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Tour of California - 2.HC

USA, February 14-22, 2009

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Stage 5 - February 19: Visalia - Paso Robles, 216.1 km/134.3 mi

Cavendish delivers the double in Cali

By Mark Zalewski, North American Editor with Kirsten Robbins in Pasa Robles, California

Mark Cavendish takes win number two
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Mark Cavendish delivered a second stage win to his Columbia-Highroad squad in the fifth stage of Tour of California, once again getting the better of Quick Step's Tom Boonen in the bunch sprint. Rabobank's Pedro Horillo filled in for his fallen leader Oscar Freire, who crashed out in Wednesday's stage, with a fine third place finish.

"This was the stage I was targeting since we got here, it worked out perfectly," said Cavendish. "The guys worked so well for us. It was touch and go whether we were going to get the break back. Again it was George [Hincapie] and Mark Renshaw - once I get dropped off in that position there's no way I can do anything but win."

"My team and the other teams worked really hard to bring them back," said Cavendish of the break. "I had the best team in the world to lead me out. I had Big George in the last kilometres bringing me down [to the] the last kilometre which was a little downhill. Renshaw went again just before 500 metres to go and I was dropped off at 200 metres to go. There were loads of other teams there from Cervélo, Liquigas and QuickStep. It was a battle of the teams, really. Fortunately we came out on top."

Mark Cavendish is looked after
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Notwithstanding Cavendish's description of the battle of teams, he maintained his confident tone from yesterday's win. "I could see a shadow to my right and I thought it was Tom [Boonen]. I was looking at the video after and I realised it was me - I was racing against my own shadow! When I saw my shadow I kept going because yesterday I sat up early and he was close."

Once again Tom Boonen (Quick Step) was actually in Canvendish's shadow, this time almost by a bike length as the Columbia sprinter waited a little longer to start his celebration. "It was pretty fast and chaotic in the last kilometre but once we got through that it was ok," said Boonen. "I think we all did a really good job and there wasn’t anything else we could have done. The guys kept speeding up but it was impossible to pass."

Even though the Belgian is zero from two on the sprint stages, his trip to California is not all lost, as the first few days gave him good training for the races he is really targetting. "The early weather in this race helped me a lot [for the Classics]. I feel great now after racing two or three days in the rain!"

Levi Leipheimer (Astana) finished the stage well up in the top 20 to maintain his lead in the overall classification. With no KOM climbs on the day Francisco Mancebo (Rock Racing) effectively had a day off in defence of his KOM lead. He lost the sprint classification jersey lead to Cavendish however, with the Brit taking 15 points in that competition courtesy of the stage win.

The long road home

Lance Armstrong (Astana, r)
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Stage five from Visalia to Paso Robles was the longest journey of this year's Tour of California, and as usually occurs when the peloton is facing a long day in the saddle, the early break was given a long leash. Familiar with this protocol, teams which have not scored a stage win went on the attack from the gun.

At mile seven, the six lucky men formed the day's breakaway: Pieter Weening (Rabobank), Jeff Louder (BMC Racing Team), Cameron Evans (OUCH p/b Maxxis), Matthew Crane (Jelly Belly Cycling Team), Curtis Gunn (Fly V Australia) and Glen Chadwick (Rock Racing). They built up a 6:50 lead on the long, pancake-flat valley roads of King County.

The parcours for the day was more of a transition stage to get the race from the Sierra Nevadas back over to the coast and as such, the first two-thirds of the stage were long flat roads, with only seven turns in the first 100km. "It was pretty boring; we were trying to make jokes just to pass the time," Chadwick told Cyclingnews. "The best [joke] we saw was a 'dangerous descent' sign out there [on the flat.] That was probably the highlight of the day!"

The break worked well together
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The kiwi stalwart laughed when asked why he always ends up in the long breakaways. "It always seems that way. Rudy [Pevenage] told us we had the day off, but I said I would see what happens. I told everyone we weren't doing anything today, but I got into it nice and early - 200km off the front. Long roads and they were pretty rough. I thought I was in Quebec doing the Tour de Beauce, they were that rough!"

