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28th International Bayern Rundfahrt - 2.HC

Germany, May 30-June 3, 2007

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Stage 1 - May 30: Garmisch Partenkirchen - Gundelfingen, 211.1 km

Schulze surprises in sprint

By Susan Westemeyer

Schulze wins stage 1
Photo ©: Andrea Hübner
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André Schulze of the Professional Continental Team Wiesenhof-Felt surprised the international ProTour competition and took the mass sprint in the first stage of the Bayern Rundfahrt. Stuart O'Grady (CSC) and David Kopp (Gerolsteiner) took second and third, with Milram's Erik Zabel finishing fourth.

It was Schulze's first win in only his third race back after a bad crash and surgery the end of March. He crashed in the Ronde van het Groene Hart race and broke his jaw and his cheekbone in three places. It was also the team's first win since Wiesenhof announced that it would stop its sponsorship at the end of the season. "That was exactly the right response from our team to the turbulence of the last week," said Ronny Lauke, Wiesenhof's Directeur Sportif.

It looked for a while as if there would be no mass sprint in the stage. An early escape group of Jörg Ludewig (Wiesenhof), Emilien Berges (Agritubel), Malaya van Ruitenbeek (Regiostrom Senges), and Michael Schär (Astana) got away and built up a lead of up to seven minutes. The sprinter teams joined together and caught them only five kilometers before the finish line.

"In the finale, I had a super position on Erik Zabel's rear wheel," explained Schulze. "200 meters before the line I opened the sprint and simply took off. It makes me very happy that I got the stage win. The stage tomorrow to Eichstätt won't be easy. But I will do my best and hope to win another stage."

Thursday's stage from Gundelfingen to Eichstätt is 188 rolling kilometres, finishing with two laps of a difficult round course.

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Results

1 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                          4.41.51 (44.94 km/h)
2 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC                                           
3 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                           
4 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram                                            
5 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Tenax Salmilano                                    
6 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia          
7 René Obst (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                                
8 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita) Tenax Salmilano                                 
9 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica                                    
10 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank                                   
11 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen         
12 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel                                           
13 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon                                 
14 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Intel - Action                                  
15 Emiliano Donadello (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia    
16 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon                              
17 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                   
18 Dariusz Rudnicki (Pol) Intel - Action                                  
19 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                                 
20 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                      
21 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen           
22 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Volksbank                                 
23 Renato Silva (Por) Benfica                                             
24 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                        
25 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                   
26 Christoph Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus                 
27 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana                                           
28 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank                                    
29 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica                                                
30 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica                             
31 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia     
32 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner                                       
33 Sven Renders (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen             
34 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel                                    
35 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel                                        
36 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana                                           
37 Samuel Plouhinec (Fra) Agritubel                                       
38 Martin Hebik (Cze) Heinz von Heiden Focus                              
39 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                       
40 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel                                          
41 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                       
42 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram                                       
43 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt                                 
44 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                      
45 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                     
46 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC                                              
47 Bruno Miguel Castanheira Gomes (Por) Benfica                           
48 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon                                
49 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC                                           
50 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon                                 
51 Hans-Jürgen Juretzek (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges                    
52 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                      
53 Koen Barbé (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen               
54 Leonardo Moser (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia        
55 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elk Haus - Simplon                                 
56 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia       
57 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                                 
58 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon                              
59 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel - Action                                  
60 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                   
61 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                   
62 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel                                            
63 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana                                               
64 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges                   
65 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC                                          
66 Tobias Erler (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                            
67 Christian Murro (Ita) Tenax Salmilano                                  
68 Florian Stalder (Swi) Team Volksbank                                   
69 Luca Sabatino (Ita) Tenax Salmilano                                    
70 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                              
71 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Volksbank                               
72 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC                                             
73 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank                                   
74 Felix Gniot (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus                               
75 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC                                    
76 Serge Herz (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus                                
77 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana                                          
78 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen        
79 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel                                  
80 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                    
81 Helder Miranda (Spa) Benfica                                           
82 Jason Phillips (Aus) Heinz von Heiden Focus                            
83 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana                                     
84 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Benfica                                  
85 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram                                    
86 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana                                             
87 Steffen Wesemann (Swi) Team Wiesenhof Felt                             
88 Honorio Machado Perez (Ven) Tenax Salmilano                            
89 Jure Golcer (Slo) Tenax Salmilano                                      
90 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Intel - Action                                   
91 Maint Berkenbosch (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges                       
92 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team CSC                                           
93 Alessandro Bertuola (Ita) Tenax Salmilano                              
94 Erik Hoffmann (Nam) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                           
95 Jan Valach (Svk) Elk Haus - Simplon                                    
96 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram                                         
97 Santo Anza (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia            
98 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen            
99 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                          
100 Malte Urban (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus                              
101 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram                                    
102 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Volksbank                               
103 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges                    
104 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                             
105 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges                          
106 Wolfram Wiese (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges                          
107 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel - Action                                 
108 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Intel - Action                                    
109 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                         
110 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana                                           
111 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Regiostrom - Senges                            
112 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner                                      
113 Mattia Turrina (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia       
114 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                     
115 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram                                  
116 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen      
117 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram                                      
 
Sprints
 
Km. 84.5
1 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges                   3 pts
2 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                                 2
3 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana                                             1

152.3
1 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges                   3 pts
2 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                                 2
3 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana                                             1

km. 198.5
1 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges                   3 pts
2 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel                                  2
3 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                                 1

