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Boucles de la Mayenne - 2.2
France, June 16-19, 2005
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Stage 4 - June 19: Ernee - Laval, 166 km
Russian roulette for Ag2r
By Jean-François Quénet in Laval
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Ag2r was in a perfect position to win the Boucles de la Mayenne with three riders in top four at the start of the last stage, the yellow jersey being on the shoulders of Christophe Riblon. They had ridden so well for two days, showing everyone what a real professional team was about. "I had decided to play my cards but I didn't think I could win this race," eventual winner Aleksandr Kuchinsky said.
The Belarusian had entered a 38 man breakaway after an accident affected Ag2r. When he crashed, Saturday morning's stage winner Laurent Mangel didn't think he was injured but he chased for 12 kilometres with a broken collarbone before giving up. There was a bit of a chaos with team's radios not working properly when the break went, then Riblon wasn't looking too good and his team-mate Mark Scanlon suffered the heat: 35°!
As Ag2r was chasing with Ludovic Turpin, they were left with Lloyd Mondory alone in the break, led for many kilometres by only one man : Dainus Kairelis who was Kuchinsky's only domestique, since Amore e Vita started with just four riders. Timothée Lefrançois of U Nantes-Atlantique broke clear from the front group, then his partner Christophe Diguet looked like going for the stage win on the final circuit, another local rider Antoine Dalibard (Bretagne-Jean Floc'h) also gave it a try with one lap to go. But it ended up in a bunch sprint with Stéphane Bonsergent winning just like at the Tour of Normandy and the Ruban Granitier Breton, the Boucles de la Mayenne being the third international 2.2 stage races in the North west of France.
"This is my first win this year," Kuchinsky said. "But I didn't even want to come to this race. Then I came for preparation for my National championship next week and I found the right condition through the race. Yesterday, I felt strong already, but I didn't want to win the morning stage, because I wouldn't have been able to defend the lead, I preferred to let Ag2r do it. They have wanted to get all the jerseys, but at the end, I was better than them in the hills."
On the same day, Ag2r also lost the Route du Sud where Sylvain Calzati was leading, while Amore e Vita claimed another success with Jonas Ljungblad winning the Swedish road title.
Photography
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- Aussie neo-pro Ben Johnson got his first result for Agritubel with finishing second in Laval
- Final stage winner Stéphane Bonsergent (Nogent) and Mathieu Drujon (Nantes)
- Englishman Kieran Page (Aix) took best young rider, despite the heat
- Stéphane Bonsergent (Nogent) won the last stage and the points classification
- All the final winners including Belarussian Aleksandr Kuchinsky (in yellow)
- A man to watch for the future: Aleksandr Kuchinsky (Amore e Vita)
Images by Régis Garnier/www.velofotopro.fr.st
- Two Belgians in the RAGT team Olivier Kaisen and Kevin Ista
- The Flamina team after the finish
- Chrisophe Riblon (AG2r Prevoyance) finished in 13th overall
- Lots of attacks during this last stage
- Mickael Buffaz (Agritubel) tries to keep his mountains jersey
- Christophe Riblon (AG2R) lost the leader's jersey after the final stage
- John Gadret (Jartazi) and Sébastien Duret (Jean Floch)
- The eventual winner Alexandr Kuschynski (Amore e Vita) sits comfortably in the peloton
- Sébastien Diguet (Team U Nantes Atlantique) on the final lap
- Stéphane Bonsergent (CC Nogent Sur Oise) takes the win on the final lap in Laval, with Aussie Ben Johnson (Agritubel) finishing second
- Kieran Page (Aix) is the best young rider
- Gaylord Cumont (Val D'oise)
- Bonsergent took the stage win and the green jersey
- Overall winner Alexandr Kuschynski
- Alexandr Kuschynski (Amore e Vita)
Results
