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25th Vuelta a Murcia - 2.1
Spain, March 2-6, 2005
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Stage 5 - March 6: Murcia - Murcia, 150.6 km
Davis claims second as Gil completes Liberty triumph
It was all Liberty Seguros, all the time in the final stage of the Vuelta a Murcia, as Allan Davis sprinted to his second stage win of the race, and Koldo Gil claimed the final overall classification. In the flattish stage starting and finishing in Murcia, Davis won the bunch sprint ahead of Gerolsteiner's Danilo Hondo (who also won two stages) and Wesley Van Der Linden (Chocolade Jacques). Gil finished 61st, in the same time as Davis, and beat Antonio Colom (Illes Balears) by half a minute and Damiano Cunego (Lampre) by nearly a minute in the overall.
In the other classifications, Hondo claimed the points jersey, while Gil got the mountains and combination jerseys. Slightly surprisingly, Kaiku took out the teams classification.
The final stage did not present a great challenge for Liberty to defend its lead, and despite the efforts of Comunidad Valenciana to go on the attack, Liberty always had the race under control. From the start, the Quesada brothers Carlos and Adolfo attacked, gaining 3 minutes at the 20 km mark. But Liberty did not wait to chase them, and the pair were reabsorbed after 80 km.
Jose Cayetano Julia (Illes Balears) and Antonio Berasategui (Kaiku) counter attacked, and managed to stay clear until 7 km to go when Liberty and Gerolsteiner mowed them down for the inevitable bunch sprint. Today it was Davis who got the better of Hondo, winning his second stage as the five day race finished in Murcia.
Results
1 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 3.24.28 2 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 Wesley Van Der Linden (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 4 Crescenzo D'Amore (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 5 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank 6 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 7 Javier Benitez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 8 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 9 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Mrbookmaker-Sports 10 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 11 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 12 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 13 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 14 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 15 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 16 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 17 Angel Edo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 18 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 19 Alexandre Naulleau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 20 Yon Bru (Spa) Kaiku 21 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 22 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 24 Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 25 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 26 David Cañada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 27 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 28 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 29 Javie Pascual Llorente (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 30 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 31 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 32 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 33 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 34 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 35 Yohann Gene (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 36 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 37 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 38 Javier Ruiz (Spa) Kaiku 39 Johan Verstrepen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 40 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 41 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 42 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa) Team Barloworld-Valsir 43 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Kaiku 44 Jef Peeters (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 45 Ben Day (Aus) Mrbookmaker-Sports 46 René Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 47 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 48 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears 49 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 50 José L. Martinez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 51 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 52 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 53 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 54 Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 55 José Almagro (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 56 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 57 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Team Barloworld-Valsir 58 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 59 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 60 David Etxebarria (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 61 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 62 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 63 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 64 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Caffita 65 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 66 Jose L. Carrasco (Spa) Illes Balears 67 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 68 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 69 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 70 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 71 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 72 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears 73 Steven Cummings (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 74 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 0.17 75 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 76 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) T-Mobile Team 77 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 78 Rene Jorgensen (Den) Team Barloworld-Valsir 0.20 79 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 0.22 80 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 0.24 81 Jose Cayetano Julia (Spa) Illes Balears 82 David Plaza (Spa) Team Barloworld-Valsir 0.27 83 Ivan Santos (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 84 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 85 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Lampre-Caffita 86 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 87 Alessandr Spezialetti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 88 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears 89 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 90 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) Illes Balears 91 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 92 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 93 Niels Scheuneman (Ned) Rabobank 94 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 95 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner 96 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Gerolsteiner 97 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 98 Jure Golcer (Slo) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 99 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 100 Alessandro D'Andrea (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 0.49 101 Bo Hamburger (Den) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 102 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 103 Antonio Berasategui (Spa) Kaiku 104 Giulio Tomi (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 105 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 1.17.00 106 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago Points 1 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 25 pts 2 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 20 3 Wesley Van Der Linden (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 16 4 Crescenzo D'Amore (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 14 5 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank 12 6 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 10 7 Javier Benitez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 9 8 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 8 9 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Mrbookmaker-Sports 7 10 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 6 11 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5 12 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 4 13 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 14 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 2 15 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 Mountains Alto Cabezo De La Plata - Cat. 3, km 36,40 1 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3 pts 2 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 2 3 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Sprints San Javier, km 57,60 1 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3 pts 2 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 2 3 Antonio Berasategui (Spa) Kaiku 1 La Alberca, km 134,30 1 Antonio Berasategui (Spa) Kaiku 3 pts 2 Jose Cayetano Julia (Spa) Illes Balears 2 3 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Teams 1 Bouygues Telecom 10.13.24 2 Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 3 Relax-Fuenlabrada 4 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 5 Chocolade Jacques-T-Interim 6 Kaiku 7 Saunier Duval-Prodir 8 T-Mobile Team 9 Rabobank 10 Team Barloworld-Valsir 11 Lampre-Caffita 12 Comunidad Valenciana 13 Gerolsteiner 14 Liberty Seguros-Wurth 15 Illes Balears Final general classification 1 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 15.53.08 2 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears 0.30 3 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 0.59 4 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa) Team