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5th Tour of Britain - 2.1
Great Britain, September 7-14, 2008
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Stage 5 - September 11: Kingston upon Hull - Dalby Forest, 168km
Boasson Hagen’s does the double at Dalby
By Gerry McManus in Dalby Forest
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Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Columbia) added another victory to his tally in the Tour of Britain when he sailed across the line with time to spare in Dalby Forest on Thursday.
The 21-year-old Norwegian attacked Danilo Di Luca's (Team LPR) and Matt Goss (CSC Saxobank) to catch and pass Victor Hugo Peña (Rock Racing) in the last kilometre and win his second stage. These four riders had been part of a five man break that had been away for most of the 165km stage. The main field closed the gap to eleven seconds in the end and Geoffroy Lequatre (Agritubel) held on to the yellow jersey. There is no change in the top nine overall from yesterday. Steve Cummings (Barloworld) lies second overall at six seconds with Gabriele Bosisio (Team LPR Brakes) third at a further four seconds.
"This seems to be my speciality," laughed Boasson Hagen, talking about his late move to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. "My team worked hard to get me into the break. I was lucky that nobody that was in contention for the general classification was in the break so the bunch didn't work so hard behind."
Race leader Lequatre described his team's day: "It was hard again today for us. There were lots of attacks that we had to control. We had to keep checking the numbers of the riders in the break. We chased for maybe 40 or 50 kilometres and finally we let the little group go. The finish was hard too, the last climb was very steep but the team did a lot of work. I had Emilien Berges and Romain Feillu to help me and we got a good result today and we hope we can do the same again tomorrow.
"Daniel Martin [Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30] attacked on the penultimate climb and he got away on his own but we didn't panic. There were other teams that wanted to chase [Martin] too and we have kept the yellow jersey. Today was important to hold on to the jersey because the run in to the finish was so hard."
How it unfolded
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Travis Meyer (SouthAustalia.com/AIS), Di Luca and Goss had made the early break and had a slender lead of 20 seconds. The Aussie duo had escaped the clutches of the bunch and Di Luca also managed to slip away to join the leaders. Team Columbia had missed the break had closed the deficit to 12 seconds on the outskirts of Beverly where Boasson Hagen and Victor Hugo Peña (Rock Racing) made the jump and latched on the leaders when they reached the East Yorkshire town.
Team Columbia stopped chasing with their man in the break and the lead went out to two minutes. It took a little time for Agritubel to get organised but they looked impressive on the front of the peloton which was then stretched out in one long line behind them. They kept the breakaway quintet within a reasonable distance. None of the five were a major threat to Lequarte's lead providing the gap didn't grow too much.
Goss picked up maximum points in the sprint at Barton and Boasson Hagen got the next two at Bridlington and Scarborough
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The going got a little tougher for the leaders when reached the North Yorkshire Moors where flat roads were replaced by energy sapping, undulating terrain. The twisty roads also hampered the chase with Team Garmin-Chipotle leading the bunch hoping to bring Julian Dean up for a sprint victory. Daniel Lloyd (An Post – Sean Kelly Team) was also on the front putting in a strong effort for teammates Dan Fleeman and Benny De Schrooder who are still in contention for the overall victory. Lloyd had been away in a do or die break with Giairo Ermeti yesterday but today he was playing the domestique role.
Back in the break, Peña crested the summit of the first climb of the day at Falsgrave with Di Luca following the Colombian over the top. Di Luca put in a blistering attack on the second climb at North Side which saw Meyer and Peña going backwards and losing contact. Boasson Hagen and Goss struggled over the top but regained contact with the Italian on the descent. Di Luca dropped the duo again on the final climb at Dalby Forest but they fought their way back again. Peña had somehow managed to find the strength to drag himself back to the leaders and back into contention for the stage. He attacked the trio on the run in to the finish with three kilometres to go and managed to open up a useful gap.
Boasson Hagen repeated his heroic escapade from yesterday by putting in another explosive effort with less than a kilometre to go to pass the Colombian and take a deserved victory. Peña was also caught by Di Luca and Goss who finished second and third respectively. He held on to finish fourth but only by half a wheel on the bunch led in by New Zealander Julian Dean.
