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19th GP Cycliste de Beauce - 2.3
Canada, June 15-20, 2004
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Stage 2 - June 16: Saint-Joseph/Saint-Joseph, 180 km
Sixteen Put Seventeen Minutes on Field
Tomasz Brozyna Takes Over lead at Cycliste de Beauce
By Mark Zalewski
Similar to many of the stages in last year's Cycliste de Beauce, a healthy break of sixteen rode away from the peloton early in the day. But unlike the majority of the stages last year, this break stayed away (though shedding a few riders along the way). Out of the final selection, three riders emerged with Polish rider Tomasz Brozyna (Action ATI) taking out the stage over Viktor Rapinski (Navigators Insurance) and fellow countryman Radoslaw Romanik (Hoop CCC PolSat).
Almost as impressive was the fact that strongman Rapinski joined the break by bridging a gap nearing two minutes! Taking second place after that feat is certainly understandable. Stage one winner Ivan Dominguez (Colavita Olive Oil) made a last ditch effort to get into a late break, but with the break gaining double digits on the field, it was Brozyna who will wear the leader's jersey tomorrow.
Today's stage put quite a few riders down on the overall classification -- only nineteen riders remain within even ten minutes of Brozyna. Rapinski and Romanik remain close, only twenty seconds behind.
How it unfolded
Today's 180 km race began in front of the Church of Saint-Joseph. Ciaran Power (Navigators Insurance) must have been inspired, taking off in a solo break after only ten minutes of racing. After gaining only ten seconds Power came back to the fold. However, the next selection would last a little longer. Sixteen riders made up this group, including: Brozyna, Kazimierz Stafiej and Eugen Wacker (Action ATI); Jeff Louder, Ciaran Power (Navigators Insurance); Mike Jones and Scott Moninger (Health Net); Nathan O'Neil (Colavita Olive Oil) and various other riders.
The break increased its lead to more than two minutes, where it then floated for some time. At half-way, the sixteen member break could not seem to get more time on the field. Coming through the intermediate sprint, the pack had accelerated to bring the time down to under 1:40. That is when Viktor Rapinski took matters into his own hands.
Soon Rapinski had more than a minute on the field and the break had regained time as well, up to 2:15. Once Rapinski joined the break, Navigators had three teammates present. This helped Jeff Louder (Navigators Insurance) take the final KOM points on the stage, adding to his eight points from the day before. Nathan O'Neil (Colavita Olive Oil) was close behind in second.
After the final major climb, Brozyna, Rapinski and Romanik made their move and quickly had a gap on the break, which was now four minutes ahead of the peloton. Finally, Brozyna was able to shed the last of his fellow break riders, winning the stage by thirteen seconds over a four-up sprint for second place.
The remnants of the break trailed in after the top six at various intervals, with the largest group more than a minute behind. The peloton arrived at 17:36 behind the stage winner, shifting the overall standings.