Barloworld-Valsir 1.09 5 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Kaiku 1.35 6 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 1.47 7 José L. Martinez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 1.54 8 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.11 9 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 2.16 10 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 2.27 11 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 2.28 12 Dionisio Galparsoro (Spa) Kaiku 2.30 13 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 14 David Cañada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.34 15 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 2.36 16 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 2.37 17 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears 2.39 18 Jef Peeters (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 2.41 19 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Caffita 2.46 20 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 3.23 21 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 3.48 22 David Etxebarria (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 4.09 23 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 4.26 24 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 4.39 25 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 4.43 26 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 5.25 27 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 5.27 28 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 5.42 29 David Plaza (Spa) Team Barloworld-Valsir 6.12 30 Ben Day (Aus) Mrbookmaker-Sports 6.21 31 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 6.32 32 Ruben Oarbeascoa (Spa) Kaiku 7.04 33 Steven Cummings (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 7.11 34 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Lampre-Caffita 7.21 35 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 36 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears 7.28 37 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 38 Francisco Cabello (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 7.31 39 Javie Pascual Llorente (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 7.41 40 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 8.03 41 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 8.05 42 Jose L. Carrasco (Spa) Illes Balears 8.35 43 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 8.45 44 Rene Jorgensen (Den) Team Barloworld-Valsir 9.07 45 Jose Cayetano Julia (Spa) Illes Balears 9.30 46 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team 9.31 47 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 10.15 48 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 10.49 49 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank 10.56 50 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 11.17 51 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 11.40 52 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 11.58 53 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 12.30 54 Alexandre Naulleau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 12.59 55 Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 13.07 56 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 13.08 57 Javier Ruiz (Spa) Kaiku 13.39 58 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 13.49 59 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 14.05 60 Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 14.22 61 Yon Bru (Spa) Kaiku 14.34 62 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 14.43 63 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 14.46 64 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 14.58 65 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 15.03 66 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 15.21 67 Ivan Santos (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 15.22 68 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 15.30 69 Angel Edo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 15.34 70 José Almagro (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 15.48 71 Johan Verstrepen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 15.54 72 Niels Scheuneman (Ned) Rabobank 16.06 73 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 16.07 74 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16.14 75 Wesley Van Der Linden (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 16.15 76 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 16.17 77 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Team Barloworld-Valsir 16.21 78 Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 16.49 79 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 16.51 80 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 16.56 81 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) T-Mobile Team 17.02 82 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 17.20 83 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 17.40 84 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 17.45 85 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 19.01 86 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) Illes Balears 19.05 87 Javier Benitez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 19.23 88 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 19.39 89 Crescenzo D'Amore (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 19.45 90 Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 19.54 91 Alessandr Spezialetti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 20.05 92 Antonio Berasategui (Spa) Kaiku 20.13 93 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 20.21 94 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 20.28 95 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 20.58 96 Giulio Tomi (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 21.16 97 Bo Hamburger (Den) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 21.41 98 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Mrbookmaker-Sports 23.30 99 Jure Golcer (Slo) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 24.11 100 René Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 24.57 101 Yohann Gene (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 25.15 102 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 25.29 103 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Gerolsteiner 30.11 104 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 30.18 105 Alessandro D'Andrea (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 32.06 106 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner 33.46 Points classification 1 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 90 pts 2 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 70 3 Wesley Van Der Linden (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 40 4 Crescenzo D'Amore (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 38 5 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 33 6 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 26 7 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 26 8 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa) Team Barloworld-Valsir 25 9 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears 24 10 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 23 11 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 22 12 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Mrbookmaker-Sports 19 13 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 16 14 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 14 15 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 13 16 Angel Edo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 13 17 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) Rabobank 12 18 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 19 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 11 20 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Kaiku 10 21 David Plaza (Spa) Team Barloworld-Valsir 10 22 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 10 23 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 9 24 David Cañada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 9 25 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears 9 Mountains classification 1 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 16 pts 2 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 14 3 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa) Team Barloworld-Valsir 12 4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 12 5 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 11 6 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team 6 7 David Etxebarria (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 4 8 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3 9 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 10 José L. Martinez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 3 11 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears 2 Combination classification 1 Koldo Gil (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth 12 pts 2 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa) Team Barloworld-Valsir 15 3 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 20 4 Antonio Colom (Spa) Illes Balears 22 5 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 24 6 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 25 7 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Kaiku 29 8 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Kaiku 37 9 José L. Martinez (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 46 10 Carlos Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 77 11 Adolfo Garcia (Spa) Comunidad Valenciana 96 Teams classification 1 Kaiku 47.45.57 2 Lampre-Caffita 0.22 3 Rabobank 0.29 4 Illes Balears 1.32 5 Comunidad Valenciana 2.22 6 Liberty Seguros-Wurth 4.16 7 Team Barloworld-Valsir 5.14 8 Relax-Fuenlabrada 9.04 9 Gerolsteiner 14.39 10 Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 16.17 11 Chocolade Jacques-T-Interim 17.02 12 Saunier Duval-Prodir 18.28 13 Bouygues Telecom 20.26 14 T-Mobile Team 21.07 15 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 22.31
