22nd Tour de Normandie - 2.5

France, March 25-31, 2002

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Stage 3 - March 28: Elbeuf-sur-Seine - Flers, 205 km

Pozzato makes it three

Jorgen Bo and Pozzato
Photo ©: Jean-Francois Quenet

By Jean-Francois Quenet in Flers

Filippo Pozzato (Mapei Espoirs) has scored his third win in four days in the Tour of Normandy. After the prologue and a breakaway, he made it in bunch sprint.

"Usually, I'm not a good sprinter, he said afterwards. But the uphill finish suited me. Therefore I was not afraid as I'm normally when the race comes to a massive sprint. Initially, we planned to prepare it for Graziano Gasparre but he didn't have the legs, so I made it thanks to my team-mates Pavel Zerzan and Giampaolo Cheula who gave me a good lead out."

" As all of us from Mapei were kind of sick during the first stage - and that's why Aurelien Clerc had to pull out today - I have no regrets for the GC. I don't think it'll be possible to beat the current leader."

The leader remains Jorgen Bo Petersen, of Team fakta, who said: "The stage was not easy, well, for me it was but not for my team-mates who had to chase all the breakaways."

The last man away was pretty unlucky: Anthony Geslin of Bonjour was alone in the final kilometer when he punctured! He had a good chance to win, but Pozzato didn't complain about that.