The break added another minute on the way up to the highest point of the stage at mile 95, putting Weening into the virtual overall lead. The Dutchman picked up time bonuses at both of the intermediate sprints: three seconds in Cholame and two in Shandon behind Evans.

"We worked really well together all day," said Matt Crane. "It took us 30 kilometres to get going and accustomed to where the wind was coming from. We rotated all day and in the last six kilometetres we started attacking each other. That started to break us up."

Mark Cavendish opens the sprint
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Louder and Gunn were dropped from the breakaway on a small climb in the final 20 miles, but the other four persevered, still holding 1'30 with 10km to go. The chase was touch and go, but the leading quartet failed to cooperate on the rolling approach to Paso Robles and were caught with 5km to go.

"I don't know how they do it but the ProTour teams always know how to time it," said Chadwick. "It's like a minute for every ten kilometres. So we had three minutes at 30 kilometres to go then two minutes at 20 kilometres to go!"

Astana controlled the peloton until an attack by Tim Johnson put the pressure on the sprinters' teams to get the race under control. Columbia-Highroad and Liquigas took the front of the peloton as Jens Voigt (Saxo Bank) bridged up to Johnson. A Liquigas rider also joined the brief breakaway until Columbia closed it down to set up the sprint for Cavendish.

The peloton split on the wide highway finish, with Cervélo setting up on the right and Columbia on the left, but another massive leadout by Mark Renshaw delivered Cavendish to his second consecutive stage victory.

Additional reporting from Peter Hymas. 

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Results

1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia - Highroad                          5.07.28
2 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step                                                   
3 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank                                                 
4 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas                                              
5 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervélo TestTeam                                           
6 Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Arg) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light          
7 Freddy Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing                                            
8 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale                                         
9 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) Fly V Australia                                      
10 Karl Menzies (Aus) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                                  
11 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank                                         
12 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank                                              
13 Ben Jacques-Maynes (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling                                 
14 Thomas Danielson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                   
15 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana                                                 
16 David Zabriskie (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                    
17 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank                                              
18 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia - Highroad                               
19 Lance Armstrong (USA) Astana                                                 
20 Christopher Horner (USA) Astana                                              
21 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank                                           
22 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Quick Step                                          
23 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad                                
24 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Rock Racing                                          
25 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad                                  
26 Luis Romero Amaran (Cub) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light            
27 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank                                                 
28 Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Rock Racing                                          
29 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing                                              
30 Davide Frattini (Ita) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light               
31 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas                                               
32 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team Saxo Bank                                          
33 Jurgen van de Walle (Bel) Quick Step                                         
34 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana                                                 
35 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                              
36 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas                                                    
37 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                      
38 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Liquigas                                              
39 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas                                            
40 Nick Reistad (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                                  
41 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Cervélo TestTeam                                       
42 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank                                          
43 Stef Clement (Ned) Rabobank                                                  
44 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas                                               
45 Ińigo Cuesta (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam                                          
46 Andy Guptill (USA) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light                  
47 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                    
48 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana                                               
49 George Hincapie (USA) Team Columbia - Highroad                               
50 Weert Kevin De (Bel) Quick Step                                              
51 Timothy Johnson (USA) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                               
52 Rory Sutherland (Aus) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                               
53 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank                                            
54 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Astana                                               
55 Cameron Evans (Can) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                                 
56 Svein Tuft (Can) Garmin - Slipstream                                         
57 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                       
58 Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light                    
59 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - Highroad                                 
60 Dominique Rollin (Can) Cervélo TestTeam                                  0.13
61 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana                                                    
62 Hayden Roulston (NZl) Cervélo TestTeam                                   0.20
63 Glen Chadwick (NZl) Rock Racing                                              
64 Matthew Crane (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                                 
65 Marco Velo (Ita) Quick Step                                                  
66 Daniel Oss (Ita) Liquigas                                                    
67 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Cervélo TestTeam                                         
68 Jason Mccartney (USA) Team Saxo Bank                                     0.33
69 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana                                              0.47
70 Ian McKissick (USA) BMC Racing Team                                      0.53
71 Thomas Frei (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                            
72 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale                                     
73 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                         
74 Frank Pipp (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling                                         
75 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                                  
76 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank                                                 
77 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step                                              
78 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Team Type 1                                             
79 Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukr) Team Type 1                                         
80 Christopher Jones (USA) Team Type 1                                          
81 Adam Hansen (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad                                   
82 Peter Latham (NZl) Bissell Pro Cycling                                       
83 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank                                                
84 Tom Zirbel (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling                                         
85 Aaron Olson (USA) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light                   
86 Brian Vandborg (Den) Liquigas                                                
87 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Rock Racing                                             
88 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                       
89 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam                                         
90 Chris Baldwin (USA) Rock Racing                                              
91 Jonathan Patrick McCarty (USA) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                      
92 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quick Step                                              
93 Mauricio Ardila (Col) Rabobank                                               
94 Ben Day (Aus) Fly V Australia                                                
95 Markus Zberg (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                           
96 Addy Engels (Ned) Quick Step                                                 
97 Will Routley (Can) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                                  
98 Floyd Landis (USA) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                                  
99 Bradley White (USA) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                             1.44
100 Robert Gunn (USA) Fly V Australia                                           
101 Jeremy Vennell (NZl) Bissell Pro Cycling                                1.59
102 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                    
103 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                     2.06
104 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                        
105 Bernard Van Ulden (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                        2.14
106 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream                                    3.05
107 Phillip Gaimon (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                           6.07
108 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team                                     6.10
 
