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54th Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré - 2.HC
France, June 9-16, 2002
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Stage 6 - June 15: Albertville - Morzine-Avoriaz, 146 km
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Armstrong locks up Dauphiné Libéré title with epic stage win
By Tim Maloney, European editor in Morzine
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Imagine riding your bike on a sunny late spring Saturday through the Alps. Sounds nice, but if there's a monster waiting for you at the end of the ride, it might make you worry a little bit. Said monster was the "Hors Categorie" Col de Joux Plane, a tough, narrow, relentless climb of 11.5 km and an average gradient of 10%, which Lance Armstrong remembers so very well from the 2000 Tour De France, where the American bonked bad on the hard, hot stage to Morzine.
Today, on the 146km Stage 6 of the 54th edition of the Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré from Albertville to Morzine-Avoriaz, clad in the yellow and blue leader's jersey, Armstrong overcame his Joux Plane monster today, winning the stage with an epic ride. A visibly drained and happy Armstrong told Cyclingnews that "Yeah, I conquered the guy that almost killed me before. It feels good to win today; we had a hard chase and I was nervous before (Col de Joux Plane); I've been thinking of it all week."
Despite the hot, humid day that blew the race wide open, Armstrong showed the sang froid he's become famous for, attacking at just the right moment to take the stage win in Morzine, all but clinching the win in this year's edition of the race called "le Petit Tour De France."
How it unfolded
Stage 6 was a short, fast, brutal stage, certainly a dress rehearsal for next month's Tour De France, which will cross these same Alpine roads in just over a months time on Stage 17 from Aime-Cluses. Stage 6 commenced in Albertville, principle site of the 1992 Winter Olympics and up the 14km/7% avg. Col des Saises, then across the Chaine des Aravis mountain range via the 8km/6.5% avg. Col des Aravis, through Le Grand Bornand feed zone after 70km and once again, up another Cat 1. climb, the winding 12km/6.5% ascent of the Col de la Colombiere, then along the Chaine de Bargy down to the Arve River valley.
After cent bournes (100km), Stage 6 hit Cluses, then it was up and over a quick cote and then along the road to Samoens, where the final climb up Col de Joux Plane commenced with 24 km to go.
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In temperatures well over 30 degrees, the first slopes of Col des Saises saw a group of 13 hopefuls break away, while Oscar Sevilla (Kelme), 6th on GC, abandoned, suffering the effects from a crash on the day before yesterday. The only real danger men in the break were climbers Kurt Van De Wouwer (Lotto-Addeco, 20th @ 5'55"), Bobo Botcharov (AG2R Prevoyance, 23rd @ 7'10") and three iBanesto riders, so Postal kept the pace up on the front to keep the break in check.
Emerging French climber Sandy Casar (FDJ) attacked hard and bridged across the 1'40" gap to the break on the wind-assisted climb up Saises in record time. Casar was no threat on GC as he was over 20' down at the start of the stage, so USPS let him go. Casar immediately went to the front of the break and began forcing the pace with iBanesto.
A strong south wind kept the race pace high and up the second climb, Col des Aravis, Unai Osa (iBanesto, 12th on GC @ 4'03") and AG2R's Ludovic Turpin attacked from the peloton. Osa joined his three teammates and the iBanesto game became evident on the Aravis as his powerful Polish pacers Baranowski and Broznya kept the tempo high.
With the pace still smokin' and the afternoon temps building, David Millar (Cofidis) attacked at the feed zone with 77km to go and successfully bridged up to the break on the Colombiere began. At the summit of the climb, USPS tempo cut into the break's advantage, with the leaders at only 1'47"
Down the Colombiere and into the crossroads town of Cluses, the pursuit between the Banesto powered break and the USPS led chase remained relentless. Little Unai's big Polish tempo men drove the break hard, holding off the chase of the blue and white USPS boys, but not by much; around a minute and a half at the sprint in Taninges.
With the glacier encrusted Massif du Mont Blanc looming in the background on the road to Samoens, the break hit the final 30km. Domo-Farm Frites DS Wilfy Peeters sent his men up front to help USPS chase, hoping to put their man "Allez" Richard Virenque in a position to win. Armstrong was sitting 6th wheel with Landis covering his rear as the peloton made the right in Samoens at the base of the dreaded Joux Plane, with the break at 1'24".
