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23rd Tour de Normandie - 2.5
France, March 24-30, 2003
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Stage 6 - March 30: Bagnoles de l'Orne - Caen, 146 km
Samuel Dumoulin captures Muravyev's deserved win
By Jean-François Quénet in Caen
After Thor Hushovd and Jérôme Pineau for the last two years, Samuel Dumoulin is a worthy winner of the Tour of Normandy. He's also a young pro in the making, for now specialised in winning cat. 5 races - stages in the Tour de l'Ain, the Mi-Août bretonne and the Tour de l'Avenir - but he is a man to watch in the near future at a higher level.
He captured the overall classification from Kazakh Dimitri Muravyev by finishing third in the final stage in Caen, taking four seconds bonus. The two men were then on the same time, but the French rider was declared the winner by virtue of 29 hundredths of a second that he gained in the prologue.
Muravyev couldn't believe his eyes after having celebrated his win already with his team-mates from the Quick.Step development squad. His directeur sportif Herman Frison didn't know the rules of international cycling when he was talking to the commissaires and complaining. His rider deserved the win, but he was definitely not the winner, although his team did the best job by far.
Just as the day before, they had Jochen Van Summeren in the 13 man breakaway. He was the highest ranked of the riders in the lead group, so it was up to Jean Delatour to chase, which they did for a while before three of them got dropped halfway through the stage.
"I had the feeling that we would finish 20 minutes down and the race was gone, but the bunch actually never stopped," Dumoulin was happy to realise. Indeed, the amateur Breton team Jean Floc'h was much better value than the French TT1! They did most of the work to bring the bunch back to Rabobank's Joost Posthuma, Jonathan Dayus and Lars Breiseth from Team Ringerike, just to name a few.
Their leader Christophe Thébault was bitter though. "Without small amateur riders like us taking the responsibilities in the race during the whole week, a professional would never have won the overall."
When Breiseth, the last rider away, got caught just before entering the final laps in Caen with 10km to go, Quick.Step thought they crowned it all by sending Preben van Hecke to the front with Fdjeux.com's Nicolas Fritsch. It helped them to take the stage victory - a fantastic one - but there was still 4 seconds bonus to be attributed to the third man on the line, in fact the winner of the bunch sprint, and Dumoulin was the one.
"I understand the disappointment of the Kazakh rider, he commented. He was also very strong and we all have to admire what he did during the week. I feel sorry for him," said Dumoulin.
This is Jean Delatour's first win this year. It will not be enough to deserve a wild card for the Tour de France. This team was actually very lucky to beat the amateurs at the end, because they have been far from being as good as Bonjour was one year ago helping Pineau to win.
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Images by Jean-Francois Quenet
- Preben Van Hecke is a very promising stage winner
- Dimitri Muravyev isn't happy with the consolation price of the best young rider
- Samuel Dumoulin wonders if he's the winner or not
- Samuel Dumoulin, Preben van Hecke and Dimitri Muravyev are three men to watch in the future
- Best Normand rider David Bréard has been awarded by professional Laurent Paumier from Ag2r who is currently banned but will resume racing in April
- Samuel Dumoulin is the overall winner
- Dimitri Muravyev and his directeur sportif Herman Frison don't know the rules about riders finishing same time
Results
