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68th Circuit Franco-Belge - 2.1
Belgium, October 2-5, 2008
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Stage 4 - October 5: Château d'Havré - Tournai, 133 km
Escapers share the glory
Rosseler takes stage while Flecha wins overall
By Bjorn Haake with additional reporting by Julien Gillebert
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Sébastien Rosseler added another win for the Quick Step team at the Circuit Franco-Belge when he beat his escape companion Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) in horrible conditions for the race's final stage in Tournai. Flecha was not unhappy with second, as he had gained enough time to win the overall title.
The riders had to fight the elements for another time, with cold rain being prevalent all day. The organisers shortened the final stage by two finishing laps or around 30 kilometres. It was appreciated by the day's winner. "The weather today was absolutely awful!" Rosseler said.
Rosseler raced very actively in the final part of the race and explained his tactics. "During the final I made my attack, taking seven other riders along with me. On the final Côte about 15 kilometres from the finish line I decided to up the pace. The bunch was gaining time and catching up with our small group. I didn't want them to catch up with me, without attempting another attack."
He found a very good companion on the final run-in to the line. "Flecha was the only rider that resisted my attack. He was thinking of the general classification, so we both worked together up to the finish."
Rosseler often has to put his own ambitions down for the team, so the win was special. "I am really pleased with this victory. It was a great feeling holding my hands high up in the air crossing the finish line in first place."
Flecha made the decisive move with a potential overall win on his mind. He was happy to finally deliver for Rabobank. "I am so happy to finally win a race for my team." Flecha explained that he wasn't always so fortunate the past few years. "It is my third season for this team but, despite good results, I have never won a race for them." The last victory for Juan Antonio Flecha was a stage in the Vuelta Valenciana, in 2005.
To win, Flecha had to do what he does best. "To win the general classification, I knew I had to attack, to surprise the sprinters." He felt he had the form. "I knew I was in good condition since the Vuelta. I expected to go to the World Championship of Varese but I was not taken in the Spanish selection. It was a disappointment for me. But I managed to focus on other goals: the Franco-Belge, but also Paris-Tours."
Rosseler finished second in GC.
Boonen Falls
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Rosseler's teammate Tom Boonen fell about 75 kilometres into the race – luckily he fell onto the grass on the side of the road. Howeer, Boonen hurt his right wrist and will have his wrist X-rayed tomorrow to check for fractures.
After three stages of miserable weather, the sun continued to elude riders on the final stage of the Circuit Franco-Belge. High winds joined sometimes heavy rain to cause havoc for the riders. As a result, only 51 riders finished the stage.
Mathieu Ladagnous (Française des Jeux), David Deroo (Skil-Shimano), Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Contentpolis - Murcia), Casper Jorgensen (Team GLS - Pakke Shop) and Paul Sneeboer (Netherlands National Team) made up the first break of the day. They gained more than a minute on the peloton before being pulled back in as the rain began to fall.
The Rabobank team split the peloton while making the chase, and formed a group of 26 riders at the head of the field. Most of the contenders for the overall were present, including Sébastien Rosseler (Quick Step), Jürgen Roelandts (Silence - Lotto), Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank), Philippe Gilbert (Française des Jeux) and Tyler Farrar (Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30).
Decisive splits
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At kilometre 95, Maxime Monfort (Cofidis) attacked out of the front group. At the same time, the peloton behind split in two. The second part soon lost interest in chasing and quickly was down almost three minutes.
Under the work of Roelandts the efforts by the front group were neutralised, with about 20 kilometres to go. The next group that went included Rosseler and Flecha again, along with Mickaël Delage (Française des Jeux), Lars Bak (Team CSC-Saxo Bank), Koen De Kort (Astana), Stijn Vandenbergh (AG2R La Mondiale)and Matthé Pronk (Cycle Collstrop). They quickly gained 40 seconds over the bunch.
The Cofidis team then took up the work, and reduced the gap to 28 seconds with eight kilometres from the line. The gap continued to decrease and was down to 16 seconds, with about six kilometres to go. Philippe Gilbert (Française des Jeux) then countered and caught up with the front group.
Rosseler and Flecha, who had done most of the work, stormed away from the others. Gilbert desperately tried to hang on, but his gap started to grow. Two kilometres from the line, the two leaders had 26 seconds on Gilbert, who was about 100 metres ahead of the peloton. The gap was sufficient for Rosseler and Flecha to reach their respective goals, while Gilbert was caught. Wouter Weylandt won the sprint for third.
Photography
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- Sebastien Rosseler (Quick Step) takes the final stage of the Circuit Franco-Belge.
- Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) made the front group on a miserable stage, to take the overall win.
- Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) wins the overall Circuit Franco Belge.
Images by Florian and Susanne Schaaf/www.cyclingpictures.de
- This outfit was the best choice on a rainy day.
- Frederik Veuchelen from Topsport Vlaanderen in front of the old castle.
- There was no neutral chit-chat phase as the racers were asked to go straight to work.
