape group formed early with David Deroo (Skil Shimano), Artur Gajek (Milram), Matthé Pronk (Cycle Collstrop), Ermanno Capelli (Scott) and Javier Aramendia Lorente (Euskaltel). They built up a lead of up to four and a half minutes. As the peloton finally caught up with them, Gajek refused to give up and stayed away as a solo for a few more kilometers before finally being overtaken.
How it unfolded
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The peloton set out under a cloudy sky again, this time without Gianni Meersman of Francaise des Jeux. Underway, both Andre Steensen of CSC and Nicolas Crosbie of Bouygues Telecom climbed off their bikes.
The riders must have anticipated the heavy rains which were to set in, as they got off to a fast start. Only after 53 kilometres was a group of five able to get away.
David Deroo (Skil-Shimano), Artur Gajek (Team Milram), Matthé Pronk (Cycle Collstrop), Ermanno Capelli (Scott) and Javier Aramandia Lorente (Euskaltel-Euskadi) built up a lead of up to four and minutes. The 23 year-old Gajek was the best placed in the group, only 17 seconds down in the overall ranking, so he wore the "virtual" leader's jersey much of the day.
As the rains set in, the group's lead came down. Silence-Lotto led the charge to catch them. Underway, Gerben Löwik of Rabobank tried to get away, but was quickly caught up again. Kevin Hulsman moved to the front of the pack with 40 km to go to help set up a mass sprint for his Quick Step team-mate Tom Boonen, who won the previous day.
With only ten kilometres to go, the peloton finally caught the escapees, but Gajek wasn't ready to admit defeat, and took off by himself. Two kilometres later, though, he too was caught by the fast-flying (and wet) peloton.
Daniele Bennati, who finished second in the first stage, was brought up to the front by his Liquigas team-mates, but on this day the Italian was not able to get to the front, as Greipel took the win ahead of Haedo and Förster.
Photography
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- A tight sprint on a wet day is always a bit dangerous, too.
- Greipel and Haedo went neck to neck and Förster (l) and Boonen (right, red jersey) were not far back, either.
- André Greipel (Columbia) looks up after he crossed the line.
- The usual victory celebration was missing as Greipel in blue and CSC's Haedo in white made the sprint too close to call.
- Greipel seems happy the day is over but didn't know yet if his sprint was enough.
- Boonen finished in fifth place.
- Haedo sprinted hard but wasn't sure if it was enough. The photo gave the answer later. No.
- Greipel was exhausted after the sprint.
- Greipel had to wait for the photo but then was a happy podium man.
- Greipel took his 10th season victory.
- José Iván Gutierrez Palacios retained his overall lead on a rainy day in the Netherlands.
- Gutierrez is congratulated on the podium
- Gutierrez looks ahead to another day in the leader's jersey.
- Gutierrez was as happy over white as the penguin over the weather.
- A smiling Gutierrez enjoys the lead.
- Tom Boonen couldn't pull off the win but went to the podium nonetheless.
- Boonen retained the red jersey of the points classification.
- Boonen is all smiles after keeping the red jersey.
- Sergey Lagutin (Collstrop), the Uzbekistan champ shows how he really feels about it.
- A Cycles Collstrop rider is all smiles.
- Cedric Pineau (AG2R) was really happy.
- Borut Bozic (Collstrop) is Slovenian champion.
- Mathieu Drujon (Caisse d'Epargne)
- Francesco Chicchi (Liquigas) was eighth on the stage.
- A Lampre rider mugs for the camera.
- Stéphane Poulhies and Laurent Mangel (AG2R)
- The Skil-Shimano riders were also happy to have their photo taken.
- Cofidis riders ham it up for the camera.
- André Greipel (Columbia) and JJ Haedo roll away from the finish after taking first and second.
- Colombian Marlon Alirio Perez (Caisse d'Epargne) was lead-out man today.
- Lars Bak (CSC-Saxo Bank) says 'hi'.
- Team CSC scored a nice second on the stage but will want more from the Eneco Tour.
- Luis Leon Sanchez and Jose Gutierrez (Caisse d'Epargne)
- Tom Boonen (Quick Step) kept the sprint leader's jersey.
- Floris Goesinnen (Skil-Shimano) carries his bouquet away after the KOM podium
- Heinrich Haussler and Thomas Fothen (Gerolsteiner)
- Cédric Pineau (AG2R) and Yauheni Hutarovich (FdJ) pal around after the finish of stage two.
- The Scott-American Beef team
- Elio Rigotto (Milram) snuck into the top ten in the sprint.
- The break only gained four and a half minutes on the sprint-hungry peloton.
