ENECO Tour 2008

Final result after the 7th stage

Overall rating	José Iván Gutiérrez	GCE	26:27:07 h
02.	Sébastien Rosseler	QST	+ 0:04 min
03.	Michael Rogers	THR	+ 0:07 min
04th	Stijn Devolder	QST	+ 0:13 min
05.	André Greipel	THR	+ 0:14 min
06th	Joost Posthuma	RAB	+ 0:39 min
07th	Servais Knaven	THR	+ 0:48 min
08th.	Bram Tankink	RAB	+ 0:51 min
09.	Jürgen Roelandts	SIL	+ 0:54 min
10.	Piet Rooyakkers	SKS	+ 1:02 min
Scoring	Jürgen Roelandts	SIL	113 P.
2.	André Greipel	THR	105 p.
3.	Edvald Boasson Hagen	THR	104 P.
Team evaluation	Team Columbia	COL	79:22:09 h
2.	Quick Step	QST	+ 0:59 min
3.	Rabobank	RAB	+ 1:52 min

The 4th Eneco Tour took place from August 20-27, 2008.

The one-week cycle stage race consisted of a prologue and seven stages. The total distance was 1122 kilometers. The prologue and the first three stages led through the Netherlands. During the fourth stage, which started in Terneuzen in the Netherlands and ended in Ardooie , Belgium, the change to Belgium took place, where the rest of the tour took place. The tour is part of the UCI ProTour 2008 racing series .

José Iván Gutiérrez was able to repeat his victory in 2007. Jürgen Roelandts won the points classification. The mountain trophy was won by Floris Goesinnen .

Field of participants

All 18 UCI ProTeams and 2 Professional Continental Teams took part. The wildcards were given to Cycle Collstrop and Skil-Shimano . The maximum number of drivers per team was 8 drivers. Just like in 2007, some teams nominated fewer drivers, so only 151 drivers started the tour. Astana, Bouygues Télécom, Cofidis and Euskaltel-Euskadi started with 7 drivers, Team Gerolsteiner with 6 and Lampre only nominated 5 drivers.

Caisse d'Epargne (GCE)

01: José Iván Gutiérrez 02: Francisco Pérez 03: Arnaud Coyot 04: Mathieu Drujon 05: Joan Horrach 06: Marlon Pérez Arango 07: Nicolas Portal 08: Luis León Sánchez Gil

Silence Lotto (SIL)

11: Leif Hoste 12: Glenn D'Hollander 13: Francis De Greef 14: Wim De Vocht 15: Bert Roesems 16: Jürgen Roelandts 17: Geert Steurs 18: Maarten Tjallingii

Rabobank (RAB)

21: Joost Posthuma 22: Bram de Groot 23: Mathew Hayman 24: Sebastian Langeveld 25: Tom Leezer 26: Gerben Löwik 27: Michiel Elijzen 28: Bram Tankink

Quick Step (QST)

31: Tom Boonen 32: Wilfried Cretskens 33: Steven de Jongh 34: Stijn Devolder 35: Kevin Hulsmans 36: Sébastien Rosseler 37: Gert Steegmans 38: Maarten Wynants

Astana (AST)

41: Sergei Ivanov 42: not taken 43: Koen de Kort 44: Thomas Frei 45: Benoît Joachim 46: Aaron Kemps 47: Steve Morabito 48: Berik Kupeschow

Team Columbia (THR)

51: Michael Rogers 52: Edvald Boasson Hagen 53: John Devine 54: André Greipel 55: Roger Hammond 56: Andreas Klier 57: Servais Knaven 58: Marcel Sieberg

Skil-Shimano (SKS)

61: Sebastian Siedler 62: Roy Curvers 63: David Deroo 64: Floris Goesinnen 65: Piet Rooijakkers 66: Kenny van Hummel 67: Tom Veelers 68: Robert Wagner

Gerolsteiner (GST)

71: Robert Förster 72: Thomas Fothen 73: Sven Krauss 74: not taken 75: Stephan Schreck 76: Heinrich Haussler 77: Fabian Wegmann 78: not taken

Team Milram (MRM)

81: Markus Eichler 82: Luca Barla 83: Artur Gajek 84: Dennis Haueisen 85: Fabio Sabatini 86: Enrico Poitschke 87: Elia Rigotto 88: Marco Velo

Liquigas (LIQ)

91: Daniele Bennati 92: Maciej Bodnar 93: Francesco Chicchi 94: Claudio Corioni 95: Alberto Curtolo 96: Mauro Da Dalto 97: Enrico Franzoï 98: Frederik Willems

Cycle Collstrop (COS)

