Critérium International 2008

Final result after the 3rd stage
winner	Jens Voigt	7:29:01 h (40.061 km / h)
Second	Gustav Erik Larsson	+ 0:57 min
Third	Luis León Sánchez	+ 0:57 min
Fourth	Maxime Monfort	+ 1:03 min
fifth	Laurens ten Dam	+ 1:08 min
Sixth	Frank Schleck	+ 1:11 min
seventh	Alejandro Valverde	+ 1:11 min
Eighth	Benoît Vaugrenard	+ 1:15 min
Ninth	Stef Clement	+ 1:15 min
Tenth	Damiano Cunego	+ 1:16 min
Scoring	Laurens ten Dam	24 p.
Second	Simon Gerrans	15 p.
Third	Edvald Boasson Hagen	15 p.
Mountain scoring	Simon Gerrans	26 p.
Second	Jens Voigt	12 p.
Third	Sandy Casar	10 p.
Young talent evaluation	Luis León Sánchez	7:29:58 h
Second	Maxime Monfort	+ 0:06 min
Third	Robert Gesink	+ 0:26 min
Team evaluation	CSC	22:28:54 h
Second	Rabobank	+ 2:26 min
Third	Bouygues Telecom	+ 2:41 min

The 77th Critérium International is a cycling stage race that took place from March 29th to 30th, 2008. It was held in a flat stage, a difficult mountain stage and a short individual time trial over a total distance of 299.8 kilometers. It is part of the UCI Europe Tour 2008 and classified there in the highest category 2.HC.

Field of participants

12 UCI Protour and 7 UCI Professional Continental teams took part in the Critérium International 2008 .

team	important drivers
LAN Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner *	Bert Scheirlinckx
CSC CSC	Bobby Julich , Andy Schleck , Fränk Schleck , Jens Voigt
ALM ag2r La Mondiale	Cyril Dessel , John Gadret
BTL Bouygues Télécom	Stef Clement , Jérôme Pineau
COF Cofidis	Florent Brard , Maxime Monfort
CA Crédit Agricole	Alexander Botscharow , Pietro Caucchioli , Pierre Rolland
FDJ La Française des Jeux	Sandy Casar , Benoît Vaugrenard , Sébastien Chavanel
FRA Agritubel *	Jimmy Casper , Geoffroy Lequatre
MRM Milram	Andriy Grivko
BAR Barloworld *	Mauricio Soler
LAM Lampre	Damiano Cunego
SKS Skil-Shimano *	Clément Lhotellerie
RAB Rabobank	Robert Gesink
GCE Caisse d'Epargne	José Iván Gutiérrez , Luis León Sánchez , Alejandro Valverde
EUS Euskaltel-Euskadi	Mikel Astarloza , Iñigo Landaluze
KGZ Karpin Galicia *	César Veloso
THR Team High Road	Gerald Ciolek , Bert Grabsch , Kim Kirchen
TSL Slipstream Chipotle *	Julian Dean , David Millar , David Zabriskie
BMC BMC Racing Team *	Alexandre Moss

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Leader
1st stage	March 29	Charleville-Mézières - Signy-le-Petit	193	Laurens ten Dam	Laurens ten Dam
2a. stage	March 30	Les Mazures - Monthermé	98.5	Simon Gerrans	Jens Voigt
2 B. stage	March 30	Charleville-Mézières – Charleville-Mézières	8.3 ( EZF )	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Jens Voigt

Web links

• Official website of this event (English, French)