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63rd Vuelta Ciclista a la Comunidad Valenciana - 2.1
Spain, February 22-26, 2005
Stage 1 - February 22: Calpe - Calpe, 150,2 km
Petacchi takes five
Alessandro Petacchi still sits on the winning Fassa Bortolo train, finishing first of the bunch again today for the fifth time this early season. "The basis of my success really is this genuinely great team," he said after winning the first stage of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana.
"Now all the mechanisms work perfectly for me to be at ease in the stage finale. I feel really good, but I am perfectly aware that without the help of my teammates I could do nothing - especially those who pull through the race contolling the breaks. Now I can race without the pressure of success until Milano-Sanremo; I think that's a real advantage."
Results
1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3.46.43 2 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.01 3 M.A. Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 5 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears 6 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 7 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 9 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 10 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 11 Aitor Perez (Spa) Spiuk 12 David Muñoz (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 13 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 14 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 15 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 16 David Etxebarria (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 17 Alberto Benitez (Spa) Spiuk 18 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 19 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 20 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 21 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 22 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 23 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 24 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears 25 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 26 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 27 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 28 Javier Cherro (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 29 Moises Duenas (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 30 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 31 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 32 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 33 José Enriqu Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 34 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 35 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Kaiku 36 Luis Perez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 37 José Ruiz (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 38 Juan Gomis (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 39 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 40 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 41 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 42 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 43 Carlos Zarate (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 44 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 45 Jaume Rovira (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 46 Fco.José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 47 Sergio Dominguez (Spa) Spiuk 48 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.18 49 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 0.33 50 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.42 51 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 2.51 52 Efrain Gutierrez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 4.34 53 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 54 Joan Horrach (Spa) Illes Balears 55 Angel L. Casero (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 56 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 57 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 58 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 59 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8.07 60 David Blanco (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 11.16 61 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 62 Isaac Galvez (Spa) Illes Balears 63 Israel Nunez (Spa) Kaiku 64 Angel Edo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 65 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis 66 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 67 Victor M. Gomes (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 68 Javier Perez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 69 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Kaiku 70 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 71 Aketza Peña (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 72 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis 73 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Illes Balears 74 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 75 David Fernandez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 76 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 77 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Kaiku 78 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis 79 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 80 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 81 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 82 Luciano A. Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 83 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 84 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 85 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 86 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 87 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 88 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 89 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile Team 90 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 91 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 92 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 93 Javier Benitez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 94 Raul Garcia (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 95 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Kaiku 96 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 97 David Latasa (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 98 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 99 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 100 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis 101 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 102 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 103 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 104 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 105 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears 16.01 106 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 16.05 107 Pedro Romero (Spa) Spiuk 16.08 108 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 19.08 109 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Spiuk 110 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Illes Balears 111 Fernando Torres (Spa) Spiuk 112 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 113 Iker Leonet (Spa) Illes Balears 114 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 115 Angel Rodriguez (Spa) Spiuk 116 Jesus Ramirez (Spa) Spiuk 117 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 118 Adrian Palomares (Spa) Kaiku 119 Julian Dean (NZl) Credit Agricole 120 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Kaiku 121 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 122 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 19.29 Points 1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 25 pts 2 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 20 3 M.A. Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 16 4 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 14 5 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears 12 6 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 10 7 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 9 8 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 8 9 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 7 10 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 6 11 Aitor Perez (Spa) Spiuk 5 12 David Muñoz (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 4 13 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 3 14 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 2 15 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 1 Mountains Col De Rates, Cat. 1 - km 37 1 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 pts 2 Juan Gomis (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 12 3 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 10 4 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 8 5 Adrian Palomares (Spa) Kaiku 6 6 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 4 7 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 3 8 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 2 9 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears 1 Alto De Benissa, Cat. 3 - km 103,70 1 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 6 pts 2 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 3 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 2 4 Luis Perez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 1 Alto De Benissa, Cat 3. - km 130,70 1 Aitor Perez (Spa) Spiuk 6 pts 2 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 3 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 2 4 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 1 Metas Volantes Callosa D'en Sarria - km 17,50 1 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 pts 2 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 2 3 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears 1 Calp - km 94,60 1 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 pts 2 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis 2 3 Javier Cherro (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 1 Teams 1 Rabobank 11.20.12 2 Credit Agricole 3 Liberty Seguros-Wurth 4 Onak Hearing Systems 5 Comunidad Valenciana 6 Spiuk 7 Saunier Duval-Prodir 8 Relax-Fuenlabrada 9 Andalucia-Paul Versan 10 Fassa Bortolo 0.16 11 Illes Balears 4.33 12 T-Mobile Team 13 Liquigas-Bianchi 11.15 14 Kaiku 15 Euskaltel-Euskadi 16 Cofidis 22.30 General classification after stage 1 1 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.46.32 2 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.01 3 M.A. Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.08 4 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 0.10 5 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears 0.11 6 Javier Cherro (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 7 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.12 8 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears 9 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 10 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 11 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 12 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 13 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 14 Aitor Perez (Spa) Spiuk 15 David Muñoz (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 16 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 17 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 18 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 19 David Etxebarria (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 20 Alberto Benitez (Spa) Spiuk 21 Josep Jufre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 22 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 23 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 24 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 26 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 27 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 28 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 29 Moises Duenas (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 30 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 31 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 32 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 33 José Enriqu Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 34 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 35 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Kaiku 36 Luis Perez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 37 José Ruiz (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 38 Juan Gomis (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 39 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 40 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 41 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 42 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 43 Carlos Zarate (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 44 Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 45 Jaume Rovira (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 46 Fco.José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 47 Sergio Dominguez (Spa) Spiuk 48 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.29 49 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 0.44 50 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.53 51 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 3.02 52 Efrain Gutierrez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 4.45 53 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 54 Joan Horrach (Spa) Illes Balears 55 Angel L. Casero (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 56 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 57 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 58 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 59 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8.18 60 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis 11.25 61 David Blanco (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 11.27 62 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 63 Isaac Galvez (Spa) Illes Balears 64 Israel Nunez (Spa) Kaiku 65 Angel Edo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 66 Luis Perez (Spa) Cofidis 67 Ignacio Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 68 Victor M. Gomes (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 69 Javier Perez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 70 Gustavo Cesar (Spa) Kaiku 71 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 72 Aketza Peña (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 73 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis 74 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Illes Balears 75 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 76 David Fernandez (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 77 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 78 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Kaiku 79 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis 80 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 81 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 82 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 83 Luciano A. Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 84 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 85 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 86 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 87 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 88 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 89 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 90 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile Team 91 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 92 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 93 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 94 Javier Benitez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 95 Raul Garcia (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 96 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Kaiku 97 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 98 David Latasa (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 99 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 100 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 101 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 102 Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 103 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 104 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 105 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears 16.12 106 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 16.16 107 Pedro Romero (Spa) Spiuk 16.19 108 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 109 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Spiuk 110 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Illes Balears 111 Fernando Torres (Spa) Spiuk 112 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 113 Iker Leonet (Spa) Illes Balears 114 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 115 Angel Rodriguez (Spa) Spiuk 116 Jesus Ramirez (Spa) Spiuk 117 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 118 Adrian Palomares (Spa) Kaiku 119 Julian Dean (NZl) Credit Agricole 120 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Kaiku 121 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 122 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 19.40 Points classification 1 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 26 pts 2 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 25 3 M.A. Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 16 4 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 14 5 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears 12 6 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 10 7 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 9 8 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 8 9 Ion Del Rio (Spa) Andalucia-Paul Versan 7 10 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 6 11 Aitor Perez (Spa) Spiuk 5 12 David Muñoz (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 4 13 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 3 14 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 2 15 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 2 16 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis 2 17 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears 1 18 Javier Cherro (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 1 19 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 1 Mountains classification 1 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 24 pts 2 Javier Ramirez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 16 3 Juan Gomis (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 12 4 David Bernabeu (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 10 5 Aitor Perez (Spa) Spiuk 6 6 Adrian Palomares (Spa) Kaiku 6 7 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 4 8 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 3 9 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 2 10 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 2 11 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears 1 Teams classification 1 Rabobank 11.20.12 2 Credit Agricole 3 Liberty Seguros-Wurth 4 Onak Hearing Systems 5 Comunidad Valenciana 6 Spiuk 7 Saunier Duval-Prodir 8 Relax-Fuenlabrada 9 Andalucia-Paul Versan 10 Fassa Bortolo 0.16 11 Illes Balears 4.33 12 T-Mobile Team 13 Liquigas-Bianchi 11.15 14 Kaiku 15 Euskaltel-Euskadi 16 Cofidis 22.30
