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67th Paris-Nice - HIS
France, March 8-15, 2009
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Stage 6 - March 13: Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - La Montagne de Lure, 182.5km
Contador takes control
By Bjorn Haake
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Alberto Contador (Astana) crushed his opposition on the difficult mountain top finish in La Montagne de Lure to take over the yellow jersey from Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step). Contador left his last companions, Luis León Sánchez and Fränk Schleck, less than five kilometres from the top and stormed to the finish 59 seconds ahead of them.
Chavanel lost almost two minutes on the snow-covered mountain and fell to third in the general classification, while Sánchez rode himself into second overall, 1:13 behind Contador.
For Contador the hard work of the team had paid off. "We took control today. It was a day to make a difference." Contador had lots of opponents on the last climb, and not just from his fellow cyclists. "Luis León Sánchez and Fränk Schleck were very strong – we also had a headwind."
It wasn't only today's stage that had gotten to Contador. "This has been a very difficult Paris-Nice, with the wind and the rain in the beginning. Everyone suffered – me too."
But Contador didn't show the strain. Following wheels when things heated up with 10 kilometres to go, Contador tested his opponents once or twice before launching off the front. Only Schleck was able to follow suit initially, with Antonio Colom (Team Katusha) joining in for a bit.
Luis León Sánchez then made his way across to Schleck and was able to move into second overall through his efforts but thinks he is too far behind Contador to win on Sunday. "To win the final classification is no longer within my reach but there are still two important and very beautiful stages left and we will try to win one of them."
Normally known as a punchy climber who excels on shorter climbs, the Spaniard worked hard over the winter to improve his sustained climbing abilities. "What I did today is a big step in that direction," Sánchez said. "But there is nothing to do because as soon as the road starts climbing, Contador is really at a higher level than everybody else. I will keep on working to be better and better in the mountain hoping to come each time closer."
Contador's blow
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With less than five kilometres from the top Contador accelerated again, leaving the others behind. Colom, hurting from his efforts to bridge to the lead group, was dropped behind while Luis Leon Sanchez joined up with Schleck to help chase, but the two were never able to return to the flying Spaniard.
Regardless, Schleck was happy to be in fourth, with the podium in sight. His Directeur Sportif, Kim Andersen, was also happy with the team work. "We are certainly pleased with today's outcome with three men in the top ten, so we now lead the stage team standing. Fränk was in an excellent position, and Jens showed great form when he attacked into the headwind on the mountain. Now we have a podium in sight, so tomorrow we will attack again."
Contador didn't need the extra motivation of Anderson's words. "Tomorrow is another race," he said, already thinking about the stage from Manosque to Fayence with nine classified climbs.
Tony Martin (Team Columbia - Highroad) kept his polka dot jersey, thanks to topping the Côte des Mourres in first. He added four more points and leads with 47 points, ahead of Jérémy Roy (Française des Jeux) with 32 points. Roy gained points on the first two climbs by making the first break. Thomas Voeckler (BBox Bouygues Telecom) was in second before the stage, but sustained a broken collarbone in a crash during the early part of the stage and was forced to abandon.
Mirco Lorenzetto (Lampre - N.G.C.) held on to his points jersey by a single point ahead of Heinrich Haussler (Cervélo TestTeam).
The race started out fast, with five riders going clear inside the first ten kilometres – Mickaël Delage (Silence-Lotto), Javier Aramendia (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Romain Feillu (Agritubel), Niki Terpstra (Team Milram) and Cyril Lemoine (Skil-Shimano). They were joined by Alan Perez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Christophe Riblon (AG2R La Mondiale) and Sébastien Turgot (BBox Bouygues Telecom). Later Jérémy Roy (Française des Jeux), yesterday's stage winner, joined in to form the nine-man break of the day.
Columbia doesn't like break set-up
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The group's maximum advantage was around six and a half minutes, but Columbia-Highroad did not like Roy in the break, as he threatened Martin's polka-dot jersey. Roy was allowed to take maximum points on the first two category two climbs. He was then 11 points behind in the mountains ranking, but had to sit up under the Columbia pressure. The other eight continued towards the next mountains, the lead hovering around the two-minute mark.
Two climbs later it was all over for the front group, although Feillu still put up a fight just before the sprint in Forcalquier, less than 30 km from the finish. That spoiled it for Haussler, who came close to Feillu, but couldn't catch him. That gave Haussler two instead three points. Lorenzetto received one point for third and so was hanging on with a one-point advantage.
