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5th Tour of Britain - 2.1
Great Britain, September 7-14, 2008
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Stage 4 - September 10: Worcester - Stoke-on-Trent, 156km
Boasson Hagen snatches victory in Stoke on Trent
By Gerry McManus in Stoke-on-Trent
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Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Columbia) narrowly snatched victory away from Giairo Ermeti (Team LPR) in the potteries town of Stoke on Trent on stage four of the Tour of Britain. The 21-year-old from Norway powered away from the break of the day as the bunch closed in, catching and passing the lone Italian leader on the uphill finish to win by a bike length.
The Norwegian time trial champion used his talent well as he jumped across to Ermeti and used his sprinting strength to power around the twisty finishing straight to take the chequered flag. The duo finished four seconds ahead of Danilo di Luca who was punching his bars after his LPR team missed out on a second stage win in Britain. Di Luca held off the challenge from Julian Dean (Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30) and Kristof Goddaert (TopSport – Vlaanderen) who finished fourth and fifth respectively.
Yesterday's hero Geoffroy Lequatre (Agritubel) finished ninth at nine seconds and takes over the yellow jersey from teammate Emilien Berges, who was unlucky to puncture and lost over a minute to the stage winner.
The pack was reshuffled again with Barloworld's Steve Cummings now in second place six seconds behind Lequatre and Gabriele Bosissio (Team LPR Brakes) third at ten seconds. 35 seconds separates the top nine riders.
"I was waiting until somebody else started the sprint," said Boasson Hagen: "But nobody did and I knew I had to go to catch Ermeti but it was close. I knew the sprint was uphill and it wouldn't be a very fast. I took the last corner a bit wide and it was lucky that I caught him. I heard on the radio that the bunch was getting closer and I heard Roger (Hammond) screaming 'Go Go Go' from behind in the peloton so I attacked."
"This was my fifth victory this season. I hope this will be good preparation for the World Championships."
Race leader Geoffroy Lequatre had mixed emotions wearing the yellow jersey. "I am happy because I am the yellow jersey but a little bit sad because the yellow jersey was on my wheel and he had a puncture," said Lequatre. "I am happy because the jersey is still in the Agritubel team. It was hard for us today because yesterday we were first and second and today nobody would help us. There was an LPR rider in the break who was only 1min 56secs behind. The boys did a really good job today and perhaps tomorrow is not going to be easy to control."
How it unfolded
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Ben Swift (Great Britain) and Kristian House (Rapha Condor Recycling.co.uk) were busy fighting for position for the first king of the mountains prime at High Habberley and had been away for a short while in a small group. The leaders were caught as they approached the climb with Swift attacking on the third category ascent followed by Wesley Sulzberger (SouthAustalia.com/AIS), Ermeti and Boasson Hagen. A leading group formed over the summit with David Millar (Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30) setting the pace on the front of the bunch behind.
Stuart O'Grady (Team CSC Saxobank) Serge Pauwels (TopSport – Vlaanderen), Daniel Lloyd (An Post – Sean Kelly Team), Santiago Botero (Rock Racing) and Rob Hayles (Great Britain) had seen the danger and joined the move as it formed. Millar saw the danger and put the hammer down to jump across to make the leading group 10 strong and their lead increased to two minutes as they shared the workload.
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Ermeti had won both intermediate sprints at Wolverhampton, Bedlam and Stone and Swift took maximum points on the climbs at Jiggers Bank and the Saddle of Wrekin. He finished the day in the sprinters jersey as some compensation for missing the stage win.
The gap was down to one 1min 20secs with 25km to go and tumbling fast as the Agritubel team strung out the bunch in pursuit of the leaders. There was a flurry of attacks as the bunch bore down on the leaders inside the last 10km with Ermeti taking flight and lookin certain to take victory. Boasson Hagen was using all cylinders as he chased and passed the Italian in style.
Tomorrow's stage could see the time gaps stretching with three climbs coming in quick succession at the end of this 168km stage - 138km Falsgrave (cat 2), 152km North Side (cat 3) and 155km Dalby Forest (cat 4).
