ULTIMA
TAPPA AL ROSSO CROCIATO CAMENZIND
28
giugno 2001 - L'elvetico
Oscar Camenzind (Lampre-Daikin)
ha vinto allo sprint l'ultima tappa del Giro della Svizzera,
la Losanna-Losanna di 176 chilometri, precedendo il francese Emmanuel
Magnien (La Francaise des Jeux) ed il lussemburghese Christian
Poos (Post Swiss Team).
Lance
Armstrong (US Postal), ha ottenuto il successo nella classifica
finale, davanti a Gilberto Simoni (Lampre-Daikin) e Wladimir
Belli (Fassa Bortolo).
ARMSTRONG
WRAPS UP TOUR OF SWITZERLAND
In
his final tun e-up prior to defending his back-to-back Tour de France
victories, the United States Postal Service
Pro Cycling Team's Lance Armstrong today wrapped up the overall
victory at the Tour of Switzerland,
finishing safely in the main field following a 175.9 kilometer stage
around Lausanne. Armstrong's final winning margin was 1:02 over
Lampre's Gilberto Simoni, the
winner of the Tour of Italy earlier this month.
"First
of all, Lance's victory is a confirmation of his fitness,"
said Johan Bruyneel, the USPS team's director sportif. "He
was great in training but until you have something to compare with,
against other riders, it is always a guess."
After winning the event's opening stage on June 19 - a 7.9 km time
trial in Rust, Germany - Armstrong lost the race's lead jersey following
stage three to Tacconi Sport's Gianluca Bortolami. With the
support of his able teammates, Armstrong then rode solidly
and smartly through the mountain stages and held third place after
seven stages - 25 seconds back of Fassa Bortolo's Wladimir Belli
- prior to the event's decisive stage, Tuesday's 25.1 km mountain
time trial.
Armstrong rode a near perfect race in the stage, taking 1:25 from
his nearest competitor - Simoni - and regaining the lead for good.
"It
was a very good test," said Bruyneel. "To
finish up 1:25 on Simoni who had just won the Giro was something
significant for Lance's morale and for the confidence of the entire
team. We saw that, like always, when the leader of the team is going
good, the rest of the team is on a higher level and has the motivation
of defending the leader's jersey. The team here was really good.
Having to defend the jersey the last two days was good training
for the Tour de France. We had not taken on that type of responsibility
in any other race yet this year.
"This
was the right moment for an overall rehearsal."
The USPS team's objectives heading into the Tour of Switzerland
- considered by many to be the sport's fourth largest stage
race behind only the Tours of France, Italy and Spain - were
not necessarily to win, Bruyneel said, but to go 100% in the mountain
time trial due to the inclusion of a similar stage in the upcoming
Tour de France. That was the main reason, Bruyneel added, the USPS
team competed in Switzerland instead of partaking in its usual build
up for the Tour, which in the past included events such as the Dauphine
Libere.
"It's
a very important race," Bruyneel said of
the Tour of Switzerland. "It's
amazing when you have your objectives so high. Here we win two stages
and the overall but we know that something more is to come. We are
not over-excited, because our goal is higher than this, but I'm
very happy with the results and how things went. We know we are
ready."
Also concluding today was the Tour of Catalunya in Spain,
another top level stage race. The USPS team was led by Roberto
Heras, who placed 22nd overall, 11:13 back of ONCE's Joseba
Beloki. In today's final stage, a 13.9 km mountain time trial
from St. Julia Loria to Alt de la Rabassa, Heras finished 12th,
2:26 back of Beloki. Beloki entered the stage 22 seconds back of
teammate Igor Gonzalez and put 55 seconds into his teammate to win
overall by 33 seconds.
The team will announce the nine riders to start the Tour de France
on Sunday.
Ordine
d'arrivo ultima tappa:
1
Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Lampre-Daikin
3.56.18 (44.66 km/h)
2 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) La
Francaise Des Jeux
3 Christian Poos (Lux) Post
Swiss Team
4 Dimitri Konychev (Rus) Fassa Bortolo
5 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) CSC-World Online
6 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 2.56
7 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Gerolsteiner
8 Robert McEwen (Aus) Domo-Farm Frites
9 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Post Swiss Team
10 Robert Hunter (RSA) Lampre-Daikin
11 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Team Deutsche Telekom
12 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Domo-Farm Frites
13 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Post Swiss Team
14 Mauro Radaelli (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola
15 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Lampre-Daikin
16 Matthias Buxhofer (Aut) Phonak-Hearing Systems
17 Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis
18 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Domo-Farm Frites
19 Beat Zberg (Swi) Rabobank
20 Jean Patrick Nazon (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux
Classifica
generale finale:
1
Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 35.00.06
2 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Daikin
1.02
3 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Fassa
Bortolo 1.34
4 Beat Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 2.47
5 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Deutsche Telekom 2.48
6 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 2.58
7 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre-Daikin 3.30
8 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 3.37
9 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) CSC-World Online 3.46
10 Daniel Schnider (Swi) La Francaise Des Jeux 5.51
11 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Lampre-Daikin 5.52
12 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez (Spa) Cofidis 6.13
13 Daniel Atienza Urendez (Spa) Cofidis 6.16
14 Tyler Hamilton (USA) US Postal Service 7.23
15 Udo Bölts (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 7.52
16 Tomas Konecny (Cze) Domo-Farm Frites 10.10
17 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Post Swiss Team 10.11
18 Massimo Donati (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 11.32
19 Stefano Cattai (Ita) Liquigas-Pata 12.32
20 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Saeco-Macchine Per Caffé 12.35
21 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 13.29
22 Alex Zülle (Swi) Team Coast 13.44
23 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 14.00
24 Dimitri Konychev (Rus) Fassa Bortolo 14.10
25 Marcelino Garcia (Spa) CSC-World Online 14.19
26 Mauro Gianetti (Swi) Team Coast 14.32
27 Francisco Cerezo (Spa) CSC-World Online 16.03
28 Niki Aebersold (Swi) Team Coast 17.13
29 Reto Bergmann (Swi) Post Swiss Team 17.31
30 Massimo Codol (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 19.13
31 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Saeco-Macchine Per Caffé 19.41
