11th Deutschland Tour - Stage 3
The third stage from Herrieden to Wiesloch over 214,9 km is won by Liquigas
Italian Leonardo Bertagnolli. He escaped in the final together with Daniel Navarro
and was able to win the stage with a slight advantage on the bunch. Navarro
was chased down by the bunch and finished as sixth. Rigoberto Uran won the peloton
sprint for second. Thomas Lövkvist finished as third with Capecchi and
Visconti in fourth and fifth place. Linus Gerdemann remains in the overall lead.
The race was animated by a break of Johannes Fröhlinger (Gerolsteiner)
and Christian Knees (Milram). The duo attacked after 10 km and got a maximum
gap of 7.40.
On the Königstuhl with about 25 km to go in the stage the duo was caught.
Columbia and Rujano were forcing the pace and a group of eight riders went over
the top of the climb with Rujano, Lövkvist, Gerdemann, Brajkovic, Mollema,
Navarro, Capecchi and Bertagnolli.
In the descent lots of riders came back and among them also Jussi Veikkanen
who immediately attacked together with Daniel Navarro and Leonardo Bertagnolli.
With about 9 km to go a group of about 15 riders caught the Gerdemann group
at the same moment Veikkanen got a mechanical in front.
Navarro and Bertagnolli worked well together and had a maximum gap of around
30-40 seconds. In the final kilometer the gap was still 10 seconds. Bertagnolli
started the sprint, Navarro wasn't able to follow, and won the stage. The bunch
ended in the same time as Bertganolli with Uran in second and Lövkvist
in third.
Bertagnolli commented after the finish, "This victory is a great joy,
and is a good redemption after the Saturday's stage in which I accumulated too
much delay. I've given up the dreams for the final ranking, I could only think
to the journey's successes."
The rider imposed himself in a difficult sprint on the finish line of the stage
Herrieden-Wiesloch, after an escape with the Spanish Navarro in the final kilometres.
"He collaborated only a little and I was really afraid that in the last
metres he could pass me. In addition, the group was arriving; I risked everything
and I was rewarded" Bertagnolli added his hopes before the arrival in Bremen.
"One goal was hit," concluded Bertagnolli, "now I will try to
exploit all the opportunities to bring my total victories to four this season.
The fourth stage will take the riders from Wiesloch to Mainz over 174 km. This
will be the first real stage for the sprinters before heading to the mountains
again with the stage to Winterberg.
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Result - Stage 3 (214,9 km)
1 BERTAGNOLLI, Leonardo LIQ LIQUIGAS 05:20:34 +00:00
2 URAN, Rigoberto * GCE CAISSE D'EPARGNE +00:00
3 LÖVKVIST, Thomas * THR TEAM COLUMBIA +00:00
4 CAPECCHI, Eros * SDV SCOTT - AMERICAN BEEF +00:00
5 VISCONTI, Giovanni * QST QUICK STEP +00:00
