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72nd Tour de Suisse - ProT
Switzerland, June 14-22, 2008
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Stage 7 - June 20: Gruyères - Lyss, 171km
Cancellara hoofs it to solo Swiss success
Kirchen retains yellow jersey in advance of mountain time trial
By Shane Stokes in Lyss
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Much as he did in winning Milan-Sanremo earlier this year, Fabian Cancellara thundered out of a breakaway group and soloed the final kilometres to claim the seventh stage of the Tour de Suisse. The double world time trial champion made full use of his horsepower to hold off a hard-chasing bunch, reaching the finish in Lyss with enough time to sit up, celebrate, savour the Swiss support and still finish two seconds ahead of Erik Zabel (Team Milram), Robbie McEwen (Silence Lotto) plus the rest of the peloton.
Race leader Kim Kirchen and his High Road team controlled the race well, with the former keeping an eye on things personally when a dangerous move got clear inside the final ten kilometres.
Leif Hoste (Silence-Lotto) was first of these to go, surging on the category four climb of Lobsigen, and was joined by Cancellara and Markus Fothen (Gerolsteiner). Philippe Gilbert (Française des Jeux) bridged with Kirchen also jumping across, realising that an attack is sometimes the best form of defence. Fothen had started the day just over a minute back and so keeping the German under control was one of Kirchen's main motivations.
Cancellara made his solo effort with approximately five kilometres to go, and was completely committed from there to the line. He received a huge roar from the crowd, and said afterwards that he was delighted to win close to his hometown of Bern.
The move wasn't particularly pre-planned today but it's good to get a stage near my home," he said afterwards. "It was necessary that I used a bit of intelligence to decide what to do. I got into the break and then heard on the radio that Kirchen had rejoined us. That would mean the bunch would chase and so that was my reason to attack a second time.
"Something like today can't be pre-planned. That is something that is decided with good sensations. I looked back and could see the bunch getting closer, so I knew that then was the time to try something. I live here, my family were present here and it was a good day for Swiss sport. To arrive alone here in Lyss was very special."
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He got some valuable encouragement from the CSC team car, and said that he knew he had to dig very deep if he was to get the win.
"Kim Anderson was shouting to me that I had to keep going strong, to go for it, go for it, but in my head I was thinking, 'where is this finish line?' I knew that the sprinters behind me would accelerate to 70 kilometres per hour whereas me, on my bike computer, I wasn't even doing 60. So I was a bit scared and was wondering where the hell the finish was."
Team-mate Frank Schleck embraced Cancellara at the finish, appearing to be as happy as the Swiss fans were. "It was a very good day for the team, we deserved it. We knew after my crash that it was going to be difficult for me."
He also said that he move wasn't pre-meditated. "It wasn't a plan as such for Fabian to go at the end, but he was super-motivated as he lives close to here. What he showed today is that he is the strongest time trialist, the strongest rouleur... he is amazing."
Schleck had ambitions of winning the race but has decided now to concentrate on recovering after his bad fall earlier in the week. "I was a bit scared and I hung back towards the finish. I don't need another crash," he said. "I will take it easy tomorrow, I don't want to hurt myself more than I need to. I am feeling better every day [as regards his injuries] but I am not at 100 percent. I need to find out how my finger is, I am not sure. But even if it is broken, I can't do anything more about it [than strapping it up]. My shoulder is also sore. But it is not going to be a problem for the Tour."
Kirchen is another who is very much targeting the Tour de France; however, unlike Schleck, he has a very strong chance of winning the Swiss race. He will start tomorrow's time trial with an advantage of 27 seconds over Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas) and 33" on former race leader Igor Anton (Euskaltel Euskadi). Stijn Devolder (Quick Step), his own team-mate Thomas Lövkvist and Andreas Klöden (Astana) are 46", 56" and 58" back respectively.
He was happy with how things went, particularly as the team used a bit of strategy to spare its energy for late. "The start was very, very fast and it is not easy to control things on this type of parcours. Many teams wanted to go in the break, there were many riders up there, and so the tactic of having [Thomas] Lövkvist up there meant that we had to do a bit less work.
"Towards the end, I attacked, myself. There was a little hill that I like a lot, and I thought, 'why not?' The gap was not too big and so I decided to try to bridge [to the Cancellara break]. It is less dangerous up front and getting back up to Fothen was good."
Kirchen said that the only previous time he led a stage race was in the Tour of Luxembourg. He said that the experience of leading a race such as the Tour de Suisse was a new one for him, but that he hoped to defend the lead in the stage eight mountain time trial.
"I am not sure how it will go," he admitted. "It is very long and like the other riders, I am a bit nervous. With the yellow jersey on my shoulders this is not the usual situation. 25 kilometres is quite long, it will be necessary to make a big effort. I think tomorrow the strongest riders will be to the front and I think the Tour de Suisse will be decided there."
