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56th Peace Race/Course de la Paix - 2.2
Czech Republic, May 9-17, 2003
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Stage 4 - May 12: Klodzko (Poland) - Walbrzych, 179.4 km
Wesemann takes over lead
A massive seven minute advantage at the finish of stage four has put Steffen Wesemann (Telekom) and his breakaway companion Ondrej Sosenka (CCC-Polsat) as the two men most likely to win the 56th Peace Race. After a 173 kilometre stage containing eight categorised climbs, Sosenka sprinted by Wesemann to win the stage, while the German took over the leader's jersey. There are still five stages to come in the Peace Race, but Wesemann and Telekom look to have things under control. Wesemann's lead over Sosenka is only seven seconds, but this will be easier to defend as there is no time trial, which is Sosenka's specialty.
"Now I have just one rival. I want to hold the yellow jersey until the end," said Wesemann afterwards.
The fourth stage from Klodzko to Walbrzych was definitely not one for the sprinters, containing six Cat. 2 and two Cat. 1 climbs along the way. The first to attack was Kazimierz Stafiej, the leader in the sprints classification, who went clear after 20 kilometres and was eventually joined by nine others, including Heppner, Pinotti, Haselbacher, Schreck, Piatek, and Klymenko.
The group maintained a modest lead which crept up to 2'20, before three riders attacked the peloton to bridge up: Steffen Wesemann, Ondrej Sosenka and Enrico Poitschke left the rest after 88 kilometres, and caught the leaders within 10 kilometres. It didn't take long for Wesemann and Sosenka to drop their breakaway companions, and the pair rode away with just under 70 kilometres to go.
Their lead steadily grew, as no-one behind had the strength to chase. With 40 km to go it was two minutes, and kept increasing all the way to the finish, where it was almost seven minutes on a group of ten riders, which contained several members of the early break. Sosenka was too strong for Wesemann at the end, but the latter was rewarded with the yellow jersey, which he intends to keep. In third place was Jakob Piil (CSC), winner of the Peace Race in 2001.
Results
1 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) CCC-Polsat 4.37.36 (37.91 km/h) 2 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Telekom 3 Jakob Piil (Den) Team CSC 6.58 4 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 5 Eddy Serri (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 6 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz 7 Tomas Konecny (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 8 Marek Galinski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 9 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 10 Petr Bencik (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 11 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 12 Jens Heppner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 13 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) CCC-Polsat 11.00 14 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 15 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 16 Alan Iacuone (Aus) Flanders-IteamNova.com 17 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Telekom 18 Steve De Wolf (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 19 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 20 René Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 15.22 21 Wiktor Rapinski (Blr) Saturn Cycling Team 16.28 22 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Team CSC 23 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 24 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Russian National Team 25 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Mroz 26 Robert Radosz (Pol) Servisco - Koop 27 Dmitri Dementiev (Rus) Russian National Team 28 Alexander Klymenko (Ukr) Mroz 29 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 30 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 31 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz 32 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 33 Alessand Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 34 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 35 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Telekom 36 Phil Zajicek (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 37 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 38 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner 39 Alessandr Bertolini (Ita) Alessio 40 Fabio Testi (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 41 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 42 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) CCC-Polsat 43 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 23.02 44 Kasper Sowinski (Pol) Joko Velamos 45 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 46 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team CSC 47 Lubomir Tesar (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 48 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Mroz 49 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 50 Dmitri Gainitdinov (Rus) Russian National Team 51 Zbigniew Spruch (Pol) Lampre 52 Massimo Cigana (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 53 Marc McCormack (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 54 Jimmi Madsen (Den) Team CSC 55 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 56 Thomas Bruun Eriksen (Den) Team CSC 57 Bobby Julich (USA) Team Telekom 58 Lukasz Podolski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 59 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russian National Team 28.53 60 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger) Team Telekom 61 Frantisek Trkal (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 62 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 63 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) Team Telekom 64 Krystof Ciesilski (Pol) Servisco - Koop 33.52 65 Andrea Brognara (Ita) Alessio 66 Grzegorz Wajs (Pol) Servisco - Koop 67 Dominique Perras (Can) Flanders-IteamNova.com 68 Trent Wilson (Aus) Flanders-IteamNova.com 69 Michal Precechtel (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 70 Eric Baumann (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 71 Daniel Czajkowski (Pol) Servisco - Koop 72 Tomas Buchacek (Cze) Joko Velamos 73 Christoph Roodhooft (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 74 Davy Commeyne (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 75 Karl Pauwels (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 