March 25/04 5:43 am - Setmana Catalana, Report from Arizona

Posted by Editor on 03/25/04
 

Setmana Catalana - Italy

Stage 4 - Palau Solita i Plegamans to El Port del Comte 179 km

1 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 4:48:57
2 Joaquin Rodriguez (Esp) Saunier Duval-Prodir s.t.
3 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC at 0:04
4 Alberto Contador (Esp) Liberty Seguros
5 Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) Fassa Bortolo
6 M.A. Martin Perdiguero (Esp) Saunier Duval-Prodir
7 Roberto Heras (Esp) Liberty Seguros
8 Koldo Gil (Esp) Liberty Seguros
9 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie
10 Iban Mayo (Esp) Euskaltel-Euskadi all s.t.

17 Alex Zuelle (Sui) Phonak Hearing Systems 0:53
18 Tom Danielson (USA) Fassa Bortolo 1:19
65 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 11:29
101 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 28:30
DNS Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile Team
DNS Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank

GC

1 Joaquin Rodriguez (Esp) Saunier Duval-Prodir 17:21:46
2 M.A. Martin Perdiguero (Esp) Saunier Duval-Prodir at 0:04
3 Josep Jufre (Esp) Relax-Bodysol
4 Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) Fassa Bortolo
5 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie
6 Alberto Contador (Esp) Liberty Seguros
7 Aitor Osa (Esp) Illes Balears-Banesto
8 Koldo Gil (Esp) Liberty Seguros
9 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC
10 Iban Mayo (Esp) Euskaltel-Euskadi all s.t.

14 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 0:37
16 Alex Zuelle (Sui) Phonak Hearing Systems 0:53
30 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 12:38
38 Roberto Heras (Esp) Liberty Seguros 18:36
62 Tom Danielson (USA) Fassa Bortolo 30:59
90 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 55:54


Canadians in Arizona

Nathan Chown of GearsRacing.com sent in the following report:

After a couple of weeks training in Tucson Mark Pozniak and myself decided to get some racing in our legs and do a local Arizona race. It was a hard course; basically 10 kilometers long with about 500 feet of climbing a lap for 12 laps. It was a 9.30 start and it was already 85 degrees F, and hit a high of 96 during the race, so the heat was a bit tough.

The race started very fast with multiple break attempts. Finally a group of 5 got away. The pack eventually was cut down to 8-10 guys. Mark had some problems on lap 8 and dropped out. He had a good ride until the incident, but that's racing.

Luckily for me, my roommate - Jay Blakenship - got a rock caught between his brakes and rim and had to drop out after he pretty much flipped over his bars and could not chase back on. So he fed me for the day. Eventually due to the heat and climbing there were a lot of DNF's and in the end I ended up 7th.