Results

1 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs      4.39.58
2 Bostjan Mervar (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom
3 Niels Brouzes (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
4 Marcel Luppes (Ned) Axa-VVZ
5 Samuel Gicquel (Fra) Jean Floc'h
6 Rune Jogert (Nor) Team Krone
7 Mark Vlijm (Ned) Axa-VVZ
8 Oliver Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour
9 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Nürnberger
10 Vincent Templier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin
11 Benoit Legrix (Fra) Normandie
12 Pedro Martins (Por) Porta da Ravessa
13 Serguey Polukhin (Rus) Moscou CS
14 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team fakta
15 Domingo Segado (Spa) Porta da Ravessa
16 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs
17 Kilian Patour (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
18 Sylvain Anquetil (Fra) VC Rouen 76
19 Jos Lucassen (Ned) Axa-VVZ
20 Christophe Thebault (Fra) Jean Floc'h
21 Mariusz Kaminski (Pol) Legia
22 Dominique Pere (Fra) Panorimmo-23
23 Camille Bouquet (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
24 Serguei Koudentsov (Rus) Moscou CS
25 Branko Filip (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom
26 Tony Cavet (Fra) Normandie
27 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux
28 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta
29 Laurent Paumier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin)
30 Aleksander Klimienko (Kaz) Mroz
31 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom
32 Mitje Mahoric (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom
33 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bonjour
34 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta
35 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
36 Rene Jorgensen (Den) Team fakta
37 Arkadius Wojtas (Pol) Nurnberger
38 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quickstep
39 Florian Ludi (Swi) Team Jura Suisse
40 Walter Bonca (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom
41 Carlo Meneghetti (Fra) VC Roubaix
42 Michel Klinger (Swi) Team Jura Suissa
43 Remigijus Lupeikis (Ltu) Mroz
44 Morten Sonne (Den) Team fakta
45 Jose Sousa (Spa) Porta da Ravessa
46 Nicolas Andre (Fra) Panorimmo-23
47 Helder Lopes (Por) Porta da Ravessa
48 Nicolas Meret (Fra) VC Rouen 76
49 Jean-Philippe Yon (Fra) VC Rouen 76
50 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
51 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Team Krone
52 Pierre Ackermann (Swi) Team Jura Suisse
53 Ronny Lauke (Ger) Nürnberger
54 Andrey Pchtelkine (Fra) Moscou CS
55 Francisco Perez (Spa) Porta da Ravessa
56 Lars Breiseth (Nor) Team Krone
57 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux
58 Kjetil Loitegaard (Nor) Team Krone
59 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Krone
60 Pavel Zerzan (Cze) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs
61 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Mroz
62 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) Mapei Quick-Step
63 Credic Coutouly (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
64 Radek Blahut (Cze) Joko-Velamos
65 Marc Chanoine (Bel) Marlux
66 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Legia
67 Yanto Barker (GBr) VC Roubaix
68 Frederic Delalande (Fra) Jean Floc'h
69 Marc Vanacker (Lux) Marlux
70 David Breard (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
71 Bogdan Bondriew (Ukr) Mroz
72 Aidan Duff (Ire) Panorimmo-23
73 Helder Miranda (Por) Porta da Ravessa
74 Frederic Mainguenaud (Fra) Bonjour
75 Jure Golser (Ger) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom)
76 Marek Blazej (Pol) Legia
77 Frederic Lecrosnier (Fra) Jean Floc'h
78 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour
79 Stephane Petilleau (Fra) VC Roubaix
80 Tony Mace (Fra) Normandie
81 Alexei Garanine (Rus) Moscou CS
82 Philippe Koehler (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin
83 Guillaume Judas (Fra) Jean Floc'h                      0.20
84 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bonjour
85 Damien Pommereau (Fra) VC Rouen 76                     1.23
86 Alexandre Kozlov (Blr) VC Roubaix                      2.01
87 Frederic Lubach (Fra) VC Roubaix
88 David Lelay (Fra) Jean Floc'h
89 David Chassot (Swi) Team Jura Suisse                   2.04
90 Vladimir Sidorenkov (Rus) Moscou CS                    3.18
91 Dany Caprais (Fra) VC Rouen 76                         4.05
92 Stephane Ravaleu (Fra) VC Rouen 76
93 Bjornar Vestol (Nor) Team fakta                        4.15
94 Marc Vanacker (Lux) Marlux
95 Philippe Gascon (Fra) Panorimmo-23                     4.52
96 Ludovic Lanceleur (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
97 Kasper Sowinski (Pol) Legia                            5.14
98 Pavel Zugaj (Pol) Mroz
99 Cyril Bos (Fra) Normandie
100 Cedric Jourdan (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
101 Jan Faltynek (Cze) Joko-Velamos
102 Wojtech Muchka (Cze) Joko-Velamos
103 Giuseppe Ribolzi (Ita) Team Jura Suisse
104 Armin Kroniger (Ger) Nurnberger
105 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nurnberger
106 Jacques Chapatte (Swi) Team Jura Suisse
107 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Mroz                           9.10
108 Vincent Greneche (Fra) Panorimmo-23                  10.40
109 Tomas Hanauer (Cze) Joko-Velamos
110 Jacek Walczak (Pol) Legia
111 Thomas Buchacek (Cze) Joko-Velamos
112 Jerome Riglet (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
113 Arnaud Pretot (Fra) Oktis-ST-Quentin                 14.18
114 Mathieu Lamothe (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
115 Alexandre Sergueev (Rus) Moscou CS
116 Gaetan Marques (Fra) Marlux
117 Grzegorz Zoledziowski (Pol) Legia
118 Fabien Merciris (Fra) Normandie
119 Nicolas L'hote (Fra) VC Roubaix
120 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Panorimmo-23

General classification after stage 3

1 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta                 12.37.39
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          1.02
6 Niels Brouzes (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93                 1.09
7 Frederic Mainguenaud (Fra) Bonjour                      1.12
8 Rune Jogert (Nor) Team Krone                            1.14
9 Benoit Legrix (Fra) Normandie                           1.22
10 Andrey Pchtelkine (Fra) Moscou CS                      1.29
11 Oliver Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour                        1.33
12 Frederic Delalande (Fra) Jean Floc'h                   1.36
13 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs       1.39
14 Pierre Ackermann (Swi) Team Jura Suisse                1.41
15 Carlo Meneghetti (Fra) VC Roubaix                      1.42
16 Samuel Gicquel (Fra) Jean Floc'h                       1.44
17 Pavel Zerzan (Cze) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs            1.46
18 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team fakta                     1.50
19 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour
20 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quickstep                 1.51

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