76 Dariusz Skoczylas (Pol) CCC-Polsat 77 Lubomir Kejval (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 78 Alberto Vinale (Ita) Alessio 79 Jamie Drew (Aus) Flanders-IteamNova.com 80 Marek Maciejewski (Pol) Servisco - Koop 81 Marcin Lewandowski (Pol) Mroz 82 Roberto Lochowski (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 83 Enrico Degano (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 84 Przemys Mikolajczyk (Pol) Servisco - Koop 85 Grzegorz Rosolinski (Pol) Servisco - Koop 86 David Kopp (Ger) Team Telekom 87 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Telekom 88 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Mroz 89 Jindrich Vana (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 90 Artur Krzeszowiec (Cze) Joko Velamos 91 William Frischkorn (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 92 Charles Dionne (Can) Saturn Cycling Team 93 Frederik Penne (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 94 Davide Frantini (Ita) Alessio 95 Christian Lademannn (Ger) eD'system-ZVVZ 96 Francesco Belotti (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino DNF Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre DNF Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Davide Casarotto (Ita) Alessio DNF Andrea Ferrigato (Ita) Alessio DNF Radek Blahut (Cze) Joko Velamos DNF Petr Klasa (Cze) Joko Velamos DNF Alexander Bespalov (Rus) Russian National Team DNF Alexei Medvedev (Rus) Russian National Team DNF Artem Mavlianov (Rus) Russian National Team DNF Scott Guyton (NZl) Flanders-IteamNova.com DNF David McKenzie (Aus) Flanders-IteamNova.com DNS Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Lampre DNS Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNS Stefano Casagranda (Ita) Alessio Sprints Sprint, km 44,2 1 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz 3 pts 2 René Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 2 3 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz 1 Sprint, km 99,2 1 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz 3 pts 2 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz 2 3 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 1 Sprint, km 122,8 1 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Telekom 3 pts 2 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) CCC-Polsat 2 3 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1 Mountains Climb - Cat. 2, km 1 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz 3 pts 2 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 2 3 Jens Heppner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1 Climb - Cat. 2, km 1 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz 3 pts 2 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 2 3 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz 1 Climb - Cat. 1, km 1 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz 7 pts 2 Jens Heppner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 5 3 Alexander Klymenko (Ukr) Mroz 3 4 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz 2 5 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 1 Climb - Cat. 2, km 1 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz 3 pts 2 Jens Heppner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 2 3 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz 1 Climb - Cat. 2, km 1 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 3 pts 2 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Telekom 2 3 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) CCC-Polsat 1 Climb - Cat. 2, km 1 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) CCC-Polsat 3 pts 2 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Telekom 2 3 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1 Climb - Cat. 1, km 1 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Telekom 7 pts 2 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) CCC-Polsat 5 3 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz 3 4 Jens Heppner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 2 5 Petr Bencik (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 1 Climb - Cat. 2, km 1 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) CCC-Polsat 3 pts 2 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Telekom 2 3 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz 1 General classification after stage 4 1 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Telekom 16.20.35 2 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) CCC-Polsat 0.07 3 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 7.10 4 Jakob Piil (Den) Team CSC 7.13 5 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz 6 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 7.16 7 Tomas Konecny (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 7.17 8 Marek Galinski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 9 Jens Heppner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 10 Petr Bencik (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 11 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 12 Eddy Serri (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 13 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) CCC-Polsat 11.19 14 Steve De Wolf (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 15 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 16 Alan Iacuone (Aus) Flanders-IteamNova.com 17 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Telekom 18 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 19 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 12.32 20 René Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 15.33 21 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Telekom 16.19 22 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz 16.31 23 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 16.47 24 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 25 Wiktor Rapinski (Blr) Saturn Cycling Team 26 Robert Radosz (Pol) Servisco - Koop 27 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 28 Alessand Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 29 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 30 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Team CSC 31 Dmitri Dementiev (Rus) Russian National Team 32 Fabio Testi (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 33 Alexander Klymenko (Ukr) Mroz 34 Phil Zajicek (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 35 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Mroz 36 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Russian National Team 37 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 38 