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7th Tour of Qatar - 2.1

Qatar, January 27-February 1, 2008

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Stage 1 - January 27: Doha - Doha, 6 km

Tosatto gets his thanks as Quick Step repeat

Slipstream and Skil-Shimano go tantalisingly close

By Shane Stokes in Doha

Quick Step were back on familiar territory
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Repeating the success of the 2007 edition, the Quick Step squad showed it means business when the riders scorched to team time trial victory on the seafront cornice in Doha. As expected, the Belgian Classic specialists were the men to beat, going of last of the seventeen teams in the race and overhauling an impressive Team Slipstream Chipotle by two seconds.

Their victory owed a little to good fortune or, rather, the absence of bad luck, as Kevin Hulsmans' rear tubular exploded as they were celebrating just after the finish. Had it happened during the test, the team would have lost a valuable piston in the engine and perhaps also the victory.

Matteo Tosatto was first over the line and he consequently took the maillot of race leader. It was the team's way of thanking him for his work over the past two seasons, and quite probably his most rewarding day on the bike since his Tour de France stage win in Mâcon eighteen months ago.

"We had no set strategy today, except to start flat out and continue all the way to the finish," said the blocky 33-year-old from Castelfranco in Italy. "It was a big, big effort all the way, but also a very good experience for all the team. Slipstream was very good, all the teams were very good, so we had to work hard."

Matteo Tosatto (Quick Step)
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Tosatto's last big win was in the same test last year. On that occasion Steven De Jongh was first home of the team and took the leader's jersey. This time round, another of Tom Boonen's lead-out men had his time in the spotlight, thanks to the gesture by the team to reward a helper.

"The decision was made by the directeur sportif," he said, smiling. "For me I have been working for two years for the team and so to get a stage win and the yellow jersey is perfect."

Tom Boonen was pleased that his team-mate had a moment of glory. "Matteao Tosatto was with me for the last two years and I know him very well. This morning we spoke about tactics and decided that in the case of us having the best time, he can be the one to cross the line first.

"My legs were feeling very good out there. That has to be the case because you don't win something like this very easily. The other teams were very good, so we had to be very good to win. It went fluidly; we train a lot for these kinds of efforts."

British TT and RR champion David Millar
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The now twelve-time stage victor was happy to dedicate the victory to two people. His friend and team-mate Kevin Hulsmans became a father last week, while his own father André Boonen is in hospital being treated for an ulcer.

Team Slipstream Chipotle's David Millar was riding the test in the while, blue and red of British national champion and had his race face on at the start. Time trials are his speciality; prior to Quick Step's beating of their time, he stated was pleased with their effort.

"I am very happy with how we did," he said, commenting on his first day of competition with his new team. "The guys rode fantastically, we had a very controlled discipline. We said to everyone that we won't start our race until we turn around, then we really start. It is too easy with these things to go flat out from the beginning. I am very pleased, we will see how it holds out."

Team-mate Julian Dean gave his reaction after Quick Step came home and bumped them off the top of the leaderboard. He was frustrated to go so close to a win, but recognised the value of their ride. "I prefer to win," he said, when asked for a response. "But I am fairly happy. I did everything I could…I couldn't have done anything more myself on the day."

Magnus Backstedt
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Prior to the race Millar and others on the team said that a place in the top three was possible. Dean echoed this, but said that expectations were actually higher than that. "We really believed [beforehand] that we could win today. We came in fully prepared to try to win, knowing that a top three was achievable."

The ride is far above the level of what Slipstream Chipotle have managed in the past, and shows that recent hard work plus the additions to the team were worth the investment. Finishing just three seconds behind Quick.step is a very good achievement, and proves that it is fully capable of competing with the big ProTour squads.

"It is a great start because we showed that we are up there with the top teams," continued Dean. "At this time of the year, Quick Step is always the best team in the world. Everybody there is focussed on the Classics. But today we showed that we can be right up there."

So too, interestingly, did the day's big surprise. Skil-Shimano were 11th out of 17 teams last time round, but today they were only five seconds off the pace of Quick.Step. That's a fine achievement, especially as ProTour squads Liquigas, Silence-Lotto and Credit Agricole finished next in line. The team took some big scalps today and, like Slipstream Chipotle, will be very motivated this evening.

