Deutschland Tour 2008 - 5

The eight stage Deutschland Tour began on Friday, August 29, in Austria and ends on September 6 in Bremen.

Stage 5 Mainz/Winterberg (218,4km)
Stage five closed on the category 3 summit finish at Winterberg. With 25km to go Milram's Peter Velits launched an attack and was caught 3km short of the line.

On the summit Gerald Ciolek (Team Columbia) jumped ahead to win.

Ciolek said - “I’m a bit surprised but very pleased that my form is really coming good again so quickly after a hard summer with the Tour and the Olympic Games. I took a short rest after Beijing, training in Mallorca, and now I’m coming back into form shape for the last part of the season.”

“On today’s stage I opened up a big gap early on when I accelerated with 250 metres to go. It was really quite steep, but I managed to keep a good rhythm on the climb. I knew Bertogliati was trying to catch me, but the advantage I’d taken early on was enough for me to stay clear.”

“I did want to change gears on the climb, but my fingers were so cold with the rain it wasn’t possible. Even so, it all worked out.”

1 82 Gerald Ciolek, THR 05:39:35
2 171 Rubens Bertogliati, SDV st
3 111 Leonardo Bertagnolli, LIQ st
4 85 Thomas Lövkvist, THR st
5 55 Johannes Fröhlinger, GST st
6 61 Jussi Veikkanen, FDJ st
7 22 Rigoberto Uran, GCE st
8 162 David Loosli, LAM st
9 164 Francesco Gavazzi, LAM st
10 141 Maxime Monfort, COF st
11 81 Linus Gerdemann, THR st
12 93 Pietro Caucchioli, C.A st
13 5 Marcus Ljungqvist, CSC st
14 113 Andrea Noe, LIQ st
15 12 Daniel Navarro, AST st
16 73 Inaki Isasi, EUS st
17 76 Juan Oroz, EUS st
18 177 Angel Gomez, SDV st
19 15 Grégory Rast, AST st
20 11 Janez Brajkovic, AST st

General Classification
1 81 Linus Gerdemann, THR 23:35:23 00:00:00
2 85 Thomas Lövkvist, THR @ 00:00:17
3 11 Janez Brajkovic, AST @ 00:00:20
4 93 Pietro Caucchioli, C.A @ 00:00:58
5 26 José Rujano, GCE @ 00:01:13
6 42 Bauke Mollema, RAB @ 00:01:16
7 12 Daniel Navarro, AST @ 00:01:27
8 113 Andrea Noe, LIQ @ 00:01:31
9 175 Eros Capecchi, SDV @ 00:01:50
10 71 Haimar Zubeldia, EUS @ 00:02:40
11 111 Leonardo Bertagnolli, LIQ @ 00:02:51
12 97 Christophe Le Mevel, C.A @ 00:02:52
13 127 Johann Tschopp, BTL @ 00:03:37
14 114 Charles Wegelius, LIQ @ 00:03:37
15 131 Giovanni Visconti, QST @ 00:03:40
16 178 Josep Jufre SDV @ 00:03:41
17 135 Kevin Seeldrayers, QST @ 00:03:43
18 52 Markus Fothen, GST @ 00:04:23
19 27 Francisco Perez, GCE @ 00:04:35
20 192 Andreas Dietziker, VBG @ 00:04:42

Stages
Prologue Friday, 29th Aug. Kitzbühel (3,6km) Time Trial
1st stage Saturday, 30th Aug. Kitzbühel - Hochfügen (178km) Mountains
2nd stage Sunday, 31st Aug. München - Region Hesselberg (182,6km)
3rd stage Monday, 1st Sept. Herrieden - Wiesloch (214,9km)
4th stage Tuesday, 2nd Sept. Wiesloch - Mainz (174km)
5th stage Wednesday, 3rd Sept. Mainz - Winterberg (218,4km) Mountains
6th stage Thursday, 4th Sept. Bad Fredeburg - Neuss (188,8km)
7th stage Friday, 5th Sept. Neuss - Georgsmarienhütte (214,3km)
8th stage Saturday, 6th Sept. EZF Bremen (34km) Time Trial

Website - www.deutschland-tour.de/