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner 39 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 18.14 40 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 18.43 41 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) CCC-Polsat 23.01 42 Alessandr Bertolini (Ita) Alessio 23.09 43 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 23.15 44 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 23.17 45 Zbigniew Spruch (Pol) Lampre 23.21 46 Thomas Bruun Eriksen (Den) Team CSC 47 Bobby Julich (USA) Team Telekom 48 Dmitri Gainitdinov (Rus) Russian National Team 49 Lubomir Tesar (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 50 Lukasz Podolski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 51 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 52 Jimmi Madsen (Den) Team CSC 53 Kasper Sowinski (Pol) Joko Velamos 54 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team CSC 55 Marc McCormack (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 56 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 57 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Mroz 23.52 58 Massimo Cigana (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 25.43 59 Martin Müller (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 29.12 60 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russian National Team 61 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger) Team Telekom 62 Frantisek Trkal (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 31.07 63 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) Team Telekom 32.46 64 Eric Baumann (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 34.06 65 Tomas Buchacek (Cze) Joko Velamos 34.07 66 Alberto Vinale (Ita) Alessio 34.09 67 Michal Precechtel (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 34.11 68 Grzegorz Rosolinski (Pol) Servisco - Koop 69 Krystof Ciesilski (Pol) Servisco - Koop 70 Dariusz Skoczylas (Pol) CCC-Polsat 71 Davide Frantini (Ita) Alessio 72 David Kopp (Ger) Team Telekom 73 Francesco Belotti (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 35.15 74 Marcin Lewandowski (Pol) Mroz 36.03 75 William Frischkorn (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 36.04 76 Daniel Czajkowski (Pol) Servisco - Koop 36.07 77 Marek Maciejewski (Pol) Servisco - Koop 78 Grzegorz Wajs (Pol) Servisco - Koop 79 Dominique Perras (Can) Flanders-IteamNova.com 80 Karl Pauwels (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 81 Przemys Mikolajczyk (Pol) Servisco - Koop 82 Charles Dionne (Can) Saturn Cycling Team 37.21 83 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Mroz 40.26 84 Enrico Degano (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 40.33 85 Jamie Drew (Aus) Flanders-IteamNova.com 86 Andrea Brognara (Ita) Alessio 87 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Telekom 88 Davy Commeyne (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 40.52 89 Trent Wilson (Aus) Flanders-IteamNova.com 41.18 90 Jindrich Vana (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 43.07 91 Christoph Roodhooft (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 47.14 92 Frederik Penne (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 93 Lubomir Kejval (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 94 Artur Krzeszowiec (Cze) Joko Velamos 95 Christian Lademannn (Ger) eD'system-ZVVZ 47.24 96 Roberto Lochowski (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 49.00 Points classification 1 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz 16 pts 2 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) CCC-Polsat 8 3 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Mroz 7 4 Eric Baumann (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 5 5 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Team Telekom 4 6 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz 4 7 Tomas Buchacek (Cze) Joko Velamos 4 8 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Telekom 3 9 William Frischkorn (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 3 10 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) CCC-Polsat 2 11 René Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 2 12 Alberto Vinale (Ita) Alessio 2 13 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1 14 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 1 15 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Mroz 1 16 Frantisek Trkal (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 1 Mountains classification 1 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) CCC-Polsat 33 pts 2 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz 29 3 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Mroz 14 4 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) CCC-Polsat 12 5 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Telekom 11 6 Jens Heppner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 10 7 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz 8 8 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 5 9 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 4 10 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) Team Telekom 4 11 William Frischkorn (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 3 12 Alexander Klymenko (Ukr) Mroz 3 13 Tomas Buchacek (Cze) Joko Velamos 3 14 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Team Telekom 2 15 Petr Bencik (Cze) eD'system-ZVVZ 1 Young Rider classification 1 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 16.37.22 2 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Russian National Team 3 Wiktor Rapinski (Blr) Saturn Cycling Team 4 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 5 Phil Zajicek (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 6 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Mroz 7 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Russian National Team 8 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 1.56 9 Thomas Bruun Eriksen (Den) Team CSC 6.34 10 Lukasz Podolski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 11 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 12 Ivan Chtchegolev (Rus) Russian National Team 12.25 13 Eric Baumann (Ger) Team Wiesenhof 17.19 14 David Kopp (Ger) Team Telekom 17.24 15 Francesco Belotti (Ita) Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 18.28 16 William Frischkorn (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 19.17 17 Charles Dionne (Can) Saturn Cycling Team 20.34 18 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Team Telekom 23.46 19 Davy Commeyne (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 24.05
