October 8, 2005 – CSC’s Lars Bak won the Paris – Bourges, a 196km race in France, held on Thursday, October 6 – here are the results.

1. Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC 4.31.35
2. Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 0.10
3. Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems
4. Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC
5. Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis РLe Cr̩dit par T̩l̩phone 0.20
6. Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems
7. Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Crédit Agricole
8. Romain Feillu (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance
9 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team CSC
10. Lilian Jegou (Fra) Française des Jeux