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Tour du Languedoc-Roussillon - 2.1
France, May 19-23, 2004
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Stage 4 - May 22: Pont du Gard - Mende (Côte de la Croix-Neuve), 161 km
Credit Agricole keeps control
Moreau takes over in yellow
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The Credit Agricole team kept hold of the yellow jersey in the Tour du Languedoc Roussillon after Christophe Moreau won the first uphill finish in Mende. Moreau was the best surviving rider of a large breakaway group that had escaped after only 30 kilometres of the 161 km stage. At the finish he edged out Viatcheslav Ekimov (US Postal-Berry Floor) for the win, with Iker Flores (Euskaltel) taking third, 18 seconds behind.
"It has to be part of the best victories for sure," commented Moreau after his success. "On the last climb, I really thought I wouldn't make it. My arms were aching; I almost couldn't stand up on the pedals. When I had to catch Flores first and then Ekimov, I used all the strength I had in my mind. It's a mental victory, with energy and experience more than with legs."
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Moreau paid tribute to his teammate Pierrick Fedrigo, who was also part of the break. "He was fantastic. He did everything for me. Just to thank him for his efforts, I had to win this one. It's a good feeling to see the team working so well."
Finally he called his victory a "new birth. Now I know that I've never been so mentally strong."
How it unfolded
Today's stage between Pont du Gard to Mende finished on top of the Côte de la Croix-Neuve, a Cat. 1 climb at 1040m altitude. There were also two other Cat. 1 climbs featured: Col de la Croix de Berthel (km 95.5) and Côte de Molinès-Balsiège (km 138.5). As usual, the attacking started straight away and after 4 km, race leader Thor Hushovd found himself in a group containing Camenzind (Phonak), Flickinger (Ag2R), Pichon (Brioches), Mengin (FDJeux.com), Reynaud (RAGT), Degano (Barloworld), Van Huffel and Willems (Vlaanderen-T Interim). But they didn't stay away long, as the US Postal-Berry Floor team - which had missed the move - rode them down.
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US Postal did manage to place two riders in the second break of the day at km 30, which proved to be the winning move. Manuel Beltran and Viatcheslav Ekimov were there, along with Christophe Moreau, Lilian Jégou and Pierrick Fedrigo (Credit Agricole), David Millar and Christophe Edaleine (Cofidis), Francesco Bellotti (Barloworld), Maryan Hary and Franck Renier (Brioches), Tobias Steinhauser (T-Mobile), Laszlo Bodrogi (Quick.Step), Gregory Rast (Phonak), Iker Flores, Koldo Fernandez and Iñaki Isasi (Euskaltel), Bernhard Eisel (FDJeux.com), Samuel Dumoulin and Nicolas Portal (Ag2R) and Nicolas Reynaud (RAGT).
Moreau won the points on the Côte de Saint-Martin-de-Valgualgues (km 55) as the group pulled away from the peloton, but the 20 riders started to thin down as Jégou, Millar, Isasi, Reynaud, Renier, Fernandez, Portal, Dumoulin and Rast were all dropped on subsequent climbs, leaving 11 men in front. Moreau and Fedrigo were particularly strong in the group, holding off the US Postal/Brioches la Boulangère led peloton over the next 40 km.
On the penultimate climb of the day, the Côte de Molinès-Balsiège, Moreau and Fedrigo dropped most of their companions, taking only Ekimov, Steinhauser and Flores with them. At the summit, they had 2'30 lead over the peloton while the rest of the break was gradually absorbed.
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The last climb of the Côte de la Croix-Neuve spelled the end for Fedrigo, who nevertheless was able to hang on and finish 5th in the stage. Iker Flores attacked the remaining quartet with 2 km to go, but was caught by Ekimov with half a kilometre left. Moreau followed at a short distance, and in an incredible surge of the last 50 metres, the Frenchman overhauled Ekimov to win the stage by a narrow margin, also taking the climber's jersey in the process.
The best rider of the peloton was Euskaltel's Egoi Martinez, who came in sixth at 1'36 behind the winner, followed by Laurent Brochard. Lance Armstrong finished further back in 15th, 2'13 down, and his chances of winning this race look to be very slim. On the other hand, his teammate Ekimov is very well placed in second overall at 12 seconds.
