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17th GP Cycliste de Beauce - 2.3
Canada, June 17-23, 2002
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Stage 4 - June 20: Saint-Georges - Mont Mégantic, 171 km
Stephane Barthe takes Mont Megantic
Matt Decanio Shines in Yellow
By Giana Roberge, team Saturn
Today was what is considered to be the toughest stage in the seven day Tour de Beauce, with the riders enduring 171 kilometers of relentless hills with a final five kilometer grind at 10-15% up Mont Megantic.
After leaving St George the peloton raced furiously for 70 kilometers with many breakaway attempts. However, the yellow jersey Team of Nurnberger and several other teams contained all attempts though until finally a group of three riders who were completely out of overall contention were allowed to escape. Eventually the trio of Stephane Barthe, Alexandre Chouffe both of Saint Quentin/Oktos and Andy Cappelle of Marlux built up to a ten minute lead on the complacent peloton lead by the Nurnberger Team.
Chouffe was dropped due to a mechanical with Barthe and Cappelle eventually crossing the line 1-2 respectively in the stage. They were of no concern overall as they were over 20 minutes down in the classification going into the stage. Thus, the overall contenders in the main group licked their chops as the finishing climb approached, knowing that a good push up the climb would put them in solid GC positions going into tomorrow's time trial test.
Danny Pate of Prime Alliance was the first to accelerate at the bottom of the first incline which was a steep pitch of about 15% grade. He succeeded in splitting a group of six off the front with Saturn's Soren Petersen and Pate's teammate Matt Decanio able to follow his lead. As the climb continued, it was Decanio who eventually accelerated two kilometers from the summit, creating the final split. Only Christian Werner of Nurnberger was able to follow him.
500 meters from the top Decanio dropped Werner on the last 15% pitch, making it to the line clear of Michael Rogers of Mapei who had moved passed Werner as well. Petersen hung on for eighth, 46 seconds down on Decanio in the stage. DeCanio's impressive ride puts him in the Yellow Leader's Jersey just four seconds ahead of Rogers going into tomorrow's time trial.
Results
1 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 4.37.17 2 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 2.02 3 Matt Decanio (USA) Prime Alliance 2.44 4 Michael Rogers (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 2.52 5 Christian Werner (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 2.57 6 Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance 3.07 7 Petr Bencik (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 3.11 8 Soren Petersen (Den) Saturn 3.30 9 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 3.32 10 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nürnberger - Versicherung 3.33 11 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 3.36 12 Artour Babaitsev (Rus) Nürnberger - Versicherung 3.44 13 Phil Zajicek (USA) Mercury 3.50 14 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 4.15 15 Thomas Liese (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 4.16 16 Jose Rujano (Ven) Tecos - Turbo 4.22 17 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators 4.27 18 Martin Laciak (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 4.36 19 Leonardo Zanotti (Ita) Mapei - Quick Step 4.38 20 Jean-Sébastien Maheu (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 4.43 21 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 4.48 22 Francois Parisien (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 4.49 23 Russell Stevenson (USA) Prime Alliance 4.55 24 Alan Iacuone (Aus) IteamNova.com 5.01 25 Allan Davis (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 5.10 26 Sergey Tretyakov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 5.24 27 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 5.41 28 Vincent Templier (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 5.43 29 Damon Kluck (USA) Saturn 5.53 30 David McKenzie (Aus) IteamNova.com 6.15 31 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators 6.16 32 Dominique Rollin (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 6.22 33 Jesus Zarate (Mex) Mercury 6.57 34 Sergey Lavrenenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan 6.58 35 Jean-Francois Laroche (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 7.10 36 Tom Leaper (Aus) Navigators 7.15 37 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 7.20 38 Florencio Ramos (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 7.34 39 Simon Small (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 7.45 40 Jean-Francois Racine (Can) Québec 7.49 41 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 7.55 42 Bruno Langlois (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 7.56 43 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 7.59 44 Cory Lange (Can) Québec 7.59 45 Mike Sayers (USA) Mercury 8.02 46 Dominique Perras (Can) IteamNova.com 8.12 47 Steven De Neef (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 8.35 48 Charles Dionne (Can) 7UP Nutra Fig 8.38 49 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 8.55 50 Christophe Chezeau (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 9.11 51 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 9.20 52 Denis Tupchenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan 9.25 53 Miguel Mesa Flores (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 9.33 54 Holger Sievers (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 9.53 55 Ubaldo Mesa (Col) Tecos - Turbo 9.57 56 Jeff Hansen (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 10.01 57 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 10.09 58 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators 11.14 59 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators 11.17 60 Oleg Grishkine (Rus) Navigators 11.20 61 John Lieswyn (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 11.20 62 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators 11.27 63 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Mapei - Quick Step 11.44 64 Jay Sweet (Aus) Saturn 11.46 65 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei - Quick Step 11.46 66 Philippe Viau (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 12.01 67 John Peters (USA) Prime Alliance 12.07 68 Arnaud Pretot (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 12.10 69 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakhstan 12.26 70 Adham