40th International Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt - 2.1

Germany, May 11-15, 2005

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Stage 1 - May 11: Koblenz - Bad Marienberg, 158 km

Photography

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Here we go!
It was a lousy cold day
Ryan Cox (Barloworld) signs in
Gather round the sign in tree
Rudolf Scharping chairman of the German bikers, making some noise
Fabian Wegmann (Team Gerolsteiner) started late
Jef Peeters (Chocolade Jaques) attacked right befor the first sprint
...and gave the sign to attack
Anybody hungry?
It's not always easy to find your way!
...and then I'll simply lift off
Cory Sweet (Team ComNet Senges) tried an escape with one local lap to go
Michael Rich (Team Gerolsteiner) the German power-machine started chasing Sweet
Sweet was caught with 200m to go
Stefan Schumacher (Shimano-Team) wins in front of Samuel Dumoulin (AG2R) and Fabian Wegmann
The sun came out and Christian Knees (Team Wiesenhof) just felt fine
Stefan Schumacher
Fabian Wegmann gets the Sprinter's jersey Roger Beuchat (Barloworld) the climbers jersey
Fabian Wegmann certainly likes those time-bonifications!
A present for me?
Results

1 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Shimano-Memory Corp               3.34.25
2 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance                            
3 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                
4 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                 
5 Florian Stalder (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz                            
6 Ben Day (Aus) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech                        
7 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Team Barloworld-Valsir                       
8 Sven Renders (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                       
9 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim             
10 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Action                                    
11 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech            
12 Cezary Zamana (Pol) Action                                      
13 René Joergensen (Den) Team Barloworld-Valsir                    
14 Jens Heppner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                               
15 Stefano Cavallari (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir                  
16 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Shimano-Memory Corp                       
17 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance                           
18 Ryan Cox (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir                           
19 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges                            
20 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner                            
21 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance                            
22 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action                                     
23 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                 
24 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                0.34
25 Kristof Trouve (Bel) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech            6.57
26 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                 
27 Maxime Montfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                   
28 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim            8.27
29 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                        9.10
30 Alessandro Bertuola (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare               
31 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech                   
32 René Tann (Ger) German National Team                            
33 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action                                  
34 Robert Bengsch (Ger) German National Team                       
35 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                              
36 Rodney Green (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir                       
37 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Action                                   
38 Davy Commeyne (Bel) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech                 
39 Xavier Pache (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz                              
40 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance                            
41 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                
42 Hendrik Werner (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                    
43 Marco Bos (Ned) Shimano-Memory Corp                             
44 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner                              
45 Andre Greipel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                              
46 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago               
47 Benjamin Rüdiger (Ger) German National Team                     
48 Jef Peeters (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim                   
49 Andi Weinhold (Ger) German National Team                        
50 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                      
51 Thomas Liese (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                      
52 Markus Ganser (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                          
53 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                    
54 Aron Huysmans (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim                 
55 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                   
56 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                
57 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                        
58 Frank Dressler (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                         
59 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim                
60 Gabriele Colombo (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                  
61 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                  
62 Christoph Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Lamonta                    
63 Timo Scholz (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                       
64 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                    
65 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                    
66 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Shimano-Memory Corp                     
67 Johan Verstrepen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                  
68 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Shimano-Memory Corp                          
69 Masahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Shimano-Memory Corp                    
70 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Team Lamonta                              
71 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Lamonta                           
72 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner                               
73 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                         
74 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Barloworld-Valsir                    
75 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action                                  
76 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action                                   
77 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Action                                      
78 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                      
79 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim             
80 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim                
81 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim              
82 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                           
83 Massimilliano Mori (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                
84 Josef Soukup (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz                              
85 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech                  
86 Mario De Sarraga (Spa) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                  
87 Leif Lampater (Ger) German National Team                        
88 René Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner                             
89 Martin Mares (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz                              
90 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prevoyance                             
91 Petter Renäng (Swe) Team Comnet-Senges                          
92 Erki Pütsep (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance                               
93 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                       
94 Artur Gajek (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                       
95 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Lamonta                               
96 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance                          
97 Kamil Vrana (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz                               
98 Jindrich Vana (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz                             
99 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz                         
100 Tom Southam (GBr) Team Barloworld-Valsir                       
101 Philip Deignan (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance                           
102 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta                               
103 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team Lamonta                              
104 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                          
105 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team Lamonta                              
106 Christoph Koch (Ger) Team Lamonta                              
107 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                            
108 Rene Obst (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                 
109 Guido Fulst (Ger) German National Team                         
110 Udo Müller (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                       
111 Christophe Roodhooft (Bel) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech    12.27
112 Henning Bommel (Ger) German National Team                      
113 Gregor Willwohl (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                  
114 Francesco Plankaert (Bel) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech          
115 Frank Lehmann (Ger) German National Team                       
116 Julien Smink (Ned) Shimano-Memory Corp                         
117 Eelke Van Der Wal (Ned) Shimano-Memory Corp                    
DNS Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit 
DNS Enrico Degano (Ita) Team Barloworld
 
Mountains
 
Climb, Cat. 3, km 131,6
 
1 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Team Barloworld-Valsir                      3 pts
2 Sven Renders (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                      2
3 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges                            1
 