Astana controlled the peloton until the final climb, with one exception. Martin was allowed to go ahead and get four more points for the mountains classification. That was enough for the tired German, who dropped back before things got serious on the final climb. With only seven places awarded points on the finish, there was no point for him to try to ride hard.
On the lower part of the final climb, things started to fall apart, with the front group getting smaller in every switchback. Most of the favourites were there, but David Millar (Garmin-Slipstream) and Juan Manuel Garate (Rabobank) were two of the best placed riders who fell out of the top 15. Garate had been in second, only six seconds behind Chavanel, while Millar was in seventh, 14 seconds in arrears. Both would lose over five minutes by the day's end.
It didn't take long until Jens Voigt (Team Saxo Bank) attacked, with 11 km to go. In the group of favourites things started to move, with David Lopez Garcia (Caisse d'Epargne) changing the pace, followed by Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Silence-Lotto). That was the signal for Contador to move, with Schleck in tow.
The duo quickly caught Voigt, who tried to help his teammate Schleck, but was dropped and replaced by Antonio Colom (Team Katusha) on the front. Chavanel was in the group of nine riders behind, initially still looking good. But the group disintegrated, with Chavanel on the wrong end. He fought hard but kept losing time to Contador and eventually his 36-second lead on GC.
Motivated by the prospects of yellow, Contador dropped Schleck and Colom to solo away for the win.
Photography
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- Alberto Contador (Astana) takes his best shot and flies to the stage win and yellow jersey on stage six atop La Montagne de Lure.
- Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) put up a good fight but ultimately could not match Contador on the final climb.
- Alberto Contador (Astana) back in yellow again.
- Alberto Contador (Astana) flies the coop with 5km to go.
- There's little Sylvain Chavanel can do to hold onto yellow, and he's getting no help from the Saxo Bank boys.
- Alberto Contador (Astana) rides away from Fränk Schleck (Saxo Bank) and Antonio Colom (Katusha).
- Contador pedals up past the snow line on his way to the stage win in Paris-Nice.
- Contador grins and bears the pain on his solo attack on La Montagne de Lure.
Images by Florian & Susanne Schaaf/cyclingpictures.de
- A content Alberto Contador celebrates another good day in the saddle.
- And gets a yellow jersey for his efforts.
- It's difficult to see Contador losing his jersey now that it's so late in the race.
- The six shooter salute gets a run on the podium.
- Silence-Lotto's Jürgen Roelandts waits for his turn at the sign on.
- The nine-man break got away quite early into the stage.
- Romain Feillu (Agritubel) leads the break that didn't stay away today.
- The day's break couldn't suppress the peloton all stage.
- Especially when Astana controlled it for captain Alberto Contador.
- Race leader Sylvain Chavanel was again protected by the Quick Step crew.
- Although Chavanel wouldn't hold on to his jersey by day's end.
- The first sun of spring greeted riders on the stage to La Montagne de Lure.
- Sylvain Chavanel descends with his teammates around him.
- The back of the field is a bad place to be in the mountains.
- Mickaël Delage (Silence-Lotto) leads the nine-man break.
- Silence-Lott's Mickaël Delage helped drive the day's break.
- The day's big break was doomed from the start, given that so much was at stake today.
- Columbia-Highroad did plenty of work in pursuit of the leaders.
- Columbia-Highroad's Markus Burghardt drives the peloton.
- There were plenty of nerves in the peloton today.
- Alberto Contador wasn't nervous, however and made the day count with victory by 58 seconds.
- A quick chest thump and it's time to throw to relax...
- After a job well done in La Montagne de Lure.
- Fränk Schleck and Luis-Leon Sanchez made it to the finish in second and third respectively.
- Fränk Schleck gulps some air after a big effort on the final climb.
- Schleck showed he has healthy form after a stage win in the Tour of California last month.
- The next group at the finish included Cadel Evans (l), Jonathan Hivert (c), Jens Voigt (background), David Moncoutié and Sammy Sanchez (r).
- Moncoutié and Evans (r) duel it out for finishing order.
- Kevin Seeldrayers brought home his team captain Sylvain Chavanel, to limit the damage done by Contador.
- It was a tough day for Chavanel who dropped to third on GC.
- Saxo Bank's Jens Voigt grabs the big ones at the finish.
- Christophe Moreau (Agritubel) finished in the top 10.
- It was Moreau's best performance for quite some time.
- Kevin Seeldrayers (Quick Step) earned his keep, and some more respect, today.