With the heat, the tough climbs and the hard riding, at the foot of the Joux Plane, today's conditions resembled Stage 17 of the Giro d'Italia on the final climb up to Passo Coe', where the Italian race literally exploded. Johan Bruyneel explained to French TV that the USPS strategy for Stage 6 was "We planned to play the team game today, to defend Lance's lead and try and keep it close until the foot of the Joux Plane. Then we'll see what happens."
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As Banesto kept the hard tempo going in the break to set up the move for Osa, feisty Kazakh Andrei Kivilev (Cofidis) launched himself after the break as the road steepened out of Samoens. The break began to shred and Kivilev started to pick people off, like his teammate David Millar, who paced the Kazakh rider for 500 meters. As Kivilev made his early move, Bruyneel had radioed to Lance and teammate Floyd Landis, sitting 2nd on GC. Bruyneel told the Americans "Don't do anything crazy here, guys. You have to respect this climb."
Up front, Osa had began to struggle and was joined by opportunistic Russian Botcharov, looking for a stage win of his own, while both riders were trying to resist the oncoming onslaught of Kivilev. Behind, Armstrong listened to Bruyneel's advice and waited until he felt it was the just right moment to make his move. With 9km remaining on the unforgiving ascent of Joux Plane, spinning his trademark 90 revolutions per minute, finally made his move. The hatless Armstrong blasted up his mountain adversary at an incredible pace, catching and passing Osa, Kivilev and finally Botcharov, while 2001 Dauphiné Libéré winner Christophe Moreau (Credit Agricole), tongue akimbo, made a powerful surge from behind to finally get up to Kivilev.
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But Moreau was a too late, as Lance had lit out on his own, riding solo towards his first stage win of the 2002 season. Armstrong crested the Joux Plane 26" ahead of the fast-closing Moreau-Kivilev tandem, and although Armstrong lost some time on the tricky, technical descent to Morzine, due to leg cramps and then almost bouncing off the barriers in the tricky left-hander with 1.5km to go, the 30 year old Texan crossed the line 6" ahead of Moreau and Kivilev. The rangy, lounge flappin' Credit Agricole rider from Belfort moved from 5th to 3rd on GC, while Kivilev went from 10th to 5th. Speedy Basque climber Haimar Zubeldia (Euskadi-Euskatel) was 4th on the stage and dropped to 4th on GC.
1'36" behind Armstrong, but kept the lead in the Best Young Rider classification. Virenque showed well for 5th, and thanks to his solid climbing and ability to go deep in the suffering department, Floyd Landis (USPS) maintained 2nd on GC and continued to show why he may be developing into the best American stage racer since Armstrong.
Tomorrow's Stage 7 is a downhill roll from Morzine to Geneva, Switzerland, with 10 laps of a 4.1km circuit. Look for FDJ sprinter Baden Cook to grab the French squad's 4th stage win at the 2002 Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré, while GC winner Lance Armstrong, his monsters mashed, returns to Girona, Spain to finalize his preparations for the 2002 Tour De France, starting in 21 days in Luxembourg.
Photography
Images by AFP
- Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis - lead the peloton on the descent of the Col de la Colombière
- Lance Armstrong (USPS) - rides in the company of his teammate Floyd Landis (R).
