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51st Circuit de la Sarthe - 2.3
France, April 8-11, 2003
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Stage 3b - April 10: Angers - Angers ITT, 8.8 km
Da Cruz on his way to the win
By Jean-François Quénet in Angers
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FDJeux.com's Carlos Da Cruz is highly likely to win the Circuit de la Sarthe et des Pays de la Loire. He convincingly beat his rival Alexei Sivakov from BigMat in the individual 8.8 km time trial in Angers by 26 seconds. His lead now looks comfortable enough to take the overall win on Friday in Le Mans.
"I have excellent teammates such as Bradley McGee and Jean-Cyril Robin, and I know they'll protect me from any danger tomorrow," Da Cruz commented. "I'm not worried. If I don't crash, I'm going to win. I already rode without stress today because I was aware of my current condition. The team made me room with Brad, so I had no choice but do the same preparation as him for the time trial, which is...sleeping. Then I rode flat out."
Da Cruz is a former track rider, used to ride the pursuit. This dead flat time trial was no more than two individual pursuits. The weather conditions made it hard though, as it was chilly in Angers today.
The big crowd expected Gerolsteiner's Michael Rich to win, as he rode with less wind than other riders later, but Sylvain Chavanel made the big coup right at the end of the day, beating the German specialist by 3 seconds.
"I didn't specifically prepare myself for this time trial," La Boulangère's young leader explained. "But it confirms that I'm back in shape. I didn't feel too good last week at the Route Adélie. Now I know that I'll be OK for Amstel Gold Race, Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. This is the first win of my life in a time trial. After my win in the Tour du Haut-Var, it may sound like I'm going to have a good season. But now I have some regrets about the first stage, I had the legs to win the Circuit de la Sarthe."
This is the kind of race where no mistake is allowed. One year ago, Bradley McGee didn't pay enough attention in stage 1 and lost the GC at the end by just one second to Didier Rous. This time it's Fdjeux.com who is riding perfectly so far, and should logically beat arch rival La Boulangère in the western part of France, where the battle between local directeur sportifs Marc Madiot and Jean-René Bernaudeau looks like a never ending story.
Photos
Images by Peter Geyer
- Mario Cipollini wasn't there but the cipo-mobile was!
- Lance Armstrong was no longer there but The Bus, which extends approximately one city block, was
- Close-up of Steffen Kjaergaard's (US Postal) bike
- Victor Hugo Pena (US Postal) before the time trial
- Is that front wheel legal? (ONCE mechanic prepares a bike for the time trial)
- José Luis Rubiera (US Postal) rides the time trial but looks forward to climbing in the Tour
- Roberto Heras (US Postal) also looks forward to riding in support of Lance Armstrong in the mountains in July
- Kurt Van de Wouwer (Quick Step-Davitamon) gets his time trial underway
- Mikel Astarloza (Ag2r-Prevoyance) finished a solid 14th in the time trial
- Denis Bertolini (Phonak) early into his time trial
- Bogdan Bondariew (CCC-Polsat) approaches the first traffic circle
- Stéphane Barthe (MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin) finished 34th in the time trial
- Check out Kyrylo Pospyeyev's (Domina Vacanze-Elitron) matching bike, socks and shoes!
- All eyes were on Jan Ullrich (Team Coast), finally back after over a year away from competition
- Does the goatee slow Christophe Moreau (Credit Agricole) down?
