Tour de France 2011 – Stage 14 [FULL STAGE] (flemish)

July 16, 2011

Tour de France 2011 – Stage 14 – Saint-Gaudens – Plateau de Beille : 168 km

After a 2010 edition dedicated to the centenary of the Pyrenees, the 2011 Tour de France will celebrate the centenary of the first time the race climbed the Alps. Race director Christian Prudhomme unveiled a parcours ideal for climbers, with only 64 time trial kilometres of which 23 are a team time trial. Again, there will be no time bonuses on the road from the Vendée region to Paris, while a testing third week in the Alps sees the Tour return to the Galibier and L’Alpe d’Huez: two of its most legendary climbs.

Jurgen Van Den Broeck’s exit from this year’s Tour de France has allowed another Belgian sensation – Jelle Vanendert – to take centre stage on the world’s biggest stage and win his first ever professional race atop Plateau de Beille in the Pyrenees.

After lots of attacking and counter-attacking by Andy Schleck and the other overall contenders on the climb to the finish, it was the relatively unheralded Omega Pharma-Lotto rider who edged away with seven kilometers remaining in the stage. He was seemingly unnoticed by the big-name favourites and dug deep to stay away and beat Euskaltel-Euskadi’s Samuel Sanchez by 21 seconds. Andy Schleck brought home the favourites at 46 seconds.

The 26-year-old Belgian showed his climbing ability like Van Den Broeck did two years ago, albeit in more spectacular fashion, by winning ahead of the overall contenders in this year’s Tour after a tense day of racing that saw Europcar’s Thomas Voeckler do enough to hold onto his yellow jersey. He survived the numerous attacks from Schleck in the final 10km to take the race lead into tomorrow’s stage, openly celebrating on the finish line amongst men considered more likely to be in his position than the plucky Frenchman.

Voeckler has surely become a podium contender after successfully going with all the attacks on the toughest finish of this year’s Tour de France.

“I would be lying if I said that I expected to stay with the best climbers today,” he admitted.

“The yellow jersey has given me great confidence but I’m really surprised to keep it. We’ll try and keep it as long as possible well. But as I’ve said, we’ll take things one day at a time. We’ll have to be careful even on the stage to Montpellier because it can be windy down there.”

Whilst the winners atop Plateau de Beille in 1998 (Marco Pantani), 2002 (Lance Armstrong), 2004 (Armstrong again) and 2007 (Alberto Contador) all went on to win the overall title in those years, Vanendert is not expected to do the same, but it was an impressive first professional victory.

“This is really amazing. Taking my first win as a pro at the Tour de France is a nice surprise,” he said.

“After staying with Andy Schleck’s attacks, I thought I didn’t have anything to lose because I’m not a threat in the GC. I decided to go before the favourites made their moves and get a gap, thinking that if they came back, I’d have recovered. But nobody came back to me.”

A categorised quintet ahead of the GC test

With five categorised climbs on the menu before the hors categorie ascent to Plateau de Beille, it was always going to be a tough day in the saddle. Not surprisingly, the day’s break formed before the category two Col de Portet d’Aspet, with Leopard Trek veteran Jens Voigt and teammate Linus Gerdemann taking their place in the move, plus stage nine winner Luis León Sánchez and Rabobank teammate Bauke Mollema.

Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Euskaltel-Euskadi), David Millar of Garmin-Cervélo, Liquigas-Cannondale rider Kristjian Koren, Quickstep man Sylvain Chavanel and Astana’s mercurial Frenchman Rémy Di Grégorio were also present. They had AG2R La Mondiale duo Maxime Bouet and Christophe Riblon, former Tour stage winner Sandy Casar of FDJ and his teammates Mickael Delage and Arthur Vichot for company, plus last year’s mountains classification winner Anthony Charteau of Europcar, Manuel Quinziato (BMC Racing), Julien El Farès (Cofidis), Katusha’s Egor Silin, Marco Marcato of Vacansoleil-DCM and Xabier Zandio of Sky.

