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63rd Tour de Romandie - UPT
Switzerland, April 28-May 3, 2009
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Stage 3 - May 1: Yverdon-les-Bains - Yverdon-les-Bains (TTT), 14.8km
Team Columbia-Highroad wins TTT, reclaims yellow
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Team Columbia-Highroad won the 14.8-kilometre team time trial Friday in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. The eight-man team, powered by two national time trial champions (Italian Marco Pinotti and Czech Frantisek Rabon), crossed the line in 18:37 bettering Caisse d'Epargne by 10 seconds and Team Saxo Bank by 16 seconds.
Thanks to the team's win, its 20th of the season, Columbia-Highroad's Rabon narrowly reclaimed the yellow jersey which he wore for one day following his victory in the prologue. Rabon, 25, leads Saxo Bank's Lars Bak by one second and Columbia-Highroad teammate Tony Martin by eight seconds on general classification.
"Our big goal coming here was to win the team time trial and we've achieved that," said Rabon . "Getting me back into the lead was an extra bonus."
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"It was an incredibly technical circuit, with six kilometres of climbing and a descent with a lot of roundabouts where we were touching speeds of 70km/h," continued Rabon. "But even if there were several individual time trial champions, team time trialling is a different discipline, you have to remember that. It's never just about yourself in a team time trial. It's about working as a unit, which is what we did well."
Rabon will try to defend his leader's jersey in Saturday's mountainous stage despite not being known as a climber.
"I'll defend my overall lead as best I can, but to be honest, it's good that we've got four guys in the top 10, not just me, because that way the team is working for all of us and we've got a lot of options. Wearing yellow always gives you extra motivation, and that may help, too."
The riders face a 157.5-kilometre stage tomorrow from Estavayer-le-Lac to Sainte-Croix which includes one category two and three category one ascents. The summit of the final climb, the category one Mauborget, occurs with only 11.1 kilometres remaining in the stage.
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- Team Saxo Bank pushed hard but could only manage the third quickest time.
- Swiss rider Gregory Rast (Astana) couldn't keep up with his team and lost the race lead as a result.
- Claudio Corioni leads the Liquigas squad up a rise during the team time trial.
- Roman Kreuziger takes over at the front of the Liquigas train.
- Philippe Gilbert and Cadel Evans threw everything they had at it, but Silence-Lotto could only manage fifth.
- Alejandro Valverde Belmonte's Caisse d'Epargne men knuckled down but couldn't beat Columbia-Highroad.
- Tony Martin starts sprinting ahead of Marco Pinotti as Columbia-Highroad reaches the finish line.
- Marco Pinotti and Mark Cavendish congratulate one another after Columbia-Highroad won the team time trial.
- Russian Denis Menchov pulls the Rabobank train.
- Silence-Lotto had the hammer down but its rivals proved too good.
- Astana set out with the race leader but wouldn't arrive at the finish line in the same position.
- AG2R - La mondiale was one minute off the pace set by Columbia-Highroad.
- Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara rides behind his Team Saxo Bank team-mate.
- Cervélo TestTeam were solid as they matched the time of Katusha and Silence-Lotto.
- My way or the highroad way: Columbia-Highroad were the quickest squad over the 161.5 km route.