- Markus Zberg (Gerolsteiner) finished a strong 8th in the time trial
- Richard Virenque (Quick Step-Davitamon), France's most popular active cycling star, negotiates the first traffic circle
- Steffen Kjaergaard (US Postal) looks to return to the Tour team in support of Lance Armstrong in July
- Sylvain Chavanel (Brioches La Boulangère) continued his remarkable early season by winning the time trial
Images by Frank Fife/AFP
- Sylvain Chavanel (Brioches La Boulangere) celebrates after winning the 8.8 km third stage time trial of Circuit de la Sarthe
- Jan Ullrich (Team Coast)during the the 8.8 km third stage time trial
Results
1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 10.22 (50.921 km/h) 2 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.03 3 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 0.05 4 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole 0.10 5 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.11 6 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 7 Bradley McGee (Aus) FDJeux.com 0.12 8 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 0.14 9 Alvaro Gonzalez De Galdeano (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 10 Didier Rous (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 11 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal presented by Berry F 0.18 12 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 0.20 13 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) FDJeux.com 14 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 0.21 15 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 16 Steffen Kjaergaard (Nor) US Postal presented by Berry 0.24 17 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 18 Rafael Diaz Justo (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 0.25 19 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 20 Franck Bouyer (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 0.26 21 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Alessio 0.31 22 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) Team Coast 23 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 24 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 0.32 25 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 26 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 27 David Herrero Llorente (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.33 28 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) CCC-Polsat 0.34 29 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) CCC-Polsat 30 Jan Ullrich (Ger) Team Coast 0.35 31 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 32 Massimo Strazzer (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.36 33 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 34 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 35 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour 0.38 36 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 0.39 37 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Phonak Hearing Systems 38 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Jean Delatour 39 Thorsten Rund (Ger) Team Coast 0.40 40 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.41 41 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 42 Gorka Beloki Dorronsoro (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 0.42 43 Roberto Heras (Spa) US Postal presented by Berry Floo 0.43 44 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 0.44 45 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 46 Allan Davis (Aus) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 0.45 47 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 0.46 48 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Big.Mat-Auber 93 49 Julen Fernandez Bijandi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 50 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) FDJeux.com 0.47 51 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Quick.Step-Davitamon 52 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.48 53 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 0.50 54 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.51 55 Cédric Fragniere (Swi) Credit Agricole 0.52 56 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Alessio 0.53 57 Olivier Trastour (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 0.55 58 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 59 Bruno Thibout (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.56 60 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) US Postal-Berry Floor 0.57 61 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.58 62 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.59 63 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.00 64 Joseba Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 65 Ivaïlo Gabrovski (Bul) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 66 Dioni Galparsoro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.02 67 Damien Nazon (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 1.03 68 Fabrice Gougot (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.04 69 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) CCC-Polsat 70 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Alessio 1.05 71 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 1.06 72 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Alessio 73 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 1.11 74 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Team Coast 1.15 75 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 1.16 76 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.17 77 Nicolas Liboreau (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 78 Jimmy Casper (Fra) FDJeux.com 1.18 79 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 80 Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 81 Thierry Loder (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 1.19 82 Christian Vandevelde (USA) US Postal presented by Ber 1.20 83 Cyril Saugrain (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 84 Sergeï Krushevskiy (Uzb) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 1.22 85 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.23 86 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 1.26 87 Lénaïc Olivier (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 1.27 88 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 89 Andris Nauduzs (Lat) CCC-Polsat 1.28 90 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 91 Plamen Stoianov (Bul) Big.Mat-Auber 93 1.29 92 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Alessio 1.32 93 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Coast 1.33 94 Sven Teutenberg (Ger) Team Coast 1.38 95 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 1.40 96 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 1.45 97 Denis Bertolini (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems 98 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Alessio 1.46 99 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.50 100 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) CCC-Polsat 1.51 General classification after stage 3b 1 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) FDJeux.com 2 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Big.Mat-Auber 93 0.28 3 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 5.45 4 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 5.51 5 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole 5.56 6 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) Jean Delatour 5.57 7 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 8 Bradley McGee (Aus) FDJeux.com 5.58 9 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 6.00 10 Alvaro Gonzalez De Galdeano (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 11 Didier Rous (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 12 Massimo Strazzer (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems 6.08 13 Steffen Kjaergaard (Nor) US Postal presented by Berry 6.10 14 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour 15 Rafael Diaz Justo (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 6.11 16 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 17 Franck Bouyer (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 6.12 18 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Alessio 6.17 19 