26th Niedersachsen Rundfahrt - 2.3

Germany, April 24-28, 2002

2001 Results Preview Stage List Start List Past winners

The Stages

Stage 0 - April 23: Melle, 63.0 km (does not count for GC)
Stage 1 - April 24: Melle - Einbeck, 185.4 km
Stage 2 - April 25: Einbeck - Wolfsburg, 172.2 km
Stage 3 - April 26: Wolfsburg - Duderstadt, 210.4 km
Stage 4a - April 27: Duderstadt - Hannover, 131.0 km
Stage 4b - April 27: Hannover - Hannover ITT, 14.8 km
Stage 5 - April 28: Hannover - Bückeburg, 138.5 km

Preview

120 riders from 15 teams will contest the 26th Internationale Niedersachsen Rundfahrt, starting on Wednesday, April 24 and running through until Sunday, April 28. The big names include Laurent Jalabert (CSC-Tiscali) who is coming back to competition after being laid low by a virus four weeks ago. Jalabert won two stages and the mountains jersey in last year's Tour de France, but will presumably be using this race for training only.

Team coast will see Vuelta winner Angel Casero lead the way, as part of his preparation for the Giro d'Italia. Casero has been out of action due to knee problems but will start this race along with Thorsten Wilhelms (coming back after breaking his shin), Sascha Henrix, Andre Korff (Erfurt), Malte Urban, Thorsten Rund, Christoph von Kleinsorgen and Stefan Adamson.

Team Telekom will be without star rider Jan Ullrich, who is also recovering from a knee injury, but is at least training again. Instead, Telekom will take a team containing several younger riders. Led by the experienced Giuseppe Guerini, Jan Schaffrath and Ralf Grabsch, the rest of the team includes Dirk Reichel, Stefan Schumacher, David Kopp, Robert Bartko and Sergei Yakovlev.

The 852 kilometre race runs between Melle, Einbeck, Wolfsburg, Duderstadt, Hannover and Bückeburg.

Start List

Rabobank                         Gerolsteiner
 
11 Grischa Niermann (Ger)        21 Torsten Schmidt (Ger)
12 Roy Sentjens (Ned)            22 Michael Rich (Ger)
13 Steven De Jongh (Ned)         23 Olaf Pollack (Ger)
14 Bobbie Traksel (Ned)          24 Daniele Contrini (Ita)
15 Coen H. Boerman (Ned)         25 René Haselbacher (Aut)
16 Marcel Duijn (Ned)            26 Sebastian Lang (Ger)
17 Mathew Haymann (Aus)          27 Uwe Peschel (Ger)
18 Addy Engels (Ned)             28 Volker Ordowski (Ger)
 
Team Coast                       Team Telekom
 
31 Angel Casero (Spa)            41 Robert Bartko (Ger)
32 Stefan Adamsson (Swe)         42 Ralf Grabsch (Ger)
33 André Korff (Ger)             43 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita)
34 Sascha Henrix (Ger)           44 David Kopp (Ger)
35 Christoph Von Kleinsorge (Ger)45 Jan Schaffrath (Ger)
36 Malte Urban (Ger)             46 Dirk Reichl (Ger)
37 Steffen Radochla (Ger)        47 Stefan Schumacher (Ger)
38 Thorsten Wilhelms (Ger)       48 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz)
 
Team CSC Tiscali                 Team Nürnberger Versicherung
 
51 Olivier Asmaker (Fra)         61 Artour Babaitsev (Rus)
52 Manuel Calvente (Spa)         62 Jens Lehmann (Ger)
53 Thomas Brun (Den)             63 Thomas Liese (Ger)
54 Arvis Piziks (Lat)            64 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut)
55 Laurent Jalabert (Fra)        65 Holger Sievers (Ger)
57 Jimmi Madsen (Den)            66 Sasa Sviben (Slo)
58 Nicki Sörensen (Den)          67 Lubor Tesar (Cze)
                                 68 Jürgen Werner (Ger)
 
Team Wiesenhof                   Mroz
 
71 Nick Gates (Aus)              81 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu)
72 Michael Giebelmann (Ger)      82 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol)
73 Martin Müller (Ger)           83 Mateusz Mroz (Pol)
74 Marco Wittwer (Ger)           84 Pavel Niedzwiecki (Pol)
75 Enrico Poitschke (Ger)        85 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol)
76 Timo Scholz (Ger)             86 Krzystof Krzywy (Pol)
77 Andre Schulze (Ger)           87 Zbigniew Wyrzykowski (Pol)
78 Marco Appler (Ger)
 
Team Cologne                     Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom
 
91 Björn Glasner (Ger)           101 Walter Bonca (Slo)
92 Ryan Cox (Rsa)                102 Andrej Gimpelj (Slo)
93 Christian Heule (Swi)         103 Matjaz Batic (Slo)
94 Jonas Hudalla (Ger)           104 Miran Kelner (Slo)
95 Andreas Beikirch (Ger)        105 Bostjan Mervar (Slo)
96 Frank Klein (Ger)             106 Jure Golcer (Slo)
97 Heiko Szonn (Ger)             107 Boris Premuzic (Slo)
98 Jörg Strauss (Swi)
 
Wüstenrot-ZVVZ                   Austrian National Team
 
111 Petr Bencik (Cze)            121 Martin Angerer (Aut)
112 Michal Hrazdira (Cze)        122 Oliver Bierbaumer (Aut)
113 Lubomir Kejval (Cze)         123 Roland Garber (Aut)
114 Christian Lademann (Ger)     124 Franz Stocher (Aut)
115 Michal Precechtel (Cze)      125 Thomas Mühlbacher (Aut)
116 Martin Laciak (Cze)          126 Peter Pichler (Aut)
117 Frantisek Trkal (Cze)        127 Andreas Knapp (Aut)
                                 128 Joachim Vollmann (Aut)
 
German Track Team                German Road Team
 
131 Stefan Steinweg (Ger)        141 Christian Knees (Ger)
132 Guido Fulst (Ger)            142 Björn Schröder (Ger)
133 Sebastian Siedler (Ger)      145 Gunnar Wulf (Ger)
134 Christian Bach (Ger)         146 Bernhard Wächter (Ger)
135 Andreas Müller (Ger)         147 Daniel Schlegel (Ger)
136 Lado Fumic (Ger)             148 Steffen Lockan (Ger)
137 Carsten Bresser (Ger)
138 Marc Hanisch (Ger)
 
Team LTA-Quattro Logistics
 
151 Carsten Gottschalk (Ger)
152 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi)
153 Lars Wackernagel (Ger)
154 Robert Sczepurek (Ger)
155 Rafael Bayer (Aut)
156 Victor März (Ger)
157 Benjamin Minow (Ger)
158 Dennis Haueisen (Ger)

Past winners

2001 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 


Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com