Ben Swift now has he mountains jersey he won last year and Roger Hammond is still leading on points
Photography
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- The Breakaway group on the outskirts of Telford
- Jay Thomson (MTN Energade) and Robbie Hunter (Barloworld) share a joke - both riders are from the same town in South Africa
- The MTN Energade team lines up before the start of stage four.
- Italian sprint star Alessandro Petacchi (LPR Brakes) ahead of the stage start in Worcester
- Danilo Di Luca (Team LPR) hides behind his sunglasses.
- Daniel Lloyd (An Post - Sean Kelly team) leads the break on the outskirts of Telford
- Daniel Lloyd (An Post - Sean Kelly team) leads the break on the outskirts of Telford
- Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Columbia) jumps across to the leaders on the climb at High Habberley
- Nicolas Vogondy leaads the the yellow jersey Emilien Berges (Agritubel) on the outskirts of Telford.
- Ben Swift delighted to get his mountains jersey back
- Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia) happy in victory
- Boasson Hagen does it in Stoke on Trent
- Boasson Hagen celebrates victory
- It was touch and go but Boasson Hagen made it
- Overall leader Geoffroy Lequatre at the press conference
- Danilo Di Luca (Team LPR) crosse the line ahead of Julian Dean (Garmin Chipotle) to take third place on the stage
- The jersey holders after stage four: Race leader Geoffroy Lequatre (Agritubel), points leader Roger Hammond (Team Columbia), sprints leader Giairo Ermeti (LPR), mountains leader Ben Swift (Team GB)
- Yellow jersey Geoffory Lequarte (Agritubel) gets kisses as race leader after four stages
- Nicolas Vogondy (Agritubel) leads the yellow jersey and the bunch on the outskirts of Telford
- Tyler Hamilton (Rock Racing) had bike trouble yesterday which lost him the chance in the overall classification
Results
1 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 3.36.11 (41.84 km/h) 2 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 3 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 0.04 4 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 5 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 6 Dean Downing (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 0.07 7 Steve Cummings (GBr) Barloworld 8 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 0.09 9 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 10 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 11 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 0.12 12 Malcolm Elliott (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 13 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 14 Alejandro Marque (Spa) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 15 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing 16 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 17 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 18 Dan Martin (Irl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 19 Jonathan McEvoy (GBr) Great Britain 20 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 21 Russell Downing (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 22 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 23 Ian Stannard (GBr) Great Britain 24 Chris Sutton (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 25 Kristian House (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 26 David Blanco (Spa) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 27 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Team Columbia 28 Andrew Tennant (GBr) Great Britain 29 David George (RSA) MTN Energade 30 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 31 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 0.21 32 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 33 Kevin Evans (RSA) MTN Energade 34 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 35 Simon Richardson (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 0.26 36 Tom Southam (GBr) Great Britain 0.34 37 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 38 Rob Partridge (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 39 Juan Van Heerden (RSA) MTN Energade 40 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) Rock Racing 41 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 42 Johnnie Walker (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 0.38 43 Waylon Woolcock (RSA) MTN Energade 0.49 44 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Rock Racing 45 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 46 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing 1.04 47 Santiago Botero (Col) Rock Racing 1.08 48 Rob Hayles (GBr) Great Britain 49 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 50 Dale Appleby (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 51 Simon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 52 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 53 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team Columbia 54 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 1.13 55 Emilian Berges (Fra) Agritubel 56 Kristof Vandewalle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 57 Greg Henderson (NZl) Team Columbia 1.18 58 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 1.20 59 Robbie Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 1.22 60 Neil McDonald (RSA) MTN Energade 61 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 62 Jay Thomson (RSA) MTN Energade 63 Chris Newton (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 64 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1.32 65 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 66 Trent Lowe (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 67 Bradley McGee (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1.42 68 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Team Columbia 69 James Millard (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 70 Simon Gaywood (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 71 Travis Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 72 Cameron Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 73 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 74 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 1.49 75 Peter Williams (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 1.54 76 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 2.15 77 Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld 2.26 78 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 79 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 2.27 80 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 2.32 81 Lee Davis (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 3.11 82 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 3.47 83 Tom Murray (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 3.50 84 Tom Barras (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 85 Andrew Roche (Irl) Pinarello RT - Canditv 86 Tomas Swift-Metcalfe (GBr) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 87 