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27th Vuelta a Murcia - 2.1
Spain, March 7-11, 2007
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Stage 3 - March 9: Pto. Lumbreras - S. Pedro Pinatar, 146 km
Australians take over in Murcia
Australian sprinters have taken the victory and the leader's jersey in today's stage three of the Vuelta a Murcia, where winds have finally eased up, letting the race take place unlike yesterday. While Rabobank's Graeme Brown was able to throw his bike over the finish line just ahead of his fellow countryman Baden Cooke (Unibet.com), Spaniard Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) finished only third in front of his home crowd. The Unibet rider nevertheless made up for his second placing by taking the yellow jersey from Valverde's teammate Jose Joaquin Rojas.
How it unfolded
A nervous stage start that saw many breakaway attempts fail for as long as one hour of racing into stage three, but finally three riders managed to create a gap between them and the peloton: José-Angel Gomez-Marchante (Saunier Duval-Prodir), Iñigo Landaluze (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and Julian Sanchez (Relax-Gam). But seeing the high value of the escaped riders, the bunch didn't let them drive off too fa away, and the maximum lead was 2.40 minutes with 55 kilometres to go.
Just before the stage finish in San Pedro del Pinatar, the leading trio was caught, even though Sanchez put on the turbo one more time and resisted a bit longer. But with six clicks to go, the sprinter's teams took control of the situation, especially the Lampre team, which was hoping to take the overall lead through Danilo Napolitano. But the Australians Graeme Brown and Baden Cooke took advantage of the situation, scoring the victory and second place before Alejandro Valverde - beaten on home turf.
Still, Cooke, Brown, Napolitano, Rojas and Valverde all have the same time on general classification, so the battle is far from over.
Results
1 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 3.12.48 2 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.com 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 Joaquin Sobrino (Spa) Relax-Gam 5 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 6 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Relax-Gam 7 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 8 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 9 Giuseppe Palumbro (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 10 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 11 Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 12 Mario De Sarraga (Spa) Relax-Gam 13 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-Gam 14 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 15 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 16 Diego Milan (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 17 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18 Miguel Ochoa (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 19 Pablo de Pedro (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 20 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 21 Gonzalo Rabunal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 22 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 23 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 24 Jose Alberto Benitez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 26 Vicente Ballester (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 27 Koldo Gil (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 28 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 29 David Abal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 30 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 31 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 32 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Astana 33 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 34 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 35 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 36 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 37 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 38 Manuel Lloret (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 39 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana 40 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Astana 41 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 42 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 43 Carlos Castaño (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 44 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 45 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 46 Manuel Ortega (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 47 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 48 Jose Luis Carrasco (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 49 Jose Ruiz (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 50 Nicki Sörensen (Den) Team CSC 51 Mauricio A. Ardila (Col) Rabobank 52 Jorge Perez (Spa) Relax-Gam 53 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 54 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 55 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 56 Massimo Codol (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 57 Stefano Cavallari (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 58 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 59 Iker Flores (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 60 Rodriguez Luis Perez (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 61 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 62 David Bernabeu (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 63 Vicente Peiro (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 64 José Antonio Baños (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 65 José Rujano (Ven) Unibet.com 66 Lander Aperribay (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 67 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 68 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 69 Oscar Garcia (Spa) Relax-Gam 70 Santiago Perez (Spa) Relax-Gam 71 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 72 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Fondital 73 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 74 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 75 Claudio José Casas (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 76 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 77 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 78 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 79 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 80 Luis Fernandez (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 81 Antonio Olmo (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 82 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 83 Ruben Lobato (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 84 Giuseppe Muraglia (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 85 Enrique Salgueiro (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 86 Marcos A. Serrano (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 87 Arkaitz Duran (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 88 Beñat Intxausti (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 89 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 90 Inigo Cuesta (Spa) Team CSC 91 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Rabobank 92 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 93 José Adrian Bonilla (CRc) Fuerteventura-Canarias 94 Joan Horrach (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 95 David De la Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 96 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Unibet.com 0.13 97 Michal Golas (Pol) Unibet.com 0.23 98 Unai Uribarri (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.33 99 José Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.03 100 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 1.20 101 Gorka Amuriza (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 1.40 102 Julian Sanchez (Spa) Relax-Gam 1.45 103 David Muñoz (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias Moutains Alto De Purias - Category 3 (Km 31.50) 1 Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 3 pts 2 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana 2 3 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 1 Alto De Cadacero - Category 3 (Km 89.90) 1 José Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 pts 2 Julian Sanchez (Spa) Relax-Gam 2 3 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Points 1 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 25 pts 2 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.com 20 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 16 4 Joaquin Sobrino (Spa) Relax-Gam 14 5 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 12 6 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Relax-Gam 10 7 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 9 8 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 8 9 Giuseppe Palumbro (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 7 10 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 6 11 Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 5 12 Mario De Sarraga (Spa) Relax-Gam 4 13 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-Gam 3 14 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 2 15 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 1 Teams 1 Relax-Gam 9.38.24 2 Caisse d'Epargne 