Tour de France: The Manx Missile takes his revenge on stage eleven
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Tour de France: The Manx Missile takes his revenge on stage eleven

by Ben Atkins at 11:14 AM EST   comments
Categories: Pro Cycling, Tour de France, Race Reports and Results
 
Mark Cavendish beats André Greipel on a rainy day in the Tarn

Mark CavendishMark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) took his revenge over former teammate André Greipel (Omega Pharma-Lotto), beating him to the line on the eleventh stage of the Tour de France between Blaye-les-Mines and Lavaur. The Manxman launched his sprint from behind leadout man Mark Renshaw, in the pouring rain of the finishing straight, and managed to hold off the German as he tried to come around. Stage three winner Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervélo) was third.

The stage was dominated by a six-man breakaway that escaped after 10km, and was not only closed down with 2km to go.

"I have to thank my team-mates for the work they did today,” said Cavendish at the finish. “Even the guys who are in the top ten overall gave it one hundred percent and that shows what a great team we are."

Cavendish’s third victory in this year’s Tour comes in a race where opportunities for the sprinters are few and far between. The Manxman knows that his next two targets are likely the only chances he will get.

"There are two more bunch sprints in this year's race,” he explained, “one in Montpellier and the other in Paris and I want to try to win both of them."

While he has now won eighteen stages in the Tour de France, many commentators have said that the Manxman will not truly join the list of greats until he has won the green points jersey in Paris. This is something that, as well as stage victories, he is targeting this year, meaning that he is also having to compete for the intermediate sprints.

"It's not easy fighting for the green jersey,” he said, ‘but I'm going to keep going and try to keep hold of it right through to the end."

Another stage for the sprinters, but a good one for breakaways too

At 167.5km, and with the race hitting the Pyrénées the next day, the eleventh stage of the Tour de France was almost certainly another one for the sprinters. There were only two classified climbs, one 3rd and one 4th category, but, like the day before, there was to be very little flat on the course as it traversed the rolling Tarn department. The intermediate sprint would come at 85km, at almost exactly midway through.

Race leader Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) expected to hold on to his yellow jersey quite comfortably, providing nobody threatening to him managed to get into what was an inevitable breakaway.

The stage began without last year’s top Frenchman John Gadret (AG2R La Mondiale), who withdrew from the race citing physical and psychological tiredness after finishing fourth in the Giro d’Italia.

Another “Escape Royale” for the Europcar team

There were a number of attacks in the opening kilometres out of Blaye-les-Mines, but none was successful until Mickaël Delage (FDJ) broke away after 13.5km. The Frenchman was joined by Ruben Perez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Lars Boom (Rabobank), Andriy Grivko (Astana), Tristan Valentin (Cofidis) and Jimmy Engoulvent (Saur-Sojasun), and by the 17km mark the six riders had a lead of 1’35”.

As happened on stage ten, there was nobody in the break that was remotely a threat to the lead of Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) – Perez being the best placed at 30’41”. The French team felt, once again, that there was no need for it to police the break and so, as the lead grew, it fell upon the sprinters’ teams to set the pace of the peloton.

After less than 25km, as the break’s lead was creeping up over 3’30”, HTC-Highroad sent Danny Pate and Lars Bak to the front.

The climbs begin and the breakaway’s lead reaches its limit

As Boom led the leaders over the 3rd category Côte de Tonnac, after 28.5km, the gap was up to 4’15”. It was to reach its maximum of 4’25” at the 33km point, before the HTC-Highroad team began to gradually peg it back.

After 75km the six riders led by 3’35”, where it was to sit for some time. As it approached the intermediate sprit in Gaillac, they were still all working together well. Delage was allowed by the other five riders to take the first prize across the line; it was not to be quite so courteous when the peloton arrived.

Mark Cavendish’s HTC-Highroad put the entire team on the front, as it does on the approach to stage finishes, but, as they passed under the one kilometre to go banner, the Omega Pharma-Lotto train flew past to take control. The American team was not to be denied though and seized back the front of the peloton as the line approached.

Omega Pharma-Lotto’s stage ten winner André Greipel was to lead out green jersey holder Philippe Gilbert to the line but, as HTC-Highroad went through its well rehearsed routine, the two riders became separated. Cavendish took the sprint for seventh place, ahead of José Joaquin Rojas (Movistar).

