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67th Paris-Nice - HIS
France, March 8-15, 2009
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Stage 4 - March 11: Vichy - Saint-Étienne, 173.5km
Vande Velde takes solo win
Chavanel holds on by the skin of the teeth
By Bjorn Haake
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Christian Vande Velde (Garmin - Slipstream) took a brilliant solo win when he attacked out of the break of the day and soloed away for the final 20 kilometres. Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) was attacked by Alberto Contador (Astana) on the final climb of the day, but held on to his yellow jersey by six seconds over Juan Manuel Garate (Rabobank).
Vande Velde rode across the line swinging his arms in dedication to his daughter Madeline, who was born last month. "I have seen other rides do it and it was special to be able to do this myself," he said. The moment made up for the nail-biting final, when Vande Velde rode solo towards the line, but received news that Contador had attacked. "I got a little bit nervous then," he said.
Chavanel admitted that he felt yesterday's efforts. "It is always hard to race a day after a great ride. Yesterday I left a lot of energy on the road, so today in the final I was a bit spent." But he was in a decent mood after the race despite the time loss. "I keep the jersey, that is really satisfying for me."
Contador attacked hard on the Côte de Rochetaillée, a five-kilometre climb that averages just over four percent. He quickly gained time on the peloton, with Chavanel visibly suffering to regain control of the race. "I didn't try to follow Contador. When he attacks, he really accelerates – I was afraid of putting myself too much in the 'red'."
Contador was 19 seconds behind Vande Velde over the top, about seven kilometres from the finish, and about 25 seconds ahead of the Chavanel group. Chavanel described the tough KOM moment. "There was a split over the top and it was really difficult on the descent to get back."
He quickly refuted criticism by the French media that he could have done better today. "I didn't crack mentally, even though I lost a little bit of time in the GC. But I didn't panic." He added that his Paris-Nice isn't over yet. "I will still fight and do the best I can," Chavanel said. He knows who he is up against. "This shows that Contador doesn't just want to give up Paris-Nice like that..."
A break that goes far
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The race started out quite hectic, with several attacks. Third-placed Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) was one of those gapped off at 40 seconds, before he caught up again. Mountain leader Stéphane Augé (Cofidis) was also dropped briefly in the earlier part of the race.
After some 70 kilometres, things settled down when the break of the day was established. Vande Velde, Nicolas Roche (AG2R La Mondiale), Daniel Moreno (Caisse d'Epargne), Alexandr Kolobnev (Team Saxo Bank), Tony Martin (Team Columbia - Highroad), Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) and Xavier Florencio (Cervélo TestTeam) formed a group that never gained more than two minutes over an attentive peloton.
The break was interested in staying away until the finish, so the mountain points were discussed early to avoid confusion. Dumoulin was allowed to take them all. This would take the precious four points each time and keep the jersey on the shoulders of Dumoulin's Cofidis teammate Augé – just about. At the end of the day Dumoulin came within one point of his compatriot.
Flecha's bad day continued as he had to change bikes right when Bouygues Telecom hit the front. The peloton waited a bit, but once Flecha was close to the tail-end, the pace picked up again, causing an immediate split. Flecha spent a lot of energy to regain the peloton, but eventually was ok and finished in the Chavanel group to keep his third place overall.
With a little more than 25km to go, three riders attacked from the peloton, Pierre Rolland (BBox Bouygues Telecom), Geoffroy Lequatre (Agritubel) and Christophe Le Mevel (Française des Jeux). When they were closing in, Vande Velde knew what he had to do. Roche tried to counter, but Vande Velde's attack was too strong.
The rest of the break of the day was gobbled up by the French trio on the lower part of the climb, but Contador was the one who got away. Several riders caught him at the bottom of the descent, with Chavanel losing almost 30 seconds against Garate and Contador.
Stage 5 - March 12: Annonay - Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, 204km
Tomorrow the longest stage of the race will bring the riders from Annonay to Vallon-Pont-d'Arc over the course of 204km. The tough ride features seven ranked climbs, including one category one climb and three category two climbs.
Photography
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- American Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Slipstream) celebrates on the podium.
- Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) started stage four in yellow.
- Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) is next up for signing autographs.
- Spaniard Alberto Contador (Astana) signs autographs for some of his younger fans.
- Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Sliptream) wins solo with plenty of time to give a victory salute.
- Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Slipstream) gives his winning salute.
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- Sylvain Chavanel (QuickStep) stays in yellow for another day.
- Sylvain Chavanel maintained the race lead during stage four.
- Christian Vande Velde showed that his winter preparation has put him in good stead for 2009.
- Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Slipstream) wins solo in Saint Etienne.
