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11th Deutschland Tour - ProT
Germany, August 29-September 6, 2008
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Prologue - August 29: Kitzbühel, 3.6km
Lancaster excels in D-Tour opener
Leader's jersey to sub-four minute man
By Susan Westemeyer
Brett Lancaster of Team Milram took his first victory since 2005 in the opening day of the Deutschland Tour. The Australian sprinter was the first to break four minutes on the 3.6-kilometre prologue course, and his time held up to the end. CSC-Saxo Bank's Gustav Erik Larsson, who won silver in the Olympic time trial, finished only one-tenth of a second back in second place. Gerald Ciolek of Team Columbia finished third.
"It was a perfect race today," Lancaster said. "I came directly here from the Olympic track events and so I had an optimal preparation for the curving, challenging course. It is fantastic to have won here. Now I will wear the yellow jersey in the mountains. It will certainly be a very special Queen Stage for me, even though the mountains aren't my thing."
Lancaster, 28, joined Milram in 2006, where he served as an important part of the sprint train for Alessandro Petacchi and Erik Zabel. His last victory was in 2005, when he won the prologue of the Giro d'Italia. In 2004 he won Olympic Gold with the Australian track team in the team pursuit. Lancaster went to Beijing this year, where he finished 12th in the individual pursuit.
The course started just outside of the town, at the banks of the Schwarzsee ("Black Lake") and went through the town to the foot of the Hahnenkammbahn, a cable car that runs up the mountain. About two-thirds of the way through was a tricky cobblestone section.
Things started promptly at 11:00, as Philipp Ludescher of Team Volksbank was the first to take on the course through the ski-resort of Kitzbühel. An early best time went to Mark Renshaw of Crédit Agricole, who will be joining Team Columbia next season. He covered the course in 4'04".
Two riders came close to Renshaw's time, very close. William Bonnet (Crédit Agricole) finished five-one hundredths of a second slower, and Gregory Rast of Astana was 42-hundredths down.
Renshaw's time held for over an hour, but eventually Milram's Brett Lancaster topped him, becoming the first to break the four-minute limit, with a time of 3'59"85.
Columbia's first-year pro, Tony Martin, showed his inexperience and probably cost himself the stage win. He had set a new intermediate best time and looked to be on the way to set a new best at the finish, when he went off the course at an intersection, despite a guide waving him in the proper direction. He turned around quickly and went on the right way, but had lost too much time.
His team-mate Gerald Ciolek, better known as a sprinter, came in only one second slower than Lancaster. However, he was bumped from second position by Gustav Erik Larsson of CSC, who finished only one-tenth of a second slower than the Australian. Larsson had shown his time trial abilities in the Olympic Games when he finished second behind CSC team-mate Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland.
Two riders expected to do well finished near the bottom. Denis Menchov of Rabobank was a last-minute addition to the squad, and finished a surprising 146th, 27 seconds down. And Crédit Agricole's Thor Hushovd, who many had picked to take the win, came in dead last, 33 seconds slower than the winner did.
Results
1 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 3.59 (54.23 km/h) 2 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 3 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia 0.02 4 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.03 5 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 0.04 6 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 7 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Team Columbia 8 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 9 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 10 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.05 11 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia 12 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia 13 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas 14 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 15 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 16 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Volksbank 0.06 17 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 18 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia 19 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 20 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre 21 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 22 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quick Step 0.07 23 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 24 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quick Step 25 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 26 André Greipel (Ger) Team Columbia 27 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 28 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.08 29 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank 30 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana 31 René Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 32 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 0.09 33 Julien El Farès (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 34 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 35 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 36 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Team Volksbank 37 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 38 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia 0.10 39 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram 40 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 41 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia 42 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 43 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 44 Juan José Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 45 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank 0.11 46 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 47 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Milram 48 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.12 49 Jason McCartney (USA) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 50 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 51 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 52 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 53 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 54 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 55 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 56 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 57 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas 58 David Cañada (Spa) Scott - American Beef 59 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 60 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre 61 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano 0.13 62 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Team Volksbank 63 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 64 Thierry Hupond (Fra) Skil-Shimano 65 Tanel Kangert (Est) AG2R La Mondiale 66 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 67 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 68 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 69 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.14 70 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 71 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Scott - American Beef 72 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 73 Andrea Noè (Ita) Liquigas 74 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 75 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 76 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence - Lotto 77 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 78 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Scott - American Beef 79 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 0.15 80 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 81 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank 82 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Quick Step 83 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre 84 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 85 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 86 André Korff (Ger) Team Volksbank 87 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 88 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 89 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre 90 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 91 Thomas Vedel Kvist (Den) Quick Step 0.16 92 Lasse Bøchman (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 93 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 94 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Volksbank 95 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Scott - American Beef 96 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 97 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 98 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 99 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 0.17 100 Evgeny Sokolov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom 101 Angel Gomez (Spa) Scott - American Beef 102 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 103 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 104 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 105 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 0.18 106 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner 107 Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 108 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Française des Jeux 109 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Scott - American Beef 110 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 111 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 112 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Française des Jeux 113 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 114 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 115 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 0.19 116 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 117 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana 118 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre 119 José Rujano Guillen (Ven) Caisse d'Epargne 120 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 121 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Scott - American Beef 0.20 122 Sergey Yakovlev (Kaz) Astana 123 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step 124 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 125 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 126 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 0.21 127 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 128 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 129 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 130 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 131 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 0.22 132 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano 133 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 134 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Quick Step 0.23 135 Yon Bru Pascal (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 136 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step 