1 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 3.34.49 (40.779 km/h) 2 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Mixed Team 0.03 3 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Jean Delatour 0.15 4 Plamen Stoianov (Bul) Mixed Team 5 Lubomir Kejval (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 6 César Antunes Quiterio (Por) Antarte-Rota dos Móveis 7 Stephane Bonsergent (Fra) France Police 8 Samuel Bonnet (Fra) CC Nogent-sur-Oise 9 Mickael Leveau (Fra) VC Rouen 76 10 Jean-Francois Jegou (Fra) Panorimmo 11 Peter Van Agtmaal (Ned) Axa Cycling Team 12 Geoffrey Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 13 Benoit Legrix (Fra) Normandie 14 Arno Wallaard (Ned) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 15 Maxim Karpatchev (Rus) Russia 16 Franck Charrier (Fra) CC Nogent-sur-Oise 17 Mart Louwers (Ned) Axa Cycling Team 18 Tony Cavet (Fra) Normandie 19 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 20 Jos Lucassen (Ned) Axa Cycling Team 21 Gerardo Fernandez (Arg) Antarte-Rota dos Móveis 22 Sebastien Portal (Fra) Panorimmo 23 Oleg Joukov (Rus) Russia 24 Jonas Holmkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 25 Gregorz Zoledziowski (Pol) Legia 26 Koen De Kort (Ned) Rabobank TT III 27 Ludovic Lanceleur (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 28 Julien Marcuz (Fra) Panorimmo 29 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Ringerike 30 Tristan Valentin (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 31 Nicolas Paris (Fra) CC Nogent-sur-Oise 32 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Jean Delatour 33 Gaetan Marques (Fra) Normandie 34 Marc Feipeler (Fra) Panorimmo 35 Gaylord Cumont (Fra) VC Rouen 76 36 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 37 Frederic Mille (Fra) France Police 38 Jacek Morajko (Pol) Antarte-Rota dos Móveis 39 Krassimir Vassiliev (Bul) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 40 Mikhail Andreyev (Rus) Panorimmo 41 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 42 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 43 Stephane Breard (Fra) USSAPB 44 Christophe Thebault (Fra) Jean Floc'h 45 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 46 Stefan Felder (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 47 Samuel Gicquel (Fra) Jean Floc'h 48 Andrei Ptchelkin (Rus) Russia 49 Frantisek Trkal (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 50 Vladisvlav Borisov (Rus) Russia 51 Nicolas Paris (Fra) CC Nogent-sur-Oise 52 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank TT III 53 Helder Miranda (Spa) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 54 Jaroslaw Welsiak (Pol) Legia 55 Yann Buiron (Fra) Normandie 56 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 57 Cyril Bos (Fra) USSAPB 58 Cedrick Loue (Fra) VC Rouen 76 59 Florian Ludi (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 60 Yves Delarue (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 61 David Loosli (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 62 Fernando Sousa (Por) Antarte-Rota dos Móveis 63 Hubert Nowak (Pol) Legia 64 Ricardo Silva Felgueiras (Por) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 65 Christophe Cousinie (Fra) France Police 66 Martial Locatelli (Fra) France Police 67 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Legia 68 Dominique Rault (Fra) Jean Floc'h 69 ? 70 Frederic Lecrosnier (Fra) Jean Floc'h 71 Denis Robin (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 0.18 72 Franck Vermeulen (Fra) Normandie 0.29 73 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Mixed Team 74 Jacky Durand (Fra) Mixed Team 75 Arthur Farenhout (Ned) Axa Cycling Team 0.55 76 Jonathan Dayus (GBr) Team Ringerike 0.57 77 Hervé Duclos Lassalle (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 1.13 78 Marek Blazej (Pol) Legia 79 David Blanco (Spa) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 2.37 80 Mikhail Mikheev (Rus) Russia 2.43 81 Luis Bartolomeu (Por) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 82 Lars Breiseth (Nor) Team Ringerike 3.35 83 Petter Renang (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 84 Petr Bencik (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 4.08 85 Yvan Terenin (Rus) Russia 8.59 86 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Rabobank TT III 87 Jens Mouris (Ned) Rabobank TT III Final general classification 1 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Jean Delatour 24.27.44 2 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 3 Krassimir Vassiliev (Bul) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 0.06 4 Christophe Thebault (Fra) Jean Floc'h 0.21 5 Oleg Joukov (Rus) Russia 0.22 6 Samuel Gicquel (Fra) Jean Floc'h 1.04 7 Vladisvlav Borisov (Rus) Russia 1.06 8 Mickael Leveau (Fra) VC Rouen 76 1.11 9 Geoffrey Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 