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Tour de l'Ain - 2.1
France, August 6-9, 2006
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Stage 4 - August 9: Culoz - Belley, 136 km
Photography
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Images by Régis Garnier/www.velofotopro.com
- Patrice Halgand wins the last stage of the Tour de l'Ain
- Halgand on the phone and comments on his victory.
- The final podium with Lelarge, Dessel and Florencio.
- Dessel answers the press about his victory.
Results
1 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 3.29.00 2 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.47 4 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 5 Florian Morizot (Fra) Auber 93 6 Cédric Herve (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 1.53 7 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 3.23 8 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Jartazi-7Mobile 3.27 9 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 10 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole 11 Evgeny Popov (Rus) Rabobank Continental 12 Mickael Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 13 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Jartazi-7Mobile 14 Luis Perez Rodriguez (Spa) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 15 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 16 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 17 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18 Serge Baguet (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 19 Léonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 20 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 21 Yann Pivois (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 22 Danny Pate (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 23 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 24 Renaud Pioline (Fra) Auber 93 25 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 26 René Mandri (Est) Auber 93 27 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 28 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Jartazi-7Mobile 29 Alexsandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 30 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank Continental 31 Stian Sommerseth (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 32 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 33 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 34 Thomas Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 35 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 36 Vladislav Borisov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 37 William Frischkorn (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 38 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Credit Agricole 39 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank Continental 40 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Jartazi-7Mobile 41 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 42 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 43 Lars Petter Nordhaug (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 44 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 45 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 46 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank Continental 47 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 48 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française des Jeux 49 Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 50 Mark Cassidy (Irl) Sean Kelly Team 3.37 51 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank Continental 52 Rémy Pauriol (Fra) Credit Agricole 53 Sven Nevens (Bel) Jartazi-7Mobile 54 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 55 David Lelay (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 56 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 57 Michael Lange (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 58 José Antonio Garrido (Spa) Quick Step-Innergetic 59 Ivan Santaromita (Swi) Quick Step-Innergetic 60 Gennady Mikhaylov (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3.45 61 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 4.11 62 Peter Stetina (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 4.21 63 Ryan Connor (Irl) Sean Kelly Team 4.43 64 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 5.47 65 Ildar Zakirov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 66 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 6.22 67 Vyacheslav Vilkov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 68 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 69 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 70 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 71 Leif Hoste (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 72 Paidi O'brien (Irl) Sean Kelly Team 73 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank Continental 74 Pierre Drancourt (Bel) Bouygues Telecom 75 Maryan Hary (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 76 John Gadret (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 7.45 77 Alexandre Aulas (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 78 Dani Vancells Pons (Spa) Team TIAA-CREF 79 Vytaulas Kaupas LIT Jartazi-7Mobile 80 Frederik Wilmann (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 8.19 81 Christopher Myhre (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 82 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 9.36 83 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Agritubel 84 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 85 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec Final General classification 1 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 14.56.53 2 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 0.22 3 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 1.10 4 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1.16 5 Luis Perez Rodriguez (Spa) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 6 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 7 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Jartazi-7Mobile 2.17 8 Mickael Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 2.21 9 Thomas Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2.28 10 Danny Pate (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 3.34 11 René Mandri (Est) Auber 93 3.35 12 Yann Pivois (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 13 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank Continental 4.23 14 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 4.42 15 Vladislav Borisov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 16 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 17 Florian Morizot (Fra) Auber 93 4.57 18 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Jartazi-7Mobile 5.08 19 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 5.18 20 Cédric Herve (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 5.26 21 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Jartazi-7Mobile 6.19 22 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 6.34 23 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 6.38 24 Rémy Pauriol (Fra) Credit Agricole 6.51 25 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8.04 26 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank Continental 27 Alexsandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 9.22 28 John Gadret (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 9.30 29 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 9.40 30 Lars Petter Nordhaug (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 10.51 31 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 12.35 32 José Antonio Garrido (Spa) Quick Step-Innergetic 13.53 33 Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 14.18 34 David Lelay (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 14.28 35 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank Continental 16.13 36 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 19.01 37 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française des Jeux 19.43 38 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 22.17 39 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 22.33 40 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole 22.34 41 Serge Baguet (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 42 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Credit Agricole 43 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 22.44 44 Ivan Santaromita (Swi) Quick Step-Innergetic 45 Michael Lange (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 46 Léonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 23.09 47 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank Continental 23.13 48 Peter Stetina (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 23.28 49 Evgeny Popov (Rus) Rabobank Continental 23.30 50 William Frischkorn (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 24.20 51 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française des Jeux 24.46 52 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 25.29 53 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank Continental 54 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 25.53 55 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 26.07 56 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 27.12 57 Frederik Wilmann (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 27.26 58 