Cappelle powers to Polynormandie win
By Jean-François Quénet published
Vachon maintains Coupe de France lead
Andy Cappelle from the continental Belgian team Verandas Willems managed to beat riders who were highly motivated to win the French cup race La Polynormande organised by the famous race commentator Daniel Mangeas in his village of Saint-Martin-de-Landelles.
In the final front group and fresh from the Tour de France, Lloyd Mondory (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Sébastien Minard (Cofidis) and Benoît Vaugrenard (FDJ) even missed the top three behind runners up Jérémie Galland and Romain Hardy from the local teams Saur-Sojasun and Bretagne-Schuller.
Cappelle attacked several times at the end and the right one was with 800 metres to go. "I think the finale was to my advantage," the 31-year-old from De Panne told Cyclingnews. "I love France and French races suit me. This is my nicest victory because it's at category 1 level. I think the Tour de France riders were mentally tired after three weeks of hard racing every day. I also believe they have watched each other at the end because it was a French cup race."
The French riders denied any such attitude. Hardy, 21, had a different explanation: "I've not believed enough in my capacities to win. I should have taken more initiative at the end. It's disappointing. I'm place regularly, but I'm bitter about not winning," said the neo-pro from Bretagne-Schuller who was fourth in the Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia last week.
A breakaway group was formed in the early part of the race. 22 riders opened the road: Sandy Casar and Benoît Vaugrenard (FDJ), Stéphane Augé, Sébastien Minard, Tristan Valentin and Yoann Bagot (Cofidis), Yuriy Trofimov (Bbox Bouygues Telecom), Julien Bérard and Lloyd Mondory (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Bert Scheirlinckx (Landbouwkrediet), Jimmy Casper, Anthony Delaplace and Jérémie Galland (Saud-Sojasun), Romain Lemarchard and Nadir Haddou (BigMat-Auber 93), Mathieu Boulo (Roubaix-Lille-Métropole), Romain Hardy, Sébastien Duret and Jean-Luc Delpech (Bretagne-Schuller), Andy Capelle and Gregory Habeaux (Vérandas Willems), and Edouard Louyest (French national team).
As the peloton was coming closer with 50 kilometres to go, Augé, Delaplace and Scheirlinckx gave a new start to the breakaway. Once they got caught, a counter attack led by Vaugrenard took shape. The riders who did the Tour de France had an advantage over those who just resumed racing after a break. Six riders accompanied Vaugrenard: Minard, Mondory, Galland, Capelle, Hardy and Delpech.
Cappelle eventually took Verandas Willems' revenge after the narrowly missed win by Stefan van Dijk who was second to Matthieu Ladagnous by just a centimetre one year ago. He rejoined on the record book at the race of his current directeur sportif Lucien van Impe who came first in 1981 but La Polynormande was an after Tour criterium at the time.
Full Results
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Andy Cappelle (Bel) Verandas Willems | 3:40:49 |
2 | Jérémy Galland (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 0:00:03 |
3 | Romain Hardy (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | |
4 | Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale | |
5 | Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | 0:00:09 |
6 | Benoit Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJ | |
7 | Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 0:00:29 |
8 | Julien Bérard (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale | 0:01:58 |
9 | Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | |
10 | Grégory Habeaux (Bel) Verandas Willems | 0:02:00 |
11 | Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 0:02:03 |
12 | Jimmy Casper (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 0:02:06 |
13 | Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | |
14 | Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet | |
15 | Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJ | |
16 | Romain Lemarchand (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | 0:02:17 |
17 | Matthieu Boulo (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | 0:02:23 |
18 | Laurent Pichon (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 0:05:05 |
19 | Tony Hurel (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom | |
20 | Kristof Goddaert (Bel) AG2R - La mondiale | |
21 | Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) FDJ | |
22 | Arnaud Molmy (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | |
23 | Gianni Meersman (Bel) FDJ | |
24 | Geert Verheyen (Bel) Landbouwkrediet | |
25 | Jocelyn Bar (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | |
26 | Christopher De Souza (Fra) Equipe de France | |
27 | Fabien Bacquet (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | |
28 | Renaud Dion (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | |
29 | Johan Mombaerts (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | |
30 | Davy Commeyne (Bel) Landbouwkrediet | |
31 | Ludovic Turpin (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale | |
32 | Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor | |
33 | Laurent Mangel (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | |
34 | Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) Verandas Willems | |
35 | Romain Bardet (Fra) Equipe de France | |
36 | Cédric Collaers (Bel) Verandas Willems | |
37 | Florian Vachon (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | |
38 | Koen Barbe (Bel) Landbouwkrediet | |
39 | Julien Guay (Fra) Equipe de France | |
40 | Loic Desriac (Fra) Equipe de France | |
41 | Oleksandr Sheydyk (Ukr) ISD Continental Team | |
42 | Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale | |
43 | Bart Dockx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet | |
44 | Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | |
45 | Vytautas Kaupas (Ltu) Continental Cycling Team Differdange | |
46 | Mikael Chérel (Fra) FDJ | |
47 | Artem Topchanyuk (Ukr) ISD Continental Team | |
48 | Nicolas Capedepuy (Fra) FDJ | |
49 | Yoann Michaud (Fra) Team Bridgestone Anchor | |
50 | Maxime Mederel (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | |
51 | Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom | |
52 | Lilian Jegou (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | |
53 | Remi Pauriol (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | |
54 | Grégory Barteau (Fra) Landbouwkrediet | |
55 | Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | |
56 | Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom | |
57 | Christian Poos (Lux) Continental Cycling Team Differdange | |
58 | Denys Karnulin (Ukr) ISD Continental Team | |
59 | Stefan Van Dijck (Ned) Verandas Willems | |
60 | Mathieu Halleguen (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | |
61 | Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | |
62 | Jean-Lou Paiani (Fra) Equipe de France | |
63 | Anthony Geslin (Fra) FDJ | |
64 | Dimitri Le Boulch (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | |
65 | Julien Simon (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | |
66 | Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | |
67 | David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | |
68 | Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R - La mondiale | |
69 | Vincent Jerome (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom | |
70 | Mathieu Teychenne (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale | |
71 | Guillaume Faucon (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | 0:05:17 |
72 | Sjef De Wilde (Bel) Verandas Willems | |
73 | Sven Van Den Houtte (Bel) Verandas Willems | |
74 | Gael Malacarne (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 0:05:24 |
75 | Julien Fouchard (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | |
76 | Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) FDJ | |
77 | Franck Bouyer (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom | |
78 | Freddy Bichot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom | |
79 | Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor | |
80 | Yohann Bagot (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | |
81 | Julien Foisnet (Fra) Equipe de France | |
82 | Yoann Barbas (Fra) Equipe de France | |
83 | Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor | |
84 | Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 0:05:30 |
85 | Jonathan Thire (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | 0:05:37 |
86 | Edouard Louyest (Fra) Equipe de France | 0:05:42 |
87 | Kenji Itami (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor | 0:05:45 |
88 | Kevin Reza (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom | |
HD | Masaru Fukuhara (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor | |
DNF | Cédric Pineau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | |
DNF | Dieter Capelle (Bel) Verandas Willems | |
DNF | Anatoli Pakhtusov (Bel) ISD Continental Team | |
DNF | Sébastien Harbonnier (Fra) Continental Cycling Team Differdange | |
DNF | Denis Flahaut (Fra) ISD Continental Team | |
DNF | Cyrille Heymans (Fra) Continental Cycling Team Differdange | |
DNF | Steven Tronet (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | |
DNF | Dominik Eberle (Fra) Continental Cycling Team Differdange | |
DNF | Alexandre Lemair (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | |
DNF | Benoît Daeninck (Ukr) Roubaix Lille Metropole | |
DNF | Benjamin Gourgue (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet | |
DNF | Nicolas Rousseau (Ukr) AG2R - La mondiale | |
DNF | Maksym Vasilyev (Bel) ISD Continental Team | |
DNF | Yuriy Agarkov (Fra) ISD Continental Team | |
DNF | Nadir Haddou (Ger) Big Mat - Auber 93 | |
DNF | Sébastien Delfosse (Lux) Landbouwkrediet | |
DNS | Igor Abakoumov (Bel) ISD Continental Team |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | 5 | pts |
2 | Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJ | 3 | |
3 | Gael Malacarne (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 1 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Matthieu Boulo (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | 5 | pts |
2 | Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 3 | |
3 | Edouard Louyest (Fra) Equipe de France | 1 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 5 | pts |
2 | Yohann Bagot (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | 3 | |
3 | Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 1 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet | 5 | pts |
2 | Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 3 | |
3 | Mikael Chérel (Fra) FDJ | 1 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Romain Hardy (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 5 | pts |
2 | Benoit Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJ | 3 | |
3 | Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 1 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | 5 | pts |
2 | Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet | 3 | |
3 | Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 1 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 8 | pts |
2 | David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | 5 | |
3 | Matthieu Boulo (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | 5 | |
4 | Yohann Bagot (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | 3 | |
5 | Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJ | 3 | |
6 | Edouard Louyest (Fra) Equipe de France | 1 | |
7 | Gael Malacarne (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 1 | |
8 | Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 1 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet | 8 | pts |
2 | Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | 5 | |
3 | Romain Hardy (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 5 | |
4 | Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 3 | |
5 | Benoit Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJ | 3 | |
6 | Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 2 | |
7 | Mikael Chérel (Fra) FDJ | 1 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Romain Hardy (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 3:40:52 |
2 | Julien Bérard (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale | 0:01:55 |
3 | Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 0:02:00 |
4 | Romain Lemarchand (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | 0:02:14 |
5 | Matthieu Boulo (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | 0:02:20 |
6 | Laurent Pichon (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 0:05:02 |
7 | Tony Hurel (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom | |
8 | Kristof Goddaert (Bel) AG2R - La mondiale | |
9 | Arnaud Molmy (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | |
10 | Gianni Meersman (Bel) FDJ | |
11 | Jocelyn Bar (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | |
12 | Christopher De Souza (Fra) Equipe de France | |
13 | Fabien Bacquet (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | |
14 | Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) Verandas Willems | |
15 | Romain Bardet (Fra) Equipe de France | |
16 | Cédric Collaers (Bel) Verandas Willems | |
17 | Florian Vachon (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | |
18 | Julien Guay (Fra) Equipe de France | |
19 | Loic Desriac (Fra) Equipe de France | |
20 | Mikael Chérel (Fra) FDJ | |
21 | Artem Topchanyuk (Ukr) ISD Continental Team | |
22 | Nicolas Capedepuy (Fra) FDJ | |
23 | Yoann Michaud (Fra) Team Bridgestone Anchor | |
24 | Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | |
25 | Denys Karnulin (Ukr) ISD Continental Team | |
26 | Mathieu Halleguen (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | |
27 | Jean-Lou Paiani (Fra) Equipe de France | |
28 | Dimitri Le Boulch (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | |
29 | Julien Simon (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | |
30 | Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R - La mondiale | |
31 | Mathieu Teychenne (Fra) AG2R - La mondiale | |
32 | Guillaume Faucon (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | 0:05:14 |
33 | Gael Malacarne (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 0:05:21 |
34 | Julien Fouchard (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | |
35 | Yohann Bagot (Fra) Cofidis le Crédit en Ligne | |
36 | Yoann Barbas (Fra) Equipe de France | |
37 | Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 0:05:27 |
38 | Jonathan Thire (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | 0:05:34 |
39 | Edouard Louyest (Fra) Equipe de France | 0:05:39 |
40 | Kenji Itami (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor | 0:05:42 |
41 | Kevin Reza (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Florian Vachon (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 120 | pts |
2 | Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne | 106 | |
3 | Renaud Dion (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | 73 | |
4 | Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne | 68 | |
5 | Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux | 58 | |
6 | Cédric Pineau (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | 53 | |
7 | Maxime Méderel (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | 51 | |
8 | Romain Hardy (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 51 | |
9 | Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 50 | |
10 | Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) Française Des Jeux | 50 | |
11 | Denis Flahaut (Fra) ISD - Neri | 50 | |
12 | Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 48 | |
13 | Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne | 40 | |
14 | Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux | 38 | |
15 | Jérémie Galland (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 35 | |
16 | Romain Feillu (Fra) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | 29 | |
17 | Sébastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 28 | |
18 | Jimmy Casper (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 27 | |
19 | Laurent Mangel (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 25 | |
20 | Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne | 25 | |
21 | Brice Feillu (Fra) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team | 24 | |
22 | Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux | 24 | |
23 | Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 23 | |
24 | Benoît Daeninck (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | 21 | |
25 | Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 21 | |
26 | Thibault Pinot (Fra) Française Des Jeux | 21 | |
27 | Anthony Roux (Fra) Française Des Jeux | 20 | |
28 | Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom | 20 | |
29 | David Lelay (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 18 | |
30 | Benoït Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux | 16 | |
31 | Kevin Ista (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne | 16 | |
32 | Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française Des Jeux | 16 | |
33 | Julien Berard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 15 | |
34 | Lilian Jegou (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 14 | |
35 | Martial Ricci-Poggi (Fra) Landbouwkrediet | 14 | |
36 | Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 14 | |
37 | Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française Des Jeux | 14 | |
38 | Freddy Bichot (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom | 12 | |
39 | Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez (Spa) Bretagne - Schuller | 12 | |
40 | Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom | 12 | |
41 | Laurent Pichon (Fra) Bretagne - Schuller | 11 | |
42 | Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 11 | |
43 | Romain Lemarchand (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | 10 | |
44 | Pierre Rolland (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom | 10 | |
45 | Anthony Charteau (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom | 10 | |
46 | Cyril Gautier (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom | 9 | |
47 | Jean-Marc Bideau (Fra) Bretagne Schuller | 8 | |
48 | Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 6 | |
49 | Guillaume Blot (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne | 6 | |
50 | Eric Berthou (Fra) CarmioOro NGC | 6 | |
51 | Anthony Ravard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 6 | |
52 | Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 5 | |
53 | Steven Tronet (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole | 5 | |
54 | Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux | 3 | |
55 | Fabien Bacquet (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | 3 | |
56 | Julien Simon (Fra) Saur - Sojasun | 3 | |
57 | Tony Gallopin (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne | 3 | |
58 | Arnaud Courteille (Fra) France U23 | 3 | |
59 | Nadir Haddou (Fra) Big Mat - Auber 93 | 3 | |
60 | Dimitri Champion (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 3 |

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