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42nd Tour de l'Avenir - 2.1
France, September 1-10, 2005
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Stage 6 - September 6: Chauvigny - Guéret, 144 km
Jesus! Still no French win...
By Jean-François Quénet
With three riders in a five man breakaway, a French stage win finally looked like a real possibility in Guéret, but the happy winner was Spaniard Jesus Del Nero of Orbea, whilst the leader of the Tour de l'Avenir remained Lars Ytting Bak from CSC.
Rémi Di Gregorio (Française des Jeux), Maxime Médérel (Auber 93), Sébastien Duret (Bretagne-Jean Floc'h) and Alexei Kolessov (CAPEC) took off with Del Nero when the finishing line was still 76km away. They got a maximum lead of 5'30 and the bunch was never a threat for them. With 5km to go Di Gregorio and Médérel attacked, but got caught at the 2km mark. "I believed we would make it but there were many roundabouts at the end and I didn't take a turn properly," Médérel regretted when going and getting his new polka dot jersey. Di Gregorio was even more furious. He already missed the split on stage 3, although he started the Tour de l'Avenir with high ambitions after finishing 5th in the Tour de l'Ain.
Bak was still smiling in Guéret. "I don't know how things will go when the climbs will be longer and harder than today," he said, "But when Maxime Monfort attacked me today, I didn't panic and Andy Schleck did a good job bringing him back."
There are more fights to come as the race has now reached the Massif Central.
Results
1 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Orbea 3.25.01 2 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 3 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 4 Sebastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 5 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 6 Eric Berthou (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 2.04 7 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 8 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 9 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 10 Leonardo Duque (Col) Jartazi Granville Team 11 Christophe Riblon (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 12 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole 13 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Jartazi Granville Team 14 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 15 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 16 Arnaud Lesvenan (Fra) French National Team 17 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank 18 Matija Kvasina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 19 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 20 Sébastien Minard (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 21 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 22 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 23 Julien Mazet (Fra) Auber 93 24 Saul Raisin (USA) Credit Agricole 25 Gustavo Dominguez (Spa) Orbea 26 Dailos Diaz Armas (Spa) Orbea 27 Tomislav Danculovic (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 28 Aldo Ino Ilesic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 29 Xabat Ochotorena (Spa) Orbea 30 Aaron Villegas (Spa) Orbea 31 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 32 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 33 Hubert Dupont (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 34 Christopher Myhre (Nor) Norwegian National Team 35 Steve Cummings (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 36 Gregor Gazvoda (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 37 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 38 Patrick Mccarty (USA) USA National Team 39 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 40 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 41 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 42 Alexander Gottfried (Ger) German National Team 43 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 44 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 45 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 2.19 46 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 2.29 47 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 3.13 48 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 49 William Frischkorn (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 50 Vytautas Kaupas (Ltu) Jartazi Granville Team 51 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) French National Team 52 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance 53 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) German National Team 54 Philip Deignan (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance 55 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 56 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Française Des Jeux 57 Paul Martens (Ger) German National Team 58 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 3.16 59 Borut Bozic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 3.20 60 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 3.25 61 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 3.27 62 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank 63 Joseba Zumeta (Spa) Orbea 64 Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 65 Matej Marin (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 66 Jean Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 3.30 67 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.13 68 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 4.44 69 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 3.13 70 Sven Renders (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 4.47 71 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Jartazi Granville Team 5.16 72 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole 73 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Credit Agricole 74 Jose Antonio Redondo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 5.50 75 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 76 Havard Nybo (Nor) Norwegian National Team 77 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 78 Koen De Kort (Ned) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 79 Eladio Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 80 Tony Martin (Ger) German National Team 81 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) French National Team 82 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Française Des Jeux 83 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française Des Jeux 84 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française Des Jeux 85 Nicolas Dulac (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 86 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 87 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 88 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 6.57 89 