Gilbert could only manage 11th, losing a few more points to Cavendish and Rojas in the race for the green jersey.

The chase is on as the peloton enters the second half of the stage

With the breakaway’s advantage having been static at around 3’30” for some kilometres, Garmin-Cervélo sent Ryder Hesjedal forward to help the chase, on behalf of Farrar. With 60km to go it had reduced slightly to 3’20”, but was now coming down consistently.

Omega Pharma-Lotto’s Sebastian Lang soon joined the chase on Greipel’s behalf and, at the 50km to banner, the sextet’s advantage was down to 2’44”. At the 40km to go point the leaders held little more than two minutes, but then the rain started to fall.

As the six leaders hit the bottom if the 4th category Côte de Puylaurens, with 36km to go, their lead had dropped to 1’40” over the peloton. This was also the point though, that the course was swinging around from its southeasterly route to a northwesterly one. The tailwind that the riders had been enjoying for the past 80km would become a headwind as they headed to the finish.

Sky became the next team to join the chase, with Simon Gerrans moving to the front on behalf of Edvald Boasson Hagen. Unlike the previous day’s final climb, though, when Gilbert forced the pace to drop the sprinters, the teams on the front were careful to keep the speed steady. Consequently, as Delage led over the top of the climb, with 32km to go, the peloton followed over after 1’34”.

With the real danger of splits as the wind was now buffeting the peloton, many of the race favourites were being brought forward by their strong domestiques.

Here comes the peloton, and here comes the rain

Most of the sprinters’ teams were represented at the front of the peloton, but it was still HTC-Highroad doing the lion’s share. They had reduced the gap to 1’15” as they passed under the 20km to go banner, but the six up front were still working hard together.

Inside the final 20km, with the gap reduced to little more than a minute, the rain began to fall even harder. Even if it was to stop it meant a wet, and potentially slippery, finishing straight.

The peloton was now riding hard, under the impetus of most of the sprinters’ teams, but its efforts were almost being matched by the six riders ahead. With 10km to go they still held 31 seconds, and the gap was proving tough to close.

HTC-Highroad was putting everything into the chase, having worked hard to keep the break in check for most of the stage. There as beginning to be a danger that the team would be forced to do too much too soon as Matt Goss was tailed off with seven kilometres still to go. Luckily for the American team though, Lampre-ISD took over with six kilometres to go on behalf of Alessandro Petacchi, and the breakaway’s lead suddenly tumbled.

As they passed under the five kilometre to go banner the six fugitives had just nine seconds, and was in plain sight of the peloton on the long, straight, tree-lined Napoleonic road. Sensing the others were tiring, Boom suddenly attacked off the front, and quickly gained a lead over his five former colleagues.

Boom refuses to go quietly but has no chance of staying clear

With three kilometres to go the five others were absorbed by the speeding peloton, but Boom was hanging on just a few seconds clear. HTC-Highroad was in full cry now, but the former cyclocross World champion was refusing to lie down.

Gradually the weight of numbers began to tell, though, and he sat up just outside the two kilometre banner.

Garmin-Cervélo then took over with David Millar on the front, ahead of World champion Thor Hushovd, Julian Dean and then Tyler Farrar. As they passed under the flamme rouge, Team Sky then tied to take control to set up Boasson Hagen.

Suddenly Renshaw burst from the pack with Cavendish in his accustomed place on the Australian’s back wheel, and the partnership that had been missing in the previous stage kicked into action. Cavendish came around Renshaw’s right hand side, with Romain Feillu (Vacansoleil-DCM) and Denis Galimzyanov (Katusha) on his back wheel; just as he’d done the day before, Greipel went to the left.

It’s Cavendish versus Greipel again!

The German switched across the road though, having started from such a long way back, and got himself into the Manxman’s slipstream. There was to be no coming around though, as, not only had HTC-Highroad got the leadout right, but Cavendish had also timed his sprint to perfection. He crossed the line two lengths clear to take his third stage of the race so far, and his eighteenth in the Tour de France.

Greipel managed to hold off Farrar in his lunge for the line, with Galimzyanov and Boasson Hagen in their wake. Because Rojas could only finish seventh, with Gilbert back in 66th, Cavendish’s victory was enough to give him the overall lead in the green jersey classification.