- The leading trio on the Col de Joux Plane: Christophe Moreau (CA), Lance Armstrong (USPS) and Andrei Kivilev (Cofidis)
- Lance Armstrong accelerates away from Andrei Kivilev (Cofidis) and Christophe Moreau (CA) on the Col de Joux Plane
- Lance Armstrong rides on his own in the lead on the Col de Joux Plane
- Lance Armstrong wins the sixth stage of the Dauphiné Libéré in Morzine
Images by Russell Standring/grenoblecycling.free.fr
- A view of the final kilometres of the Col de Joux Plane with the backdrop of the Mont Blanc
- Lance Armstrong leads the race with 400 metres to the summit of the Col de Joux Plane
- Christophe Moreau and Andrei Kivilev chase Lance Armstrong on the Joux Plane
- Laurent Jalabert leads the largest group to stay together on the Col de Joux Plane
- Nicolas Portal, Cedric Vasseur and Andrea Peron on the Joux Plane
- The Australian Baden Cooke on the final metres of the Col de Joux Plane
- David Millar nears the summit of the Col de Joux Plane
- Didier Rous leads a group on the Joux Plane
- Jonathan Vaughters cycles alone on the Col de Joux Plane
- Euskaltel rider Samuel Sanchez
- Jacky Durand starts to descend after the Col de Joux Plane
Results
1 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 4.26.42 (32.846 km/h) 2 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.06 3 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 4 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.32 5 Richard Virenque (Fra) Domo-Farm Frites 1.42 6 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 7 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 1.47 8 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service 9 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.49 10 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Jean Delatour 1.53 11 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 12 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 13 Aitor Kintana Zarate (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 2.02 14 Felix Garcia Casas (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 4.06 15 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 16 Sebastie Talabardon (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 4.56 17 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Jean Delatour 5.21 18 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 19 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 20 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Team CSC Tiscali 5.25 21 Guenadi Mikhailov (Rus) Lotto-Adecco 6.11 22 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 23 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 24 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 6.35 25 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC Tiscali 6.39 26 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 7.35 27 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 8.03 28 Steve De Wolf (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 29 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) iBanesto.com 8.08 30 Thomas Bodo (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 9.04 31 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9.30 32 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 10.14 33 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 11.14 34 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Jean Delatour 35 Massimilano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 11.24 36 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit Agricole 13.21 37 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 38 Victor-Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal Service 39 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 40 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 41 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 14.51 42 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 43 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 44 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 45 Xavier Jan (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 17.33 46 Jose Enriq Gutierrez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 17.48 47 Santiago Botero (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 48 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 20.24 49 Jerome Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour 50 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service 22.36 51 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) US Postal Service 52 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 53 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 23.46 54 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 24.45 55 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali 24.51 56 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bonjour 57 Bram Tankink (Ned) Domo-Farm Firtes 58 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 59 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Credit Agricole 60 Francois Simon (Fra) Bonjour 61 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 62 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 63 Francisco Javie Vila (Spa) iBanesto.com 64 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 66 Franck Renier (Fra) Bonjour 65 Serge Baguet (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 67 Lylian Lebreton (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 68 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 69 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) US Postal Service 70 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 71 Steffen Kjaergaard (Nor) US Postal Service 27.18 72 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Bigmat.Auber 93 28.12 73 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Domo-Farm Frites 28.30 74 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 75 Frederic Guesdon (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 31.36 76 Anthony Morin (Fra) Credit Agricole 77 Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis 78 Baden Cooke (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 79 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali 31.41 80 Laurent Estadieu (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 32.11 81 Ruben Cerio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 34.44 82 Sebastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 34.55 83 Jacky Durand (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 36.06 84 Nico Mattan (Bel) Cofidis 85 Joaquim Lopez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 86 Alexandre Grux (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 38.19 DNF Olivier Asmaker (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali DNF Marcelino Garcia (Spa) Team CSC Tiscali DNF Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC Tiscali DNF Ief Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Adecco DNF Anthony Charteau (Fra) Bonjour DNF Mickael Pichon (Fra) Bonjour DNF Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca DNF Santiago Perez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca DNF Ruben Plaza (Spa) iBanesto.com DNF Cyril Dessel (Fra) Jean Delatour DNF Eddy Seigneur (Fra) Jean Delatour DNF Gorka Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi DNF Stephane Heulot (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 Points 1 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 20 pts 2 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 17 3 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 15 4 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13 5 Richard Virenque (Fra) Domo-Farm Frites 11 6 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 10 7 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 9 8 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service 8 9 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 7 10 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Jean Delatour 6 11 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 5 12 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 4 13 Aitor Kintana Zarate (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 3 14 Felix Garcia Casas (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 2 15 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 1 Sprints Taninges - km 111 1 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 6 pts 2 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) iBanesto.com 4 3 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 2 Col Du Ranfolly - km 136.5 1 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 6 pts 2 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 3 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 2 Mountains Col Des Saisies 1 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) iBanesto.com 30 pts 2 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 26 3 Jose Enriq Gutierrez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 22 4 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 18 5 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Jean Delatour 14 6 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC Tiscali 12 7 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 10 8 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 8 9 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 6 10 