Joining them a little later were Movistar man Rui Alberto Costa, Lampre – ISD’s Adriano Malori, Chavanel’s Quickstep teammate Jérôme Pineau plus another Euskaltel-Euskadi rider Ruben Perez. Movistar’s José Ivan Gutierrez and Maxim Iglinskiy of Astana gave chase in an attempt to get with the leaders but it was a doomed endeavour for the pair and they sat up.

The break takes up the slack

El Fares and Casar went it alone on the descent of the Col de la Core and were joined in the town of Seix by Millar. The trio established a lead of a minute over the remnants of the break with 88km and four peaks remaining in the stage, while behind them, Voeckler’s Europcar crew continued to tap out a steady rhythm at the head of the peloton.

With a little under 80 clicks for the break until the finish, Casar had done enough to earn the maillot jaune virtuel, an honour not destined to last until day’s end but a special moment for the Frenchman. On the opening slopes of the first category Col d’Agnet, Millar faded and went backwards, whilst Casar and El Fares were joined by Silin, Riblon, Di Grégorio, Voigt, Charteau, Zandio, Izagirre, Gerdemann and Chavanel.

Meanwhile Leopard-Trek was testing the peloton’s resolve with some pace setting that slowly disintegrated the field. The likes of Stuart O’Grady, Fabian Cancellara and Maxime Monfort were doing their job to perfection and keeping the tempo high to prevent those with GC aspirations making any moves.

Unsurprisingly, Cadel Evans’ BMC Racing crew was tucked in safely behind the Schleck brothers and the Leopard-Trek outfit; the Australian had said at the start of the day that the stage was, “not a long day, but a hard day. It’s going to be a pretty important day for sure. One of the key important days, as well as a couple of others in the Alps.”

A man who took advantage of the hard parcours was Izagirre. The Basque climber shot off the front of the break on the descent of the Col d’Agnes and then pushed hard on the lower slopes of the Port de Lers. With 50km to the finish, the men at the head of proceedings still had in excess of five minutes over maillot jaune Voeckler in the peloton, but it would not be enough.

Izagirre crested the Port de Lers alone as Jens Voigt took a little solo trip off the road on the descent. The German had more bad luck when he crashed again whilst trying to make it back to the break. The second incident was an eerie reminder of his gruesome crash on stage 16 of the 2009 Tour, when he landed heavily on his head taking another descent, the Col du Petit Saint Bernard, which ended his race prematurely. Fortunately it wasn’t to be a repeat of that however, and he returned to the peloton to help his teammates.

As if by magic, when the break hit 30km to go, the attacks began. Sanchez and Marcato hit the men in pursuit of Izagirre, stringing out the front group when in reality it should have continued working together to stay ahead of a peloton driven by Leopard-Trek. And the attacks were coming thick and fast from the break. Before long Izagirre was caught – with 24km remaining – bringing the brave Basque’s move to an end. Soon after it was Chavanel’s turn to take to the front, and dragging Sanchez and Perez with him, he set off for home. Behind them the pace had increased in the bunch, although with 20km remaining the gap between the two main groups on the road hovered around three minutes.

After Chavanel sat up and allowing the remnants of the break to catch them, it was time for Perez to hit the front again, albeit solo, in a lone dash towards Plateau de Beille. The only hurdle: 16km of punishment up one of the Tour’s most iconic climbs.

Here comes the cavalry!

The peloton, still led by Leopard-Trek, hit the base of the final climb 2:14 behind the leaders and it was a case of diminishing returns for the brave souls at the head of proceedings as Charteau, Di Gregorio and Gerdemann were swept up. With Perez out of the picture, it was time for Casar to show his hand as a lone ranger; pursued by Xandio and Riblon. He amassed a lead of 25 seconds with 12km until the finish.