The vast majority of the peloton finished in the same time behind Cavendish, with all of the overall contenders and riders from the top of the standings present. Voeckler, without having to get his Europcar team to do much work for the second successive day, holds on to the yellow jersey.

“It was very nervous and that was the main difficulty of the day,” said Voeckler after the stage. “It wasn’t so physically demanding but the anxiety made it hard. We all wanted to avoid any crashes and we all wanted a good position in the bunch. That’s what made it so nervous.”

The Frenchman would not have it so easy the next day though, as the race heads for the Pyrénées.

“I will try, but I honestly expect to lose the jersey tomorrow,” he admitted. “That doesn’t mean that I won’t fight. We’ll see...”

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Tour de France (WorldTour) Stage 11 Results: Blaye-les-Mines to Lavaur (168km)

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Country Result Name Team Time
gbr GBR 1 Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) 03:46:07
ger GER 2 Andre Greipel (Omega Pharma-Lotto ) s.t.
usa USA 3 Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervelo) s.t.
rus RUS 4 Denis Galimzyanov (Katusha) s.t.
nor NOR 5 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) s.t.
fra FRA 6 Romain Feillu (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
esp ESP 7 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Movistar) s.t.
fra FRA 8 Sébastien Turgot (Europcar) s.t.
esp ESP 9 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Movistar) s.t.
fra FRA 10 William Bonnet (Française Des Jeux) s.t.
fra FRA 11 Arnold Jeannesson (Française Des Jeux) s.t.
ger GER 12 Gerald Ciolek (Quick Step) s.t.
fra FRA 13 Anthony Delaplace (Saur-Sojasun) s.t.
fra FRA 14 Sébastien Hinault (Ag2r-La Mondiale) s.t.
bel BEL 15 Gianni Meersman (Française Des Jeux) s.t.
bel BEL 16 Jurgen Roelandts (Omega Pharma-Lotto ) s.t.
esp ESP 17 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t.
aus AUS 18 Mark Renshaw (HTC-Highroad) s.t.
ned NED 19 Rob Ruijgh (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
ltu LTU 20 Tomas Vaitkus (Astana) s.t.
fra FRA 21 Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) s.t.
bel BEL 22 Kevin De Weert (Quick Step) s.t.
slo SLO 23 Borut Bozic (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
gbr GBR 24 Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) s.t.
fra FRA 25 Arnaud Coyot (Saur-Sojasun) s.t.
sui SUI 26 Fabian Cancellara (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
ita ITA 27 Marco Marcato (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
ita ITA 28 Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-ISD) s.t.
lux LUX 29 Andy Schleck (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
ger GER 30 Sebastian Lang (Omega Pharma-Lotto ) s.t.
bel BEL 31 Jelle Vanendert (Omega Pharma-Lotto ) s.t.
col COL 32 Leonardo Fabio Duque (Cofidis) s.t.
ita ITA 33 Damiano Cunego (Lampre-ISD) s.t.
rus RUS 34 Vladimir Gusev (Katusha) s.t.
usa USA 35 Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Cervelo) s.t.
ger GER 36 Tony Martin (HTC-Highroad) s.t.
est EST 37 Rein Taaramäe (Cofidis) s.t.
ita ITA 38 Daniel Oss (Liquigas-Cannondale) s.t.
svk SVK 39 Peter Velits (HTC-Highroad) s.t.
ger GER 40 Linus Gerdemann (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
ned NED 41 Maarten Tjallingii (Rabobank) s.t.
fra FRA 42 Jean-christophe Peraud (Ag2r-La Mondiale) s.t.
fra FRA 43 Jérome Pineau (Quick Step) s.t.
ned NED 44 Robert Gesink (Rabobank) s.t.
irl IRL 45 Nicolas Roche (Ag2r-La Mondiale) s.t.
nor NOR 46 Thor Hushovd (Garmin-Cervelo) s.t.
esp ESP 47 Alberto Contador Velasco (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
