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42nd Vuelta al País Vasco - 2.HC
Spain, April 8-12, 2002
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Stage 3 - April 10: Vitoria - Alasua, 170 km
Aitor Osa takes over
By Martin Hardie, cyclingnews.com correspondent
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Aitor Osa (iBanesto.com) has taken over the lead in the Vuelta a Pais Vasco, after winning today's 170 km third stage from Vitoria in the province of Araba to Altsasu in Navarra. Osa beat his breakaway companion Bingen Fernandez (Euskaltel), with Rabobank's Bram De Groot taking the sprint for the next group of riders, 1.28 behind. The peloton finished at 3'48, meaning that Osa is now the leader of the race.
The third stage continued through the valleys and hills of the Basque Country, crossing today El Alto de Opakua (Cat 1), el Alto de Urbasa (Cat 2) and el Alto de La Cadena (Cat 3º) twice.
The anti doping controls were conducted at a sensible time, between 7:00am and 8:15am with blood extracted from 7 teams and 48 riders. Subject to the controls were: Alessio, Ag2R, ibanesto.com, Kelme - Costablanca, Lampre-Daikin, Lotto-Adecco, Saeco and Telekom. All riders were declared "fit".
139 riders commenced the day in cold and rainy weather but this did not stop Cédric Vasseur (Cofidis) and Pietro Caucchioli (Alessio) attempting an early escape as they passed the town of Gereñu at the 23 km mark. The two managed an early gap of only 20 seconds which they extended to 57 seconds as the foot of the Alto de Opakua.
Four riders moved away from the bunch on the climb but did not quite reach the two escapees. The climb saw Joseba Beloki (ONCE-Eroski), Aitor González and Di Luca (Saeco) in trouble off the back. Beloki soon abandoned as did Sabaliauskas and Spezialetti (both of Saeco). On the descent the leading pair changed with Pietro Caucchioli losing his partner Vasseur but gaining the ever-present Unai Etxebarria (Euskaltel). They had a gap of 20 seconds.
The mountain prime of the Alto de Urbasa was taken by Caucchioli, followed by Hamilton and Kivilev. A group of 15 formed and quickly created a gap of 2'50 on the peloton. Between the group and the peloton were Rik Verbrugghe, Bingen Fernández and Igor Astarloa all on the same time as Beat Zberg the leader on GC.
Over the next few kilometres there were constant changes at the head of the course with Toledo (Jazztel) and Unai Etxebarria (Euskaltel) setting the pace. Etxebarria soon escaped on an adventure of his own, maybe thinking yesterday's attack was a little too close to home for victory. He was chased by Toledo. Behind, a group of De Groot (Rabobank), Cioni (Mapei), Latasa, Osa and Vila (iBanesto), Bingen Fernández (Cofidis), Olano (ONCE - Eroski), Caucchioli (Alessio), Igor Flores (Euskaltel), Garmendia (Coast), Astarloa (Saeco) and Maestre (Relax) maintained their distance from the peloton and drew Toledo back.
Over the next thirty minutes Etxebarria opened a gap of 1'20, with Iñigo Chaurreau (Ag2R) 3'35 behind and the peloton 5'11 behind. By this time, the Basque, Igor Astarloa (Saeco) was the leader of GC on the road. At this stage the local press were referring to Etxebarria's magnificent display of force.
With 30 kilometres left, Etxebarria had a lead of 1.33 on the group of 14 who were still 5'30 ahead of the peloton which had caught Chaurreau. Big changes may occur today in the GC.
The Banesto members of the break started to lift the pace and soon reduced the gap to Etxebarria to 58 seconds. Aitor Osa (iBanesto) was looking strong, being one of the three of the 14 who had started the day on the same time as Zberg; The others being Bingen Fernández (Cofidis) and Igor Astarloa (Saeco). So the stage leader on the road and the three GC contenders at this stage are all native Basque riders.