How it unfolded
141 riders took to the start today, with only Quick Step's Giovanni Visconti deciding not to race.
Just four kilometers into the lightly rolling stage, the first group got away. Ivan Santaromita (Liquigas), Gabriel Rasch (Credit Agricole), Anthony Roux (Francaise des Jeux), Markus Zberg (Gerolsteiner), Hector Gonzalez (Saunier Duval), Marcus Burghardt (High Road), Jeff Louder (BMC) and Daniel Musiol (Volksbank) went clear, but were only able to stay away for about four kilometres.
21 kilometres into the stage, an 18-man group got away, but it contained High Road's Thomas Lövkvist, who is fifth overall, and the other teams weren't willing to let him get away. This group, too, was soon back with the peloton.
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The next group had an even higher-ranked rider, Roman Kreuziger of Liquigas, who was in second place. His companions Johan von Summeren (Silence-Lotto), Sebastien Rosseler (QuickStep) and Ronny Scholz (Gerolsteiner) knew they wouldn't get far with him in the group, and the Czech soon let himself fall back into the main field.
Without Kreuziger out of the lead the rest of the group built up an advantage of nearly five minutes at 66 km to go, when a category four climb brought the lead down a bit.
Scholz had a flat with 47 km to go, and his two companions waited for him, giving up a bit of time. Only three kilometres later Scholz had to change bikes, and they didn't wait for him this time, but he caught them again easily.
High Road, Astana and Rabobank lead the chase, and after the second time over the climb, the lead had dropped to under two minutes.
The stage ended with two laps of a 27 km circuit, and as the peloton crossed the finish line for the next-to-last time, it had cut the lead to one minute, and with 17 km to go, the break was over.
When the climb loomed for the third and final time, Leif Hoste (Silence-Lotto), Maxim Iglinsky (Astana) and David Loosli (Lampre) broke out. Hoste stayed ahead, winning the mountain points, and was soon joined by Fabian Cancellara (CSC) and Wednesday's winner Markus Fothen of Gerolsteiner.
Race leader Kim Kirchen (High Road) and Philippe Gilbert (Francaise des Jeux) joined the leaders, but with 5 km to go, Cancellara turned on his world champion's speed and took off. The other four fell back into the peloton, where the sprinters were jockeying for position.
Try as they could, though, they were unable to catch the two-time world time trial champion, who repeated his breakaway win in this year's Milano-Sanremo. Two seconds later the peloton thundered over the finish line, with Erik Zabel (Milram) taking second on the day and double stage winner Robbie McEwen third.
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- Ralf Grabsch (Team Milram) before the start.
- The always popular Jens Voight (CSC).
- Fabian Cancellara (CSC) is hugely popular in Switzerland.
- Thomas Dekker (Rabobank) & Fillipo Pozzato (Liquigas) share a joke on the podium.
- Frank Schleck (CSC) before the start.
- Overall leader Kim Kirchen (Highroad) and Schleck on the start line.
- Sebastian Rosseler, Stijn Devolder (Both Quick Step) and Johan Van Summeren (Silence-Lotto).
- The BMC team riders before the start.
- The three break-away riders head toward the finish.
- High road on the front of the peloton.
- The break keeps going.
- The Quick Step boys in the main field.
- A hard day at the office for these guys.
- Fabian Cancellara (CSC) takes another victory this year.
- Cancellara wins on home soil...
- in beautiful sunshine...
- with a roaring Swiss crowd behind him.
- Cancellara can now head to the Tour full of confidence.
- Cancellara on the podium.
- prizes for the winner...
- and some flowers.
- Kirchen retains yellow.
- One the podium with the girls and the jersey.
- Maxim Iglinsky (Astana) leads the mountains classification.
- Inglinsky resplendant in pink.
- René Weissinger (Team Volksbank) in white for the sprints classification.
- Weissinger accepts the flowers.
- Oscar Freire (Rabobank) leads the points competition.
- A signed yellw jersey.
- Gegory Rast (Astana) signs on.
- Sergai Ivanov and Iglinsky (Astana) before the start.
- Kim Kirchen says high to the crowd.
- Kirchen as he signs on.
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre) at the sign on.
- Mark Renshaw (Crédit Agricole) signs on.
- Igor Anton Hernandez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) at the sign on.