1 Stéphane Bonsergent (Fra) Nogent 3.49.58 2 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 3 Alvaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Roubaix 4 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Nantes 5 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Rabobank 6 Mikhail Timochine (Rus) Moscou 7 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prevoyance 8 Renaud Dion (Fra) RAGT Semences 0.05 9 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Rabobank 10 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 11 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Vendee U 12 Tom De Meyer (Ned) Fondas 13 Vincent Freulon (Fra) Pays De La Loire 14 Fabien Rey (Fra) Aix 15 Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Aix 16 Manuele Spadi (Ita) Ceramica 17 John Gadret (Bel) Jartazi 18 Stephano Boggia (Ita) Ceramica 19 Gaylord Cumont (Fra) Val D'oise 0.06 20 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 21 Andrey Pchelkin (Rus) Moscou 22 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 23 David Danion (Fra) Pays De La Loire 24 Mickaël Diguet (Fra) Pays De La Loire 0.08 25 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Amore e Vita 26 Thijs Zonneveld (Ned) Aix 27 Norbert Poels (Ned) Fondas 28 Olivier Martinez (Fra) Aix 29 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) Val D'oise 0.13 30 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Rabobank 0.15 31 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 32 Timothée Lefrancois (Fra) Nantes 0.26 33 Vladislav Borisov (Rus) Moscou 0.28 34 Krysztof Szczawinski (Pol) Ceramica 0.36 35 Jonathan Dayus (Gbr) Nantes 36 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank 0.41 37 Dainus Kairelis (Ltu) Amor 0.46 38 Antoine Dalibard (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 0.49 39 Christophe Diguet (Fra) Nantes 40 Kirill Golubev (Rus) Ceramica 5.53 41 Julien Foisnet (Fra) Pays De La Loire 10.42 42 Kévin Lalouette (Fra) Nogent 43 Maarten Mandemakers (Ned) Fondas 44 Alexandre Urbain (Fra) Nogent 45 Michael Schweizer (Ger) Com-Net 46 Markus Eichler (Ger) Com-Net 47 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) RAGT Semences 48 Kieran Page (Gbr) Aix 49 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 50 Lex Nederlof (Ned) Fondas 51 Stefan Wijnands (Bel) Jartazi 52 Thom Van Dulmen (Ned) Rabobank 53 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 54 Mateusz Mroz (Pol) Amor 55 René Schild (Ger) Com-Net 56 Mickaël Barbier (Fra) EC Mayennaise 57 Hervé Arcade (Fra) Vendee U 11.02 58 Alexandre Bousseau (Fra) Vendee U 59 Tony Leroux (Fra) EC Mayennaise 60 Jérôme Bouchet (Fra) Roubaix 61 Guillaume Blot (Fra) Roubaix 62 Fabio Boccialoni (Ita) Ceramica 63 Bart Wellens (Bel) Fidea 64 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prevoyance 65 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prevoyance 66 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Fidea 67 Domenico Quagliarella (Ita) Ceramica 68 Jan Verstraeten (Bel) Fidea 69 Anthony Graffin (Fra) Pays De La Loire DNF Luc Delpech Jean (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h DNF Vincent Cantero (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h DNF Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel DNF Lenaïc Olivier (Fra) Agritubel DNF Robert Retschke (Ger) Com-Net DNF Hans Dekkers (Ned) Rabobank DNF Mikhial Mikheev (Rus) Moscou DNF Evgeny Sokolov (Rus) Moscou DNF Ivan Terenine (Rus) Moscou DNF Vincent Templier (Fra) Val D'oise DNF Frédéric Mille (Fra) Val D'oise DNF Paulo Da Cunha (Fra) Val D'oise DNF Georges Toussaint (Fra) Val D'oise DNF Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Vendee U DNF Benoit Genauzeau (Fra) Vendee U DNF Mattieu Rompion (Fra) Vendee U DNF Romain Paillard (Fra) Nantes DNF Franck Charrier (Fra) Nogent DNF Raphaël Devienne (Fra) Nogent DNF Romain Fondard (Fra) Roubaix DNF David Tanner (Aus) Roubaix DNF Jean Zen (Fra) Roubaix DNF Daniel Lloyd (Gbr) Flanders DNF Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2r Prevoyance DNF Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2r Prevoyance DNF Marc Scanlon (Ire) AG2r Prevoyance DNF Eddy Seigneur (Fra) RAGT Semences DNF Roman Luhovyy (Ukr) RAGT Semences DNF Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) RAGT Semences DNF Kévin Ista (Bel) RAGT Semences DNF François Lavaleur (Fra) EC Mayennaise DNF Frédéric Lhuissier (Fra) EC Mayennaise DNF Tomasz Kloczko (Pol) Amor DNF Raynold Smith (Rsa) Fondas DNF Jorrit Walgien (Ned) Fondas DNF Mickaël Hacques (Fra) Pays De La Loire DNF Franck Champeymont (Fra) Aix DNF Igor Abakoumov (Rus) Jartazi DNF Denis Kostyuk (Ukr) Jartazi DNF Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi DNF Maxim Rudenko (Ukr) Jartazi DNF Kevin Pauwels (Bel) Fidea Final general classification 1 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Amore e Vita 12.13.14 2 Andrey Pchelkin (Rus) Moscou 0.13 3 Stephano Boggia (Ita) Ceramica 0.14 4 John Gadret (Bel) Jartazi 0.16 5 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 6 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prevoyance 0.28 7 Gaylord Cumont (Fra) Val D'oise 0.29 8 Mikhail Timochine (Rus) Moscou 0.33 9 Olivier Martinez (Fra) Aix 0.37 10 Renaud Dion (Fra) RAGT Semences 11 Alvaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Roubaix 