12th Gala Tour de France - 30.07.2008 - Luxembourg-ville

participating riders:

Frank Schleck Team CSC Photo: ACC Contern

2008 results: 6th overall at the Tour de France owner of the yellow jersey at the Tour de France (2 days) Luxemburgish National road race champion second of the Amstel Gold Race third at Liège-Bastogne-Liège third, fourth and fifth at stages of the Tour de France third overall of the Tour de Luxembourg Other highlights: stage winner at the Alpe d'Huez in the Tour de France winner of the Amstel Gold Race stage winner at the Tour de Suisse winner of the Giro dell Emilia Luxemburgish elite national champion second at the Züri-Metzgete third at Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Giro di Lombardia fourth of the world championships road race fourth of the Flèche Wallonne and the Tour de Suisse

Andy Schleck Team CSC Photo: ACC Contern

2008 results: best young rider at the Tour de France 12th overall at the Tour de France 3rd of the Alpe d'Huez stage at the Tour de France fourth of Liège-Bastogne-Liège sixth overall at the Tour de Suisse Other highlights: second overall at the Giro d'Italia best young rider at the Giro d'Italia double stage winner at the Sachsen-Tour Luxemburgish National time-trial champion fourth of the Giro di Lombardia eigth at the Tour de Romandie and of Britain best climber at Sachsen Tour and Tour of Britain

Kim Kirchen Columbia Photo: ACC Contern

2008 results: 8th overall at the Tour de France owner of the yellow jersey at the Tour de France (4 days) owner of the green jersey at the Tour de France (6 days) winner of the Flèche Wallonne stage winner at the Tour de Suisse double stage winner at the Volta al Pais Vasco 2 times 2nd and 3rd of stages at the Tour de France Luxemburgish National time-trial champion Other highlights: stage winner at the Tour de France seventh overall at the Tour de France three times Luxemburgish elite champion winner of the Tour de Pologne winner at Paris-Bruxelles winner of the Tour of Holland second of the Tour de Suisse and of Tirreno-Adriatico second of the Flèche Wallonne

Benoît Joachim Astana Photo: ACC Contern

2008 results: 2nd of the Luxemburgish road-race Nationals 3rd of the Luxemburgish time-trial Nationals 4th and 9th of stages at the Tour de Luxembourg 6th of a stage at the Tour de Turkey Other highlights: six times Luxemburgish Nationale Elite champion owner of the leader jersey at the Vuelta Espana stage winner at the Tour of Britain second overall at the Tour of Britain stage winner at the Tour de l'Avenir

Gilberto Simoni Diquigiovanni Photo: Team Diquigiovanni

2008 results: second of a stage at the Giro d'Italia 10th overall at the Giro d'Italia Other highlights: 2 times overall winner of the Giro d'Italia 8 stage wins at the Giro d'Italia 7 overall podium places at the Giro d'Italia stage winner at the Tour de France 3 stage victories at the Vuelta winner of the Tour de Romandie winner of the Giro di Trentino 4th overall at the Giro d'Italia

Alessandro Ballan Lampre Photo: Team Lampre

2008 results: 2nd at the Paschi Eroica 3rd, 6th and 12th at stages of the Tour de France 3rd at Paris-Roubaix 4th of the Ronde Van Vlaanderen 7th overall at the 3 days of La Panne 16th of Milano-San Remo Other highlights: winner of the Ronde Van Vlaanderen winner of the Hamburg world-cup race winner of the 3 days of La Panne stage winner at the Tour de Pologne winner of the Trofeo Laigueglia

Carlos Barredo Quick-Step Photo: Team Quick-Step

2008 results: stage victory at Paris-Nice 2nd of a stage a the Tour de France 5th in the Gran Premio Lugano 8th overall of Paris-Nice Other highlights: stage winner at the Tour des Asturies stagw winner at the Tour Down Under 3rd of a stage in the Vuelta Espana 3rd at the Grand-prix Pino Cerami 5th of the Clasica San Sebastian

Matteo Tossato Quick-Step Photo: Team Quick-Step

2008 results: stage winner at the Tour of Qatar 9th of a stage in the Tour de France 4th of a stage at the Tour de Suisse 6th in two stages at Paris-Nice Other highlights: stage winner at the Tour de France stage winner at the Giro d'Italia stage winner at Paris-Nice stage winner at the Tour of Qatar victory in the Giro di Toscana winner of the Grand-prix Gippingen stage winner at the Settimana Coppi e Bartali 2nd and 3rd of stages in the Giro d'Italia

Jürgen Van de Walle Quick-Step Photo: Team Quick-Step

2008 results: stage winner at the Tour of Qatar 2nd of a stage at the Dauphiné Libéré 3rd of a stage in the Tour of California 8th overall in the Tour of California Other highlights: stage winner at the Circuito Montanes 2nd of the Ster Elektro-Tour 3rd at the Tour du Haut-Var 5th of the Volta Algarve 5th at Paris-Bourges