- Rabobank stepped up the pace so that Flecha could try to break away.
- Française des Jeux led the bunch on a rainy day in Belgium for a while.
- The move that started to shake up the race.
- Jürgen Roelandts (Silence-Lotto) was attentive as he wanted to defend his overall lead.
- Flecha leads Rosseler in the seven-man move that went away in the final kilometres.
- The peloton trailed behind the leaders by about 40 seconds at one point.
- Sébastien Rosseler (Quick Step) wins the race in the Belgian rain.
- Rosseler often rides for the team so this win was special.
- The sprint of the group that was left after half the peloton abandoned.
- Wouter Weylandt (Quick Step) takes third place ahead of Jonas Vangenechten (Groupe Gobert.com).
- Weylandt (left) edged out Vangenechten and showed he is a sprinter with abilities.
- Sébastien Rosseler (Quick Step) enjoys the podium procedure, something he is prevented to do too often, due to team obligations.
- Jürgen Roelandts (Silence-Lotto won the green sprinter's jersey.
- Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) takes his first win for Rabobank, taking out the overall classification.
- Sven Nevens (Mitsubishi-Jartazi) wins the red jersey of the best climber.
- Roelandts a second time on the podium with the white jersey of the best young rider.
Results
1 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 3.06.12 (42.824 km/h) 2 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 0.01 3 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 0.31 4 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) Groupe Gobert.com 5 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2R La Mondiale 6 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 7 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Rabobank 8 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 9 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 10 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 11 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 12 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 13 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 14 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 15 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Crédit Agricole 16 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 17 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 18 Jan Bakelants (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 19 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 20 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 21 José Herrada Lopez (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 22 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 23 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 24 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 25 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.14 26 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 27 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 28 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 29 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 30 Berik Kupeshov (Kaz) Astana 31 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 32 Johan Coenen (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 33 Tyler Farrar (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 34 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 35 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 36 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 37 Dieter Capelle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 7.29 38 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 39 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 40 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 41 Sipke Zijlstra (Ned) Netherlands National Team 42 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 43 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 44 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 45 Bert Roesems (Ned) Silence - Lotto 46 Sven Nevens (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 47 Oleg Chuzda (Ukr) Contentpolis - Murcia 48 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Silence - Lotto 49 Steve Houanard (Fra) Skil-Shimano 50 Paul Sneeboer (Ned) Netherlands National Team 51 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia DNS Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank DNS Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano DNS Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Skil-Shimano DNS Niko Eeckhout (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen DNF Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step DNF Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step DNF Geert Steurs (Bel) Silence - Lotto DNF Bart Dockx (Bel) Silence - Lotto DNF Roy Sentjens (Bel) Silence - Lotto DNF Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank DNF Rick Flens (Ned) Rabobank DNF Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank DNF Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank DNF Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank DNF Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Française des Jeux DNF Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bouygues Telecom DNF Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom DNF Jonathan Bellis (GBr) Team CSC - Saxo Bank DNF Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank DNF Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank DNF Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole DNF Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole DNF Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole DNF Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana DNF Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale DNF Laurent Mangel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale DNF Cédric Pineau (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale DNF Nicolas Rousseau (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale DNF Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone DNF Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone DNF Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone DNF Frank Hoj DAN Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone DNF Roy Curvers (Ned) Skil-Shimano DNF Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano DNF Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 DNF Steven Cozza (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 DNF Michael Friedman (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 DNF Christian Meier (Can) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 DNF Borut Bozic (Slo) Cycle Collstrop DNF Gil Suray (Bel) Cycle Collstrop DNF Rafael Rodriguez (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia DNF Francisco Torrella (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia DNF Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen DNF Preben Vanhecke (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen DNF Nikolas Maes (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen DNF Pieter Van Speybrouck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen DNF Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner DNF David Boucher (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner DNF Stefano Cavallari (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo DNF Diego Milán Jiménez (Spa) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo DNF Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo DNF Gilles Devillers (Bel) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo DNF Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den) Team GLS - Pakke Shop DNF Michael Mørkøv (Den) Team GLS - Pakke Shop DNF Casper Jorgensen (Den) Team GLS - Pakke Shop DNF Jeremy Honorez (Bel) Bodysol - Euro Millions - Pôle Continental Wallon DNF Kevin Van Melsen (Bel) Bodysol - Euro Millions - Pôle Continental Wallon DNF Jonathan Dufrasne (Bel) Groupe Gobert.com DNF Philippe Pratte (Bel) Groupe Gobert.com DNF Hans Dekkers (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi DNF Lars Vierbergen (Ned) Netherlands National Team DNF Bart Van Haaren (Ned) Netherlands National Team Points 1 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 25 pts 2 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 20 3 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 16 4 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) Groupe Gobert.com 14 5 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2R La Mondiale 12 6 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 10 7 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Rabobank 9 8 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 8 9 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 7 10 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 6 11 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 5 12 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 4 13 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 3 14 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 2 15 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Crédit Agricole 1 Sprints Croix Jubaru, km 118.2 1 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 5 pts 2 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 3 3 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 Croix Jubaru, km 135 1 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 5 pts 2 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 3 3 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 1 Croix