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 4 11 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 2 12 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 1 Col Des Aravis 1 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 30 pts 2 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) iBanesto.com 26 3 Jose Enriq Gutierrez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 22 4 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 18 5 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 14 6 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 12 7 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC Tiscali 10 8 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 8 9 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 6 10 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 4 11 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Jean Delatour 2 12 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 1 Col De La Colombiere 1 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 30 pts 2 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) iBanesto.com 26 3 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 22 4 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Jean Delatour 18 5 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 14 6 Jose Enriq Gutierrez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 12 7 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 10 8 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC Tiscali 8 9 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 6 10 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 4 11 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 2 12 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 1 Cote De Chatillon/Cluses 1 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) iBanesto.com 5 pts 2 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 3 3 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 1 Col De Joux Plane 1 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 40 pts 2 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 35 3 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 30 4 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 26 5 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 22 6 Aitor Kintana Zarate (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 18 7 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 16 8 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service 14 9 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 12 10 Richard Virenque (Fra) Domo-Farm Frites 10 11 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 8 12 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 6 13 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Jean Delatour 4 14 Felix Garcia Casas (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 2 15 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 1 Best young rider 1 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.28.14 2 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 0.15 3 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 0.21 4 Sebastie Talabardon (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 3.24 5 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 5.03 6 Thomas Bodo (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 7.32 7 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7.58 8 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Jean Delatour 9.42 9 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 13.19 10 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 22.14 12 Bram Tankink (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 23.19 13 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 14 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 15 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 16 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Domo-Farm Frites 26.58 17 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 18 Baden Cooke (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 30.04 Teams 1 Cofidis 13.28.16 2 Ibanesto.Com 2.54 3 Ag2R Prevoyance 3.06 4 Bigmat Auber 93 2.54 5 Us Postal Service 6.58 6 Jean Delatour 7.07 7 Francaise Des Jeux 8.08 8 Domo - Farm Frites 16.26 9 Euskaltel - Euskadi 17.43 10 Credit Agricole 25.41 11 Team Csc Tiscali 28.45 12 Lotto - Adecco 29.03 13 Kelme - Costa Blanca 50.02 14 Bonjour 52.46 General classification after stage 6 1 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 24.54.54 2 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service 2.03 3 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.24 4 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.44 5 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 3.28 6 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 3.46 7 Aitor Kintana Zarate (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 5.09 8 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 5.34 9 Richard Virenque (Fra) Domo-Farm Frites 6.11 10 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 7.09 11 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 7.18 12 Felix Garcia Casas (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 7.21 13 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Jean Delatour 8.59 14 Alexandre Bocharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 15 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 9.13 16 Sebastie Talabardon (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 9.19 17 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Jean Delatour 11.10 18 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 11.38 19 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 12.06 20 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 12.34 21 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 17.21 22 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 17.33 23 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 18.01 24 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Lotto-Adecco 18.12 25 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit Agricole 21.45 26 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 21.56 27 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) iBanesto.com 23.58 28 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 24.09 29 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 24.19 30 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 25.17 31 Steve De Wolf (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 25.18 32 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskatel-Euskadi 25.56 33 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 26.10 34 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC Tiscali 26.16 35 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 26.53 36 Thomas Bodo (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 28.30 37 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Team CSC Tiscali 30.31 38 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) US Postal Service 32.16 39 Jose Enriq Gutierrez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 32.46 40 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 32.48 41 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Jean Delatour 33.00 42 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali 33.05 43 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 33.25 44 Santiago Botero (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 33.38 45 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 35.01 46 Koos Morenhout (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 36.03 47 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bonjour 37.34 48 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Credit Agricole 37.46 49 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 38.15 50 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 39.26 51 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 40.02 52 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 40.14 53 Xavier Jan (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 40.38 54 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 40.49 55 Victor-Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal Service 42.06 56 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 44.31 57 Francois Simon (Fra) Bonjour 44.42 58 Anthony Morin (Fra) Credit Agricole 45.06 59 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 46.09 60 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 48.00 61 Jerome Bernard (Fra) Jean Delatour 49.28 62 Francisco Javie Vila (Spa) iBanesto.com 49.56 63 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service 50.15 64 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 51.12 65 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Domo-Farm Frites 51.59 66 Serge Baguet (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 53.06 67 Frederic Guesdon (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 53.52 68 Baden Cooke (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 54.28 69 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali 55.21 70 Lylian Lebreton (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 55.48 71 Franck Renier (Fra) Bonjour 56.03 72 Bram Tankink (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 56.26 73 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 56.27 74 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) US