Finish
1 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                                5 pts
2 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC                                          4
3 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                          3
4 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram                                           2
5 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Tenax Salmilano                                   1
 
Mountains
 
Cat. 1 - km. 18.3
1 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                      5 pts
2 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon                              3
3 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                          2
4 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Volksbank                                1
 
Cat. 2 - km. 113.7
1 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana                                             3 pts
2 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                                 2
3 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges                   1
 
General classification after stage 1
 
1 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                          4.41.41
2 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges                0.01
3 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC                                       0.04
4 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                              0.05
5 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                       0.06
6 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel                               0.08
7 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana                                              
8 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram                                        0.10
9 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Tenax Salmilano                                    
10 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia         
11 René Obst (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                               
12 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita) Tenax Salmilano                                
13 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica                                   
14 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank                                   
15 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen         
16 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel                                           
17 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon                                 
18 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Intel - Action                                  
19 Emiliano Donadello (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia    
20 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon                              
21 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                   
22 Dariusz Rudnicki (Pol) Intel - Action                                  
23 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                                 
24 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                      
25 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen           
26 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Team Volksbank                                 
27 Renato Silva (Por) Benfica                                             
28 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                        
29 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                   
30 Christoph Von Kleinsorgen (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus                 
31 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Astana                                           
32 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Team Volksbank                                    
33 Rui Costa (Por) Benfica                                                
34 Pedro Miguel Lopes Goncalves (Por) Benfica                             
35 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia     
36 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner                                       
37 Sven Renders (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen             
38 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel                                    
39 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel                                        
40 Evgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Astana                                           
41 Samuel Plouhinec (Fra) Agritubel                                       
42 Martin Hebik (Cze) Heinz von Heiden Focus                              
43 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                       
44 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel                                          
45 Elnathan Heizmann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                       
46 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Milram                                       
47 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt                                 
48 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                      
49 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                     
50 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC                                              
51 Bruno Miguel Castanheira Gomes (Por) Benfica                           
52 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon                                
53 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC                                           
54 Stefan Rucker (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon                                 
55 Hans-Jürgen Juretzek (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges                    
56 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                      
57 Koen Barbé (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen               
58 Leonardo Moser (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia        
59 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Elk Haus - Simplon                                 
60 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia       
61 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon                              
62 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel - Action                                  
63 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                   
64 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                   
65 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel                                            
66 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana                                               
67 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC                                          
68 Tobias Erler (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                            
69 Christian Murro (Ita) Tenax Salmilano                                  
70 Florian Stalder (Swi) Team Volksbank                                   
71 Luca Sabatino (Ita) Tenax Salmilano                                    
72 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                              
73 Pascal Hungerbühler (Swi) Team Volksbank                               
74 Anders Lund (Den) Team CSC                                             
75 Harald Morscher (Aut) Team Volksbank                                   
76 Felix Gniot (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus                               
77 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC                                    
78 Serge Herz (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus                                
79 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana                                          
80 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen        
81 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                    
82 Helder Miranda (Spa) Benfica                                           
83 Jason Phillips (Aus) Heinz von Heiden Focus                            
84 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana                                     
85 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Benfica                                  
86 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram                                    
87 Steffen Wesemann (Swi) Team Wiesenhof Felt                             
88 Honorio Machado Perez (Ven) Tenax Salmilano                            
89 Jure Golcer (Slo) Tenax Salmilano                                      
90 Sebastian Skiba (Pol) Intel - Action                                   
91 Maint Berkenbosch (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges                       
92 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team CSC                                           
93 Alessandro Bertuola (Ita) Tenax Salmilano                              
94 Erik Hoffmann (Nam) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                           
95 Jan Valach (Svk) Elk Haus - Simplon                                    
96 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram                                         
97 Santo Anza (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia            
98 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen            
99 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                          
100 Malte Urban (Ger) Heinz von Heiden Focus                              
101 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram                                    
102 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Volksbank                               
103 Konstantin Schubert (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges                    
104 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                             
105 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges                          
106 Wolfram Wiese (Ger) Team Regiostrom - Senges                          
107 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Intel - Action                                 
108 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Intel - Action                                    
109 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                         
110 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana                                           
111 Corey Sweet (Aus) Team Regiostrom - Senges                            
112 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner                                      
113 Mattia Turrina (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia       
114 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                     
115 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram                                  
116 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen      
117 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram                                      
 
Points classification
 
1 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges                   9 pts
2 André Schulze (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                                5
3 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                                 5
4 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC                                          4
5 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                          3
6 Emilien Benoit Bergès (Fra) Agritubel                                  2
7 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana                                             2
8 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram                                           2
9 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Tenax Salmilano                                   1
 
Mountains classification
 
1 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                      5 pts
2 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana                                             3
3 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon                              3
4 Jörg Ludewig (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt                                 2
5 Björn Papstein (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta                          2
6 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Regiostrom - Senges                   1
7 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Team Volksbank                                1
 
Team classification
 
1 Gerolsteiner                                                    14.05.03
2 Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni- Selle Italia                              
3 Team Volkswagen-Trek                                                    
4 Benfica                                                                 
5 Team Wiesenhof Felt                                                     
6 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen                                   
7 Elk Haus-Simplon                                                        
8 Tenax-Menikini                                                          
9 Agritubel                                                               
10 T-Mobile Professional Cycling                                          
11 Intel-Action                                                           
12 Team 3C-Gruppe Lamonta                                                 
13 Team CSC                                                               
14 Astana                                                                 
15 Team Milram                                                            
16 Heinz von Heiden Focus                                                 
17 Team Regiostrom-Senges