Sprints
 
Cholame
 
1 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank                                                5 pts
2 Cameron Evans (Can) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                                 3
3 Robert Gunn (USA) Fly V Australia                                            1
 
Shandon
 
1 Cameron Evans (Can) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                                 5 pts
2 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank                                                3
3 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team                                          1
 
Paso Robles
 
1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia - Highroad                               15 pts
2 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step                                                 12
3 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank                                               10
4 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas                                             7
5 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervélo TestTeam                                          6
6 Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Arg) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light         5
7 Freddy Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing                                           4
8 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale                                        3
9 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) Fly V Australia                                     2
10 Karl Menzies (Aus) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                                 1
 
Teams
 
1 Team Columbia-High Road                                               15.22.24
2 Rabobank                                                                      
3 Team Saxo Bank                                                                
4 Astana                                                                        
5 Quick Step                                                                    
6 Rock Racing                                                                   
7 Colavita/Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light                                        
8 Garmin-Slipstream                                                             
9 Liquigas                                                                      
10 Cervelo Test Team                                                            
11 Ouch Presented By Maxxis                                                     
12 AG2R La Mondiale                                                         0.53
13 Jelly Belly Cycling Team                                                 1.13
14 Bissell Pro Cycling                                                      1.46
15 Fly V Australia p/b Successful Living Foundation                         2.37
16 BMC Racing Team                                                          2.39
17 Team Type 1                                                                  
 
