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21st Tour de Beauce - 2.2
Canada, June 13-18, 2006
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Stage 6 - June 18: St-Georges, 133 km
Navigators close book on Beauce, Pinfold nabs final stage
Kobzarenko fends off yellow jersey attacks
by Mark Zalewski, North American Editor in Saint-Georges, Québec
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The final stage of the 21st Tour de Beauce was also the hottest - but this week's beautiful weather was a welcomed change from last year's downpours. The final circuit course travelled twelve times up a 1.5km climb rising 170 meters, and was active from the gun. TIAA-CREF attacked early and often, but the Navigators Insurance team kept their cool and road smart, securing Valeriy Kobzarenko in the yellow jersey. Coming out of an eight-rider break was Andrew Pinfold (Symmetrics) taking the win, ahead of fellow attacker Will Frischkorn (TIAA-CREF).
"This is the biggest win for me, and the biggest win in North America for the team," said Pinfold. "It's really important now because we have a new sponsor coming on." Pinfold and Frischkorn left a larger break that had been out, in one form or another, since the opening kilometre of the 132km race. Pinfold's teammate Jacob Erker was already up the road with the TIAA-CREF initiated break.
"Jacob and two CREF guys went up the road," said Pinfold. "I attacked just for fun really. We raced a lot in Mexico earlier this year and there is a team there called Chivas that would attack with like three or four guys all the time. So for fun we decided to do a 'Chivas' coming through the start/finish. Then I had a free ride until two laps to go."
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Pinfold admitted that he did not work in the break thanks to the double duty of his teammate. "Jacob was going so hard out there, they just let me sit on. I sat on for most of it." Then when he overheard the TIAA-CREF guys talking about keeping the break close in an attempt to set up Danny Pate for an attack on the yellow jersey, Pinfold knew it was time to make his move. "I attacked when Frischkorn was saying to his team to not let the break get too far ahead, to save it for Danny. It was no excuses then."
Frischkorn stayed on Pinfold's wheel and the two spent more than a lap off the front. However, Frischkorn was immediately at a disadvantage in the sprint against the 2000 Canadian criterium champion with his broken right hand. "Sprinting is an adventure, that is for sure," he said. "I can't shift well, so it was pretty much futile."
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Back in the peloton, the Navigators Insurance team rode on the front all day, sticking to the plan and protecting Kobzarenko's jersey. "We were working only for the yellow jersey today," Kobzarenko said. "The guys were working really well. It was a little easier because everyone in the break was not dangerous. We wanted them to get no more than five minutes, but the team was so strong it stayed closer."
Kobzarenko was lead up the climb by Colombian teammate Cesar Grajales, who set a fast pace to keep any dangerous rider from trying to bridge. "Grajales climbed so well today that nobody was going to be able to attack on the climb," said director Ed Beamon. "It made it easier, being able to put guys out of the race like that. The Mexicans were not much of a threat, their guys were more than two minutes down."
"Our plan from the start was to get guys up the road," said Pate, who finished in third overall. "I couldn't break the Navigators team all by myself. But no other team wanted to work."
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Beamon acknowledged that TIAA-CREF did what they needed to do today. "Danny played it smart today. He would only have one shot to get across to a break. But our guys worked hard to force the breaks."
In a continued streak of bad luck, Canadian Mark Walters crashed on the first lap descent. "We lost Mark on the first lap, he clipped a pedal," said Beamon. "I'm sure he was still not 100 percent from yesterday. So we had to ride with one less. He caught back on but was not in good shape."
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- The first break of the day gets going early.
- François Parisien (TIAA-CREF) drives the early break.
- The Navigators Insurance riders ride on the front to protect their leader.
- The peloton, much smaller than we started with on Tuesday, climbs.
- The climb keeps going up.
- Parisien continues to pull the break.
- Another group tried to bridge up.
- A variety of teams looking to win in their last chance.
- The Navigator-led peloton climbs.
- Coming off the descent over a hard turn.
- TIAA-CREF was very active in the breaks, trying to for the Navigators to chase.
- Kobzarenko was well looked after today.
- Going aero off the descent.
- Will Frischkorn takes a break from eating to negotiate the descent.
- Cesar Grajales (Navigators Insurance) climbed very well today.
- Kobzarenko climbing calmly.
- Jacob Erker (Symmetrics) worked twice as hard to give his teammate Andrew Pinfold an easy ride.
- Text book defending.
- TIAA-CREF's Bryan Smith gets ready to hand-off a bottle to his team leader Danny Pate.
- Success!
- Bryan Smith leads Will Frischkorn up the climb to bridge to the break.