ita ITA 48 Matteo Tosatto (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
usa USA 49 Thomas Danielson (Garmin-Cervelo) s.t.
aus AUS 50 Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) s.t.
ger GER 51 Marcel Sieberg (Omega Pharma-Lotto ) s.t.
esp ESP 52 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t.
ned NED 53 Niki Terpstra (Quick Step) s.t.
esp ESP 54 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t.
usa USA 55 George Hincapie (BMC Racing) s.t.
esp ESP 56 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Team Sky) s.t.
den DEN 57 Nicki Sörensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
fra FRA 58 Jérome Coppel (Saur-Sojasun) s.t.
esp ESP 59 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Movistar) s.t.
ned NED 60 Laurens Ten Dam (Rabobank) s.t.
den DEN 61 Jakob Fuglsang (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
fra FRA 62 Julien El Fares (Cofidis) s.t.
bel BEL 63 Maxime Monfort (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
ita ITA 64 Paolo Longho Borghini (Liquigas-Cannondale) s.t.
fra FRA 65 Yannick Talabardon (Saur-Sojasun) s.t.
bel BEL 66 Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto ) s.t.
fra FRA 67 Tony Gallopin (Cofidis) s.t.
nzl NZL 68 Julian Dean (Garmin-Cervelo) s.t.
esp ESP 69 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t.
esp ESP 70 Ruben Perez Moreno (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t.
fra FRA 71 Cyril Gautier (Europcar) s.t.
esp ESP 72 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (RadioShack) s.t.
pol POL 73 Maciej Paterski (Liquigas-Cannondale) s.t.
rus RUS 74 Vladimir Karpets (Katusha) s.t.
fra FRA 75 Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) s.t.
fra FRA 76 Vincent Jerome (Europcar) s.t.
aus AUS 77 Stuart O' Grady (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
ger GER 78 Grischa Niermann (Rabobank) s.t.
ita ITA 79 Adriano Malori (Lampre-ISD) s.t.
ger GER 80 Jens Voigt (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
ita ITA 81 Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale) s.t.
lux LUX 82 Frank Schleck (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
fra FRA 83 Jérémy Roy (Française Des Jeux) s.t.
slo SLO 84 Kristjan Koren (Liquigas-Cannondale) s.t.
esp ESP 85 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Rabobank) s.t.
ger GER 86 Andréas Klöden (RadioShack) s.t.
bel BEL 87 Romain Zingle (Cofidis) s.t.
col COL 88 Rigoberto Uran (Team Sky) s.t.
fra FRA 89 Maxime Bouet (Ag2r-La Mondiale) s.t.
aus AUS 90 Richie Porte (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
bel BEL 91 Dries Devenyns (Quick Step) s.t.
sui SUI 92 Michael Schar (BMC Racing) s.t.
kaz KAZ 93 Andrey Zeits (Astana) s.t.
bel BEL 94 Bjorn Leukemans (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
esp ESP 95 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Rabobank) s.t.
usa USA 96 Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack) s.t.
fra FRA 97 Mickael Buffaz (Cofidis) s.t.
esp ESP 98 Markel Irizar Aranburu (RadioShack) s.t.
ita ITA 99 Alessandro Vanotti (Liquigas-Cannondale) s.t.
por POR 100 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (RadioShack) s.t.
ger GER 101 Christian Knees (Team Sky) s.t.
esp ESP 102 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Movistar) s.t.
esp ESP 103 Benjamin Gonzalez Noval (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
fra FRA 104 Sandy Casar (Française Des Jeux) s.t.
aus AUS 105 Simon Gerrans (Team Sky) s.t.
fra FRA 106 Amaël Moinard (BMC Racing) s.t.
esp ESP 107 David Arroyo Duran (Movistar) s.t.
kaz KAZ 108 Dmitriy Fofonov (Astana) s.t.
esp ESP 109 Alan Lezaun Perez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t.
