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4th Eneco Tour - ProT
Netherlands and Belgium, August 20-27, 2008
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Stage 1 - August 21 : Beek (NL) - Roermond (NL), 173.8km
Boonen takes the bunch sprint
By Susan Westemeyer
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Tom Boonen of Team Quick Step won the mass sprint of the first stage of the Eneco Tour, finishing a bike length ahead of Daniele Bennati (Liquigas) and Milram's Fabio Sabatini in Roermond. There was no change in the overall lead, as Jose Ivan Gutierrez of Caisse d'Epargne successfully defended his leader's jersey.
"I had wanted to do well in yesterday's prologue," Boonen said, "but the rain unfortunately penalized my trial. Today the entire team did an exceptional job and in the final part De Jongh guided me to perfection. I'm very happy, this victory gives me confidence leading up to my participation in La Vuelta España and in anticipation of the World race in Varese at the end of September."
Two Dutch riders, Floris Goesinnen of Team Skil-Shimano and Rabobank's Bram Tankink, escaped early and built up a lead of nine minutes before the peloton reacted and tracked them down, catching the pair with 10 km to go.
That set up the expected mass sprint, as Teams Columbia and Silence-Lotto did much of the lead work, holding the speed high. Their work was in vain, though. Quick Step took over at the end, with Steven De Jongh setting Boonen up for his 12th win of the season.
How it unfolded
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The riders started out under cloudy skies in Beek shortly after noon. Almost immediately Floris Goesinnen of the Dutch Professional Continenal Team Skil-Shimano jumped out and quickly built up a lead of three minutes, then up to seven minutes. Bram Tankink of Rabobank went after him, and with 138 km to go, he caught his countryman and the two had an 8'30" lead.
The race had its first drop-out, as Dionisio Galparsoso of Euskaltel left the race. He had finished last in the prologue the previous day. Also dropping out during the stage was Steve Morabito of Astana.
With 100 km to go, the Dutch duo had built up a lead of nine minutes, but that was too much for he peloton, with the sprinters hoping for a chance today. Within 40 km their lead had shrunk to about four minutes.
From then on it dropped rapidly, down to two minutes with 40 km to go. At 30 km, the two leaders entered the two kilometre long Roer Tunnel with a lead of just over one minute. As expected, the sprinters' teams led the way: Quick Step, Columbia, and Liquigas.
Goesinnen and Tankink crossed the finish line for the first time and headed off on the 25 km long circuit with a lead of only 52 seconds.
The two escapees took all the points along the way, but overall leader Jose Ivan Gutierrez was able to take third in each of the first two intermediate sprints. Each of them gave him a one-second bonus, which helped him to pad his narrow lead. He was unable to take the last one though, as Rabobank's Michiel Elijzen won the battle for the final bonus second.
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The lead had gone down to 28 seconds with 20 km to go. It was a tricky course, with vehicles parked along the road and numerous traffic islands and roundabouts to be negotiated by the fast-moving, closely-packed peloton.
It was over for Goesennin and Tankink with 10 km to go. Raivis Belohvosciks of Scott-American Beef pulled way from the peloton and overtook the two shortly before the peloton caught them. He maintained a short lead for only a few minutes.
Things got hectic in the last few kilometres, as all the sprinters and their helpers all moved up to the front, each team wanting to find the perfect position.
At 4km to go, Columbia and Francaise des Jeux moved to the front to keep the speed up. Silence Lotto kept a man at the front, too. The glowing green of Liquigas was also highly visible. Quick Step firmly took command at the 3 km marker.
The peloton flew under the 1 km marker, and to no one's surprise, Tom Boonen of Quick Step proved to have the fastest legs at the finish.
Photography
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- Behind Boonen, Daniele Bennati (Liquigas) took second.
- Tom Boonen (Quick Step) won the sprint in convincing fashion.
- Tom Boonen was excited to win a sprint after a long, hard summer following his positive test for cocaine.
- Tom Boonen takes the first stage of the 2008 Eneco Tour
- Tom Boonen (Quick Step) was happy to get back to his winning ways.
- Tom Boonen (Quick Step) got back on track for winning after missing the Tour de France.
- Tom Boonen's grandparents got the bouquet after his stage win.
- Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Caisse d'Epargne) held fast to the peloton to maintain his lead in the overall classification.
- Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Caisse d'Epargne) puts on another jersey of the overall leader.
- Tom Boonen (Quick Step) took the lead in the sprint competition.
- Tom Boonen (Quick Step) in the red jersey of the sprint classification leader.
- The famous penguin
- Floris Goesinnen (Skil-Shimano) took the climber's jersey.
- Koen de Kort with Miss Eneco.
- Maarten Tjallingii (Silence Lotto) signs autographs.
- Frenchman Jean-Patrick Nazon (AG2R) gets some mic time at the start.
- Maxim Iglinsky (Astana) ready for the start.