Results
1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 3.47.09 (45.063 km/h) 2 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 0.02 3 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 4 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 6 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 7 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 8 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 10 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 11 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 12 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 13 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2R La Mondiale 14 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 15 André Korff (Ger) Team Volksbank 16 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 17 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 18 Sergei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 19 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 20 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 21 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 22 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Team Volksbank 23 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 24 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 25 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Silence - Lotto 26 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 27 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence - Lotto 28 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 29 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 30 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team High Road 31 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 32 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 33 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 34 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team High Road 35 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Team Volksbank 36 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 37 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 38 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 39 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 40 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 41 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 42 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 43 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 44 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 45 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 46 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 47 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 48 Jesus Del Nero Montes (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 49 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 50 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 51 Tanel Kangert (Est) AG2R La Mondiale 52 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux 53 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 54 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 55 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 56 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team High Road 57 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 58 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 59 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 60 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 61 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 62 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 63 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 64 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 65 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 66 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 67 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 68 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 69 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 70 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 71 Florian Stalder (Swi) Team Volksbank 72 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas 73 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 74 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 75 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 76 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 77 Eric Berthou (Fra) Crédit Agricole 78 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 79 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre 80 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 81 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 82 Mathias Frank (Swi) Gerolsteiner 83 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 84 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team 85 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre 86 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 87 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 88 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Scott 89 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 90 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 91 Elias Schmaeh (Swi) Team Volksbank 92 Gorka Verdugo Markotegi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 93 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 94 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank 95 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 96 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 97 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step 98 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.20 99 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 0.56 100 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step 0.57 101 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Liquigas 102 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 2.26 103 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 104 Blaise Sonnery (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 105 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Crédit Agricole 106 Anthony Roux (Fra) Française des Jeux 107 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team High Road 108 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Silence - Lotto 4.35 109 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 6.07 110 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 111 Iñigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 112 José Rujano Guillen (Ven) Caisse d'Epargne 113 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Team High Road 114 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 115 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 116 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quick Step 117 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team High Road 118 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team High Road 119 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 120 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 121 Hector Gonzalez Baeza (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 122 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 123 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 124 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 125 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 126 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 127 Dionisio Galparsoro Martínez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 128 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 129 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 130 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Lampre 131 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 132 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre 133 Darren Lill (RSA) BMC Racing Team 134 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 135 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 136 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 137 Andoni Lafuente (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 138 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 139 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 140 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank DNF 72 CALZATI Sylvain ALM FRA DNS 87 VISCONTI Giovanni QST ITA Points 1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 25 pts 2 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 20 3 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 16 4 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 13 5 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 11 6 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 10 7 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 9 8 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8 9 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 7 10 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 11 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 5 12 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 13 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2R La Mondiale 3 14 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 2 15 André Korff (Ger) Team Volksbank 1 Sprints Lyss - km 116.9 1 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 6 pts 2 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 3 3 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Lyss - km 143.4 1 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 6 pts 2 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 3 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 1 Mountains Lobsigen - km 108 1 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 3 pts 2 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 2 3 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Lobsigen - km 134.5 1 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 pts 2 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 2 3 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 1 Lobsigen - km 161 1 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 3 pts 2 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 2 3 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 1 Teams 1 Team CSC 11.21.31 2 Silence-Lotto 0.02 3 Gerolsteiner 4 AG2R La Mondiale 5 Bouygues Telecom 6 Credit Agricole 7 Team Volksbank 8 Cofidis 9 Astana 10 Rabobank 11 Quick Step 12 Caisse d'Epargne 13 Team Milram 14 High Road 15 BMC Racing Team 16 Française Des Jeux 17 Lampre 18 Liquigas 19 Saunier Duval-Scott 20 Euskaltel - Euskadi 6.07 General classification after stage 7 1 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team High Road 30.41.42 2 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 0.27 3 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.33 4 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 0.46 5 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team High Road 0.56 6 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 0.58 7 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 1.04 8 Sergei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 1.06 9 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 10 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 1.13 11 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 1.44 12 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 1.45 13 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 2.02 14 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 2.03 15 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 2.04 16 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2.31 17 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 2.41 18 Tanel Kangert (Est) AG2R La Mondiale 2.53 19 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 4.19 20 Jesus Del Nero Montes (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 4.27 21 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 4.36 22 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 4.55 23 Florian Stalder (Swi) Team Volksbank 6.10 24 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 7.31 25 Eric Berthou (Fra) Crédit Agricole 8.54 26 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 9.01 27 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 9.18 28 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 10.01 29 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 10.45 30 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10.51 31 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 12.05 32 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre 33 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Scott 12.10 34 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 12.25 35 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13.02 36 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 13.30 37 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 13.57 38 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des Jeux 13.58 39 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 15.33 40 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Team Volksbank 17.10 41 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 42 Mathias Frank (Swi) Gerolsteiner 17.11 43 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 