101: David Kopp 102: Borut Božič 103: Sergei Rudaskow 104: Michał Gołaś 105: Sergey Lagutin 106: Marco Marcato 107: Matthé Pronk 108: Mirko Selvaggi

Crédit Agricole (CA)

111: Simon Gerrans 112: Jimmy Engoulvent 113: Angelo Furlan 114: Jeremy Hunt 115: Christophe Kern 116: Cyril Lemoine 117: Julien Simon 118: Yannick Talabardon

ag2r La Mondiale (ALM)

121: Yuri Krivtsov 122: Christophe Edaleine 123: Jean-Patrick Nazon 124: Laurent Deficiency 125: Cédric Pineau 126: Jean-Charles Sénac 127: Stéphane Poulhies 128: Stijn Vandenbergh

Française des Jeux (FDJ)

131: Philippe Gilbert 132: Mickaël Delage 133: Timothy Gudsell 134: Jauheni Hutarowitsch 135: Gianni Meersman 136: Jérôme Coppel 137: Yoann Offredo 138: Jelle Vanendert

Cofidis (COF)

141: Samuel Dumoulin 142: Alexandre Blain 143: Florent Brard 144: Frank Høj 145: Damien Monier 146: Pure Taaramäe 147: Romain Villa 148: not taken

Scott-American Beef (SDV)

151: Rubens Bertogliati 152: Raúl Alarcón 153: Raivis Belohvoščiks 154: Eros Capecchi 155: Ermanno Capelli 156: Jesús Del Nero 157: Denis Flahaut 158: Luciano Pagliarini

CSC-Saxo Bank (CSC)

161: Matti Breschel 162: Lars Bak 163: Jurgen Van Goolen 164: Matthew Goss 165: Juan José Haedo 166: Kasper Klostergård 167: Anders Lund 168: André Steensen

Lampre (LAM)

171: Fabio Baldato 172: Sylwester Szmyd 173: not taken 174: Matteo Bono 175: not taken 176: not taken 177: Andrea Grendene 178: Daniele Righi

Bouygues Telecom (BTL)

181: Aurélien Clerc 182: Olivier Bonnaire 183: Mathieu Claude 184: Nicolas Crosbie 185: not taken 186: Yohann Gène 187: Franck Renier 188: Sébastien Turgot

Euskaltel-Euskadi (EUS)

191: Aitor Hernández 192: Josu Agirre 193: Beñat Albizuri 194: Francisco Javier Aramendia 195: Dionisio Galparsoro 196: Andoni Lafuente 197: not taken 198: Gorka Verdugo

Stages

Route Eneco Tour 2008
The start is in Sittard (Netherlands), the route leads west to Belgium to Ostend, then it goes east to Schlussort Mechelen.

Overview

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
prolog	20th of August	Sittard - Geleen ( EZF )	004.4	José Iván Gutiérrez	José Iván Gutiérrez
1st stage	August 21	Beek - Roermond	173.8	Tom Boonen	José Iván Gutiérrez
2nd stage	August 22nd	Roermond - Nieuwegein	173.2	André Greipel	José Iván Gutiérrez
3rd stage	August 23	Nieuwegein– Terneuzen	185.9	Daniele Bennati	Daniele Bennati
4th stage	August 24th	Terneuzen - Ardooie	213.0	Tom Boonen	André Greipel
5th stage	August 25	Ardooie– Ostend	167.0	Carlo Westphal	André Greipel
6th stage	26th of August	Maldegem - Brussels	186.0	Edvald Boasson Hagen	André Greipel
7th stage	August 27	Mechelen ( EZF )	018.8	Raivis Belohvoščiks	José Iván Gutiérrez

Prologue: Sittard – Geleen

Result prolog

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	José Iván Gutiérrez		GCE	5:31 min
2.	Cyril Lemoine		CA	same time
3.	Edvald Boasson Hagen		THR	+ 0:01 min
4th	Sébastien Rosseler		QST	+ 0:03 min
5.	Michael Rogers		THR	+ 0:04 min

Overall ranking after the prologue

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	José Iván Gutiérrez		GCE	5:31 min
2.	Cyril Lemoine		CA	same time
3.	Edvald Boasson Hagen		THR	+ 0:01 min
4th	Sébastien Rosseler		QST	+ 0:03 min
5.	Michael Rogers		THR	+ 0:04 min

Cyril Lemoine started the 4.4 km prologue early. He set the fastest time on a dry track. Later it started to rain. Time trial specialists Stijn Devolder , Leif Hoste , Michael Rogers and Joost Posthuma couldn't beat Lemoine's time. Only the defending champion José Iván Gutiérrez was quick. Three Belgians placed in the top ten. The only Dutchman in the Top Ten was Koen de Kort in sixth place.

