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69th Tour de Luxembourg - 2.HC
Luxembourg, June 3-7, 2009
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Prologue - June 3: Luxembourg - Luxembourg, 2.70km
Rast assumes Tour de Luxembourg lead for Astana
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"I had this prologue already in my mind for a long time. The last two years, I was good in this prologue, but could not win it. Now I am much stronger," said Rast. "My sprints are better. This prologue was a long sprint. Of course I will try to keep the leader's jersey.
"In 2007 I won the overall classification. I would like to repeat that victory. The climbs are not so steep or hard here. I hope to be able to not lose time uphill on the Schlecks and the Italian riders. On the other hand, with Assan Bazayev and Andreas Klöden, we have two other riders able to win this Tour of Luxembourg." Bazayev and Klöden finished fourth and sixth in the prologue.
Earlier this year, Rast wore the yellow leader's jersey in the Tour de Romandie for two days.
Results
1 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 3.46 (42.86 km/h) 2 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil - Shimano 0.02 3 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0.04 4 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 0.05 5 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 0.06 6 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 0.08 7 Baden Cooke (Aus) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 8 Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 9 Alexei Markov (Rus) Team Katusha 10 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.09 11 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 0.10 12 Rémi Cusin (Fra) Agritubel 13 Jempy Drucker (Lux) Continental Team Differdange 14 Matti Breschel (Den) Team Saxo Bank 15 Damien Gaudin (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0.11 16 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 17 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 18 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 19 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 20 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0.12 21 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Agritubel 22 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 23 Koen De Kort (Ned) Skil - Shimano 24 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team Saxo Bank 25 Martin Mortensen (Den) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0.13 26 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 27 Rene Haselbacher (Aut) Vorarlberg - Corratec 28 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 0.14 29 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 30 Martial Ricci Poggi (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 31 Alan Marangoni (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.15 32 Borut Bozic (Slo) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 33 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team Saxo Bank 34 Mitchell Docker (Aus) Skil - Shimano 0.16 35 Robert Retschke (Ger) Continental Team Differdange 36 Filippo Savini (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.17 37 Maxime Vantomme (Bel) Team Katusha 38 Bjorn Leukemans (Bel) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 39 Cyrille Heymans (Lux) Continental Team Differdange 40 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 41 Hakan Nilsson (Swe) Continental Team Differdange 42 Theo Eltink (Ned) Skil - Shimano 43 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 44 Joan Horrach (Spa) Team Katusha 45 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 0.18 46 Canuti Ederico (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 47 Christian Poos (Lux) Continental Team Differdange 48 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil - Shimano 49 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 50 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 51 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) ISD 52 Mauro Finetto (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.19 53 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 54 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Team Katusha 55 Rob Peeters (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 56 Carlo Scognamiglio (Ita) Barloworld 57 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Astana 58 Emilien Benoit Berges (Fra) Agritubel 59 Marco Frapporti (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 60 Sébastine Delfosse (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 61 Rony Martias (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0.20 62 Bolat Raimbekov (Kaz) Astana 63 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) ISD 64 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 65 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 0.21 66 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Barloworld 67 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) ISD 68 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Vorarlberg - Corratec 69 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 70 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 71 Silvere Ackermann (Swi) Vorarlberg - Corratec 72 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 0.22 73 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 74 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 75 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 76 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0.23 77 Emanuele Vona (Ita) ISD 78 Franck Bouyer (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 79 Bert De Backer (Bel) Skil - Shimano 0.24 80 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 81 Vincent Jerome (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 82 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Agritubel 83 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) Vorarlberg - Corratec 84 Kenny Dehaes (Bel) Team Katusha 85 Gerben Lowik (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 86 Fredrik