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33rd Volta ao Algarve - 2.1
Portugal, February 21-25, 2007
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Stage 1 - February 21: Albufeira - Faro , 191.3 km
Steegmans back to Portuguese winning habits...
...but Petacchi was first on the line
By Jean-François Quénet in Faro
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Alessandro Petacchi can be reassured about the quality of his train but he missed out on the win of stage 1 in the Tour of Algarve since the judges relegated him for irregular sprinting after he crossed the line in first position more than a bike-length in front of Gert Steegmans. Petacchi was classified in the last place of his group, which meant he got only fourth in the end. There was a break bigger than one second between Tomas Vaitkus, initially 4th; and Bernhard Eisel, 5th.
Petacchi was waiting for the prize ceremony when he found out that he wasn't the winner. A few seconds later, sitting in his team car prior to heading back to his hotel, he commented: "This is a big farce. It's right that I moved from one side to the other but I did not impede anyone. I didn't even see anyone. I feel sorry for my teammates who have worked all day."
In fact, Milram never got a hand from any other team while chasing behind the breakaway duo formed of Roy Sentjens and Tiago Machado. At the end of the race, Petacchi could be sure that his train working well again. "My condition is good as well", he added.
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Of course, Quickstep's Steegmans had a different vision of what happened. "My teammate Wouter Weylandt who was leading me out almost crashed in the last curve 400 meters before the finishing line," the Belgian winner explained. "Then I was ten meters behind Petacchi. But I came close enough to him so that he saw me and moved from left to right with 50 meters to go. I put my hand up to show that something occurred. This is the rule: you have to keep your line in a sprint. But I’m frustrated because it’s always a better feeling to be the first man on the line."
Steegmans had won two stages in the Tour of Algarve last year. With Davitamon-Lotto at the time, he was even leading the race at the start of the last stage before Joao Cabreira took over. "I missed the win by 10 seconds," he remembered. "Because of that, I’ve decided not to target the overall classification this year. We are here for stage wins, not for defending the yellow jersey."
How it unfolded
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After only 4 kilometers, two of the 192 starters of the 33rd Tour of Algarve took off: Roy Sentjens (Predictor-Lotto) and Tiago Machado (Riberalves-Boavista). Marcio Correia (Fercase-Rota dos Moveis) chased alone behind but never caught them and he was rejoined by the peloton at km 88.
Sentjens beat out Machado in all three hot spot sprints (km 57, km 88 and km 133). They reached a maximum lead of 12.50 at km 57. The gap was reduced to 4.35 at km 140 when Machado dropped Sentjens off. Machado stayed away on the third category climb of Clareanes where he secured the king of mountain jersey but he got caught in the downhill at km 170.
Within 15 km to go, Martijn Maaskant (Rabobank), Jurgen Van den Broeck (Predictor-Lotto) and Hubert Schwab (Quick Step) got a 12 seconds lead but Milram kept their troops focused on a bunch sprint finish. It was easily won by Alessandro Petacchi but Gert Steegmans was designated the winner due to irregular sprinting by the Italian.
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- Alessandro Petacchi (Milram) heads for the win - the Italian was later relegated for irregular sprinting.
- Petacchi celebrates prematurely ahead of Gert Steegmans (Quickstep-Innergetic).
- Petacchi described the decision to relegate him as "a big farce".
- Steegmans enjoys the spoils of victory in stage one.
Images by Jean-Francois Quenet
- In Portugal, Frenchman Jimmy Casper is allowed to wear the Unibet jersey - publicity forbidden in his home country.
- Tiago Machado has won a few intermediate awards.
- Tour of Qatar stage winner Greg Van Avermaet is the best young rider.
- Roy Sentjens leads the hot spot sprints.
- Stage winner Gert Steegmans doesn't seem happy with the amount on the cheque. Only 200 euros?
- The green jersey pleases the Belgian sprinter.
- Steegmans also has an expected yellow jersey.
Images by Joăo Dias/www.cycloweb.freealoja.com
- Joăo Cabreira (LA-MSS) with a fan before the start.
- The final checking before the start.
- Micael Isidoro (Vitória ASC) doing his final warm up.
- The peloton having a chat before the start.
- Rolling out from the start in Albufeira.
- This is surely the largest peloton ever in the Volta ao Algarve.