Voeckler was holding on to his yellow jersey for dear life as the first attack by Andy Schleck came with 10.5km remaining. Though unsuccessful, only 700 metres later he tried again, followed by Vanendert and pursued by Evans, Voeckler, Contador and older brother Frank. Damiano Cunego, Ivan Basso and Riblon also made it up to the hotspot of hostilities. Another kilometre up the road last year’s Tour de France runner up made another surge and again it was Voeckler on his wheel, throwing everything he could through the pedals to hold onto his race lead.

With the action heating up behind him, Casar continued to push on to the finish, holding a lead of just 50 seconds with eight kilometres of purgatory remaining on the slopes of Plateau de Beille. It wouldn’t be enough to see him home however, as behind him the younger Schleck was at it again, going with seven kilometres to go and forcing the illustrious names he had for company to chase.

They all passed the lone Frenchman as Vanendert, who had slipped past Schleck during the latest of his attacks, quickly amassed a 17-second lead. Hardly a safety buffer, although it was nevertheless a stoic effort as the young Belgian suddenly took on Omega Pharma-Lotto’s general classification leadership.

That advantage grew to 29 seconds as Basso backed his ability to create a split and put his head down into the final five kilometres. With Voeckler glued to his wheel the Italian continued to up the pace, forcing his countryman Cunego into difficulty and putting his fellow favourites on notice that he was back at the year’s biggest bike race after a long absence.

Stage 12 winner Sanchez then surged hard with 3.5km remaining in an attempt to catch Vanendert, who had accumulated a further nine seconds to sit 38 ahead of the elite selection. It was also no surprise that Voeckler was still amongst them, the plucky French contender winning more hearts with another gutsy ride.

As the two-to-go banner approached for the lone Belgian, Basso decided it was time to take things to another level – the move was closed down by Evans, Schleck and the rest, although it served as further proof of his Tour credentials. In front of the poker game Sanchez continued his pursuit of Vanendert but it seemed increasingly unlikely he was going to add another stage win to his victory two days ago.

And so it was. At the finish Vanendert prevailed and celebrated and was understandably ecstatic with his victory, the biggest of his career and one which may have indicated the advent of another potential Belgian general classification rider at the Tour de France.