1.13 10 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 1.16 11 Jacek Morajko (Pol) Antarte-Rota dos Móveis 12 Marc Feipeler (Fra) Panorimmo 1.17 13 Jos Lucassen (Ned) Axa Cycling Team 1.18 14 Arno Wallaard (Ned) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 1.24 15 Stephane Breard (Fra) USSAPB 1.26 16 Andrei Ptchelkin (Rus) Russia 17 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Jean Delatour 1.31 18 Gerardo Fernandez (Arg) Antarte-Rota dos Móveis 1.39 19 Yves Delarue (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 1.42 20 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 21 Julien Marcuz (Fra) Panorimmo 22 Yann Buiron (Fra) Normandie 1.46 23 David Loosli (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 1.48 24 Helder Miranda (Spa) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 1.54 25 Dominique Rault (Fra) Jean Floc'h 1.55 26 Koen De Kort (Ned) Rabobank TT III 3.33 27 Benoit Legrix (Fra) Normandie 3.34 28 Plamen Stoianov (Bul) Mixed Team 3.53 29 Lubomir Kejval (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 3.58 30 Mart Louwers (Ned) Axa Cycling Team 4.01 31 Mikhail Andreyev (Rus) Panorimmo 4.07 32 Frederic Lecrosnier (Fra) Jean Floc'h 4.10 33 Stefan Felder (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 4.11 34 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank TT III 4.45 35 Maxim Karpatchev (Rus) Russia 5.33 36 Ricardo Silva Felgueiras (Por) Porta da Ravessa-Tavir 6.04 37 Peter Van Agtmaal (Ned) Axa Cycling Team 7.21 38 Yvan Terenin (Rus) Russia 12.51 39 Florian Ludi (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 15.03 40 Jacek Walczak (Pol) Legia 15.17 41 Cedrick Loue (Fra) VC Rouen 76 42 Tristan Valentin (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93 15.21 43 Hubert Nowak (Pol) Legia 15.23 44 Cyril Bos (Fra) USSAPB 15.29 45 Marek Blazej (Pol) Legia 16.12 46 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Mixed Team 17.08 47 Jaroslaw Welsiak (Pol) Legia 17.25 48 Arthur Farenhout (Ned) Axa Cycling Team 17.28 49 Petter Renang (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 18.38 50 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 19.32 51 Martial Locatelli (Fra) France Police 19.34 52 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Late 19.39 53 Franck Charrier (Fra) CC Nogent-sur-Oise 19.42 54 Sebastien Portal (Fra) Panorimmo 19.47 55 Frantisek Trkal (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 19.50 56 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 19.51 57 Gregorz Zoledziowski (Pol) Legia 19.52 58 Ludovic Lanceleur (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 19.53 59 César Antunes Quiterio (Por) Antarte-Rota dos Móveis 19.54 60 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Legia 19.56 61 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 19.58 62 Fernando Sousa (Por) Antarte-Rota dos Móveis 20.06 63 Christophe Cousinie (Fra) France Police 20.15 64 Tony Cavet (Fra) Normandie 20.19 65 Frederic Mille (Fra) France Police 20.30 66 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Mixed Team 20.50 67 Anthony Testa (Fra) CC Nogent-sur-Oise 21.02 68 Franck Vermeulen (Fra) Normandie 21.08 69 Gaylord Cumont (Fra) VC Rouen 76 21.28 70 Jean-Francois Jegou (Fra) Panorimmo 22.18 71 Mikhail Mikheev (Rus) Russia 22.30 72 David Blanco (Spa) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 22.34 73 Jacky Durand (Fra) Mixed Team 22.42 74 Lars Breiseth (Nor) Team Ringerike 23.10 75 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Ringerike 23.18 76 Nicolas Paris (Fra) CC Nogent-sur-Oise 23.35 77 Samuel Bonnet (Fra) CC Nogent-sur-Oise 23.46 78 Gaetan Marques (Fra) Normandie 23.49 79 Hervé Duclos Lassalle (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 24.39 80 Stephane Bonsergent (Fra) France Police 24.58 81 Jonathan Dayus (GBr) Team Ringerike 26.13 82 Petr Bencik (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 29.50 83 Denis Robin (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 30.29 84 Jonas Holmkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 30.35 85 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Rabobank TT III 32.59 86 Luis Bartolomeu (Por) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 36.35 87 Stefan Zoss (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 