Images by Florian & Susanne Schaaf/cyclingpictures.de
- The early spring landscape in France makes for a fantastic backdrop.
- The Cofidis boys certainly stand out in the peloton.
- With riders up the road the group wasn't giving it too much gas today.
- The Quick Step boys stick together to provide Chavanel with a comfortable transition through stage four.
- Barren, but not for long... The trees in France will be out of hibernation soon.
- Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) rides in the front of the break.
- From any angle you could tell Quick Step was protecting the front.
- And Sylvain Chavanel was the beneficiary.
- Dude, you didn't win... One of the Skil Shimano boys was happy with his performance today.
- Christophe Moreau rolls in to the finish while Jens Voigt has a chuckle behind.
- Best young rider Kevin Seeldrayers comes in to finish 24th.
- Despite being cold the rain held off for most of the day, allowing some of the scenery to be enjoyed.
- The tail of the peloton pulls the cord a little...
- While the break gets away and puts plenty of time into the bunch.
- Sylvain Chavanel and Kevin Seeldrayers were looked after by their teammates.
- Heinrich Haussler looks none too impressed as he rolls in for 26hth place on the stage.
- Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Slipstream) won convincingly.
- Quick Step and Chavanel defended admirably on another wintry kind of day.
Results
1 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 4.01.31 (43.10 km/h) 2 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 0.14 3 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - NGC 4 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel 5 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 6 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 7 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 8 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia - Highroad 9 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 10 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Rabobank 11 Antonio Colom (Spa) Team Katusha 12 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 13 David Millar (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream 14 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 15 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 16 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 17 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 18 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence-Lotto 19 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 20 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 21 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 22 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis 23 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre - NGC 0.22 24 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 0.41 25 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 26 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 27 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team Milram 28 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana 29 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 30 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 31 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 32 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 33 Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux 34 Juan José Oroz (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 35 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 36 Markus Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 37 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 38 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 39 Koen de Kort (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1.18 40 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 41 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 42 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quick Step 43 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 44 Theo Eltink (Ned) Skil-Shimano 45 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - NGC 46 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre - NGC 47 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 48 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 49 Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 50 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis 51 Hayden Roulston (NZl) Cervélo TestTeam 52 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Team Katusha 53 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Cervélo TestTeam 54 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 1.35 55 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 56 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 57 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 58 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Katusha 59 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 60 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Rabobank 61 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Astana 62 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 63 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana 64 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 65 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 66 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Silence-Lotto 67 Joan Horrach (Spa) Team Katusha 68 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 69 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 70 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 2.06 71 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 2.09 72 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 2.28 73 Luis-Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.14 74 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2.47 75 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Quick Step 76 Francisco Reda (Ita) Quick Step 77 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 78 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 79 Pierre Rolland (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 3.31 80 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 81 Andreï Amador (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 82 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 4.08 83 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 4.42 84 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 85 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 86 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 87 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 88 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 89 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team Saxo Bank 90 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 91 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis 92 Cyril Gautier (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 93 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Rabobank 94 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Astana 95 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 96 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team Saxo Bank 97 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 98 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Cervélo TestTeam 99 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre - NGC 100 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 5.48 101 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Silence-Lotto 102 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 103 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Lampre - NGC 104 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 105 Chris Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 106 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 107 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Astana 108 Brian Vandborg (Den) Liquigas 109 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 110 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 111 Danny Pate (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 7.01 112 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad 7.43 113 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 114 Kévin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step 8.48 115 Kevin de Weert (Bel) Quick Step 116 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Team Katusha 117 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 118 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 119 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 120 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 121 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 9.07 122 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - NGC 9.36 123 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Team Katusha 9.43 124 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 125 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Team Katusha 10.20 126 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 127 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 128 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Astana 129 Matthias Russ (Ger) Team Milram 130 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - Highroad 11.09 131 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 132 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad 133 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 134 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 135 Jurgen van de Walle (Bel) Quick Step 136 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 137 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 138 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 139 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 140 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 141 Alan Perez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 142 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 143 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 144 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 145 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 146 Yohann Gene (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 147 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 148 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream 149 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) Cervélo TestTeam 150 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux DNF Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française Des Jeux DNS Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Agritubel DNS Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream Sprints Saint-Galmier, 109.5km 1 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 3 pts 2 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 2 3 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 1 Saint-Chamond (Souvenir Andreï Kivilev), 152.0km 1 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 