6 NAVARRO GARCIA, Daniel * AST ASTANA +00:00
7 MOLLEMA, Bauke * RAB RABOBANK +00:00
8 DEIGNAN, Philip * ALM AG2R LA MONDIALE +00:00
9 GERDEMANN, Linus THR TEAM COLUMBIA +00:00
10 BRAJKOVIC, Janez * AST ASTANA +00:00
11 VEIKKANEN, Jussi FDJ FRANÇAISE DES JEUX +00:00
12 DIETZIKER, Andreas VBG TEAM VOLKSBANK +00:00
13 MONFORT, Maxime * COF COFIDIS +00:00
14 LE MEVEL, Christophe C.A CREDIT AGRICOLE +00:00
15 CAUCCHIOLI, Pietro C.A CREDIT AGRICOLE +00:00
16 LARSSON, Gustav CSC TEAM CSC SAXO BANK +00:00
17 RUJANO GUILLEN, José GCE CAISSE D'EPARGNE +00:00
18 NOE, Andrea LIQ LIQUIGAS +00:00
19 ZUBELDIA AGIRRE, Haimar EUS EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI +00:00
20 WEGELIUS, Charles LIQ LIQUIGAS +00:00
21 PEREZ SANCHEZ, Francisco GCE CAISSE D'EPARGNE +00:00
22 CIONI, Dario David SIL SILENCE-LOTTO +00:00
23 SEELDRAYERS, Kevin * QST QUICK STEP +00:00
24 PERGET, Mathieu * GCE CAISSE D'EPARGNE +00:17
25 WEENING, Pieter RAB RABOBANK +00:26
26 FOTHEN, Markus GST GEROLSTEINER +00:39
27 JUFRE POU, Josep SDV SCOTT - AMERICAN BEEF +00:41
28 DOI, Yukihiro * SKS SKIL-SHIMANO +00:43
29 KARPETS, Vladimir GCE CAISSE D'EPARGNE +00:45
30 VELITS, Peter * MRM TEAM MILRAM +00:45
Ranking
1 GERDEMANN, Linus THR TEAM COLUMBIA 13:56:11 00:00:00
2 LÖVKVIST, Thomas * THR TEAM COLUMBIA 00:00:17
3 BRAJKOVIC, Janez * AST ASTANA 00:00:20
4 CAUCCHIOLI, Pietro C.A CREDIT AGRICOLE 00:00:58
5 MOLLEMA, Bauke * RAB RABOBANK 00:01:01
6 RUJANO GUILLEN, José GCE CAISSE D'EPARGNE 00:01:13
7 NAVARRO GARCIA, Daniel * AST ASTANA 00:01:27
8 CAPECCHI, Eros * SDV SCOTT 00:01:31
9 NOE, Andrea LIQ LIQUIGAS 00:01:31
10 PEREZ SANCHEZ, Francisco GCE CAISSE D'EPARGNE 00:02:13
11 ZUBELDIA AGIRRE, Haimar EUS EUSKALTEL 00:02:16
12 TSCHOPP, Johann BTL BOUYGUES TELECOM 00:02:39
13 FOTHEN, Markus GST GEROLSTEINER 00:02:42
14 BERTAGNOLLI, Leonardo LIQ LIQUIGAS 00:02:51
15 LE MEVEL, Christophe C.A CREDIT AGRICOLE 00:02:52
16 SEELDRAYERS, Kevin * QST QUICK STEP 00:03:19
17 WEGELIUS, Charles LIQ LIQUIGAS 00:03:22
18 VISCONTI, Giovanni * QST QUICK STEP 00:03:25
19 KARPETS, Vladimir GCE CAISSE D'EPARGNE 00:03:28
20 JUFRE POU, Josep SDV SCOTT 00:03:41
21 GOUBERT, Stéphane ALM AG2R LA MONDIALE 00:03:52
22 BOTCHAROV, Alexandre C.A CREDIT AGRICOLE 00:04:14
23 HARTMANN, Nicolas * COF COFIDIS 00:04:23
24 DIETZIKER, Andreas VBG TEAM VOLKSBANK 00:04:42
25 DEIGNAN, Philip * ALM AG2R LA MONDIALE 00:05:25
26 VEIKKANEN, Jussi FDJ FRANÇAISE DES JEUX 00:05:30
27 BERTOGLIATI, Rubens SDV SCOTT 00:05:36
28 MONFORT, Maxime * COF COFIDIS 00:06:04
29 CANADA GRACIA, David SDV SCOTT 00:07:15
30 SPILAK, Simon * LAM LAMPRE 00:07:41
Full Result
Remaining Stages
Stage 4: Wiesloch - Mainz, 174km
Stage 5: Mainz - Winterberg, 218.4km
Stage 6: Bad Fredeburg - Neuss, 188.8km
Stage 7: Neuss - Georgsmarienhütte, 214.3km
Stage 8: Bremen (ITT), 34km
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