21st Volta ao Alentejo - 2.3

Portugal, May 28-June 1, 2003

2002 results Stage List Preview Start List Past winners

The Stages

Stage 1 - May 28: Evora-Evora, 176 km
Stage 2 - May 29: Mora-Portalegre, 158 km
Stage 3 - May 30: Alcaçovas - Mourao - 167,5 Km,
Stage 4 - May 31: Monsaraz-Monsaraz, 68.8 km
Stage 5 - May 31: Aldeia Da Luz-Aldeia Da Luz ITT, 10.5 km
Stage 6 - June 1: Beja-Beja, 116 km

Preview

The 21st edition of this Portuguese 2.3 classed stage race takes place between Wednesday, May 28 and Sunday, June 1. The race features six stages in five days, including a split day on Saturday with a road stage and an individual time trial. Stage 2 (to Portalegre) and Stage 4 (to Monsaraz) both have uphill finishes, while the stage 5 time trial is completely flat.

Of the 12 squads entered into the race, all of the main Portuguese teams will compete, along with Paternina-Costa Almeria, Jean Delatour, Lokomotiv, and a Japanese National team. Milaneza-MSS are the favourites with riders like Angel Edo and Rui Lavarinhas on the roster.

Start list

Porta Ravessa-Tavira                Maia-Milaneza-MSS
 
1 Joaquim Andrade (Por)             11 Rui Lavarinhas (Por)
2 David Blanco (Spa)                12 Angel Edo (Spa)
3 Mario Lourenco (Por)              13 Pedro Cardoso (Por)
4 Nelson Vitorino (Por)             14 Goncalo Amorim (Por)
5 Krassimir Vassilev (Bul)          15 Paulo Barroso (Por)
6 Helder Miranda (Por)              16 Carlos Carneiro (Por)
7 Luis Bartolomeu (Por)             17 Renato Silva (Por)
8 Vidal Fitas (Por)                 18 Lizuarte Martins (Por)
 
L.A.-Pecol-Bombarral                Paternina-Costa Almeria
 
21 Andrei Zintchenko (Rus)          31 Jose L. Martinez (Spa)
22 Bruno Castanheira (Por)          32 Rafael Casero (Spa)
23 Pedro Lopes (Por)                33 Joaquin Lopez (Spa)
24 Pedro Andrade (Por)              34 Domingo Segado (Spa)
25 Juan Gomis (Spa)                 35 Gustavo Toledo (Arg)
26 Luis Pinheiro (Por)              36 Xavier Tondo (Spa)
27 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa)           37 Dermont Nally (Irl)
28 Vicente Reynes (Spa)             38 Didac Cuadros (Spa)
 
Jean Delatour                       Barbot-Torrie
 
41 Michael Buffaz (Fra)             51 Hugo Sabido (Por)
42 Jerome Bernard (Fra)             52 Nuno Marta (Por)
43 Gilles Bouvard (Fra)             53 Christian Climent (Spa)
44 Jean Patrick Nazon (Fra)         54 Rui Pinto (Por)
45 Eddy Seigneur (Fra)              55 Pablo De Pedro (Spa)
46 Sebastien Joly (Fra)             56 Eduardo Gonzalez (Spa)
48 Bruno Thibout (Fra)              57 Juan Olmo (Spa)
                                    58 Oscar Diaz (Spa)
 
Antarte-Rota Dos Moveis             Asc-Vila Do Conde
 
61 Virgilio Dos Santos (Por)        71 Victoriano Fernandez (Spa)
62 Cesar Quiterio (Por)             72 Quintino Rodrigues (Por)
63 Joao Silva (Por)                 73 Claudio Faria (Por)
64 Jacek Morajko (Pol)              74 Rafael Mila (Spa)
65 Jose Sousa (Por)                 75 Eligio Requejo (Spa)
66 Francisco Rodriguez (Spa)        76 Cesar Pinto (Por)
67 Gerardo Fernandez (Arg)          77 Ruben Galvan (Spa)
                                    78 Hermano Vieira (Por)
 
Cantanhede-M.De Marialva            Carvalhelhos-Boavista
 
81 Victor Gamito (Por)              91 Celio Sousa (Por)
82 Helder Silva (Por)               92 Youri Sourkov (Mda)
83 Unai Yus (Spa)                   93 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa)
84 Luis Sarreira (Por)              94 Adrian Palomares (Spa)
85 Pedro Costa (Por)                95 Joaquim Sampaio (Por)
86 David Garcia (Spa)               96 Pedro Soeiro (Por)
87 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa)          97 Ben Day (Aus)
88 Paulo Ferreira (Por)             98 Atanas Petrov (Bul)
 
Lokomotiv                           Japanese National Team
 
101 Alexei Markov (Rus)             111 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn)
102 Edouard Gritsoun (Rus)          112 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn)
103 Serguei Klimov (Rus)            113 Takehiro Mizutani (Jpn)
104 Denis Smyslov (Rus)             114 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn)
105 Pavel Brutt (Rus)               115 Kazuo Inoue (Jpn)
106 Alexei Kuznetsov (Rus)          116 Yusuke Shimizu (Jpn)
107 Nikita Eskov (Rus)              117 Takeshi Hashimoto (Jpn)
108 Oleg Rodionov (Rus)             118 Koji Fukushima (Jpn)
 
Pepolim & Irmaos-Ovarense
 
121 Jose Oliveira (Por)
122 Alexandre M Pinho (Por)
123 Segismund De La Torre (Spa)
124 Oscar Romero (Spa)
125 Jose Guillen (Spa)
126 Miguel Tabanera (Spa)
127 Xavier De La Torre (Spa)
128 Enrique Salgueiro (Spa)

Past winners

2002 Joaquim Andrade (Por) Cantanhede-M.Marialva
2001 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Mapei-Quick Step                
2000 Klaus Möller (Den) Uniao Ciclista Da Maia/MSS 
1999 José Luís Rubiera (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca
1998 Melchor Mauri (Spa) ONCE
1997 Aitor Garmendia (Spa)
1996 Miguel Indurain (Spa)
1995 Asiate Saitov (Rus)
1994 Carlos Carneiro
1993 Jorge Silva
1992 Antonio Pinto
1991 Jesus Blanco Villar
1990 José Régio
1989 Fernando Carvalho
1988 Joaquim Gomes
1987 Joaquin Salgado
1986 Manuel Zeferino
1985 Adelino Teixeira
1984 Marco Changas
1983 Paulo Ferreira
Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com