Sbeih (USA) Mercury 12.29 71 Cédric Sermet (Swi) Les Espoirs de Laval 12.44 72 Jose Manuel Garcia (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 13.21 73 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 13.29 74 Henk Vogels (Aus) Mercury 13.33 75 Gordon Fraser (Can) Mercury 13.33 76 Doug Ziewacz (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 13.50 77 Corey Jay (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 14.10 78 Trent Wilson (Aus) IteamNova.com 14.25 79 Alain Guimont (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 15.20 80 Jindrich Vana (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 15.50 81 Alex Candelario (USA) Prime Alliance 16.44 82 Josh Hall (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 16.44 83 Svein Tuft (Can) Prime Alliance 16.44 84 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 17.40 85 Pierre-Olivier Boily (Can) Québec 17.43 86 Ariel De Cardenas (Can) Québec 18.08 87 Christian Lademann (Ger) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 18.31 88 Brett Lancaster (Aus) IteamNova.com 18.38 89 Scott Guyton (NZl) IteamNova.com 19.07 90 Greg Henderson (NZl) 7UP Nutra Fig 19.53 91 Chris Fisher (USA) Saturn 20.27 92 Andrew Randell (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 20.36 93 Charles Coyle (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 21.44 94 Jaromir Friede (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 22.07 95 Gaëtan Marques (Fra) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 22.45 96 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 24.29 97 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Nürnberger - Versicherung 24.50 98 Sasa Sviben (Slo) Nürnberger - Versicherung 24.50 99 Ross Hooker (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 1.03.29 100 Paul Rego (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 1.03.29 101 Jose Isabel Garcia (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 1.03.29 DNF Stanislav Tancer (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz DNF Alexandre Cloutier (Can) Volkswagen - Trek DNF Clark Sheehan (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig DNF Ryan Roth (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee DNF Antoine Varghese (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC DNF Julien Vergere (Swi) Les Espoirs de Laval DNF Buck Miller (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee DNF Mathieu Roy (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval DNF Jean-Philippe Houle-Paradis (Can) Québec DNF Scott Moninger (USA) Mercury General classification after stage 4 1 Matt Decanio (USA) Prime Alliance 12.19.22 2 Michael Rogers (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 0.04 3 Christian Werner (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 0.15 4 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nürnberger - Versicherung 0.21 5 Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance 0.23 6 Petr Bencik (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 0.27 7 Soren Petersen (Den) Saturn 0.47 8 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 0.50 9 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 0.53 10 Artour Babaitsev (Rus) Nürnberger - Versicherung 1.01 11 Phil Zajicek (USA) Mercury 1.06 12 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 1.32 13 Thomas Liese (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 1.34 14 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators 1.44 15 Martin Laciak (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 1.51 16 Leonardo Zanotti (Ita) Mapei - Quick Step 1.56 17 Francois Parisien (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 2.04 18 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 2.07 19 Russell Stevenson (USA) Prime Alliance 2.11 20 Jose Rujano (Ven) Tecos - Turbo 2.14 21 Alan Iacuone (Aus) IteamNova.com 2.18 22 Allan Davis (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 2.25 23 Sergey Tretyakov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 2.41 24 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 2.54 25 Vincent Templier (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 3.02 26 David McKenzie (Aus) IteamNova.com 3.06 27 Damon Kluck (USA) Saturn 3.09 28 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators 3.28 29 Mike Sayers (USA) Mercury 5.18 30 Dominique Perras (Can) IteamNova.com 5.35 31 Holger Sievers (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 7.10 32 Cory Lange (Can) Québec 7.11 33 Florencio Ramos (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 7.31 34 Ubaldo Mesa (Col) Tecos - Turbo 7.33 35 Oleg Grishkine (Rus) Navigators 8.43 36 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei - Quick Step 9.39 37 Gordon Fraser (Can) Mercury 10.43 38 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 18.58 39 Scott Guyton (NZl) IteamNova.com 19.04 40 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 20.53 41 Dominique Rollin (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 25.20 42 Jesus Zarate (Mex) Mercury 25.54 43 Jean-Francois Laroche (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 26.04 44 Tom Leaper (Aus) Navigators 26.14 45 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 26.15 46 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 26.50 47 Bruno Langlois (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 26.51 48 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 26.53 49 Steven De Neef (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 27.30 50 Charles Dionne (Can) 7UP Nutra Fig 27.31 51 Christophe Chezeau (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 28.04 52 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 28.14 53 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 28.27 54 Miguel Mesa Flores (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 28.31 55 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 29.05 56 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators 30.10 57 John Lieswyn (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 30.16 58 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators 30.19 59 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators 30.21 60 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Mapei - Quick Step 30.46 61 Jay Sweet (Aus) Saturn 30.50 62 Arnaud Pretot (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 31.41 63 Cédric Sermet (Swi) Les Espoirs de Laval 31.41 64 Jean-Sébastien Maheu (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 31.54 65 Adham Sbeih (USA) Mercury 32.00 66 Jose Manuel Garcia (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 