How it unfolded

The wealth of the area
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The Iran Cycling Federation-selection were first to start on what was a mild, slightly hazy day in Qatar's capital. The eight riders began the pancake-flat six kilometre test at 14.50, tore up and down the Doha Corniche and finished in a time of 7'05". This was immediate bested by Australian team Drapac Porsche, who went 18" quicker.

Saunier Duval-Scott and the BMC Racing Team came and went without improving the mark, then Crédit Agricole went 3" faster. Tinkoff Credit Systems went close to this time but were a couple of seconds adrift.

Bouygues Telecom, Topsport Vlaanderen, Milram and the Doha Team all followed, but it was Skil-Shimano who finally knocked the French squad from its perch when it took two seconds out of its riders. This was, to say the least, unexpected, and while Silence Lotto and Liquigas tried to put a ProTour team back on top, both came up marginally short.

Quick Step celebrate
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Slipstream-Chipotle were fourth-last to start and was also something of an underdog. However Millar, Dean, Magnus Backstedt & co. were fired up to aim for the win, and looked to be well within a shout of that when they finished in 6'37". That time resisted the efforts of Cofidis and Lampre, but finally fell when Tosatto, Wilfried Cretskens, Steven de Jongh, Boonen, Jurgen Van de Walle and Hulsmans scorched across the line.

Whooping with delight, the six Quick Step riders celebrated for a number of minutes, clapping each other on the back and also doing likewise with the two riders who had lost contact, Maarten Wynants and Wouter Weylandt. In the midst of all this a loud crack was heard; that was Hulsman's tyre, which gave up the ghost later rather than sooner, and added to the feeling that this was indeed their day.

Tom Boonen didn't lead home
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And so, as it has done the past two years, the Belgian squad will hold the leader's jersey heading into the second day of the race. Their goal will be to defend, relying on Boonen's fast-twitch fibres to nab time bonuses in the intermediate sprints and at the stage finish and thus fend off any ambitious rivals.

Tosatto knows that his time in the yellow jersey may be limited, especially with a fast-finisher such as Dean aiming to put the Slipstream Chipotle name at the top of the results sheet [and to celebrate his birthday in style]. However even if the Italian loses the lead on tomorrow's flat second stage, he will be content if one of the Quick Step riders takes over from him.

"I will take this day by day," he said. "I am here in Qatar to work and to prepare for the important races in March and April, but I hope that one of us can take the general classification."

Next up

Stage two is 137.5 kilometres in length and runs from Al Zubarah to the Doha Golf Club. The early part heads north and east, skirting the coast, before plunging south in the direction of the capital. Intermediate sprints come at kilometre 21.5 and 91, offering bonuses of 3", 2" and 1", while 10", 6" and 4" is on offer at the finish.