It is a flatter day tomorrow but there are still time bonuses at Harelaw, Morpeth and Seaton Sluice on the way to Gateshead, Newcastle and these alone could shuffle the pack again.
Photography
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- Bulldogs Max and Molly all dressed up to support Ben Swift (Team GB) currently in the King of the Mountains lead.
- Travis Meyer (SouthAustralia.com/AIS) no sign of aggressive behaviour before the stage started.
- The SouthAustralia.com/AIS team line up for a photo before the start.
- Emilien Berges (Agritubel) has found a new fan in Britain.
- The field leaves Hull heading for the Humber Bridge.
- The peloton passes under the Humber Bridge before turning to cross it into Lincolnshire.
- Race leader Geoffroy Lequarte crosses the Humber Bridge.
- The race goes through the 400 year old arch in Beverly.
- The race leaves Hull.
- Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Columbia) takes his second stage in as many days.
- Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Columbia) wins his second stage of the week.
- A tough day for some of the late finishers - Tom Murray (Pinarello CandiTV) comes just behind the main field.
- Victor Hugo Pena (Rock Racing) takes fourth place ahead of Julan Dean (Garmin Chipotle) and Manxman Jonathan Bellis (CSC Saxobank).
- Matt Goss (CSC Saxobank) in the green jersey as points leader after five stages.
- Matt Goss (CSC Saxobank) gets kisses and the green jersey as points leader after five days.
- Geoffory Lequarte (Agritubel) in yellow for at least another day.
- Ben Swift (Team GB) keeps the E.ON Mountains jersey - He really is older than he looks.
- The ones to watch - A Rapha Condor rider has the jersey leaders marked on his stem.
Results
1 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 3.46.23 2 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.04 3 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 0.07 4 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Rock Racing 0.11 5 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 6 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 7 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 8 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 9 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 10 Russell Downing (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 11 Travis Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 12 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 13 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 14 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 15 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 16 Kristian House (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 17 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 18 Dean Downing (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 19 Alejandro Marque (Spa) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 20 Dan Martin (Irl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 21 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 22 Steve Cummings (GBr) Barloworld 23 Johnnie Walker (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 24 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 25 Malcolm Elliott (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 26 David George (RSA) MTN Energade 27 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Agritubel 28 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 29 Kristof Vandewalle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 30 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 31 Waylon Woolcock (RSA) MTN Energade 32 Chris Sutton (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 33 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 34 Kevin Evans (RSA) MTN Energade 35 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 36 Emilien Berges (Fra) Agritubel 37 Ian Stannard (GBr) Great Britain 38 Tom Southam (GBr) Great Britain 39 Simon Richardson (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 40 Simon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 41 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Team Columbia 42 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 43 Santiago Botero (Col) Rock Racing 44 Diego Caccia (Ita)Barloworld 45 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team Columbia 46 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 47 Rob Partridge (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 0.54 48 Lee Davis (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 49 Tom Murray (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 0.58 50 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 0.11 51 David Blanco (Spa) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 2.07 52 Andrew Tennant (GBr) Great Britain 4.54 53 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing 5.07 54 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 55 Paul Sneeboer (Ned) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 56 Trent Lowe (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 57 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 58 Peter Williams (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 59 Jonathan McEvoy (GBr) Great Britain 60 Neil McDonald (RSA) MTN Energade 11.14 61 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 62 Juan Van Heerden (RSA) MTN Energade 63 Tomas Swift-Metcalfe (GBr) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 64 Tom Barras (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 65 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 66 Bradley McGee (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 67 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Team Columbia 68 Greg Henderson (NZl) Team Columbia 69 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 70 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 71 Cameron Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 72 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Rock Racing 11.45 73 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing 74 Robbie Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 75 Rob Hayles (GBr) Great Britain 76 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 77 Simon Gaywood (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 78 James Millard (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 79 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 80 Jay Thomson (RSA) MTN Energade 81 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 82 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 83 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 84 Koen Barbé (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 85 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 86 Dale Appleby (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 87 Chris Newton (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 88 Andrew Roche (Irl) Pinarello RT - Canditv 89 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 11.49 90 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan DNS Rhys Lloyd (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk Points 1 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 15 pts 2 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 14 3 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 13 4 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Rock