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43rd Tirreno-Adriatico - HC
Italy, March 12-18, 2008
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Stage 7 - March 18: S.Benedetto del Tronto - S.Benedetto del Tronto, 176 km
Chicchi kicks in wet Tirreno finale
Cancellara takes home leader's jersey for 27 birthday
By Gregor Brown in San Benedetto del Tronto
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Italian Francesco Chicchi won the final stage of the 43rd Tirreno-Adriatico, 176 kilometres starting and ending in San Benedetto del Tronto. The 27 year-old of Team Liquigas out-sprinted Italy's Danilo Napolitano (Lampre) and Great Britain's Mark Cavendish (High Road) to win on the seaside roads. Team CSC controlled the day to ensure Fabian Cancellara kept the overall leader's maglia azzurra, which he gained two days ago after winning the time trial. The Swiss, who today celebrated his 27th birthday, won the race with 16 seconds over Italian Enrico Gasparotto (Barloworld).
"We have already selected the wine for tonight," said race overall winner Cancellara, who added to his win in the Tour of California prologue, Monte Paschi Eroica and stage five's time trial. "Last night we made a toast to the team's work this week. They put in some great efforts yesterday." He travels to Milano tomorrow and is considered a favourite for Saturday's Milano-Sanremo.
Chicchi, who started his professional career with Fassa Bortolo in 2003, gave himself his fist win of the year thanks to the support of his lime-green Liquigas team. The boys, who normally chauffeur Filippo Pozzato, were giving their all to the rider who captured two stages of the Danmark Rundt last August. Chicchi overcame the kick of compatriot Napolitano. "He is really at the top," said Chicchi.
The Italian, who was forced with a two-month stop last season with a crash in the Settimana Coppi e Bartali, was not afraid to have a go in the rain, "if a sprinter can't do a sprint [in these conditions] then what kind of sprinter is he? I knew that my team-mates gave me their all. I still had [Murilo] Fischer and Pozzato in the last kilometre; with 300 metres, I asked Pozzato to lay off to save himself for Sanremo, and I started my sprint on the left."
The wet and slippery finale looked suited for Robbie McEwen (Silence-Lotto). The Australian advanced as CSF Group Navigare took control for Maximiliano Richeze (sixth) in the last three kilometres; however, Rockin' Robbie seemed to depart too early for the sprint and was left with fourth. McEwen had the help of his Belgian team, whereas Mark Cavendish was left empty handed due to High Road's bad luck.
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The 21 year-old was seen drifting amongst the top sprinters looking for wheels to follow after team-mates George Hincapie and Gerald Ciolek crashed. "It was difficult," said Cavendish of the sprint. "You got lot of guys who can't sprint trying their luck. It was very dangerous in this weather. Everyone had crashed with two laps to go. My lead-out man had gone. I think I came from about 10 or 15 back."
The crash in the penultimate 10-kilometre circuit was mostly due to the rain that started to come down mid-way through the race. "It was just that everyone went down, the pavement was wet out there," Hincapie confirmed.
Alessandro Petacchi (Team Milram) did not make his mark in the sprint. The Italian looked isolated for the finale and maybe preferred to save his energy for Milano-Sanremo on Saturday.
How it unfolded
The 163 riders remaining in the 43rd Tirreno-Adriatico lined up today in San Benedetto del Tronto for the last stage of the race – a 176 run starting and ending on the Adriatico seaside. The percorso involved a clockwise journey inland, including the Cossignano GPM at 69.7 kilometres to go, or 9.7 before the first of seven finishing 10-kilometre circuits. The dead flat finale is designed for sprinters, as seen in the last few years, with 2007's victory going to Koldo Fernández (Euskaltel-Euskadi).
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They departed at 11:41 to head into the Le Marche countryside. The rise to Castignano (km 59.4) and following climb to Cossignano (km 69.1) did nothing to form an escape group, but saw the mountain leader's maglia verde shift hands. A lack of attention on the part of Juan José Oroz (Euskaltel-Euskadi) was all it took for Frenchman Loyd Mondory (Ag2r-La Mondiale) bolt ahead to close the two point gap. Aitor Galdos (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Oroz and Egoi Martínez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) followed before the gruppo. Mondory was in the early escape on the day to Montelupone where he earned points towards he green top.
