March 29, 2009 (Monthermé, France) – Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank is now the race leader following his win at Stage 2 from Les Vieilles Forges (Les Mazures) to Monthermé, 98.5km on Sunday over Danny Pate (USA) Garmin-Slipstream in second with Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel in 3rd. Pate’s team mate Canada’s Christian Meier finished 65th while Michael Barry (Can) Columbia-Highroad did not finish.

Barry crashed in yesterday’s stage and is bruised but ok – he emailed us with the following note, ” I crashed yesterday and didn’t finish this morning as a result. A little beat up but I will be okay.”

Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia – Highroad won the 8.3km ITT Stage 3 with Voigt placing 6th to win the overall. Canada’s Meier placed 85th in the ITT and finished in 65th overall.

Results

Stage 2 – 98.5km

1. Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 2:30:22 (39.304 km/h)
2. Danny Pate (USA) Garmin – Slipstream 0:07
3. Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0:09
4. Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Française Des Jeux
5. Matteo Carrara (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:12
6. Daniel Moreno (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne
7. Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom
8. Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
9. Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano
10. Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Team Katusha
11. Frantisek Rabon (Cze) Team Columbia – Highroad
12. Jean-Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis
13. Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank
14. Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia – Highroad
15. Juan Jos̩ Oroz (Spa) Euskaltel РEuskadi
16. Fares Julien El (Fra) Cofidis
17. Fabrice Jeandesboz (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun
18. Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel
19. Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux
20. Julien Simon (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun
21. Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux
22. Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha
23. Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana
24. Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank
25. Ivan Velasco (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi
26. Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Katusha
27. Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank
28. Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom
29. Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale
30. Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana
31. Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 0:22
32. Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne 0:42
33. Nico Sijmens (Bel) Cofidis 0:46
34. Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana 0:52
35. Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin – Slipstream
36. Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
37. Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0:54
38. Ben Swift (GBr) Team Katusha 1:01
39. Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
40. Thomas Frei (Swi) BMC Racing Team 1:11
41. Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne
42. Alan Perez (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi
43. Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 1:17
44. Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne
45. Simon Geschke (Ger) Skil-Shimano 2:03
46. Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis 2:08
47. Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 2:24
48. Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Garmin – Slipstream 2:42
49. Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2:49
50. Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 4:35
51. Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 4:42
52. Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun 6:24
53. Christophe Kern (Fra) Cofidis
54. Gregorio Rémy Di (Fra) Française Des Jeux
55. S̩bastien Delfosse (Bel) Landbouwkrediet РColnago
56. Thierry Hupond (Fra) Skil-Shimano
57. Gaël Malacarne (Fra) Bretagne – Schuller
58. Anthony Roux (Fra) Française Des Jeux
59. Wouter Mol (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
60. Reinier Honig (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
61. Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia – Highroad
62. Jeremy Galland (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun
63. Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun
64. Alexandre Pichot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom
65. Christian Meier (Can) Garmin – Slipstream
66. Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana
67. Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel
68. Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis
69. Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
70. Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne
71. Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale
72. Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team
73. Michael Albasini (Swi) Team Columbia – Highroad
74. Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank
75. Timothy Duggan (USA) Garmin – Slipstream
76. Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis
77. Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi
78. Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel
79. Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano
80. David Lelay (Fra) Agritubel
81. Ian Mckissick (USA) BMC Racing Team
82. Joan Horrach (Spa) Team Katusha
83. Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
84. Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano
85. Lilian Jegou (Fra) Bretagne – Schuller
86. Johann Tschopp (Swi) BBox Bouygues Telecom
87. Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana
88. Julian Dean (NZl) Garmin – Slipstream 6:30
89. Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia – Highroad 7:32
90. Jason Donald (USA) Garmin – Slipstream 9:31
91. Anthony Ravard (Fra) Agritubel 9:43
92. Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne 9:46
93. Kilian Patour (Fra) Garmin – Slipstream
94. Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française Des Jeux
95. Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet – Colnago 10:10
96. Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 11:03
DNF Michael Barry (Can) Columbia-Highroad