3 pts 2 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 2 3 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 1 Mountains Côte de Cheval Rigon (Cat. 3) 18.0km 1 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 4 pts 2 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 2 3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 1 Col du Beau Louis (Cat. 3) 30.0km 1 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis 4 pts 2 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 2 3 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 1 Côte de Saint-Bonnet-les-Oules (Cat. 3) 119.0km 1 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 4 pts 2 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 3 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 1 Côte de Saint-Héand (Cat. 3) 125.5km 1 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 4 pts 2 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 2 3 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 1 Côte de la Croix Blanche (Cat. 3) 142.5km 1 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 4 pts 2 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 2 3 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team Saxo Bank 1 Côte de Rochetaillée (Cat. 3) 167.0km 1 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 4 pts 2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 2 3 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1 Young riders 1 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 4.01.45 2 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 3 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 4 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 5 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 6 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre - NGC 0.08 7 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 0.27 8 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 9 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 10 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 11 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1.04 12 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - NGC 13 Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 14 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1.21 15 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 16 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 1.52 17 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 2.14 18 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2.33 19 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 20 Pierre Rolland (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 3.17 21 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 22 Andreï Amador (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 23 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 3.54 24 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 4.28 25 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 26 Cyril Gautier (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 27 Chris Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 5.34 28 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 29 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 8.34 30 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - NGC 9.22 31 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 9.29 32 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Team Katusha 10.06 33 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 10.55 34 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 35 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 36 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 37 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 38 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 39 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream Teams 1 Team Saxo Bank 12.05.15 2 Cofidis 3 Caisse d'Epargne 0.27 4 Agritubel 0.54 5 Rabobank 6 Team Katusha 1.04 7 Garmin - Slipstream 1.07 8 Lampre - N.G.C 1.12 9 AG2R-La Mondiale 1.31 10 Euskaltel - Euskadi 11 Astana 1.48 12 Quick Step 1.58 13 Team Milram 14 Française des Jeux 15 Skil-Shimano 2.08 16 Cervélo Test Team 2.35 17 Liquigas 2.42 18 Silence - Lotto 19 Bbox Bouygues Telecom 4.21 20 Team Columbia - Highroad 6.55 General classification after stage 4 1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 13.31.36 2 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Rabobank 0.06 3 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 0.36 4 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 5 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 0.37 6 Luis-Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.45 7 David Millar (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream 0.50 8 Antonio Colom (Spa) Team Katusha 0.55 9 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 0.57 10 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 1.03 11 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia - Highroad 1.08 12 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.09 13 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 1.10 14 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 1.12 15 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 1.17 16 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - NGC 1.20 17 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1.21 18 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 1.23 19 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 1.33 20 Juan José Oroz (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.51 21 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 1.53 22 Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1.56 23 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 2.06 24 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quick Step 2.12 25 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 2.17 26 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 2.20 27 Koen de Kort (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2.29 28 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2.41 29 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - NGC 2.42 30 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 2.48 31 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 2.51 32 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 33 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel 2.58 34 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 3.02 35 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre - NGC 3.07 36 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence-Lotto 37 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 3.10 38 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana 3.15 39 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3.25 40 Markus Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 3.29 41 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team Milram 3.35 42 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 3.40 43 Hayden Roulston (NZl) Cervélo TestTeam 3.56 44 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 3.59 45 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 4.03 46 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 47 Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 4.07 48 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Cervélo TestTeam 4.08 49 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 4.10 50 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Katusha 4.17 51 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Astana 52 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis 4.18 53 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4.20 54 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 4.21 55 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Rabobank 4.28 56 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 4.32 57 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 4.34 58 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 4.38 59 Joan Horrach (Spa) Team Katusha 60 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre - NGC 4.40 61 Theo Eltink (Ned) Skil-Shimano 4.43 62 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Quick Step 5.35 63 Francisco Reda (Ita) Quick Step 5.47 64 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team Saxo Bank 5.49 65 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 5.55 66 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Rabobank 67 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 6.05 68 Andreï Amador (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 6.16 69 Pierre Rolland (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 6.28 70 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 6.37 71 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 6.45 72 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 6.52 73 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team Saxo Bank 7.43 74 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 7.51 75 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre - NGC 8.03 76 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 77 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 8.45 78 Danny Pate (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 9.50 79 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Team Katusha 10.03 80 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 10.38 81 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 11.08 82 Kévin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step 11.16 83 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 11.21 84 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 11.27 85 Kevin de Weert (Bel) Quick Step 11.31 86 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 11.42 87 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Team Katusha 11.53 88 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 11.54 89 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 12.25 90 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 12.33 91 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 12.37 92 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 12.41 93 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - NGC 12.57 94 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana 13.02 95 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 13.03 96 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 13.10 97 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 13.48 98 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - Highroad 14.04 99 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis 14.05 100 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 14.11 101 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 14.22 102 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 14.34 103 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis 14.41 104 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 14.54 105 