- Artur Gajek (Milram) rides in the stage two breakaway.
- Matthé Pronk (Cycle Collstrop) was in the breakaway.
- Ermanno Capelli (Scott-American Beef) and Francisco Javier Aramendia (Euskaltel-Euskadi) were two of the men in the breakaway.
- Caisse d'Epargne controls the bunch for overall leader Jose Gutierrez.
- The peloton enjoys dry roads for the meantime…
- The Astana team chilling out in the peloton.
Results
1 André Greipel (Ger) Team Columbia 3.51.31 (45,353 km/h) 2 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 3 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 5 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 6 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 7 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 8 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 9 David Kopp (Ger) Cycle Collstrop 10 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 11 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 12 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 13 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 14 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Scott - American Beef 15 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 16 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 17 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 18 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 19 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Scott - American Beef 20 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 21 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 22 Andrea Grendene (Ita) Lampre 23 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner 24 Roy Curvers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 25 Borut Bozic (Slo) Cycle Collstrop 26 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 27 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Crédit Agricole 28 José Iván Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 29 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 30 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 31 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 32 Michal Golas (Pol) Cycle Collstrop 33 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 34 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 35 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 36 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 37 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 38 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank 39 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 40 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia 41 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 42 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 43 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 44 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 45 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 46 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 47 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 48 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas 49 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 50 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram 51 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 52 Mirko Selvaggi (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 53 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 54 Sergei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 55 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 56 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team Columbia 57 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 58 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 59 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 60 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Cycle Collstrop 61 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 62 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 63 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Scott - American Beef 64 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 65 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 66 John Devine (USA) Team Columbia 67 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano 68 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 69 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Silence - Lotto 70 Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 71 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.10 72 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 73 Servais Knaven (Ned) Team Columbia 74 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 75 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 76 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 77 Berik Kupeshov (Kaz) Astana 0.13 78 Bert Roesems (Bel) Silence - Lotto 79 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Scott - American Beef 80 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 81 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 82 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Liquigas 83 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 84 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 85 Andoni Lafuente Olaguibel (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 86 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 87 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 88 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2R La Mondiale 89 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Scott - American Beef 90 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 91 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 92 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 93 Francis De Greef (Bel) Silence - Lotto 94 Gorka Verdugo Markotegi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 95 Geert Steurs (Bel) Silence - Lotto 96 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 97 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 98 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Milram 99 Yohann Gène (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 100 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 101 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 102 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 103 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 104 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 105 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 106 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 107 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 108 Julien Simon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 109 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 110 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 111 Cédric Pineau (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 112 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 113 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Scott - American Beef 114 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 115 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 116 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 117 Stéphane Poulhies (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 118 Franck Rénier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 119 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre 120 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 121 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Milram 122 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 123 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Française des Jeux 124 Beñat Albizuri Aransolo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 125 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 126 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 127 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Française des Jeux 128 Sergey Rudaskov (Rus) Cycle Collstrop 129 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 130 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia 131 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 132 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Team Milram 0.23 133 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas 0.24 134 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick Step 0.46 135 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 1.00 136 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 1.21 137 Glenn d'Hollander (Bel) Silence - Lotto 138 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2.00 139 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 140 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 141 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 142 Artur Gajek (Ger) Team Milram 143 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Scott - American Beef 144 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 145 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2.35 146 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Scott - American Beef 5.06 DNF André Steensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank DNF Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom Points Sprint 1 1 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 8 pts 2 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 5 3 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 Sprint 2 1 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Scott - American Beef 8 pts 2 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 5 3 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 3 Sprint 3 1 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Scott - American Beef 8 pts 2 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 5 3 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 3 Finish 1 André Greipel (Ger) Team Columbia 30 pts 2 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 25 3 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 22 4 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 19 5 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 17 6 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 15 7 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 13 8 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 12 9 David Kopp (Ger) Cycle Collstrop 11 10 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 10 Teams 1 Gerolsteiner 11.34.33 2 Team Columbia 3 Skil - Shimano 4 Cycle - Collstrop 5 Crédit Agricole 6 Caisse d`Épargne 7 Quick Step 8 Française des Jeux 9 Rabobank 10 Scott - American Beef 11 Team Milram 12 Astana 13 Liquigas 14 Silence - Lotto 15 Bouygues Telecom 0.10 16 Cofidis, le Crédit par Téléphone 17 Team CSC Saxo Bank 0.13 18 Lampre 19 AG2R La Mondiale 0.26 20 Euskaltel - Eusdaki 0.39 General classification after stage 2 1 