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40th Tour de l'Avenir - 2.5

France, September 4-13, 2003

2002 results     Stage List     Preview    Start List     Past winners

The Stages

  • Stage 1 - September 4: Bonneval - Bonneval ITT, 10.7 km
  • Stage 2 - September 5: Bonneval - Sassay, 147 km
  • Stage 3 - September 6: Sassay - Aigurande, 171.2 km
  • Stage 4 - September 7: Sainte-Sévère - Le Rouget, 233.5 km
  • Stage 5 - September 8: Maurs - Saint-Flour, 155 km
  • Stage 6 - September 9: Saint-Flour - Mende, 137 km
  • Stage 7 - September 10: Mende - Valréas, 173 km
  • Stage 8 - September 11: L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue - Rousset-sur-Arc, 164.5 km
  • Stage 9 - September 12: Rousset-sur-Arc - Solliès-Ville, 199.5 km
  • Stage 10 - September 13: La Crau - La Crau, 128 km

Strong US field for Tour de l'Avenir; UK's Wiggins hopeful

The USA looks set to field perhaps its strongest national team ever for the Tour de l'Avenir, which starts tomorrow. According to a source close to the team, the squad will consist of Tom Danielson, Danny Pate, Shawn Milne, Will Frischkorn, Michael Creed, and Patrick McCarty.

Despite its nominally low UCI 2.5 grade, the ten-day tour, promoted by Tour de France owners ASO, is an important race for young riders. Unlike that other French race, only one rider from the US has won Tour de l'Avenir: Greg LeMond in 1982.

The UK's Brad Wiggins (Fdjeux.com) is also looking forward to Avenir, after finishing fifth in the Tour du Poitou Charentes last week. Wiggins says he wants to improve on his second place in the prologue last year, and perhaps to win a stage in one of his last races for Fdjeux.com.

"I really want to ride well for the team as well as myself," said Wiggins. "It's been so good riding for them. It would be good to produce some more good performances for them before the road season ends. My condition feels very good but the lack of racing on the road could be a disadvantage in a 10-day tour."

Start list

Crédit Agricole                    Euskaltel-Euskadi
 
1 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra)           11 David Herrero (Spa)
2 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra)        12 Julen Fernandez (Spa)
3 Eric Leblacher (Fra)             13 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa)
4 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra)          14 Egoi Martinez (Spa)
5 Kilian Patour (Fra)              15 Josu Silloniz (Spa)
6 Denis Robin (Fra)
 
Quick Step - Davitamon - Latexco   French National Team
 
21 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz)          31 Matthieu Sprick (Fra)
22 Wim De Vocht (Bel)              32 Camille Bouquet (Fra)
23 Bart Dockx (Bel)                33 David Breard (Fra)
24 Sebastien Rosseler (Bel)        34 Cédric Coutouly (Fra)
25 Preben Van Hecke (Bel)          35 Maxime Mederel (Fra)
26 Johan Van Summeren (Bel)        36 Alexandre Urbain (Fra)
 
FDJeux.com                         Russian National Team
 
41 David Derepas (Fra)             51 Vladimir Gusev (Rus)
42 Philippe Gilbert (Bel)          52 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus)
43 Régis Lhuillier (Fra)           53 Alexandr Bespalov (Rus)
44 Jérémy Roy (Fra)                54 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus)
45 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra)         55 Andrei Pchelkine (Rus)
46 Bradley Wiggins (GBr)           56 Yvan Terenine (Rus)
 
Jean Delatour                      USA National Team
 
61 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr)            71 Tom Danielson (USA)
62 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra)            72 Michael Creed (USA)
63 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra)           73 William Frischkorn (USA)
64 Christophe Edaleine (Fra)       74 Patrick Mccarty (USA)
65 Sébastien Joly (Fra)            75 Shawn Milne (USA)
66 Pierre Therville (Fra)          76 Danny Pate (USA)
 
Brioches La Boulangère             Rabobank TT3
 
81 Jérôme Pineau (Fra)             91 Pieter Weening (Ned)
82 Anthony Charteau (Fra)          92 Michiel Elijzen (Ned)
83 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra)        93 Theo Eltink (Ned)
84 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra)          94 Bernhard Kohl (Aut)
85 Christophe Kern (Fra)           95 Joost Posthuma (Ned)
86 Thomas Voeckler (Fra)           96 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin)
 
Team Barloworld                    German National Team
 
101 Eric Berthou (Fra)             111 Marcus Fothen (Ger)
102 Freddy Bichot (Fra)            112 Andre Greipel (Ger)
103 Sylvain Calzati (Fra)          113 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger)
104 Hilton Clarke (Aus)            114 Christian Knees (Ger)
105 Ryan Cox (RSA)                 115 Marcel Sieberg (Ger)
106 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA)         116 Moritz Veit (Ger)
 
Vlaanderen-T Interim               Team PH
 
121 Stijn De Volder (Bel)          131 Mads Christensen (Den)
122 Jef Peeters (Bel)              132 Glenn Bak (Den)
123 Nico Sijmens (Bel)             133 Matti Breschel (Den)
124 Wim Vanhuffel (Bel)            134 Andreas Finnerup (Den)
125 James Vanlandschoot (Bel)      135 Nicki Olsen (Den)
126 Frederik Willems (Bel)         136 Martin Pedersen (Den)
 