2.54 12 Dainus Kairelis (Ltu) Amor 4.24 13 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prevoyance 9.19 14 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 11.09 15 Kieran Page (Gbr) Aix 11.19 16 Hervé Arcade (Fra) Vendee U 11.51 17 Markus Eichler (Ger) Com-Net 13.51 18 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 13.59 19 Jérôme Bouchet (Fra) Roubaix 14.12 20 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 14.36 21 Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Aix 14.44 22 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Nantes 14.51 23 Stéphane Bonsergent (Fra) Nogent 14.59 24 Vladislav Borisov (Rus) Moscou 15.06 25 Krysztof Szczawinski (Pol) Ceramica 15.32 26 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Rabobank 16.48 27 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Rabobank 16.49 28 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) Val D'oise 16.55 29 Norbert Poels (Ned) Fondas 17.06 30 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Rabobank 17.13 31 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 17.19 32 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 17.25 33 Tom De Meyer (Ned) Fondas 17.26 34 Vincent Freulon (Fra) Pays De La Loire 17.36 35 Mickaël Diguet (Fra) Pays De La Loire 17.38 36 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Vendee U 17.39 37 David Danion (Fra) Pays De La Loire 38 Jonathan Dayus (Gbr) Nantes 17.43 39 Timothée Lefrancois (Fra) Nantes 17.45 40 Thijs Zonneveld (Ned) Aix 17.49 41 Antoine Dalibard (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 17.54 42 Manuele Spadi (Ita) Ceramica 17.55 43 Christophe Diguet (Fra) Nantes 17.59 44 Fabien Rey (Fra) Aix 18.00 45 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank 20.25 46 Julien Foisnet (Fra) Pays De La Loire 22.40 47 Kirill Golubev (Rus) Ceramica 22.59 48 Maarten Mandemakers (Ned) Fondas 23.06 49 Thom Van Dulmen (Ned) Rabobank 27.32 50 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) RAGT Semences 27.35 51 Stefan Wijnands (Bel) Jartazi 27.46 52 Kévin Lalouette (Fra) Nogent 27.48 53 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prevoyance 27.50 54 Mateusz Mroz (Pol) Amor 27.56 55 René Schild (Ger) Com-Net 27.57 56 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 28.01 57 Alexandre Urbain (Fra) Nogent 28.05 58 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Fidea 28.07 59 Mickaël Barbier (Fra) EC Mayennaise 28.13 60 Fabio Boccialoni (Ita) Ceramica 61 Domenico Quagliarella (Ita) Ceramica 28.15 62 Jan Verstraeten (Bel) Fidea 28.29 63 Alexandre Bousseau (Fra) Vendee U 28.30 64 Tony Leroux (Fra) EC Mayennaise 65 Lex Nederlof (Ned) Fondas 28.34 66 Bart Wellens (Bel) Fidea 67 Guillaume Blot (Fra) Roubaix 28.38 68 Anthony Graffin (Fra) Pays De La Loire 28.47 69 Michael Schweizer (Ger) Com-Net 34.03 Points classification 1 Stéphane Bonsergent (Fra) Nogent 50 pts 2 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prevoyance 36 3 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Nantes 34 4 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 31 5 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prevoyance 25 6 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Amor 20 7 Mikhail Timochine (Rus) Moscou 20 8 Vladislav Borisov (Rus) Moscou 24 9 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 20 10 Alvaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Roubaix 19 11 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prevoyance 19 12 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Vendee U 19 13 Krysztof Szczawinski (Pol) Ceramica 17 14 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Rabobank 15 15 Gaylord Cumont (Fra) Val D'oise 14 16 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 18 17 Renaud Dion (Fra) RAGT Semences 12 18 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Rabobank 12 19 Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Aix 11 20 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Rabobank 10 21 Bart Wellens (Bel) Fidea 10 22 John Gadret (Bel) Jartazi 9 23 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) Val D'oise 9 24 Andrey Pchelkin (Rus) Moscou 8 25 Stephano Boggia (Ita) Ceramica 8 26 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 6 27 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 6 28 Guillaume Blot (Fra) Roubaix 6 29 Tom De Meyer (Ned) Fondas 4 30 Vincent Freulon (Fra) Pays De La Loire 3 31 Thom Van Dulmen (Ned) Rabobank 3 32 Fabien Rey (Fra) Aix 2 33 Jan Verstraeten (Bel) Fidea 1 Mountains classification 1 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 36 pts 2 John Gadret (Bel) Jartazi 30 3 Mikhail