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42nd GP Kanton Aargau/Gippingen - 1.HC
Switzerland, June 5, 2005
2004 Results Results Past winners
Moos gets the better of Ullrich
Swiss rider Alexandre Moos (Phonak) has beaten Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) and Marcel Strauss (Gerolsteiner) in a three man sprint to win the 42nd GP Kanton Aargau in Gippingen, Switzerland. The 196 km race was dominated by an 11 man breakaway, from which these three riders came. The peloton finished 6'22 down, led home by Phonak's Aurélien Clerc.
115 riders started the race at 11:15, with 10 laps of a 19.6 km course on the program. Swiss rider Stefan Felder (Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon) was the first to attack, and at the end of the first lap he had a 1'20 lead over the peloton. On the second lap, Benjamin Levécot (RAGT) bridged up to Felder, and by the end of the lap, they had 6'57 on the slow moving peloton. On lap 3, that grew to 9'23, as Gerolsteiner and T-Mobile began to marshall themselves on the front of the peloton.
The two leaders continued in front, sharing the sprint and mountain primes, and over the next few laps, the peloton started to bring them back. At the halfway point (98 km), the gap was 4 minutes and falling, and on lap 6, Felder had to let Levécot go on his own. On the seventh lap, both riders were caught and dropped as a new 12 man lead group formed, containing eventual top three Moos, Ullrich, and Strauss, along with Muto and Niemec (Miche), Veikkanen (Française Des Jeux), Bertolini (Domina Vacanze), Bencik (Ed' System-Zvvz), M, Zberg (Gerolsteiner), Zampieri (Phonak) and Schwab (Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon).
With three laps to go, this new break had over a minute on the field, but a concerted chase by Panaria had pegged the leaders back to 35 seconds with two to go. That was as close as it got, and over the penultimate 19.6 km lap, the gap blew out to 3'22 as the chase ran out of steam. On the final lap, Moos, Ullrich, and Strauss attacked out of the lead group and were able to put time into the rest of the break. Moos was the best in the sprint ahead of a strong Ullrich, with Strauss taking third place.
Results - 196 km
1 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 4.54.39 (39.91 km/h) 2 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 4 Pascquale Muto (Ita) Miche 0.17 5 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française Des Jeux 0.19 6 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 0.21 7 Petr Bencik (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 0.26 8 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 0.31 9 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 10 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 11 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 0.33 12 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6.22 13 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 14 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 15 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) SDM 16 Denis Bertolini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 17 Ivan Fanelli (Ita) Team L.P.R. 18 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech 19 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 20 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 21 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 22 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 23 David Boucher (Fra) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech 24 Mirko Allegrini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 25 Nick Gates (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 26 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 27 David Mcpartland (Aus) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 28 Leon Van Bon (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 29 Marcel Klaus (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 30 Dimitri Konyshev (Rus) Team L.P.R. 31 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux 32 Kamil Vrana (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 33 Milan Kadlec (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 34 Florian Stadler (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 35 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française Des Jeux 36 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Domina Vacanze 37 Ludovic Auger (Fra) Française Des Jeux 38 Christo Girschweiler (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 39 Fabien Sanchez (Fra) Française Des Jeux 40 Sébastien Minard (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 41 Antonio D Aniello (Ita) Miche 6.26 42 Giancarlo Ginestri (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 43 Benjamin Levecot (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 44 Moises Aldape (Mex) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 45 Scott Davis (Aus) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 46 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 47 Massimo Amichetti (Ita) Miche 48 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 49 Francesco Failli (Ita) SDM 50 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 51 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 52 Luca Solari (Ita) Domina Vacanze 53 Murilo Anton Fischer (Bra) SDM 54 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 55 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 56 Volker Ordovski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 57 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 58 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 59 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 60 Cristiano Frattini (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 61 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 62 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 63 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 64 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 65 Ben Day (Aus) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech 66 Christian Murro (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 67 Cadel Evens (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 68 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 69 Aitor Galdos (Spa) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 70 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 71 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 6.36 72 Benjamin Baumgartner (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 12.14 73 Sandro Germann (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon
Past winners
2004 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2003 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2002 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 2001 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 2000 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Telekom Past winners courtesy of Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com