Results :
1 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 5:13:25
2 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:00:21
3 Andy Schleck (Lux) Leopard Trek 0:00:46
4 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:00:48
5 Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col) Sky Procycling
6 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Saxo Bank Sungard
7 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Europcar
8 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Leopard Trek
9 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
10 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Team Europcar
11 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
12 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre – ISD 0:01:27
13 Thomas Danielson (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:01:59
14 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Quickstep Cycling Team
15 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0:02:23
16 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Pro Team Astana 0:02:38
17 Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
18 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Team RadioShack 0:03:01
19 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:03:39
20 Chris Anker Sörensen (Den) Saxo Bank Sungard
21 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:03:55
22 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJ
23 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0:04:16
24 Peter Velits (Svk) HTC-Highroad 0:04:46
25 Jerome Coppel (Fra) Saur – Sojasun 0:05:00
26 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Rabobank Cycling Team
27 Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) FDJ 0:05:03
28 Yuriy Trofimov (Rus) Katusha Team
29 Egor Silin (Rus) Katusha Team 0:05:26
30 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:05:37
31 Julien El Fares (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0:06:41
32 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:06:47
33 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale
34 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Katusha Team
35 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Movistar Team
36 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quickstep Cycling Team 0:07:26
37 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:07:31
38 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Team Europcar 0:08:29
39 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team RadioShack 0:09:45
40 Steve Morabito (Swi) BMC Racing Team
41 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Saxo Bank Sungard
42 Jesús Hernandez Blazquez (Spa) Saxo Bank Sungard
43 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Sky Procycling
44 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
45 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Quickstep Cycling Team
46 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Saur – Sojasun
47 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Leopard Trek
48 Cyril Gautier (Fra) Team Europcar
49 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Team RadioShack 0:10:42
50 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quickstep Cycling Team 0:11:36
51 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Katusha Team 0:11:45
52 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Pro Team Astana 0:12:01
53 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Movistar Team 0:12:08
54 Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team 0:13:19
55 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
56 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:13:52
57 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:14:04
58 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Sky Procycling 0:14:59
59 Christian Knees (Ger) Sky Procycling
60 Michael Schär (Swi) BMC Racing Team
61 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank Cycling Team
62 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
63 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team
64 George Hincapie (USA) BMC Racing Team
65 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) HTC-Highroad
66 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Fra) Saur – Sojasun
67 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Liquigas-Cannondale
68 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:17:03
69 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Pro Team Astana
70 Mickaël Delage (Fra) FDJ
71 Jens Voigt (Ger) Leopard Trek
72 Arthur Vichot (Fra) FDJ
73 Maxime Bouet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
74 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Pro Team Astana
75 Tony Martin (Ger) HTC-Highroad
76 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Leopard Trek
77 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:17:37
78 Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:18:28
79 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:19:32
80 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team
81 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Rabobank Cycling Team
82 Stuart O’Grady (Aus) Leopard Trek 0:22:57
83 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Leopard Trek
84 Adriano Malori (Ita) Lampre – ISD
85 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre – ISD
86 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre – ISD
87 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
88 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:23:44
89 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Leopard Trek
90 Daniel Oss (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:24:34
91 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team
92 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Leopard Trek
93 Leonardo Fabio Duque (Col) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne
94 André Greipel (Ger) Omega Pharma-Lotto
95 Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
96 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ
97 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Sky Procycling
98 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Saur – Sojasun
99 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Omega Pharma-Lotto
100 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Omega Pharma-Lotto
101 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Pro Team Astana
102 Blel Kadri (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
103 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
104 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Team Europcar
105 Gianni Meersman (Bel) FDJ
106 Addy Engels (Ned) Quickstep Cycling Team
107 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne
108 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Team Europcar
109 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team
110 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas-Cannondale
111 Ben Swift (GBr) Sky Procycling
112 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Lampre – ISD
113 Nicki Sörensen (Den) Saxo Bank Sungard
114 Richie Porte (Aus) Saxo Bank Sungard
115 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Quickstep Cycling Team
116 Sébastien Minard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
117 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Movistar Team
118 Johnny Hoogerland (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
119 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) BMC Racing Team
120 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Quickstep Cycling Team
121 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Sky Procycling
122 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) BMC Racing Team 0:25:23
123 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Saxo Bank Sungard
124 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Pro Team Astana
125 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:26:28
126 Mikhail Ignatyev (Rus) Katusha Team 0:26:45
127 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Saur – Sojasun
128 Jérémie Galland (Fra) Saur – Sojasun
129 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre – ISD
130 Yohann Gene (Fra) Team Europcar
131 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne
132 Matthew Harley Goss (Aus) HTC-Highroad
133 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
134 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) Saxo Bank Sungard
135 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Team RadioShack
136 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne
137 Grega Bole (Slo) Lampre – ISD
138 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Movistar Team
139 Brian Vandborg (Den) Saxo Bank Sungard
140 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Saur – Sojasun
141 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team
142 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Team Garmin-Cervelo
143 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Procycling
144 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Pro Team Astana
145 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJ
146 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Lampre – ISD
147 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Team Garmin-Cervelo
148 Maciej Paterski (Pol) Liquigas-Cannondale
149 Tyler Farrar (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo
150 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
151 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team
152 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
153 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Saur – Sojasun
154 Romain Zingle (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne
155 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Movistar Team
156 Borut Bozic (Slo) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
157 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
158 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Team RadioShack
159 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) HTC-Highroad
160 Mark Renshaw (Aus) HTC-Highroad
161 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Saur – Sojasun
162 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) HTC-Highroad 0:26:54
163 Danny Pate (USA) HTC-Highroad
164 Mark Cavendish (GBr) HTC-Highroad
165 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
166 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne
167 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Team Europcar 0:26:59
168 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Pro Team Astana 0:27:09
169 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Lampre – ISD
170 Andrey Amador Bakkazakova (CRc) Movistar Team 0:27:35
HD William Bonnet (Fra) FDJ