- (Francaise des Jeux)
- Stijn Devolder (Quick Step) is champing at the bit for the Worlds.
- Tom Boonen is interviewed at the start of stage one.
- Timothy Gudsell (Francaise des Jeux) looks very excited to be racing today.
- Floris Goesinnen (Skil-Shimano) took all the climbs while Tankink got the sprints.
- Bram Tankink (Rabobank) in the breakaway.
- Caisse d'Eparne leads the chase.
- The two-man breakaway Bram Tankink (Rabobank) and Floris Goesinnen (Skil-Shimano)
- Bram Tankink (Rabobank) rides in the break on stage one.
- The Caisse d'Epargne team controlled things for leader Gutierrez.
- Bram Tankink (Rabobank) and Floris Goesinnen (Skil Shimano) in the break.
- Floris Goesinnen (Skil-Shimano) on his way to the KOM jersey.
- Quick Step and Columbia amass at the front coming into the final sprint.
Images by Elmar Krings
- It's snack time for the riders maybe some corn on the cob from the local field?
- Riders take on some refreshments at the feed zone.
- Tom Boonen (Quick Step) gets to enjoy the applause.
- Feed time in the peloton is at times a dangerous point in the race, so some riders elect to stay far away from the rest of the riders.
- Time out on the chase as the peloton gets lunch.
- Quick Step sets up the sprint for Tom Boonen.
- Goesinnen and Tanking try to hold on through the feedzone.
- Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Caisse d'Epargne) in the leader's jersey.
- Tom Boonen gets the red jersey of best sprinter.
- The breakaway is fading with one lap to go.
- One lap to go and Columbia takes over at the front
- Tom Boonen warms up for the stage.
Results
1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 4.16.17 (41,11km/h) 2 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas 3 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Team Milram 4 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 5 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 7 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 8 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 9 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 10 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 11 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 12 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 14 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Scott - American Beef 15 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 16 Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 17 Roy Curvers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 18 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 19 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 20 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 21 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 22 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 23 Mirko Selvaggi (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 24 André Greipel (Ger) Team Columbia 25 José Iván Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 26 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 27 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 28 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 29 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 30 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 31 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 32 Andrea Grendene (Ita) Lampre 33 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 34 David Kopp (Ger) Cycle Collstrop 35 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Crédit Agricole 36 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 37 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 38 Michal Golas (Pol) Cycle Collstrop 39 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 40 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 41 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas 42 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Silence - Lotto 43 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia 44 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank 45 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 46 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 47 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 48 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 49 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia 50 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 51 Stéphane Poulhies (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 52 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 53 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 54 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 55 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 56 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 57 Franck Rénier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 58 Beñat Albizuri Aransolo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 59 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Milram 60 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 61 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 62 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 63 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 64 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 65 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 66 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 67 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 68 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 69 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 70 Geert Steurs (Bel) Silence - Lotto 71 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 72 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 73 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 74 Bert Roesems (Bel) Silence - Lotto 75 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 76 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 77 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 78 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 79 John Devine (USA) Team Columbia 80 Artur Gajek (Ger) Team Milram 81 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 82 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 83 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 84 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team Columbia 85 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Scott - American Beef 86 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 87 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 88 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2R La Mondiale 89 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 90 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 91 Cédric Pineau (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 92 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Liquigas 93 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 94 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Scott - American Beef 95 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 96 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 97 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 98 Glenn d'Hollander (Bel) Silence - Lotto 99 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Scott - American Beef 100 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 101 Sergei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 102 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 103 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Scott - American Beef 104 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 105 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram 106 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Scott - American Beef 107 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 108 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Scott - American Beef 109 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 110 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 111 Yohann Gène (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 112 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 113 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Scott - American Beef 114 Servais Knaven (Ned) Team Columbia 115 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Cycle Collstrop 116 André Steensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 117 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 118 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 119 Gorka Verdugo Markotegi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 120 Berik Kupeshov (Kaz) Astana 121 Borut Bozic (Slo) Cycle Collstrop 122 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre 123 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 124 Sergey Rudaskov (Rus) Cycle Collstrop 125 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 126 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 127 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Française des Jeux 128 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 129 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 130 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner 131 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 132 Francis De Greef (Bel) Silence - Lotto 133 Andoni Lafuente Olaguibel (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 134 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 135 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 136 Julien Simon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 137 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Française des Jeux 138 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 139 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 140 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 141 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Milram 142 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 143 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 144 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick Step 0.25 145 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 0.28 146 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 0.35 147 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano 1.38 148 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 7.22 149 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 9.34 DNF Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana DNF Dionisio Galparsoro Martínez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi Points Sprint 1 1 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 8 pts 2 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 5 3 José Iván Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3 Sprint 2 1 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 8 pts 2 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 5 3 José Iván Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3 Sprint 3 1 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 8 pts 2 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 5 3 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank 3 Finish 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 30 pts 2 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas 25 3 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Team Milram 22 4 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 19 5 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 17 6 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 15 7 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 13 8 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 12 9 