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22nd Tour de Normandie - 2.5
France, March 25-31, 2002
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Stage 1 - March 26: Lisieux - Forges-les-Eaux, 181 km
Second crown for Team Krone's sprinter
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By Jean-Francois Quenet in Forges-les-Eaux
Team Krone has claimed its second victory in three days: after opening his professional record book in the Classic Loire-Atlantique on Saturday, former Norwegian National champion Rune Jogert doubled up in the first stage of the Tour de Normandie a few meters away from the casino of Forges-les-Eaux - the nearest from Paris.
Jogert, 25, is a sprinter in the making. But he doesn't mind getting in breakaways as well. Once the first attackers - Christophe Thébault, Bogdan Bondariew, Sylvain Anquetil and Vladimir Sidorenkov - got caught despite their nine minute advantage before the Mapei young team began to chase, another move was formed with 11 riders: three from Bonjour, Olivier Perraudeau, Jérôme Pineau and Frédéric Mainguenaud, plus Normandy's local Benoît Legrix, BigMat's Niels Brouzes, Jorgen Bo Petersen of Fakta, Russian Andrei Pchelkin, Croatian Radoslav Rogina, Frederic Delalande from Jean Floc'h, Jogert and the runner-up in the opening time trial Raimondas Vilcinskas from Mroz. But no one from Mapei.
In fact, race leader Pozzato had a flat when the gap was getting thinner. "And two of our guys - Aurelien Clerc and Graziano Gasparre - were kind of sick," Pozzato explained. "With a team of only six riders, we couldn't control the whole race."
Jogert was smart against three Bonjour, representing the only division 1 team taking part in the Tour de Normandie. "In the final lap, I just sat on wheels," he said. "I didn't care about the attacks. I have the feeling that some of the riders knew that I was a sprinter because the started looking back at me after the last curve, but that was too late, I already had the speed on."
Jogert made his effort from more than 200 meters to the line and won easily.
"This is unbelievable, team director Oyvind Lillehagen reacted. I'm ready to sign now for a win every third day until the end of the season!"
Team Krone is a brand new team. It's the first professional team from Norway ever and they're having a great start. Jogert won as the team was visited by the two managers behind the organisation: Birger Hungerholdt from Sponsorservice who is the money backer for many Norwegian athletes as well as the organizer of the Ringerike Grand Prix (1-5 May) and Johann Kaggestad, father of Mads who is one the very promising riders in the team and personal trainer for different sportsmen as well as a TV commentator for any sport.
Jogert won on the same finishing line of Forges-les-Eaux as his compatriot and friend Thor Hushovd one year before. Hushovd, originally from the same Ringerike Sykkel Klub as the Team Krone riders, claimed the overall in the Tour of Normandy last year. His successor is actually ranked fourth. The new leader is Raimondas Vilcinskas, a Lithuanian from the Polish MROZ squad.
