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22nd Tour de Normandie - 2.5

France, March 25-31, 2002

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Stage 6 - March 31: Bagnoles-de-l'Orne - Caen, 146 km

First win for neo's Jérôme Pineau

By Jean-Francois Quenet in Caen
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Pierre Ackermann
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Jérôme Pineau, 22, neo-pro from Bonjour after being nominated best U23 in France last year, has claimed his first pro win in the Tour of Normandy at the end of a suspenseful race.

The classiest rider seen during the week is Filippo Pozzato who took no less than four stage wins. If he didn't miss the breakaway on the first day, when he had a puncture, he would have dominated this race in the manner as Thor Hushovd one year before.

Now, let's remember that the second yellow jersey, Lithuanian Raimondas Vilcinskas of MROZ, also had a flat the following day, that's why he lost the leadership but he showed enough strength to be able to keep it without any mechanical problem. Another important fact is that Arkadius Wojtas of Poland missed the yellow jersey when he lost time doing the cross sign when he won in Cherbourg.
 
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Jerome Pineau
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One day to go, Pineau stole the first place from fakta's Jorgen Bo Petersen thanks to the bonus on the way. He had only one second advantage before the last stage and was threatened by an unexpected Croatian, Radoslaw Rogina who is also a neo-pro from KRKA. He was the member of a six men breakaway initiated by Team Krone's Mads Kaggestad who reached the town of Caen with a margin that would have allowed him to win the overall, but Pineau was fortunate to have super team-mates such as local boy Charles Guilbert who taught him how to close the gap just at the very end.

The chasing group never caught the leaders though. The fastest of the six was Pierre Ackermann from Jura Suisse. This 30 year old rider started cycling when he 23 and rode for the Post Swiss Team in the past two seasons. He came 5th in the prologue in the Tour of Normandy and stayed 100 meters behind Wojtas' breakaway on the way to Cherbourg, so he's another GC contender who has been unfortunate.

After all that combined, Jérôme Pineau has helped the only team from the first division competing in the Tour of Normandy to make the hierarchy respected.

Results

1 Pierre Ackermann (Swi) Team Jura Suisse            3.23.33
2 Morten Sonne (Den) Team fakta
3 Laurent Paumier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin)               0.02
4 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Team Krone                       0.05
5 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom
6 Lars Breiseth (Nor) Team Krone                        0.13
7 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bonjour
8 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team fakta
9 Marc Chanoine (Bel) Marlux
10 Jos Lucassen (Ned) Axa-VVZ
11 Mitje Mahoric (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom
12 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bonjour
13 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
14 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta
15 Tony Cavet (Fra) Normandie
16 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
17 Samuel Gicquel (Fra) Jean Floc'h
18 Camille Bouquet (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
19 Andrey Pchtelkine (Fra) Moscou CS
20 Branko Filip (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom
21 Florian Ludi (Fra) Team Jura Suisse
22 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Mroz
23 Arkadius Wojtas (Pol) Nurnberger
24 Carlo Meneghetti (Fra) VC Roubaix
25 Michel Klinger (Swi) Team Jura Suissa
26 Christophe Thebault (Fra) Jean Floc'h
27 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quickstep
28 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
29 Frederic Mainguenaud (Fra) Bonjour
30 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour
31 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Mroz
32 Frederic Lecrosnier (Fra) Jean Floc'h                0.25
33 Domingo Segado (Spa) Porta da Ravessa                2.20
34 Pedro Martins (Por) Porta da Ravessa
35 Benoit Legrix (Fra) Normandie
36 Bostjan Mervar (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom
37 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Nürnberger
38 Damien Pommereau (Fra) VC Rouen 76
39 Alexandre Kozlov (Blr) VC Roubaix
40 Radek Blahut (Cze) Joko-Velamos
41 Fabien Merciris (Fra) Normandie
42 Jean-Philippe Yon (Fra) VC Rouen 76                  2.24
43 Vincent Templier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin
44 Helder Lopes (Por) Porta da Ravessa                  2.26
45 Aidan Duff (Ire) Panorimmo-23                       13.50
46 Nicolas Andre (Fra) Panorimmo-23
47 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux
48 Helder Miranda (Por) Porta da Ravessa
49 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nurnberger
50 Yanto Barker (GBr) VC Roubaix
51 Vladimir Sidorenkov (Rus) Moscou CS                 17.09
52 Vincent Greneche (Fra) Panorimmo-23                 24.49
53 Dominique Pere (Fra) Panorimmo-23
54 Jacek Walczak (Pol) Legia
55 Bogdan Bondriew (Ukr) Mroz
56 Marcel Luppes (Ned) Axa-VVZ
57 Mark Vlijm (Ned) Axa-VVZ
58 Daniel Van Elven (Ned) Axa-VVZ
59 Tomas Hanauer (Cze) Joko-Velamos
60 Jose Sousa (Spa) Porta da Ravessa
61 David Chassot (Swi) Team Jura Suisse
62 Aleksander Klimienko (Kaz) Mroz
63 Francisco Perez (Spa) Porta da Ravessa
64 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs
65 Pavel Zugaj (Pol) Mroz
66 Armin Kroniger (Ger) Nurnberger
67 Kasper Sowinski (Pol) Legia
68 Tony Mace (Fra) Normandie
69 Jerome Riglet (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
70 Kjetil Loitegaard (Nor) Team Krone
71 Sylvain Anquetil (Fra) VC Rouen 76
72 Guillaume Judas (Fra) Jean Floc'h
73 Rene Jorgensen (Den) Team fakta
74 Giuseppe Ribolzi (Ita) Team Jura Suisse
75 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Legia
76 David Breard (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93
77 Rune Jogert (Nor) Team Krone
78 Walter Bonca (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom
79 Frederic Lubach (Fra) VC Roubaix
80 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Krone
81 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) Mapei Quick-Step
82 Wojtech Muchka (Cze) Joko-Velamos
83 Thomas Buchacek (Cze) Joko-Velamos
84 Jacques Chapatte (Swi) Team Jura Suisse
85 Juree Golcer (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom
86 Pavel Zerzan (Cze) Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs
87 Alexei Garanine (Rus) Moscou CS
88 Serguey Polukhin (Rus) Moscou CS
89 Credic Coutouly (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs
90 Mariusz Kaminski (Pol) Legia
91 Cyril Bos (Fra) Normandie                           26.52

