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65th Paris-Nice - ProTour
France, March 11-18, 2007
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Stage 2 - March 13: Vatan - Limoges, 177 km
Pellizotti takes it all
Italians triumph over French hopes
By Jean-François Quénet in Limoges
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Franco Pellizotti won the second stage and took over the lead in Paris-Nice with a fantastic uphill sprint that surprised all of the big names in bunch sprints. While Quick-Step took responsibility for chasing down the dwindling breakaway in the last ten kilometres, it was the Italian Liquigas team that dominated the finish.
"Our plan was to lead out for Paolini," said a smiling 29 year-old Pellizotti, who is known as Il Delfino di Bibione (the dolphin of Bibione). "But with 500 metres to go, he gave me the go. He was right because we finished first and third. I'm not surprised to win a stage here because I had a good winter of training and the weather was good at home. I knew I was going well after the Tour of California [9th overall - ed.]. So I came here with the intention of scoring for the first time since my stage of the Giro d'Italia last year in Peschici."
The Liquigas team looks strong and able to take over the responsibility of leading Paris-Nice from Saunier Duval-Prodir who has done a magnificent job for the past two days. "I don't know if we'll defend the jersey," said Pellizotti. "We'll take it day by day." The only time he took part in the Race to the Sun previously, the rider from Veneto was sixth overall and second in the last stage in Nice.
The Liquigas team may have stacked the top ten, with Franco Pellizotti and Luca Paolini finishing first and third, but they also featured in the long breakaway of the stage. Brazilian Murilo Fischer (Liquigas) and Frenchman Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Telecom) were the last survivors of the long breakaway. Voeckler gave his country big hopes to win two stages in two days after Jean-Patrick Nazon closed a chapter of five years without any French stage win in Paris-Nice, but he was the last to be brought back to the Quick-Step led peloton.
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"I've missed by only 500 metres, which is a lot and not much at the same time," Voeckler commented. "All the way I didn't believe our breakaway would be successful but I did with 10 kilometres to go when we had 50 seconds. Getting caught often happens when sprinters' teams chase behind. I didn't want to finish with Fischer because I knew he was fast and I would have lost against him. Unfortunately I didn't have enough resources to resist to the bunch. Now I hope I'll recover from this effort. At Bouygues Telecom we are still seeking our first win this year, and at the end of the day, that's all what counts."
It was a suspense packed finale, indeed. The French teams knew that the last kilometre would be a difficult one, since it's the same as at the Tour du Limousin every August, and it's in the region of legend Raymond Poulidor, who is now 70 and happy to welcome a race he won in 1972 and 1973. But uphill finishes are also an Italian speciality.
It wasn't strange to see four Lampre-Fondital and four Liquigas riders, including young Roman Kreuziger who confirmed his tremendous prologue, in the first part of the divided peloton, but Quick-Step had done most of the work to close the gap and none of them made the front in the end - not even Tom Boonen. Had Steven De Jongh gone too far too early?
"I was on Bennati's wheel, but when I started sprinting, Pellizotti had his hands up already", Tom Boonen said after the stage. But he didn't seem to worry. "Last year I won three stages and defended the yellow jersey in Paris-Nice but I was cooked by the time I rode Paris-Roubaix, I know what I'm doing", he reckoned.
How it unfolded
Right after the start, where Vicente Reynes, who won a stage two years ago, was missing due to stomach pains, attacks began. The first serious breakaway comprised 17 riders: David Loosli (Lampre-Fondital), Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Caisse d'Epargne), Rubén Pérez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Sergio Paulinho (Discovery Channel), Dmitriy Fofonov (Crédit Agricole), Bert Roesems (Predictor-Lotto), Mathieu Ladagnous (Française Des Jeux), Stéphane Augé and Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Cofidis), Jurgen Van de Walle (Quickstep-Innergetic), José Luis Arrieta (Ag2r Prévoyance), Volker Ordowski (Gerolsteiner), Jérôme Pineau (Bouygues Telecom), Matej Mugerli (Liquigas), Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Saunier Duval-Prodir), Nicolas Jalabert (Agritubel) and Alberto Ongarato (Milram). They got caught at kilometre 41 under the emphasis of T-Mobile, later helped by CSC and Rabobank.
