23rd International Bayern Rundfahrt - 2.3

Germany, May 22-26, 2002

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Stage 3 - May 23: Bad Wörishofen-Gunzenhausen, 203.9 km

Birthday boy Cheula wins after bold escape,

Mapei's Gian Paolo Cheula gave himself the best birthday present a pro rider can get when he took the victory in today's longest stage of the Tour of Bavaria.
On his 23rd birthday the Mapei "Young team" rider outsprinted Jerome Bernard (Jean Delatour) after 203.9km of racing from Micael Rich (Gerolsteiner) and Jens Voigt remain in first and second overall, 27 seconds apart. The leaders finished with the bunch, two minutes behind Cheula and Bernard.
The first 40km of the stage were marked by constant attacks, all closed down by Gerolsteiner in defence of their rider's overall lead.
After 47km a six-rider group finally escaped, consisting of Cheula and Bernard with Morten Sonne (fakta), Pascal Hungerbuhler (LTA Quattro-Logistics), Mario Bolz (Team Cologne) and Arkadiusz Wojtas (Team Nurnberger).
Despite the high speed of the peloton the break managed to gradually increase its lead, eventually building up a six minute gap over the peloton. Then things started to break up.
First to go was Bolz, who dropped back to the field after the climb at Dinkelscherben. Then Morten Sonne fell back to be treated for cramps and Pascal Hungerbuhler blew out the back on the next climb. Finally Wojtas dropped back in the final 25km.
That left just Cheula and Bernard to defend a diminishing lead, but they worked together to hold off the bunch, and in the finale Cheula was a wheel-length ahead of Bernard.
Results

1 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                4.47.10
2 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour
3 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour                         2.03
4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport
5 Anthony Langella (Fra) Credit Agricole
6 Yohann Charpenteau (Fra) Credit Agricole
7 Jörg Strauss (Ger) Team Cologne
8 Christian Heule (Swi) Team Cologne
9 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Cologne
10 Tom Vanoppen (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop
11 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole
12 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole
13 Frank Klein (Ger) Team Cologne
14 Mario De Clercq (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop
15 Andreas Beikirch (Ger) Team Cologne
16 Danny Daelman (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop
17 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop
18 Carsten Podlesch (Ger) Team Wiesenhof
19 Aleksadar Nikacevic (Yug) Alessio
20 Karl Pauwels (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop
21 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics
22 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole
23 Artjom Botschkarew (Ger) German National Team
24 Victor März (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics
25 Robert Bartko (Ger) Team Telekom
26 Marco Wittwer (Ger) Team Wiesenhof
27 Chr Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Coast
28 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole
29 Mario Bolz (Ger) Team Cologne
30 Rolf Aldag (Ger) Team Telekom
31 Andre Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof
32 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour
33 Torsten Nitsche (Ger) Saeco-Longoni Sport
34 Rolf Huser (Swi) Team Coast
35 Mathias Jelitto (Ger) German National Team
36 Rene Wiesinger (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics
37 Jürgen Werner (Ger) Team Nürnberger Versicherung
38 Joona Laukka (Fin) Jean Delatour
39 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner
40 Max Becker (Lux) Palmans-Collstrop
41 Christi Pfannberger (Aut) Team Nürnberger Versicherung
42 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team Telekom
43 Alex Zülle (Swi) Team Coast
44 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Telekom
45 Thorsten Wilhelms (Ger) Team Coast
46 Andrea Brognara (Ita) Alessio
47 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Alessio
48 Scott Sunderland (Aus) EDS-fakta
49 Christian Wegmann (Ger) Saeco-Longoni Sport
50 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Telekom
51 Sebastian Denke (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics
52 Artour Babaitsev (Rus) Team Nürnberger Versicherung
53 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco-Longoni Sport
54 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Gerolsteiner
55 Nico Symens (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim
56 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner
57 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Jean Delatour
58 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Mapei-Quick Step
59 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Mapei-Quick Step
60 Marco Appler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof
61 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Mapei-Quick Step
62 Michael Skelde (Den) EDS-fakta
63 Roberto Lochowski (Ger) EDS-fakta
64 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim
65 Jens Lehmann (Ger) German National Team
66 Lennie Kristensen (Den) EDS-fakta
67 Rudolf Wentzel (Rsa) Vlaanderen-T Interim
68 Morten Sonne (Den) EDS-fakta
69 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim
70 Andreas Müller (Ger) German National Team
71 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Team Nürnberger Versicherung
72 Udo Bölts (Ger) Team Telekom
73 Sascha Henrix (Ger) Team Coast
74 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Coast
75 Wesley Theunis (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim
76 Davide Casarotto (Ita) Alessio
77 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step
78 Nicola Gavazzi (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport
79 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Mapei-Quick Step
80 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team Nürnberger Versicherung
81 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics      2.09
82 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) Gerolsteiner
83 Stefano Casagranda (Ita) Alessio
84 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner
85 Justin Spinelli (USA) Saeco-Longoni Sport
86 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Nürnberger Versicherung
87 Ben Berden (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim
88 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics
89 Bruno Thibout (Fra) Jean Delatour
90 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) German National Team
91 Jorgen Bo Pedersen (Den) EDS-fakta
92 Guido Fulst (Ger) German National Team
 
