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92nd Giro d'Italia - GT

Italy, May 9-31, 2009

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Stage 1 - Saturday, May 09: Lido di Venezia (TTT), 20.5km

A tale of two teams, as Columbia puts Cavendish in pink

By Anthony Tan in Lido di Venezia

Columbia-Highroad races towards the win
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Riding as if Venice was to sink tomorrow and the lives of nine men depended on it, Team Columbia-Highroad hammered their way through Saturday's opening stage of the Centenary Giro d'Italia, awarding their precocious sprinter Mark Cavendish the venerable honour of the race's first maglia rosa.

On this crisp, clear spring afternoon on the island of Lido, the whopping sandbar a stone's throw from Venice that separates the world's most famous fluvial archipelago from the Adriatic, the tiger-striped squad stopped the clock after 21:50. Over 20.5 kilometres, they set an incredible average of 56.33 km/h.

"I wear the maglia rosa for the whole team tomorrow," said Cavendish.

"The next few days will be sprints, which will suit me and the team. Obviously, the pressure's off because of today, but we'll try for more wins. I've got no problems wearing this shirt, so I'll keep going as long as I can."

An eclectic mix of seven nationalities they may be, but when all nine crossed the line in Lido's Piazzale Ravà as one, you'd be forgiven for thinking Barry, Boasson Hagen, Cavendish, Lövkvist, Pinotti, Possoni, Renshaw, Rogers and Siutsou came from the same family.

"I was nervous; we were worried about every team. Being first off, it was hard, waiting at the anti-doping control; waiting two-and-a-half hours before going for a wee was pretty hard... " joked the laconic, dry-humoured Cavendish.

Second would be good for most - except Jonathan Vaughters' Garmin-Slipstream team.

American time trial champion David Zabriskie
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Over the previous weeks leading to the 92nd edition of the Giro d'Italia and over various public loudspeakers, they announced it was their intention to replicate what many didn't think they could do last year. When Tour de France revelation Christian Vande Velde found himself pretty in pink in 2008, albeit for a day, it sent a warning shot that Garmin was a team to stay, play, and win.

On Saturday, however, when Australian Cameron Meyer was the fourth rider to trail in the team's wake in the final kilometre, Garmin finishing with the minimum of five riders, had things perhaps not gone to plan, despite a seemingly small six-second deficit?

What sort of message did that send? That they're beatable? They're vulnerable? Or maybe it's just a small glitch; a few riders having an off day. Over the next three weeks, we'll know for sure.

Team manager Jonathan Vaughters said, "Of course it's disappointing not to win when you've worked so hard, but does that mean we should work less hard? Of course not. We always planned to finish with five riders, and it was a very smooth ride. There were no execution errors.

Mark Cavendish is proud
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"Winning today was definitely a goal but the result can't be a specific parameter to measure the process. I think that the guys did a great team time trial. We went six seconds slower than the number one team in the world. Contrary to the consensus among some people we have other goals over the next three weeks."

Asked if he enjoyed beating Garmin-Slipstream, Cavendish hesitated before answering. "Sure... who wouldn't? Doesn't matter who was second; as long as we won, we were happy.

"I want to take this opportunity to clear up what I said yesterday. It wasn't [directed] at the whole team, just the comments by the director. The riders are really, really good guys. I maybe regretted [what I said] towards the riders, but what I said... I think a lot of people think that," he laughed.

Arguably the strongest squad in the race, Astana showed the colours of Kazakhstan (though maybe for not much longer) to round out the podium, no slow-pokes at 13 seconds adrift of Columbia-Highroad. Their best riders including many tip as the man to beat, Levi Leipheimer, were all there in the end - Lance Armstrong, Chris Horner and Yaroslav Popovych no doubt licking their sweat-stained lips at what lies ahead.

Notable mentions

LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini
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The teams of previous Giro champions Danilo Di Luca (LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini, 4th at 22 seconds), Ivan Basso (Liquigas, 8th at 40 seconds), and Damiano Cunego (Lampre, 9th at 42 seconds) can return to the Italian mainland Sunday with confidence.

While they were not the winners of two years ago - after all, they're not the same team when he took the 2007 edition - the 33-year-old Di Luca and co. are clearly in good enough form to fight in this crucial first week, where this 21-stage, 3,456.5 kilometre test can well be lost, even if it isn't won.

Basso, a much-improved climber-cum-time trialist before being handed a two two-year suspension for his involvement in Operación Puerto, will probably fare better alone without his team in the following two individual time trials. With his comparative lack of race fitness, one can only see the 31-year-old grow stronger as the days unfold.