1st stage: Beek – Roermond

Result 1st stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Tom Boonen		QST	4:16:17 h
2.	Daniele Bennati		LIQ	same time
3.	Fabio Sabatini		MRM	same time
4th	Jürgen Roelandts		SIL	same time
5.	Heinrich Haussler		GST	same time

Overall classification after the 1st stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	José Iván Gutiérrez		GCE	4:21:46 h
2.	Cyril Lemoine		CA	+ 0:02 min
3.	Edvald Boasson Hagen		THR	+ 0:03 min
4th	Sébastien Rosseler		QST	+ 0:05 min
5.	Michael Rogers		THR	+ 0:06 min

Scoring after the 1st stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Tom Boonen		QST	30 p.
2.	Daniele Bennati		LIQ	25 p.
3.	Bram Tankink		RAB	24 p.

2nd stage: Roermond – Nieuwegein

Result 2nd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	André Greipel		THR	3:51:31 h
2.	Juan José Haedo		CSC	same time
3.	Robert Forster		GST	same time
4th	Kenny van Hummel		SKS	same time
5.	Tom Boonen		QST	same time

Overall classification after the 2nd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	José Iván Gutiérrez		GCE	8:13:17 h
2.	Edvald Boasson Hagen		THR	+ 0:00 min
3.	Cyril Lemoine		CA	+ 0:01 min
4th	André Greipel		THR	+ 0:02 min
5.	Sébastien Rosseler		QST	+ 0:05 min

Scoring after the 2nd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Tom Boonen		QST	47 P.
2.	Edvald Boasson Hagen		THR	38 P.
3.	Jürgen Roelandts		SIL	37 P.

3rd stage: Nieuwegein – Terneuzen

Result 3rd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Daniele Bennati		LIQ	4:46:08 h
2.	Tom Boonen		QST	same time
3.	Jürgen Roelandts		LOT	same time
4th	Kenny van Hummel		SKS	same time
5.	Borut Božič		COS	same time

Overall classification after the 3rd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Daniele Bennati		LIQ	12:59:21 h
2.	Edvald Boasson Hagen		THR	+ 0:01 min
3.	André Greipel		THR	+ 0:04 min
4th	José Iván Gutiérrez		GCE	+ 0:04 min
5.	Cyril Lemoine		CA	+ 0:05 min

Scoring after the 3rd stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Tom Boonen		QST	72 P.
2.	Jürgen Roelandts		SIL	59 P.
3.	Daniele Bennati		LIQ	55 p.

4th stage: Terneuzen – Ardooie

Result 4th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Tom Boonen		QST	5:00:35 h
2.	Kenny van Hummel		SKS	same time
3.	Edvald Boasson Hagen		THR	same time
4th	Borut Božič		COS	same time
5.	Matti Breschel		CSC	same time

Overall classification after the 4th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	André Greipel		THR	17:59:51 h
2.	Edvald Boasson Hagen		THR	+ 0:02 min
3.	Tom Boonen		QST	+ 0:07 min
4th	José Iván Gutiérrez		GCE	+ 0:09 min
5.	Cyril Lemoine		CA	+ 0:10 min

Scoring after the 4th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Tom Boonen		QST	102 P.
2.	Kenny van Hummel		SKS	75 p.
3.	Jürgen Roelandts		SIL	74 P.

5th stage: Ardooie – Ostend

Result 5th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Carlo Westphal		GST	3:57:38 h
2.	Jauheni Hutarowitsch		FDJ	same time
3.	Borut Božič		COS	same time
4th	André Greipel		THR	same time
5.	Jürgen Roelandts		SIL	same time

Overall classification after the 5th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	André Greipel		THR	21:57:26 h
2.	José Iván Gutiérrez		GCE	+ 0:11 min
3.	Jürgen Roelandts		SIL	+ 0:12 min
5.	Sébastien Rosseler		QST	+ 0:16 min
5.	Michael Rogers		THR	+ 0:18 min

Scoring after the 5th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Jürgen Roelandts		SIL	96 P.
2.	André Greipel		THR	86 P.
3.	Kenny van Hummel		SKS	75 p.

6th stage: Maldegem – Brussels

Result 6th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Edvald Boasson Hagen		THR	4:07:20 h
2.	Jimmy Engoulvent		CA	same time
3.	Sergei Ivanov		AST	same time
4th	André Greipel		THR	same time
5.	Jürgen Roelandts		SIL	same time

Overall classification after the 6th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	André Greipel		THR	26:04:46 h
2.	José Iván Gutiérrez		GCE	+ 0:11 min
3.	Jürgen Roelandts		SIL	+ 0:12 min
5.	Sébastien Rosseler		QST	+ 0:15 min
5.	Michael Rogers		THR	+ 0:18 min

Scoring after the 6th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Jürgen Roelandts		SIL	113 P.
2.	André Greipel		THR	105 p.
3.	Edvald Boasson Hagen		THR	104 P.