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Astana 15.56 106 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 15.58 107 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Astana 16.00 108 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 109 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 16.03 110 Chris Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 16.05 111 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 16.10 112 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 16.13 113 Cyril Gautier (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 16.22 114 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Silence-Lotto 16.29 115 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 16.32 116 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 16.33 117 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 118 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Cervélo TestTeam 16.38 119 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 17.22 120 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 17.25 121 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 18.06 122 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Lampre - NGC 18.34 123 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad 19.05 124 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 19.12 125 Brian Vandborg (Den) Liquigas 19.28 126 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Silence-Lotto 19.29 127 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 19.41 128 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale 19.45 129 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Team Katusha 19.58 130 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 20.14 131 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 20.27 132 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 20.30 133 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 20.55 134 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 21.03 135 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 21.04 136 Alan Perez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 21.22 137 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 21.25 138 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 21.36 139 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 21.51 140 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Team Katusha 22.09 141 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad 22.25 142 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 22.38 143 Jurgen van de Walle (Bel) Quick Step 23.02 144 Yohann Gene (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 145 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) Cervélo TestTeam 23.14 146 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 23.24 147 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 30.32 148 Matthias Russ (Ger) Team Milram 32.03 149 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream 32.43 150 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Astana 37.25 Points classification 1 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - NGC 50 pts 2 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 42 3 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 42 4 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 34 5 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 31 6 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Rabobank 28 7 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 27 8 David Millar (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream 24 9 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 24 10 Antonio Colom (Spa) Team Katusha 23 11 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 22 12 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad 22 13 Luis-Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 21 14 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 21 15 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 20 16 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 20 17 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 19 18 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel 18 19 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 18 20 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 17 21 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia - Highroad 16 22 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 16 23 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 16 24 Kévin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step 16 25 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 16 26 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 15 27 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 15 28 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 15 29 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 15 30 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 14 31 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 13 32 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 12 33 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 12 34 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 12 35 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 11 36 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 11 37 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - NGC 9 38 Koen de Kort (Ned) Skil-Shimano 8 39 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 8 40 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 7 41 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 7 42 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 7 43 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 7 44 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad 7 45 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 6 46 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 6 47 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 6 48 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 6 49 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 4 50 Markus Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 4 51 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 4 52 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 4 53 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Astana 4 54 Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3 55 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence-Lotto 3 56 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Team Katusha 3 57 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 3 58 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2 59 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 2 60 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 1 61 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana 1 62 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1 63 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1 Mountains classification 1 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 14 pts 2 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 13 3 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 10 4 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 8 5 Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux 6 6 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 5 7 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis 4 8 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3 9 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 2 10 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 2 11 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2 12 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 13 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1 14 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 1 15 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team Saxo Bank 1 16 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 1 17 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 1 18 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 1 Young rider classification 1 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 13.32.13 2 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 0.40 3 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 0.44 4 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 0.46 5 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0.56 6 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2.04 7 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - NGC 2.05 8 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 2.11 9 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 2.14 10 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre - NGC 2.30 11 Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 3.30 12 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3.33 13 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 3.55 14 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 4.01 15 Andreï Amador (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 5.39 16 Pierre Rolland (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 5.51 17 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 6.08 18 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 10.31 19 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 10.44 20 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 11.48 21 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 12.00 22 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 12.04 23 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - NGC 12.20 24 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 12.26 25 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Silence-Lotto 13.45 26 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 13.57 27 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 15.21 28 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 15.26 29 Chris Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 15.28 30 Cyril Gautier (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 15.45 31 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 15.55 32 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 15.56 33 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 18.35 34 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 20.27 35 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 20.48 36 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 21.14 37 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Team Katusha 21.32 38 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 22.01 39 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream 32.06 Teams classification 1 Rabobank 40.35.50 2 Quick Step 1.42 3 Team Saxo Bank 2.20 4 Cofidis 2.59 5 Team Katusha 3.09 6 Euskaltel - Euskadi 4.08 7 Skil-Shimano 4.37 8 Caisse d'Epargne 6.05 9 Silence - Lotto 6.09 10 Lampre - N.G.C 6.15 11 Garmin - Slipstream 6.18 12 Astana 6.58 13 Agritubel 7.13 14 AG2R-La Mondiale 7.35 15 Team Milram 7.47 16 Française des Jeux 8.13 17 Team Columbia - Highroad 8.24 18 Liquigas 8.35 19 Cervélo Test Team 20 Bbox Bouygues Telecom 8.58
