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Vuelta de las Americas - NE
Mexico, February 22-March 16, 2003
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Stage 15 - March 9: Morelia – Toluca, 223 km
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Images by Jairo Enrique Rodrìguez
- The five-man Colombian break worked in perfect team time trial formation, and by the end of the day, overnight race leader Jesús Zarate (Oaxaca) lost his leader's jersey
- Juan D. Ramírez and his five Colombian teammates cross the line 2.33 ahead of the peloton and his five Colombian teammates cross the line 2.33 ahead of the peloton
- The stage 15 podium is all Colombia - Oscar Alvarez (L, 2nd), Julio C. Rangel (M, 1st) and Argiro Zapata (R, 3nd)
- Julio C. Rangel (Colombia) is the new leader on general classification
- José Luis Vanegas becomes the new leader in the mountains competition
- Today, five Colombians took everyone by surprise and stole the show
Results
1 Juan Diego Ramirez (Col) Colombia 6.14.04 2 Julio Cesar Rangel (Col) Colombia 3 Oscar Alvarez (Col) Colombia 4 Victor Hugo Gonzalez (Col) Colombia 5 Argiro Zapata (Col) Colombia 6 Carlos Hernandez (Mex) Mexican National Team 2.33 7 Hipolito Perez (Mex) Tlaxcala 8 Marconi Duran (CRc) Costa Rica 9 Edgar Rodriguez (Gua) Guatemala 10 Hector Manuel Castaño (Col) Colombia 11 Jose Luis Venegas (Col) Colombia 12 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Region Occidente 13 Ricartes Oliveros (Mex) Jalisco 14 Carlos Lopez (Mex) Mexican National Team 15 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Mexican National Team 16 Oved Yesid Ramirez (Col) Colombia 9.20 17 Joel Alamillo (Mex) Region Noroeste 12.53 18 Leonardo Duque (Col) Colombia 12.57 19 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Russia 20 Abel Jochola (Gua) Guatemala 21 Jesus Zarate (Mex) Oaxaca 22 Edgardo Lugo (Mex) Mexican National Team 23 Juan Sanchez (Mex) Tlaxcala 24 Miguel Meza (Mex) Mexican National Team 25 Irving Aguilar (Mex) Region Occidente 26 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 27 Jose Castel (Mex) Region Occidente 28 Cuitlahuac Ayala (Mex) Puebla 29 Ignacio Sarabia (Mex) Mexican National Team 30 Erick Castaño (Ecu) Kazakhstan 31 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 32 Amilcar Gramajo (Gua) Guatemala 33 Fermin Mendez (Gua) Guatemala 13.02 34 Alexander Bespalov (Rus) Russia 35 Miguel Martinez (Mex) Oaxaca 19.16 36 Juan Gonzalez (Mex) Region Occidente 37 Andres Ordoñez (Gua) Guatemala 20.17 38 Jaime Xochipiltecatl (Mex) Tlaxcala 20.22 39 Victor Martinez (Mex) Oaxaca 22.36 40 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan 41 Nieves Carrasco (CRc) Costa Rica 42 Javier Paniagua (Mex) Region Occidente 27.54 43 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russia 44 Alexei Medvedev (Rus) Russia 45 Viktor Shestakov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 46 Sergey Lavrenenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan 47 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Region Occidente 48 Hisafumi Imanishi (Jpn) Japan 49 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Lithuania 50 Julio Castañeda (Mex) Puebla 51 Armando Perez (Mex) Tlaxcala 52 Andrejus Zubrovas (Ltu) Lithuania 53 Abraham Valenzuela (Mex) Region Noroeste 54 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russia 36.39 55 Marco Ortega (Mex) Region Noroeste 56 Alexei Levine (Rus) Russia 57 Alexander Dimovskikh (Kaz) Kazakhstan 58 Yoshiyuki Abe (Jpn) Japan 59 Jose Antonio Rojas (Mex) Distrito Federal 60 Samat Sapashanov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 61 Vadim Gorbachevskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 62 Alejandro Rojas (Mex) Distrito Federal 63 Alexander Mironov (Rus) Russia 64 Christian Valenzuela (Mex) Region Noroeste 65 Francisco Matamoros (Mex) Mexican National Team 66 Angel Quetzel (Gua) Guatemala 67 Jorge Castañeda (Mex) Puebla 68 Gerardo Soto (Mex) Unam 69 Jose Alberto Montero (CRc) Costa Rica 70 Domingo Gonzalez (Mex) Mexican National Team 71 David Salomon (Mex) Mexican National Team 72 Artem Mavlianov (Rus) Russia 39.18 73 Andres Contreras (Mex) Oaxaca 1.00.46 74 Victor Cruz (Mex) Jalisco 75 Jose Sanchez (Mex) Tlaxcala 76 Arnold Zapata (Bol) Bolivia 77 Moises Vazquez (Mex) Tlaxcala 78 Remigijus Lupeikis (Ltu) Lithuania 79 Arunas Gliaudelis (Ltu) Lithuania 80 Saulius Sarkauskas (Ltu) Lithuania 81 Vytautas Kaupas (Ltu) Lithuania 82 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Lithuania 83 Noe Camacho (Mex) Jalisco 84 Alfonso Sanchez (Mex) Puebla 85 Alfredo Zarate (Mex) Unam 86 Israel Librado (Mex) Puebla 87 Alvaro Trucios (Mex) Puebla 88 Joaquin Sobrino (Spa) Unam 89 Issac Poma (Bol) Bolivia 90 Pablo Araya (CRc) Costa Rica 91 Yuradir Lenandro (CRc) Costa Rica 92 Jesús Ordaz (Mex) Distrito Federal 93 Jose Garcia (Mex) Region Occidente 94 Yamil Montaño (Bol) Bolivia 95 Hugo Mejia (Mex) Unam 96 Manuel Sanchez (Mex) Jalisco 97 Gabriel Rivera (Mex) Jalisco 98 Manuel Carvajal (Mex) Oaxaca 99 Eduardo Graciano (Mex) Oaxaca DNF Paolo Manzoni (Swi) Switzerland DNF Florencio Ramos (Mex) Region Occidente DNS Ismael Ponce (Mex) Jalisco U23 1 Carlos Lopez (Mex) Mexican National Team 6.16.37 2 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Russia 10.24 3 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 4 Ignacio Sarabia (Mex) Mexican National Team 5 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 6 Alexander Bespalov (Rus) Russia 10.29 7 Miguel Martinez (Mex) Oaxaca 16.43 8 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan 20.03 9 Javier Paniagua (Mex) Region Occidente 25.21 10 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russia 11 Alexei Medvedev (Rus) Russia 12 Viktor Shestakov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 13 Julio Castañeda (Mex) Puebla 14 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russia 34.06 15 Marco Ortega (Mex) Region Noroeste 16 Alexei Levine (Rus) Russia 17 Alexander Dimovskikh (Kaz) Kazakhstan 18 Samat Sapashanov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 19 Vadim Gorbachevskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 20 Alejandro Rojas (Mex) Distrito Federal 21 Alexander Mironov (Rus) Russia 22 Angel Quetzel (Gua) Guatemala 23 Artem Mavlianov (Rus) Russia 36.45 24 Jose Sanchez (Mex) Tlaxcala 58.13 25 Arunas Gliaudelis (Ltu) Lithuania 26 Vytautas Kaupas (Ltu) Lithuania 27 Joaquin Sobrino (Spa) Unam 28 Yamil Montaño (Bol) Bolivia 29 Hugo Mejia (Mex) Unam Metas volantes Sprint 1 1 Miguel Meza (Mex) Mexican National Team 3 pts 2 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 2 3 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Region Occidente 1 Mountains Climb 1 1 Jose Luis Venegas (Col) Colombia 5 pts 2 Oved Yesid Ramirez (Col) Colombia 3 3 Oscar Alvarez (Col) Colombia 2 4 Edgar Rodriguez (Gua) Guatemala 1 Climb 2 1 Jose Luis Venegas (Col) Colombia 10 pts 2 Victor Hugo Gonzalez (Col) Colombia 7 3 Julio Cesar Rangel (Col) Colombia 5 4 Juan Diego Ramirez (Col) Colombia 3 5 Oscar Alvarez (Col) Colombia 2 6 Argiro Zapata (Col) Colombia 1 Teams 1 Colombia 18.42.12 2 Mexican National Team 7.39 3 Guatemala 28.27 4 Region Occidente 5 Tlaxcala 35.52 6 Kazakhstan 38.51 7 Russia 53.53 8 Oaxaca 54.49 9 Costa Rica 1.01.48 10 Region Noroeste 1.17.26 11 Puebla 1.17.30 12 Lithuania 1.56.34 13 Jalisco 2.04.05 14 Distrito Federal 2.14.04 15 Unam 2.38.11 16 Bolivia 3.02.18 General classification after stage 15 1 Julio Cesar Rangel (Col) Colombia 63.53.38 2 Oscar Alvarez (Col) Colombia 0.21 3 Argiro Zapata (Col) Colombia 0.37 4 Carlos Hernandez (Mex) Mexican National Team 2.11 5 Victor Hugo Gonzalez (Col) Colombia 3.41 6 