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Grand Prix Tell - 2.7.1
Switzerland, August 27-31, 2003
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Stage 4a - August 30: Muotathal - Zug, 74.8 km
Two courageous riders get their reward
By Andreas Oppliger
The first part of the fourth stage on Saturday morning was a short, flat journey of 78 kilometres from Muotathal to the picturesque town of Zug. Just a few minutes after the start, two riders got away and were able to stay clear for the entire stage. The pair consisted of Danish rider Kasper Klostergaard and Boris Shpilevsky, from the Russian Angelin Travel St. Petersburg squad. As expected there were no changes on the GC on Saturday morning, as these two riders were no threat.
This morning the weather god was on the side of the whole peloton, although heavy clouds full of rain began to darken the sky. Maybe this was the reason that the peloton was so fast, and covered the stage at an impressive average speed of 46.4 kilometres per hour. The two fugitives in front worked together very well. What looked like a hopeless breakaway in the beginning became the decisive move in this stage to Zug. Although the lead on the additional lap around Zug melted like ice in the summer sun, the resilience of the Danish-Russian duo was stronger than the combined power of the other teams in the peloton. They
The leaders reached the finishing straight only a few seconds in front of the chasing bunch, and started the sprint for the stage win. 21 year old Boris Shpilevsky got the better of Klostergaard to take the win. Nine seconds later, Dutchman Peter Möhlmann won the bunch sprint.
Results
1 Boris Shpilevski (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 1.36.43 2 Larsen Klostergaard Kasper (Den) Danish National Team 3 Peter Mohlmann (Ned) Dutch National Team 0.09 4 Matic Strgar (Slo) Slovenian National Team 5 Daniel Musiol (Ger) German National Team 6 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 7 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 8 Tobias Baumgartner (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 9 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Dutch National Team 10 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Swiss Cycling 11 Kristof De Zutter (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 12 Alberto Tiberio (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 13 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 14 Jure Kocjan (Slo) Slovenian National Team 15 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 16 Markus Schmidig (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 17 Alexander Bazhenov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 18 Jonas Meng (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 19 Aldis Abolins (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 20 Peter Oeschger (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 21 Steve Grossenbacher (Swi) Hadimec 22 Leo Karstens (Ger) German National Team 23 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 24 Felix Gniot (Ger) German National Team 25 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 26 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Swiss Cycling 27 Janusch Laule (Ger) Team Mixed Zollinger 28 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 29 Ronny Hartz (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 30 Michael Müller (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 31 Arian Buchwalder (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 32 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 33 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 34 Dmitri Kozontchuk (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 35 Tomaz Nose (Slo) Slovenian National Team 36 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 37 Florian Stalder (Swi) Swiss Cycling 38 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 39 Jimmy Tapparel (Swi) Hadimec 40 Kurt Dierckx (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 41 Matthias Russ (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 42 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 43 Remo Spirgi (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 44 Laurent Arn (Swi) Hadimec 45 Stefan Widmer (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 46 Oleg Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 47 Pirmin Lang (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 48 Viktor Shestakuv (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 49 Glenn Poleunis (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 50 Marco Von Känel (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 51 Dane Jankowiak (USA) USA National Team 52 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 53 Michael Kristensen (Den) Danish National Team 54 Pablo Pico (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 55 Sergey Lazarev (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 56 Johann Tschopp (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 57 Stanislav Belov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 58 Marco Giani (Ita) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 59 Simon Schärer (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 60 Roman Gugger (Swi) Swiss Cycling 61 Michael Muck (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 62 Erich Kunz (Swi) Hadimec 63 Bruno Büetiger (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 64 Marcel Schilliger (Swi) Hadimec 65 Marco Jimenez (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 66 Sandro Germann (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 67 Jochen Uhrig (Ger) German National Team 68 Wren Tyler (USA) USA National Team 69 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Russian National Team 70 Darby Thomas (USA) USA National Team 71 Morten Knudsen (Den) Danish National Team 72 Norbert Poels (Ned) Dutch National Team 73 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russian National Team 74 Timmy Duggan (USA) USA National Team 75 Christian Rocha (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 76 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Slovenian National Team 77 Walker Ferguson (USA) USA National Team 78 Lasse Böchman (Den) Danish National Team 79 Jonas Leib (Swi) Swiss Cycling 80 Brian Vandborg (Den) Danish National Team 81 Michael Creed (USA) USA National Team 82 Peter Jörgensen (Den) Danish National