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67th Paris-Nice - HIS
France, March 8-15, 2009
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Stage 3 - March 10: Orval - Vichy, 178km
Chavanel's big day
By Bjorn Haake
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Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) fulfilled his goals for this year's Paris-Nice by taking the win on the third stage into Vichy, at the same time profiting from a full on attack from the Rabobank team to make the front split and steal the yellow jersey from Alberto Contador.
The Frenchman found himself outnumbered by the Dutch team, but still managed to use his sole teammate to full advantage in the sprint.
"Against three Rabobank riders [Flecha, Langeveld and Garate], it wasn't an easy task," Chavanel said. "In a small group, I'm quite fast but I couldn't win by myself. Kevin [Seeldrayers] did a fantastic job. He brought me back to Flecha's colleague [Langeveld, who had attacked in the last kilometre, ed.]. Then it was another Flecha-Chavanel duel."
While the lead group worked to stay clear in the heavy cross-winds, Contador was on the wrong end of the split and lost more than a minute by the finish. Heinrich Haussler led home the yellow jersey group to retain his green jersey. Stéphane Augé (Cofidis) crossed all mountain tops in first place from the early breakaway and took over the lead in the mountains classification
It's the second year in a row Chavanel has worn the yellow jersey in Paris-Nice – he wore it after stage three last year, too. But this year he wasn't gunning to repeat that experience, but to win a stage. "It was a short experience last year." Chavanel held the lead only for one day before the race ended atop Mont Ventoux last year. Now that he has the lead again, he sees a chance to keep it a few days longer.
"We'll see day by day. I've already checked the profile for the next stages. The climbs aren't impossible and I've already done well on routes like this in the past. Why not try to defend the jersey?"
The bad weather again helped him take the win and the overall. "The way it went, it is normal we take over a minute out of the peloton. It's punches like today you have to deliver." He will see in Lure on Friday the 13th if it will be a lucky day for him in the mountains.
Contador with second scare in two days
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Contador may have lost a minute on the day, but still remains in overall contention, now sixth at 1:03. He described the rainy day as a typical stage in Paris-Nice. "It was very windy in the end, when the sprinters's teams took over. At that moment we lost the coordination within our team a bit. Without the team's coordination, it is much harder to fight in conditions like these."
Once Rabobank hit the front Contador was in the fourth group on the road. He knew he had to do something. "I saw I had no teammates. The situation was very difficult, but I saw there was a short steep slope coming up and I accelerated." Contador looked good on the uphill, but closing the gap proved to be hard. He received some help from Christophe Moreau (Agritubel) to reach the group ahead. "This was the only possibility for me to save the race," Contador said.
Contador was not sure about the overall anymore. "To make up one minute on a rider like Chavanel, who also is on great form, is difficult. The same is true for Juan Manuel Garate (Rabobank), but there is still a lot of road left. Looking at the classification things could have been worse."
Five go away early
The break of the day formed after a little more than 10 kilometres of racing. Stéphane Augé (Cofidis), Maciej Bodnar (Liquigas), Jürgen Roelandts (Silence-Lotto), Christophe Le Mevel (Française des Jeux) and Tom Veelers (Skil-Shimano) rode ahead on the rainy day. They gained a maximum of seven minutes and were able to ride over all three classified climbs ahead of the peloton.
Each time over the category three ranked climbs, Augé gathered four points as he was the first cresting the top. The 12 points gave him the polka dot jersey of best climber.
Rabobank hit the front with 50 kilometres to go with five riders and a few kilometres later the elastic snapped. 20 men, including five from Rabobank, were ahead of the peloton. Behind the cross winds split up the field in several pieces and race leader Contador found himself further back than he wanted. Without the help of his teammates he sprinted to the third group on the road, some twenty seconds behind the Rabobank group. Cadel Evans was also further back.
The relentless work from Rabobank and Quick Step had two effects. For one the quintet on the front was caught, with Bodnar dropping back even before the junction. The other four held their ground. The second effect was reduction of this new lead group to ten riders. Roelandts, Augé, Le Mevel and Veelers from the initial break, as well as Juan Antonio Flecha, Juan Manuel Garate and Sebastian Langeveld from Rabobank, Sylvain Chavanel and Kevin Seeldrayers from Quick Step and Marcus Burghardt (Team Columbia - Highroad).
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Haussler was one of those who dropped out of the 20-man lead group. He waited for the Contador group, which was only 20 seconds behind at this point. But after fruitless chasing the organisation of the group went down the drain. Holding half a minute for a dozen kilometres the lead eventually extended to 50 seconds. In the end the difference was 1:09.