Straight away, a counter attack was launched by Augé, rejoined by Philippe Gilbert (Française Des Jeux), Murilo Fisher (Liquigas) and Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Telecom). In one hour, the riders had covered 52.4 kilometres!
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The course became more undulating soon afterwards, so the average speed went down to 40.8km/h in the second hour. The lead of the four men topped at 6'40" at kilometre 72. The break looked doomed as the bunch closed within 30 seconds to them with 15 kilometres to go. Augé and Gilbert gave up but Voeckler and Fisher insisted, and their lead went up again; 50 seconds with 10 kilometres to go.
Voeckler attacked twice in the uphill section leading to the finish line in Limoges. He eventually dropped Fisher off but the brutal chase by Quick-Step and Lampre-Fondital condemned the Frenchman, and split the bunch. With 400 metres to go, Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas) went clear and crossed the line two seconds ahead of his compatriots Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Fondital) and Luca Paolini (also from Liquigas). Pellizotti's teammate Patrick Calcagni finished in ninth to make three Liquigas men in the top ten.
Pellizotti now leads Paris-Nice by six seconds over David Millar.
Photography
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- Discovery riders Tomas Vaitkus and Matt White were popular with the locals in Vatan this morning.
- David Millar (Saunier Duval) looking cool in yellow.
- Alberto Contador (Discovery Channel) at the start.
- Roman Kreuzinger (Liquigas) in the white jersey of best young rider.
- Spring racing in France doesn't get much better than this.
- Cadel Evans crusin' along in the peloton.
- We're in France, incase you were wondering...
- 'They're behind you.' Voeckler and Gilbert check their time gap as the break pulls away.
- Race leader David Millar (Saunier Duval) well protected by his teammates.
- Gilbert leads the day's four-man escape.
- Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Telecom) and Philippe Gilbert (Française des Jeux) drive the break.
- Murilo Fischer (Liquigas) going full gas in the closing stages.
- Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Telecom) and Murilo Fischer (Liquigas) tried to make a go of it but were caught with just one kilometre to go
- Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas) surprised the sprinters on the uphill finish into Limoges
- Pellizotti takes a breath after a furious run-in to Limoges
- Arms akimbo, Franco Pellizotti had plenty of time to celebrate his win
- Franco Pellizotti celebrates winning stage two of Paris-Nice
- Pellizotti dons the yellow jersey he holds a slim six second lead over David Millar
- Yaroslav Popovich takes a corner
- Daniele Bennati in green
Images by Luc Claessen/www.ctm-images.com
- David Millar in yellow
- David Millar takes corner
- David Zabriskie in the bunch
- French life is great
- Gert Steegmans
- Millar and Wielinga
- Pellizotti dons his yellow jersey
- Pellizotti in the yellow jersey
- Pellizotti and trophy
- Quick-step soigneur Dirk Nachtergaele
- Sebastien Rosseler
- The finish
- The four-man escape
- Victory for Pellizotti
Results
1 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 3.57.36 (44.696 km/h) 2 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 0.02 3 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas 4 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 5 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 7 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 8 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas 10 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 13 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram 14 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 15 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Astana 16 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 17 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 18 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 19 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 20 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 21 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 22 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 23 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval-Prodir 24 Francisco José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 26 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 27 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 28 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 29 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 30 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile 31 Rubén Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 32 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 33 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 34 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 35 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 36 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 37 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis 38 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 39 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic 0.12 40 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor-Lotto 0.15 41 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.19 42 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 43 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 44 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 45 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 46 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 47 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 48 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 49 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 50 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 51 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 52 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 53 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 54 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 55 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 56 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 57 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance 58 Josep Jufré (Spa) Predictor-Lotto 59 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 60 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 61 Francisco Pérez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 62 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 63 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 64 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 65 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas 66 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel 67 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 68 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 69 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 70 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 71 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r Prévoyance 72 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 73 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 74 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 75 Gregory Henderson (NZl) T-Mobile 76 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 77 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 78 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 79 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile 80 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 81 Eduardo Gonzalo (Spa) Agritubel 82 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 83 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 84 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana 85 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 86 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 87 Iban Mayo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 88 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 89 Kasper Klostergård (Den) Team CSC 90 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 91 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 92 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 93 Jakob Piil (Den) T-Mobile 94 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 95 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 96 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile 97 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 98 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 99 Bert Roesems (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 100 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Saunier Duval-Prodir 101 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 102 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 103 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 104 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 105 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 106 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 107 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 108 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 109 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 110 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 111 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 112 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 113 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis 114 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 115 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 116 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 117 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 118 Michael Barry (Can) T-Mobile 119 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 120 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Française Des Jeux 0.44 121 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 122 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 123 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana 0.46 124 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 125 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 126 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram 127 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Milram 128 Mikel Gaztañaga Echeverria (Spa) Agritubel 129 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Milram 130 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 131 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 132 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Milram 133 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 134 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 0.57 135 