Johansson (Swe) Continental Team Differdange 87 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 0.25 88 Guillaume Blot (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 89 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil - Shimano 90 Hannes Blank (Ger) Continental Team Differdange 91 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team Katusha 92 Josef Benetseder (Aut) Vorarlberg - Corratec 93 Ivan Velasco Murillo (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 0.26 94 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vorarlberg - Corratec 95 Mathieu Claude (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0.27 96 Chris Anker Sorensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 0.28 97 Michaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 98 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Barloworld 99 Christoph Sokoll (Aut) Vorarlberg - Corratec 100 Vitalyy Kondrut (Ukr) ISD 0.29 101 Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld 102 Steve Houanard (Fra) Skil - Shimano 0.30 103 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 104 Michele Merlo (Ita) Barloworld 105 Maxim Belkov (Rus) ISD 0.31 106 Mathieu Drouilly (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 107 Jonathan Bertrand (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 108 Enrico Zen (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.32 109 Gianluca Mirenda (Ita) ISD 110 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0.33 111 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Vorarlberg - Corratec 0.35 112 Ruslan Pidgornyy (Ukr) ISD 0.36 113 Valeriy Dmitriyev (Kaz) Astana 114 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Agritubel 0.38 115 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Continental Team Differdange 116 Marco Corti (Ita) Barloworld 0.43 Teams 1 Astana 11.31 2 Team Saxo Bank 0.13 3 Agritubel 4 Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0.14 5 Skil - Shimano 0.17 6 Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0.21 7 CSF Group - Navigare 0.28 8 Euskatel - Euskadi 9 Team Katusha 0.29 10 Continental Team Differdange 0.30 11 Bbox Bouygues Telecom 0.35 12 Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 0.39 13 Vorarlberg - Corratec 0.42 14 ISD 0.46 15 Barloworld 0.48 General classification after prologue 1 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana 3.46 2 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil - Shimano 0.02 3 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0.04 4 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 0.05 5 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 0.06 6 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 0.08 7 Baden Cooke (Aus) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 8 Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 9 Alexei Markov (Rus) Team Katusha 10 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.09 11 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 0.10 12 Rémi Cusin (Fra) Agritubel 13 Jempy Drucker (Lux) Continental Team Differdange 14 Matti Breschel (Den) Team Saxo Bank 15 Damien Gaudin (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0.11 16 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 17 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 18 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 19 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 20 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0.12 21 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Agritubel 22 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 23 Koen De Kort (Ned) Skil - Shimano 24 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team Saxo Bank 25 Martin Mortensen (Den) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0.13 26 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 27 Rene Haselbacher (Aut) Vorarlberg - Corratec 28 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 0.14 29 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 30 Martial Ricci Poggi (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 31 Alan Marangoni (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.15 32 Borut Bozic (Slo) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 33 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Team Saxo Bank 34 Mitchell Docker (Aus) Skil - Shimano 0.16 35 Robert Retschke (Ger) Continental Team Differdange 36 Filippo Savini (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.17 37 Maxime Vantomme (Bel) Team Katusha 38 Bjorn Leukemans (Bel) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 39 Cyrille Heymans (Lux) Continental Team Differdange 40 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 41 Hakan Nilsson (Swe) Continental Team Differdange 42 Theo Eltink (Ned) Skil - Shimano 43 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 44 Joan Horrach (Spa) Team Katusha 45 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 0.18 46 Canuti Ederico (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 47 Christian Poos (Lux) Continental Team Differdange 48 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil - Shimano 49 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 50 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 51 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) ISD 52 Mauro Finetto (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.19 53 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 54 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Team Katusha 55 Rob Peeters (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 56 Carlo Scognamiglio (Ita) Barloworld 57 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Astana 58 Emilien Benoit Berges (Fra) Agritubel 59 Marco Frapporti (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 60 Sébastine Delfosse (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 61 Rony Martias (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0.20 62 Bolat Raimbekov (Kaz) Astana 63 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) ISD 64 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 