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Grand Prix Tell - 2.7.1
Switzerland, August 25-29, 2004
2003 results Stage List Preview Start List Past winners
The Stages
- Prologue - August 25: Lucerne ITT, 1,2 km
- Stage 1 - August 26: Sempach - Sempach, 152.0 km
- Stage 2 - August 27: Roggliswil - Zweisimmen, 171.7 km
- Stage 3 - August 28: Safenwil - Safenwil, 134.8 km
- Stage 4a - August 29: Olten - Olten ITT, 24.4 km
- Stage 4b - August 29: Olten - Olten, 75.0 km
U23's gear up for GP Tell
By Andreas Oppliger
This year's edition of the last stage race on the U23 World Cup calendar, the Grand Prix Tell, takes place from August 25-29 in the central part of Switzerland around Lucerne. The race will be run over six stages including two half stages around Olten on the final day. The total distance is 560 kilometres and the cumulative climbing is around 6,800 meters. The highlight of the race will be the short prologue in the very heart of the old town of Lucerne.
The queen stage is on Friday, August 27 from Roggliswil to Zweisimmen, one of the tourist centres in the Bernese Oberland. The stage is 172 km long and includes three cat. 1 climbs in the last 40 km. A preliminary decision of the GC positions will be made here.
Sunday, August 29 will be one of the last occasions for the time trial specialists to test their form before the World Championships in Verona in October. That's the reason why many good time trialists are making their way to Switzerland, despite the hilly character of the whole event.
It is difficult to name riders as favourites for this year's GP Tell. Besides the best Swiss riders Dietziker, Stalder, Tapparel and Gysling, the Slovenian National Team certainly wants to test the international cycling scene again, and they are often underestimated. Tomasz Nose, second in the GP Tell last year will be the leader of the Slovenian squad. Other riders up for a possible spot on the podium are the Dutchmen Mathieu Heijboer and Kai Reus (Junior World Champion), one of the strong Russian hopes or the German Matthias Russ and the "new Kim Kirchen" from Luxembourg, Andy Schleck. He is the brother of the CSC-rider, Frank Schleck.
Start list
Swiss Cycling Jet Lag RO St Petersburg
1 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) 11 Boris Shpilewsky (Rus)
2 Benjamin Baumgartner (Swi) 12 Dimitri Kozontchouk (Rus)
3 Florian Stalder (Swi) 13 Stanislav Belov (Rus)
4 Laurent Arn (Swi) 14 Sergey Firsanov (Rus)
5 Jimmy Tapparel (Swi) 15 Sergey Lazarev (Rus)
6 Hubert Schwab (Swi) 16 Evgeny Popov (Rus)
Slovenian National Team Danish National Team
21 Tomaz Nose (Slo) 31 Lasse Böchman (Den)
22 Matic Strgar (Slo) 32 Larsen Kasper (Den)
23 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) 33 Kasper Jebjerg (Den)
24 Andrej Omulec (Slo) 34 Christian Hansen (Den)
25 Miha Svab (Slo) 35 Daniel Foder (Den)
26 Grega Bole (Slo) 36 Michael Mörköv (Den)
Hadimec GS Rufalex
41 Steve Bovay (Swi) 51 Stefan Trafelet (Swi)
42 Patrick Sala (Swi) 52 Dominik Girsberger (Swi)
43 Patrick Gassmann (Swi) 53 Fabian Züsli (Swi)
44 Steve Grossenbacher (Swi) 54 Benjamin Schnyder (Swi)
45 Erich Kunz (Swi) 55 Sandro Germann (Swi)
46 Marcel Schilliger (Swi) 56 Stephan Widmer (Swi)
Kazakhstan National Team Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart
61 Ivan Andreyev (Kaz) 71 David Heine (Ger)
62 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) 72 Nico Graf (Ger)
63 Viktor Shestakov (Kaz) 73 Andreas Welsch (Ger)
64 Vadim Vdovinov (Kaz) 74 Timo Krieger (Ger)
75 Michael Muck (Ger)
76 Matthias Russ (Ger)
Australian National Team USA National Team
81 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) 91 Dane Jankowiak (USA)
82 Ashley Humbert (Aus) 92 Darby Thomas (USA)
83 Nicholas Sanderson (Aus) 93 Michael Wolf (USA)
84 Richard Moffat (Aus) 94 Blake Caldwell (USA)
85 Christophe Sutton (Aus) 95 Nick Waite (USA)
86 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) 96 Matthew Crane (USA)
German National Team Luxembourg National Team
101 Thorsten Struch (Ger) 111 Jacques Dahm (Lux)
102 Alexander Gottfried (Ger) 112 Laurent Didier (Lux)
103 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) 113 Gilles Hendel (Lux)
104 Thomas Fothen (Ger) 114 Joe Kirch (Lux)
105 Jochen Uhrig (Ger) 115 Andy Schleck (Lux)
106 Christian Leben (Ger) 116 Benn Wurth (Lux)
Dutch National Team Palmans-Collstrop
121 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) 131 Jos Harms (Ned)
122 Stef Clement (Ned) 132 Huub Duyn (Ned)
123 Kai Reus (Ned) 133 Kristof Dezutter (Bel)
124 Tom Leezer (Ned) 134 Egon Van Kessel (Ned)
125 Thom Van Dulmen (Ned) 135 Kor Steenbergen (Ned)
126 Norbert Poels (Ned) 136 Jeff De Boeck (Bel)
TEAG Team Köstritzer Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon
151 Falk Dworatzek (Ger) 161 Jonas Blum (Swi)
152 Robert Wagner (Ger) 162 Peter Oeschger (Swi)
153 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) 163 Daniel Gysling (Swi)
154 Sebastian Paddags (Ger) 164 Manuel Widmer (Swi)
155 Niklas Kellermann (Ger) 165 Simon Zahner (Swi)
156 Andre Greipel (Ger) 166 Nazareno Rossi (Swi)
VC Mendrisio-PL Valli Casin Team MEGA BIKE
171 Marco Giani (Ita) 181 Marco Jimenez (Swi)
172 Jonas Leib (Swi) 182 Simon Schärer (Swi)
173 Steve Morabito (Swi) 183 Maxime Beney (Swi)
174 Markus Schmidig (Swi) 184 Florian Vogel (Swi)
175 Remo Spirgi (Swi) 185 Martin Gujan (Swi)
176 David Vitoria (Swi) 186 Martin Kohler (Swi)
Past winners
2003 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 2002 Rasmus Dyring (Den) Danish National Team 2001 Emil Arnell (Swe) Swedish National Team 2000 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) 1999 Not held 1998 Marco Velo (Ita) 1997 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) 1996 Andrea Dolci (Ita) 1995 Peter Verbeken (Swi) 1993 Peter Verbeken (Swi) 1992 Dieter Runkel (Swi) 1991 Alex Zülle (Swi) 1990 Werner Stutz (Swi) 1989 Karl Kählin (Swi) 1988 Josef Fuchs (Swi) 1987 Guido Winterberg (Swi) 1986 Heinz Imboden (Swi) 1985 Pascal Richard (Swi) 1984 Guido Winterberg (Swi) 1983 Richard Trinkler (Swi) 1982 Niki Rüttimann (Swi) 1981 Pedersen (Nor) 1980 Polini (Ita) 1979 Richard Trinkler (Swi) 1978 Ehrensberger (Swi) 1977 Gilbert Glaus (Swi) 1976 Roberto Ceruti (Ita) 1975 Jorgen Marcusson (Den) 1974 Fretz (Swi) 1973 Philippe Leleu (F) 1972 Lloyd (GB) 1971 Wehrli (Swi) Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com