Images by Petitesreines/Petitesreines.free.fr
- The break on the way up
- Niki Terpstra (Team Milram) rides in the break
- Mickaël Delage (Silence-Lotto) in the break
- The break goes through beautiful countryside
- The Astana-led bunch followed a couple of minutes later.
- Astana is putting its stamp on the race
- The Kazakh team does better than in the rainy stage where Contador was isolated.
- Contador out of the saddle
- Christophe Moreau sitting near the front
- The snow-covered mountain top
Results
1 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 4.47.46 (38.05 km/h) 2 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 0.58 3 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 1.27 5 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 6 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 1.29 7 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1.31 8 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1.34 9 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel 1.44 10 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 1.46 11 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 12 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 1.50 13 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 14 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 2.02 15 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 16 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 17 Antonio Colom (Spa) Team Katusha 2.06 18 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 2.47 19 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 20 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 21 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence-Lotto 3.31 22 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia - Highroad 3.56 23 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 4.01 24 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 25 Markus Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 26 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4.17 27 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team Milram 4.38 28 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 4.48 29 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Silence-Lotto 30 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Rabobank 5.06 31 Juan José Oroz (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 32 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana 33 David Millar (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream 34 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 35 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Team Katusha 36 Pierre Rolland (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 5.12 37 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 5.20 38 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 39 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Quick Step 40 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 5.31 41 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Cervélo TestTeam 6.00 42 Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 6.05 43 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 44 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 6.24 45 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 6.27 46 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 7.00 47 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 48 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 49 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 7.47 50 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quick Step 8.41 51 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 52 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 8.55 53 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 9.38 54 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 55 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 56 Theo Eltink (Ned) Skil-Shimano 57 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 58 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 59 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 11.16 60 Andreï Amador (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 61 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 62 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 12.58 63 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 64 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 65 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 66 Kort de Koen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 67 Cyril Gautier (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 68 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 13.34 69 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 70 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team Saxo Bank 71 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 72 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad 73 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Astana 15.45 74 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana 75 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 76 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Rabobank 16.27 77 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 78 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 79 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Katusha 80 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 81 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 82 Danny Pate (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 83 Joan Horrach (Spa) Team Katusha 84 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 85 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 17.17 86 Matthias Russ (Ger) Team Milram 87 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 88 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis 89 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis 90 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 91 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Astana 92 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 93 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 94 Francisco Reda (Ita) Quick Step 95 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 96 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step 97 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 98 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 99 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 100 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team Saxo Bank 101 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Quick Step 102 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 103 Hayden Roulston (NZl) Cervélo TestTeam 104 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream 105 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 106 Kévin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step 107 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 19.24 108 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 109 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Silence-Lotto 110 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 111 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Astana 112 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Astana 113 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - Highroad 114 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 115 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 116 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 117 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 118 Alan Perez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 119 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 120 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 121 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 122 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 123 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 124 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre - N.G.C. 125 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Rabobank 126 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 127 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Team Katusha 128 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 129 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 130 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Team Katusha 131 Yohann Gene (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 132 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 133 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 134 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad 135 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 20.05 136 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 23.04 137 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Team Katusha 25.31 138 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Cervélo TestTeam 139 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) Cervélo TestTeam 140 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 29.27 DNF Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre - N.G.C. DNF Thomas Voeckler (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom DNF Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux DNF Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Silence-Lotto DNF Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R La Mondiale Sprints Rasteau - 24.5 km 1 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3 pts 2 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 2 3 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 1 Forcalquier - 155.5 km . Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 3 pts 2 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 2 3 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 1 La Montagne de Lure - 182.5 Km 1 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 25 pts 2 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 22 3 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 20 4 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 18 5 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 16 6 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 15 7 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 14 8 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 13 9 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel 12 10 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 11 11 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 10 12 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 9 13 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 8 14 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 7 15 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 6 16 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 5 17 Antonio Colom (Spa) Team Katusha 4 18 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 3 19 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 2 20 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 Mountains Côte du Pas du Ventoux (Cat. 2), 51.5 Km 1 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 7 pts 2 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 5 3 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 3 4 Alan Perez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2 5 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 1 Côte de Ferrassières (Cat. 2), 78.0 Km 1 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 7 pts 2 Alan Perez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 5 3 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 3 4 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 2 5 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1 Côte de Saint-Martin-les-Eaux (Cat. 3), 129.0 Km 1 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 4 pts 2 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 2 3 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 1 Col de la Mort d'Imbert (Cat. 3), 141.0 Km 1 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 4 pts 2 Alan Perez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2 3 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1 Côte des Mourres (Cat. 3), 158.5 Km 1 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 4 pts 2 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Team Katusha 2 3 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 La Montagne de Lure - 182.5 Km 1 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 10 pts 2 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 8 3 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 4 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 4 5 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 3 6 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 2 7 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1 Young riders 1 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 4.49.20 2 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 0.12 3 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 0.16 4 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0.28 5 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 1.13 6 Pierre Rolland (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 3.38 7 Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 4.31 8 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 4.50 9 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 4.53 10 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 5.26 11 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 7.07 12 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 7.21 13 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 8.04 14 Andreï Amador (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 9.42 15 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 16 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 11.24 17 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 18 Cyril Gautier (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 19 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 12.00 20 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 15.43 21 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 22 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 23 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream 24 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 17.50 25 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 26 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 27 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 28 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 29 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 30 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 31 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 32 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 33 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 18.31 34 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 21.30 35 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Team Katusha 23.57 36 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 27.53 Teams 1 Team Saxo Bank 14.27.31 2 Française des Jeux 3.36 3 Caisse d'Epargne 3.49 4 Quick Step 4.47 5 Silence - Lotto 5.33 6 Agritubel 7.37 7 Cofidis 7.57 8 Team Katusha 8.05 9 Team Milram 9.14 10 AG2R-La Mondiale 11 Euskaltel - Euskadi 9.24 12 Skil-Shimano 13.26 13 Bbox Bouygues Telecom 15.59 14 Astana 16.38 15 Liquigas 17.37 16 Garmin - Slipstream 20.09 17 Rabobank 23.25 18 Team Columbia - Highroad 30.34 19 Cervélo Test Team 36.21 20 Lampre - NGC 49.45 General classification after stage 6 1 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 23.21.08 2 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.13 3 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 1.24 4 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 1.38 5 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 2.01 6 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 2.06 7 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2.14 8 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 2.29 9 Antonio Colom (Spa) Team Katusha 2.35 10 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 3.09 11 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3.32 12 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel 4.16 13 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia - Highroad 4.38 14 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 4.45 15 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Rabobank 4.46 16 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 5.12 17 David Millar (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream 5.30 18 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 5.37 19 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 6.04 20 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence-Lotto 6.12 21 Juan José Oroz (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6.31 22 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 6.39 23 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 6.42 24 Markus Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 7.04 25 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 7.32 26 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team Milram 7.47 27 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana 7.55 28 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 8.42 29 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 9.19 30 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 9.32 31 Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 10.25 32 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quick Step 10.27 33 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Quick Step 10.29 34 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 10.37 35 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 10.39 36 Pierre Rolland (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 11.14 37 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas 11.55 38 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 12.03 39 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 12.28 40 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 12.43 41 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 12.59 42 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 13.50 43 Theo Eltink (Ned) Skil-Shimano 13.55 44 Kort de Koen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 15.01 45 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 15.06 46 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 15.29 47 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 15.56 48 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Team Katusha 16.33 49 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 16.37 50 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 16.42 51 Andreï Amador (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 17.06 52 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 17.25 53 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 17.27 54 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 18.07 55 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 18.12 56 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 19.11 57 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 19.33 58 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 19.41 59 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 19.48 60 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 20.17 61 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Katusha 20.18 62 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 20.35 63 Joan Horrach (Spa) Team Katusha 20.39 64 Hayden Roulston (NZl) Cervélo TestTeam 20.47 65 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team Saxo Bank 20.51 66 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Astana 21.08 67 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis 21.09 68 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 21.38 69 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 21.53 70 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Rabobank 21.56 71 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Cervélo TestTeam 22.12 72 Francisco Reda (Ita) Quick Step 22.38 73 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 74 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team Saxo Bank 22.40 75 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 22.56 76 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 23.01 77 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Rabobank 23.26 78 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 23.30 79 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 23.38 80 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Silence-Lotto 23.51 81 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 23.52 82 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 24.05 83 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 24.27 84 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 24.52 85 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 25.09 86 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 25.32 87 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 25.50 88 Danny Pate (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 25.51 89 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 26.53 90 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 26.56 91 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre - N.G.C. 27.01 92 Kévin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step 28.07 93 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 28.12 94 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana 28.21 95 Cyril Gautier (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 28.54 96 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Cervélo TestTeam 29.13 97 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 30.06 98 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 30.22 99 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 31.15 100 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 31.55 101 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 32.30 102 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - Highroad 33.02 103 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 33.32 104 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 33.52 105 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Quick Step 34.15 106 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 34.26 107 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Astana 34.54 108 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Team Katusha 109 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 