Timochine (Rus) Moscou 7 4 Timothée Lefrancois (Fra) Nantes 7 5 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 7 6 Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Aix 6 7 Krysztof Szczawinski (Pol) Ceramica 6 8 Christophe Diguet (Fra) Nantes 6 9 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 5 10 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 4 11 Julien Foisnet (Fra) Pays De La Loire 4 12 Vladislav Borisov (Rus) Moscou 3 13 Antoine Dalibard (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 3 14 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 2 15 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Nantes 2 16 Michael Schweizer (Ger) Com-Net 2 17 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Amor 1 18 Stephano Boggia (Ita) Ceramica 1 19 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Rabobank 1 20 Vincent Freulon (Fra) Pays De La Loire 1 Sprints classification 1 Hervé Arcade (Fra) Vendee U 21 pts 2 Michael Schweizer (Ger) Com-Net 16 3 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 10 4 Mikhail Timochine (Rus) Moscou 10 5 Krysztof Szczawinski (Pol) Ceramica 10 6 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Amor 7 7 Christophe Diguet (Fra) Nantes 6 8 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Nantes 5 9 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Rabobank 5 10 Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Aix 5 11 Stéphane Bonsergent (Fra) Nogent 4 12 Dainus Kairelis (Ltu) Amor 3 13 Markus Eichler (Ger) Com-Net 3 14 Vladislav Borisov (Rus) Moscou 3 15 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Rabobank 3 16 Timothée Lefrancois (Fra) Nantes 3 17 John Gadret (Bel) Jartazi 3 18 Andrey Pchelkin (Rus) Moscou 2 19 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 2 20 Olivier Martinez (Fra) Aix 1 21 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 1 22 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Vendee U 1 23 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank 1 24 Kirill Golubev (Rus) Ceramica 1 25 Thom Van Dulmen (Ned) Rabobank 1 26 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prevoyance 1 U23 classification 1 Kieran Page (Gbr) Aix 12.24.33 2 Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Aix 3.25 3 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Nantes 3.32 4 Norbert Poels (Ned) Fondas 5.47 5 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 6.06 6 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Vendee U 6.20 7 Antoine Dalibard (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 6.35 8 Maarten Mandemakers (Ned) Fondas 11.47 9 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) RAGT Semences 16.16 10 Kévin Lalouette (Fra) Nogent 16.29 11 René Schild (Ger) Com-Net 16.38 12 Alexandre Bousseau (Fra) Vendee U 17.11 13 Guillaume Blot (Fra) Roubaix 17.19 14 Michael Schweizer (Ger) Com-Net 22.44 Amateurs classification 1 Gaylord Cumont (Fra) Val D'oise 12.13.43 2 Olivier Martinez (Fra) Aix 0.08 3 Alvaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Roubaix 2.25 4 Kieran Page (Gbr) Aix 10.50 5 Hervé Arcade (Fra) Vendee U 11.22 6 Jérôme Bouchet (Fra) Roubaix 13.43 7 Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Aix 14.15 8 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Nantes 14.22 9 Stéphane Bonsergent (Fra) Nogent 14.30 10 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) Val D'oise 16.26 11 Vincent Freulon (Fra) Pays De La Loire 17.07 12 Mickaël Diguet (Fra) Pays De La Loire 17.09 13 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Vendee U 17.10 14 David Danion (Fra) Pays De La Loire 15 Jonathan Dayus (Gbr) Nantes 17.14 16 Timothée Lefrancois (Fra) Nantes 17.16 17 Thijs Zonneveld (Ned) Aix 17.20 18 Christophe Diguet (Fra) Nantes 17.30 19 Fabien Rey (Fra) Aix 17.31 20 Julien Foisnet (Fra) Pays De La Loire 22.11 21 Kévin Lalouette (Fra) Nogent 27.19 22 Alexandre Urbain (Fra) Nogent 27.36 23 Mickaël Barbier (Fra) EC Mayennaise 27.44 24 Alexandre Bousseau (Fra) Vendee U 28.01 25 Tony Leroux (Fra) EC Mayennaise 26 Guillaume Blot (Fra) Roubaix 28.09 27 Anthony Graffin (Fra) Pays De La Loire 28.18 Teams classification 1 Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 36.49.32 2 Bretagne Jean Floc'H 5.48 3 Avc Aix En Provence 6.11 4 Amore & Vita - Beretta - Polska 8.44 5 Ag2R Prevoyance 10.15 6 Ceramica Flaminia 22.57 7 Rabobank 23.58 8 Agritubel 32.17 9 Velo Club De Roubaix 35.23 10 Comite Pays De La Loire 37.25 11 Team U Nantes Atlantique 40.20 12 Fondas Imabo Doorisol Team 47.12 13 Vendee U 47.50 14 Team Comnet - Senges 58.21 15 Cc Nogent Sur Oise 1.01.03 16 Fidea Cycling Team 1.15.07 Courtesy of velomania.net