38.22 Points classification 1 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Jean Delatour 71 pts 2 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Rabobank TT III 60 3 César Antunes Quiterio (Por) Antarte-Rota dos Móveis 42 4 Geoffrey Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 41 5 Arno Wallaard (Ned) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 41 6 Krassimir Vassiliev (Bul) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 32 7 Marc Feipeler (Fra) Panorimmo 32 8 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 32 9 Mickael Leveau (Fra) VC Rouen 76 32 10 Plamen Stoianov (Bul) Mixed Team 32 11 Samuel Gicquel (Fra) Jean Floc'h 26 12 Lubomir Kejval (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 26 13 Arthur Farenhout (Ned) Axa Cycling Team 22 14 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 21 15 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank TT III 20 16 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Mixed Team 20 17 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 20 18 Benoit Legrix (Fra) Normandie 19 19 Yvan Terenin (Rus) Russia 16 20 Oleg Joukov (Rus) Russia 15 21 Samuel Bonnet (Fra) CC Nogent-sur-Oise 15 22 Christophe Thebault (Fra) Jean Floc'h 14 23 Gerardo Fernandez (Arg) Antarte-Rota dos Móveis 14 24 Franck Charrier (Fra) CC Nogent-sur-Oise 14 25 Florian Ludi (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 13 Mountains classification 1 Christophe Cousinie (Fra) France Police 26 pts 2 David Blanco (Spa) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 17 3 Dominique Rault (Fra) Jean Floc'h 9 4 Mickael Leveau (Fra) VC Rouen 76 7 5 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank TT III 7 6 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Jean Delatour 6 7 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 6 8 Jos Lucassen (Ned) Axa Cycling Team 6 9 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 6 10 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Ringerike 6 11 Jacek Morajko (Pol) Antarte-Rota dos Móveis 5 12 Gerardo Fernandez (Arg) Antarte-Rota dos Móveis 5 13 Florian Ludi (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 5 14 Jaroslaw Welsiak (Pol) Legia 5 15 Gregorz Zoledziowski (Pol) Legia 5 16 Stephane Bonsergent (Fra) France Police 5 17 Jonathan Dayus (GBr) Team Ringerike 5 18 Frederic Lecrosnier (Fra) Jean Floc'h 4 19 Gaylord Cumont (Fra) VC Rouen 76 4 20 Christophe Thebault (Fra) Jean Floc'h 3 Sprints classification 1 Mickael Leveau (Fra) VC Rouen 76 25 pts 2 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 11 3 Frederic Lecrosnier (Fra) Jean Floc'h 7 4 Peter Van Agtmaal (Ned) Axa Cycling Team 6 5 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 5 6 Dominique Rault (Fra) Jean Floc'h 5 7 Benoit Legrix (Fra) Normandie 5 8 Jaroslaw Welsiak (Pol) Legia 4 9 Gaylord Cumont (Fra) VC Rouen 76 4 10 Stephane Breard (Fra) USSAPB 3 U23 classification 1 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Jean Delatour 24.27.44 2 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 3 Geoffrey Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 1.13 4 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 1.16 5 Jacek Morajko (Pol) Antarte-Rota dos Móveis 6 Arno Wallaard (Ned) Quick.Step-Davitamon-Latexco 1.24 7 Stephane Breard (Fra) USSAPB 1.25 8 Andrei Ptchelkin (Rus) Russia 9 Frederic Delalande (Fra) France Police 1.41 10 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs 1.42 11 Julien Marcuz (Fra) Panorimmo 12 David Loosli (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 1.46 13 Helder Miranda (Spa) Porta da Ravessa-Tavira 1.54 14 Koen De Kort (Ned) Rabobank TT III 3.33 15 Mart Louwers (Ned) Axa Cycling Team 4.01 16 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank TT III 4.45 17 Maxim Karpatchev (Rus) Russia 5.33 18 Peter Van Agtmaal (Ned) Axa Cycling Team 7.21 19 Yvan Terenin (Rus) Russia 12.51 20 Jacek Walczak (Pol) Legia 15.17 Teams classification 1 Quick.Step-Davitamon 2 Russia 3 Jean Floc'h-Moreac 56 4 Panorimmo 5 Antarte-Rota dos Moveis 6 Axa 7 Rabobank 8 Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 9 Porta da Ravessa 10 Credit Agricole 11 ED'System-ZVVZ 12 VC Rouen 76 13 Mixed team 14 Normandie 15 France Police 16 Legia 17 Team Ringerike 18 CC Nogent-sur-Oise Courtesy of velomania.net