35.16 110 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 35.25 111 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Silence-Lotto 35.27 112 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 35.31 113 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad 35.33 114 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 115 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Milram 35.54 116 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 35.56 117 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 36.31 118 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 36.32 119 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 36.51 120 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Astana 37.12 121 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis 37.25 122 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 37.55 123 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad 38.03 124 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 38.44 125 Alan Perez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 40.20 126 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step 40.32 127 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 40.49 128 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 41.22 129 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 44.17 130 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Team Katusha 44.49 131 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Team Katusha 47.14 132 Yohann Gene (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 47.53 133 Matthias Russ (Ger) Team Milram 48.54 134 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 50.07 135 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 50.26 136 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 51.41 137 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 52.09 138 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream 55.27 139 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) Cervélo TestTeam 58.42 140 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Astana 1.02.16 Points classification 1 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 63 pts 2 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 62 3 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 59 4 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 59 5 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 44 6 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 41 7 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 39 8 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 35 9 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 34 10 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 32 11 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad 32 12 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 31 13 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 30 14 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel 30 15 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 29 16 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 29 17 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Rabobank 28 18 Antonio Colom (Spa) Team Katusha 27 19 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 27 20 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 26 21 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 25 22 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 25 23 David Millar (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream 24 24 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 24 25 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 22 26 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 20 27 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 20 28 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 20 29 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 19 30 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 18 31 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 16 32 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia - Highroad 16 33 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 16 34 Kévin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step 16 35 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 15 36 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 13 37 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 12 38 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 12 39 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram 11 40 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 11 41 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 11 42 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 10 43 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 9 44 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 9 45 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 8 46 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8 47 Kort de Koen (Ned) Skil-Shimano 8 48 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 8 49 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 8 50 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 7 51 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team Columbia - Highroad 7 52 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 7 53 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 6 54 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 6 55 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 6 56 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team Saxo Bank 6 57 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 5 58 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 4 59 Markus Fothen (Ger) Team Milram 4 60 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 4 61 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Astana 4 62 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3 63 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence-Lotto 3 64 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 3 65 Theo Eltink (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3 66 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 3 67 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Team Katusha 3 68 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team Milram 2 69 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana 1 70 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 1 71 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 1 72 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 1 Mountains classification 1 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 47 pts 2 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 32 3 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 23 4 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 16 5 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 15 6 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 14 7 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 12 8 Alan Perez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 9 9 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 8 10 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 8 11 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 7 12 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 7 13 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 14 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 6 15 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 5 16 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 5 17 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence-Lotto 4 18 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3 19 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 2 20 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2 21 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Team Katusha 2 22 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2 23 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 2 24 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2 25 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team Saxo Bank 1 26 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 1 27 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 1 28 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1 29 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 1 30 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 1 31 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam 1 32 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1 Young rider classification 1 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Quick Step 23.23.09 2 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 0.28 3 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom 1.08 4 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 3.11 5 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 6.41 6 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis 7.31 7 Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 8.24 8 Pierre Rolland (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 9.13 9 Mickael Cherel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 10.42 10 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 11.49 11 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 13.55 12 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 14.41 13 Andreï Amador (CRc) Caisse d'Epargne 15.05 14 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 15.24 15 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam 16.11 16 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 17.32 17 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 21.29 18 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 22.26 19 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Agritubel 22.51 20 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 23.08 21 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 24.52 22 Cyril Gautier (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 26.53 23 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 28.05 24 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 29.54 25 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 31.31 26 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 33.15 27 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 33.30 28 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad 33.32 29 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 34.50 30 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 35.54 31 Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 38.48 32 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Silence-Lotto 39.21 33 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 42.16 34 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Team Katusha 45.13 35 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 48.25 36 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream 53.26 Teams classification 1 Team Saxo Bank 70.09.41 2 Quick Step 4.09 3 Française des Jeux 6.56 4 Caisse d'Epargne 7.34 5 Cofidis 8.36 6 Team Katusha 8.54 7 Silence - Lotto 9.22 8 Euskaltel - Euskadi 11.12 9 Agritubel 12.30 10 AG2R-La Mondiale 14.29 11 Team Milram 14.41 12 Skil-Shimano 15.43 13 Bbox Bouygues Telecom 20.04 14 Rabobank 21.05 15 Astana 21.16 16 Liquigas 23.52 17 Garmin - Slipstream 24.07 18 Team Columbia - Highroad 34.08 19 Cervélo Test Team 42.36 20 Lampre - NGC 53.40