fra FRA 110 Rémy Di Gregorio (Astana) s.t.
por POR 111 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Movistar) s.t.
rus RUS 112 Egor Silin (Katusha) s.t.
gbr GBR 113 Ben Swift (Team Sky) s.t.
fra FRA 114 Hubert Dupont (Ag2r-La Mondiale) s.t.
fra FRA 115 Tristan Valentin (Cofidis) s.t.
fra FRA 116 Mickaël Delage (Française Des Jeux) s.t.
sui SUI 117 David Loosli (Lampre-ISD) s.t.
fra FRA 118 Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) s.t.
ned NED 119 Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
pol POL 120 Sylvester Szmyd (Liquigas-Cannondale) s.t.
sui SUI 121 Steve Morabito (BMC Racing) s.t.
can CAN 122 Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Cervelo) s.t.
ned NED 123 Joost Posthuma (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
usa USA 124 Brent Bookwalter (BMC Racing) s.t.
ita ITA 125 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Lampre-ISD) s.t.
gbr GBR 126 David Millar (Garmin-Cervelo) s.t.
fra FRA 127 Jeremie Galland (Saur-Sojasun) s.t.
esp ESP 128 Juan Antonio Flecha (Team Sky) s.t.
fra FRA 129 Blel Kadri (Ag2r-La Mondiale) s.t.
ned NED 130 Addy Engels (Quick Step) s.t.
fra FRA 131 Laurent Mangel (Saur-Sojasun) 00:00:27
fra FRA 132 Pierre Rolland (Europcar) s.t.
ita ITA 133 Manuel Quinziato (BMC Racing) 00:00:30
fra FRA 134 Jimmy Engoulvent (Saur-Sojasun) 00:00:35
ita ITA 135 Matteo Bono (Lampre-ISD) 00:00:47
fra FRA 136 Arthur Vichot (Française Des Jeux) 00:00:52
ned NED 137 Lars Boom (Rabobank) 00:01:10
aut AUT 138 Bernhard Eisel (HTC-Highroad) s.t.
den DEN 139 Lars Ytting Bak (HTC-Highroad) s.t.
ger GER 140 Marcus Burghardt (BMC Racing) 00:01:30
ger GER 141 Danilo Hondo (Lampre-ISD) s.t.
slo SLO 142 Grega Bole (Lampre-ISD) s.t.
ukr UKR 143 Andriy Grivko (Astana) 00:01:41
usa USA 144 Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Highroad) 00:05:03
aus AUS 145 Matthew Goss (HTC-Highroad) s.t.
den DEN 146 Chris Anker Sorensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:05:43
fra FRA 147 Sébastien Minard (Ag2r-La Mondiale) s.t.
den DEN 148 Brian Vandborg (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
pol POL 149 Maciej Bodnar (Liquigas-Cannondale) s.t.
rus RUS 150 Mikhail Ignatyev (Katusha) s.t.
fra FRA 151 Anthony Roux (Française Des Jeux) s.t.
fra FRA 152 Perrig Quemeneur (Europcar) s.t.
bel BEL 153 Thomas De Gendt (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
esp ESP 154 Jesús Hernández Blazquez (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
ita ITA 155 Fabio Sabatini (Liquigas-Cannondale) s.t.
ukr UKR 156 Denys Kostyuk (Lampre-ISD) s.t.
ned NED 157 Bauke Mollema (Rabobank) s.t.
fra FRA 158 Christophe Riblon (Ag2r-La Mondiale) s.t.
esp ESP 159 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t.
esp ESP 160 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
fra FRA 161 David Moncoutié (Cofidis) s.t.
fra FRA 162 Jonathan Hivert (Saur-Sojasun) s.t.
fra FRA 163 Anthony Charteau (Europcar) s.t.
fra FRA 164 Yohann Gene (Europcar) s.t.
fra FRA 165 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Saur-Sojasun) s.t.
ita ITA 166 Paolo Tiralongo (Astana) s.t.
cze CZE 167 Roman Kreuziger (Astana) s.t.
ita ITA 168 Ivan Santaromita (BMC Racing) s.t.
kaz KAZ 169 Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana) s.t.
rus RUS 170 Yuri Trofimov (Katusha) s.t.
usa USA 171 Danny Pate (HTC-Highroad) s.t.
kaz KAZ 172 Dmitriy Muravyev (RadioShack) s.t.
bel BEL 173 Gert Steegmans (Quick Step) s.t.
ltu LTU 174 Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin-Cervelo) s.t.
ned NED 175 Lieuwe Westra (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
crc CRC 176 Andrey Amador Bakkazakova (Movistar) 00:11:05
rus RUS 177 Vladimir Isaychev (Katusha) 00:11:47