Racing 12 5 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 11 6 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 10 7 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 9 8 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 8 9 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 7 10 Russell Downing (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 6 11 Travis Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 5 12 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 4 13 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 3 14 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 2 15 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 1 Mountains Cat 2, Falsgrave 1 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Rock Racing 6 pts 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 5 3 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 4 4 Travis Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 3 5 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 2 6 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 1 Cat 3, North Side 1 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 4 pts 2 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 3 3 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 2 4 Travis Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 1 Cat 3, Dalby Forest 1 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 4 pts 2 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 3 3 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 2 4 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Rock Racing 1 5 Travis Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS Sprints Barton 1 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 5 pts 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 3 3 Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld 2 4 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 1 Bridlington 1 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 5 pts 2 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Rock Racing 3 3 Travis Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 2 4 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1 Scarborough 1 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 5 pts 2 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 3 3 Travis Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 2 4 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Rock Racing 1 Teams 1 Team Columbia 11.19.31 2 Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.04 3 LPR Brakes - Ballan 0.07 4 Garmin - Chipotle 0.11 5 Agritubel 6 Topsport Vlaanderen 7 SouthAustralia.com - AIS 8 An Post M.Donnelly 9 Great Britain 10 MTN Energade 11 Barloworld 12 Rapha - Condor - Recycling.co. 0.54 13 Pinarello RT - Candi TV 14 Rock Racing 5.07 15 Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 7.03 16 Plowman Craven RT 11.14 General classification after stage 5 1 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 17.29.40 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 Emilien Berges (Fra) Agritubel 0.35 10 Russell Downing (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 1.24 11 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 1.40 12 Kristian House (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 1.44 13 Alejandro Marque (Spa) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 1.47 14 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1.49 15 David George (RSA) MTN Energade 16 Simon Richardson (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 1.59 17 Chris Sutton (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 18 Tom Southam (GBr) Great Britain 2.16 19 Kristof Vandewalle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 2.43 20 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 2.55 21 Kevin Evans (RSA) MTN Energade 3.26 22 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 11.56 23 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 12.15 24 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 12.16 25 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 12.32 26 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 12.38 27 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 12.41 28 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 12.43 29 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 12.45 30 Malcolm Elliott (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 12.46 31 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Team Columbia 32 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 33 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 12.51 34 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 13.08 35 Johnnie Walker (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 13.12 36 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 13.22 37 Waylon Woolcock (RSA) MTN Energade 13.23 38 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team Columbia 13.42 39 Simon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 40 Santiago Botero (Col) Rock Racing 41 Rob Partridge (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 13.51 42 Travis Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 14.14 43 David Blanco (Spa) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 14.42 44 Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld 14.59 45 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 15.01 46 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 15.02 47 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 15.38 48 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 16.20 49 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Agritubel 17.00 50 Tom Murray (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 17.11 51 Andrew Tennant (GBr) Great Britain 17.29 52 Jonathan McEvoy (GBr) Great Britain 17.42 53 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 17.51 54 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing 18.32 55 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 19.02 56 Trent Lowe (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 57 Peter Williams (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 19.34 58 Lee Davis (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 19.55 59 Paul Sneeboer (Ned) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 22.39 60 Juan Van Heerden (RSA) MTN Energade 24.11 61 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing 24.17 62 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 24.42 63 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 24.53 64 Greg Henderson (NZl) Team Columbia 24.55 65 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Rock Racing 24.57 66 Neil McDonald (RSA) MTN Energade 24.59 67 Rob Hayles (GBr) Great Britain 25.08 68 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 25.09 69 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 25.12 70 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 25.16 71 Dale Appleby (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 72 Bradley McGee (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 25.19 73 Cameron Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 74 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 25.21 75 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 25.24 76 Robbie Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 25.30 77 Chris Newton (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 