- Tiago Machado (Riberalves-Boavista) rides towards the KOM in Clareanes.
- Tiago Machado (Riberalves-Boavista) about to cross the KOM summit in Clareanes.
- The peloton was right behind with Duja's Nelson Vitorino on the attack.
- The peloton at Clareanes KOM.
- Carlos Nozal (Liberty Seguros).
- Carlos da Cruz (Française Des Jeux) and Manuel Cardoso (Riberalves-Boavista).
- Nico Eeckhout (Chocolade Jacques) and Rui Costa (Benfica).
- Mark Cassidy (Murphy & Gunn).
Results
1 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 4.44.16 (40.378 km/h) 2 René Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 3 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 4 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Milram 5 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile 0.03 6 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Barloworld 7 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 8 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Wiesenhof-Felt 9 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 10 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 11 Martin Garrido Mayorga (Arg) Duja-Tavira 12 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Unibet.com 13 Samuel José Caldeira (Por) Duja-Tavira 14 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Liberty Seguros 15 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 16 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis 17 Javier Benitez (Spa) Benfica 18 Nuno Marta Duarte (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 19 Sergio Ribeiro (Por) Benfica 20 Bruno Sa (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 21 Hector Guerra Garcia (Spa) Liberty Seguros 22 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quickstep-Innergetic 23 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel 24 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 25 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 26 Johan Coenen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 27 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank Continental 28 Andre Cardoso (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 29 Giosuč Bonomi (Ita) Barloworld 30 Helder Oliveira (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 31 Francisco Jose Pacheco Torres (Spa) Barbot-Halcon 32 Bert Roesems (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 33 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Unibet.com 34 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 35 Pedro Costa (Por) Vitória-ASC 36 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel 37 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française Des Jeux 38 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 39 Nelson Hugo Rocha (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 40 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 41 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 42 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 43 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 44 Steffen Wesemann (Swi) Wiesenhof-Felt 45 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile 46 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 47 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel 48 Thomas Berkhout (Ned) Rabobank Continental 49 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 50 David Blanco (Spa) Duja-Tavira 51 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana 52 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Cofidis 53 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française Des Jeux 54 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile 55 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 56 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 57 Marco Velo (Ita) Milram 58 Steve Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel 59 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 60 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 61 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 62 Luis Pinheiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 63 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 64 Martyn Maaskant (Ned) Rabobank Continental 65 Bas Giling (Ned) Wiesenhof-Felt 66 Carlos Nozal Vega (Spa) Liberty Seguros 67 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 68 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile 69 Pedro Cardoso (Por) LA-MSS 70 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 71 Devi Vervaeke (Bel) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 72 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 73 Davide Viganň (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 74 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 75 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 76 Juan Manuel Gárate (Spa) Quickstep-Innergetic 77 Rui Miguel Sousa Barbosa (Por) Liberty Seguros 78 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank Continental 79 Bruno Barbosa (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 80 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 81 José Carlos Silva Rodrigues (Por) Vitória-ASC 82 Antonio Colom (Spa) Astana 83 César Antunes Quiterio (Por) Liberty Seguros 84 Ricardo Martins (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 85 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 86 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 87 Claudio Faria (Por) LA-MSS 88 Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Rabobank Continental 89 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 90 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française Des Jeux 91 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 92 Jacek Morajko (Pol) Riberalves-Boavista 93 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile 94 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 95 Arjen De Baat (Ned) Rabobank Continental 96 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 97 Ricardo Mestre (Por) Duja-Tavira 98 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 99 Alexis Rodríguez (Spa) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 100 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 101 Luis Silva (Por) Duja-Tavira 102 Servais Knaven (Ned) T-Mobile 103 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 104 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 105 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 106 Scott Davis (Aus) T-Mobile 107 Ricardo Horta (Por) Barbot-Halcon 108 Gilberto Martins (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 109 Hernani Broco (Por) Liberty Seguros 110 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Benfica 111 Celestino Pinho (Por) Barbot-Halcon 112 Evgeny Popov (Rus) Rabobank Continental 113 Sergio Sousa (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 114 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Française Des Jeux 115 Daniel Petrov (Bul) Duja-Tavira 116 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis 117 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Cofidis 118 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Française Des Jeux 119 Edgar Anăo (Por) LA-MSS 120 Bruno Pires (Por) LA-MSS 121 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 122 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Unibet.com 123 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 124 Addy Engels (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic 125 Fernando Sousa (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 126 Ryan Cox (RSA) Barloworld 127 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 128 Virgilio Martins Santos (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 129 Gilberto Sampaio (Por) Vitória-ASC 130 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Milram 131 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 132 Xavier Tondo (Spa) LA-MSS 133 Hugo Manuel Vitor Izidoro (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 134 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 135 Celio Cristiano Sousa (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 136 Ilzo Keisse (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 137 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank Continental 138 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa) Barloworld 139 Angel Vazquez Iglesias (Spa) LA-MSS 140 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 141 Rui Sá (Por) Barbot-Halcon 142 Pedro Barnabe (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 143 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel 144 André Moreira Vital (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 145 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel 146 Stefan Kushlev (Bul) Riberalves-Boavista 147 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis 148 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis 149 Bruno Miguel Castanheira Gomes (Por) Benfica 150 Krassimir Vasilev (Bul) Duja-Tavira 151 José Vaz (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 152 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 153 Evert Verbist (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 154 Paulo Barroso (Por) Vitória-ASC 155 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 156 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis 157 Niels Scheuneman (Ned) Unibet.com 158 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Unibet.com 159 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 160 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 161 Simon Kelly (Irl) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 162 Joăo Cabreira (Por) LA-MSS 163 José Manuel De Sousa Cunha (Por) Vitória-ASC 164 Rui Filipe Pinto (Por) Barbot-Halcon 165 Claus Michael Möller (Den) Barbot-Halcon 166 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 167 Jorge Alberto Brito Ferraz (Por) Barbot-Halcon 168 Tom Steels (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 169 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 170 Micael Isidoro (Por) Vitória-ASC 171 Dimitri De Fauw (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 172 Renato Silva (Por) Benfica 173 José Martins (Por) Vitória-ASC 0.48 174 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Milram 1.00 175 Volodymyr Dyudya (Ukr) Milram 176 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Duja-Tavira 0.03 177 Alejandro M. Marques (Spa) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 178 Paidi O'Brien (Irl) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 1.29 179 Pedro Soeiro (Por) Barbot-Halcon 0.03 180 Bruno Neves (Por) LA-MSS 181 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Milram 1.35 182 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram 183 Enrico Degano (Ita) Barloworld 1.44 184 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Milram 2.00 185 Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 0.03 186 Ng Yong Li (Mas) Vitória-ASC 5.39 187 Virgilo Neves (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 7.12 188 Mark Cassidy (Irl) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 8.23 189 Tim Meeusen (Bel) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 18.54 190 Glenn Bak (Den) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 191 Christophe Beddegenoots (Bel) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 192 Marcio Correia (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 27.22 Points 1 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 25 pts 2 René Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 20 3 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 16 4 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Milram 13 5 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile 10 6 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Barloworld 8 7 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 6 8 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Wiesenhof-Felt 4 9 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 2 10 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 1 Mountains Clareanes - Cat. 3, km 167.30 1 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 5 pts 2 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Duja-Tavira 3 3 Daniel Petrov (Bul) Duja-Tavira 1 Metas volantes km 72.7 1 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 3 pts 2 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 2 3 Marcio Correia (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 1 Castro Verde, km 88.40 1 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 3 pts 2 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 2 3 Marcio Correia (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 1 Ameixial, km 133.20 1 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 3 pts 2 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 2 3 Krassimir Vasilev (Bul) Duja-Tavira 1 Teams 1 Discovery Channel 14.12.54 2 Quickstep-Innergetic 3 Astana 4 Milram 5 Wiesenhof-Felt 14.12.57 6 Duja-Tavira 7 Benfica 8 Cofidis 9 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 10 T-Mobile 11 Barloworld 12 Gerolsteiner 13 Liberty Seguros 14 Unibet.com 15 Predictor-Lotto 16 Française Des Jeux 17 Paredes Rota dos Móveis 18 Rabobank 19 Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 20 Riberalves-Boavista 21 Vitória-ASC 22 Barbot-Halcon 23 LA-MSS 24 Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly General classification after stage 1 1 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 4.44.06 2 René Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 0.04 3 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 4 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 0.06 5 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 0.07 6 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Milram 0.10 7 Krassimir Vasilev (Bul) Duja-Tavira 0.12 8 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile 0.13 9 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Barloworld 10 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 11 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Wiesenhof-Felt 12 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 13 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 14 Martin Garrido Mayorga (Arg) Duja-Tavira 15 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Unibet.com 16 Samuel José Caldeira (Por) Duja-Tavira 17 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Liberty Seguros 18 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 19 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis 20 Javier Benitez (Spa) Benfica 21 Nuno Marta Duarte (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 22 Sergio Ribeiro (Por) Benfica 23 Bruno Sa (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 24 Hector Guerra Garcia (Spa) Liberty Seguros 25 Hubert Schwab (Swi) Quickstep-Innergetic 26 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel 27 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 28 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 29 Johan Coenen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 30 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank Continental 31 Andre Cardoso (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 32 Giosuč Bonomi (Ita) Barloworld 33 Helder Oliveira (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 34 Francisco Jose Pacheco Torres (Spa) Barbot-Halcon 35 Bert Roesems (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 36 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Unibet.com 37 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 38 Pedro Costa (Por) Vitória-ASC 39 Egoi Martínez (Spa) Discovery Channel 40 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française Des Jeux 41 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica 42 Nelson Hugo Rocha (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 43 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 44 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 45 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 46 Steffen Wesemann (Swi) Wiesenhof-Felt 47 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile 48 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 49 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel 50 Thomas Berkhout (Ned) Rabobank Continental 51 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 52 David Blanco (Spa) Duja-Tavira 53 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana 54 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Cofidis 55 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française Des Jeux 56 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) T-Mobile 57 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 58 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 59 Marco Velo (Ita) Milram 60 Steve Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel 61 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 62 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 63 Markus Eichler (Ger) Unibet.com 64 Luis Pinheiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 65 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 66 Martyn Maaskant (Ned) Rabobank Continental 67 Bas Giling (Ned) Wiesenhof-Felt 68 Carlos Nozal Vega (Spa) Liberty Seguros 69 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 70 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile 71 Pedro Cardoso (Por) LA-MSS 72 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 73 Devi Vervaeke (Bel) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 74 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 75 Davide Viganň (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 76 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 77 Juan Manuel Gárate (Spa) Quickstep-Innergetic 78 Rui Miguel Sousa Barbosa (Por) Liberty Seguros 79 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank Continental 80 Bruno Barbosa (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 81 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 82 José Carlos Silva Rodrigues (Por) Vitória-ASC 83 Antonio Colom (Spa) Astana 84 César Antunes Quiterio (Por) Liberty Seguros 85 Ricardo Martins (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 86 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 87 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 88 Claudio Faria (Por) LA-MSS 89 Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Rabobank Continental 90 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 91 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française Des Jeux 92 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 93 Jacek Morajko (Pol) Riberalves-Boavista 94 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile 95 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 96 Arjen De Baat (Ned) Rabobank Continental 97 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 98 Ricardo Mestre (Por) Duja-Tavira 99 Wim De Vocht (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 100 Alexis Rodríguez (Spa) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 101 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica 102 Luis Silva (Por) Duja-Tavira 103 Servais Knaven (Ned) T-Mobile 104 Nuno Ribeiro (Por) Liberty Seguros 105 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 106 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 107 Scott Davis (Aus) T-Mobile 108 Ricardo Horta (Por) Barbot-Halcon 109 Gilberto Martins (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 110 Hernani Broco (Por) Liberty Seguros 111 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Benfica 112 Celestino Pinho (Por) Barbot-Halcon 113 Evgeny Popov (Rus) Rabobank Continental 114 Sergio Sousa (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 115 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Française Des Jeux 116 Daniel Petrov (Bul) Duja-Tavira 117 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis 118 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Cofidis 119 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Française Des Jeux 120 Edgar Anăo (Por) LA-MSS 121 Bruno Pires (Por) LA-MSS 122 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 123 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Unibet.com 124 