July 18/00 11:53 am - Armstrong Loses Time, Track World Cup

Posted by Editor on 07/18/00
 

Tour de France

Stage 16 - Courchevel to Morzine 196 km

A hard final day in the Alps. Marco Pantani attacked hard on the first major climb 68 kilometres into the stage and, with Fernando Escartin and Pascal Herve, managed to get a maximum gap of 1:15 before they were caught by a vastly reduced peloton containing Armstrong, his two lieutenants Livingston and Hamilton, Ullrich, Botero, Beloki, Virenque and other top contenders with approximately 45 kilometres to go.

When the group reached the slopes of the final climb to the finish - the Col de Joux-Plane - Pantani was one of the first to lose contact! The front group was gradually whittled down to 8, and Armstrong began to run into difficulties, eventually being dropped by Ullrich and Virenque. Virenque then attacked Ullrich and caught Roberto Heras, who had been solo in front on the climb. Heras and Virenque rode together on the descent, until Virenque dropped Heras with less than 2 kilometres to go and soloed in for a well received French victory. Ullrich also passed Heras (who, it turned out was riding a broken bike) for second, and Armstrong came in with a group 2 minutes down. Luckily for Armstrong, the climbing is done in this Tour! Pantani was the biggest loser today, nearly 14 minutes down at the line.

1 VIRENQUE Richard FRA PLT 5:32:20
2 ULLRICH Jan GER TEL at 0:24
3 HERAS Roberto ESP KEL 0:27
4 ESCARTIN Fernando ESP KEL 1:09
5 BELOKI Joseba ESP FES 1:11
6 HERVE Pascal FRA PLT 1:11
7 TRENTIN Guido ITA VIN 2:01
8 ARMSTRONG Lance USA USP 2:01
9 MOREAU Christophe FRA FES 2:01
10 BOTERO Santiago COL KEL 2:01
11 ATIENZA Daniel ESP SAE 2:05
12 CONTI Roberto ITA VIN 2:13
13 MANCEBO Francisco ESP BAN 2:25
14 OTXOA Javier ESP KEL 2:25
15 BELTRAN Manuel ESP MAP 2:25
16 NARDELLO Daniele ITA MAP 2:55
17 VERHEYEN Geert BEL LOT 3:18
18 KIVILEV Andrei KAZ AG2 3:20
19 VINOKOUROV Alexandre KAZ TEL 3:23
20 ROUS Didier FRA BJT 3:38

22 BOOGERD Michael NED RAB 4:39
27 JIMENEZ Jose Maria ESP BAN 10:41
28 VAN DE WOUWER Kurt BEL LOT 12:05
30 HAMILTON Tyler USA USP 12:25
31 GUERINI Giuseppe ITA TEL 12:25
32 MATTAN Nico BEL COF 12:51
36 LIVINGSTON Kevin USA USP 12:58
38 PANTANI Marco ITA MER 13:44
43 OLANO Abraham ESP ONC 17:18

GC

1 ARMSTRONG Lance USA USP 72:12:30
2 ULLRICH Jan GER TEL at 5:37
3 BELOKI Joseba ESP FES 6:38
4 HERAS Roberto ESP KEL 6:43
5 VIRENQUE Richard FRA PLT 7:36
6 MOREAU Christophe FRA FES 8:22
7 BOTERO Santiago COL KEL 10:19
8 ESCARTIN Fernando ESP KEL 11:35
9 MANCEBO Francisco ESP BAN 13:07
10 BELTRAN Manuel ESP MAP 13:08
11 HERVE Pascal FRA PLT 13:50
12 NARDELLO Daniele ITA MAP 14:28
13 OTXOA Javier ESP KEL 15:47
14 PANTANI Marco ITA MER 20:46
15 GARCIA CASAS Felix ESP FES 25:48
16 VAN DE WOUWER Kurt BEL LOT 26:30
17 CONTI Roberto ITA VIN 29:22
18 JIMENEZ Jose Maria ESP BAN 29:47
19 BOOGERD Michael NED RAB 30:22
20 TRENTIN Guido ITA VIN 31:41

26 GUERINI Giuseppe ITA TEL 46:54
28 HAMILTON Tyler USA USP 52:23


Track World Cup - Italy

Men's 1000M Time Trial
1. Stefan Nimke (Ger) 1:04.99
2. Grzegorz Krejner (Pol) 1:06.12

Men's 4000M Individual Pursuit
1. Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) 4:38.07
2. Maruo Trentini (Ita) 4:41.99
3. Karsnicki (Pol) 4:46.19
4. Rob Hayles (GBR) 4:48.91

Women's 3000M Individual Pursuit - Final
1. Marion Clignet (Fra) 3:45.74
2. Sarah Ulmer (NZL) 3:49.03

Women's Match Sprint - Final
1. Felicia Ballanger (Fra) 12.19
2. Oxana Grichina (Rus)
3. Markaunichanka (Blr)

Men's 4000M Team Pursuit
1. Italy 4:17.26
2. Ukraine 4:19.09
3. Great Britain 4:19.24
4. France 4:26.90

Men's Match Sprint - Final
1. Ainars Kiksis (Lit) 11.17
2. John Matthias (Ger)
3. Berzins (Lat)

Women's Points Race
1. Olga Slioussareva (Rus) 35 points
2. Antonella Belluti (Ita) 17
3. Sanchon (Esp) 13

Men's Madison
1. Liska-Zabka (Svk) 20 points
2. Villa-Martinello (Ita) 12
3. Gilmore-De Wilde (Bel) 11

Men's Keirin
1. Ainars Kisksis (Lat)
2. Villanueva (Tri)
3. Bourgain (Fra)

Men's Olympic Sprint
1. Poland
2. Germany
3. Great Britain

Women's 500M Time Trial
1. Felicia Ballanger (Fra) 35.30
2. Wang (Chn) 35.80
3. Meinke (Ger) 35.83

Men's Points Race
1. Ho Sung Cho (Kor) 25 points
2. Edouard Gritsoune (Rus) 14
3. Arango (Col) 11

Country Rankings
1. Italy 71 pts
2. France 68
3. Germany 65