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis 136 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel 1.07 137 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 1.11 138 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile 139 Iban Velasco Murillo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 140 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Milram 141 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 142 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 1.17 143 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.47 144 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 145 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 1.49 146 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 1.52 147 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 148 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Française Des Jeux 149 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 150 Iker Camaño (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 151 Martin Müller (Swi) Milram 152 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Milram 153 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 154 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.39 155 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 156 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis 3.02 157 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3.03 158 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel 4.01 159 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 4.42 DNS Vicente Reynes (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne Points Neuillay-les-bois (D.27-d.21) (km 44) 1 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis 3 pts 2 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 2 3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 1 Roussac (km 138.5) 1 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 3 pts 2 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 2 3 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 Limoges (km 177) 1 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 25 pts 2 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 22 3 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas 20 4 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 18 5 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 16 6 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 15 7 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 14 8 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13 9 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas 12 10 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 11 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 12 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 9 13 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram 8 14 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 7 15 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Astana 6 16 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 5 17 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 4 18 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 3 19 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 2 20 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 1 Mountains Côte Du Grand Ris (km 84.5) 1 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis 4 pts 2 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 2 3 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 Saint-Sornin-Leulac (D.44-n.145-d.44) (km 119) 1 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis 4 pts 2 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 2 3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 1 Côte De Châteauponsac (km 131) 1 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 4 pts 2 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis 2 3 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 Young rider 1 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.57.38 2 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 3 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 5 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 6 Francisco José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 8 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 0.06 9 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis 10 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 0.17 11 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 13 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 14 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 15 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 16 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 17 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 18 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 19 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 20 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 21 Eduardo Gonzalo (Spa) Agritubel 22 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana 23 Kasper Klostergård (Den) Team CSC 24 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile 25 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 26 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 27 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 28 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 29 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 0.42 30 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.44 31 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3.01 32 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 4.40 Teams 1 Liquigas 11.52.52 2 Lampre-Fondital 0.02 3 Caisse d'Epargne 0.08 4 Crédit Agricole 0.19 5 Gerolsteiner 6 Bouygues Telecom 7 Saunier Duval-Prodir 8 Predictor-Lotto 0.21 9 Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.25 10 Astana 11 T-Mobile 12 Rabobank 0.31 13 Cofidis 14 Quickstep-Innergetic 0.35 15 Discovery Channel 0.36 16 Team CSC 17 Française Des Jeux 18 Agritubel 19 Ag2r Prévoyance 0.53 20 Milram 1.30 General classification after stage 2 1 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 8.33.12 2 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.06 3 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 4 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 0.07 5 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0.08 6 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 7 Francisco José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.10 8 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.11 9 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 0.13 10 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.14 11 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.15 12 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 13 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram 0.16 14 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 15 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 0.17 16 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 0.18 17 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 0.19 18 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 19 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 20 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 0.21 21 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 22 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 23 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.22 24 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 25 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.23 26 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 0.24 27 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas 0.25 28 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 29 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis 0.26 30 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 31 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 32 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas 0.27 33 Rubén Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 34 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 35 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Saunier Duval-Prodir 36 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 37 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 0.29 38 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 0.30 39 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 0.31 40 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 41 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 42 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 43 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 0.32 44 Francisco Pérez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 45 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 0.33 46 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 47 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 48 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Astana 49 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 50 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.34 51 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance 52 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel 53 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 54 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 55 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 56 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 0.35 57 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana 58 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 59 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor-Lotto 60 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 61 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.37 62 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic 63 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 64 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas 65 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 66 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r Prévoyance 0.38 67 Gregory Henderson (NZl) T-Mobile 68 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 69 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 70 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.39 71 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 72 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 73 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 74 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 0.40 75 Josep Jufré (Spa) Predictor-Lotto 76 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC 77 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 78 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 79 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 80 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.41 