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 4.02 88 Koen Barbé (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 4.26 89 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Agritubel 90 Paul Sneeboer (Ned) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 5.09 91 Rhys Lloyd (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 10.17 Points Wolverhampton Grammar School 1 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 5 pts 2 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 3 3 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 2 4 Santiago Botero (Col) Rock Racing 1 Bedlam 1 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 5 pts 2 Rob Hayles (GBr) Great Britain 3 3 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 2 4 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 1 Stone 1 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 5 pts 2 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 3 3 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 2 4 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 1 Mountains Cat 3: High Habberley 1 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 4 pts 2 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 3 3 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 2 4 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 1 Cat 2: Jiggers Bank 1 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 6 pts 2 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 5 3 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 4 4 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 3 5 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 2 6 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 1 Cat 3: Saddle of the Wrekin 1 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 4 pts 2 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 3 3 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 2 4 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1 Teams 1 LPR Brakes - Ballan 10.48.49 2 Team Columbia 0.08 3 Garmin - Chipotle 0.12 4 An Post M.Donnelly 0.17 5 Team CSC - Saxo Bank 6 Great Britain 0.20 7 Rapha - Condor - Recycling.co. 0.37 8 Topsport Vlaanderen 0.49 9 MTN Energade 0.51 10 Rock Racing 1.19 11 Pinarello RT - Candi TV 2.02 12 SouthAustralia.com - AIS 2.04 13 Agritubel 2.19 14 Plowman Craven RT 2.26 15 Barloworld 2.33 16 Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 3.58 General classification after stage 4 1 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 13.43.06 2 Steve Cummings (GBr) Barloworld 0.06 3 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 0.10 4 Ian Stannard (GBr) Great Britain 0.11 5 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 0.13 6 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 0.14 7 Dan Martin (Irl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 8 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 0.23 9 Emilian Berges (Fra) Agritubel 0.35 10 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 1.03 11 Russell Downing (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 1.24 12 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 1.40 13 Kristian House (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 1.44 14 Alejandro Marque (Spa) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 1.47 15 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1.49 16 David George (RSA) MTN Energade 17 Simon Richardson (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 1.59 18 Chris Sutton (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 19 Tom Southam (GBr) Great Britain 2.16 20 Kristof Vandewalle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 2.43 21 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 2.55 22 Kevin Evans (RSA) MTN Energade 3.26 23 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 4.04 24 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 12.23 25 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 12.26 26 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 12.32 27 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 12.33 28 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 12.38 29 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 12.43 30 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing 31 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 12.45 32 Malcolm Elliott (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 12.46 33 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Team Columbia 34 Jonathan McEvoy (GBr) Great Britain 35 Andrew Tennant (GBr) Great Britain 36 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 37 David Blanco (Spa) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 38 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 12.51 39 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 12.55 40 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 13.08 41 Juan Van Heerden (RSA) MTN Energade 42 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 43 Rob Partridge (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 44 Johnnie Walker (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 13.12 45 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 13.22 46 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Rock Racing 13.23 47 Waylon Woolcock (RSA) MTN Energade 48 Rob Hayles (GBr) Great Britain 13.34 49 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing 13.36 50 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 13.38 51 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 13.42 52 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team Columbia 53 Dale Appleby (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 54 Simon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 55 Santiago Botero (Col) Rock Racing 56 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 13.47 57 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 13.50 58 Greg Henderson (NZl) Team Columbia 13.52 59 Robbie Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 13.56 60 Neil McDonald (RSA) MTN Energade 61 Chris Newton (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 62 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 14.06 63 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 64 Trent Lowe (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 65 Travis Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 14.16 66 Bradley McGee (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 67 Cameron Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 68 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 14.21 69 James Millard (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 14.36 70 Peter Williams (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 14.38 71 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 14.49 72 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 15.00 73 Diego Caccia (Ita)Barloworld 74 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 15.01 75 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Team Columbia 15.02 76 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 