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 90 Vincent Cantero (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 6.58 91 Antoine Dalibard (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 7.10 92 Mathieu Heyboer (Ned) Rabobank 9.15 93 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 94 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC 95 Kasper Larsen (Den) Team CSC 96 Tyler Farrar (USA) USA National Team 97 Lucas Euser (USA) USA National Team 98 Dan Bowman (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 99 Austin King (USA) USA National Team 100 Svew-Erik Vold (Nor) Norwegian National Team 101 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Rabobank 102 Romain Chollet (Fra) Agritubel 103 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) French National Team 104 Carlo Westphal (Ger) German National Team 105 Niels Brouzes (Fra) Auber 93 106 Jurgen Van Loocke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 11.15 107 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 108 Ludovic Poilvet (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 109 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) R.A.G.T. Semences 110 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 111 Brent Bookwalters (USA) USA National Team 112 Emilien-Benoît Berges (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 113 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 114 Ben Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 115 John Murphy (USA) USA National Team 116 Robby Meul (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 117 Roy Hegreberg (Nor) Norwegian National Team 118 Julien Antomarchi (Fra) French National Team 119 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 11.22 120 Craig Lewis (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 3.13 121 Timothy Duggan (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 27.42 Points 1 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Orbea 30 pts 2 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 27 3 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 25 4 Sebastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 23 5 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 21 6 Eric Berthou (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 19 7 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 17 8 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 15 9 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 13 10 Leonardo Duque (Col) Jartazi Granville Team 11 11 Christophe Riblon (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 10 12 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole 9 13 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Jartazi Granville Team 8 14 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 7 15 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 6 16 Arnaud Lesvenan (Fra) French National Team 5 17 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank 4 18 Matija Kvasina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 3 19 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2 20 Sébastien Minard (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 1 Mountains Côte du Maupuy, km 126 1 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 3 pts 2 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2 3 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 1 Côte du Maupuy, km 137.5 1 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 3 pts 2 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Orbea 2 3 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 1 Sprints Lussac-Les-Eglises, km 51 1 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) R.A.G.T. Semences 3 pts 2 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 2 3 Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 1 Chamborand, km 99 1 Sebastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 3 pts 2 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 2 3 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 1 Gueret (1st passage), km 133 1 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3 pts 2 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 2 3 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Orbea 1 Teams 1 Cycling Team Capec 10.19.11 2 Orbea 3 Bretagne - Jean Floc'h 0.15 4 Francaise Des Jeux 1.09 5 Credit Agricole 2.04 6 Rabobank 7 R.A.G.T. Semences 8 Perutnina Ptuj 9 Team CSC 2.29 10 Jartazi Revor 3.13 11 Chocolade Jacques - T Interim 12 Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 3.27 13 Ag2r-Prevoyance 4.22 14 German National Team 15 Bouygues Telecom 16 French National Team 6.59 17 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 7.02 18 Auber 93 7.11 19 Agritubel 20 Team TIAA-Cref 11.33 21 Norwegian National Team 13.01 22 USA National Team 16.26 General classification after stage 6 1 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 19.33.33 2 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 0.13 3 Christophe Riblon (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 0.53 4 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 1.06 5 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank 1.12 6 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Jartazi Granville Team 1.14 7 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 8 Eric Berthou (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 1.17 9 Matija Kvasina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 1.27 10 Leonardo Duque (Col) Jartazi Granville Team 1.33 11 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 12 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 1.55 13 Gustavo Dominguez (Spa) Orbea 2.05 14 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.25 15 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance 2.39 16 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.50 17 William Frischkorn (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 2.57 18 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3.02 19 Borut Bozic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 3.16 20 Sebastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 4.59 21 Julien Mazet (Fra) Auber 93 5.24 22 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 5.38 23 Tomislav Danculovic (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 5.57 24 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 6.00 25 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 6.09 26 Aaron Villegas (Spa) Orbea 6.24 27 Sébastien Minard (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 6.31 28 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank 6.46 29 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6.51 30 Saul Raisin (USA) Credit Agricole 7.12 31 Paul Martens (Ger) German National Team 7.27 32 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 7.37 33 Vytautas Kaupas (Ltu) Jartazi Granville Team 