137 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 0.24 138 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Silence - Lotto 139 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.25 140 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 141 Addy Engels (Ned) Quick Step 142 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 0.26 143 Lander Aperribay (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 144 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Française des Jeux 0.27 145 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 146 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 147 Nick Gates (Aus) Silence - Lotto 148 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 0.28 149 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Silence - Lotto 150 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0.29 151 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 0.30 152 Héctor González (Spa) Scott - American Beef 153 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 0.33 General classification after prologue 1 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 3.59 2 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 3 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia 0.02 4 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.03 5 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 0.04 6 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 7 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Team Columbia 8 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 9 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 10 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.05 11 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia 12 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia 13 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas 14 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 15 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 16 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Volksbank 0.06 17 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 18 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia 19 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 20 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre 21 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 22 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quick Step 0.07 23 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 24 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quick Step 25 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 26 André Greipel (Ger) Team Columbia 27 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 28 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.08 29 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank 30 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana 31 René Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 32 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 0.09 33 Julien El Farès (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 34 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 35 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 36 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Team Volksbank 37 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 38 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia 0.10 39 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram 40 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 41 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia 42 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 43 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 44 Juan José Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 45 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank 0.11 46 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 47 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Milram 48 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.12 49 Jason McCartney (USA) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 50 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 51 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 52 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 53 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 54 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 55 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 56 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 57 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas 58 David Cañada (Spa) Scott - American Beef 59 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 60 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre 61 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano 0.13 62 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Team Volksbank 63 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 64 Thierry Hupond (Fra) Skil-Shimano 65 Tanel Kangert (Est) AG2R La Mondiale 66 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 67 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 68 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 69 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.14 70 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 71 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Scott - American Beef 72 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 73 Andrea Noè (Ita) Liquigas 74 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 75 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 76 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence - Lotto 77 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 78 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Scott - American Beef 79 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 0.15 80 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 81 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank 82 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Quick Step 83 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre 84 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 85 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 86 André Korff (Ger) Team Volksbank 87 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 88 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 89 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre 90 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 91 Thomas Vedel Kvist (Den) Quick Step 0.16 92 Lasse Bøchman (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 93 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 94 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Volksbank 95 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Scott - American Beef 96 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 97 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas 98 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 99 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 0.17 100 Evgeny Sokolov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom 101 Angel Gomez (Spa) Scott - American Beef 102 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 103 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 104 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 105 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 0.18 106 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner 107 Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 108 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Française des Jeux 109 David De La Fuente Rasilla (Spa) Scott - American Beef 110 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 111 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 112 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Française des Jeux 113 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux 114 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 115 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 0.19 116 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 117 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana 118 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre 119 José Rujano Guillen (Ven) Caisse d'Epargne 120 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 121 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Scott - American Beef 0.20 122 Sergey Yakovlev (Kaz) Astana 123 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step 124 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 125 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 126 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 0.21 127 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 128 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 129 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 130 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 131 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 0.22 132 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano 133 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 134 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Quick Step 0.23 135 Yon Bru Pascal (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 136 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step 137 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 0.24 138 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Silence - Lotto 139 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.25 140 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 141 Addy Engels (Ned) Quick Step 142 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 0.26 143 Lander Aperribay (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 144 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Française des Jeux 0.27 145 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 146 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 147 Nick Gates (Aus) Silence - Lotto 148 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 0.28 149 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Silence - Lotto 150 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0.29 151 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 0.30 152 Héctor González (Spa) Scott - American Beef 153 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 0.33 Points classification 1 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 25 pts 2 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 20 3 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia 16 4 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 13 5 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 11 6 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 10 7 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Team Columbia 9 8 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 8 9 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 7 10 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6 11 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia 5 12 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia 4 13 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas 3 14 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 2 15 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 1 Teams classification 1 Team Milram 12.07 2 Team Columbia 0.01 3 Credit Agricole 0.07 4 Gerolsteiner 0.10 5 Astana 6 Liquigas 0.12 7 Team Volksbank - Corratec 0.13 8 Team CSC Saxo Bank 0.14 9 Rabobank 0.16 10 Caise d'Epargne 11 Cofidis 0.17 12 Euskaltel - Euskadi 13 Quick Step 0.19 14 Skil-Shimano 0.22 15 Lampre 16 Française Des Jeux 0.25 17 Bouygues Telecom 0.27 18 AG2R La Mondiale 19 Scott - American Beef 0.30 20 Silence-Lotto 0.37