Jubaru, km 151.8 1 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 5 pts 2 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 3 3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 1 Time bonuses 1 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 12 pts 2 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 9 3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 6 4 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 4 5 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 3 6 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 3 7 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 Teams 1 Quick Step 9.19.38 2 Rabobank 0.01 3 Astana 1.14 4 Cofidis 1.57 5 Cycles Collstrop 6 Française des Jeux 7 Skill Shimano 8.12 8 Silence Lotto 14.27 9 Contentpolis Murcia 10 Mitsubishi Jartazi 15.10 Final general classification 1 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 16.50.49 2 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 0.12 3 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 0.18 4 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 0.22 5 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 0.32 6 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Crédit Agricole 0.43 7 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 8 Jan Bakelants (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 9 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.54 10 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.57 11 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 0.59 12 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 13 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2R La Mondiale 1.01 14 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) Groupe Gobert.com 15 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 16 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Rabobank 17 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 18 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 19 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 20 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 21 José Herrada Lopez (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 22 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 23 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 1.26 24 Tyler Farrar (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 1.27 25 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.36 26 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.43 27 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 1.44 28 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 29 Johan Coenen (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 30 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 31 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 32 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 2.36 33 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 3.32 34 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 4.15 35 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 4.43 36 Steve Houanard (Fra) Skil-Shimano 7.41 37 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 7.55 38 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 7.59 39 Oleg Chuzda (Ukr) Contentpolis - Murcia 40 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 41 Berik Kupeshov (Kaz) Astana 9.49 42 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 10.30 43 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 44 Dieter Capelle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 45 Bert Roesems (Ned) Silence - Lotto 46 Sven Nevens (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 11.44 47 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 12.51 48 Sipke Zijlstra (Ned) Netherlands National Team 20.57 49 Paul Sneeboer (Ned) Netherlands National Team 23.26 50 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 23.28 51 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Silence - Lotto 29.07 Points classification 1 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 61 pts 2 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 53 3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 53 4 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 52 5 Tyler Farrar (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 45 6 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 38 7 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2R La Mondiale 33 8 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) Groupe Gobert.com 28 9 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 21 10 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 20 11 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 17 12 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 16 13 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 16 14 Steve Houanard (Fra) Skil-Shimano 14 15 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 13 16 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Crédit Agricole 10 17 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 10 18 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Rabobank 9 19 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 8 20 Jan Bakelants (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 7 21 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 7 22 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 7 23 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6 24 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 5 25 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 4 26 Sven Nevens (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 4 27 Paul Sneeboer (Ned) Netherlands National Team 4 28 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 3 29 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 2 30 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 2 31 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 32 Sipke Zijlstra (Ned) Netherlands National Team 1 Sprint classification 1 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 19 pts 2 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 13 3 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 13 4 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 11 5 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 6 6 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank 5 7 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 4 8 Sven Nevens (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 4 9 Paul Sneeboer (Ned) Netherlands National Team 4 10 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 3 11 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano 2 12 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 1 13 Tyler Farrar (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 1 14 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 1 Mountains classification 1 Sven Nevens (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 59 pts 2 Paul Sneeboer (Ned) Netherlands National Team 38 3 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 28 4 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 22 5 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step 18 6 Dieter Capelle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 7 7 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 6 8 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 4 9 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 3 10 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 3 11 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 3 12 Sipke Zijlstra (Ned) Netherlands National Team 2 13 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 1 Young rider classification 1 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 16.51.07 2 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 0.04 3 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step 0.14 4 Jan Bakelants (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 0.25 5 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.39 6 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) Groupe Gobert.com 0.43 7 Koen De Kort (Ned) Astana 8 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 9 José Herrada Lopez (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 10 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 11 Tyler Farrar (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 1.09 12 Mickael Delage (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.18 13 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 1.25 14 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) Cycle Collstrop 1.26 15 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 16 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cycle Collstrop 17 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 2.18 18 David Deroo (Fra) Skil-Shimano 3.57 19 Steve Houanard (Fra) Skil-Shimano 7.23 20 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 7.41 21 Oleg Chuzda (Ukr) Contentpolis - Murcia 22 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 23 Berik Kupeshov (Kaz) Astana 9.31 24 Dieter Capelle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 10.12 25 Sven Nevens (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 11.26 26 Sipke Zijlstra (Ned) Netherlands National Team 20.39 27 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Silence - Lotto 28.49 Teams classification 1 Quick Step 50.34.19 2 Rabobank 0.01 3 Astana 1.54 4 Française des Jeux 2.15 5 Cofidis 2.19 6 Cycles Collstrop 2.37 7 Skill Shimano 8.34 8 Silence Lotto 17.16 9 Mitsubishi Jartazi 17.21 10 Contentpolis Murcia 17.38