7.54 34 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8.14 35 Craig Lewis (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 8.18 36 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Française Des Jeux 8.19 37 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank 8.28 38 Patrick Mccarty (USA) USA National Team 8.30 39 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) German National Team 8.33 40 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 8.47 41 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 9.04 42 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 9.11 43 Matej Marin (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 44 Koen De Kort (Ned) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 9.29 45 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9.36 46 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 9.40 47 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française Des Jeux 11.22 48 Havard Nybo (Nor) Norwegian National Team 11.35 49 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11.36 50 Mickaël Delage (Fra) Française Des Jeux 11.38 51 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 11.55 52 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 11.59 53 Mathieu Heyboer (Ned) Rabobank 12.06 54 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 12.37 55 Vincent Cantero (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 13.57 56 Eladio Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 14.04 57 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 14.58 58 Tyler Farrar (USA) USA National Team 14.59 59 Svew-Erik Vold (Nor) Norwegian National Team 15.04 60 Jose Antonio Redondo (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 15.13 61 Kasper Larsen (Den) Team CSC 15.25 62 Romain Chollet (Fra) Agritubel 15.34 63 Niels Brouzes (Fra) Auber 93 15.44 64 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) German National Team 15.47 65 Tony Martin (Ger) German National Team 16.04 66 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 16.44 67 Antoine Dalibard (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 17.54 68 Ben Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 18.00 69 Roy Hegreberg (Nor) Norwegian National Team 18.03 70 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Jartazi Granville Team 18.13 71 Robby Meul (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 18.21 72 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 22.28 73 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 23.39 74 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Orbea 24.16 75 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole 24.29 76 Steve Cummings (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 25.30 77 Arnaud Lesvenan (Fra) French National Team 25.43 78 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 25.44 79 Hubert Dupont (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 26.01 80 Dailos Diaz Armas (Spa) Orbea 26.17 81 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Credit Agricole 26.28 82 Christopher Myhre (Nor) Norwegian National Team 26.31 83 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 26.33 84 Philip Deignan (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance 26.36 85 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 26.39 86 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) French National Team 27.02 87 Jean Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 27.10 88 Ludovic Poilvet (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 27.30 89 Xabat Ochotorena (Spa) Orbea 27.54 90 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 91 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 27.59 92 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole 28.44 93 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) French National Team 29.05 94 Christian Müller (Ger) Team CSC 29.15 95 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française Des Jeux 29.40 96 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Credit Agricole 30.07 97 Nicolas Dulac (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 30.35 98 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 30.50 99 Gregor Gazvoda (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 30.52 100 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 31.00 101 Aldo Ino Ilesic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 31.11 102 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Rabobank 32.08 103 Alexander Gottfried (Ger) German National Team 32.24 104 Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 32.42 105 Carlo Westphal (Ger) German National Team 33.02 106 Timothy Duggan (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 33.04 107 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) French National Team 33.20 108 Austin King (USA) USA National Team 33.43 109 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 33.56 110 Joseba Zumeta (Spa) Orbea 34.34 111 Sven Renders (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 34.46 112 Lucas Euser (USA) USA National Team 35.06 113 Dan Bowman (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 35.10 114 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 35.11 115 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 36.23 116 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) R.A.G.T. Semences 36.27 117 Brent Bookwalters (USA) USA National Team 36.31 118 John Murphy (USA) USA National Team 37.04 119 Emilien-Benoît Berges (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences 39.00 120 Julien Antomarchi (Fra) French National Team 40.22 121 Jurgen Van Loocke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 50.46 Mountains classification 1 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 12 pts 2 Leonardo Duque (Col) Jartazi Granville Team 5 3 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 2 4 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 2 5 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 6 Ben Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 2 7 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 2 8 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Orbea 2 9 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance 1 Teams classification 1 Rabobank 58.47.03 2 Perutnina Ptuj 2.22 3 Chocolade Jacques - T Interim 3.54 4 Jartazi Revor 4.18 5 Team CSC 4.38 6 Ag2r-Prevoyance 5.28 7 Cycling Team Capec 8.28 8 Francaise Des Jeux 10.10 9 Bouygues Telecom 12.37 10 German National Team 15.39 11 Bretagne - Jean Floc'h 15.52 12 Liberty Seguros - Würth Team 16.15 13 Team TIAA-Cref 19.28 14 Agritubel 20.30 15 R.A.G.T. Semences 24.39 16 Orbea 25.57 17 Credit Agricole 26.10 18 Norwegian National Team 28.40 19 Auber 93 37.25 20 Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 47.09 21 USA National Team 50.52 22 French National Team 1.14.29