Sprints
 
Buchloe - km 9.4
 
1 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco-Longoni Sport                        3 pts
2 Jürgen Werner (Ger) Team Nürnberger Versicherung              2
3 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team Telekom                              1
 
Wertingen - km 86.0
 
1 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                      3 pts
2 Morten Sonne (Den) EDS-fakta                                  2
3 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Team Nürnberger Versicherung           1
 
Sprint - km 193.7
 
1 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                      3 pts
2 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour                            2
3 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour                            1
 
Finish
 
1 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                      5 pts
2 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour                            4
3 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole                          3
4 Roberto Lochowski (Ger) EDS-fakta                             2
5 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Telekom                                 1
 
Mountains
 
Dinkelscherben - Cat. 2, km 57.2
 
1 Morten Sonne (Den) EDS-fakta                                  3 pts
2 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour                            2
3 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                      1
 
Harburg/Bock - Cat. 1
 
1 Morten Sonne (Den) EDS-fakta                                  5 pts
2 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour                            3
3 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                      2
4 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Team Nürnberger Versicherung           1
 
Hohntrüdingen - Cat. 1, km 162.1
 
1 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour                            5 pts
2 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                      3
3 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Team Nürnberger Versicherung           2
4 Morten Sonne (Den) EDS-fakta                                  1
 
General classification after stage 3
 
1 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner                         8.22.28
2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole                           0.27
3 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour                         0.33
4 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Mapei-Quick Step                       0.35
5 Rolf Aldag (Ger) Team Telekom                              0.37
6 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour                    0.53
7 Artour Babaitsev (Rus) Team Nürnberger Versicherung        0.58
8 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole                   1.09
9 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team Nürnberger Versicherung          1.11
10 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Cologne                          1.13
11 Aleksadar Nikacevic (Yug) Alessio                         1.18
12 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team Telekom                          1.26
13 Jorgen Bo Pedersen (Den) EDS-fakta
14 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics         1.28
15 Alessandro Guerra (Ita) Index Alexia                      1.43
16 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole                        1.46
17 Jörg Strauss (Ger) Team Cologne
18 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Alessio                            1.49
19 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport                  1.51
20 Rolf Huser (Swi) Team Coast                               2.09
21 Alex Zülle (Swi) Team Coast                               3.28
22 Anthony Langella (Fra) Credit Agricole                    3.34
23 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour                        3.42
24 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim              3.43
25 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Mapei-Quick Step                     3.44
26 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) Gerolsteiner                     3.46
27 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco-Longoni Sport
28 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Mapei-Quick Step                   3.50
29 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole                      3.52
30 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                  3.57
31 Rene Wiesinger (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics           3.59
32 Sascha Henrix (Ger) Team Coast                            4.00
33 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop                 4.04
34 Christian Wegmann (Ger) Saeco-Longoni Sport               4.10
35 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) German National Team
36 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Telekom                       4.13
37 Roberto Lochowski (Ger) EDS-fakta                         4.14
38 Andris Reis (Lat) Index Alexia                            4.22
39 Danny Daelman (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop
40 Jürgen Werner (Ger) Team Nürnberger Versicherung
41 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Mapei-Quick Step                   4.24
42 Rudolf Wentzel (Rsa) Vlaanderen-T Interim
43 Michael Skelde (Den) EDS-fakta
44 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner                           4.34
45 Joona Laukka (Fin) Jean Delatour                          4.35
46 Justin Spinelli (USA) Saeco-Longoni Sport                 4.36
47 Davide Casarotto (Ita) Alessio
48 Morten Sonne (Den) EDS-fakta                              4.37
49 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Nürnberger Versicherung        4.40
50 Udo Bölts (Ger) Team Telekom                              4.41
51 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Telekom
52 Bruno Thibout (Fra) Jean Delatour                         4.43
53 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Jean Delatour                         4.44
54 Artjom Botschkarew (Ger) German National Team             4.51
55 Wesley Theunis (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim                 4.55
56 Robert Bartko (Ger) Team Telekom                          4.56
57 Stefano Casagranda (Ita) Alessio                          4.57
58 Marco Magnani (Ita) Index Alexia                          4.58
59 Andrea Brognara (Ita) Alessio                             5.02
60 Yohann Charpenteau (Fra) Credit Agricole                  5.05
61 Scott Sunderland (Aus) EDS-fakta                          5.06
62 Lennie Kristensen (Den) EDS-fakta                         5.09
63 Nicola Gavazzi (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport                  5.10
64 Marco Appler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                         5.16
65 Carsten Podlesch (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                     5.17
66 Mathias Jelitto (Ger) German National Team                5.18
67 Andreas Beikirch (Ger) Team Cologne                       5.21
68 Torsten Nitsche (Ger) Saeco-Longoni Sport                 5.30
69 Frank Klein (Ger) Team Cologne                            5.36
70 Sebastian Denke (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics          5.40
71 Victor März (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics              5.44
72 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim                 5.48
73 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Index Alexia                       5.52
74 Christi Pfannberger (Aut) Team Nürnberger Versicherung    5.58
75 Mario Bolz (Ger) Team Cologne                             5.59
76 Christian Heule (Swi) Team Cologne                        6.15
77 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics      6.48
78 Jens Lehmann (Ger) German National Team                   7.10
79 Chr Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Coast                      7.26
80 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Coast                          7.40
81 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                  7.42
82 Mario De Clercq (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop                   7.45
83 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics          7.48
84 Marco Wittwer (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                        7.51
85 Guido Fulst (Ger) German National Team                    7.53
86 Karl Pauwels (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop                      8.02
87 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Gerolsteiner                        8.08
88 Ben Berden (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim                     8.09
89 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner                            8.16
90 Nico Symens (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim                    8.23
91 Thorsten Wilhelms (Ger) Team Coast                        8.31
92 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Team Nürnberger Versicherung       8.33
93 Andreas Müller (Ger) German National Team                 8.38
94 Daniele Galli (Ita) Index Alexia                          8.51
95 Andre Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                        9.02
96 Marco Villa (Ita) Index Alexia                            9.03
97 Tom Vanoppen (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop                      9.12
98 Max Becker (Lux) Palmans-Collstrop                        9.29
 