Photography

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Results

1 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step                                    6.35 (54.68 km/h)
2 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step                                    
3 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step                                       
4 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step                                            
5 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step                                   
6 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step                                        
7 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                   0.02
8 David Millar (GBr) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                             
9 Martyn Maaskant (Ned) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                          
10 Huub Duyn (Ned) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                               
11 Julian Dean (NZl) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                             
12 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano                             0.05
13 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Skil-Shimano                                     
14 Curvers Roy (Ned) Skil-Shimano                                        
15 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano                                  
16 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano                                   
17 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano                                      
18 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano                                        
19 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano                                   
20 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas                                  0.06
21 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas                                          
22 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas                                   
23 Roberto Petito (Ita) Liquigas                                         
24 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas                                        
25 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto                                  0.07
26 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto                              
27 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence - Lotto                               
28 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Silence - Lotto                                    
29 Bert Roesems (Bel) Silence - Lotto                                    
30 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Silence - Lotto                                   
31 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto                                
32 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto                              
33 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Credit Agricole                               0.09
34 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole                                
35 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Credit Agricole                                   
36 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Credit Agricole                             
37 William Bonnet (Fra) Credit Agricole                                  
38 Eric Berthou (Fra) Credit Agricole                                    
39 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems                      0.11
40 Alexander Khatuntsev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems                     
41 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems                            
42 Nicolaï Trussov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems                          
43 Alexander Gottfried (Ger) Tinkoff Credit Systems                      
44 Angus Morton (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                  0.12
45 Stuart Shaw (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                       
46 Robbie Williams (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                   
47 Peter Mc Donald (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                   
48 Grant Irwin (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                       
49 Mitchell Docker (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                   
50 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre                                       
51 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre                                            
52 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre                                            
53 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre                                           
54 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre                                        
55 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                               
56 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                               
57 Evert Verbist (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                               
58 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                              
59 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                           
60 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                            
61 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                               
62 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                             0.13
63 Yohann Gène (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                    
64 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                               
65 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                  
66 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                   
67 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                    
68 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                  
69 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                   
70 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                     
71 Jackson Stewart (USA) BMC Racing Team                                 
72 Antonio Cruz (USA) BMC Racing Team                                    
73 Taylor Tolleson (USA) BMC Racing Team                                 
74 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                     
75 Scott Nydam (USA) BMC Racing Team                                     
76 Mike Sayers (USA) BMC Racing Team                                     
77 Volodymyr Dyudya (Ukr) Team Milram                                    
78 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram                                     
79 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram                                       
80 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram                                          
81 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram                                        
82 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram                                    
83 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                    0.14
84 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems                         0.15
85 Matej Jurco (Svk) Team Milram                                     0.16
86 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                      0.17
87 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                   
88 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                     
89 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                        
90 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                   
91 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                  
92 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                   
93 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                     
94 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott                           0.18
95 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott                             
96 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Saunier Duval - Scott         
97 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott                           
98 Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Saunier Duval - Scott                         
99 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott                       
100 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Scott                       
101 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick Step                                 0.21
102 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step                                     
103 Serguei Klimov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems                      0.25
104 Moosa Said (Qat) Doha Team                                       0.26
105 Omar Hasanin (Syr) Doha Team                                         
106 Aymen Ben Hassine (Tun) Doha Team                                    
107 Tareq Esmaeili (Qat) Doha Team                                       
108 Rafaa Chitioui (Tun) Doha Team                                       
109 Abdelbasat Hanachi (Alg) Doha Team                                   
110 Hamad Afif (Qat) Doha Team                                           
111 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval - Scott                  0.27
112 Hossein Nateghi (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                    0.30
113 Abbas Saeiditanha (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                      
114 Hossein Askari (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                         
115 Amir Zargari (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                           
116 Seyed Mostafa Seyed Rezaei Khormizi (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation    
117 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                 
118 Mehdi Sohrabi (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                          
119 Hossein Jahanbanian (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                    
120 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre                                         0.40
121 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas                                  0.41
122 Guido Trenti (USA) Liquigas                                      0.58
123 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas                                         
124 Koen Barbé (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                             1.00
125 Dean Windsor (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                 1.04
126 Gene Bates (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                       
127 Bernardo Riccio (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems                     1.08
128 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                 1.09
129 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre                                       1.24
130 Kilian Patour (Fra) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                      1.25
131 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Credit Agricole                            1.32
132 Khaleel Abduljanan (Qat) Doha Team                               1.34
133 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole                             2.03
 