3 Grupo Nicolás Mateos 4 Team CSC 5 Astana 6 Unibet.com 7 Karpin Galicia 8 Fuerteventura-Canarias 9 Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 10 Rabobank 11 Lampre-Fondital 12 Euskaltel-Euskadi 13 Andalucia-Cayasur 14 Saunier Duval-Prodir General classification after stage 3 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.com 7.43.38 2 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 3 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 4 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 5 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 7 Giuseppe Palumbro (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 8 Joaquin Sobrino (Spa) Relax-Gam 9 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Relax-Gam 10 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-Gam 11 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 13 Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 14 Jose Alberto Benitez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 15 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 16 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 17 Pablo de Pedro (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 18 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 19 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 20 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Astana 21 Manuel Lloret (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 22 Isidro Nozal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 23 Koldo Gil (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 24 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 25 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 26 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank 27 Carlos Castaño (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 28 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 29 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 30 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com 31 Massimo Codol (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 32 David Bernabeu (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 33 Nicki Sörensen (Den) Team CSC 34 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 35 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 36 Rodriguez Luis Perez (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 37 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 38 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 39 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 40 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 41 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Rabobank 42 Michal Golas (Pol) Unibet.com 0.23 43 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 3.03 44 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com 45 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana 3.05 46 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 47 Iker Flores (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 48 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 49 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 50 Giuseppe Muraglia (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 51 Julian Sanchez (Spa) Relax-Gam 4.50 52 Diego Milan (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 6.19 53 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 54 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 55 Mario De Sarraga (Spa) Relax-Gam 56 David Abal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 57 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Astana 58 Jose Luis Carrasco (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 59 Jose Ruiz (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 60 Miguel Ochoa (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 61 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Astana 62 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 63 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana 64 Stefano Cavallari (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 65 Manuel Ortega (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 66 Jorge Perez (Spa) Relax-Gam 67 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 68 Claudio José Casas (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 69 José Rujano (Ven) Unibet.com 70 José Antonio Baños (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 71 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 72 Antonio Olmo (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 73 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Fondital 74 Beñat Intxausti (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 75 Ruben Lobato (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 76 Santiago Perez (Spa) Relax-Gam 77 Oscar Garcia (Spa) Relax-Gam 78 Luis Fernandez (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 79 Marcos A. Serrano (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 80 Morris Possoni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 81 Jorge Ferrio (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 82 Arkaitz Duran (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 83 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 84 Inigo Cuesta (Spa) Team CSC 85 Joan Horrach (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 86 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Unibet.com 6.32 87 Unai Uribarri (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.52 88 José Adrian Bonilla (CRc) Fuerteventura-Canarias 89 David De la Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7.01 90 José Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7.22 91 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 7.39 92 Gorka Amuriza (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 7.59 93 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 9.16 94 Gonzalo Rabunal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 95 Jorge Azanza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 96 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 97 Vicente Ballester (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 98 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 99 Mauricio A. Ardila (Col) Rabobank 100 Vicente Peiro (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 101 Lander Aperribay (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 102 Enrique Salgueiro (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 103 David Muñoz (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 11.01 Mountains classification 1 Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 9 pts 2 Pablo de Pedro (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 4 3 José Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 4 Julian Sanchez (Spa) Relax-Gam 2 5 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana 2 6 Gonzalo Rabunal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 2 7 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 1 8 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Points classification 1 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 35 pts 2 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.com 34 3 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 33 4 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 32 5 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 25 6 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 22 7 Giuseppe Palumbro (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 19 8 Joaquin Sobrino (Spa) Relax-Gam 14 9 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Relax-Gam 12 10 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC 9 11 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 9 12 Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 8 13 Michal Golas (Pol) Unibet.com 7 14 José Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 15 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 6 16 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 5 17 Jose Alberto Benitez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 18 Mario De Sarraga (Spa) Relax-Gam 4 19 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Rabobank 3 20 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-Gam 3 21 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 3 22 Julian Sanchez (Spa) Relax-Gam 3 23 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 24 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 2 25 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana 2 Combination classification 1 Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Andalucia-Cayasur 26 pts 2 Pablo de Pedro (Spa) Grupo Nicolás Mateos 47 3 Rodrigo Garcia (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 72 4 Julian Sanchez (Spa) Relax-Gam 77 5 José Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 107 6 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 114 7 Gonzalo Rabunal (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 126 8 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.com 3 9 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 3 10 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 7 11 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 7 Team classification 1 Caisse d'Epargne 23.10.54 2 Relax-Gam 3 Team CSC 4 Unibet.com 5 Rabobank 6 Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 7 Lampre-Fondital 8 Fuerteventura-Canarias 3.05 9 Karpin Galicia 6.19 10 Saunier Duval-Prodir 11 Andalucia-Cayasur 12 Astana 9.24 13 Grupo Nicolás Mateos 12.38 14 Euskaltel-Euskadi