Conversely, their compatriots Gilberto Simoni and Stefano Garzelli, with three overall wins between them, all suffered from the strength of their teams - or more precisely, their lack of it.

Simoni, champion in 2001 and 2003, and his near-unpronounceable Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli coterie finished 16th out of 22 teams; while 35-year-old Garzelli looks to be past his prime, Acqua & Sapone 16 seconds short of the wooden spoon, the dubious honour awarded to Fuji-Servetto.

With a time and position that slotted them straight down the middle, the performance from the team of 2008 Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre seems to have reaffirmed what the Spaniard's been saying all along: that he's come to Italy to prepare for the Tour.

Start first, finish first

Mark Cavendish (Team Columbia - Highroad)
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First cab off the rank was Columbia-High Road, along with Garmin-Slipstream one of two clear pre-race favourites with powerhouse time trialists Rogers, Lövkvist and Pinotti in their nine-man clan.

Mild temps, a slight easterly and a dead-flat parcours proved to be the perfect scenario for this team that has definitively banished the T-Mobile doping demons of years past, under the guidance of general manager Bob Stapleton. And when all nine men finished together, 10 seconds short of the 22-minute mark, it was clear they had spent themselves to absolute perfection.

The following two squads, Rabobank and Barloworld, did well to limit their losses to under a minute, and by the day's end the boys clad in white and mandarin-orange rode well enough finish seventh, 38 seconds off the winning pace.

But what really caused a stir was Garmin-Slipstream.

Unsurprisingly, Dave Zabriskie and Tom Danielson were two of their strongest, shown trading huge pulls at the front of their largely single-file train. Whether it was the lack of television coverage or a first sign of weakness, however, their other crono specialists David Millar, Bradley Wiggins and Christian Vande Velde didn't seem to be firing as they normally would - perhaps mentally interrupted by the unexpected loss of four team-mates out on the road.

Realistically, it was Astana, the last to leave, that stood any chance of changing the face of the first day's podium. Yet they too couldn't find what Columbia-High Road appeared to have in spades: a heady cocktail of supreme confidence matched with the form of their lives.

Photography

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Results

1 Team Columbia - Highroad                                                       21.50  (56.33 km/h)
2 Garmin - Slipstream                                                             0.06
3 Astana                                                                          0.13
4 LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini                                                       0.22
5 ISD                                                                             0.27
6 Team Katusha                                                                    0.35
7 Rabobank                                                                        0.38
8 Liquigas                                                                        0.40
9 Lampre - NGC                                                                    0.42
10 Team Milram                                                                    0.49
11 Cervelo TestTeam                                                                   
12 Barloworld                                                                     0.54
13 Team Saxo Bank                                                                 0.55
14 Caisse d'Epargne                                                               0.58
15 Bbox Bouygues Telecom                                                          1.01
16 Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli                                1.06
17 Quick Step                                                                     1.14
18 Xacobeo Galicia                                                                1.19
19 Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo                                                 1.21
20 Silence - Lotto                                                                1.22
21 Ag2R La Mondiale                                                               1.35
22 Fuji - Servetto                                                                1.37
 