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 28.27 59 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Agritubel 28.40 60 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 30.07 61 Leif Hoste (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 62 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Jartazi-7Mobile 30.35 63 Sven Nevens (Bel) Jartazi-7Mobile 30.45 64 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 65 Mark Cassidy (Irl) Sean Kelly Team 66 Gennady Mikhaylov (Rus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 30.53 67 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 31.39 68 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 31.42 69 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 31.52 70 Renaud Pioline (Fra) Auber 93 32.06 71 Ildar Zakirov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 32.55 72 Stian Sommerseth (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 33.19 73 Pierre Drancourt (Bel) Bouygues Telecom 36.14 74 Sébastien Duret (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 36.44 75 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 39.28 76 Vyacheslav Vilkov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 39.43 77 Paidi O'brien (Irl) Sean Kelly Team 78 Alexandre Aulas (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 40.40 79 Ryan Connor (Irl) Sean Kelly Team 40.48 80 Vytaulas Kaupas LIT Jartazi-7Mobile 41.06 81 Dani Vancells Pons (Spa) Team TIAA-CREF 82 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 42.04 83 Christopher Myhre (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 44.24 84 Maryan Hary (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 52.28 85 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 54.14 Points classification 1 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 61 pts 2 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 43 3 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 39 4 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 35 5 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Jartazi-7Mobile 33 6 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française des Jeux 28 7 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Jartazi-7Mobile 25 8 Cédric Herve (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 22 9 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 20 10 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 20 11 Léonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 20 12 Mickael Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 18 13 Luis Perez Rodriguez (Spa) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 17 14 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 17 15 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Jartazi-7Mobile 16 16 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 14 17 John Gadret (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 14 18 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 14 19 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 14 20 Florian Morizot (Fra) Auber 93 13 21 Renaud Pioline (Fra) Auber 93 12 22 Danny Pate (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 11 23 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Jartazi-7Mobile 10 24 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole 10 25 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank Continental 9 26 René Mandri (Est) Auber 93 9 27 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 9 28 Vladislav Borisov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 7 29 Thomas Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 6 30 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Agritubel 5 31 Yann Pivois (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 5 32 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 5 33 Evgeny Popov (Rus) Rabobank Continental 5 34 Alexsandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 4 35 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank Continental 3 36 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 3 37 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 1 38 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 1 Mountains classification 1 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 94 pts 2 Yann Pivois (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 34 3 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 31 4 Cédric Herve (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 30 5 Pierre Drancourt (Bel) Bouygues Telecom 26 6 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 25 7 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 24 8 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 21 9 Luis Perez Rodriguez (Spa) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 21 10 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 18 11 Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 16 12 Mickael Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 15 13 Danny Pate (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 11 14 Florian Morizot (Fra) Auber 93 11 15 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 10 16 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank Continental 10 17 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 9 18 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 8 19 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 8 20 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française des Jeux 8 21 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 7 22 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 7 23 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 7 24 Thomas Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 6 25 John Gadret (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 6 26 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Jartazi-7Mobile 5 27 David Lelay (Fra) Groupe Sportif Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 5 28 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Jartazi-7Mobile 4 29 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel 4 30 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 3 31 Rémy Pauriol (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 32 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Agritubel 2 33 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2 34 René Mandri (Est) Auber 93 1 35 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 1 36 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank Continental 1 Young rider classification 1 René Mandri (Est) Auber 93 15.00.28 2 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank Continental 0.48 3 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 1.07 4 Florian Morizot (Fra) Auber 93 1.22 5 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 3.03 6 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4.29 7 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank Continental 8 Alexsandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 5.47 9 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française des Jeux 6.05 10 Lars Petter Nordhaug (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 7.16 11 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 9.00 12 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank Continental 12.38 13 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française des Jeux 16.08 14 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole 18.59 15 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Credit Agricole 16 Ivan Santaromita (Swi) Quick Step-Innergetic 19.09 17 Michael Lange (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 18 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank Continental 19.38 19 Peter Stetina (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 19.53 20 Evgeny Popov (Rus) Rabobank Continental 19.55 21 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Française des Jeux 21.11 22 Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank Continental 21.54 23 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Française des Jeux 22.32 24 Frederik Wilmann (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 23.51 25 Sven Nevens (Bel) Jartazi-7Mobile 27.10 26 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone 27 Mark Cassidy (Irl) Sean Kelly Team 28 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 28.07 29 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 28.17 30 Renaud Pioline (Fra) Auber 93 28.31 31 Ildar Zakirov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 29.20 32 Stian Sommerseth (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 29.44 33 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 35.53 34 Vyacheslav Vilkov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 36.08 35 Paidi O'brien (Irl) Sean Kelly Team 36 Alexandre Aulas (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance 37.05 37 Ryan Connor (Irl) Sean Kelly Team 37.13 38 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Cycling Team Capec 38.29 39 Christopher Myhre (Nor) Team Maxbo Bianchi 40.49 Teams classification 1 Bretagne - Jean Floc'h 44.55.35 2 Ag2R Prevoyance 2.36 3 Discovery Channel 7.54 4 Jartazi - 7 Mobile 8.56 5 Auber 93 9.58 6 Agritubel 13.39 7 Rabobank - Continental 15.38 8 Cofidis 21.56 9 Credit Agricole 26.28 10 Bouygues Telecom 30.49 11 Francaise Des Jeux 31.09 12 Team Maxbo Bianchi 32.00 13 Team TIAA-CREF 43.57 14 Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 46.59 15 Quick Step - Innergetic 50.42 16 Capec 54.29 17 Sean Kelly Team 1.46.20