José Iván Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8.13.17 2 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 3 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.01 4 André Greipel (Ger) Team Columbia 0.02 5 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 0.05 6 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia 0.06 7 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 8 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 9 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas 10 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.07 11 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 0.08 12 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 0.09 13 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 0.10 14 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank 15 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 16 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 0.12 17 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 18 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 19 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 0.14 20 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 0.15 21 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.16 22 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 23 Borut Bozic (Slo) Cycle Collstrop 24 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 0.17 25 Michal Golas (Pol) Cycle Collstrop 26 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.18 27 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 0.19 28 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 29 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 30 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 0.20 31 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 32 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 33 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 34 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.22 35 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 36 Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 37 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 38 John Devine (USA) Team Columbia 0.23 39 Sergei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 40 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 41 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 0.24 42 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 0.25 43 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner 44 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 0.26 45 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 46 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 47 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 48 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.27 49 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Scott - American Beef 50 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 51 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 0.28 52 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 53 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia 0.29 54 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Française des Jeux 55 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 56 Julien Simon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.30 57 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 58 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram 0.31 59 Roy Curvers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 60 Gorka Verdugo Markotegi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.32 61 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 62 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team Columbia 63 Mirko Selvaggi (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 64 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 0.33 65 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 66 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 67 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 68 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Milram 69 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 70 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.34 71 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 72 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Scott - American Beef 73 Sergey Rudaskov (Rus) Cycle Collstrop 74 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 75 Servais Knaven (Ned) Team Columbia 76 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 77 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.35 78 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 79 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Silence - Lotto 80 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 0.36 81 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 82 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 83 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 84 Beñat Albizuri Aransolo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.38 85 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 86 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.39 87 Francis De Greef (Bel) Silence - Lotto 88 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 89 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 90 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Cycle Collstrop 91 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 92 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 93 David Kopp (Ger) Cycle Collstrop 94 Andrea Grendene (Ita) Lampre 0.40 95 Cédric Pineau (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 96 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 97 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 98 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 99 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Scott - American Beef 100 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 0.41 101 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2R La Mondiale 0.42 102 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 103 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Scott - American Beef 0.44 104 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 105 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 106 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Crédit Agricole 107 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.45 108 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Française des Jeux 0.46 109 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Scott - American Beef 0.47 110 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Liquigas 0.48 111 Berik Kupeshov (Kaz) Astana 112 Yohann Gène (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.49 113 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas 0.50 114 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Scott - American Beef 0.51 115 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 116 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 0.54 117 Andoni Lafuente Olaguibel (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 118 Geert Steurs (Bel) Silence - Lotto 119 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.55 120 Bert Roesems (Bel) Silence - Lotto 121 Stéphane Poulhies (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 122 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.56 123 Franck Rénier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 124 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.59 125 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 126 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 1.02 127 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Milram 128 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Team Milram 129 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.05 130 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 131 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1.07 132 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre 1.08 133 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick Step 1.41 134 Glenn d'Hollander (Bel) Silence - Lotto 1.42 135 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 1.49 136 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano 2.13 137 Artur Gajek (Ger) Team Milram 2.17 138 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Scott - American Beef 2.26 139 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 140 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 2.27 141 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 2.30 142 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2.34 143 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2.43 144 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Scott - American Beef 6.10 145 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 9.01 146 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 12.51 Points classification 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 47 pts 2 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 38 3 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 37 4 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 31 5 André Greipel (Ger) Team Columbia 30 6 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas 25 7 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 25 8 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 24 9 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 22 10 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Team Milram 22 11 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 21 12 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 17 13 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Scott - American Beef 16 14 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 15 15 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 13 16 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 12 17 David Kopp (Ger) Cycle Collstrop 11 18 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 10 19 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 10 20 José Iván Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 21 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6 22 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3 23 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank 3 Teams classification 1 Caisse d`Épargne 24.40.11 2 Team Columbia 0.01 3 Crédit Agricole 0.02 4 Quick Step 0.10 5 Silence - Lotto 0.11 6 Rabobank 0.12 7 Astana 0.13 8 Liquigas 0.23 9 Skil - Shimano 0.28 10 Française des Jeux 11 Cycle - Collstrop 0.34 12 Team Milram 0.40 13 Gerolsteiner 0.43 14 Team CSC Saxo Bank 0.45 15 Scott - American Beef 0.47 16 Cofidis, le Crédit par Téléphone 0.51 17 Bouygues Telecom 1.08 18 AG2R La Mondiale 1.13 19 Euskaltel - Eusdaki 1.25 20 Lampre 1.44