Photography
Images by AFP Photo
- Thor Hushovd (Credit Agricole) in yellow during stage 4
- David Millar (Cofidis) rides during the fourth stage
- Lance Armstrong (USPS-Berry Floor) during stage 4
- Lance Armstrong (USPS-Berry Floor) takes a drink during the stage
- Christophe Moreau (Credit Agricole) leads Maryan Hary (Brioches la Boulangere) and Manuel Beltran (USPS-Berry Floor) during stage 4
- Didier Rous (Brioches la Boulangere) leading the peloton
- Pierrick Fedrigo (Credit Agricole) doing the job for Moreau on the last climb
- Iker Flores (Euskaltel) made a bid for victory with 2km to go, but was caught by Ekimov and Moreau
- Christophe Moreau (Credit Agricole) wins the fourth stage ahead of Viatcheslav Ekimov (USPS-Berry Floor)
- Christophe Moreau (Credit Agricole) now in the yellow jersey
Results
1 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 4.16.44 2 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 3 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.18 4 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.39 5 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.48 6 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.36 7 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.47 8 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 1.55 9 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 2.08 10 Luis Perez-Rodriguez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 11 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 12 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 13 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 2.13 14 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 15 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 16 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.19 17 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 18 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 2.39 19 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 20 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 21 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) FDJeux.com 2.51 22 Ryan Cox (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 3.00 23 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 24 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 25 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Flo 3.03 26 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance 3.06 27 David George (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 3.15 28 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 3.38 29 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 30 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 3.41 31 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 3.44 32 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 4.12 33 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 34 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 4.40 35 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 5.02 36 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.08 37 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 7.03 38 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 7.19 39 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 7.26 40 Alex Zuelle (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 41 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 42 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 43 Wesley Van Der Linden (Ned) Vlaanderen-T Interim 7.37 44 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 45 Aketza Pena (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 46 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 47 Christophe Rinero (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 48 Christophe Laurent (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 49 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 50 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 51 Frederik Willems (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 52 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJeux.com 53 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 54 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 55 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 56 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.37 57 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 10.19 58 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 11.49 59 Mario Aerts (Bel) T-Mobile Team 60 Didier Rous (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 12.11 61 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 62 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 63 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 64 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 65 José Antonio Pecharroman (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 66 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 67 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 68 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 69 Eddy Lembo (Fra) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 70 Eddy Serri (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 71 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 72 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 12.41 73 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) FDJeux.com 74 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 12.47 75 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 76 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 12.50 77 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 12.58 78 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13.19 79 Franck Renier (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 13.23 80 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 13.26 81 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 82 Angel Castresana (Spa) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 13.37 83 Koen Barbe (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 22.03 84 Darren Lill (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 29.59 85 Christophe Mengin (Fra) FDJeux.com 30.12 86 Ludovic Martin (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 87 Tomas Konecny (Cze) T-Mobile Team 88 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 89 Frédéric Finot (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 30.28 90 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance DSQ Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile Team Did not finish DNF Pieter Mertens (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim DNF Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli DNF Enrico Degano (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli DNF Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole DNF Lilian Jegou (Fra) Credit Agricole DNF Peter Wuyts (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans DNF Philippe Koehler (Fra) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans DNF Ben Day (Aus) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans DNF David Millar (GBr) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone Points 1 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 25 pts 2 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 22 3 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20 4 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 18 5 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 16 6 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 7 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 14 8 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 13 9 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 12 10 Luis Perez-Rodriguez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 11 11 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 10 12 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 9 13 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 8 14 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 7 15 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 6 16 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Credit Agricole 5 17 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 4 18 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 3 19 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 2 20 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 1 Mountains Côte de Saint-Martin-de-Valgualgues, 55.00 km 1 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 7 pts 2 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 5 3 Franck Renier (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 3 4 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 5 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1 Côte du Château de Portes, 66.00 km 1 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 7 pts 2 Franck Renier (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 5 3 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 4 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 2 5 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 1 Col de Valoussière, 80.00 km 1 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 4 pts 2 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 3 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 1 Col de la Croix de Berthel, 95.00 km 1 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 10 pts 2 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 8 3 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 6 4 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 4 5 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3 6 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 2 7 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 Côte de Molinès-Balsiège, 138.00 km 1 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 10 pts 2 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 8 3 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 6 4 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 5 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 3 6 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 2 7 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 1 Mende (Côte de la Croix-Neuve), 160.00 km 1 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 10 pts 2 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 8 3 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 4 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4 5 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 6 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 7 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1 Sprints Cocures, 119.00 km 1 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 pts 2 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 3 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Ispagnac, 130.00 km 1 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 3 pts 2 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 3 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 Young rider 1 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 4.18.52 2 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 0.05 3 Ryan Cox (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 0.52 4 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Flo 0.55 5 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance 0.58 6 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 1.30 7 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 1.36 8 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 2.32 9 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 2.54 10 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 4.55 11 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 5.18 12 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 13 Wesley Van Der Linden (Ned) Vlaanderen-T Interim 5.29 14 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 15 Aketza Pena (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 16 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 17 Frederik Willems (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 18 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJeux.com 19 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 10.03 20 Eddy Lembo (Fra) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 21 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 10.33 22 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 10.39 23 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 10.50 24 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11.11 25 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 11.18 26 Koen Barbe (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 19.55 27 Darren Lill (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 27.51 Most combative 1 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole Teams 1 Credit Agricole 12.53.19 2 US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 1.19 3 Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 3.35 4 Ag2R Prevoyance 3.54 5 Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.55 6 Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 5.27 