22nd Tour de Normandie - 2.5

France, March 25-31, 2002

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Stage 2 - March 27: Forges-les-Eaux - Elbeuf-sur-Seine, 153 km

Filippo Pozzato wins his second

Filippo Pozzato
Photo ©: Jean-Francois Quenet

Mapei-Quick Step's Filippo Pozzato has won his second stage in the Tour de Normandie, from Forges-les-Eaux to Elbeuf-sur-Seine over 153 kilometres. The prologue winner beat Samuel Gicquel (Jean Floc'h) after a successful attack in the final 800 metres. Graziano Gasparre (Mapei) finished in 3rd place.

The stage was decided 35 kilometres from the finish line, when a small group of 18 riders (containing all the top GC riders) was formed. With 10 kilometres to go, Dmitry Muravyev and Gian Paolo Cheula (Mapei) started to attack, dropping GC leader Vilcinskas who had a puncture. Coming into the finish, Pozzato attacked and left the others behind to take his fifth season win.

"At the beginning of the stage I was suffering with strong stomach pains; I was even thinking of pulling out of the race," said Pozzato. "Then, thankfully, as the race went on things started to get better and I started thinking seriously of winning the stage. In yesterday's stage I was left out of the main decisive breakaway due to intestine problems, something that both Clerc and Gasparre have had problems with too. Today we proved that we are inferior to no one".