General classification after stage 5
 
1 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana                                          23.41.20
2 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad                             0.24
3 David Zabriskie (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                 0.28
4 Lance Armstrong (USA) Astana                                              0.30
5 Christopher Horner (USA) Astana                                           0.34
6 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana                                              0.38
7 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia - Highroad                                
8 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Astana                                                
9 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas                                                
10 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank                                             0.39
11 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing                                              
12 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank                                          0.40
13 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas                                                0.42
14 Thomas Danielson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                   
15 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Quick Step                                      0.51
16 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Rock Racing                                      0.53
17 Jurgen van de Walle (Bel) Quick Step                                     2.12
18 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank                                             3.03
19 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank                                          4.32
20 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank                                       4.40
21 Ińigo Cuesta (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam                                      4.45
22 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quick Step                                          5.25
23 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                5.56
24 George Hincapie (USA) Team Columbia - Highroad                           5.59
25 Ben Jacques-Maynes (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling                             6.01
26 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                          6.04
27 Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Rock Racing                                      6.08
28 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank                                          
29 Luis Romero Amaran (Cub) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light            
30 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana                                           6.09
31 Tom Zirbel (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling                                     6.53
32 Hayden Roulston (NZl) Cervélo TestTeam                                   6.56
33 Weert Kevin De (Bel) Quick Step                                          7.01
34 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank                                                
35 Ian McKissick (USA) BMC Racing Team                                      7.06
36 Thomas Frei (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                        7.13
37 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                     7.21
38 Floyd Landis (USA) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                              7.43
39 Dominique Rollin (Can) Cervélo TestTeam                                  9.07
40 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                   9.08
41 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale                                    9.09
42 Frank Pipp (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling                                    10.07
43 Will Routley (Can) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                             10.19
44 Jeremy Vennell (NZl) Bissell Pro Cycling                                11.02
45 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team Saxo Bank                                     14.39
46 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                 14.59
47 Svein Tuft (Can) Garmin - Slipstream                                    15.13
48 Jason Mccartney (USA) Team Saxo Bank                                    15.36
49 Davide Frattini (Ita) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light          15.40
50 Jonathan Patrick McCarty (USA) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                 15.44
51 Glen Chadwick (NZl) Rock Racing                                         15.49
52 Cameron Evans (Can) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                            15.51
53 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank                                       16.44
54 Matthew Crane (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                            18.02
55 Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                    18.26
56 Rory Sutherland (Aus) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                          18.45
57 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step                                             21.05
58 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervélo TestTeam                                     21.07
59 Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukr) Team Type 1                                    21.33
60 Grégory Rast (Swi) Astana                                               21.40
61 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale                                22.19
62 Markus Zberg (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                      22.21
63 Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light               22.24
64 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana                                             23.11
65 Timothy Johnson (USA) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                          24.02
66 Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Arg) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light    24.15
67 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Team Type 1                                        24.53
68 Mauricio Ardila (Col) Rabobank                                          24.55
69 Addy Engels (Ned) Quick Step                                            25.43
70 Christopher Jones (USA) Team Type 1                                     25.46
71 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                     26.07
72 Bradley White (USA) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                            26.26
73 Brian Vandborg (Den) Liquigas                                           26.57
74 Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream                                    27.56
75 Aaron Olson (USA) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light              28.07
76 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Cervélo TestTeam                                    28.28
77 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia - Highroad                           29.30
78 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad                             29.45
79 Bernard Van Ulden (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                        29.51
80 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank                                    29.52
81 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank                                           29.55
82 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Cervélo TestTeam                                  29.56
83 Stef Clement (Ned) Rabobank                                             29.58
84 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - Highroad                            30.02
85 Phillip Gaimon (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                           30.07
86 Nick Reistad (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                             30.09
87 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) Fly V Australia                                30.15
88 Marco Velo (Ita) Quick Step                                             30.20
89 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas                                          30.27
90 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                  30.45
91 Peter Latham (NZl) Bissell Pro Cycling                                  30.47
92 Ben Day (Aus) Fly V Australia                                           30.52
93 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                                  
94 Chris Baldwin (USA) Rock Racing                                         30.55
95 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Rock Racing                                        31.37
96 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step                                         31.49
97 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                                32.02
98 Robert Gunn (USA) Fly V Australia                                       32.25
99 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team                                     32.52
100 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Cervélo TestTeam                                   33.39
101 Adam Hansen (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad                             33.52
102 Karl Menzies (Aus) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                            34.59
103 Daniel Oss (Ita) Liquigas                                              35.33
104 Freddy Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing                                     36.39
105 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas                                      36.51
106 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Liquigas                                        36.55
107 Andy Guptill (USA) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light            36.59
108 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas                                       38.22
 