Final general classification

1 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bonjour                       25.24.24
2 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta                   0.05
3 Arkadius Wojtas (Pol) Nurnberger
4 Branko Filip (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom        0.06
5 Christophe Thebault (Fra) Jean Floc'h
6 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom     0.11
7 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Mroz                       0.17
8 Frederic Mainguenaud (Fra) Bonjour                    0.54
9 Pierre Ackermann (Swi) Team Jura Suisse               1.21
10 Andrey Pchtelkine (Fra) Moscou CS                    1.25
11 Laurent Paumier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin)              1.45
12 Carlo Meneghetti (Fra) VC Roubaix                    1.49
13 Samuel Gicquel (Fra) Jean Floc'h                     1.50
14 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team fakta                   1.51
15 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bonjour                       1.52
16 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93         1.59
17 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei-Quickstep               2.02
18 Mitje Mahoric (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-KRKA Telekom      2.18
19 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs      2.49
20 Helder Lopes (Por) Porta da Ravessa                  2.51
21 Camille Bouquet (Fra) CM Aubervilliers 93            2.54
22 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole Espoirs         2.57
23 Florian Ludi (Fra) Team Jura Suisse                  3.06
24 Lars Breiseth (Nor) Team Krone                       3.12
25 Marc Chanoine (Bel) Marlux                           3.33
26 Benoit Legrix (Fra) Normandie                        3.35
27 Morten Sonne (Den) Team fakta                        3.47
28 Damien Pommereau (Fra) VC Rouen 76                   4.16
29 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Team Krone                      4.37
30 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Nürnberger                  4.58
31 Bostjan Mervar (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj-Krka Telekom     5.08
32 Vincent Templier (Fra) Oktos-St-Quentin              5.13
33 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bonjour                         5.17
34 Domingo Segado (Spa) Porta da Ravessa                5.18
35 Pedro Martins (Por) Porta da Ravessa                 5.31
36 Jean-Philippe Yon (Fra) VC Rouen 76                  6.24
37 Radek Blahut (Cze) Joko-Velamos                      7.04
38 Frederic Lecrosnier (Fra) Jean Floc'h               14.02
39 Michel Klinger (Swi) Team Jura Suissa               14.23
40 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Mroz                         14.40
41 Yanto Barker (GBr) VC Roubaix                       16.37
42 Jos Lucassen (Ned) Axa-VVZ                          18.09
43 Alexandre Kozlov (Blr) VC Roubaix                   18.11
44 Nicolas Andre (Fra) Panorimmo-23                    18.48
45 Tony Cavet (Fra) Normandie                          19.01
46 Aidan Duff (Ire) Panorimmo-23                       28.15
47 Helder Miranda (Por) Porta da Ravessa               32.15
48 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux                           32.17
49 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nurnberger                        39.56
50 Vladimir Sidorenkov (Rus) Moscou CS                 40.13
51 Fabien Merciris (Fra) Normandie                     49.33

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