General classification after stage 1
 
1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia - Highroad                                  21.50
2 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad                                        
3 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia - Highroad                                 
4 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad                                       
5 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia - Highroad                                         
6 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad                                         
7 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Columbia - Highroad                                  
8 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad                                       
9 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - Highroad                                        
10 David Zabriskie (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                      0.06
11 Thomas Danielson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                         
12 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                             
13 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                    
14 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream                                          
15 Lance Armstrong (USA) Astana                                                   0.13
16 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana                                                       
17 Christopher Horner (USA) Astana                                                    
18 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana                                                     
19 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana                                                       
20 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) Astana                                                     
21 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana                                                        
22 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini                                 0.22
23 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini                                      
24 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini                                   
25 Riccardo Chiarini (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini                                  
26 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini                                
27 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini                                
28 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) ISD                                                    0.27
29 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) ISD                                                        
30 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) ISD                                                            
31 Dario David Cioni (Ita) ISD                                                        
32 Oscar Gatto (Ita) ISD                                                              
33 Ruslan Pidgornyy (Ukr) ISD                                                         
34 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) ISD                                                         
35 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream                                        0.29
36 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) ISD                                                   0.31
37 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Team Katusha                                            0.35
38 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Team Katusha                                                 
39 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Team Katusha                                                   
40 Alexander Serov (Rus) Team Katusha                                                 
41 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Team Katusha                                                     
42 Evgeny Petrov (Rus) Team Katusha                                                   
43 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Team Katusha                                                    
44 Ian Stannard (GBr) ISD                                                         0.37
45 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank                                                   0.38
46 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank                                                     
47 Mauricio Ardila (Col) Rabobank                                                     
48 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank                                                     
49 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Rabobank                                                  
50 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank                                                       
51 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas                                               0.40
52 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Liquigas                                                      
53 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Liquigas                                                     
54 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas                                                  
55 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas                                                          
56 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas                                                   
57 Serguei Klimov (Rus) Team Katusha                                                  
58 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.                                           0.42
59 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.                                                 
60 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.                                              
61 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.                                            
62 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.                                                  
63 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.                                             
64 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.                                            
65 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Cervelo Test Team                                    0.49
66 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Cervelo Test Team                                              
67 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Cervelo Test Team                                              
68 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Cervelo Test Team                                           
69 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Cervelo Test Team                                                
70 Philip Deignan (Irl) Cervelo Test Team                                             
71 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Cervelo Test Team                                              
72 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram                                                    
73 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Team Milram                                                    
74 Markus Fothen (Ger) Team Milram                                                    
75 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team Milram                                                 
76 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Team Milram                                                     
77 Robert Forster (Ger) Team Milram                                                   
78 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram                                                       
79 Matthias Russ (Ger) Team Milram                                                    
80 Félix Cardenas (Col) Barloworld                                                0.54
81 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Barloworld                                                
82 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld                                                    
83 Christopher Froome (GBr) Barloworld                                                
84 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld                                                     
85 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld                                                 
86 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld                                                  
87 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team Saxo Bank                                         0.55
88 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team Saxo Bank                                                  
89 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team Saxo Bank                                               
90 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank                                               
91 Jason McCartney (USA) Team Saxo Bank                                               
92 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                                       0.58
93 Pablo Lastras (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                                               
94 Vasili Kiryienka (Blr) Caisse d'Epargne                                            
95 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                                          
96 Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne                                           
97 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                                                
98 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne                                            
99 Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                                     
100 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne                                             
101 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom                                   1.01
102 Steve Chainel (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom                                         
103 Guillaume le Floch (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom                                    
104 Johann Tschopp (Swi) BBox Bouygues Telecom                                        
105 Evgeny Sokolov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom                                        
106 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas                                                
107 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas                                                   
108 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Liquigas                                                    
109 Saïd Haddou (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom                                       1.02
110 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom                                   1.04
111 Julien Belgy (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom                                          
112 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini                            
113 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli         1.06
114 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli        
115 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli            
116 Francesco De Bonis (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli          
117 Jose Serpa (Col) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli                  
118 Jackson Rodriguez (Ven) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli           
119 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli          
120 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Team Saxo Bank                                            
121 Carlos José Ochoa (Ven) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli       1.08
122 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram                                                  
123 Edward King (USA) Cervelo Test Team                                           1.10
124 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini                              1.13
125 Allan Davis (Aus) Quick Step                                                  1.14
126 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Quick Step                                                    
127 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step                                                   
128 Mauro Facci (Ita) Quick Step                                                      
129 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step                                                
130 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick Step                                                   
131 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.                                           1.15
132 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) Cervelo Test Team                                          1.18
133 David Garcia Da Pena (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia                                    1.19
134 Marcos Garcia (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia                                               
135 Gonzalo Rabunal (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia                                             
136 Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Xacobeo Galicia                                             
137 Vladimir Isaichev (Rus) Xacobeo Galicia                                           
138 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia                                        
139 Iban Mayoz (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia                                                  
140 Serafin Martinez (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia                                            
141 Francesco Reda (Ita) Quick Step                                                   
142 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo                          1.21
143 Massimo Codol (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo                                
144 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo                             
145 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo                             
146 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo                              
147 Francesco Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo                        
148 Francesco Failli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo                             
149 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence-Lotto                                          1.22
150 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Silence-Lotto                                             
151 Francis De Greef (Bel) Silence-Lotto                                              
152 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Silence-Lotto                                                
153 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Silence-Lotto                                               
154 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Silence-Lotto                                                 
155 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Silence-Lotto                                              
156 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo                       1.23
157 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Silence-Lotto                                           1.26
158 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank                                                 1.33
159 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Katusha                                                  1.34
160 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2R La Mondiale                                         1.35
161 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale                                             
162 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale                                          
163 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                              
164 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                        
165 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                                
166 Blaise Sonnery (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                             
167 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                          
168 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.                                          1.36
169 Julian Dean (NZl) Garmin - Slipstream                                         1.37
170 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Fuji-Servetto                                                 
171 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Fuji-Servetto                                                
172 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Fuji-Servetto                                               
173 Iker Camano (Spa) Fuji-Servetto                                                   
174 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Swe) Fuji-Servetto                                            
175 Alberto Fernandez (Spa) Fuji-Servetto                                             
176 Angel Gomez (Spa) Fuji-Servetto                                                   
177 Davide Vigano (Ita) Fuji-Servetto                                                 
178 Hector Gonzalez (Spa) Fuji-Servetto                                               
179 Yohann Gene (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom                                       1.49
180 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank                                                  2.10
181 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank                                                  
182 Danny Pate (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                          2.16
183 David Millar (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream                                            
184 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                     2.22
185 Jure Golcer (Slo) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini                                   2.27
186 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli    2.40
187 Davide Malacarne (Ita) Quick Step                                             2.41
188 Addy Engels (Ned) Quick Step                                                      
189 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana                                                   2.46
190 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana                                                         
191 Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld                                                 2.55
192 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank                                               3.29
193 Anders Lund (Den) Team Saxo Bank                                              3.42
194 Delio Ferandez (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia                                          4.08
195 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld                                         4.13
196 Bart Dockx (Bel) Silence-Lotto                                                    
197 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo                        4.16
198 Kasper Klostergaard (Den) Team Saxo Bank                                      5.56
 