17.24 44 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 17.47 45 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 19.42 46 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 20.14 47 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 20.16 48 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 20.32 49 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 21.37 50 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 22.03 51 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 23.18 52 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 25.13 53 Elias Schmaeh (Swi) Team Volksbank 25.34 54 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence - Lotto 25.39 55 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 25.40 56 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 26.02 57 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 26.24 58 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 26.51 59 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 27.01 60 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 27.18 61 Gorka Verdugo Markotegi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 27.38 62 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 28.16 63 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Silence - Lotto 29.13 64 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 29.19 65 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 29.40 66 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 29.56 67 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 29.58 68 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 30.37 69 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quick Step 30.52 70 Blaise Sonnery (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 31.13 71 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 31.17 72 Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 32.14 73 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Crédit Agricole 32.32 74 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 34.09 75 José Rujano Guillen (Ven) Caisse d'Epargne 34.48 76 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux 35.26 77 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre 78 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 35.29 79 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 35.53 80 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 36.32 81 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 36.39 82 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 37.25 83 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 38.17 84 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 38.25 85 Darren Lill (RSA) BMC Racing Team 39.13 86 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team 39.35 87 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 39.51 88 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 40.10 89 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 40.37 90 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 40.47 91 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 41.41 92 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 42.20 93 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 42.37 94 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team High Road 43.57 95 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step 44.10 96 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 44.11 97 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 45.08 98 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team High Road 45.12 99 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 45.30 100 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Team Volksbank 46.29 101 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 46.44 102 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 46.52 103 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 104 Iñigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 46.54 105 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas 47.06 106 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 47.45 107 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 48.16 108 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team High Road 48.52 109 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2R La Mondiale 49.59 110 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre 50.13 111 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team 50.51 112 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step 50.58 113 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Liquigas 51.09 114 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank 51.15 115 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 51.57 116 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 52.14 117 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 52.31 118 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 52.51 119 Anthony Roux (Fra) Française des Jeux 54.04 120 André Korff (Ger) Team Volksbank 54.51 121 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 122 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 123 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 124 Hector Gonzalez Baeza (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 54.56 125 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Lampre 56.18 126 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 56.40 127 Dionisio Galparsoro Martínez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 57.01 128 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team High Road 57.06 129 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 57.33 130 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 57.37 131 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 57.45 132 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.00.42 133 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Silence - Lotto 1.01.08 134 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Team High Road 1.01.18 135 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 1.02.00 136 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 1.03.08 137 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 1.03.10 138 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 1.12.31 139 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.28.17 140 Andoni Lafuente (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.37.54 Points classification 1 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 72 pts 2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 66 3 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team High Road 43 4 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 38 5 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team High Road 32 6 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 31 7 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 28 8 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 26 9 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 25 10 Sergei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 23 11 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 20 12 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence - Lotto 20 13 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 20 14 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2R La Mondiale 20 15 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 19 16 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 19 17 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 18 18 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 18 19 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 17 20 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 16 21 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 15 22 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 15 23 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 14 24 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 14 25 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 13 26 André Korff (Ger) Team Volksbank 13 27 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 12 28 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team High Road 11 29 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 11 30 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 10 31 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 10 32 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 9 33 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 8 34 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8 35 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 7 36 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 7 37 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 38 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Team Volksbank 6 39 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 40 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 5 41 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 5 42 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 43 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 3 44 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Liquigas 3 45 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2 46 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 1 47 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 1 48 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Team Volksbank 1 Sprint classification 1 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 18 pts 2 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 14 3 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 13 4 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 12 5 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 9 6 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Silence - Lotto 9 7 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 6 8 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Team Volksbank 6 9 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6 10 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 5 11 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 12 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 13 Iñigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 4 14 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 4 15 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 3 16 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team 2 17 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 1 18 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 1 Mountains classification 1 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 42 pts 2 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 42 3 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 25 4 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 20 5 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 16 6 Iñigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 12 7 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10 8 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 10 9 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 10 10 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 10 11 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team High Road 8 12 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6 13 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 6 14 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6 15 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 6 16 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 17 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 4 18 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 4 19 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 4 20 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 4 21 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 4 22 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 4 23 José Rujano Guillen (Ven) Caisse d'Epargne 4 24 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team 4 25 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto 3 26 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 3 27 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 3 28 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 29 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 2 30 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 31 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2 32 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 2 33 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 34 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 1 35 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre 1 36 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 1 37 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step 1 Teams classification 1 Astana 92.11.41 2 Gerolsteiner 0.32 3 Team CSC 3.15 4 Credit Agricole 8.07 5 Caisse d'Epargne 10.01 6 Liquigas 13.45 7 Bouygues Telecom 14.21 8 AG2R La Mondiale 17.52 9 Saunier Duval-Scott 19.07 10 Rabobank 21.41 11 Silence-Lotto 22.45 12 High Road 24.40 13 Lampre 14 Team Volksbank 27.53 15 Française Des Jeux 36.37 16 Cofidis 43.02 17 BMC Racing Team 43.39 18 Quick Step 45.55 19 Euskaltel - Euskadi 52.25 20 Team Milram 56.30