Results
1 Team Columbia - Highroad 18.37 (47.7 km/h) 2 Caisse d'Epargne 0.10 3 Team Saxo Bank 0.16 4 Liquigas 0.24 5 Silence - Lotto 0.25 6 Cervélo TestTeam 7 Team Katusha 8 Astana 0.34 9 Française des jeux 0.38 10 Rabobank 0.39 11 Cofidis le crédit en ligne 0.43 12 Garmin - Slipstream 0.45 13 BMC Racing Team 0.46 14 Lampre-N.G.C. 0.47 15 Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.01 16 AG2R - La mondiale 1.02 17 Team Milram 18 Quick Step 1.03 19 Fuji-Servetto 1.11 20 BBox Bouygues Telecom 1.21 General classification after stage 3 1 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) Team Columbia - Highroad 6.38.17 2 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team Saxo Bank 0.01 3 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 0.08 4 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.19 5 Konstantin Sioutsou (Blr) Team Columbia - Highroad 0.21 6 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 7 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad 0.22 8 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.31 9 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 0.34 10 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.36 11 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 0.39 12 Marcel Wyss (Swi) Cervélo TestTeam 0.40 13 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 14 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 15 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.42 16 Chris Anker Sörensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 0.44 17 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Astana 18 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des jeux 0.45 19 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Liquigas 20 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.46 21 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Astana 0.47 22 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 23 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Katusha 24 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 0.49 25 Ricardo Serrano Gonzalez (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 26 Jeróme Coppel (Fra) Française des jeux 27 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) Cervélo TestTeam 0.50 28 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Cervélo TestTeam 0.54 29 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 0.55 30 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 31 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Française des jeux 0.57 32 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 0.58 33 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0.59 34 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team 1.00 35 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des jeux 1.02 36 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre-N.G.C. 1.07 37 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Lampre-N.G.C. 1.08 38 Daniel Martin (Irl) Garmin - Slipstream 1.09 39 Lucas Euser (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 1.13 40 Mikel Astarloza Charreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 41 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Quick Step 1.18 42 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team Milram 43 José-Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) AG2R - La mondiale 1.22 44 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R - La mondiale 45 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale 1.23 46 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Swe) Fuji-Servetto 47 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 1.27 48 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 1.31 49 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 1.32 50 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 1.43 51 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 2.07 52 Jason McCartney (USA) Team Saxo Bank 2.12 53 Olivier Zaugg (Swi) Liquigas 2.24 54 Stef Clement (Ned) Rabobank 2.34 55 Jesus Alberto Hernandez Blazquez (Spa) Astana 2.37 56 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - Highroad 57 Timothy Duggan (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 2.47 58 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2.51 59 Koldo Fernandez De Larrea (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2.56 60 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale 3.01 61 Ángel Gómez Gómez (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 3.14 62 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 63 Christian Meier (Can) Garmin - Slipstream 3.29 64 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R - La mondiale 3.41 65 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad 3.43 66 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 3.55 67 Christophe Kern (Fra) Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 4.36 68 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-N.G.C. 4.38 69 Dmitry Kozontchouk (Rus) Rabobank 4.53 70 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence - Lotto 5.27 71 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 5.29 72 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Cervélo TestTeam 5.39 73 Brian Vandborg Bach (Den) Liquigas 5.41 74 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 5.46 75 Vitaliy Buts (Ukr) Lampre-N.G.C. 6.05 76 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6.06 77 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 6.15 78 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Team Milram 6.20 79 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quick Step 7.20 80 Anders Lund (Den) Team Saxo Bank 7.33 81 Edward King (USA) Cervélo TestTeam 7.59 82 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 8.13 83 Koss Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 8.19 84 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 85 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team 8.21 86 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 8.34 87 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8.38 88 Mathieu Sprick (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 8.41 89 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Team Katusha 8.51 90 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Silence - Lotto 9.04 91 Óscar Pujol (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 9.05 92 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 9.25 93 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Team Katusha 9.41 94 Alexsandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Astana 9.45 95 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 9.48 96 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale 10.24 97 Ricardo Van Der Velde (Ned) Garmin - Slipstream 10.33 98 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Team Saxo Bank 10.59 99 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Team Katusha 11.24 100 Julien Belgy (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 11.29 101 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 11.47 102 Ian McKissick (USA) BMC Racing Team 11.52 103 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 12.05 104 José Angel Gómez Marchante (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 12.25 105 Evgueny Sokolov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 12.30 106 Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 12.33 107 Craig Lewis (USA) Team Columbia - Highroad 12.42 108 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team Saxo Bank 12.46 109 Markus Zberg (Swi) BMC Racing Team 13.20 110 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quick Step 13.26 111 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 13.27 112 Volodymyr Zagorodny (Ukr) Lampre-N.G.C. 13.28 113 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des jeux 114 Dominique Cornu (Bel) Quick Step 