The scenario in the front would have been ideal for Burghardt, as he didn't have to work among the Rabobank and Quick Step teams and he was fresher than sprinter Roelandts. But Burghardt ran into some bad luck in form of a flat tyre with five kilometres to go.
Rabobank sent Langveld on the attack just before the group passed the one kilometre to go sign. He was quickly marked by Chavanel. The two were a bit ahead of the others but it all came back once they hit the finishing straight. Flecha tried to launch the sprint early, and once again it was Chavanel who got onto his wheel and was able to come around for the victory.
Wednesday's stage travels from Vichy to Saint-Étienne over 173.5km and six category three climbs.
Photography
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- Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) seizes the day with the stage win and the overall lead on GC.
- Heinrich Haussler (Cervelo) took the green jersey for a ride in the day's breakaway.
- Chavanel get the better of Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank).
- Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) wins the sprint and takes possession of the yellow jersey.
- Chavanel is not the least bit happy, is he?
- Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) took the yellow jersey on stage three.
- Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) leads the split which formed in the finale.
- Alberto Contador (Astana) lost the overall lead on a rainy stage three.
Images by Jean-Francois Quenet/Cyclingnews.com
- Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) speaks to the press.
Images by Sirotti/www.sirotti.it
- Rabobank set the race on fire some 50 kilometres from the finish.
- Chavanel follows his teammate Kevin Seeldraeyers (Quick Step) in the break royale.
- Alberto Contador (Astana) was on the wrong end of the split and lost a minute.
- Chavanel sprinted out of the draft of Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) for a great stage win in Paris-Nice.
- A happy Chavanel after his stage win in Vichy.
Images by Florian and Susanne Schaaf/www.cyclingpictures.de
- There more cars than riders in the break of the day.
- The bunch huddles together in the rain.
- Alberto Contador had a yellow rain jacket on earlier but once it was soaked he changed to a black outfit.
- It was zip-up time in France
- The five-man break...
- was down to four when Bodnar dropped back shortly before the chase group caught them all.
- Bodnar had enough after a day of hard racing and didn't even try to stay with the Rabobank group .
- The bunch comes along at high speed.
- Columbia-Highroad and Cervélo led the chase but once Rabobank took over things disintegrated quickly.
Results
1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 4.33.12 (39.09 km/h) 2 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 3 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 4 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 5 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 6 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Rabobank 7 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 8 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 0.40 9 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 1.09 10 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 11 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - NGC 12 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - NGC 13 Kort Koen De (Ned) Skil-Shimano 14 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 15 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 16 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 17 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 18 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia - Highroad 19 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 20 Luis-Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 21 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Rabobank 22 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 23 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quick Step 24 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 25 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 26 Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux 27 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 28 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 29 Antonio Colom (Spa) Team Katusha 30 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 31 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 32 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Team Katusha 33 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 34 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 35 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 36 Juan José Oroz (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 37 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 38 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team Saxo Bank 39 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 40 David Millar (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream 41 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1.39 42 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2.50 43 Hayden Roulston (NZl) Cervélo TestTeam 44 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 45 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 46 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 47 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 48 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team Milram 49 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre - NGC 50 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team Saxo Bank 51 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 52 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 53 Markus Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 54 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel 55 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Quick Step 56 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Quick Step 57 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 58 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 59 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - NGC 60 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 61 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 62 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 63 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 64 Pierre Rolland (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 65 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana 66 Theo Eltink (Ned) Skil-Shimano 67 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 68 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre - NGC 69 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis 70 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 71 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 72 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 73 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 74 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Astana 75 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - Highroad 76 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 77 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 78 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 79 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 80 Francisco Reda (Ita) Quick Step 81 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 82 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence-Lotto 83 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Katusha 84 Andreï Amador (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 85 Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 86 Danny Pate (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 87 Kévin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step 88 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Rabobank 89 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre - NGC 90 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Cervélo TestTeam 91 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 92 Joan Horrach (Spa) Team Katusha 93 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 10.07 94 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 10.08 95 Alan Perez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 96 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 97 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 98 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 99 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Agritubel 100 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 101 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 102 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 103 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Astana 104 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Lampre - NGC 105 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 106 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Team Katusha 107 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Silence-Lotto 108 Chris Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 109 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Team Katusha 110 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 111 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 112 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 113 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 114 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 115 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 116 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 117 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis 118 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 119 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 120 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Team Katusha 11.34 121 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad 122 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad 123 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Astana 124 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 125 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 126 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 127 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step 128 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 129 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 130 Matthias Russ (Ger) Team Milram 131 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 132 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 133 Yohann Gene (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 134 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana 135 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 136 Cyril Gautier (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 137 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 138 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 139 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 140 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) Cervélo TestTeam 141 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream 142 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream 143 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 144 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 145 Brian Vandborg (Den) Liquigas 146 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Cervélo TestTeam 147 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 148 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 149 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis 150 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 17.02 151 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française Des Jeux 152 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Silence-Lotto 153 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Astana DNF Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne DNF Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre - NGC DNS Daniel Martin (Irl) Garmin - Slipstream DNS Jose Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam DNS Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank Points Lurcy-Levis - 37.5 Km 1 Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3 pts 2 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 2 3 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 1 Escurolles- 160.0 Km 1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 3 pts 2 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Rabobank 2 3 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 1 Vichy - 178.0 Km 1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 25 pts 2 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 22 3 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 20 4 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 18 5 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 16 6 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Rabobank 15 7 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 14 8 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 13 9 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 12 10 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 11 11 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - NGC 10 12 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - NGC 9 13 Kort Koen De (Ned) Skil-Shimano 8 14 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 7 15 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 6 16 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 5 17 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 4 18 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia - Highroad 3 19 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 2 20 Luis-Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Mountains Côte de la Croix du Chêne - 81.5 Km 1 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 4 pts 2 Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2 3 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1 Côte de Chavenon - 87.5 Km 1 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 4 pts 2 Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2 3 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 1 Col de la Bosse - 125.5 Km 1 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 4 pts 2 Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2 3 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1 Young rider 1 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 4.33.12 2 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 3 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 4 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 1.09 5 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 6 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - NGC 7 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 8 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 9 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 10 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 11 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1.39 12 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2.50 13 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 14 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre - NGC 15 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 16 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 17 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 18 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - NGC 19 Pierre Rolland (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 20 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 21 Andreï Amador (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 22 Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 23 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 10.08 24 Chris Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 25 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 26 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 27 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 28 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 29 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 30 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Team Katusha 11.34 31 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 32 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 33 Cyril Gautier (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 34 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 35 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream 36 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 37 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 38 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 39 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas Teams 1 Rabobank 13.39.36 2 Quick Step 1.09 3 Team Columbia - Highroad 2.58 4 Skil-Shimano 3.27 5 Team Katusha 6 Team Saxo Bank 7 Euskaltel - Euskadi 8 Cofidis 3.59 9 Silence - Lotto 10 Lampre - N.G.C 5.08 11 Bbox Bouygues Telecom 12 Team Milram 6.49 13 Française des Jeux 14 Liquigas 15 AG2R-La Mondiale 16 Cervélo Test Team 17 Agritubel 18 Astana 19 Caisse d'Epargne 20 Garmin - Slipstream General classification after stage 3 1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 9.29.24 2 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Rabobank 0.33 3 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 0.36 4 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 0.37 5 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 0.40 6 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 1.03 7 Luis-Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.12 8 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 1.14 9 David Millar (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream 1.17 10 Antonio Colom (Spa) Team Katusha 1.22 11 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 1.23 12 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 1.24 13 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 1.26 14 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 1.30 15 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia - Highroad 1.35 16 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quick Step 17 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.36 18 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 1.37 19 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 1.39 20 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 1.40 21 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 1.42 22 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 1.44 23 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 1.45 24 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1.47 25 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team Saxo Bank 1.48 26 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - NGC 1.51 27 Juan José Oroz (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 28 Kort Koen De (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1.52 29 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 1.53 30 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1.54 31 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 32 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Rabobank 33 Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1.56 34 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Team Katusha 35 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.57 36 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 2.00 37 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - NGC 2.05 38 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 2.06 39 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 2.12 40 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2.35 41 Kévin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step 3.09 42 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 43 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 3.14 44 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 3.15 45 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana 46 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 3.18 47 Hayden Roulston (NZl) Cervélo TestTeam 3.19 48 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 3.20 49 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 3.22 50 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Katusha 3.23 51 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Astana 52 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Quick Step 3.24 53 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3.25 54 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel 55 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre - NGC 3.26 56 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 57 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 58 Andreï Amador (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 59 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Quick Step 3.29 60 Markus Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 61 Danny Pate (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 3.30 62 Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 63 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 3.31 64 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Cervélo TestTeam 65 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3.33 66 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence-Lotto 3.34 67 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Rabobank 68 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team Milram 3.35 69 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - Highroad 3.36 70 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 3.37 71 Pierre Rolland (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 3.38 72 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 73 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 3.40 74 Francisco Reda (Ita) Quick Step 3.41 75 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis 76 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team Saxo Bank 3.42 77 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3.43 78 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 3.44 79 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 80 Joan Horrach (Spa) Team Katusha 81 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 3.50 82 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 3.59 83 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 