Kanstantin Sivtsov Team Columbia Photo: Team Columbia

2008 results: overall victory at the Tour of Georgia 3 stage wins at the Tour of Georgia 17th overall in the Tour de France Other highlights: U23 time-trial world champion stage winner at the Peace race stage winner at the Settimana Coppi e Bartali 4th overall in the Peace race 2nd of the Tour des Appenins 2nd at the Subida Naranco 3rd of the GP Caranghese 3rd at the 3 Vallées Varésines 3rd of the GP Camaiore

Christophe Mengin Française des Jeux Photo: La Française des Jeux

Results 2008: 3rd at the Boucles de l'Aulne 25th of Paris-Roubaix 33rd at the Ronde van Vlaanderen 13th of Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne Other highlights: stage winner at the Tour de France two times Franch National cyclo-cross champion winner of Cholet-Pays de Loire winner of the Grand-prix de Plouay stage winner at the 3 days of De Panne stage winner at the Etoile de Besseges owner of the best climber jersey at the Tour de France (15 days)

Remy di Gregorio Française des Jeux Photo: La Française des Jeux

Results 2008: 9th of the best climber classification at the Tour de France 10th overall at the Tour Méditéranéen 14th overall of the Volta Pais Vasco 16th overall at the Dauphiné Libéré 6th of a stage at the Vuelta Catalunya 9th of a stage at the Tour Méditéranéen Other highlights: stage winner at the Tour de l'Avenir best climber of the Dauphiné Libéré 4th of a stage at the Dauphiné Libéré 5th of the Tour de l'Ain Multiple French National champion in youth's categories

Vlodymir Gustov Team CSC Photo: Team CSC

Results 2008: member of the CSC winning team at the Tour de France 14th overall of the Tour de Luxembourg 20th overall at the Tour de Suisse Other highlights: winner of the Regio-Tour 3rd of a stage at Vuelta Espana 7th of Paris-Nice 9th at the Giro dell'Emilia 12th of the Dauphiné Libéré

Salvatore Commesso Preti Mangini Photo: ACC Contern

Results 2008: stage winner at the Tour de Luxembourg 8th overall of the Tour de Belgique 11th overall at the Tour de Luxembourg 13th of the Italian National championships Other highlights: Two times Italian National champion double stage winner at the Tour de France double stage winner at the Tour of Portugal winner of the Giro dell Mendrisotto winner of the Grand-prix Nobili winner of the Trofeo Matteoti U23 European champion

Florent Brard Cofidis Photo: Team Cofidis

Results 2008: 8th of the Tro-Bro Leon 6th of a stage at the Circuit de la Sarthe 8th of a stage at the Etoile de Bessèges Other highlights: French National champion stage winner at the Vuelta Catalunya stage winner at the Tour Méditéranéen winner of Paris-Troyes stage winner at the Circuit de la Sarthe stage winner at the Tour de la Province de Lucca stage winner at Paris-Corrèze

Laurent Lefevre Bouygues Telecom Photo: Team Bouyges

Results 2008: 4th of a stage at the 4 days of Dunkerque 7th overall at the 4 days of Dunkerque 8th at the French National championships Other highlights: winner of the Bayern-rundfahrt stage winner at the Dauphiné Libéré winner of A travers le Morbihan 2nd overall at the 4 days of Dunkerque 2nd of the Tour du Limousin 3rd of a stage at the Tour de France silver and bronze medals at junior world championshiops

Manuel Quinziato Liquigas Photo: Team Liquigas

Results 2008: 2nd overall at the 3 days of La Panne 3rd and 5th of stages at the 3 days of La Panne 4th of the Italian National championships 13th at Paris-Roubaix Other highlights: stage winner at the Benelux-Tour 4th of two stages at the Tour de France 2nd and 3rd at Italian time-trial championships 4th overall at the Tour de Belgique 5th overall of the Benelux-Tour

Jempy Drucker Photo: ACC Contern

2008 results: Luxemburgish National cyclo-cross champion winner of the Superprestige cyclo-cross in Hoogstraten second overall in Superprestige and GVA trophy second of the world-cup cyclo-cross Hoogerheide third of at stage in the Tour of Serbia third at the national road-race championships Other highlights: six times National cyclo-cross champion winner of a junior cyclo-cross world-cup winner of the cyclo-cross races in Leudelange and Muhlenbach winner of the cyclo-cross in Essen (U23) 3rd of a stage at Volta a Lleida 2nd of a stage at the Mainfranken-Tour 6th overall of the Mainfranken-Tour 6th of the European cyclo-cross championships juniors 7th of the European cyclo-cross championships U23 8th of the World cyclo-cross championships U23

Henry Raabe Mendez BCR / Pizza Hut Photo: luisaviles.blogia.com

Results 2008: currently ranked 3rd at the UCI America Tour winner of the Vuelta a Costa Rica winner of four stages at the Vuelta a Costa Rica Costa Rica National time-trial champion 7th of the Pan-American championships Other highlights: overall winner of the Vuelta a Costa Rica winner of three stages at the Vuelta a Costa Rica 3times Costa Rica National champion

... and many more...

complete start list

press release no01 (in French)
press release no02 (in French)

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