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33rd Tour Méditerranéen - 2.1
France, February 8-12, 2006
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Stage 1 - February 8: Marseille - Marignane, 108 km
Lampre working well as Napolitano gets the win
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Lampre's Danilo Napolitano showed the opposition a clean pair of heels in Marignane after some great teamwork as he took the first stage of this year's Tour Méditerranéen. He'll now take the leader's jersey into tomorrow's stage. After a successful Tour of Qatar, Erik Zabel (Milram) showed he's on song early in the season with a strong second, ahead of Crédit Agricole's 23 year-old Australian rider Mark Renshaw.
With Mont Faron looming ahead during tomorrow's stage, it's not too likely Napolitano will be able to hold onto his well-won jersey for another day. The Italian had his Lampre teammates working well in the final kilometres of today's stage, and after having to settle for minor placings behind Alessandro Petacchi at last Saturday's GP Costa degli Etruschi, it was a happy Napolitano who celebrated his stage win in style.
Earlier in the day, the French duo of Sandy Casar and Cedric Vasseur broke away, maintaining their advantage until little over halfway through the race, when both Lampre and Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears sprung into action, bringing back the two-man escape by the final kilometres. It was then time to set their man up for the win which they were able to do well, as Claudio Corioni then Daniele Bennati delivered Napolitano to the finish in front.
Elated, Napolitano praised his team after the finish. "I am very happy for the victory and for the sprint lead-out: it was truly beautiful," he said, before adding, "I want to thank all of the squadra for the perfect work that was done."
Photography
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- The Carrera bikes of the Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi team
- Team Milram's Colnagos are ready to carry their boys to a stage win
- The peloton climbs out of Marseille in the early part of stage 1
- Sandy Casar (Francaise des Jeux) leads Cedric Vasseur (Quick Step)
- The Lampre boys lead proceedings coming in the closing kilometres of stage 1
- Oleksandr Kvachuk (Androni Giocattoli) looks comfortable later in stage 1
- Casar and Vasseur ride together during stage 1
- Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears pull together at the front of the main field
- Showing the strain in the 'black train'
- Danilo Napolitano (Lampre) wins stage 1 of the Tour Méditerranéen
- Who's the man with the sauce? Me! Danilo Napolitano celebrates a win on stage 1
- Napolitano wears the Dolmio grin after a win in Marignane
- Danilo Napolitano (Lampre) on the podium after stage 1
- Lucien Van Impe made an appearance with the unibet.com team
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Erik Zabel (Milram) corners confidently in the closing stages
- Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears put themselves on the front near the finish
- Danilo Napolitano (Lampre) gets himself into a good position for the sprint
- Danilo Napolitano (Lampre) on the podium and looking pleased with himself
- It was second today for the super-veteran, Erik Zabel
- Waiting for the start as the sun tries to come out
- Erik Zabel gets ready to go for the stage win
- Well done, Danilo! Napolitano is congratulated by a teammate after the finish
- Quick Step's Patrick Lefevere and Nick Nuyens together before the start
- Daniele Bennati (l) and Erik Zabel get together before the stage start
- In the leaders jersey after stage 1, is Danilo Napolitano
Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net
- I'm bustin' a cap into the opposition with my immaculate sprint
- Danilo Napolitano (Lampre) looks content on the podium
- Check it, yeah! Danilo Napolitano (Lampre) practices a few new celebrations after taking DJ lessons
- Napolitano (l) and Bennati (r) worked well together to take the stage today
Results
1 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 2.35.33 2 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 3 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agicole 4 Aug Andrus (Est) Acqua Sapone 5 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre 6 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 7 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 8 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Ag2R Prevoyance 9 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 10 Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Acqua Sapone 11 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 12 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 13 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 14 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 15 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 16 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil-Shimano 17 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Ag2R Prevoyance 18 René Weissinger (Ger) Skil-Shimano 19 Marco Marcato (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 20 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 21 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agicole 22 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2R Prevoyance 23 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 24 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step-Innergeti 25 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agicole 26 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 27 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 28 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 29 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 30 Matheus Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 31 Yuriy Metlushenko (Ukr) Miche 32 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua Sapone 33 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 34 Johan Coenen (Bel) Unibet.com 35 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis 36 Luca Ascani (Ita) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 37 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 38 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Team Milram 39 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Credit Agicole 40 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Cofidis 41 Antonio D'aniello (Ita) Miche 42 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 43 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 44 Andrea Rossi (Ita) Acqua Sapone 45 Bradley McGee (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 46 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 47 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 48 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agicole 49 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 50 Alexandre Bazhenov (Rus) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 51 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 52 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 53 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Acqua Sapone 54 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 55 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Lampre 56 Eric Berthou (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 57 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 58 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick Step-Innergeti 59 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 60 Maurizio Bellin (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 61 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 62 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 63 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 64 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 65 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 66 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Quick Step-Innergeti 67 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agicole 68 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 69 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 70 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 71 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 72 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 73 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 74 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 75 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 76 Martin Mares (Cze) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 77 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 78 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis 79 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 80 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre 81 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 82 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 83 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Skil-Shimano 84 Armando Rupa (Ita) Miche 85 Massimo Mazzanti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 86 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Unibet.com 87 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 88 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 89 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre 90 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Credit Agicole 91 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre 92 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Miche 93 Jure Zrimsek (Slo) Acqua Sapone 94 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 95 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 96 Alejandro Albe Borrajo (Arg) Miche 97 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Credit Agicole 98 Paul Crake (Aus) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 99 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 100 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 101 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 102 Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) Acqua Sapone 103 Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 104 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Agritubel 105 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 106 Aitor Perez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 107 Thierry Marichal (Fra) Cofidis 108 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua Sapone 0.38 109 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 0.55 110 Moises Duenas Nevado (Spa) Agritubel 1.10 111 Maurizio Carta (Ita) Miche 112 Seweryn Zenon Kohut (Pol) Miche 113 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Agritubel 114 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 115 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 116 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.30 117 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 118 Juan Pablo Magallanes (Mex) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 2.20 DNF Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Unibet.com DNF Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance
General Classification after stage 1 1 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 2.35.33 2 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 3 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agicole 4 Aug Andrus (Est) Acqua Sapone 5 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre 6 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 7 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 8 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Ag2R Prevoyance 9 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 10 Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Acqua Sapone 11 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 12 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 13 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 14 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 15 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 16 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil-Shimano 17 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Ag2R Prevoyance 18 René Weissinger (Ger) Skil-Shimano 19 Marco Marcato (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 20 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 21 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agicole 22 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2R Prevoyance 23 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 24 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step-Innergeti 25 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agicole 26 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 27 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 28 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 29 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 30 Matheus Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 31 Yuriy Metlushenko (Ukr) Miche 32 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua Sapone 33 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 34 Johan Coenen (Bel) Unibet.com 35 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis 36 Luca Ascani (Ita) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 37 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 38 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Team Milram 39 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Credit Agicole 40 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Cofidis 41 Antonio D'aniello (Ita) Miche 42 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 43 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 44 Andrea Rossi (Ita) Acqua Sapone 45 Bradley McGee (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 46 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 47 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 48 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agicole 49 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 50 Alexandre Bazhenov (Rus) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 51 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 52 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 53 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Acqua Sapone 54 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 55 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Lampre 56 Eric Berthou (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 57 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 58 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick Step-Innergeti 59 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 60 Maurizio Bellin (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 61 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 62 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 63 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 64 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 65 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 66 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Quick Step-Innergeti 67 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agicole 68 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 69 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 70 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 71 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 72 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 73 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 74 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 75 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 76 Martin Mares (Cze) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 77 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 78 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis 79 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 80 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre 81 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 82 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 83 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Skil-Shimano 84 Armando Rupa (Ita) Miche 85 Massimo Mazzanti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 86 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Unibet.com 87 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 88 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 89 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre 90 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Credit Agicole 91 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre 92 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Miche 93 Jure Zrimsek (Slo) Acqua Sapone 94 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 95 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 96 Alejandro Albe Borrajo (Arg) Miche 97 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Credit Agicole 98 Paul Crake (Aus) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 99 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 100 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 101 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 102 Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) Acqua Sapone 103 Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 104 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Agritubel 105 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 106 Aitor Perez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 107 Thierry Marichal (Fra) Cofidis 108 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua Sapone 0.38 109 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 0.55 110 Moises Duenas Nevado (Spa) Agritubel 1.10 111 Maurizio Carta (Ita) Miche 112 Seweryn Zenon Kohut (Pol) Miche 113 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Agritubel 114 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 115 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 116 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.30 117 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 118 Juan Pablo Magallanes (Mex) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 2.20 Points Classification after stage 1 1 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 25 pts 2 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 20 3 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agicole 16 4 Aug Andrus (Est) Acqua Sapone 14 5 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre 12 6 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 10 7 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 9 8 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Ag2R Prevoyance 8 9 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 7 10 Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Acqua Sapone 6 11 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 5 12 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 4 13 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 3 14 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 2 15 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 1 Mountains Classification after stage 1 1 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agicole 13 pts 2 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 12 3 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Credit Agicole 5 4 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3 5 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 2 6 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1 Best Young Rider Classification after stage 1 1 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 2.35.23 2 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agicole 0.06 3 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre 0.10 4 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 5 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 6 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 7 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 8 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 9 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 10 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Ag2R Prevoyance 11 Marco Marcato (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 12 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 13 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 14 Luca Ascani (Ita) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 15 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 16 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 17 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 18 Alexandre Bazhenov (Rus) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 19 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Acqua Sapone 20 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 21 Maurizio Bellin (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 22 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 23 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 24 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agicole 25 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 26 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 27 Martin Mares (Cze) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 28 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 29 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 30 Armando Rupa (Ita) Miche 31 Massimo Mazzanti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 32 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 33 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre 34 Jure Zrimsek (Slo) Acqua Sapone 35 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Credit Agicole 36 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 37 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 1.05 38 Moises Duenas Nevado (Spa) Agritubel 1.20 39 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 40 Juan Pablo Magallanes (Mex) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 2.30