General classification:

Country Result Name Team Time
fra FRA 1 Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) 45:52:39
esp ESP 2 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Rabobank) 00:01:49
aus AUS 3 Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) 00:02:26
lux LUX 4 Frank Schleck (Leopard-Trek) 00:02:29
lux LUX 5 Andy Schleck (Leopard-Trek) 00:02:37
ger GER 6 Tony Martin (HTC-Highroad) 00:02:38
svk SVK 7 Peter Velits (HTC-Highroad) s.t.
ger GER 8 Andréas Klöden (RadioShack) 00:02:43
bel BEL 9 Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto ) 00:02:55
den DEN 10 Jakob Fuglsang (Leopard-Trek) 00:03:08
ita ITA 11 Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale) 00:03:36
ita ITA 12 Damiano Cunego (Lampre-ISD) 00:03:37
irl IRL 13 Nicolas Roche (Ag2r-La Mondiale) 00:03:45
bel BEL 14 Kevin De Weert (Quick Step) 00:03:47
ned NED 15 Robert Gesink (Rabobank) 00:04:01
esp ESP 16 Alberto Contador Velasco (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:04:07
usa USA 17 Thomas Danielson (Garmin-Cervelo) 00:04:22
est EST 18 Rein Taaramäe (Cofidis) 00:04:52
usa USA 19 Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Cervelo) 00:04:53
esp ESP 20 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:05:01
esp ESP 21 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Rabobank) 00:05:04
rus RUS 22 Vladimir Karpets (Katusha) 00:05:05
bel BEL 23 Maxime Monfort (Leopard-Trek) 00:05:07
nor NOR 24 Thor Hushovd (Garmin-Cervelo) 00:05:13
esp ESP 25 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (RadioShack) 00:05:14
fra FRA 26 Arnold Jeannesson (Française Des Jeux) 00:05:21
fra FRA 27 Jean-christophe Peraud (Ag2r-La Mondiale) 00:05:32
gbr GBR 28 David Millar (Garmin-Cervelo) s.t.
ned NED 29 Rob Ruijgh (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:05:43
fra FRA 30 Sandy Casar (Française Des Jeux) s.t.
gbr GBR 31 Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) 00:05:51
bel BEL 32 Bjorn Leukemans (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:06:26
fra FRA 33 Jérome Coppel (Saur-Sojasun) 00:06:35
ger GER 34 Linus Gerdemann (Leopard-Trek) 00:06:40
usa USA 35 Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack) 00:07:16
col COL 36 Rigoberto Uran (Team Sky) 00:07:20
nor NOR 37 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) 00:07:45
bel BEL 38 Dries Devenyns (Quick Step) 00:08:16
rus RUS 39 Vladimir Gusev (Katusha) 00:08:45
fra FRA 40 Cyril Gautier (Europcar) 00:09:12
fra FRA 41 Pierre Rolland (Europcar) 00:09:47
esp ESP 42 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:10:32
rus RUS 43 Yuri Trofimov (Katusha) 00:11:22
pol POL 44 Maciej Paterski (Liquigas-Cannondale) 00:12:10
esp ESP 45 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:13:06
bel BEL 46 Jelle Vanendert (Omega Pharma-Lotto ) 00:13:37
ned NED 47 Laurens Ten Dam (Rabobank) 00:14:41
usa USA 48 George Hincapie (BMC Racing) 00:14:53
fra FRA 49 Jérome Pineau (Quick Step) 00:15:14
fra FRA 50 Yannick Talabardon (Saur-Sojasun) 00:15:22
can CAN 51 Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Cervelo) 00:15:32
usa USA 52 Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Highroad) 00:20:19
ita ITA 53 Adriano Malori (Lampre-ISD) 00:20:53
fra FRA 54 Maxime Bouet (Ag2r-La Mondiale) 00:20:59
esp ESP 55 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Movistar) 00:21:06
fra FRA 56 Hubert Dupont (Ag2r-La Mondiale) 00:21:15
fra FRA 57 Anthony Charteau (Europcar) 00:21:33
slo SLO 58 Kristjan Koren (Liquigas-Cannondale) 00:22:02