- Pinfold sits on in the break as his teammate works.
- The two bridgers almost there.
- With his teammates in the break, François Parisien (TIAA-CREF) hits the gas again.
- Frischkorn climbs with cast.
- Parisien calls it a day.
- Erker and Parisien worked hard today.
- Kobzarenko still well protected from any dangerous attacks.
- Frischkorn leads the break.
- Pinfold decides to make his move.
- Frischkorn's sprint handicap.
- Pinfold looks over his competition.
- Pinfold concentrating.
- Andrew Pinfold (Symmetrics) celebrates his win.
- Will Frischkorn (TIAA-CREF) rolls in with second.
- The top three of stage six.
- Beauce has some lovely scenery.
- Jarley Colorado Hernandez (Colombian National) wins the KOM.
- Sergey Lagutin (Navigators Insurance) also wins the points classification.
- Valeriy Kobzarenko is congratulated.
- The top three overall: Lagutin, Kobzarenko, Pate.
- Time for bubbly!
Results
1 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics 3.33.55 2 William Frischkorn (USA) TIAA-CREF 0.01 3 Rodolfo Lopez (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 0.43 4 Bryan Smith (USA) TIAA-CREF 5 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 0.50 6 Bruno Langlois (Can) Canadian National Team 7 Timo Honstein (Ger) Sparkasse 8 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators 0.58 9 Kevin Miller (Can) Fiordifrutta 10 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 11 Miles Olman (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 12 Ger Soepenberg (Ned) Altipower 13 Trent Wilson (Aus) Jittery Joe's pb Zero Gravity 14 Jarley Colorado Hernandez (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 15 David Harrigan (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 16 Fausto Esparza Munoz (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 17 Danny Patte (USA) TIAA-CREF 18 Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics 19 Peter Hatton (Aus) Jittery Joe's pb Zero Gravity 20 Diego Montoya (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 21 Peter John Herzig (Aus) FRF Couriers - Caravello 22 Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukr) Navigators 23 John Fredy Parra Calada (Col) Tecos Trek VH 24 Yovanny Torres Castro (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 25 Austin King (USA) Jittery Joe's pb Zero Gravity 26 Brendan Brooks (Aus) FRF Couriers - Caravello 27 Mathieu Roy (Can) Garneau - Optik 28 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Italpasta - Transport Belmire C.C. 29 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators 30 Jairo Hernandez (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 31 Brent Bookwalter (USA) Priority Health 32 Cesar Augusto Grajales (Col) Navigators 33 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek VH 34 Richard Faltus (Cze) Sparkasse 35 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Sparkasse 36 Joshua Dillon (USA) Fiordifrutta 37 Phillip Cortes (Can) Garneau - Optik 38 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics 39 Russel Downing (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 40 Tony Mann (Aus) FRF Couriers - Caravello 41 Dustin Macburnie (Can) Canadian National Team 42 Francisco Matamoros Navarro (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 43 Tom Zirbel (USA) Priority Health 44 Glen Alan Chadwick (Aus) Navigators 45 Philippe Abbott (Can) Italpasta - Transport Belmire C.C. 1.30 46 Peter Dawson (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 1.37 47 Matthew White (USA) Fiordifrutta 2.43 48 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 49 David Veilleux (Can) Garneau - Optik 50 Jamie Lamb (Can) Garneau - Optik 51 Niek Asbroek (Ned) Altipower 52 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 53 Kane Oakley (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 54 Brian Sheedy (USA) Priority Health 55 Cody Stevenson (Aus) FRF Couriers - Caravello 56 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 57 Ryan Roth (Can) Canadian National Team 58 Jacob P. Erker (Can) Symmetrics 6.53 59 Raphaël Tremblay (Can) Volkswagen Trek 60 Joel Dion-Poitras (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 61 Jairo Salas Atehortua (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 62 Hector Rangel Zimarron (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 15.47 63 Derek McMaster (Can) Italpasta - Transport Belmire C.C. 16.01 64 Simon Kelly (Irl) Team Murphy & Gunn / Newlyn 65 Thijs Poelstra (Ned) Altipower 66 David O'Brien (Can) Équipe Du Québec 20.37 DNF Mark Walters (Can) Navigators DNF Tom Flammang (Lux) Sparkasse DNF Francois Parisien (Can) TIAA-CREF DNF Ian Macgregor (USA) TIAA-CREF DNF Bernie Sulzberger (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed DNF Peter McDonald (Aus) FRF Couriers - Caravello