Results
1 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 4.32.24 2 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 0.13 3 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 4 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 5 Nathan O'neil (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 6 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 0.28 7 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 0.29 8 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 0.34 9 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 0.37 10 Eugene Wacker (Kgz) Action-ATI 1.09 11 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 12 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 13 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 14 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 15 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 16 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 2.11 17 Alexandre Nadeau (Can) Volkswagen Trek 8.49 18 Assan Bazaev (Kaz) Capec 19 Dennis Kraft (Ger) Action-ATI 17.36 20 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 21 Bakhtiyar Mamyrov (Kaz) Capec 22 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action-ATI 23 Pierre-Olivier Boily (Can) Team Québec 24 Dan Bowman (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 25 Daniel Olszewski (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 26 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 27 Dominique Rollin (Can) Team Québec 28 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 29 Todd Yezefski (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 30 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net 31 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 32 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen Trek 33 Alexander Dymovskikh, (Kaz) Capec 34 Colby Pearce (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 35 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Volkswagen Trek 36 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 37 Cory Jay (Can) Canadian National Team 38 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action-ATI 39 Dustin MacBurnie (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique 40 Ariel De Cardenas (Can) Team Québec 41 Sheldon Deeny (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 42 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen Trek 43 Chris Isaac (Can) Ital Pasta 44 Jay Maclaren (Can) Ital Pasta 45 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen Trek 46 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 47 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoops CCC Polsat 48 Joe Giuliano (Can) Ital Pasta 49 Bruno Langlois (Can) Volkswagen Trek 50 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance 51 Andrey Medyannokov, (Kaz) Capec 52 Karirat Baigudinov (Kaz) Capec 53 Ryan Mckenzie (Can) Canadian National Team 54 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canadian National Team 55 Jean-Sébastien Maheu (Can) Volkswagen Trek 56 Mathieu Toulouse (Can) Team Québec 57 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 58 Brice Jones (USA) Health Net 59 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 60 Lauke Ronny (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 61 Andrew Randell (Can) Canadian National Team 62 Greg Roth (Can) Ital Pasta 63 Ryan Roth (Can) Team Ontario 64 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 17.46 65 David Mckensie (Aus) Navigators Insurance 17.49 66 Thorsten Rund (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 17.56 67 Mathieu Roy (Can) Team Québec 21.49 68 Gustavo Artacho (Arg) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 69 Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 70 Hayden Godfrey (NZl) Health Net 71 Aaron Olson (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 72 Greg Henderson (NZl) Health Net 73 Thorben Wiedtz (Can) Team Ontario 74 Dave Mustaikis (Can) Team Québec 75 Kevin Noiles (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique 76 Daniel Maggiacomo (Can) Ital Pasta 77 Todd Herriott (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 78 Nathan St-Onge (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique 79 Dylan Sebel (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 80 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 81 Marsh Cooper (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 82 Mark Pozniak (Can) Team Ontario 83 Phil Cortes (Can) Ital Pasta 45.39 84 Yann Deville (Can) Team Québec 1.31.49 85 Ian Macgregor (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 86 Antoine Studner (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique DNF Blake Caldwell (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 DNF Jay Ku (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 DNF Peter Sanwar (Can) Ital Pasta DNF Sébastien Deschênes (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique DNF Buck Miller (Can) Team Ontario DNF Andrew Scott (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique DNF Maxime Vivesse (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique Stage finish points 1 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 18 pts 2 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 14 3 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 15 4 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 12 5 Nathan O'neil (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 12 6 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 12 7 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 12 8 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 8 9 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 7 10 Eugene Wacker (Kgz) Action-ATI 6 11 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 5 12 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 5 13 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 3 14 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 2 15 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 1 Overall points 1 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 26 pts 2 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 25 3 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 23 4 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 20 5 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 20 6 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 17 7 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 15 8 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 14 9 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 13 10 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 12 11 Nathan O'neil (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 12 12 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoops CCC Polsat 10 13 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 7 14 Dennis Kraft (Ger) Action-ATI 6 15 Eugene Wacker (Kgz) Action-ATI 6 16 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action-ATI 6 17 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 5 18 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 5 19 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canadian National