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 20 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 21 David Herrero Llorente (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.19 22 Jan Ullrich (Ger) Team Coast 6.21 23 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 6.22 24 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 25 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 6.25 26 Thorsten Rund (Ger) Team Coast 6.26 27 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 6.27 28 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 6.30 29 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 6.32 30 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) FDJeux.com 6.33 31 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.34 32 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 6.37 33 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 34 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Alessio 6.39 35 Damien Nazon (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 6.46 36 Guillaume Auger (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 6.57 37 Cyril Saugrain (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 7.06 38 Sergeï Krushevskiy (Uzb) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 10.31 39 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12.54 40 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal presented by Berry F 13.09 41 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 13.11 42 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 13.12 43 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 44 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 13.15 45 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) Team Coast 13.22 46 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 13.23 47 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 48 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) CCC-Polsat 13.25 49 Bogdan Bondariew (Ukr) CCC-Polsat 50 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Jean Delatour 13.28 51 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Phonak Hearing Systems 13.30 52 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Gerolsteiner 13.32 53 Gorka Beloki Dorronsoro (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 13.33 54 Roberto Heras (Spa) US Postal presented by Berry Floo 13.34 55 Allan Davis (Aus) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 56 Julen Fernandez Bijandi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13.37 57 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Quick.Step-Davitamon 13.38 58 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 13.41 59 Cédric Fragniere (Swi) Credit Agricole 13.43 60 Olivier Trastour (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 13.46 61 Bruno Thibout (Fra) Jean Delatour 13.47 62 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) US Postal-Berry Floor 13.48 63 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 13.49 64 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13.50 65 Joseba Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13.51 66 Ivaïlo Gabrovski (Bul) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 67 Dioni Galparsoro (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13.53 68 Fabrice Gougot (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 13.55 69 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 70 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Alessio 13.56 71 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 13.57 72 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 13.58 73 Jimmy Casper (Fra) FDJeux.com 14.02 74 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Team Coast 14.06 75 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 14.09 76 Thierry Loder (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 14.10 77 Christian Vandevelde (USA) US Postal presented by Ber 14.11 78 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 14.14 79 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Alessio 14.15 80 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 14.18 81 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 82 Andris Nauduzs (Lat) CCC-Polsat 14.19 83 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 84 Plamen Stoianov (Bul) Big.Mat-Auber 93 14.20 85 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Alessio 14.23 86 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Coast 14.24 87 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 14.31 88 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 14.36 89 Denis Bertolini (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems 90 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Alessio 14.37 91 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 14.41 92 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) CCC-Polsat 14.42 93 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner 14.48 94 Nicolas Liboreau (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 16.20 95 Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 16.29 96 Lénaïc Olivier (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 16.30 97 Sven Teutenberg (Ger) Team Coast 16.49 98 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) CCC-Polsat 22.59 99 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 23.36 100 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Credit Agricole 29.35 U23 classification 1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 2 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.12 3 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour 0.25 4 David Herrero Llorente (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.34 5 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.52 6 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 7.26 7 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 7.27 8 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 7.38 9 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 10 Allan Davis (Aus) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 7.49 11 Joseba Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.06 12 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 8.13 13 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 8.29 14 Cédric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 8.56 Mountains classification 1 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) FDJeux.com 16 pts 2 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Big.Mat-Auber 93 12 3 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 10 4 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Alessio 8 5 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 8 6 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 8 7 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 6 8 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour 6 9 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 4 10 Franck Bouyer (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 4 11 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 4 12 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 2 13 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 2 14 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2 15 Didier Rous (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 1 16 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 1 17 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 18 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 19 Julen Fernandez Bijandi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Sprints classification 1 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner 15 pts 2 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Big.Mat-Auber 93 10 3 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 7 4 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) FDJeux.com 6 5 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Jean Delatour 5 6 Damien Nazon (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 5 7 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Credit Agricole 5 8 Allan Davis (Aus) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 3 9 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Alessio 3 10 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 1 11 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère 1 12 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 1 13 Jimmy Casper (Fra) FDJeux.com 1