77 Jay Thomson (RSA) MTN Energade 15.45 78 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 16.20 79 Tom Murray (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 16.24 80 Tom Barras (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 81 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 16.30 82 Tomas Swift-Metcalfe (GBr) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 16.40 83 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Agritubel 17.00 84 Koen Barbé (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 85 Paul Sneeboer (Ned) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 17.43 86 Lee Davis (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 19.12 87 Rhys Lloyd (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 22.51 88 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) Rock Racing 26.36 89 Dean Downing (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 27.50 90 Simon Gaywood (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 29.25 91 Andrew Roche (Irl) Pinarello RT - Canditv 31.33 Points classification 1 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 31 pts 2 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 29 3 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 26 4 Dean Downing (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 26 5 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 25 6 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 25 7 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 21 8 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 19 9 Steve Cummings (GBr) Barloworld 18 10 Chris Sutton (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 16 11 Rob Hayles (GBr) Great Britain 16 12 Emilian Berges (Fra) Agritubel 15 13 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 15 14 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 15 15 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 13 16 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 13 17 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 13 18 Dan Martin (Irl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 12 19 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 11 20 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 11 21 Malcolm Elliott (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 11 22 Greg Henderson (NZl) Team Columbia 11 23 Robbie Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 11 24 Ian Stannard (GBr) Great Britain 10 25 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 10 26 Russell Downing (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 9 27 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 8 28 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 8 29 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 6 30 Johnnie Walker (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 5 31 Alejandro Marque (Spa) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 2 32 Kristof Vandewalle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 2 33 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 2 34 Kristian House (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 1 35 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing 1 36 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 1 37 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 1 Sprint classification 1 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 15 pts 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 14 3 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 10 4 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 10 5 Chris Sutton (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 9 6 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 8 7 Russell Downing (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 8 8 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 7 9 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 6 10 Steve Cummings (GBr) Barloworld 5 11 Ian Stannard (GBr) Great Britain 5 12 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing 5 13 Kevin Evans (RSA) MTN Energade 3 14 Rob Hayles (GBr) Great Britain 3 15 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing 3 16 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 3 17 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 3 18 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 3 19 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 3 20 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 2 21 Emilian Berges (Fra) Agritubel 2 22 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Team Columbia 2 23 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 1 24 Simon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 1 25 Santiago Botero (Col) Rock Racing 1 Mountains classification 1 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 29 pts 2 Kristian House (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 19 3 Steve Cummings (GBr) Barloworld 15 4 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 14 5 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 10 6 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 10 7 Ian Stannard (GBr) Great Britain 9 8 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 8 9 David George (RSA) MTN Energade 8 10 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 8 11 Tom Southam (GBr) Great Britain 6 12 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 6 13 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 5 14 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 5 15 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 5 16 Russell Downing (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 4 17 Dan Martin (Irl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 4 18 Kevin Evans (RSA) MTN Energade 3 19 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 3 20 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 3 21 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 3 22 Tomas Swift-Metcalfe (GBr) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 3 23 Emilian Berges (Fra) Agritubel 2 24 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Team Columbia 2 25 Johnnie Walker (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 2 26 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 2 27 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1 28 Chris Sutton (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 1 29 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 1 30 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing 1 31 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1 Teams classification 1 Agritubel 41.13.02 2 An Post M.Donnelly 9.27 3 LPR Brakes - Ballan 10.26 4 Garmin - Chipotle 10.48 5 Great Britain 11.10 6 Topsport Vlaanderen 11.36 7 Barloworld 13.16 8 MTN Energade 14.41 9 Team Columbia 23.16 10 Team CSC - Saxo Bank 23.34 11 Rapha - Condor - Recycling.co. 23.49 12 Pinarello RT - Candi TV 24.59 13 Plowman Craven RT 25.39 14 Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 27.13 15 Rock Racing 35.33 16 SouthAustralia.com - AIS 36.18