Results

1 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs        3.23.47
2 Samuel Gicquel (Fra) Jean Floc'h
3 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs         0.01
4 Philippe Koehler (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin
5 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta
6 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom
7 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bonjour
8 Carlo Meneghetti (Fra) VC Roubaix
9 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour
10 Laurent Paumier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin)
11 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team fakta
12 Pierre Ackermann (Swi) Team Jura Suisse
13 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quickstep
14 Pavel Zerzan (Cze) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs
15 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) Mapei Quick-Step
16 Rene Jorgensen (Den) Team fakta
17 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
18 Jure Golser (Ger) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom)
19 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Mroz                         0.53
20 Mark Vlijm (Ned) Axa-VVZ                                1.02
21 Serguey Polukhin (Rus) Moscou CS
22 Benoit Legrix (Fra) Normandie
23 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
24 Oliver Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour
25 Mitje Mahoric (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom
26 Yanto Barker (GBr) VC Roubaix
27 Philippe Gascon (Fra) Panorimmo-23
28 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Nürnberger
29 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bonjour
30 Marc Vanacker (Lux) Marlux
31 Remigijus Lupeikis (Ltu) Mroz
32 Ludovic Lanceleur (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
33 Tony Mace (Fra) Normandie
34 Wojtech Muchka (Cze) Joko-Velamos
35 Rune Jogert (Nor) Team Krone
36 David Breard (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
37 Vincent Greneche (Fra) Panorimmo-23
38 Nicolas Andre (Fra) Panorimmo-23
39 Lars Breiseth (Nor) Team Krone
40 Jacek Walczak (Pol) Legia
41 Vincent Templier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin
42 Helder Lopes (Por) Porta da Ravessa
43 Marcel Luppes (Ned) Axa-VVZ
44 Sylvain Anquetil (Fra) VC Rouen 76
45 Branko Filip (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom
46 Dany Caprais (Fra) VC Rouen 76
47 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Legia
48 Aleksander Klimienko (Kaz) Mroz
49 Niels Brouzes (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
50 Michel Klinger (Swi) Team Jura Suissa
51 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
52 Domingo Segado (Spa) Porta da Ravessa
53 Florian Ludi (Swi) Team Jura Suisse
54 Jean-Philippe Yon (Fra) VC Rouen 76
55 Camille Bouquet (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
56 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Krone
57 Bostjan Mervar (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom
58 Nicolas Meret (Fra) VC Rouen 76
59 Frederic Lecrosnier (Fra) Jean Floc'h
60 Radek Blahut (Cze) Joko-Velamos
61 Christophe Thebault (Fra) Jean Floc'h
62 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
63 Frederic Delalande (Fra) Jean Floc'h
64 Frederic Mainguenaud (Fra) Bonjour
65 Alexandre Kozlov (Blr) VC Roubaix
66 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux
67 Andrey Pchtelkine (Fra) Moscou CS
68 Mathieu Lamothe (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
69 Marc Chanoine (Bel) Marlux
70 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Team Krone
71 Ronny Lauke (Ger) Nürnberger
72 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Mroz
73 Frederic Lubach (Fra) VC Roubaix
74 Arkadius Wojtas (Pol) Nurnberger
75 Morten Sonne (Den) Team fakta
76 Bjornar Vestol (Nor) Team fakta
77 Kjetil Loitegaard (Nor) Team Krone
78 David Chassot (Swi) Team Jura Suisse
79 Mariusz Kaminski (Pol) Legia
80 Walter Bonca (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom
81 Credic Coutouly (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
82 Alexei Garanine (Rus) Moscou CS
83 Damien Pommereau (Fra) VC Rouen 76
84 Jose Sousa (Spa) Porta da Ravessa
85 Stephane Petilleau (Fra) VC Roubaix
86 Guillaume Judas (Fra) Jean Floc'h
87 Stephane Ravaleu (Fra) VC Rouen 76
88 Pedro Martins (Por) Porta da Ravessa
89 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nurnberger                            3.57
90 Francisco Perez (Spa) Porta da Ravessa
91 Arnaud Pretot (Fra) Oktis-ST-Quentin                   10.07
92 Jan Faltynek (Cze) Joko-Velamos
93 Aidan Duff (Ire) Panorimmo-23                          12.18
94 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Panorimmo-23
95 Daniel Van Elven (Ned) Axa-VVZ                         16.02
96 Jos Lucassen (Ned) Axa-VVZ
97 Kasper Sowinski (Pol) Legia
98 Grzegorz Zoledziowski (Pol) Legia
99 Vladimir Sidorenkov (Rus) Moscou CS
100 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux
101 Cyril Bos (Fra) Normandie
102 Fabien Merciris (Fra) Normandie
103 David Lelay (Fra) Jean Floc'h
104 Dominique Pere (Fra) Panorimmo-23
105 Helder Miranda (Por) Porta da Ravessa
106 Pavel Zugaj (Pol) Mroz
107 Nicolas L'Hote (Fra) VC Roubaix
108 Marek Blazej (Pol) Legia
109 Jerome Riglet (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
110 Cedric Jourdan (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
111 Jacques Chapatte (Swi) Team Jura Suisse
112 Bogdan Bondriew (Ukr) Mroz
113 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta
114 Tony Cavet (Fra) Normandie
115 Alexandre Sergueev (Rus) Moscou CS                    19.08
116 Gaetan Marques (Fra) Marlux
117 Thomas Buchacek (Cze) Joko-Velamos
118 Tomas Hanauer (Cze) Joko-Velamos
119 Aurelien Clerc (Swi) Mapei-Quick Step
120 Armin Kroniger (Ger) Nurnberger
121 Giuseppe Ribolzi (Ita) Team Jura Suisse               22.38
122 Serguei Koudentsov (Rus) Moscou CS
DNF Andy Cappelle (Bel) Marlux
DNF Eric Kerloch (Fra) Normandie
DNF Martin Kankovsky (Swi) Joko-Velamos
DNF John Den Braber (Ned) Axa-VVZ
DNS Anthony Charteau (Fra) Bonjour
DNS Roman Peter (Swi) Oktos-St-Quentin

General classification after stage 2

1 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta                   7.57.41
2 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bonjour                              0.02
3 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom        0.16
4 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Mroz                          0.48
5 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs           1.12
6 Niels Brouzes (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93                  1.13
7 Rune Jogert (Nor) Team Krone                             1.14
8 Frederic Mainguenaud (Fra) Bonjour                       1.17
9 Benoit Legrix (Fra) Normandie                            1.22
10 Andrey Pchtelkine (Fra) Moscou CS                       1.29
11 Oliver Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour
12 Frederic Delalande (Fra) Jean Floc'h                    1.33
13 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs        1.36
14 Pierre Ackermann (Swi) Team Jura Suisse                 1.39
15 Carlo Meneghetti (Fra) VC Roubaix                       1.41
16 Samuel Gicquel (Fra) Jean Floc'h                        1.42
17 Pavel Zerzan (Cze) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs             1.44
18 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team fakta                      1.46
19 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quickstep                  1.50

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