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Region Occidente 4.54 7 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Mexican National Team 5.45 8 Juan Diego Ramirez (Col) Colombia 8.16 9 Edgar Rodriguez (Gua) Guatemala 8.55 10 Carlos Lopez (Mex) Mexican National Team 10.08 11 Jose Luis Venegas (Col) Colombia 11.00 12 Jesus Zarate (Mex) Oaxaca 12.43 13 Marconi Duran (CRc) Costa Rica 13.06 14 Hipolito Perez (Mex) Tlaxcala 13.38 15 Juan Sanchez (Mex) Tlaxcala 15.30 16 Ignacio Sarabia (Mex) Mexican National Team 16.03 17 Irving Aguilar (Mex) Region Occidente 16.29 18 Leonardo Duque (Col) Colombia 16.46 19 Hector Manuel Castaño (Col) Colombia 17.22 20 Abel Jochola (Gua) Guatemala 17.27 21 Jose Castel (Mex) Region Occidente 22 Oved Yesid Ramirez (Col) Colombia 17.53 23 Ricartes Oliveros (Mex) Jalisco 17.54 24 Edgardo Lugo (Mex) Mexican National Team 19.00 25 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Russia 19.15 26 Amilcar Gramajo (Gua) Guatemala 20.16 27 Cuitlahuac Ayala (Mex) Puebla 21.26 28 Joel Alamillo (Mex) Region Noroeste 23.37 29 Miguel Meza (Mex) Mexican National Team 27.53 30 Juan Gonzalez (Mex) Region Occidente 31.28 31 Alexander Bespalov (Rus) Russia 34.33 32 Victor Martinez (Mex) Oaxaca 35.29 33 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Region Occidente 36.08 34 Nieves Carrasco (CRc) Costa Rica 38.13 35 Abraham Valenzuela (Mex) Region Noroeste 39.11 36 Alexei Medvedev (Rus) Russia 41.16 37 Fermin Mendez (Gua) Guatemala 41.34 38 Francisco Matamoros (Mex) Mexican National Team 42.33 39 Hisafumi Imanishi (Jpn) Japan 43.58 40 Yoshiyuki Abe (Jpn) Japan 47.33 41 Miguel Martinez (Mex) Oaxaca 48.39 42 Andrejus Zubrovas (Ltu) Lithuania 48.54 43 Jaime Xochipiltecatl (Mex) Tlaxcala 49.51 44 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 50.54 45 Christian Valenzuela (Mex) Region Noroeste 53.20 46 Javier Paniagua (Mex) Region Occidente 53.57 47 Armando Perez (Mex) Tlaxcala 48 Marco Ortega (Mex) Region Noroeste 54.34 49 Alexander Mironov (Rus) Russia 54.53 50 Julio Castañeda (Mex) Puebla 56.03 51 David Salomon (Mex) Mexican National Team 56.17 52 Alexei Levine (Rus) Russia 56.27 53 Erick Castaño (Ecu) Kazakhstan 56.45 54 Domingo Gonzalez (Mex) Mexican National Team 57.24 55 Andres Ordoñez (Gua) Guatemala 57.49 56 Gerardo Soto (Mex) Unam 58.44 57 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan 1.01.08 58 Jorge Castañeda (Mex) Puebla 1.04.25 59 Jose Alberto Montero (CRc) Costa Rica 1.07.34 60 Andres Contreras (Mex) Oaxaca 1.10.37 61 Viktor Shestakov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 1.10.47 62 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russia 1.11.14 63 Artem Mavlianov (Rus) Russia 1.11.27 64 Angel Quetzel (Gua) Guatemala 1.12.02 65 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russia 1.12.35 66 Jose Antonio Rojas (Mex) Distrito Federal 1.22.01 67 Jose Sanchez (Mex) Tlaxcala 1.23.13 68 Alfonso Sanchez (Mex) Puebla 1.25.43 69 Eduardo Graciano (Mex) Oaxaca 1.26.03 70 Sergey Lavrenenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan 1.26.42 71 Joaquin Sobrino (Spa) Unam 1.27.18 72 Moises Vazquez (Mex) Tlaxcala 1.28.24 73 Vadim Gorbachevskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 1.29.39 74 Saulius Sarkauskas (Ltu) Lithuania 1.30.37 75 Alexander Dimovskikh (Kaz) Kazakhstan 1.32.26 76 Jesús Ordaz (Mex) Distrito Federal 1.34.28 77 Noe Camacho (Mex) Jalisco 1.34.50 78 Samat Sapashanov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 1.35.15 79 Arnold Zapata (Bol) Bolivia 1.41.31 80 Manuel Carvajal (Mex) Oaxaca 1.44.13 81 Victor Cruz (Mex) Jalisco 1.44.26 82 Alfredo Zarate (Mex) Unam 1.47.44 83 Gabriel Rivera (Mex) Jalisco 2.05.23 84 Pablo Araya (CRc) Costa Rica 2.08.27 85 Alvaro Trucios (Mex) Puebla 2.08.53 86 Alejandro Rojas (Mex) Distrito Federal 2.10.59 87 Issac Poma (Bol) Bolivia 2.13.12 88 Israel Librado (Mex) Puebla 2.16.46 89 Yuradir Lenandro (CRc) Costa Rica 2.21.59 90 Manuel Sanchez (Mex) Jalisco 2.56.21 91 Yamil Montaño (Bol) Bolivia 3.28.46 U23 classification 1 Carlos Lopez (Mex) Mexican National Team 9.56 2 Ignacio Sarabia (Mex) Mexican National Team 15.11 3 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Russia 17.51 4 Alexander Bespalov (Rus) Russia 34.04 5 Alexei Medvedev (Rus) Russia 38.49 6 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 45.22 7 Miguel Martinez (Mex) Oaxaca 45.36 8 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 50.44 9 Marco Ortega (Mex) Region Noroeste 51.39 10 Alexander Mironov (Rus) Russia 52.46 11 Javier Paniagua (Mex) Region Occidente 52.58 12 Alexei Levine (Rus) Russia 53.38 13 Julio Castañeda (Mex) Puebla 55.04 14 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan 1.00.09 15 Angel Quetzel (Gua) Guatemala 1.07.23 16 Artem Mavlianov (Rus) Russia 1.07.53 17 Viktor Shestakov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 1.08.45 18 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russia 1.08.52 19 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russia 1.09.25 20 Jose Sanchez (Mex) Tlaxcala 1.17.59 21 Joaquin Sobrino (Spa) Unam 1.24.29 22 Vadim Gorbachevskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 1.26.36 23 Samat Sapashanov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 1.30.53 24 Alexander Dimovskikh (Kaz) Kazakhstan 25 Vytautas Kaupas (Ltu) Lithuania 1.41.49 26 Arunas Gliaudelis (Ltu) Lithuania 1.42.17 27 Alejandro Rojas (Mex) Distrito Federal 2.07.45 28 Hugo Mejia (Mex) Unam 2.16.34 29 Yamil Montaño (Bol) Bolivia 3.21.48 Metas volantes classification 1 Miguel Meza (Mex) Mexican National Team 16 pts 2 Eduardo Graciano (Mex) Oaxaca 11 3 Victor Cruz (Mex) Jalisco 6 4 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Region Occidente 4 5 Leonardo Duque (Col) Colombia 3 6 Amilcar Gramajo (Gua) Guatemala 3 7 Victor Martinez (Mex) Oaxaca 3 8 Alexei Medvedev (Rus) Russia 3 9 Joel Alamillo (Mex) Region Noroeste 3 10 Christian Valenzuela (Mex) Region Noroeste 3 11 Sergey Lavrenenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan 3 12 Israel Librado (Mex) Puebla 3 13 Yamil Montaño (Bol) Bolivia 3 14 Edgar Rodriguez (Gua) Guatemala 2 15 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 2 16 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 2 17 Gerardo Soto (Mex) Unam 2 18 Manuel Sanchez (Mex) Jalisco 2 19 Oscar Alvarez (Col) Colombia 1 20 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Region Occidente 1 21 Ignacio Sarabia (Mex) Mexican National Team 1 22 Irving Aguilar (Mex) Region Occidente 1 23 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Lithuania 1 24 Abraham Valenzuela (Mex) Region Noroeste 1 25 Alexei Levine (Rus) Russia 1 26 Jose Sanchez (Mex) Tlaxcala 1 27 Alejandro Rojas (Mex) Distrito Federal 1 Mountains classification 1 Jose Luis Venegas (Col) Colombia 15 pts 2 Victor Hugo Gonzalez (Col) Colombia 7 3 Oved Yesid Ramirez (Col) Colombia 6 6 Julio Cesar Rangel (Col) Colombia 5 5 Irving Aguilar (Mex) Region Occidente 5 4 Sergey Lavrenenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan 5 7 Oscar Alvarez (Col) Colombia 4 8 Juan Diego Ramirez (Col) Colombia 3 9 Gerardo Soto (Mex) Unam 3 10 Victor Martinez (Mex) Oaxaca 2 12 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 2 11 Alexei Levine (Rus) Russia 2 15 Argiro Zapata (Col) Colombia 1 14 Edgar Rodriguez (Gua) Guatemala 1 13 Pablo Araya (CRc) Costa Rica 1 Teams classification 1 Colombia 177.57.47 2 Mexican National Team 9.30 3 Region Occidente 31.22 4 Guatemala 45.59 5 Tlaxcala 1.00.00 6 Oaxaca 1.02.25 7 Russia 1.17.17 8 Region Noroeste 1.38.11 9 Costa Rica 1.45.30 10 Puebla 1.55.13 11 Kazakhstan 2.24.50 12 Lithuania 2.38.33 13 Jalisco 2.50.05 14 Unam 3.42.07 15 Distrito Federal 4.24.31 16 Bolivia 5.54.52