81 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 82 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Bouygues Telecom 83 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 84 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 0.42 85 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 0.43 86 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 87 Bert Roesems (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 0.44 88 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 89 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 0.45 90 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 91 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas 92 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC 0.46 93 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis 94 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 0.47 95 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 0.48 96 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 0.49 97 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 98 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 99 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile 100 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel 0.50 101 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 102 Jakob Piil (Den) T-Mobile 103 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana 0.51 104 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 105 Michael Barry (Can) T-Mobile 106 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 107 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile 108 Iban Mayo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.52 109 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 110 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 0.54 111 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 112 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 113 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile 114 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 115 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 0.55 116 Kasper Klostergård (Den) Team CSC 0.56 117 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 118 Eduardo Gonzalo (Spa) Agritubel 0.57 119 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 1.00 120 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Milram 1.01 121 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 1.02 122 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Milram 123 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.07 124 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 1.09 125 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 1.11 126 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 1.12 127 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 128 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 129 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.15 130 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana 1.17 131 Mikel Gaztañaga Echeverria (Spa) Agritubel 1.18 132 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Française Des Jeux 1.22 133 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel 1.24 134 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis 1.25 135 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Milram 1.28 136 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram 1.32 137 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 1.37 138 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile 1.38 139 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 1.42 140 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Milram 1.48 141 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 2.06 142 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 2.07 143 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 2.08 144 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 2.11 145 Iban Velasco Murillo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.12 146 Iker Camaño (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.14 147 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.23 148 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Française Des Jeux 2.27 149 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 150 Martin Müller (Swi) Milram 151 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.28 152 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 3.05 153 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Milram 3.11 154 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 3.20 155 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis 3.27 156 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3.38 157 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 4.02 158 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel 4.31 159 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 5.03 Points classification 1 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 48 pts 2 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 32 3 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux 27 4 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval-Prodir 25 5 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 25 6 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 25 7 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 25 8 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 23 9 Francisco José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 23 10 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram 23 11 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 22 12 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Milram 22 13 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 21 14 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 20 15 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas 20 16 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 20 17 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 18 18 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 18 19 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 16 20 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 16 21 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel 15 22 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 13 23 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Saunier Duval-Prodir 13 24 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas 12 25 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 12 26 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana 12 27 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 11 28 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 29 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 10 30 Gregory Henderson (NZl) T-Mobile 10 31 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 9 32 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Astana 9 33 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Milram 8 34 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 7 35 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 6 36 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 5 37 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5 38 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 4 39 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 4 40 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 4 41 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 4 42 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 43 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis 3 44 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2 45 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 2 46 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 47 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2 48 Iban Velasco Murillo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 49 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 1 50 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 1 Mountains classification 1 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis 10 pts 2 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 8 3 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 4 4 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 2 5 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 6 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 1 7 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1 Young rider classification 1 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 8.33.19 2 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.01 3 Francisco José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.03 4 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel 0.14 5 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 6 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 0.15 7 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 0.18 8 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis 0.19 9 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 0.20 10 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 11 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.24 12 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 13 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis 0.26 14 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 15 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 0.28 16 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0.30 17 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0.31 18 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 0.32 19 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.34 20 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana 21 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.42 22 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.43 23 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana 0.44 24 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile 25 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 0.47 26 Kasper Klostergård (Den) Team CSC 0.49 27 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 28 Eduardo Gonzalo (Spa) Agritubel 0.50 29 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.00 30 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 1.05 31 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux 3.31 32 Kai Reus (Ned) Rabobank 4.56 Teams classification 1 Liquigas 25.40.10 2 Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.09 3 Caisse d'Epargne 0.11 4 Lampre-Fondital 0.12 5 Bouygues Telecom 0.25 6 Française Des Jeux 0.32 7 Discovery Channel 0.34 8 Predictor-Lotto 0.36 9 Crédit Agricole 0.37 10 Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.38 11 Team CSC 0.44 12 Cofidis 0.46 13 Quickstep-Innergetic 0.47 14 Rabobank 0.52 15 Gerolsteiner 0.57 16 T-Mobile 17 Astana 1.04 18 Ag2r Prévoyance 1.08 19 Agritubel 1.09 20 Milram 1.46