The work of the group behind soon had Etxebarria looking behind, the gap falling to 21 seconds in the face of the climb of the Cadena. Aitor Osa attacked with Cioni and Bingen Fernandez following. They caught Etxebarria and quickly Osa and Fernandez moved away alone. Osa took the mountain prime with Fernandez saving his energy. The group fell apart on the climb with the first following 30 seconds behind the others at one minute behind. The peloton still 4.50 behind.
Osa and Fernandez worked together braving the bad, cold weather as they headed towards Alasuna or Altsasu as they entered the last kilometre they still had a one minute gap on their pursuers. Osa led out the sprint, Fernandez attacked down the left but Osa was strong and held him off to take the stage and the yellow jersey.
The pursuers were led in 1.28 later by Bram de Groot (Rabobank).
Results
1 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 4.15.28 2 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 3 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 1.29 4 Francis Vila Errandonea (Spa) iBanesto.com 1.30 5 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 6 Abraham Olano (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 7 Gustavo Mario Toledo (Arg) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 1.38 8 Dario Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 2.18 9 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 2.27 10 Igor Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.35 12 Jose M. Maestre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 13 Mario Aerts (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 3.45 14 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Telekom 15 Beat Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 16 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 17 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19 Jose Garrido (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 20 Gonzalo Bayarri (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 21 Rolf Aldag (Ger) Team Telekom 22 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 23 Igor Gonzalez De Galdeano (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 24 Rafael Casero Moreno (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 25 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 26 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Team Coast 27 Juan Jose De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 28 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Alessio 29 Marco Serrano Rodriguez (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 30 Aitor Gonzalez Jimenez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 31 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 32 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC Tiscali 33 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 34 Alex Zulle (Swi) Team Coast 35 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 36 Andrea Noe (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 37 Santiago Perez Fdez. (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 38 Alexander Shefer (Kaz) Alessio 39 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Saeco-Longoni Sport 40 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 41 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Lampre-Daikin 42 Massimo Codol (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 43 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Rabobank 44 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 45 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 46 Cadel Evans (Aus) Mapei-Quick Step 47 Jose Azevedo (Por) ONCE-Eroski 48 Ivan Gotti (Ita) Alessio 49 Thomas Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 50 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 51 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 52 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis 53 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Team CSC Tiscali 54 Levy Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 55 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) iBanesto.com 56 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) ONCE-Eroski 57 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 58 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 59 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 60 Udo Bolts (Ger) Team Telekom 61 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 62 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) iBanesto.com 63 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis 64 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Alessio 65 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Alessio 66 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Alessio 67 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 68 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 69 Inigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 70 Ricardo Valdez (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 71 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 72 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 73 Cesar Solaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 74 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.59 75 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 76 Ivan Basso (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 77 Antonio Colom (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 4.02 78 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 79 Ellis Rastelli (Ita) Gerolsteiner 80 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 4.07 81 Luca Paolini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 4.11 82 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Team CSC Tiscali 9.42 83 Raimondas Rumsas (Ltu) Lampre-Daikin 84 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 85 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre-Daikin 86 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 87 David Plaza (Spa) Team Coast 88 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 89 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 90 Gustavo Otero Gomez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 91 Danny Jonasson (Den) Team CSC Tiscali 92 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 93 Francisco Lara (Spa) Team Coast 9.51 94 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 9.55 95 Jose Vazquez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 10.21 96 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 18.44 97 Kurt Van Lancker (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 21.17 98 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 99 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 27.49 100 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 