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 125 Addy Engels (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic 126 Fernando Sousa (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 127 Ryan Cox (RSA) Barloworld 128 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 129 Virgilio Martins Santos (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 130 Gilberto Sampaio (Por) Vitória-ASC 131 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Milram 132 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 133 Xavier Tondo (Spa) LA-MSS 134 Hugo Manuel Vitor Izidoro (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 135 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 136 Celio Cristiano Sousa (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 137 Ilzo Keisse (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 138 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank Continental 139 Pedro Arreitunandia (Spa) Barloworld 140 Angel Vazquez Iglesias (Spa) LA-MSS 141 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana 142 Rui Sá (Por) Barbot-Halcon 143 Pedro Barnabe (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 144 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel 145 André Moreira Vital (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 146 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel 147 Stefan Kushlev (Bul) Riberalves-Boavista 148 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis 149 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis 150 Bruno Miguel Castanheira Gomes (Por) Benfica 151 José Vaz (Por) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 152 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 153 Evert Verbist (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 154 Paulo Barroso (Por) Vitória-ASC 155 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 156 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis 157 Niels Scheuneman (Ned) Unibet.com 158 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Unibet.com 159 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 160 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 161 Simon Kelly (Irl) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 162 Joăo Cabreira (Por) LA-MSS 163 José Manuel De Sousa Cunha (Por) Vitória-ASC 164 Rui Filipe Pinto (Por) Barbot-Halcon 165 Claus Michael Möller (Den) Barbot-Halcon 166 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt 167 Jorge Alberto Brito Ferraz (Por) Barbot-Halcon 168 Tom Steels (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 169 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 170 Micael Isidoro (Por) Vitória-ASC 171 Dimitri De Fauw (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 172 Renato Silva (Por) Benfica 173 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Duja-Tavira 174 Alejandro M. Marques (Spa) Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 175 Pedro Soeiro (Por) Barbot-Halcon 176 Bruno Neves (Por) LA-MSS 177 Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 178 José Martins (Por) Vitória-ASC 0.58 179 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Milram 1.10 180 Volodymyr Dyudya (Ukr) Milram 181 Paidi O'Brien (Irl) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 1.39 182 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Milram 1.45 183 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram 184 Enrico Degano (Ita) Barloworld 1.54 185 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Milram 2.10 186 Ng Yong Li (Mas) Vitória-ASC 5.49 187 Virgilo Neves (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 7.22 188 Mark Cassidy (Irl) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 8.33 189 Tim Meeusen (Bel) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 19.04 190 Glenn Bak (Den) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 191 Christophe Beddegenoots (Bel) Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly 192 Marcio Correia (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 27.30 Points classification 1 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 25 pts 2 René Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 20 3 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 16 4 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Milram 13 5 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile 10 6 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 9 7 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Barloworld 8 8 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 6 9 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 6 10 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Wiesenhof-Felt 4 11 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 2 12 Marcio Correia (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 2 13 Krassimir Vasilev (Bul) Duja-Tavira 1 14 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 1 Mountains classification 1 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 5 pts 2 Nelson Vitorino (Por) Duja-Tavira 3 3 Daniel Petrov (Bul) Duja-Tavira 1 Metas volantes classification 1 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 9 pts 2 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 6 3 Marcio Correia (Por) Paredes Rota dos Móveis 2 4 Krassimir Vasilev (Bul) Duja-Tavira 1 Combination classification 1 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 14 pts 2 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 2 3 René Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 4 4 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 7 5 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 9 6 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Milram 10 7 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile 13 8 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Barloworld 16 9 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 19 10 Krassimir Vasilev (Bul) Duja-Tavira 20 11 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Wiesenhof-Felt 21 Young rider classification 1 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 2 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 3 Samuel José Caldeira (Por) Duja-Tavira 4 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank Continental 5 Nelson Hugo Rocha (Por) Riberalves-Boavista Teams classification 1 Discovery Channel 14.12.54 2 Quickstep-Innergetic 3 Astana 4 Milram 5 Wiesenhof-Felt 14.12.57 6 Duja-Tavira 7 Benfica 8 Cofidis 9 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 10 T-Mobile 11 Barloworld 12 Gerolsteiner 13 Liberty Seguros 14 Unibet.com 15 Predictor-Lotto 16 Française Des Jeux 17 Paredes Rota dos Móveis 18 Rabobank 19 Madeinox-Bric-Loulé 20 Riberalves-Boavista 21 Barbot-Halcon 22 Vitória-ASC 23 LA-MSS 24 Murphy & Gunn-Newlyn-Donnelly-Sean Kelly