Team 5 20 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 4 21 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 3 22 Andrew Randell (Can) Canadian National Team 3 23 Brice Jones (USA) Health Net 3 24 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 2 25 Assan Bazaev (Kaz) Capec 2 26 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 1 27 Joe Giuliano (Can) Ital Pasta 1 28 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action-ATI 1 29 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen Trek 1 General classification after stage 2 1 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 7.34.44 2 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 0.20 3 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 4 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 0.25 5 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 0.26 6 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 0.32 7 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 0.39 8 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 0.43 9 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 0.50 10 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 1.21 11 Eugene Wacker (Kgz) Action-ATI 1.22 12 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 13 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 14 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 15 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 16 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 2.24 17 Assan Bazaev (Kaz) Capec 9.00 18 Alexandre Nadeau (Can) Volkswagen Trek 9.02 19 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 17.35 20 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 17.39 21 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 17.41 22 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action-ATI 17.43 23 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action-ATI 17.48 24 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 17.49 25 Alexander Dymovskikh, (Kaz) Capec 26 Daniel Olszewski (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 27 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoops CCC Polsat 28 Dominique Rollin (Can) Team Québec 29 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 30 Joe Giuliano (Can) Ital Pasta 31 Dan Bowman (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 32 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canadian National Team 33 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen Trek 34 Karirat Baigudinov (Kaz) Capec 35 Andrew Randell (Can) Canadian National Team 36 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Volkswagen Trek 37 Lauke Ronny (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 38 Jean-Sébastien Maheu (Can) Volkswagen Trek 39 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 40 Mathieu Toulouse (Can) Team Québec 41 Bruno Langlois (Can) Volkswagen Trek 42 Dennis Kraft (Ger) Action-ATI 17.59 43 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen Trek 18.41 44 Todd Yezefski (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 18.59 45 Bakhtiyar Mamyrov (Kaz) Capec 19.01 46 Colby Pearce (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 19.21 47 Sheldon Deeny (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 48 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 19.58 49 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance 50 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net 20.01 51 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 52 David Mckensie (Aus) Navigators Insurance 20.52 53 Aaron Olson (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 22.02 54 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 55 Chris Isaac (Can) Ital Pasta 22.06 56 Mathieu Roy (Can) Team Québec 23.14 57 Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 58 Dave Mustaikis (Can) Team Québec 59 Todd Herriott (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 60 Brice Jones (USA) Health Net 23.16 61 Ariel De Cardenas (Can) Team Québec 24.07 62 Ryan Mckenzie (Can) Canadian National Team 63 Thorben Wiedtz (Can) Team Ontario 64 Greg Roth (Can) Ital Pasta 24.42 65 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen Trek 24.46 66 Jay Maclaren (Can) Ital Pasta 25.07 67 Dustin MacBurnie (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique 68 Andrey Medyannokov, (Kaz) Capec 69 Ryan Roth (Can) Team Ontario 70 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 25.17 71 Thorsten Rund (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 25.39 72 Greg Henderson (NZl) Health Net 27.32 73 Hayden Godfrey (NZl) Health Net 29.20 74 Gustavo Artacho (Arg) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 75 Daniel Maggiacomo (Can) Ital Pasta 76 Dylan Sebel (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 77 Marsh Cooper (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 29.40 78 Kevin Noiles (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique 34.23 79 Mark Pozniak (Can) Team Ontario 34.46 80 Cory Jay (Can) Canadian National Team 35.53 81 Pierre-Olivier Boily (Can) Team Québec 41.29 82 Nathan St-Onge (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique 44.05 83 Phil Cortes (Can) Ital Pasta 53.10 Mountains classification 1 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 33 pts 2 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action-ATI 30 3 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 27 4 Buck Miller (Can) Team Ontario 16 5 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 15 6 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 14 7 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 13 8 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 11 9 Todd Herriott (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 11 10 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 7 11 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canadian National Team 6 12 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen Trek 6 13 Dustin MacBurnie (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique 6 14 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 5 15 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoops CCC Polsat 5 16 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 4 17 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 4 18 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 4 19 Bakhtiyar Mamyrov (Kaz) Capec 4 20 Gustavo Artacho (Arg) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 4 21 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 3 22 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 2 23 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 2 24 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 1 25 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 1 Teams classification 1 Action ATI 22.46.24 2 Hoop CCC Polsat 0.19 3 Navigators Insurance 1.56 4 Winfix Arnolds 18.21 5 Health Net Maxxis 19.37 6 Capec 25.21 7 Canadian National Team 34.12 8 Colavita Olive Oil 38.01 9 Volkswagen Trek 42.28 10 Symmetrics Cycling 51.15 11 Equipe Quebec 52.27 12 TIA-CREF/5280 52.45 13 Ital Pasta 1.02.25 14 Les Espoirs De Laval 1.21.10 15 Team Ontario 1.21.48
