Who will live up to their pre-race hype? Who will emerge as Carlsberg's leader, Menchov or Vinokourov? Who will lead Discovery, Mayo, Sanchez Gonzalez or Gomez Marchante?
Brandt took the first KoM points ahead of Zubeldia but no break went away. This meant the sprinters, having rejoined the peleton, could battle out the intermediate sprint. Napolitano won ahead of Bennati and Davis - so Bennati is the new points classification leader.
The 2nd KoM is won by Mayo, ahead of Sanchez Gil and Sevilla. Sevilla keeps on going though, and builds up a gap.
He wins the next intermediate sprint, while Bennati takes 2nd again - extending his new lead.
Onto the longest climb of the day, and Vinokourov attacks!
All the other big guns attack too but just form one big group. Vino is quickly over a minute up on them.
A notable exception from the group is Gomez Marchante and also Perez Cuapio.
Sevilla takes maximum KoM points and leads onto the final climb.
He has 45 seconds on Vinokourov and 4'08 on the next group.
Vinokourov quickly catches Sevilla, while Thomas Dekker is about to lead the next wave of attacks in the group.
The damage is done, Zubeldia and Menchov are dropped. Sevilla has breen passed too and is alongside Zubeldia now.
Rujano is dropped!
And further up, the front group starts to split.
Kloden, Gutierrez Catalana, Mancebo and Sanchez Gonzalez start to move away from Fothen, Dekker, Gesink and Mayo. Vila is the other Saturn.
But none of them come even close to Vinokourov, who takes a superb solo win - is he on his way to Grand Tour triumph already?
Gutierrez Catalana takes valuable PT points for Saturn in 2nd, with Mancebo 3rd.
Rank
Name
Team
Time
1
Alexandre Vinokourov
CARLSBERG
5h59'03
2
José Enrique Gutiérrez Cataluña
SATURN
+ 1'56
3
Francisco Mancebo
ACCUMALUX
+ 2'05
4
Andreas Klöden
TEAM FLOGAS
s.t.
5
Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
6
Thomas Dekker
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
+ 2'36
7
Markus Fothen
MAGENTA TREFOIL
s.t.
8
Iban Mayo
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
+ 3'01
9
Patxi Vila
SATURN
s.t.
10
Robert Gesink
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
+ 3'13
11
Eddy Mazzoleni
CYCLING24 - HONDA
+ 3'40
12
José Rujano
CYCLING24 - HONDA
+ 3'50
13
Denis Menchov
CARLSBERG
+ 4'26
14
Haimar Zubeldia
TELEFONICA
s.t.
15
Gianpaolo Caruso
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
+ 5'08
16
Isidro Nozal
CARLSBERG
+ 5'26
17
Juan Miguel Mercado
DOMINA VACANZE
+ 5'33
18
Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio
FERRARI - GUERCIOTTI
+ 5'41
19
Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
DOMINA VACANZE
+ 5'49
20
David Arroyo
DOMINA VACANZE
s.t.
21
Tom Danielson
FED-EX
+ 6'01
22
José Antonio Pecharroman
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
s.t.
23
Sandy Casar
SATURN
+ 6'13
24
Oscar Sevilla
TELEFONICA
+ 6'29
25
José Angel Gomez Marchante
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
+ 6'41
26
Gilberto Simoni
CARLSBERG
+ 7'09
27
Marzio Bruseghin
LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT
s.t.
28
Matteo Carrara
FERRARI - GUERCIOTTI
+ 7'21
29
Beñat Intxausti
ACCUMALUX
+ 7'45
30
Mauricio Ardila
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
s.t.
31
David Moncoutié
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
s.t.
32
Ruggero Marzoli
CARLSBERG
s.t.
33
Andrea Tonti
MAGENTA TREFOIL
s.t.
34
Sérgio Paulinho
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
35
Dario David Cioni
DOMINA VACANZE
s.t.
36
José Serpa
TEAM FLOGAS
s.t.
37
Santiago Perez Fernandez
CYCLING24 - HONDA
+ 8'05
38
Manuel Beltran
CARLSBERG
s.t.
39
Stijn Devolder
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
s.t.
40
Santiago Botero
FED-EX
s.t.
41
Fredy Excelino González Martínez
CYCLING24 - HONDA
+ 8'29
42
Pieter Weening
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
+ 9'49
43
Xavier Florencio
CYCLING24 - HONDA
s.t.
44
Joan Horrach
DOMINA VACANZE
+ 10'01
45
Alex Ardila Cano
CARLSBERG
+ 10'25
46
Jaime Suaza
CYCLING24 - HONDA
+ 12'13
47
Carlos Barredo
CARREFOUR CYCLING
+ 12'25
48
Mauricio Ortega
SATURN
s.t.
49
Theo Eltink
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
s.t.
50
Christophe Brandt
MAGENTA TREFOIL
s.t.
51
Wladimir Gustov
FERRARI - GUERCIOTTI
s.t.
52
Branislav Samoilev
FERRARI - GUERCIOTTI
s.t.
53
Francesco Bellotti
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
s.t.
54
Alexandre Botcharov
DOMINA VACANZE
s.t.
55
José Azevedo
DOMINA VACANZE
s.t.
56
Vitor Rodrigues
TELEFONICA
s.t.
57
José Luis Rubiera
DOMINA VACANZE
s.t.
58
Evgeni Petrov
DOMINA VACANZE
s.t.
59
Victor Niño
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
s.t.
60
Paolo Tiralongo
LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT
s.t.
61
Remmert Wielinga
ACCUMALUX
s.t.
62
Jorge Giacinti
ACCUMALUX
s.t.
63
Mirko Celestino
FED-EX
s.t.
64
Edwin Parra Bustamante
TELEFONICA
+ 13'29
65
Addy Engels
CARREFOUR CYCLING
+ 13'49
66
Sébastien Joly
SATURN
+ 14'13
67
David Abal
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE - RENAULT
+ 14'21
68
Sergio Pardilla
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE - RENAULT
s.t.
69
Sergio Luis Henao Montoya
CARLSBERG
s.t.
70
Sylwester Szmyd
LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT
+ 14'29
71
Steve Zampieri
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
+ 14'45
72
Kai Reus
MAGENTA TREFOIL
s.t.
73
Thomas Voeckler
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE - RENAULT
+ 15'09
74
Hubert Dupont
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE - RENAULT
+ 15'33
75
Amaël Moinard
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
+ 16'05
76
Moris Possoni
LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT
s.t.
77
Rémy Di Gregorio
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
+ 16'29
78
Blaise Sonnery
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE - RENAULT
+ 16'37
79
Sergei Kolesnikov
TELEFONICA
+ 16'53
80
Bingen Fernandez Bustinza
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
+ 17'01
81
David Loosli
LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT
+ 17'41
82
Marco Velo
FED-EX
+ 18'05
83
Christian Meier
FERRARI - GUERCIOTTI
+ 19'25
84
Gorazd Stangelj
LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT
+ 19'33
85
Björn Leukemans
MAGENTA TREFOIL
+ 20'21
86
Konstantin Siutsou
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
+ 21'01
87
Carlos Castaño
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
88
Aleksandr Kolobnev
FERRARI - GUERCIOTTI
+ 21'17
89
Giovanni Visconti
CARREFOUR CYCLING
s.t.
90
Radoslav Rogina
COORDINADORA - EMPRESA DE ENERGÍA ELÉCTRICA DE BOYACÁ