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 11 10 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 10 Mountains KOM 1 1 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 5 pts 2 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 3 3 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1 KOM 2 1 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 5 pts 2 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 3 3 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1 KOM 3 1 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 5 pts 2 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 3 3 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1 Teams 1 Crédit Agricole 12.48.51 2 Bouygues Telecom 3 Team Columbia 4 Liquigas 5 Skil - Shimano 6 Quick Step 7 Team Milram 8 Cycle - Collstrop 9 Rabobank 10 Caisse d`Épargne 11 Astana 12 Silence - Lotto 13 Team CSC Saxo Bank 14 AG2R La Mondiale 15 Gerolsteiner 16 Française des Jeux 17 Lampre 18 Cofidis, le Crédit par Téléphone 19 Scott - American Beef 20 Euskaltel - Eusdaki General classification after stage 1 1 José Iván Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4.21.46 2 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.02 3 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 0.03 4 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 0.05 5 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia 0.06 6 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 7 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas 8 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.07 9 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 10 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.08 11 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 12 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 0.09 13 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.10 14 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 15 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank 16 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 17 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 0.11 18 André Greipel (Ger) Team Columbia 0.12 19 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 20 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 21 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 22 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 23 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.13 24 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.14 25 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 26 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 0.15 27 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 28 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 29 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.16 30 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia 31 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 32 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Française des Jeux 33 Borut Bozic (Slo) Cycle Collstrop 34 Julien Simon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.17 35 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 36 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 37 Michal Golas (Pol) Cycle Collstrop 38 Artur Gajek (Ger) Team Milram 39 Gorka Verdugo Markotegi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.19 40 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 41 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 42 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 43 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 44 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 45 André Steensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 46 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 0.20 47 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Crédit Agricole 48 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 49 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 50 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Scott - American Beef 51 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 52 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Milram 53 Glenn d'Hollander (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.21 54 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Scott - American Beef 55 Sergey Rudaskov (Rus) Cycle Collstrop 56 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.22 57 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 58 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 59 Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 60 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 61 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 62 John Devine (USA) Team Columbia 0.23 63 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 64 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 65 Sergei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 66 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 67 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.24 68 Servais Knaven (Ned) Team Columbia 69 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 0.25 70 Beñat Albizuri Aransolo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 71 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner 72 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Scott - American Beef 0.26 73 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 74 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 75 Francis De Greef (Bel) Silence - Lotto 76 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 77 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 78 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 79 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas 80 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 81 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 82 Cédric Pineau (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0.27 83 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 84 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 85 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 86 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 87 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 0.28 88 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2R La Mondiale 0.29 89 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 0.30 90 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 91 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram 0.31 92 Roy Curvers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 93 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 94 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.32 95 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 96 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team Columbia 97 Mirko Selvaggi (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 98 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Française des Jeux 0.33 99 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 100 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Scott - American Beef 0.34 101 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 102 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 103 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 104 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Liquigas 0.35 105 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 106 Berik Kupeshov (Kaz) Astana 107 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Silence - Lotto 108 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 0.36 109 Yohann Gène (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 110 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.38 111 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 112 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.39 113 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Team Milram 114 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 115 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Cycle Collstrop 116 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 117 David Kopp (Ger) Cycle Collstrop 118 Andrea Grendene (Ita) Lampre 0.40 119 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 120 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 121 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Scott - American Beef 122 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 0.41 123 Andoni Lafuente Olaguibel (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 124 Geert Steurs (Bel) Silence - Lotto 125 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.42 126 Bert Roesems (Bel) Silence - Lotto 127 Stéphane Poulhies (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 128 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 129 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.43 130 Franck Rénier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 131 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 132 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Scott - American Beef 0.44 133 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Scott - American Beef 134 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 135 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Crédit Agricole 136 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.46 137 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 138 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 139 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 0.49 140 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Milram 141 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Scott - American Beef 0.51 142 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.52 143 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 144 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.54 145 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick Step 0.55 146 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre 147 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano 2.13 148 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 8.01 149 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 10.16 Points classification 1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 30 pts 2 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas 25 3 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 24 4 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Team Milram 22 5 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 19 6 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 17 7 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 15 8 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 15 9 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 13 10 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 12 11 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 11 12 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 10 13 José Iván Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 14 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank 3 Mountains classification 1 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 15 pts 2 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 9 3 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 3 Teams classification 1 Caisse d`Épargne 13.05.38 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 Team CSC Saxo Bank 0.32 12 Cycle - Collstrop 0.34 13 Team Milram 0.40 14 Cofidis, le Crédit par Téléphone 0.41 15 Gerolsteiner 0.43 16 Euskaltel - Eusdaki 0.46 17 AG2R La Mondiale 0.47 18 Scott - American Beef 19 Bouygues Telecom 0.58 20 Lampre 1.31