Sprints
 
Sprint 1, km 30,8
 
1 Jef Peeters (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim                   5 pts
2 Andre Greipel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                              3
3 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner                               2
4 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim                1

Sprint 2, km 54,3
 
1 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner                               5 pts
2 Andre Greipel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                              3
3 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner                            2
4 Massimilliano Mori (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                1

Sprint 3, km 136,8
 
1 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner                               5 pts
2 Cezary Zamana (Pol) Action                                      3
3 Jens Heppner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                               2
4 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Shimano-Memory Corp                     1
 
General classification after stage 1
 
1 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner                         3.34.14
2 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Shimano-Memory Corp                  0.01
3 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance                        0.05
4 Cezary Zamana (Pol) Action                                   0.09
5 Jens Heppner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                            0.10
6 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner                             
7 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare             0.11
8 Florian Stalder (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz                            
9 Ben Day (Aus) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech                        
10 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Team Barloworld-Valsir                      
11 Sven Renders (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                      
12 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim            
13 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Action                                    
14 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech            
15 René Joergensen (Den) Team Barloworld-Valsir                    
16 Stefano Cavallari (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir                  
17 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Shimano-Memory Corp                       
18 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance                           
19 Ryan Cox (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir                           
20 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges                            
21 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance                            
22 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action                                     
23 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                 
24 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                0.45
25 Kristof Trouve (Bel) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech            7.08
26 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                 
27 Maxime Montfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                   
28 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim            8.38
29 Andre Greipel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                          9.17
30 Jef Peeters (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim               9.18
31 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                        9.21
32 Alessandro Bertuola (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare               
33 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech                   
34 René Tann (Ger) German National Team                            
35 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action                                  
36 Robert Bengsch (Ger) German National Team                       
37 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                              
38 Rodney Green (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir                       
39 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Action                                   
40 Davy Commeyne (Bel) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech                 
41 Xavier Pache (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz                              
42 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance                            
43 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                
44 Hendrik Werner (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                    
45 Marco Bos (Ned) Shimano-Memory Corp                             
46 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner                              
47 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago               
48 Benjamin Rüdiger (Ger) German National Team                     
49 Andi Weinhold (Ger) German National Team                        
50 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                      
51 Thomas Liese (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                      
52 Markus Ganser (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                          
53 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                    
54 Aron Huysmans (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim                 
55 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                   
56 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                
57 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                        
58 Frank Dressler (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                         
59 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim                
60 Gabriele Colombo (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                  
61 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                  
62 Christoph Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Team Lamonta                    
63 Timo Scholz (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                       
64 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                    
65 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                    
66 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Shimano-Memory Corp                     
67 Johan Verstrepen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                  
68 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Shimano-Memory Corp                          
69 Masahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Shimano-Memory Corp                    
70 Steffen Weigold (Ger) Team Lamonta                              
71 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Lamonta                           
72 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner                               
73 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                         
74 Stefan Adamsson (Swe) Team Barloworld-Valsir                    
75 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action                                  
76 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action                                   
77 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Action                                      
78 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) Team Comnet-Senges                      
79 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim             
80 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim                
81 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim              
82 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                           
83 Massimilliano Mori (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                
84 Josef Soukup (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz                              
85 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech                  
86 Mario De Sarraga (Spa) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                  
87 Leif Lampater (Ger) German National Team                        
88 René Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner                             
89 Martin Mares (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz                              
90 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prevoyance                             
91 Petter Renäng (Swe) Team Comnet-Senges                          
92 Erki Pütsep (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance                               
93 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                       
94 Artur Gajek (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                       
95 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Lamonta                               
96 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance                          
97 Kamil Vrana (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz                               
98 Jindrich Vana (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz                             
99 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz                         
100 Tom Southam (GBr) Team Barloworld-Valsir                       
101 Philip Deignan (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance                           
102 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Lamonta                               
103 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team Lamonta                              
104 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                          
105 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team Lamonta                              
106 Christoph Koch (Ger) Team Lamonta                              
107 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                            
108 Rene Obst (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                                 
109 Guido Fulst (Ger) German National Team                         
110 Udo Müller (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                       
111 Christophe Roodhooft (Bel) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech    12.38
112 Henning Bommel (Ger) German National Team                      
113 Gregor Willwohl (Ger) Akud Arnolds Sicherheit                  
114 Francesco Plankaert (Bel) Mrbookmaker.com-Sports Tech          
115 Frank Lehmann (Ger) German National Team                       
116 Julien Smink (Ned) Shimano-Memory Corp                         
117 Eelke Van Der Wal (Ned) Shimano-Memory Corp                    
 
Mountains classification
 
1 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Team Barloworld-Valsir                      3 pts
2 Sven Renders (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago                      2
3 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Comnet-Senges                            1
 
Sprints classification
 
1 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner                              12 pts
2 Andre Greipel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                              6
3 Jef Peeters (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim                   5
4 Cezary Zamana (Pol) Action                                      3
5 Jens Heppner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof                               2
6 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner                            2
7 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Shimano-Memory Corp                     1
8 Massimilliano Mori (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare                1
9 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim                1