Iñigo Landaluze (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and Egoi Martínez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) tried to make up for Oroz's loss, and they went free at kilometre 104. The duo's move never got over three minutes and seemed doomed under the surveillance of the sprinters' teams, after CSC initially controlled the pace.
With five circuits to go the Spaniards had 2'41". Lampre (for Napolitano) and then Milram (for Petacchi) added their muscle to the chase.
As the rain started to come down on the seaside town of San Benedetto del Tronto the duo's gap came under one minute. The Spaniards had 54" with two circuits remaining. The slightly dampened roads were working in their favour, but the sprinters were hungry.
Daniele Pietropolli (LPR Brakes), Maarten Wynants (Quick Step), Ronny Scholz (Gerolsteiner), Francesco Ginanni (Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli), Kim Kirchen (High Road), George Hincapie (High Road) and Gerald Ciolek (High Road) were amongst those involved in a rain-induced crash on the six circuit. Ginanni looked the worst of the victims, with cuts on his left shin bone.
With his finish, Freire remained in the maglia ciclamino of points leader. Thomas Lövkvist (High Road) took home the maglia bianca of best younger rider; finishing second was Italian Champion Giovanni Visconti (Quick Step).
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- Chicchi had the upper hand on a wet finale.
- Chicchi could sit back and relax gliding over the finish line ahead of Napolitano and Cavendish.
- Francesco Chicchi (Liquigas) wins the final stage ahead of Danilo Napolitano (Lampre) (r).
- The sprint in full swing as the conditions were reasonably safe.
- Napolitano checks to see if he got second and he did, just ahead of Mark Cavendish (High Road)
- George Hincapie was one of the victims of a crash in a right hand turn, in the last lap of the circuit.
- Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) wins the overall and is stoked, as the Liquigas team behind celebrates the stage victory.
- Chicchi in the centre of attention of his team-mates Pozzato (l) and Fisher.
Results
1 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 4.50.50 (36,309 km/h) 2 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 3 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team High Road 4 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 5 Danilo Hondo (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 6 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) CSF Group Navigare 7 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r - La Mondiale 8 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 9 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 10 Baden Cooke (Aus) Barloworld 11 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 12 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 13 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre 14 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Rabobank 15 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 16 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Silence - Lotto 17 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 18 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 19 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Barloworld 20 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 21 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 22 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 23 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC 24 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team High Road 25 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 26 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems 27 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 28 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 29 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 30 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Barloworld 31 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 32 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 33 Tiziano Dall'Antonia (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 34 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 35 Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez (Col) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 36 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 37 Igor Astarloa Ascasibar (Spa) Team Milram 38 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 39 Luis Pasamontes Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 40 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team High Road 41 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 42 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 43 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 44 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 45 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Française des Jeux 46 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) LPR Brakes 47 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 48 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Silence - Lotto 49 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 50 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 0.10 51 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 0.14 52 Matteo Priamo (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 0.18 53 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 54 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.47 55 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 1.00 56 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 57 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre 1.34 58 Francesco Tomei (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 59 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale 60 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre 61 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team High Road 62 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2r - La Mondiale 63 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 64 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r - La Mondiale 65 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 66 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 67 Julian Dean (NZl) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 68 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 69 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 70 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo (Col) Barloworld 71 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 72 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre 73 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 74 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 75 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 76 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 77 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 78 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 79 Daniele Nardello (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 80 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quick Step 81 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 82 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 83 Emanuele Sella (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 84 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 85 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 86 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r - La Mondiale 87 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 88 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 89 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 90 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre 91 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 92 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Française des Jeux 93 George Hincapie (USA) Team High Road 94 Evgeny Petrov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 95 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval - Scott 96 Riccardo Chiarini (Ita) LPR Brakes 97 Paolo Bailetti (Ita) LPR Brakes 98 William Frischkorn (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 99 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Team Milram 100 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Quick Step 101 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 102 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 103 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 104 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 2.32 105 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Liquigas 106 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick Step 107 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 108 Carlo Scognamiglio (Ita) Barloworld 109 Jure Golcer (Slo) LPR Brakes 110 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Silence - Lotto 111 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 112 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita) LPR Brakes 113 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 114 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux 115 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 116 Riccardo Riccò (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 117 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 118 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 119 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 2.37 120 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.32 121 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 5.04 122 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 123 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) CSF Group Navigare 124 Filippo Savini (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 125 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 126 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 