fra FRA 59 Julien El Fares (Cofidis) 00:22:06
fra FRA 60 Rémy Di Gregorio (Astana) 00:22:20
fra FRA 61 Tony Gallopin (Cofidis) 00:22:50
fra FRA 62 David Moncoutié (Cofidis) 00:22:51
ned NED 63 Bauke Mollema (Rabobank) 00:23:51
rus RUS 64 Egor Silin (Katusha) 00:24:14
por POR 65 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Movistar) 00:24:50
kaz KAZ 66 Andrey Zeits (Astana) 00:25:13
ger GER 67 Christian Knees (Team Sky) 00:25:25
ita ITA 68 Daniel Oss (Liquigas-Cannondale) 00:25:26
aus AUS 69 Simon Gerrans (Team Sky) 00:25:59
esp ESP 70 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Movistar) 00:26:25
ger GER 71 Grischa Niermann (Rabobank) 00:26:53
sui SUI 72 Steve Morabito (BMC Racing) 00:27:16
fra FRA 73 Sébastien Hinault (Ag2r-La Mondiale) 00:27:30
esp ESP 74 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Movistar) 00:27:41
den DEN 75 Nicki Sörensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:28:05
ita ITA 76 Marco Marcato (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:28:47
ger GER 77 Jens Voigt (Leopard-Trek) 00:28:59
esp ESP 78 David Arroyo Duran (Movistar) 00:30:05
ger GER 79 Danilo Hondo (Lampre-ISD) 00:30:07
esp ESP 80 Ruben Perez Moreno (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:30:41
aus AUS 81 Richie Porte (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:30:54
bel BEL 82 Jurgen Roelandts (Omega Pharma-Lotto ) 00:30:56
den DEN 83 Chris Anker Sorensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:31:04
ned NED 84 Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:31:26
pol POL 85 Sylvester Szmyd (Liquigas-Cannondale) 00:31:48
sui SUI 86 David Loosli (Lampre-ISD) 00:32:24
esp ESP 87 Juan Antonio Flecha (Team Sky) 00:33:05
fra FRA 88 Sébastien Turgot (Europcar) 00:33:08
kaz KAZ 89 Dmitriy Fofonov (Astana) 00:33:20
fra FRA 90 Amaël Moinard (BMC Racing) 00:34:17
fra FRA 91 Arthur Vichot (Française Des Jeux) 00:34:18
fra FRA 92 Christophe Riblon (Ag2r-La Mondiale) 00:34:26
esp ESP 93 Alan Lezaun Perez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:35:17
por POR 94 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (RadioShack) 00:36:48
fra FRA 95 William Bonnet (Française Des Jeux) 00:37:40
esp ESP 96 Markel Irizar Aranburu (RadioShack) 00:38:24
esp ESP 97 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Team Sky) 00:38:26
ita ITA 98 Ivan Santaromita (BMC Racing) 00:38:40
ita ITA 99 Manuel Quinziato (BMC Racing) 00:38:51
aus AUS 100 Stuart O' Grady (Leopard-Trek) 00:39:03
ita ITA 101 Alessandro Vanotti (Liquigas-Cannondale) 00:39:52
fra FRA 102 Tristan Valentin (Cofidis) 00:40:19
esp ESP 103 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:40:36
ita ITA 104 Paolo Tiralongo (Astana) 00:41:01
esp ESP 105 Benjamin Gonzalez Noval (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:42:21
esp ESP 106 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:43:14
bel BEL 107 Gianni Meersman (Française Des Jeux) 00:43:44
ita ITA 108 Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-ISD) 00:43:56
fra FRA 109 Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) 00:44:16
gbr GBR 110 Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) 00:45:42
fra FRA 111 Jeremie Galland (Saur-Sojasun) s.t.
sui SUI 112 Fabian Cancellara (Leopard-Trek) 00:46:28
esp ESP 113 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Movistar) 00:46:46
ger GER 114 Marcel Sieberg (Omega Pharma-Lotto ) 00:47:17
ger GER 115 Sebastian Lang (Omega Pharma-Lotto ) 00:47:43
gbr GBR 116 Ben Swift (Team Sky) s.t.