Sprint classification
 
1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia - Highroad                               36 pts
2 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Rock Racing                                         30
3 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervélo TestTeam                                         28
4 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step                                                 24
5 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                   15
6 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                      13
7 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana                                                12
8 Jurgen van de Walle (Bel) Quick Step                                        12
9 Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Arg) Colavita / Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light        12
10 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank                                              11
11 Freddy Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing                                         11
12 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad                              10
13 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas                                             10
14 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad                                10
15 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank                                       10
16 Christopher Horner (USA) Astana                                            10
17 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Quick Step                                         9
18 Jason Mccartney (USA) Team Saxo Bank                                        9
19 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing                                             8
20 Markus Zberg (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                          8
21 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank                                               8
22 Cameron Evans (Can) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                                8
23 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana                                                7
24 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas                                            7
25 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank                                             7
26 Lance Armstrong (USA) Astana                                                6
27 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank                                                6
28 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Rock Racing                                            6
29 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Cervélo TestTeam                                      5
30 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Astana                                              5
31 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quick Step                                             5
32 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team                                         5
33 Brian Vandborg (Den) Liquigas                                               5
34 Thomas Danielson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                  4
35 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale                                       4
36 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) Fly V Australia                                    4
37 Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukr) Team Type 1                                        4
38 Timothy Johnson (USA) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                              4
39 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank                                                3
40 Bradley White (USA) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                                3
41 David Zabriskie (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                   1
42 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank                                           1
43 Karl Menzies (Aus) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                                 1
44 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Cervélo TestTeam                                        1
45 Robert Gunn (USA) Fly V Australia                                           1
 
Mountains classification
 
1 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Rock Racing                                         43 pts
2 Jason Mccartney (USA) Team Saxo Bank                                        29
3 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Rock Racing                                            22
4 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Cervélo TestTeam                                        17
5 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank                                                13
6 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana                                                10
7 Timothy Johnson (USA) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                              10
8 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                       8
9 Bradley White (USA) OUCH Presented By Maxxis                                 8
10 Brian Vandborg (Den) Liquigas                                               8
11 Jeffry Louder (USA) BMC Racing Team                                         8
12 Christopher Horner (USA) Astana                                             7
13 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Astana                                              7
14 Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quick Step                                             6
15 Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukr) Team Type 1                                        6
16 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                   5
17 Ben Jacques-Maynes (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling                                5
18 Lance Armstrong (USA) Astana                                                2
19 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - Highroad                                2
20 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia - Highroad                              1
21 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas                                              1
22 Glen Chadwick (NZl) Rock Racing                                             1
 
Best young rider
 
1 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank                                          23.41.59
2 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Quick Step                                       0.12
3 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank                                              2.24
4 Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                 5.17
5 Thomas Frei (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                         6.34
6 Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream                                    8.29
7 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank                                        16.05
8 Matthew Crane (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                             17.23
9 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                      25.28
10 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia - Highroad                           28.51
11 Phillip Gaimon (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                           29.28
12 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team                             30.13
13 Daniel Oss (Ita) Liquigas                                               34.54
14 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Liquigas                                         36.16
 
Teams classification
 
1 Astana                                                                71.05.10
2 Garmin-Slipstream                                                         3.58
3 Team Saxo Bank                                                            5.41
4 Team Columbia-High Road                                                   5.46
5 Quick Step                                                                6.05
6 Rabobank                                                                  6.07
7 Rock Racing                                                               6.39
8 Cervelo Test Team                                                        17.42
9 AG2R La Mondiale                                                         21.21
10 Bissell Pro Cycling                                                     21.40
11 Ouch Presented By Maxxis                                                21.58
12 BMC Racing Team                                                         22.56
13 Liquigas                                                                24.09
14 Colavita/Sutter Home p/b Cooking Light                                  35.58
15 Jelly Belly Cycling Team                                                50.38
16 Team Type 1                                                           1.05.37
17 Fly V Australia p/b Successful Living Foundation                      1.08.01

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