84 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre - NGC 4.02 85 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 86 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - NGC 87 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre - NGC 4.03 88 Theo Eltink (Ned) Skil-Shimano 4.06 89 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 4.39 90 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 5.42 91 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 5.43 92 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 10.13 93 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 10.33 94 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 95 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 10.35 96 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 10.36 97 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis 10.40 98 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Astana 10.49 99 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 10.51 100 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 101 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 10.53 102 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 103 Alan Perez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 10.54 104 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Team Katusha 10.56 105 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 10.57 106 Chris Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 10.58 107 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 11.00 108 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 11.04 109 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 11.05 110 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 11.08 111 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Agritubel 11.09 112 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 11.16 113 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Team Katusha 114 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 11.18 115 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Silence-Lotto 11.22 116 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 11.23 117 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream 11.35 118 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad 11.57 119 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Astana 11.59 120 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad 12.03 121 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 12.07 122 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana 12.08 123 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 12.10 124 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 12.12 125 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 12.15 126 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 12.20 127 Cyril Gautier (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 12.21 128 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 12.25 129 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Team Katusha 12.30 130 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 12.31 131 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 12.32 132 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 12.33 133 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step 12.34 134 Yohann Gene (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 135 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 12.35 136 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 12.36 137 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 12.37 138 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Cervélo TestTeam 139 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) Cervélo TestTeam 12.46 140 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 12.48 141 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 12.56 142 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 13.24 143 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Lampre - NGC 13.27 144 Brian Vandborg (Den) Liquigas 14.21 145 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 14.27 146 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis 14.32 147 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 14.38 148 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française Des Jeux 17.33 149 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Silence-Lotto 18.35 150 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 20.04 151 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream 22.15 152 Matthias Russ (Ger) Team Milram 22.24 153 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Astana 27.46 Points classification 1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 42 pts 2 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 42 3 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - NGC 30 4 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 27 5 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 25 6 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream 22 7 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad 22 8 Luis-Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 21 9 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 20 10 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 20 11 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 19 12 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 18 13 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 18 14 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Rabobank 17 15 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 17 16 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 16 17 David Millar (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream 16 18 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 16 19 Kévin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step 16 20 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 15 21 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 15 22 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 14 23 Antonio Colom (Spa) Team Katusha 13 24 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 13 25 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 13 26 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 12 27 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 12 28 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 11 29 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 11 30 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - NGC 9 31 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 8 32 Kort Koen De (Ned) Skil-Shimano 8 33 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 8 34 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 7 35 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad 7 36 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 7 37 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 6 38 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 6 39 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 6 40 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 4 41 Markus Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 4 42 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 4 43 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Astana 4 44 Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3 45 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia - Highroad 3 46 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Team Katusha 3 47 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 3 48 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 2 49 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 2 50 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 1 51 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana 1 52 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1 53 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1 Mountains classification 1 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 12 pts 2 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6 3 Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux 6 4 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 5 5 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3 6 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2 7 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 1 Young rider classification 1 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 9.30.01 2 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 0.03 3 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 0.46 4 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 1.05 5 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 1.07 6 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1.10 7 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1.17 8 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 1.23 9 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - NGC 1.28 10 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1.58 11 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 2.37 12 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 2.38 13 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 2.41 14 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre - NGC 2.49 15 Andreï Amador (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 16 Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 2.53 17 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2.56 18 Pierre Rolland (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 3.01 19 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 3.07 20 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - NGC 3.25 21 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 4.02 22 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 9.36 23 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 9.56 24 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 9.59 25 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 10.14 26 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 10.20 27 Chris Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 10.21 28 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 10.39 29 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 10.46 30 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 11.33 31 Cyril Gautier (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 11.44 32 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 11.48 33 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Team Katusha 11.53 34 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 11.54 35 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 11.58 36 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 11.59 37 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 12.00 38 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 13.50 39 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream 21.38 Teams classification 1 Rabobank 28.29.41 2 Quick Step 0.38 3 Team Columbia - Highroad 2.23 4 Team Katusha 2.59 5 Team Saxo Bank 3.14 6 Skil-Shimano 3.23 7 Euskaltel - Euskadi 3.31 8 Cofidis 3.53 9 Silence - Lotto 4.21 10 Bbox Bouygues Telecom 5.31 11 Lampre - N.G.C 5.57 12 Astana 6.04 13 Garmin - Slipstream 6.05 14 Caisse d'Epargne 6.32 15 Team Milram 6.43 16 Liquigas 6.47 17 Cervélo Test Team 6.54 18 AG2R-La Mondiale 6.58 19 Française des Jeux 7.09 20 Agritubel 7.13