Results
1 Rune Jogert (Nor) Team Krone 4.26.56 2 Benoît Legrix (Fra) Normandie 3 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bonjour 4 Radolav Rogina (Slo) KRKA 5 Niels Brouzes (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 6 Frederic Delalande (Fra) Jean Floc'h 7 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Tea fakta 8 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour 9 Frederic Mainguenaud (Fra) Bonjour 10 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Mroz 11 Andrei Pchelkin (Rus) Moscow 0.03 12 Aleksander Klimienko (Kaz) Mroz 1.27 13 Mark Vlijm (Ned) AXA 1.33 14 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Mapei 15 Sergei Polukhin (Rus) Moscow 16 Geoffroy Lequattre (Fra) Credit-Agricole 17 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team fakta 18 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bonjour 19 Jérôme Riglet (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 20 Mitja Mahoric (Slo) KRKA 21 Morten Sonne (Den) Team Fakta 22 Philippe Gascon (Fra) Panorimmo-23 23 Rene Jorgensen (Den) Team Fakta 24 Mathieu Lamothe (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 25 David Breard (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 26 Mariusz Kaminski (Pol) Legia 27 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Mroz 28 Wojtech Muchka (Cze) Joko-Velamos 29 Arkadius Wojtas (Pol) Nurnberger 30 Nicolas Andre (Fra) Panorimmo-23 31 Laurent Paumier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin 32 Jos Lucassen (Ned) Axa-VVZ 33 Jacek Walczak (Pol) Legia 34 Lars Breiseth (Nor) Team Krone 35 Marc Chanoine (Bel) Marlux 36 Kjetil Loitegaard (Nor) Team Krone 37 Yanto Barker (GBr) VC Roubaix 38 Aidan Duff (Ire) Panorimmo-23 39 Remigijus Lupeikis (Ltu) Mroz 40 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Krone 41 Branko Filip (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom 42 Vincent Greneche (Fra) Panorimmo-23 43 Vladimir Sidorenkov (Rus) Moscou CS 44 Tony Cavet (Fra) Normandie 45 Dominique Pere (Fra) Panorimmo-23 46 Pavel Zugaj (Pol) Mroz 47 Camille Bouquet (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 48 Ludovic Lanceleur (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 49 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 50 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 51 Vincent Templier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin 52 Bogdan Bondariev (Ukr) Mroz 53 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Nürnberger 54 Alexei Garanine (Rus) Moscou CS 55 Cedric Jourdan (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 56 Samuel Gicquel (Fra) Jean Floc'h 57 Helder Lopes (Por) Porta da Ravessa 58 Christophe Thebault (Fra) Jean Floc'h 59 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs 60 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs 61 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Legia 62 Walter Bonca (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom 63 Damien Pommereau (Fra) VC Rouen 76 64 Cyril Bos (Fra) Normandie 65 Bostjan Mervar (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom 66 Tony Mace (Fra) Normandie 67 Pavel Zerzan (Cze) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs 68 Pedro Martins (Por) Porta da Ravessa 69 Jean-Philippe Yon (Fra) VC Rouen 76 70 Stephane Ravaleu (Fra) VC Rouen 76 71 Nicolas L'Hote (Fra) VC Roubaix 72 Domingo Segado (Spa) Porta da Ravessa 73 Florian Ludi (Fra) Team Jura Suisse 74 Helder Miranda (Por) Porta da Ravessa 75 Nicolas Meret (Fra) VC Rouen 76 76 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux 77 Carlo Meneghetti (Fra) VC Roubaix 78 Francisco Perez (Spa) Porta da Ravessa 79 Sylvain Anquetil (Fra) VC Rouen 76 80 Marcel Luppes (Ned) Axa-VVZ 81 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quickstep 82 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux 83 Radek Blahut (Cze) Joko-Velamos 84 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Team Krone 85 Ronny Lauke (Ger) Nürnberger 86 Pierre Ackermann (Swi) Team Jura Suisse 87 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) Mapei Quick-Step 88 Jure Golser (Ger) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom 89 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour 90 Bjornar Vestol (Nor) Team Fakta 91 Dany Caprais (Fra) VC Rouen 76 92 Marc Vanacker (Lux) Marlux 93 Daniel Van Elven (Ned) Axa-VVZ 94 Kilian Patour (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 12.17 95 Kasper Sowinski (Pol) Legia 96 Roman Peter (Swi) Oktos-St-Quentin 97 Alexandre Sergueev (Rus) Moscou CS 98 Frederic Lecrosnier (Fra) Jean Floc'h 99 David Lelay (Fra) Jean Floc'h 100 Serguei Koudentsov (Rus) Moscou CS 101 Arnaud Pretot (Fra) Oktis-ST-Quentin 102 Philippe Koehler (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin 103 Marek Blazej (Pol) Legia 104 Giuseppe Ribolzi (Ita) Team Jura Suisse 105 Tomas Hanauer (Cze) Joko-Velamos 106 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Marlux 107 John Den Braber (Ned) Axa-VVZ 108 Frederic Lubach (Fra) VC Roubaix 109 Fabien Merciris (Fra) Normandie 110 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Jean Floc'h 111 Grzegorz Zoledziowski (Pol) Legia 112 Jacques Chapatte (Swi) Team Jura Suisse 113 Jan Faltynek (Cze) Joko-Velamos 114 Alexandre Kozlov (Blr) VC Roubaix 115 Thomas Buchacek (Cze) Joko-Velamos 116 Armin Kroniger (Ger) Nurnberger 117 Jose Sousa (Spa) Porta da Ravessa 118 Gaetan Marques (Fra) Marlux 119 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Bonjour 120 Guillaume Judas (Fra) Jean Floc'h 121 Credic Coutouly (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 122 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nurnberger 123 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Panorimmo-23 124 Martin Kankovsky (Swi) Joko-Velamos 125 David Chassot (Swi) Team Jura Suisse 126 Michel Klinger (Swi) Team Jura Suissa 127 Stephane Petilleau (Fra) VC Roubaix 15.07 128 Eric Kerloch (Fra) Normandie 23.36 Dnf Tore Bekken (Nor) Team Krone Dnf Edwin Dunning (Ned) Axa-VVZ General classification after stage 1 1 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Mroz 4.33.49 2 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Fakta 0.04 3 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bonjour 0.06 4 Rune Jogert (Nor) Team Krone 0.17 5 Niels Brouzes (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 0.18 6 Frédéric Mainguenaud (Fra) Bonjour 0.20 7 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) KRKA 8 Benoît Legrix (Fra) Normandy 0.25 9 Andrei Pchelkin (Rus) Moscow 0.32 10 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour 11 Frédéric Delalande (Fra) Jean Floc.h 0.36 12 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Mapei 1.27 13 Aleksander Klimienko (Rus) Moscow 1.43 14 Pierre Ackermann (Swi) Jura Suisse 15 Ronny Lauke (Ger) Nurnberger 16 Graziano Gasparre (ITa) Mapei 1.44 17 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) Mroz 18 Geoffroy Lequattre (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.45 19 Carlo Meneghetti (Fra) VC Roubaix 20 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Mapei 21 Mitje Mahoric (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom 1.46 22 Pavel Zerzan (Cze) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs 1.48 23 Walter Bonca (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom 24 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Nürnberger 1.49 25 Mathieu Lamothe (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 26 Branko Filip (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom 27 Damien Pommereau (Fra) VC Rouen 76 1.50 28 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team Fakta 29 Camille Bouquet (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 1.51 30 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Team Krone 1.52 31 Samuel Gicquel (Fra) Jean Floc'h 1.53 32 Bostjan Mervar (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom 33 David Breard (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 34 Yanto Barker (GBr) VC Roubaix 1.54 35 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour 36 Remigijus Lupeikis (Ltu) Mroz 37 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quickstep 38 Rene Jorgensen (Den) Team Fakta 1.55 39 Sylvain Anquetil (Fra) VC Rouen 76 40 Ludovic Lanceleur (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 1.56 41 Bjornar Vestol (Nor) Team Fakta 42 Vincent Templier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin 43 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Krone 44 Christophe Thebault (Fra) Jean Floc'h 45 Cedric Jourdan (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 46 Mark Vlijm (Ned) Axa-VVZ 47 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 1.57 48 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bonjour 49 Pavel Zugaj (Pol) Mroz 50 Jure Golser (Ger) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom 1.58 51 Vladimir Sidorenkov (Rus) Moscou CS 52 Lars Breiseth (Nor) Team Krone 1.59 53 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux 54 Daniel Van Elven (Ned) Axa-VVZ 55 Arkadius Wojtas (Pol) Nurnberger 56 Nicolas Meret (Fra) VC Rouen 76 57 Jerome Riglet (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 58 Laurent Paumier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin 2.00 59 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 60 Dany Caprais (Fra) VC Rouen 76 61 Cyril Bos (Fra) Normandie 2.02 62 Jos Lucassen (Ned) Axa-VVZ 2.03 63 Marc Chanoine (Bel) Marlux 2.04 64 Radek Blahut (Cze) Joko-Velamos 65 Florian Ludu (Fra) Team Jura Suisse 2.06 66 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Mroz 2.07 67 Morten Sonne (Den) Team Fakta 68 Mariusz Kaminski (Pol) Legia 69 Wojtech Muchka (Cze) Joko-Velamos 70 Jacek Walczak (Pol) Legia 2.08 71 Nicolas L'Hote (Fra) VC Roubaix 72 Domingo Segado (Spa) Porta da Ravessa 73 Aidan Duff (Ire) Panorimmo-23 74 Marc Vanacker (Lux) Marlux 2.09 75 Alexei Garanine (Rus) Moscou CS 76 Kjetil Loitegaard (Nor) Team Krone 77 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Legia 2.10 78 Nicolas Andre (Fra) Panorimmo-23 79 Jean-Philippe Yon (Fra) VC Rouen 76 80 Serguey Polukhin (Rus) Moscou CS 2.11 81 Helder Lopes (Por) Porta da Ravessa 82 Vincent Greneche (Fra) Panorimmo-23 2.12 83 Stephane Ravaleu (Fra) VC Rouen 76 84 Helder Miranda (Por) Porta da Ravessa 2.13 85 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) Mapei Quick-Step 2.15 86 Philippe Gascon (Fra) Panorimmo-23 2.17 87 Dominique Pere (Fra) Panorimmo-23 88 Pedro Martins (Por) Porta da Ravessa 2.18 89 Tony Mace (Fra) Normandie 90 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux 2.20 91 Marcel Luppes (Ned) Axa-VVZ 2.21 92 Tony Cavet (Fra) Normandie 2.24 93 Francisco Perez (Spa) Porta da Ravessa 2.33 94 Kilian Patour (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 12.28 95 Credic Coutouly (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 12.32 96 Alexandre Kozlov (Blr) VC Roubaix 12.34 97 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nurnberger 12.36 98 Philippe Koehler (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin 12.38 99 Roman Peter (Swi) Oktos-St-Quentin 12.43 100 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Marlux 101 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Jean Floc'h 102 Frederic Lecrosnier (Fra) Jean Floc'h 12.44 103 Alexandre Sergueev (Rus) Moscou CS 12.47 104 David Lelay (Fra) Jean Floc'h 12.49 105 Jan Faltynek (Cze) Joko-Velamos 106 Frederic Lubach (Fra) VC Roubaix 107 Fabien Merciris (Fra) Normandie 12.51 108 Armin Kroniger (Ger) Nurnberger 109 Marek Blazej (Pol) Legia 12.52 110 Serguei Koudentsov (Rus) Moscou CS 111 Kasper Sowinski (Pol) Legia 12.53 112 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Bonjour 113 Giuseppe Ribolzi (Ita) Team Jura Suisse 12.55 114 Grzegorz Zoledziowski (Pol) Legia 13.00 115 Jacques Chapatte (Swi) Team Jura Suisse 13.03 116 Martin Kankovsky (Swi) Joko-Velamos 13.06 117 Tomas Hanauer (Cze) Joko-Velamos 118 Arnaud Pretot (Fra) Oktis-ST-Quentin 13.10 119 John Den Braber (Ned) Axa-VVZ 120 Thomas Buchacek (Cze) Joko-Velamos 13.14 121 Jose Sousa (Spa) Porta da Ravessa 13.15 122 Michel Klinger (Swi) Team Jura Suissa 13.17 123 David Chassot (Swi) Team Jura Suisse 13.18 124 Guillaume Judas (Fra) Jean Floc'h 125 Gaetan Marques (Fra) Marlux 13.20 126 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Panorimmo-23 13.25 127 Stephane Petilleau (Fra) VC Roubaix 15.41 128 Eric Kerloch (Fra) Normandie 24.14
