June 7/09 16:10 pm - Dauphine Libere: Stage 1
Posted by Editoress on 06/7/09
Cadel Evans (Silence - Lotto) demonstrated his form today with his win at the 1st stage of the Dauphine Libere. The stage is a short course of 12.1 km that runs through the streets of Nancy, France, and Evans who has not raced in over a month, won by 8 seconds over Alberto Contador (Astana).
Svein Tuft (Garmin - Slipstream) was the top Canadian in 67th spot.
| Stage 1: Nancy ITT, 12.1km | |
| 1 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto | 0:15:37 |
| 2 Alberto Contador Velasco (Esp) Astana | at 0:08 |
| 3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Esp) Caisse d'Epargne | 0:23 |
| 4 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step | 0:33 |
| 5 Vicenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas | 0:33 |
| 6 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) Team Columbia - High Road | 0:34 |
| 7 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram | s.t. |
| 8 Benoit Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux | 0:36 |
| 9 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Esp) Caisse d'Epargne | |
| 10 David Millar (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream | both s.t. |
| 11 Jeróme Coppel (Fra) Française Des Jeux | 0:39 |
| 12 Stef Clement (Ned) Rabobank | s.t. |
| 13 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram | 0:41 |
| 14 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Katusha | s.t. |
| 15 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team | 0:42 |
| 16 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Quick Step | 0:43 |
| 17 William Bonnet (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom | s.t. |
| 18 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Silence - Lotto | 0:44 |
| 19 Maciek Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas | 0:46 |
| 20 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Esp) Astana | 0:47 |
| 67 Svein Tuft (Can) Garmin - Slipstream | 1:11 |
| 87 Christian Meier (Can) Garmin - Slipstream | 1:18 |
| 129 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - High Road | 1:38 |
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