General Classification after Stage 14 :
1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Europcar 61:04:10
2 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Leopard Trek 0:01:49
3 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:02:06
4 Andy Schleck (Lux) Leopard Trek 0:02:15
5 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:03:16
6 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:03:44
7 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Saxo Bank Sungard 0:04:00
8 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre – ISD 0:04:01
9 Thomas Danielson (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:05:46
10 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Quickstep Cycling Team 0:06:18
11 Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col) Sky Procycling 0:07:55
12 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:08:20
13 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0:09:02
14 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Team Europcar 0:09:20
15 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Team RadioShack 0:09:50
16 Peter Velits (Svk) HTC-Highroad 0:10:01
17 Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) FDJ 0:10:05
18 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 0:10:56
19 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJ 0:11:54
20 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:12:06
21 Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:12:56
22 Jerome Coppel (Fra) Saur – Sojasun 0:13:03
23 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Katusha Team 0:15:11
24 Yuriy Trofimov (Rus) Katusha Team 0:16:43
25 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team RadioShack 0:16:48
26 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:16:54
27 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Katusha Team 0:19:41
28 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:20:50
29 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:21:06
30 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Leopard Trek 0:21:40
31 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0:21:57
32 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:23:43
33 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:26:25
34 Cyril Gautier (Fra) Team Europcar 0:26:37
35 Tony Martin (Ger) HTC-Highroad 0:27:06
36 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:28:20
37 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Pro Team Astana 0:30:51
38 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Quickstep Cycling Team 0:30:58
39 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Saur – Sojasun 0:31:55
40 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:34:43
41 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Leopard Trek 0:34:46
42 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:35:21
43 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Sky Procycling 0:35:27
44 Chris Anker Sörensen (Den) Saxo Bank Sungard 0:36:26
45 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:37:26
46 Julien El Fares (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0:38:22
47 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quickstep Cycling Team 0:39:39
48 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Leopard Trek 0:39:48
49 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:42:13
50 Steve Morabito (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:42:44
51 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Movistar Team 0:43:03
52 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Pro Team Astana 0:43:56
53 George Hincapie (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:45:42
54 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Team Europcar 0:45:44
55 Maxime Bouet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:50:36
56 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:50:44
57 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Sky Procycling 0:54:07
58 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:55:02
59 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:55:29
60 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:55:48
61 Christian Knees (Ger) Sky Procycling 0:56:35
62 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:57:58
63 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) HTC-Highroad 0:58:02
64 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Saxo Bank Sungard 0:59:10
65 Jens Voigt (Ger) Leopard Trek 1:01:52
66 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Procycling 1:03:23
67 Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team 1:03:52
68 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quickstep Cycling Team 1:05:22
69 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 1:05:41
70 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre – ISD 1:10:00
71 Maciej Paterski (Pol) Liquigas-Cannondale 1:10:22
72 Richie Porte (Aus) Saxo Bank Sungard 1:11:30
73 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1:12:20
74 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Movistar Team 1:13:52
75 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 1:14:04
76 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Pro Team Astana 1:14:40
77 Adriano Malori (Ita) Lampre – ISD 1:15:32
78 Egor Silin (Rus) Katusha Team 1:15:38
79 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 1:15:57
80 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team 1:17:07
81 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1:18:08
82 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 1:19:09
83 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) BMC Racing Team 1:19:19
84 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Team RadioShack 1:19:38
85 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 1:19:49
86 Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 1:21:13