Young rider classification
 
1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia - Highroad                                  21.50
2 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia - Highroad                                 
3 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia - Highroad                                         
4 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad                                       
5 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                          0.06
6 Riccardo Chiarini (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini                               0.22
7 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) ISD                                                     0.27
8 Oscar Gatto (Ita) ISD                                                               
9 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream                                         0.29
10 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Team Katusha                                            0.35
11 Ian Stannard (GBr) ISD                                                         0.37
12 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank                                                 0.38
13 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Liquigas                                                  0.40
14 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.                                        0.42
15 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Cervelo Test Team                                    0.49
16 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram                                                       
17 Christopher Froome (GBr) Barloworld                                            0.54
18 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld                                                 
19 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team Saxo Bank                                              0.55
20 Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne                                       0.58
21 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne                                              
22 Guillaume le Floch (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom                                 1.01
23 Evgeny Sokolov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom                                         
24 Jackson Rodriguez (Ven) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli        1.06
25 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini                               1.13
26 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Quick Step                                                 1.14
27 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step                                                 
28 Marcos Garcia (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia                                            1.19
29 Gonzalo Rabunal (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia                                              
30 Vladimir Isaichev (Rus) Xacobeo Galicia                                            
31 Serafin Martinez (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia                                             
32 Francesco Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo                     1.21
33 Francis De Greef (Bel) Silence-Lotto                                           1.22
34 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Silence-Lotto                                                  
35 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Silence-Lotto                                            1.26
36 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Katusha                                                   1.34
37 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                           1.35
38 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                         
39 Blaise Sonnery (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                              
40 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Fuji-Servetto                                              1.37
41 Alberto Fernandez (Spa) Fuji - Servetto                                            
42 Davide Vigano (Ita) Fuji-Servetto                                                  
43 Hector Gonzalez (Spa) Fuji-Servetto                                                
44 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank                                                   2.10
45 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank                                                   
46 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                      2.22
47 Davide Malacarne (Ita) Quick Step                                              2.41
48 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana                                                      2.46
49 Anders Lund (Den) Team Saxo Bank                                               3.42
50 Delio Fernandez (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia                                          4.08
 
Trofeo Fast Team classification
 
1 Team Columbia - Highroad                                                       21.50
2 Garmin - Slipstream                                                             0.06
3 Astana                                                                          0.13
4 LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini                                                       0.22
5 ISD                                                                             0.27
6 Team Katusha                                                                    0.35
7 Rabobank                                                                        0.38
8 Liquigas                                                                        0.40
9 Lampre - NGC                                                                    0.42
10 Team Milram                                                                    0.49
11 Cervelo TestTeam                                                                   
12 Barloworld                                                                     0.54
13 Team Saxo Bank                                                                 0.55
14 Caisse d'Epargne                                                               0.58
15 Bbox Bouygues Telecom                                                          1.01
16 Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli                                1.06
17 Quick Step                                                                     1.14
18 Xacobeo Galicia                                                                1.19
19 Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo                                                 1.21
20 Silence - Lotto                                                                1.22
21 Ag2R La Mondiale                                                               1.35
22 Fuji - Servetto                                                                1.37

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