32 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) CSC-World Online 20.12
33 Markus Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 24.58
34 Christian Vandevelde (USA) US Postal Service 25.30
35 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 26.53
36 Matthias Buxhofer (Aut) Phonak-Hearing Systems 26.54
37 Rolf Aldag (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 27.02
38 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 27.19
39 Steffen Kjaergraard (Nor) US Postal Service 28.28
40 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 28.44
41 René Stadelmann (Swi) Phonak-Hearing Systems 28.50
42 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) US Postal Service 30.01
43 Nicki Sörensen (Den) CSC-World Online 30.06
44 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Post Swiss Team 30.18
45 Frédérique Guesdon (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux
31.14
46 Armin Meier (Swi) Saeco-Macchine Per Caffé 33.23
47 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak-Hearing Systems 33.33
48 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal Service 33.54
49 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 33.57
50 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 33.59
51 Cedric Fragniere (Swi) Phonak-Hearing Systems 34.23
52 Pierre Bourquenoud (Swi) Phonak-Hearing Systems 34.51
53 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 35.09
54 Christian Poos (Lux) Post Swiss Team 35.13
55 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 36.20
56 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Rabobank 37.00
57 Robert Hunter (RSA) Lampre-Daikin 38.51
58 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Domo-Farm Frites 40.20
59 Rolf Huser (Swi) Team Coast 41.40
60 Fausto Dotti (Ita) Liquigas-Pata 41.58
61 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 42.19
62 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Cofidis 44.07
63 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Fassa Bortolo 45.18
64 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 45.26
65 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Post Swiss Team 46.32
66 Matthew White (Aus) US Postal Service 46.35
67 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 46.56
68 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Saeco-Macchine Per Caffé 47.41
69 Martin Rittsel (Swe) CSC-World Online 48.24
70 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Team Deutsche Telekom 48.48
71 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 49.39
72 Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis 49.58
73 Lukas Zumsteg (Swi) Phonak-Hearing Systems 50.43
74 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 51.23
75 Cristiano Frattini (Ita) Liquigas-Pata 51.26
76 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 51.37
77 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 51.52
78 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Lampre-Daikin 52.01
79 Johan Museeuw (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 53.05
80 Christian Sidler (Swi) Post Swiss Team 53.49
81 Mauro Radaelli (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 54.38
82 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 55.54
83 Andreas Klier (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 55.54
84 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak-Hearing Systems 55.57
85 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 56.21
86 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 56.38
87 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 56.39
88 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 56.43
89 Anton Chantyr (Rus) Team Coast 57.28
90 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 57.45
91 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 58.44
92 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 59.00
93 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Lampre-Daikin 59.26
94 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Saeco-Macchine Per Caffé 59.47
95 Rolf Sörensen (Den) CSC-World Online 1.00.27
96 Robert Sassone (Fra) Cofidis 1.00.35
97 Wilfried Peeters (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 1.00.44
98 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Gerolsteiner 1.01.09
99 René Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 1.01.14
100 Christian Heule (Swi) Post Swiss Team 1.03.58
101 Jean Patrick Nazon (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 1.06.40
102 Robert McEwen (Aus) Domo-Farm Frites 1.14.43
Classifica
a Punti
1 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Deutsche
Telekom 69 pts
2 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Gerolsteiner
67
3 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz)
Team Deutsche Telekom 56
4 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) CSC-World Online 49
5 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 44
6 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 43
7 Robert McEwen (Aus) Domo-Farm Frites 40
8 Oscar Camenzind (Swi) Lampre-Daikin 38
9 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 35
10 Beat Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 33
11 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 30
12 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 29
13 Robert Hunter (RSA) Lampre-Daikin 29
14 Dimitri Konychev (Rus) Fassa Bortolo 28
15 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 26
16 Jean Patrick Nazon (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 26
17 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Fassa Bortolo 25
18 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre-Daikin 25
19 Robert Sassone (Fra) Cofidis 24
20 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Post Swiss Team 22
Classifica
della montagna:
1
Dimitri Konychev
(Rus) Fassa Bortolo 94 pts
2 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Mapei-Quick
Step 42
3 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Daikin
38
4 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) CSC-World Online 38
5 Matthias Buxhofer (Aut) Phonak-Hearing Systems 34
6 Rolf Aldag (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 30
7 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 28
8 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 21
9 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 14
10 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak-Hearing Systems 12
11 Christian Heule (Swi) Post Swiss Team 12
12 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre-Daikin 12
13 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 12
14 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Deutsche Telekom 11
15 Daniel Atienza Urendez (Spa) Cofidis 11
16 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 10
17 Lukas Zumsteg (Swi) Phonak-Hearing Systems 10
18 Rolf Huser (Swi) Team Coast 8
19 Robert McEwen (Aus) Domo-Farm Frites 8
20 Tyler Hamilton (USA) US Postal Service 8