101 Dario Gadeo (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 102 Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita) Cofidis 103 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 104 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 105 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 106 Marcelino Garcia Alonso (Spa) Team CSC Tiscali 107 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 108 Juan Carlos Guillamom (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeri 109 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Saeco-Longoni Sport 110 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Saeco-Longoni Sport DNF Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Fassa Bortolo DNF Andreas Kloden (Ger) Team Telekom DNF Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) Team Telekom DNF Bobby Julich (USA) Team Telekom DNF Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Team Telekom DNF Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Lotto-Adecco DNF Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) iBanesto.com DNF Joseba Beloki (Spa) ONCE-Eroski DNF Francisco Leon Mane (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca DNF Carlos Garcia (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca DNF Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC Tiscali DNF Francisco Cerezo Perales (Spa) Team CSC Tiscali DNF Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC Tiscali DNF Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport DNF Oscar Mason (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport DNF Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco-Longoni Sport DNF Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport DNF Luis Perez Rodriguez (Spa) Team Coast DNF Alexandre Grux (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance DNF Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance DNF Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance DNF Nacor Burgos (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada DNF David Vazquez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada DNF Sergio Perez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada DNF Cesar Garcia (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada DNF Pedro Diaz (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria DNF Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Daniele Contrini (Ita) Gerolsteiner Mountains Alto De Opakua - Cat. 2 1 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 10 pts 2 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 8 3 Rafael Casero Moreno (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 6 4 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) iBanesto.com 4 5 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 6 Gonzalo Bayarri (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 1 Alto De Urbasa - Cat. 2 1 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 6 pts 2 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Team CSC Tiscali 4 3 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 2 4 Rafael Casero Moreno (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 1 Alto De La Cadena - Cat. 3, km 98 1 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 pts 2 Gustavo Mario Toledo (Arg) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 2 3 Francis Vila Errandonea (Spa) iBanesto.com 1 Alto De La Cadena - Cat. 3, km 150 1 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 3 pts 2 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 2 3 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 1 Metas Volantes Agurain - km 30 1 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 3 pts 2 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 2 3 Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) iBanesto.com 1 Olazti - km 80 1 Igor Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 pts 2 Dario Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 2 3 Abraham Olano (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 1 Lizarraga - Nasipa - km 96 1 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 pts 2 Gustavo Mario Toledo (Arg) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 2 3 Igor Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Lizarraga - Dinescon - km 148 1 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 3 pts 2 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 2 3 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Teams 1 iBanesto.com 12.51.39 2 Cofidis 2.15 3 Rabobank 3.44 4 ONCE - Eroski 3.45 5 Alessio 6 Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 3.53 7 Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.32 8 Mapei-Quick Step 4.33 9 Team Coast 4.42 10 Kelme-Costa Blanca 6.00 11 Team Telekom 12 Lotto-Adecco 13 Fassa Bortolo 14 Lampre - Daikin 11.57 15 Team CSC Tiscali 16 Relax-Fuenlabrada 12.17 17 Ag2R Prevoyance 12.19 18 Gerolsteiner 30.21 19 Saeco Macchine Per Caffe 54.08 General classification after stage 3 1 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 12.46.43 2 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 3 Francis Vila Errandonea (Spa) iBanesto.com 3.15 4 Abraham Olano (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 5 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 6 Beat Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 3.45 7 David Etxebarria (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 Gonzalo Bayarri (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 10 Mario Aerts (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 11 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 12 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 13 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Saeco-Longoni Sport 14 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Team Coast 15 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Telekom 16 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Team Coast 17 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 18 Marco Serrano Rodriguez (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 19 Alexander Shefer (Kaz) Alessio 20 Cadel Evans (Aus) Mapei-Quick Step 21 Igor Gonzalez De Galdeano (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 22 Andrea Noe (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 23 Alex Zulle (Swi) Team Coast 24 Jose Azevedo (Por) ONCE-Eroski 25 Juan Jose De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 26 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) ONCE-Eroski 27 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Alessio 28 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 29 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 30 Inigo Cuesta (Spa) Cofidis 31 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Lampre-Daikin 