65 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 0.21 66 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Barloworld 67 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) ISD 68 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Vorarlberg - Corratec 69 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 70 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 71 Silvere Ackermann (Swi) Vorarlberg - Corratec 72 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 0.22 73 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 74 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 75 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 76 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0.23 77 Emanuele Vona (Ita) ISD 78 Franck Bouyer (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 79 Bert De Backer (Bel) Skil - Shimano 0.24 80 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 81 Vincent Jerome (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 82 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Agritubel 83 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) Vorarlberg - Corratec 84 Kenny Dehaes (Bel) Team Katusha 85 Gerben Lowik (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 86 Fredrik Johansson (Swe) Continental Team Differdange 87 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 0.25 88 Guillaume Blot (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 89 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil - Shimano 90 Hannes Blank (Ger) Continental Team Differdange 91 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team Katusha 92 Josef Benetseder (Aut) Vorarlberg - Corratec 93 Ivan Velasco Murillo (Spa) Euskatel - Euskadi 0.26 94 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vorarlberg - Corratec 95 Mathieu Claude (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0.27 96 Chris Anker Sorensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 0.28 97 Michaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 98 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Barloworld 99 Christoph Sokoll (Aut) Vorarlberg - Corratec 100 Vitalyy Kondrut (Ukr) ISD 0.29 101 Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld 102 Steve Houanard (Fra) Skil - Shimano 0.30 103 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 104 Michele Merlo (Ita) Barloworld 105 Maxim Belkov (Rus) ISD 0.31 106 Mathieu Drouilly (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 107 Jonathan Bertrand (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 108 Enrico Zen (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.32 109 Gianluca Mirenda (Ita) ISD 110 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0.33 111 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Vorarlberg - Corratec 0.35 112 Ruslan Pidgornyy (Ukr) ISD 0.36 113 Valeriy Dmitriyev (Kaz) Astana 114 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Agritubel 0.38 115 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Continental Team Differdange 116 Marco Corti (Ita) Barloworld 0.43 Young rider classification 1 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil - Shimano 3.48 2 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0.02 3 Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0.06 4 Rémi Cusin (Fra) Agritubel 0.08 5 Jempy Drucker (Lux) Continental Team Differdange 6 Matti Breschel (Den) Team Saxo Bank 7 Damien Gaudin (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0.09 8 Martin Mortensen (Den) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0.11 9 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 10 Alan Marangoni (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.13 11 Mitchell Docker (Aus) Skil - Shimano 0.14 12 Filippo Savini (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.15 13 Maxime Vantomme (Bel) Team Katusha 14 Cyrille Heymans (Lux) Continental Team Differdange 15 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 16 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 17 Canuti Ederico (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.16 18 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil - Shimano 19 Mauro Finetto (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.17 20 Rob Peeters (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 21 Marco Frapporti (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 22 Bolat Raimbekov (Kaz) Astana 0.18 23 Silvere Ackermann (Swi) Vorarlberg - Corratec 0.19 24 Romain Villa (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0.21 25 Bert De Backer (Bel) Skil - Shimano 0.22 26 Vincent Jerome (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 27 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) Vorarlberg - Corratec 28 Kenny Dehaes (Bel) Team Katusha 29 Guillaume Blot (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0.23 30 Chris Anker Sorensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 0.26 31 Christoph Sokoll (Aut) Vorarlberg - Corratec 32 Vitalyy Kondrut (Ukr) ISD 0.27 33 Steve Houanard (Fra) Skil - Shimano 0.28 34 Benjamin Gourgue (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 35 Michele Merlo (Ita) Barloworld 36 Maxim Belkov (Rus) ISD 0.29 37 Mathieu Drouilly (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 38 Jonathan Bertrand (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 39 Enrico Zen (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 0.30 40 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0.31 41 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Vorarlberg - Corratec 0.33 42 Valeriy Dmitriyev (Kaz) Astana 0.34 43 Marco Corti (Ita) Barloworld 0.41 Teams classification 1 Astana 11.31 2 Team Saxo Bank 0.13 3 Agritubel 4 Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0.14 5 Skil - Shimano 0.17 6 Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0.21 7 CSF Group - Navigare 0.28 8 Euskatel - Euskadi 9 Team Katusha 0.29 10 Continental Team Differdange 0.30 11 Bbox Bouygues Telecom 0.35 12 Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 0.39 13 Vorarlberg - Corratec 0.42 14 ISD 0.46 15 Barloworld 0.48