13.40 115 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 13.42 116 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 14.43 117 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank 14.45 118 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Silence - Lotto 14.58 119 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des jeux 15.04 120 Juan Joose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 15.08 121 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française des jeux 15.18 122 Vincent Jerome (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 15.55 123 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 16.00 124 Andrey Amador Bikkazakova (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 125 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 16.05 126 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 16.20 127 Nicolay Trussov (Rus) Team Katusha 16.25 128 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Liquigas 16.59 129 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram 17.04 130 Guillaume Le Floch (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 17.28 131 Alexander Serov (Rus) Team Katusha 18.03 132 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale 18.11 133 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia - Highroad 18.19 134 Alexandre Usov (Bul) Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 18.28 135 Kilian Patour (Fra) Garmin - Slipstream 18.31 136 Paul Voss (Ger) Team Milram 18.41 137 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 18.46 138 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 18.47 139 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 19.05 140 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Liquigas 19.14 141 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Silence - Lotto 19.53 142 Dominique Rollin (Can) CervéloTest Team 20.10 143 Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank 20.14 144 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des jeux 20.22 145 Bart Dockx (Bel) Silence - Lotto 20.40 146 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 20.47 147 Said Haddou (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 20.50 148 Yohann Gené (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 20.57 149 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Liquigas 20.59 150 Simone Ponzi (Ita) Lampre-N.G.C. 21.04 151 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 21.13 152 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Fuji-Servetto 21.20 153 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 21.35 Points classification 1 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 12 pts 2 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 12 3 Mathieu Sprick (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 6 4 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team Saxo Bank 4 5 Ricardo Serrano Gonzalez (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 4 6 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des jeux 1 7 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 1 Mountains classification 1 Mathieu Sprick (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 28 pts 2 Ricardo Serrano Gonzalez (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 20 3 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 20 4 Óscar Pujol (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 14 5 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence - Lotto 8 6 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team Saxo Bank 8 7 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 8 8 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 6 9 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 6 10 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des jeux 6 11 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 4 12 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 4 13 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Quick Step 4 14 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 4 15 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 16 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad 2 17 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 1 18 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 19 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 1 20 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank 1 Young rider classification 1 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 6.38.25 2 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 0.13 3 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad 0.14 4 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 0.26 5 Marcel Wyss (Swi) Cervélo TestTeam 0.32 6 Chris Anker Sörensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 0.36 7 Jeróme Coppel (Fra) Française des jeux 0.41 8 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis, le crédit en ligne 0.47 9 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0.52 10 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des jeux 0.54 11 Daniel Martin (Irl) Garmin - Slipstream 1.01 12 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Quick Step 1.10 13 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 1.24 14 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale 2.53 15 Christian Meier (Can) Garmin - Slipstream 3.21 16 Dmitry Kozontchouk (Rus) Rabobank 4.45 17 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Cervélo TestTeam 5.31 18 Vitaliy Buts (Ukr) Lampre-N.G.C. 5.57 19 Anders Lund (Den) Team Saxo Bank 7.25 20 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 8.04 21 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 8.05 22 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 8.11 23 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Team Katusha 8.43 24 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale 10.16 25 Ricardo Van Der Velde (Ned) Garmin - Slipstream 10.25 26 Evgueny Sokolov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 12.22 27 Craig Lewis (USA) Team Columbia - Highroad 12.34 28 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 13.19 29 Dominique Cornu (Bel) Quick Step 13.32 30 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 14.35 31 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank 14.37 32 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Silence - Lotto 14.50 33 Vincent Jerome (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 15.47 34 Andrey Amador Bikkazakova (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 15.52 35 Nicolay Trussov (Rus) Team Katusha 16.17 36 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Liquigas 16.51 37 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram 16.56 38 Guillaume Le Floch (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 17.20 39 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale 18.03 40 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia - Highroad 18.11 41 Paul Voss (Ger) Team Milram 18.33 42 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Française des jeux 20.14 43 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 20.39 44 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Liquigas 20.51 45 Simone Ponzi (Ita) Lampre-N.G.C. 20.56 46 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team 21.05 47 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Fuji-Servetto 21.12 Teams classification 1 Team Columbia - Highroad 19.18.06 2 Astana 0.08 3 Caisse d'Epargne 0.18 4 Française des jeux 0.38 5 Silence - Lotto 0.40 6 Cervélo TestTeam 0.41 7 Rabobank 0.52 8 Fuji-Servetto 0.59 9 Garmin - Slipstream 1.01 10 AG2R - La mondiale 1.22 11 Team Saxo Bank 1.40 12 Liquigas 2.07 13 Euskaltel - Euskadi 4.23 14 Cofidis le crédit en ligne 4.29 15 Lampre-N.G.C. 4.39 16 Team Katusha 5.22 17 BMC Racing Team 5.43 18 Quick Step 6.01 19 Team Milram 17.03 20 BBox Bouygues Telecom 18.34