32.15 67 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 32.24 68 Henk Vogels (Aus) Mercury 32.29 69 Simon Small (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 32.41 70 Doug Ziewacz (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 32.43 71 Alex Candelario (USA) Prime Alliance 35.37 72 Svein Tuft (Can) Prime Alliance 35.41 73 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 36.36 74 Christian Lademann (Ger) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 37.27 75 Greg Henderson (NZl) 7UP Nutra Fig 38.47 76 Andrew Randell (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 39.34 77 John Peters (USA) Prime Alliance 39.39 78 Sasa Sviben (Slo) Nürnberger - Versicherung 43.45 79 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Nürnberger - Versicherung 43.46 80 Sergey Lavrenenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan 44.18 81 Jean-Francois Racine (Can) Québec 47.04 82 Chris Fisher (USA) Saturn 47.41 83 Denis Tupchenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan 48.42 84 Trent Wilson (Aus) IteamNova.com 49.35 85 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakhstan 49.43 86 Corey Jay (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 53.23 87 Brett Lancaster (Aus) IteamNova.com 57.51 88 Charles Coyle (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 58.57 89 Jeff Hansen (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 1.00.27 90 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 1.01.42 91 Philippe Viau (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 1.02.26 92 Josh Hall (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 1.03.05 93 Alain Guimont (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 1.05.47 94 Jindrich Vana (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 1.06.15 95 Ariel De Cardenas (Can) Québec 1.06.34 96 Jaromir Friede (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 1.12.30 97 Gaëtan Marques (Fra) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 1.13.09 98 Pierre-Olivier Boily (Can) Québec 1.20.08 99 Ross Hooker (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 1.25.24 100 Jose Isabel Garcia (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 1.53.57 101 Paul Rego (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 2.02.46 Points classification 1 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nürnberger - Versicherung 47 pts 2 David McKenzie (Aus) IteamNova.com 31 3 Gordon Fraser (Can) Mercury 31 4 Allan Davis (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 24 5 Charles Dionne (Can) 7UP Nutra Fig 22 6 Matt Decanio (USA) Prime Alliance 21 7 Petr Bencik (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 20 8 Michael Rogers (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 19 9 Soren Petersen (Den) Saturn 18 10 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 18 11 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 16 12 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators 15 13 Jaromir Friede (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 15 14 Alex Candelario (USA) Prime Alliance 13 15 Pierre-Olivier Boily (Can) Québec 12 16 Christian Lademann (Ger) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 12 17 Christian Werner (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 11 18 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Mapei - Quick Step 11 19 Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance 10 20 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 10 21 Martin Laciak (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 9 22 Christophe Chezeau (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 9 23 Miguel Mesa Flores (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 8 24 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 7 25 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 7 26 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 6 27 Jay Sweet (Aus) Saturn 6 28 Leonardo Zanotti (Ita) Mapei - Quick Step 6 29 Brett Lancaster (Aus) IteamNova.com 6 30 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 5 31 Sergey Tretyakov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 5 32 Artour Babaitsev (Rus) Nürnberger - Versicherung 4 33 Oleg Grishkine (Rus) Navigators 4 34 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators 4 35 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 3 36 Phil Zajicek (USA) Mercury 3 37 Mike Sayers (USA) Mercury 3 38 Greg Henderson (NZl) 7UP Nutra Fig 3 39 Tom Leaper (Aus) Navigators 3 40 Doug Ziewacz (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 3 41 Russell Stevenson (USA) Prime Alliance 2 42 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 2 43 Corey Jay (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 2 44 Thomas Liese (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 1 45 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators 1 46 Sasa Sviben (Slo) Nürnberger - Versicherung 1 47 Gaëtan Marques (Fra) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 1 Mountains 1 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators 28 pts 2 Jose Rujano (Ven) Tecos - Turbo 27 3 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 27 4 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 24 5 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 21 6 Doug Ziewacz (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 20 7 Leonardo Zanotti (Ita) Mapei - Quick Step 18 8 Michael Rogers (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 13 9 Matt Decanio (USA) Prime Alliance 13 10 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nürnberger - Versicherung 10 11 Martin Laciak (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 10 12 Ubaldo Mesa (Col) Tecos - Turbo 10 13 Christian Werner (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 8 14 Phil Zajicek (USA) Mercury 7 15 Alan Iacuone (Aus) IteamNova.com 7 16 Tom Leaper (Aus) Navigators 7 17 Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance 6 18 Holger Sievers (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 5 19 Petr Bencik (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 4 20 David McKenzie (Aus) IteamNova.com 3 21 Soren Petersen (Den) Saturn 3 22 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 3 23 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 3 24 Thomas Liese (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 3 25 Vincent Templier (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 3 26 Trent Wilson (Aus) IteamNova.com 3 27 Damon Kluck (USA) Saturn 2 28 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Mapei - Quick Step 2