Stage 3 – 8.3km ITT

1. Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia – Highroad 10:05 (49.388 km/h)
2. Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Garmin – Slipstream 0:06
3. Frantisek Rabon (Cze) Team Columbia – Highroad 0:08
4. Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia – Highroad 0:18
5. Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank
6. Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia – Highroad 0:20
7. Danny Pate (USA) Garmin – Slipstream
8. Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana 0:23
9. Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 0:24
10. Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis 0:25
11. Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 0:27
12. Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 0:28
13. Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:29
14. Anthony Roux (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0:30
15. Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 0:31
16. Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0:32
17. Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel 0:33
18. Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun 0:35
19. Jason Donald (USA) Garmin – Slipstream 0:36
20. Juan Jos̩ Oroz (Spa) Euskaltel РEuskadi
21. Daniel Moreno (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 0:37
22. Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 0:38
23. Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 0:39
24. Kilian Patour (Fra) Garmin – Slipstream
25. Jean-Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis 0:40
26. Gregorio Rémy Di (Fra) Française Des Jeux
27. Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team
28. Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel
29. Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:41
30. Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 0:42
31. Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:43
32. Michael Albasini (Swi) Team Columbia – Highroad
33. Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 0:44
34. Julien Simon (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun
35. Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom
36. Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0:45
37. Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:46
38. Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 0:47
39. Fabrice Jeandesboz (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun 0:48
40. Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana 0:49
41. Ben Swift (GBr) Team Katusha 0:50
42. Alan Perez (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi
43. Thierry Hupond (Fra) Skil-Shimano
44. Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank
45. Matteo Carrara (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:51
46. Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
47. Mevel Christophe Le (Fra) Française Des Jeux
48. Alexandre Pichot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0:53
49. Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom
50. David Lelay (Fra) Agritubel 0:54
51. Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana 0:55
52. Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux
53. Thomas Frei (Swi) BMC Racing Team
54. Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 0:56
55. Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne
56. Nico Sijmens (Bel) Cofidis 0:57
57. Christophe Kern (Fra) Cofidis
58. Timothy Duggan (USA) Garmin – Slipstream
59. Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana 0:58
60. Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis
61. Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne 0:59
62. Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne 1:01
63. Simon Geschke (Ger) Skil-Shimano
64. Ian Mckissick (USA) BMC Racing Team
65. Wouter Mol (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
66. Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank
67. S̩bastien Delfosse (Bel) Landbouwkrediet РColnago
68. Gaël Malacarne (Fra) Bretagne – Schuller 1:04
69. Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale
70. Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne
71. Fares Julien El (Fra) Cofidis 1:05
72. Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 1:06
73. Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel
74. Anthony Ravard (Fra) Agritubel
75. Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 1:09
76. Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
77. Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Team Katusha 1:10
78. Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin – Slipstream 1:11
79. Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 1:13
80. Johann Tschopp (Swi) BBox Bouygues Telecom 1:16
81. Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne 1:18
82. Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet – Colnago
83. Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
84. Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun 1:19
85. Christian Meier (Can) Garmin – Slipstream 1:20
86. Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1:24
87. Ivan Velasco (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 1:29
88. Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 1:31
89. Julian Dean (NZl) Garmin – Slipstream 1:32
90. Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française Des Jeux 1:35
91. Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 1:36
92. Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 1:39
93. Jeremy Galland (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun 1:40
94. Reinier Honig (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 1:42
95. Lilian Jegou (Fra) Bretagne – Schuller 2:09