Young rider classification
 
1 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour                      8.23.01
2 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Mapei-Quick Step                       0.02
3 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour                    0.19
4 Aleksadar Nikacevic (Yug) Alessio                          0.45
5 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole                         1.12
6 Jörg Strauss (Ger) Team Cologne
7 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport                   1.18
8 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Mapei-Quick Step                      3.10
9 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Mapei-Quick Step                    3.17
10 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                  3.23
11 Rene Wiesinger (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics           3.26
12 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop                 3.30
13 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) German National Team              3.37
14 Andris Reis (Lat) Index Alexia                            3.48
15 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Mapei-Quick Step                   3.50
16 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner                           4.01
17 Justin Spinelli (USA) Saeco-Longoni Sport                 4.02
18 Artjom Botschkarew (Ger) German National Team             4.17
19 Yohann Charpenteau (Fra) Credit Agricole                  4.31
20 Nicola Gavazzi (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport                  4.36
21 Marco Appler (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                         4.42
22 Mathias Jelitto (Ger) German National Team                4.44
23 Sebastian Denke (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics          5.07
24 Victor März (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics              5.11
25 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim                 5.15
26 Christi Pfannberger (Aut) Team Nürnberger Versicherung    5.25
27 Chr Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Coast                      6.53
28 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Coast                          7.06
29 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                  7.09
30 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics          7.15
31 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Gerolsteiner                        7.34
32 Nico Symens (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim                    7.49
33 Andreas Müller (Ger) German National Team                 8.05
34 Tom Vanoppen (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop                      8.38
35 Max Becker (Lux) Palmans-Collstrop                        8.56
 
Sprints classification
 
1 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                     11 pts
2 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour                            6
3 Rolf Aldag (Ger) Team Telekom                                 5
4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport                      4
5 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco-Longoni Sport                        3
6 Frank Klein (Ger) Team Cologne                                3
7 Alessandro Guerra (Ita) Index Alexia                          3
8 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole                          3
9 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics             2
10 Rolf Huser (Swi) Team Coast                                  2
11 Roberto Lochowski (Ger) EDS-fakta                            2
12 Jürgen Werner (Ger) Team Nürnberger Versicherung             2
13 Morten Sonne (Den) EDS-fakta                                 2
14 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole                             1
15 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour                           1
16 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team Nürnberger Versicherung            1
17 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team Telekom                             1
18 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Telekom                                1
19 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Team Nürnberger Versicherung          1
 
Mountains classification
 
1 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour                           10 pts
2 Morten Sonne (Den) EDS-fakta                                  9
3 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                      6
4 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Lta-Quattro Logistics             3
5 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Team Nürnberger Versicherung           3
6 Frank Klein (Ger) Team Cologne                                2
7 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport                      1
 
Teams classification
 
1 Crédit Agricole                                        25.09.18
2 Jean Delatour                                              3.07
3 Team Telekom                                               4.29
4 Team Nürnberger Vers.                                      4.39
5 Alessio                                                    5.47
6 Mapei-Quick Step                                           5.56
7 Gerolsteiner                                               6.26
8 Team Cologne                                               6.26
9 Team Coast                                                 6.50
10 Saeco - Longoni Sport                                     7.31
11 Fakta                                                     8.10
12 Quattro Logistics                                         8.23
13 Indes Alexia                                              9.11
14 Deutschland                                              10.51
15 Vlaanderen-T Interim                                     11.08
16 Palmans Collstrop                                        14.17
17 Team Wiesenhof                                           16.30