127 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 128 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 129 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quick Step 130 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes 131 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick Step 132 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Gerolsteiner 133 Marco Corti (Ita) Barloworld 134 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes 135 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 136 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 137 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 138 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 139 Timothy Duggan (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 140 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 141 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 142 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Silence - Lotto 143 René Mandri (Est) AG2r - La Mondiale 144 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC 145 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 146 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 147 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 148 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 7.11 DNF Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram DNF Francesco Ginanni (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli DNF Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team High Road DNF Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team High Road DNF Christian Murro (Ita) Lampre DNF Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) LPR Brakes DNF Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Saunier Duval - Scott DNF Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott DNF Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto DNF Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Silence - Lotto DNF David Zabriskie (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 DNF Alberto Loddo (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems DNF Daniele Contrini (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems DNF Vasili Kiryienka (Blr) Tinkoff Credit Systems Final general classification 1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 28.08.21 2 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Barloworld 0.16 3 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team High Road 0.40 4 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.53 5 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 1.32 6 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC 1.36 7 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 1.44 8 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 1.53 9 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 2.34 10 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Française des Jeux 2.45 11 Luis Pasamontes Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3.00 12 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems 3.09 13 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre 3.25 14 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2r - La Mondiale 3.27 15 Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez (Col) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 16 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 3.57 17 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 4.00 18 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quick Step 19 Emanuele Sella (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 4.08 20 Evgeny Petrov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 5.27 21 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 5.43 22 George Hincapie (USA) Team High Road 6.14 23 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 7.08 24 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes 7.35 25 Daniele Nardello (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 7.40 26 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Barloworld 7.55 27 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 8.03 28 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) LPR Brakes 8.04 29 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Quick Step 8.10 30 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 9.00 31 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale 9.15 32 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Liquigas 9.54 33 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 10.11 34 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 11.18 35 Baden Cooke (Aus) Barloworld 11.42 36 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Silence - Lotto 13.21 37 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 13.31 38 Paolo Bailetti (Ita) LPR Brakes 14.03 39 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 14.10 40 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 14.22 41 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 15.22 42 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott 15.48 43 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r - La Mondiale 44 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 17.28 45 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 18.01 46 Jure Golcer (Slo) LPR Brakes 18.27 47 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 18.46 48 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r - La Mondiale 18.52 49 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 18.54 50 Igor Astarloa Ascasibar (Spa) Team Milram 19.10 51 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 19.26 52 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre 20.23 53 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 20.37 54 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 20.41 55 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 21.15 56 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Silence - Lotto 21.20 57 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 21.28 58 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Rabobank 21.43 59 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 21.56 60 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 22.02 61 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 22.23 62 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 22.41 63 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Silence - Lotto 64 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick Step 22.43 65 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 22.45 66 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 22.54 67 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux 22.56 68 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 23.00 69 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux 23.01 70 Timothy Duggan (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 23.48 71 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 23.51 72 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 24.32 73 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team High Road 24.43 74 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 25.17 75 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team High Road 25.57 76 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 26.07 77 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 26.14 78 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick Step 26.17 79 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 80 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 81 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 26.20 82 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 26.25 83 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 26.31 84 Matteo Priamo (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 26.59 85 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 27.04 86 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 27.15 87 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 27.19 88 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 27.55 89 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 28.02 90 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre 28.15 91 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) CSF Group Navigare 28.16 92 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Team Milram 29.01 93 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 94 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 29.02 95 Riccardo Riccò (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 29.10 96 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) CSF Group Navigare 97 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 30.00 98 Filippo Savini (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 30.13 99 Danilo Hondo (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 30.17 100 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 30.30 101 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 30.51 102 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 31.02 103 Tiziano Dall'Antonia (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 32.07 104 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 32.18 105 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 32.25 106 René Mandri (Est) AG2r - La Mondiale 32.31 107 Riccardo Chiarini (Ita) LPR Brakes 33.37 108 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 33.38 109 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 33.43 110 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Française des Jeux 33.47 111 William Frischkorn (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 33.55 112 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo (Col) Barloworld 34.32 113 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 34.39 114 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Silence - Lotto 35.36 115 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 36.07 116 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 