Postal Service 58.12 75 Nico Mattan (Bel) Cofidis 1.01.35 76 Laurent Estadieu (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.01.49 77 Sebastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.02.27 78 Steffen Kjaergaard (Nor) US Postal Service 1.04.02 79 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 1.04.16 80 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Bigmat.Auber 93 1.04.18 81 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.05.18 82 Alexandre Grux (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.06.31 83 Jacky Durand (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 1.09.48 84 Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis 1.13.35 85 Ruben Diaz De Cerio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.26.04 86 Joaquim Lopez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1.30.15 Points classification 1 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 63 pts 2 Baden Cooke (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 59 3 Jacky Durand (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 42 4 Santiago Botero (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 41 5 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 41 6 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 39 7 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 38 8 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 32 9 Richard Virenque (Fra) Domo-Farm Frites 29 10 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 28 11 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service 28 12 Frederic Guesdon (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 26 13 Nico Mattan (Bel) Cofidis 23 14 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 22 15 Francois Simon (Fra) Bonjour 22 16 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali 21 17 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Credit Agricole 21 18 Aitor Kintana Zarate (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 20 19 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 18 20 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 17 21 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 17 22 Anthony Morin (Fra) Credit Agricole 16 23 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 15 24 Steffen Kjaergaard (Nor) US Postal Service 15 25 Felix Garcia Casas (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 15 26 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 15 27 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Lotto-Adecco 14 28 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 12 29 Francisco Javie Vila (Spa) iBanesto.com 11 30 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 11 31 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 11 32 Sebastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 11 33 Thomas Bodo (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 10 34 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali 10 35 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Credit Agricole 9 36 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Jean Delatour 9 37 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Bigmat.Auber 93 8 38 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 8 39 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 8 40 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 7 41 Jose Enriq Gutierrez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 7 42 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 6 43 Victor-Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal Service 6 44 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 6 45 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 46 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 5 47 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 5 48 Sebastie Talabardon (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 4 49 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) iBanesto.com 4 50 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 4 51 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 2 52 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Domo-Farm Frites 2 53 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 1 54 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 1 55 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bonjour 1 56 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC Tiscali 1 57 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 1 Mountains classification 1 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) iBanesto.com 88 pts 2 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 70 3 Jose Enriq Gutierrez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 60 4 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 56 5 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 56 6 Aitor Kintana Zarate (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 55 7 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 54 8 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 52 9 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 52 10 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 49 11 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Jean Delatour 46 12 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 40 13 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 40 14 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 39 15 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service 36 16 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 32 17 Santiago Botero (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca 31 18 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC Tiscali 30 19 Felix Garcia Casas (Spa) Bigmat.Auber 93 28 20 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali 25 21 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Jean Delatour 24 22 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 21 23 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 21 24 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 20 25 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 20 26 Richard Virenque (Fra) Domo-Farm Frites 18 27 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Credit Agricole 16 28 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 16 29 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 14 30 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 12 31 Thomas Bodo (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 12 32 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 33 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 10 34 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 35 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) iBanesto.com 8 36 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 8 37 Frederic Guesdon (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 7 38 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 6 39 Jacky Durand (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 6 40 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 5 41 Joaquim Lopez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 5 42 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Jean Delatour 4 43 Sebastie Talabardon (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 4 44 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 4 45 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis 2 46 Francisco Javie Vila (Spa) iBanesto.com 2 47 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 1 48 Victor-Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal Service 1 49 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Team CSC Tiscali 1 50 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 1 51 Sebastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 Young rider classification 1 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 24.57.38 2 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 1.02 3 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 4.25 4 Sebastie Talabardon (Fra) Bigmat.Auber 93 6.35 5 Gorka Arrizabalaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19.12 6 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 23.12 7 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 23.26 8 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 24.09 9 Thomas Bodo (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 25.46 10 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Jean Delatour 30.16 11 Sandy Casar (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 35.31 12 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 37.18 13 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Jean Delatour 38.05 14 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Domo-Farm Frites 49.15 15 Baden Cooke (Aus) La Francaise Des Jeux 51.44 16 Bram Tankink (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 53.42 17 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 53.43 18 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 1.01.32 Teams classification 1 Ibanesto.Com 74.56.09 2 Cofidis 0.40 3 Bigmat Auber 93 2.22 4 Ag2R Prevoyance 7.54 5 Us Postal Service 9.37 6 Jean Delatour 12.56 7 Francaise Des Jeux 16.36 8 Euskaltel - Euskadi 32.09 9 Credit Agricole 32.20 10 Domo - Farm Frites 40.12 11 Team Csc Tiscali 43.46 12 Kelme - Costa Blanca 1.07.33 13 Lotto - Adecco 1.11.43 14 Bonjour 1.37.39