32 Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Team Coast 5.04 33 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.14 34 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC Tiscali 5.30 35 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Alessio 36 Rafael Casero Moreno (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 37 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 38 Santiago Perez Fdez. (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 39 Unai Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 40 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Alessio 41 Udo Bolts (Ger) Team Telekom 42 Thomas Brozyna (Pol) iBanesto.com 43 Ricardo Valdez (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 44 Ivan Gotti (Ita) Alessio 45 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Cofidis 46 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 47 Alberto Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.44 48 Ivan Basso (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 49 Antonio Colom (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 5.47 50 Jose M. Maestre (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 6.12 51 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 6.22 52 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) iBanesto.com 53 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) iBanesto.com 54 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Rabobank 55 Cesar Solaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 56 Ellis Rastelli (Ita) Gerolsteiner 6.39 57 Levy Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 7.52 58 Massimo Codol (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 9.29 59 Jose Vazquez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 10.21 60 Raimondas Rumsas (Ltu) Lampre-Daikin 11.27 61 David Plaza (Spa) Team Coast 62 Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 63 Oscar Laguna (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 12.32 64 Gustavo Mario Toledo (Arg) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 13.44 65 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 13.51 66 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 67 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 68 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 69 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Alessio 70 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 71 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 15.26 72 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Team CSC Tiscali 15.51 73 Aitor Gonzalez Jimenez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 15.51 74 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 19.48 75 Dario Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 20.45 76 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 21.21 77 Gustavo Otero Gomez (Spa) Kelme-Costa Blanca 21.48 78 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 22.12 79 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis 80 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25.19 81 Danny Jonasson (Den) Team CSC Tiscali 27.34 82 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre-Daikin 28.09 83 Igor Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 28.23 84 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 29.34 85 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 86 Rolf Aldag (Ger) Team Telekom 29.41 87 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 88 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 30.03 89 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 30.26 90 Jose Garrido (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 31.41 91 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 31.58 92 Luca Paolini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 32.07 93 Dario Gadeo (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 34.14 94 David Latasa (Spa) iBanesto.com 95 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 35.11 96 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 37.27 97 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Team CSC Tiscali 37.38 98 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 99 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 100 Marcelino Garcia Alonso (Spa) Team CSC Tiscali 41.52 101 Francisco Lara (Spa) Team Coast 42.11 102 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 49.13 103 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Saeco-Longoni Sport 53.45 104 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 105 Kurt Van Lancker (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 54.59 106 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 55.45 107 Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita) Cofidis 108 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 109 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Saeco-Longoni Sport 1.01.31 110 Juan Carlos Guillamom (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria Mountains classification 1 Massimo Codol (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 25 2 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 17 3 Marcelino Garcia Alonso (Spa) Team CSC Tiscali 11 4 Alberto Lopez De Munain (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 5 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 8 6 Rafael Casero Moreno (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 7 7 Gonzalo Bayarri (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 7 8 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 6 9 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 6 10 Ricardo Valdez (Spa) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 5 Metas volantes classification 1 Massimo Codol (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 7 2 Igor Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 3 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 6 4 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 5 Aitor Osa (Spa) iBanesto.com 3 6 Francis Vila Errandonea (Spa) iBanesto.com 3 7 Marcelino Garcia Alonso (Spa) Team CSC Tiscali 3 8 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 2 9 Gustavo Mario Toledo (Arg) Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 2 10 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 2 Teams classification 1 Cofidis 38.27.39 2 iBanesto.com 1.15 3 ONCE - Eroski 1.30 4 Mapei-Quick Step 2.18 5 Team Coast 2.27 6 Alessio 3.15 7 Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.56 8 Rabobank 4.06 9 Jazztel-Costa De Almeria 5.08 10 Lotto-Adecco 5.30 11 Kelme-Costa Blanca 7.15 12 Team Telekom 13 Lampre - Daikin 13.12 14 Relax-Fuenlabrada 13.26 15 Ag2R Prevoyance 16.11 16 Fassa Bortolo 23.05 17 Team CSC Tiscali 25.18 18 Gerolsteiner 32.28 19 Saeco Macchine Per Caffe 1.35.01