aus AUS 117 Matthew Goss (HTC-Highroad) 00:47:47
fra FRA 118 Sébastien Minard (Ag2r-La Mondiale) 00:48:00
fra FRA 119 Romain Feillu (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:48:49
ita ITA 120 Matteo Tosatto (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:48:50
sui SUI 121 Michael Schar (BMC Racing) 00:48:56
bel BEL 122 Romain Zingle (Cofidis) 00:49:01
fra FRA 123 Mickaël Delage (Française Des Jeux) 00:49:29
col COL 124 Leonardo Fabio Duque (Cofidis) 00:49:38
den DEN 125 Brian Vandborg (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:50:16
slo SLO 126 Borut Bozic (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:50:24
ned NED 127 Maarten Tjallingii (Rabobank) 00:50:41
fra FRA 128 Anthony Roux (Française Des Jeux) 00:51:40
ita ITA 129 Matteo Bono (Lampre-ISD) 00:52:02
cze CZE 130 Roman Kreuziger (Astana) 00:52:13
ita ITA 131 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Lampre-ISD) 00:52:23
ltu LTU 132 Tomas Vaitkus (Astana) 00:52:53
slo SLO 133 Grega Bole (Lampre-ISD) 00:52:54
fra FRA 134 Anthony Delaplace (Saur-Sojasun) 00:52:55
fra FRA 135 Laurent Mangel (Saur-Sojasun) 00:53:00
ita ITA 136 Paolo Longho Borghini (Liquigas-Cannondale) 00:53:06
usa USA 137 Brent Bookwalter (BMC Racing) 00:53:50
ned NED 138 Joost Posthuma (Leopard-Trek) 00:54:39
ger GER 139 Gerald Ciolek (Quick Step) 00:55:29
nzl NZL 140 Julian Dean (Garmin-Cervelo) 00:56:02
ned NED 141 Lieuwe Westra (Vacansoleil-DCM) s.t.
fra FRA 142 Yohann Gene (Europcar) 00:56:31
rus RUS 143 Denis Galimzyanov (Katusha) 00:57:37
bel BEL 144 Thomas De Gendt (Vacansoleil-DCM) 00:59:07
fra FRA 145 Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) 00:00:23
ger GER 146 Andre Greipel (Omega Pharma-Lotto ) 00:00:39
ned NED 147 Lars Boom (Rabobank) 00:00:42
pol POL 148 Maciej Bodnar (Liquigas-Cannondale) 00:00:48
kaz KAZ 149 Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana) 00:01:13
usa USA 150 Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervelo) 00:01:32
fra FRA 151 Jonathan Hivert (Saur-Sojasun) 00:01:38
ukr UKR 152 Andriy Grivko (Astana) 00:03:02
fra FRA 153 Arnaud Coyot (Saur-Sojasun) 00:03:23
ger GER 154 Marcus Burghardt (BMC Racing) 00:03:32
esp ESP 155 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:03:49
fra FRA 156 Blel Kadri (Ag2r-La Mondiale) 00:05:01
fra FRA 157 Jérémy Roy (Française Des Jeux) 00:05:20
aut AUT 158 Bernhard Eisel (HTC-Highroad) 00:05:30
rus RUS 159 Mikhail Ignatyev (Katusha) 00:06:02
ltu LTU 160 Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin-Cervelo) 00:06:21
aus AUS 161 Mark Renshaw (HTC-Highroad) 00:06:37
ned NED 162 Niki Terpstra (Quick Step) 00:07:40
usa USA 163 Danny Pate (HTC-Highroad) 00:07:50
ukr UKR 164 Denys Kostyuk (Lampre-ISD) 00:07:58
esp ESP 165 Jesús Hernández Blazquez (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:10:13
den DEN 166 Lars Ytting Bak (HTC-Highroad) 00:10:37
fra FRA 167 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Saur-Sojasun) 00:11:38
fra FRA 168 Mickael Buffaz (Cofidis) 00:11:53
fra FRA 169 Perrig Quemeneur (Europcar) 00:12:36
fra FRA 170 Jimmy Engoulvent (Saur-Sojasun) 00:16:48
kaz KAZ 171 Dmitriy Muravyev (RadioShack) 00:18:15
ned NED 172 Addy Engels (Quick Step) 00:19:15
ita ITA 173 Fabio Sabatini (Liquigas-Cannondale) 00:20:16
crc CRC 174 Andrey Amador Bakkazakova (Movistar) 00:27:59
rus RUS 175 Vladimir Isaychev (Katusha) 00:28:46
bel BEL 176 Gert Steegmans (Quick Step) 00:33:10
fra FRA 177 Vincent Jerome (Europcar) 00:35:50

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