7 FDJeux.com 9.23 8 Phonak Hearing Systems 10.19 9 Brioches La Boulangere 10.22 10 Vlaanderen-T Interim 14.15 11 T-Mobile Team 16.58 12 R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 17.09 13 Quick.Step-Davitamon 20.19 14 MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 27.56 General classification after stage 4 1 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 16.54.24 2 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 0.12 3 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.27 4 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.46 5 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.58 6 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 2.19 7 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 2.24 8 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 2.31 9 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 10 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 2.37 11 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Credit Agricole 12 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 2.57 13 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 14 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 15 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.58 16 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) FDJeux.com 3.09 17 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance 3.11 18 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Flo 3.14 19 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3.20 20 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 3.22 21 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 3.53 22 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 4.02 23 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 4.23 24 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 25 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 4.35 26 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 4.36 27 Luis Perez-Rodriguez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 4.49 28 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 29 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 30 Ryan Cox (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 5.41 31 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 32 David George (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 5.56 33 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 6.19 34 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.21 35 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 7.32 36 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 7.34 37 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 7.44 38 Christophe Rinero (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 7.48 39 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 7.55 40 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 41 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 42 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 43 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 8.04 44 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 10.00 45 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 10.09 46 Frederik Willems (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 10.11 47 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 10.18 48 Aketza Pena (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 49 Alex Zuelle (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 10.37 50 Wesley Van Der Linden (Ned) Vlaanderen-T Interim 10.45 51 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 11.00 52 Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11.18 53 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 12.06 54 Didier Rous (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 12.22 55 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 56 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 12.23 57 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 12.29 58 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 59 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) FDJeux.com 12.59 60 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 13.01 61 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 13.13 62 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13.30 63 Franck Renier (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 13.34 64 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 13.44 65 Angel Castresana (Spa) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 13.55 66 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJeux.com 14.01 67 Christophe Laurent (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 14.05 68 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 69 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 14.52 70 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 71 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 72 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 15.26 73 Eddy Serri (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 16.54 74 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 18.27 75 Eddy Lembo (Fra) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 18.39 76 José Antonio Pecharroman (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 77 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 19.09 78 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 19.11 79 Jérôme Bernard (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 19.15 80 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 23.18 81 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 25.54 82 Christophe Mengin (Fra) FDJeux.com 30.23 83 Frédéric Finot (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 33.09 84 Mario Aerts (Bel) T-Mobile Team 34.34 85 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 36.56 86 Darren Lill (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 37.16 87 Ludovic Martin (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 38.42 88 Koen Barbe (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 44.48 89 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 52.57 90 Tomas Konecny (Cze) T-Mobile Team Points classification 1 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 69 pts 2 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 58 3 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 57 4 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 49 5 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 46 6 Franck Renier (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 44 7 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 38 8 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 33 9 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 31 10 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 29 11 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance 28 12 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 26 13 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25 14 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 23 15 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 22 16 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 19 17 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 18 18 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 16 19 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 13 20 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 13 21 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 13 22 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 12 23 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 12 24 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 12 25 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 26 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 12 27 Luis Perez-Rodriguez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 11 28 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 11 29 Wesley Van Der Linden (Ned) Vlaanderen-T Interim 11 30 Didier Rous (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 11 31 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 11 32 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 10 33 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 10 34 Koen Barbe (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 10 35 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 9 36 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 9 37 Angel Castresana (Spa) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 8 38 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 7 39 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 6 40 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 5 41 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Credit Agricole 5 42 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJeux.com 4 43 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 4 44 Christophe Mengin (Fra) FDJeux.com 4 45 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 3 46 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 3 47 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Flo 3 48 Tomas Konecny (Cze) T-Mobile Team 3 49 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 2 50 Frederik Willems (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 1 51 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans -5 Mountains classification 1 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 36 pts 2 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 32 3 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 24 4 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 19 5 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 18 6 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 14 7 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 13 8 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 12 9 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 10 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJeux.com 10 11 Franck Renier (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 8 12 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 6 13 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 6 14 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 15 Luis Perez-Rodriguez (Spa) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 4 16 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 2 17 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 2 18 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1 19 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 1 20 Benoit Salmon (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 21 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 1 22 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1 Young rider classification 1 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 16.56.55 2 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance 0.40 3 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) US Postal Service presented by Berry Flo 0.43 4 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 1.31 5 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 2.04 6 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 2.18 7 Ryan Cox (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 3.10 8 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 3.48 9 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 5.01 10 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 5.03 11 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 5.13 12 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 5.24 13 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 5.33 14 Frederik Willems (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 7.40 15 Aketza Pena (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7.47 16 Wesley Van Der Linden (Ned) Vlaanderen-T Interim 8.14 17 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 9.35 18 Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10.59 19 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 11.13 20 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJeux.com 11.30 21 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 12.21 22 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 12.55 23 Eddy Lembo (Fra) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 16.08 24 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 16.40 25 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 20.47 26 Darren Lill (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 34.45 27 Koen Barbe (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 42.17 Teams classification 1 Credit Agricole 50.46.56 2 US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor 1.15 3 Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 3.38 4 Ag2R Prevoyance 3.47 5 Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.58 6 Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 7.53 7 FDJeux.com 9.23 8 Brioches La Boulangere 10.15 9 Phonak Hearing Systems 10.26 10 Vlaanderen-T Interim 16.48 11 R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 19.42 12 Quick.Step-Davitamon 20.19 13 T-Mobile Team 22.01 14 MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 30.36