General classification after stage 1
 
1 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step                                    6.35
2 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step                                    
3 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step                                       
4 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step                                            
5 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step                                   
6 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step                                        
7 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                   0.02
8 David Millar (GBr) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                             
9 Martyn Maaskant (Ned) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                          
10 Huub Duyn (Ned) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                               
11 Julian Dean (NZl) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                             
12 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano                             0.05
13 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Skil-Shimano                                     
14 Curvers Roy (Ned) Skil-Shimano                                        
15 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Skil-Shimano                                  
16 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano                                   
17 Robert Wagner (Ger) Skil-Shimano                                      
18 Tom Veelers (Ned) Skil-Shimano                                        
19 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano                                   
20 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas                                  0.06
21 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas                                          
22 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas                                   
23 Roberto Petito (Ita) Liquigas                                         
24 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas                                        
25 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto                                  0.07
26 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto                              
27 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence - Lotto                               
28 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Silence - Lotto                                    
29 Bert Roesems (Bel) Silence - Lotto                                    
30 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Silence - Lotto                                   
31 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto                                
32 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Silence - Lotto                              
33 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Credit Agricole                               0.09
34 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agricole                                
35 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Credit Agricole                                   
36 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Credit Agricole                             
37 William Bonnet (Fra) Credit Agricole                                  
38 Eric Berthou (Fra) Credit Agricole                                    
39 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems                      0.11
40 Alexander Khatuntsev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems                     
41 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems                            
42 Nicolaï Trussov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems                          
43 Alexander Gottfried (Ger) Tinkoff Credit Systems                      
44 Angus Morton (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                  0.12
45 Stuart Shaw (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                       
46 Robbie Williams (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                   
47 Peter Mc Donald (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                   
48 Grant Irwin (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                       
49 Mitchell Docker (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                   
50 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre                                       
51 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre                                            
52 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre                                            
53 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre                                           
54 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre                                        
55 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                               
56 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                               
57 Evert Verbist (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                               
58 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                              
59 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                           
60 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                            
61 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                               
62 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                             0.13
63 Yohann Gène (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                    
64 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                               
65 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                  
66 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                   
67 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                    
68 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                  
69 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                   
70 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                     
71 Jackson Stewart (USA) BMC Racing Team                                 
72 Antonio Cruz (USA) BMC Racing Team                                    
73 Taylor Tolleson (USA) BMC Racing Team                                 
74 Steve Bovay (Swi) BMC Racing Team                                     
75 Scott Nydam (USA) BMC Racing Team                                     
76 Mike Sayers (USA) BMC Racing Team                                     
77 Volodymyr Dyudya (Ukr) Team Milram                                    
78 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram                                     
79 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram                                       
80 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram                                          
81 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram                                        
82 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram                                    
83 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                    0.14
84 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems                         0.15
85 Matej Jurco (Svk) Team Milram                                     0.16
86 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                      0.17
87 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                   
88 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                     
89 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                        
90 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                   
91 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                  
92 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                   
93 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Cofidis Credit Par Telephone                     
94 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott                           0.18
95 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott                             
96 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Saunier Duval - Scott         
97 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott                           
98 Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Saunier Duval - Scott                         
99 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott                       
100 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Scott                       
101 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick Step                                 0.21
102 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step                                     
103 Serguei Klimov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems                      0.25
104 Moosa Said (Qat) Doha Team                                       0.26
105 Omar Hasanin (Syr) Doha Team                                         
106 Aymen Ben Hassine (Tun) Doha Team                                    
107 Tareq Esmaeili (Qat) Doha Team                                       
108 Rafaa Chitioui (Tun) Doha Team                                       
109 Abdelbasat Hanachi (Alg) Doha Team                                   
110 Hamad Afif (Qat) Doha Team                                           
111 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval - Scott                  0.27
112 Hossein Nateghi (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                    0.30
113 Abbas Saeiditanha (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                      
114 Hossein Askari (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                         
115 Amir Zargari (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                           
116 Seyed Mostafa Seyed Rezaei Khormizi (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation    
117 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                 
118 Mehdi Sohrabi (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                          
119 Hossein Jahanbanian (IRI) Iran Cycling Federation                    
120 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre                                         0.40
121 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas                                  0.41
122 Guido Trenti (USA) Liquigas                                      0.58
123 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas                                         
124 Koen Barbé (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen                             1.00
125 Dean Windsor (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                 1.04
126 Gene Bates (Aus) Drapac Porshe                                       
127 Bernardo Riccio (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems                     1.08
128 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                 1.09
129 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre                                       1.24
130 Kilian Patour (Fra) Slipstream p/b Chipotle                      1.25
131 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Credit Agricole                            1.32
132 Khaleel Abduljanan (Qat) Doha Team                               1.34
133 Cycril Lemoine (Fra) Credit Agricole                             2.03