78 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Team Columbia 26.05 79 James Millard (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 26.10 80 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 26.23 81 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Rock Racing 26.34 82 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 26.38 83 Jay Thomson (RSA) MTN Energade 27.19 84 Tom Barras (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 27.27 85 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 27.33 86 Tomas Swift-Metcalfe (GBr) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 27.43 87 Dean Downing (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 27.50 88 Koen Barbé (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 28.34 89 Simon Gaywood (GBr) Plowman Craven RT 40.59 90 Andrew Roche (Irl) Pinarello RT - Canditv 43.07 Points classification 1 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 39 pts 2 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 39 3 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 37 4 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 31 5 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 30 6 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 29 7 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 26 8 Dean Downing (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 26 9 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 21 10 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 21 11 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 20 12 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 19 13 Steve Cummings (GBr) Barloworld 18 14 Chris Sutton (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 16 15 Rob Hayles (GBr) Great Britain 16 16 Emilien Berges (Fra) Agritubel 15 17 Russell Downing (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 15 18 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 15 19 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 15 20 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 13 21 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 12 22 Dan Martin (Irl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 12 23 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Rock Racing 12 24 Malcolm Elliott (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 11 25 Greg Henderson (NZl) Team Columbia 11 26 Robbie Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 11 27 Ian Stannard (GBr) Great Britain 10 28 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 10 29 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 8 30 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 8 31 Johnnie Walker (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 5 32 Travis Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 5 33 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 4 34 Alejandro Marque (Spa) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 2 35 Kristof Vandewalle (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 2 36 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 2 37 Kristian House (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 1 38 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing 1 39 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 1 Mountains classification 1 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 29 pts 2 Kristian House (GBr) Rapha-Condor-Recycling.co.uk 19 3 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 19 4 Steve Cummings (GBr) Barloworld 15 5 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 14 6 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 11 7 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 11 8 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 10 9 Ian Stannard (GBr) Great Britain 9 10 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 8 11 David George (RSA) MTN Energade 8 12 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 8 13 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 8 14 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Rock Racing 7 15 Tom Southam (GBr) Great Britain 6 16 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 5 17 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 5 18 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 5 19 Russell Downing (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 4 20 Dan Martin (Irl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 4 21 Travis Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 4 22 Kevin Evans (RSA) MTN Energade 3 23 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 3 24 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 3 25 Tomas Swift-Metcalfe (GBr) Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 3 26 Emilien Berges (Fra) Agritubel 2 27 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Team Columbia 2 28 Johnnie Walker (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 2 29 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 2 30 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1 31 Chris Sutton (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 1 32 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 1 33 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1 34 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing 1 Sprints classification 1 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 17 pts 2 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Ballan 15 3 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia 13 4 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 10 5 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 10 6 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 9 7 Chris Sutton (Aus) Team Garmin-Chipotle-presnted by H30 9 8 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Agritubel 8 9 Russell Downing (GBr) Pinarello RT - Canditv 8 10 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 7 11 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 6 12 Steve Cummings (GBr) Barloworld 5 13 Ian Stannard (GBr) Great Britain 5 14 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing 5 15 Victor Hugo Peña (Col) Rock Racing 4 16 Travis Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 4 17 Kevin Evans (RSA) MTN Energade 3 18 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing 3 19 Rob Hayles (GBr) Great Britain 3 20 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 3 21 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 3 22 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 3 23 Daniel Fleeman (GBr) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 2 24 Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld 2 25 Emilien Berges (Fra) Agritubel 2 26 Vicente Reynes (Spa) Team Columbia 2 27 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) AnPost-M.Donnelly-GrantThornton-SeanKellyTeam 1 28 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 1 29 Simon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 1 30 Santiago Botero (Col) Rock Racing 1 Team classification 1 Agritubel 52.32.44 2 An Post M.Donnelly 9.27 3 LPR Brakes - Ballan 10.22 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 23.05 10 Team CSC - Saxo Bank 23.27 11 Rapha - Condor - Recycling.co. 24.32 12 Pinarello RT - Candi TV 25.42 13 Palmeiras Resort - Tavira 34.05 14 SouthAustralia.com - AIS 36.18 15 Plowman Craven RT 36.42 16 Rock Racing 40.29