Perutnina Ptuj                     Austrian National Team
 
141 Massimo Demarin (Cro)          151 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut)
142 Tomislav Danculovic (Cro)      152 Andrew Bradley (Aut)
143 Matej Marin (Slo)              153 Martin Gratzer (Aut)
144 Dean Podgornik (Slo)           154 Wolfgang Murer (Aut)
145 Radoslav Rogina (Cro)          155 Thomas Rohregger (Aut)
                                   156 Stefan Rucker (Aut)
 
Big Mat-Auber 93                   Czech Republic National Team
 
161 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra)     171 Kamil Vrana (Cze)
162 Yves Delarue (Fra)             172 Jan Barta (Cze)
163 Loïc Lamouller (Fra)           173 Jiri Korbel (Cze)
164 Nicolas Meunier (Fra)          174 Pavel Linet (Cze)
165 Yannick Talabardon (Fra)       175 Lukas Manousek (Cze)
166 Tristan Valentin (Fra)         176 Martin Mares (Cze)
 
Team HSBC                          Kazakhstan National Team
 
181 Daniel Spence (RSA)            191 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz)
182 Jeff Howes (RSA)               192 Assan Bazayev (Kaz)
183 Darren Lill (RSA)              193 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz)
184 Jeremy Maartens (RSA)          194 Vadim Gorbachevskiy (Kaz)
185 Cameron Mcleod (RSA)           195 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz)
186 Ian Mcleod (RSA)               196 Viktor Shestakov (Kaz)
 
Carvalhelhos-Boavista              Swedish National Team
 
201 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Spa)     211 Tobias Lergard (Swe)
202 Ben Day (Aus)                  212 Jonas Holmkvist (Swe)
203 Gustavo Dominguez (Spa)        213 Jesper Ingevaldsson (Swe)
204 Simons Gerrans (Aus)           214 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe)
205 Danail Petrov (Bul)            215 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe)
206 José Carlos Rodrigues (Por)    216 Mikael Segersall (Swe)

Past winners

Year   Winner                        Best Team              Distance    Stages
 
Tour de l'Avenir
 
2002   Evgeni Petrov (Rus)           Euskaltel-Euskadi       1463 km      10
2001   Denis Menchov (Rus)           iBanesto.com            1559.5 km    10
2000   Iker Flores (Spa)             Euskaltel-Euskadi       1562 km      10
1999   Unai Osa (Spa)
1998   Christophe Rinero (Fra)	     Casino                  1471 km      12
1997   Roux (Fra)                    TVM                     1344 km       9
1996   Etxebarria (Spa)              ONCE                    1858 km      11
1995   Magnien (Fra)                 Castorama               1614 km      11
1994   Casero (Spa)                  Banesto                 1591 km      11
1993   Davy (Fra)                    Castorama               1543 km      12
1992   Garel (Fra)                   RMO                     1528 km      12
 
Tour of the European Community
 
1990   Bruyneel (Bel)                Toshiba                 1370 km      10
1989   Lino (Fra)                    RMO                     1440 km       9
1988   Fignon (Fra)                  France                  1846 km      12
1987   Madiot (Fra)                  France                  1719 km      12
1986   Indurain (Spa)                System U                1712 km      14
 
Grand Prix de l'Avenir (Paris-Vierzon-Thiers)
 
1985   Ramirez (Col)                 Cafe de Colombia        1612 km      13
1984   Mottet (Fra)                  Renault                 1620 km      12
1983   Ludwig (DDR)                  East Germany            1959 km      15
1982   Lemond (USA)                  East Germany            1382 km      11
1981   Simon (Fra)                   USSR                    1514 km      14
1980   Florez (Col)                  USSR                    1629 km      12
1979   Soukhoroutchenkov (Rus)       USSR                    1643 km      12
1978   Soukhoroutchenkov (Rus)       USSR                    1577 km      12
1977   Schepers (Bel)                Belgium                 1597 km      12
1976   Nilsson (Swe)                 Spain                   1017 km       9
1974   Martinez (Spa)                Poland                  1296 km      11
1973   Baronchelli (Ita)             Switzerland             1480 km      11
1972   Den Hertog (Ned)              Netherlands             1618 km      13
1971   Ovion (Fra)                   France                  1638 km      11
1970   Duchemin (Fra)                France                   779 km       4
 
Tour de l'Avenir
 
1969   Zoetemelk (Ned)               Netherlands             1846 km      10
1968   Boulard (Fra)                 France                  1567 km      12
1967   Robini (Fra)                  France                  1560 km      10
1966   Denti (Ita)                   Italy                   1955 km      12
1965   Diaz (Spa)                    Spain                   2167 km      12
1964   Gimondi (Ita)                 Spain                   2021 km      13
1963   Zimmermann (Fra)              Spain                   2060 km      14
1962   Gomez Del Moral (Spa)         Netherlands             2120 km      14
1961   De Rosso (Ita)                Spain                   2209 km      14

Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com