36.55 117 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 37.25 118 Julian Dean (NZl) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 37.28 119 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre 38.13 120 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 39.05 121 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 40.27 122 Carlo Scognamiglio (Ita) Barloworld 40.54 123 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 41.43 124 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quick Step 42.13 125 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 42.34 126 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 43.18 127 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 43.55 128 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 44.21 129 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 45.02 130 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 46.16 131 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team High Road 46.59 132 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre 47.55 133 Marco Corti (Ita) Barloworld 48.47 134 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval - Scott 50.20 135 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC 52.18 136 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 52.19 137 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes 52.40 138 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 52.44 139 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 52.58 140 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r - La Mondiale 53.11 141 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Gerolsteiner 53.33 142 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 53.49 143 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 56.37 144 Francesco Tomei (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 59.36 145 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 1.00.30 146 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita) LPR Brakes 1.02.58 147 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 1.08.56 148 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.10.11 Points classification 1 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 34 pts 2 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Barloworld 29 3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 24 4 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 22 5 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes 22 6 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team High Road 20 7 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 18 8 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 17 9 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 14 10 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 13 11 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 12 12 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 12 13 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 12 14 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 10 15 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 10 16 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 10 17 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 10 18 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto 10 19 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team High Road 10 20 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 10 21 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2r - La Mondiale 9 22 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 8 23 Emanuele Sella (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 8 24 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 8 25 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) CSF Group Navigare 8 26 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quick Step 7 27 Baden Cooke (Aus) Barloworld 7 28 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 7 29 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6 30 Riccardo Riccò (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 6 31 Danilo Hondo (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 6 32 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto 5 33 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 5 34 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 5 35 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux 5 36 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC 4 37 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r - La Mondiale 4 38 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre 3 39 Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez (Col) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 3 40 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r - La Mondiale 3 41 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 3 42 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Barloworld 2 43 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 2 44 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 45 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 2 46 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2 47 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 2 48 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 2 49 Daniele Nardello (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 1 50 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 51 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 1 52 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 1 53 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 54 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre 1 55 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 1 56 Tiziano Dall'Antonia (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 1 57 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1 Mountains classification 1 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 16 pts 2 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 15 3 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale 11 4 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r - La Mondiale 7 5 José Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 6 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 5 7 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 5 8 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Barloworld 5 9 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 10 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 3 11 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 3 12 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 3 13 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 2 14 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team High Road 2 15 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2 16 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 1 17 Riccardo Riccò (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 1 18 Carlo Scognamiglio (Ita) Barloworld 1 19 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre 1 20 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) CSF Group Navigare 1 21 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1 Young rider classification 1 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team High Road 28.09.01 2 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Quick Step 3.20 3 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 8.20 4 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Liquigas 9.14 5 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Silence - Lotto 12.41 6 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 16.48 7 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 18.46 8 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 19.57 9 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 25.51 10 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre 27.35 11 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Team Milram 28.21 12 Riccardo Riccò (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 28.30 13 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) CSF Group Navigare 14 Filippo Savini (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 29.33 15 Tiziano Dall'Antonia (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 31.27 16 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 31.45 17 René Mandri (Est) AG2r - La Mondiale 31.51 18 Riccardo Chiarini (Ita) LPR Brakes 32.57 19 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 32.58 20 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 33.03 21 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Française des Jeux 33.07 22 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 33.59 23 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 35.27 24 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 36.15 25 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 38.25 26 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 39.47 27 Carlo Scognamiglio (Ita) Barloworld 40.14 28 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des Jeux 42.38 29 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team High Road 46.19 30 Marco Corti (Ita) Barloworld 48.07 31 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Gerolsteiner 52.53 32 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott 53.09 33 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 55.57 34 Francesco Tomei (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 58.56 Teams classifciation 1 High Road 84.30.51 2 Diquigiovanni - Androni Gioc. 2.44 3 Caisse D'Epargne 3.37 4 Liquigas 3.38 5 Team CSC 6.34 6 Tinkoff Credit Systems 8.24 7 Lampre 8.37 8 Barloworld 10.42 9 Quick Step 11.07 10 LPR Brakes 12.34 11 Ag2r La Mondiale 15.17 12 Slipstream Chipotle 16.36 13 Francaise Des Jeux 19.19 14 Euskatel-Euskadi 20.34 15 CSF Group Navigare 24.54 16 Saunier Duval-Scott 27.26 17 Silence-Lotto 27.36 18 Gerolsteiner 31.46 19 Rabobank 34.56 20 Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephon 21 Team Milram 58.10