Team 83 Peter Magyarosi (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 84 Alexander Bespalov (Rus) Russian National Team 0.26 85 Thorsten Struch (Ger) German National Team 86 Braulio Juanes (Spa) Hadimec 87 Jochen Rochau (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 88 Jos Harms (Ned) Dutch National Team 89 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 90 Bart Oegema (Ned) Dutch National Team 0.31 Points 1 Boris Shpilevski (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 25 pts 2 Larsen Klostergaard Kasper (Den) Danish National Team 20 3 Peter Mohlmann (Ned) Dutch National Team 16 4 Matic Strgar (Slo) Slovenian National Team 13 5 Daniel Musiol (Ger) German National Team 11 6 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 10 7 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 9 8 Tobias Baumgartner (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 8 9 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Dutch National Team 7 10 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Swiss Cycling 6 11 Kristof De Zutter (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 5 12 Alberto Tiberio (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 4 13 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 3 14 Jure Kocjan (Slo) Slovenian National Team 2 15 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 1 Sprints Gersau - 23.9 km 1 Larsen Klostergaard Kasper (Den) Danish National Team 3 pts 2 Boris Shpilevski (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 2 3 Marco Von Känel (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 1 Zug Herti - 64.7 km 1 Larsen Klostergaard Kasper (Den) Danish National Team 3 pts 2 Boris Shpilevski (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 2 3 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 1 Teams 1 Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 4.50.21 2 Danish National Team 0.02 3 Dutch National Team 0.13 4 Kazakhstan National Team 0.15 5 German National Team 6 Slovenian National Team 7 Team Mixed Zollinger 8 Swiss Cycling 9 Palmans-Collstrop 10 GS Rufalex Nordwest 11 Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 12 Hörmann Betoncoupe 13 Hadimec 14 Team Mixed Zollinger 15 Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 16 Russian National Team 17 USA National Team General classification after stage 4a 1 Tomaz Nose (Slo) Slovenian National Team 10.19.20 2 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 0.26 3 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 1.51 4 Florian Stalder (Swi) Swiss Cycling 2.07 5 Jimmy Tapparel (Swi) Hadimec 2.36 6 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 3.14 7 Matthias Russ (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 8 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 3.34 9 Johann Tschopp (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 3.41 10 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 3.43 11 Dmitri Kozontchuk (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 3.57 12 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Swiss Cycling 4.48 13 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Russian National Team 6.08 14 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 7.30 15 Oleg Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 7.36 16 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 7.56 17 Jonas Meng (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 7.58 18 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 19 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 9.01 20 Viktor Shestakuv (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 9.05 21 Bruno Büetiger (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 9.51 22 Michael Muck (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 10.03 23 Laurent Arn (Swi) Hadimec 11.08 24 Simon Schärer (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 11.10 25 Michael Creed (USA) USA National Team 11.36 26 Timmy Duggan (USA) USA National Team 12.48 27 Norbert Poels (Ned) Dutch National Team 13.21 28 Jochen Uhrig (Ger) German National Team 13.52 29 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Slovenian National Team 16.14 30 Michael Müller (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 17.27 31 Braulio Juanes (Spa) Hadimec 18.07 32 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 18.32 33 Marco Von Känel (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 18.40 34 Walker Ferguson (USA) USA National Team 19.00 35 Alexander Bespalov (Rus) Russian National Team 19.30 36 Markus Schmidig (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 20.23 37 Matic Strgar (Slo) Slovenian National Team 20.40 38 Marco Jimenez (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 20.47 39 Alexander Bazhenov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 20.49 40 Steve Grossenbacher (Swi) Hadimec 20.56 41 Roman Gugger (Swi) Swiss Cycling 21.01 42 Felix Gniot (Ger) German National Team 21.10 43 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Swiss Cycling 21.40 44 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 21.46 45 Darby Thomas (USA) USA National Team 21.55 46 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russian National Team 22.14 47 Morten Knudsen (Den) Danish National Team 23.45 48 Brian Vandborg (Den) Danish National Team 23.54 49 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 25.15 50 Jonas Leib (Swi) Swiss Cycling 25.31 51 Boris Shpilevski (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 25.35 52 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 26.09 53 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 30.13 54 Janusch Laule (Ger) Team Mixed Zollinger 55 Glenn Poleunis (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 56 Arian Buchwalder (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 30.48 57 Daniel Musiol (Ger) German National Team 31.25 58 Wren Tyler (USA) USA National Team 32.23 59 Sergey Lazarev (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 32.36 60 Peter Mohlmann (Ned) Dutch National Team 32.52 61 Marco Giani (Ita) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 32.54 62 Pablo Pico (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 33.25 63 Bart Oegema (Ned) Dutch National Team 34.19 64 Alberto Tiberio (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 34.25 65 Peter Oeschger (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 34.32 66 Jochen Rochau (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 36.42 67 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Dutch National Team 40.22 68 Dane Jankowiak (USA) USA National Team 40.31 69 Jos Harms (Ned) Dutch National Team 40.46 70 Christian Rocha (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 41.26 71 Stefan Widmer (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 41.44 72 Michael Kristensen (Den) Danish National Team 41.59 73 Peter Magyarosi (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 42.53 74 Larsen Klostergaard Kasper (Den) Danish National Team 42.54 75 Marcel Schilliger (Swi) Hadimec 44.44 76 Kristof De Zutter (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 46.42 77 Jure Kocjan (Slo) Slovenian National Team 46.55 78 Stanislav Belov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 48.53 79 Sandro Germann (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 50.36 80 Lasse Böchman (Den) Danish National Team 50.49 81 Erich Kunz (Swi) Hadimec 50.58 82 Pirmin Lang (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 51.15 83 Remo Spirgi (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 51.35 84 Ronny Hartz (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 56.47 85 Thorsten Struch (Ger) German National Team 57.59 86 Tobias Baumgartner (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 59.46 87 Peter Jörgensen (Den) Danish National Team 1.02.48 88 Aldis Abolins (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 1.03.28 89 Kurt Dierckx (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 1.05.48 90 Leo Karstens (Ger) German National Team 1.12.53 Points classification 1 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 53 pts 2 Tomaz Nose (Slo) Slovenian National Team 51 3 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 49 4 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 29 5 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 28 6 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Swiss Cycling 27 7 Dmitri Kozontchuk (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 26 8 Boris Shpilevski (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 25 9 Florian Stalder (Swi) Swiss Cycling 23 10 Larsen Klostergaard Kasper (Den) Danish National Team 20 11 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 19 12 Peter Mohlmann (Ned) Dutch National Team 18 13 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 16 14 Matthias Russ (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 15 15 Jimmy Tapparel (Swi) Hadimec 13 16 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 13 17 Matic Strgar (Slo) Slovenian National Team 13 18 Walker Ferguson (USA) USA National Team 13 19 Johann Tschopp (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 11 20 Daniel Musiol (Ger) German National Team 11 21 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Dutch National Team 10 22 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Slovenian National Team 8 23 Tobias Baumgartner (Swi) Team Mixed Zollinger 8 24 Oleg Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 6 25 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Russian National Team 6 26 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 5 27 Kristof De Zutter (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 5 28 Michael Creed (USA) USA National Team 4 29 Morten Knudsen (Den) Danish National Team 4 30 Alberto Tiberio (Swi) Mixed 2 - Tessin-Luzern 4 31 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 4 32 Jonas Meng (Swi) GS Rufalex Nordwest 2 33 Jure Kocjan (Slo) Slovenian National Team 2 34 Alexander Bazhenov (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 1 35 Peter Oeschger (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 1 Mountains classification 1 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 20 pts 2 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 17 3 Tomaz Nose (Slo) Slovenian National Team 12 4 Viktor Shestakuv (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 12 5 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 11 6 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 8 7 Jimmy Tapparel (Swi) Hadimec 7 8 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 6 9 Peter Magyarosi (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 3 10 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Swiss Cycling 3 11 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Russian National Team 2 12 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russian National Team 2 13 Matthias Russ (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 2 14 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 1 15 Dmitri Kozontchuk (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 1 16 Oleg Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 1 17 Walker Ferguson (USA) USA National Team 1 Sprints classification 1 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Slovenian National Team 8 pts 2 Viktor Shestakuv (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 7 3 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 6 4 Daniel Gysling (Swi) Swiss Cycling 6 5 Larsen Klostergaard Kasper (Den) Danish National Team 6 6 Marco Von Känel (Swi) Hörmann Betoncoupe 4 7 Boris Shpilevski (Rus) Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 4 8 Peter Mohlmann (Ned) Dutch National Team 3 9 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 3 10 Oleg Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 2 11 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Swiss Cycling 2 12 Jonas Leib (Swi) Swiss Cycling 2 13 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Dutch National Team 2 14 Matthias Russ (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 1 15 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Slovenian National Team 1 16 Daniel Musiol (Ger) German National Team 1 17 Jochen Rochau (Ger) Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 1 Teams classification 1 Swiss Cycling 31.08.38 2 Kazakhstan National Team 2.09 3 Slovenian National Team 13.34 4 Russian National Team 15.01 5 Angelin Travel RO St Petersburg 15.09 6 Hadimec 20.56 7 GS Rufalex Nordwest 21.08 8 USA National Team 28.00 9 Hofbräu Radler Stuttgart 28.29 10 German National Team 31.54 11 Team Mixed Zollinger 43.21 12 Hörmann Betoncoupe 48.41 13 Palmans-Collstrop 53.02 14 Dutch National Team 58.19 15 Team Mixed Zollinger 1.08.19 16 Danish National Team 1.12.20 17 Rietumu Bank Cycling Team 1.26.35