DNF Morgan Fox (Irl) Team Murphy & Gunn / Newlyn DNF Condor Murphy (Irl) Team Murphy & Gunn / Newlyn DNF Greg Reain (Can) Canadian National Team DNF Michael Ford (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS DNF Sean Finning (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS DNF Jean-Sebastien Perron (Can) Calyon-Litespeed DNF Edward King (USA) Priority Health DNF Thoren Wieditz (Can) Italpasta - Transport Belmire C.C. DNF Peter Sanowar (Can) Italpasta - Transport Belmire C.C. DNF Eric Boily (Can) Volkswagen Trek DNF Clovis Auger (Can) Volkswagen Trek DNF Jean-Sébastien Beland (Can) Volkswagen Trek DNF Jean-Sébastien Maheu (Can) Équipe Du Québec DNF Peter Woestenberg (Ned) Altipower Teams 1 Team TIAA-CREF 10.43.27 2 Symmetrics 0.14 3 Tecos Trek VH 0.57 4 DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed 1.04 5 Team Sparkasse 6 Jittery Joe's - Pb Zero Gravity 1.12 7 Colombia es Pasion 8 Navigators Insurance 9 FRF Couriers - Caravello 10 South Australia.Com-AIS 1.51 11 Canadian National Team 2.49 12 Fiordifrutta 2.57 13 Garneau - Optik 14 Priority Health Cycling 15 Italpasta - Transport Belmire C.C. 16.47 16 Altipower 18.00 Final General classification 1 Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukr) Navigators 20.04.14 2 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators 0.15 3 Danny Patte (USA) TIAA-CREF 0.18 4 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Sparkasse 0.42 5 Fausto Esparza Munoz (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 1.49 6 John Fredy Parra Calada (Col) Tecos Trek VH 2.50 7 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek VH 4.01 8 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators 4.03 9 Jairo Hernandez (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 4.08 10 Jarley Colorado Hernandez (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 4.51 11 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Italpasta - Transport Belmire C.C. 5.09 12 Yovanny Torres Castro (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 5.14 13 Trent Wilson (Aus) Jittery Joe's pb Zero Gravity 5.18 14 Brent Bookwalter (USA) Priority Health 6.13 15 Russel Downing (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 6.59 16 Glen Alan Chadwick (Aus) Navigators 7.38 17 Francisco Matamoros Navarro (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 7.47 18 Brendan Brooks (Aus) FRF Couriers - Caravello 8.04 19 Joshua Dillon (USA) Fiordifrutta 9.35 20 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 10.03 21 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 10.51 22 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics 11.00 23 Austin King (USA) Jittery Joe's pb Zero Gravity 12.54 24 David Harrigan (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 14.00 25 Miles Olman (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 15.46 26 Rodolfo Lopez (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 19.09 27 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics 20.39 28 Peter Hatton (Aus) Jittery Joe's pb Zero Gravity 21.04 29 Dustin Macburnie (Can) Canadian National Team 21.26 30 Phillip Cortes (Can) Garneau - Optik 21.47 31 Mathieu Roy (Can) Garneau - Optik 22.30 32 Diego Montoya (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 22.38 33 William Frischkorn (USA) TIAA-CREF 22.43 34 Brian Sheedy (USA) Priority Health 22.54 35 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 23.01 36 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 23.53 37 David Veilleux (Can) Garneau - Optik 24.24 38 Jairo Salas Atehortua (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 24.43 39 Jamie Lamb (Can) Garneau - Optik 24.55 40 Bryan Smith (USA) TIAA-CREF 26.11 41 Peter Dawson (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 27.02 42 Bruno Langlois (Can) Canadian National Team 27.54 43 Kevin Miller (Can) Fiordifrutta 28.16 44 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 30.15 45 Kane Oakley (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 30.20 46 Ger Soepenberg (Ned) Altipower 30.27 47 Richard Faltus (Cze) Sparkasse 30.35 48 Ryan Roth (Can) Canadian National Team 31.03 49 Tony Mann (Aus) FRF Couriers - Caravello 31.23 50 Peter John Herzig (Aus) FRF Couriers - Caravello 36.26 51 Timo Honstein (Ger) Sparkasse 38.28 52 Derek McMaster (Can) Italpasta - Transport Belmire C.C. 38.33 53 Jacob P. Erker (Can) Symmetrics 39.02 54 Cesar Augusto Grajales (Col) Navigators 40.26 55 Simon Kelly (Irl) Team Murphy & Gunn / Newlyn 40.48 56 Hector Rangel Zimarron (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 41.37 57 Tom Zirbel (USA) Priority Health 42.23 58 Raphaël Tremblay (Can) Volkswagen Trek 42.49 59 Niek Asbroek (Ned) Altipower 43.10 60 Matthew White (USA) Fiordifrutta 44.53 61 Philippe Abbott (Can) Italpasta - Transport Belmire C.C. 48.13 62 Joel Dion-Poitras (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 52.13 63 Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics 52.36 64 Cody Stevenson (Aus) FRF Couriers - Caravello 57.44 65 Thijs Poelstra (Ned) Altipower 1.18.51 66 David O'Brien (Can) Équipe Du Québec 1.20.28 Points classification 1 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators 78 pts 2 Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukr) Navigators 58 3 Danny Patte (USA) TIAA-CREF 56 4 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Sparkasse 54 5 Fausto Esparza Munoz (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 40 6 John Fredy Parra Calada (Col) Tecos Trek VH 34 7 Trent Wilson (Aus) Jittery Joe's pb Zero Gravity 31 8 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators 28 9 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics 27 10 Jairo Hernandez (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 27 11 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 27 12 Russel Downing (GBr) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 26 13 Peter Hatton (Aus) Jittery Joe's pb Zero Gravity 22 14 Jarley Colorado Hernandez (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 21 15 Rodolfo Lopez (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 21 16 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek VH 18 17 Miles Olman (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 18 18 Brent Bookwalter (USA) Priority Health 17 19 Glen Alan Chadwick (Aus) Navigators 17 20 Richard Faltus (Cze) Sparkasse 16 21 William Frischkorn (USA) TIAA-CREF 14 22 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Italpasta - Transport Belmire C.C. 13 23 Bryan Smith (USA) TIAA-CREF 12 24 Jairo Salas Atehortua (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 11 25 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 11 26 Bruno Langlois (Can) Canadian National Team 11 27 Timo Honstein (Ger) Sparkasse 10 28 Yovanny Torres Castro (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 8 29 Cesar Augusto Grajales (Col) Navigators 8 30 David Harrigan (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 8 31 Kevin Miller (Can) Fiordifrutta 8 32 Phillip Cortes (Can) Garneau - Optik 7 33 Ger Soepenberg (Ned) Altipower 7 34 Peter Dawson (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 6 35 Joshua Dillon (USA) Fiordifrutta 5 36 Austin King (USA) Jittery Joe's pb Zero Gravity 5 37 Francisco Matamoros Navarro (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 2 38 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics 2 Mountains classification 1 Jarley Colorado Hernandez (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 65 pts 2 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators 59 3 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek VH 29 4 Danny Patte (USA) TIAA-CREF 29 5 Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukr) Navigators 28 6 William Frischkorn (USA) TIAA-CREF 22 7 Glen Alan Chadwick (Aus) Navigators 21 8 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Sparkasse 18 9 Rodolfo Lopez (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 13 10 Tony Mann (Aus) FRF Couriers - Caravello 12 11 John Fredy Parra Calada (Col) Tecos Trek VH 9 12 Yovanny Torres Castro (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 9 13 Hector Rangel Zimarron (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 8 14 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators 7 15 Jairo Hernandez (Col) Colombia Es Pasion 7 16 Cesar Augusto Grajales (Col) Navigators 7 17 Jacob P. Erker (Can) Symmetrics 7 18 Fausto Esparza Munoz (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 6 19 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Italpasta - Transport Belmire C.C. 6 20 Richard Faltus (Cze) Sparkasse 6 21 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics 5 22 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL - Cyclingnews - Litespeed 5 23 Timo Honstein (Ger) Sparkasse 5 24 Trent Wilson (Aus) Jittery Joe's pb Zero Gravity 4 25 Francisco Matamoros Navarro (Mex) Tecos Trek VH 4 26 Bryan Smith (USA) TIAA-CREF 3 27 Peter John Herzig (Aus) FRF Couriers - Caravello 2 28 Bruno Langlois (Can) Canadian National Team 2 Teams classification 1 Navigators Insurance 60.13.40 2 Tecos Trek VH 7.52 3 Colombia es Pasion 12.40 4 DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed 24.49 5 Team TIAA-CREF 30.15 6 Symmetrics 35.34 7 Jittery Joe's - Pb Zero Gravity 38.22 8 FRF Couriers - Caravello 38.33 9 South Australia.Com-AIS 45.03 10 Priority Health Cycling 46.13 11 Team Sparkasse 57.13 12 Garneau - Optik 1.05.04 13 Fiordifrutta 1.09.49 14 Italpasta - Transport Belmire C.C. 1.13.09 15 Canadian National Team 1.17.24 16 Altipower 2.01.01