Final GC

1. Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 7:23:00
2. Frantisek Rabon (Cze) Team Columbia – Highroad 0:02
3. Danny Pate (USA) Garmin – Slipstream 0:09
4. Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia – Highroad 0:12
5. Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Skil-Shimano 0:18
6. Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Francaise des Jeux 0:23
7. Juan Jos̩ Oroz SPA Euskaltel РEuskadi 0:30
8. Jean-Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis 0:34
9. Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R-La Mondiale 0:35
10. Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:37
11. Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R-La Mondiale 0:38
12. Yury Trofimov (Rus) Bbox Bouygues Telecom
13. Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 0:44
14. Matteo Carrara (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:45
15. Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux
16. Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana 0:51
17. Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 0:55
18. Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 0:57
19. Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel 1:01
20. Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Team Katusha 1:04
21. Daniel Moreno (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 1:05
22. Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 1:07
23. Julien Simon (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun 1:12
24. Fabrice Jeandesboz (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun 1:16
25. Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 1:21
26. Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana 1:23
27. Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux
28. Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana
29. Ivan Velasco (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi
30. Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Skil-Shimano 1:25
31. Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne
32. Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
33. Ben Swift (GBr) Team Katusha 1:33
34. Chris Sorensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 1:34
35. Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 1:52
36. Alan Perez (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 1:53
37. Nico Sijmens (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 1:59
38. Thomas Peterson (USA) Garmin – Slipstream 2:19
39. Thomas Frei (Swi) BMC Racing Team 2:22
40. Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne 2:29
41. Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 2:31
42. Simon Geschke (Ger) Skil-Shimano 2:46
43. Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 2:49
44. Fares Julien El (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 3:00
45. Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Garmin – Slipstream 3:04
46. Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank
47. Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3:09
48. Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Française Des Jeux 4:01
49. Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 5:02
50. Alexandre Moos (Swi) BMC Racing Team 5:04
51. Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia – Highroad 6:26
52. Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun 6:41
53. Michael Albasini (Swi) Team Columbia – Highroad 6:49
54. Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 6:55
55. David Lelay (Fra) Agritubel 6:57
56. Alexandre Pichot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 6:59
57. Yann Huguet (Fra) Agritubel 7:02
58. Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank 7:07
59. Anthony Roux (Fra) Française Des Jeux 7:10
60. Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia – Highroad 7:14
61. Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 7:19
62. Kevin Ista (Bel) Agritubel 7:20
63. Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 7:22
64. Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Besson Chaussures – Sojasun 7:25
65. Christian Meier (Can) Garmin – Slipstream 7:26
66. Christophe Kern (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 7:30
67. Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 7:38
68. Ian Mckissick (USA) BMC Racing Team 7:41
69. Julian Dean (NZl) Garmin – Slipstream 7:44
70. Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 7:45
71. Jeremy Galland (Fra) Besson Chaussures-Sojasun 7:46
72. Reiner Honig (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 7:48
73. Johann Tschopp (Swi) BBox Bouygues Telecom 7:56
74. Clément Lhotellerie (Fra) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 7:58
75. Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 8:07
76. Gregorio Rémy Di (Fra) Française Des Jeux 8:12
77. Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil-Shimano 8:16
78. Thierry Hupond (Fra) Skil-Shimano 8:22
79. Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana 8:31
80. Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 8:36
81. Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale
82. Gaël Malacarne (Fra) Bretagne – Schuller 9:11
83. Sebastien Delfosse (Bel) Landbouwkrediet – Colnago 9:29
84. Jason Donald (USA) Garmin – Slipstream 10:23
85. Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne 10:43
86. Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française Des Jeux 10:57
87. Anthony Ravard (Fra) Agritubel 11:05
88. Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne 11:20
89. Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet – Colnago 11:44
90. Lilian Jegou (Fra) Bretagne – Schuller 12:21
91. Wouter Mol (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 12:22
92. Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana 12:28
93. Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
94. Kilian Patour (Fra) Garmin – Slipstream 14:13
95. Timothy Duggan (USA) Garmin – Slipstream 16:34