87 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Team RadioShack 1:21:30
88 Stuart O’Grady (Aus) Leopard Trek 1:21:43
89 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Movistar Team 1:22:26
90 Nicki Sörensen (Den) Saxo Bank Sungard 1:24:06
91 Arthur Vichot (Fra) FDJ 1:25:26
92 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1:26:10
93 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Movistar Team 1:26:35
94 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Sky Procycling 1:29:21
95 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre – ISD 1:29:38
96 Jesús Hernandez Blazquez (Spa) Saxo Bank Sungard 1:31:51
97 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Liquigas-Cannondale 1:31:54
98 Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJ 1:32:12
99 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Sky Procycling 1:32:55
100 Johnny Hoogerland (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 1:33:19
101 Michael Schär (Swi) BMC Racing Team 1:35:22
102 Daniel Oss (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 1:35:58
103 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Lampre – ISD 1:37:03
104 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) BMC Racing Team 1:37:55
105 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1:38:02
106 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Pro Team Astana 1:39:37
107 Gianni Meersman (Bel) FDJ 1:39:45
108 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre – ISD 1:39:47
109 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) Saxo Bank Sungard 1:40:48
110 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Omega Pharma-Lotto 1:43:44
111 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ 1:43:53
112 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Saur – Sojasun 1:45:14
113 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Saur – Sojasun 1:45:51
114 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Team Europcar 1:46:05
115 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Saxo Bank Sungard 1:46:06
116 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 1:46:07
117 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Pro Team Astana 1:46:27
118 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 1:46:32
119 Brian Vandborg (Den) Saxo Bank Sungard 1:48:43
120 Mickaël Delage (Fra) FDJ 1:48:54
121 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 1:50:06
122 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Leopard Trek 1:50:55
123 Grega Bole (Slo) Lampre – ISD 1:51:06
124 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 1:51:18
125 Leonardo Fabio Duque (Col) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 1:51:42
126 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 1:52:33
127 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 1:52:44
128 Ben Swift (GBr) Sky Procycling 1:54:39
129 Jérémie Galland (Fra) Saur – Sojasun 1:54:49
130 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Movistar Team 1:55:53
131 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Leopard Trek 1:56:10
132 Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 1:57:30
133 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Omega Pharma-Lotto 1:57:49
134 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Pro Team Astana 1:58:03
135 Sébastien Minard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1:58:32
136 Mark Cavendish (GBr) HTC-Highroad 1:58:34
137 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Pro Team Astana 1:59:10
138 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Quickstep Cycling Team 1:59:15
139 Matthew Harley Goss (Aus) HTC-Highroad 2:00:30
140 Blel Kadri (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2:00:31
141 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Team RadioShack 2:01:25
142 Addy Engels (Ned) Quickstep Cycling Team 2:01:41
143 Borut Bozic (Slo) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 2:03:07
144 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Lampre – ISD 2:05:30
145 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Saur – Sojasun 2:05:38
146 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Fra) Saur – Sojasun 2:05:40
147 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Quickstep Cycling Team 2:06:01
148 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) HTC-Highroad 2:06:12
149 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr) Lampre – ISD 2:06:25
150 Romain Zingle (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 2:07:17
151 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Cervelo 2:08:28
152 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Saur – Sojasun 2:09:11
153 Yohann Gene (Fra) Team Europcar 2:09:14
154 André Greipel (Ger) Omega Pharma-Lotto 2:11:11
155 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas-Cannondale 2:11:20
156 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 2:13:15
157 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Pro Team Astana 2:13:34
158 Tyler Farrar (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo 2:14:15
159 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) BMC Racing Team 2:14:53
160 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2:16:32
161 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Team Europcar 2:16:42
162 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) HTC-Highroad 2:18:22
163 Mikhail Ignatyev (Rus) Katusha Team 2:18:45
164 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Team Garmin-Cervelo 2:19:04
165 Mark Renshaw (Aus) HTC-Highroad 2:19:20
166 Danny Pate (USA) HTC-Highroad 2:20:42
167 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Saur – Sojasun 2:22:36
168 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 2:32:59
169 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Team Europcar 2:33:38
170 Andrey Amador Bakkazakova (CRc) Movistar Team 2:41:32