Three days of De Panne 2007

Final result after the 4th stage
winner	Alessandro Ballan	12:48:07 h (42.892 km / h)
Second	Joost Posthuma	+ 0:06 min
Third	Bert Roesems	+ 0:11 min
Fourth	Serhiy Matvyeev	+ 0:17 min
fifth	Vladimir Gusev	+ 0:38 min
Sixth	Sébastien Rosseler	+ 0:45 min
seventh	Kevin Hulsmans	+ 0:49 min
Eighth	Markus Eichler	+ 0:54 min
Ninth	Daniele Bennati	+ 0:55 min
Tenth	Luca Paolini	+ 1:06 min
Scoring	Daniele Bennati	37 P.
Second	Luca Paolini	33 P.
Third	Graeme Brown	24 p.
Mountain scoring	Jan Kuyckx	45 p.
Second	Alessandro Ballan	20 p.
Third	Joost Posthuma	10 p.
Sprint scoring	Sergey Lagutin	7 p.
Second	Serhiy Matvyeev	3 p.
Third	Luca Paolini	3 p.
Team evaluation	Quick Step Innergetic	38:26:55 h
Second	Discovery Channel	+ 1:34 min
Third	Lampre-Fondital	+ 1:44 min

The 31st Three Days of De Panne took place from April 3rd to 5th, 2007. The bike race was held in two stages, a half-stage and a short individual time trial over a distance of 549 kilometers. On the first two stages, large parts of the route program of the Tour of Flanders following on April 8th were in the program.

Teams

Acqua & Sapone Bouygues Telecom Ceramiche Panaria-Navigare Chocolate Jacques DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed Discovery Channel Française des Jeux Intel action Jartazi Promo Fashion Lampre-Fondital Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner Liquigas

Navigators Insurance Predictor Lotto Quick Step Innergetic Rabobank Saunier Duval Team Astana Team Milram Team Wiesenhof-Felt Tenax Team Tinkoff Credit Systems Team T-Mobile Unibet.com

course

Despite a hilly stage course, the sprinters came out on top on the first three stages. Luca Paolini initially secured the leadership jersey with his victory on the first stage. The following victories of his rivals Daniele Bennati and Gert Steegmans on the second and third stages did not change anything in Paolin's leading position.

The overall winner of 2005, Stijn Devolder, secured victory in the final eleven-kilometer individual time trial . Overall victory went to Italian Alessandro Ballan , who until then had been second overall behind Paolini. Joost Posthuma followed with six and Bert Roesems with eleven seconds behind on the other places in the overall standings .

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Leader
1st stage	3rd of April	Middelkerke - Zottegem	192	Luca Paolini	Luca Paolini
2nd stage	4. April	Zottegem - Koksijde / Sint-Idesbald	227	Daniele Bennati	Luca Paolini
3a. stage	April 5th	De Panne - De Panne	119	Gert Steegmans	Luca Paolini
3b. stage	April 5th	De Panne - Koksijde - De Panne ( EZF )	11	Stijn Devolder	Alessandro Ballan