7th stage: Mechelen

Result 7th stage

	driver	nation	team	time
1.	Raivis Belohvoščiks		SDV	22:02 min
2.	José Iván Gutiérrez		GCE	+ 0:08 min
3.	Sébastien Rosseler		QST	+ 0:08 min
4th	Michael Rogers		THR	+ 0:08 min
5.	Stijn Devolder		QST	+ 0:10 min

Ratings in the course of the tour

stage	Overall ranking	Point classification	Team ranking
1st stage	José Iván Gutiérrez	not forgiven	Caisse d'Epargne
2nd stage		Tom Boonen
3rd stage
4th stage	Daniele Bennati
5th stage	André Greipel
6th stage		Jürgen Roelandts	Team Columbia
7th stage
winner	José Iván Gutiérrez	Jürgen Roelandts	Team Columbia

• During the 5th stage, Kenny van Hummel wore the points jersey, Tom Boonen got out of the tour to take part in the Vuelta a España 2008 .

Retired drivers

Out of 151 riders who started, only 109 finished the tour. Many riders ended the tour prematurely to take part in the Vuelta a España 2008 or the Germany Tour 2008 .

stage	driver	team	reason
DNF 1.	Dionisio Galparsoro	Euskaltel-Euskadi	unknown
DNF 1	Steve Morabito	Astana	unknown
DNS 2.	Gianni Meersman	Française des Jeux	unknown
DNF 2.	André Steensen	Team CSC-Saxo Bank	unknown
DNF 2.	Nicolas Crosbie	Bouygues Telecom	unknown
DNS 3.	Philippe Gilbert	Française des Jeux	unknown
DNF 4.	Joan Horrach	Caisse d'Epargne	unknown
DNF 4.	Michiel Elijzen	Rabobank	unknown
DNF 4.	Stephan Schreck	Team Gerolsteiner	unknown
DNF 4.	Artur Gajek	Team Milram	unknown
DNF 4.	Yuri Krivtsov	ag2r La Mondiale	unknown
DNF 4.	Jean-Patrick Nazon	ag2r La Mondiale	unknown
DNF 4.	Stéphane Poulhies	ag2r La Mondiale	unknown
DNF 4.	Juan José Haedo	Team CSC-Saxo Bank	unknown
DNF 4.	Fabio Baldato	Lampre	Fall injuries
DNS 5.	Glenn D'Hollander	Silence lotto	unknown
DNS 5.	Maarten Tjallingii	Silence lotto	unknown
DNS 5.	Tom Boonen	Quick Step	unknown
DNS 5.	Thomas Fothen	Team Gerolsteiner	unknown
DNS 5.	Heinrich Haussler	Team Gerolsteiner	unknown
DNS 5.	Daniele Bennati	Liquigas	unknown
DNS 5.	Mickaël Delage }	Française des Jeux	unknown
DNS 5.	Jelle Vanendert	Française des Jeux	unknown
DNS 5.	Matti Breschel	Team CSC-Saxo Bank	unknown
DNS 5.	Jurgen Van Goolen	Team CSC-Saxo Bank	unknown
DNS 5.	Aurélien Clerc	Bouygues Telecom	unknown
DNS 5.	Olivier Bonnaire	Bouygues Telecom	unknown
DNF 5.	Mathieu Drujon	Caisse d'Epargne	unknown
DNF 5.	Claudio Corioni	Liquigas	unknown
DNF 5.	Enrico Franzoi	Liquigas	unknown
DNF 5.	Sergey Lagutin	Cycle Collstrop	unknown
DNF 5.	Jeremy Hunt	Crédit Agricole	unknown
DNF 5.	Christophe Kern	Crédit Agricole	unknown
DNF 5.	Cyril Lemoine	Crédit Agricole	unknown
DNF 5.	Yannick Talabardon	Crédit Agricole	unknown
DNS 6.	Sebastian Siedler	Skil-Shimano	unknown
DNS 6.	Dennis Haueisen	Team Milram	unknown

ProTour intermediate result

The first three riders of each stage receive 3, 2 and 1 points. The top ten in the overall ranking score as follows: 50, 40, 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5 and 2. Only drivers from the 18 ProTour teams receive points.

Points awarded on the ENECO tour

	driver		team	Points
01.	José Iván Gutiérrez		GCE	55
02.	Sébastien Rosseler		QST	41
03.	Michael Rogers		THR	35
04th	Stijn Devolder		QST	30th
05.	André Greipel		THR	28
06th	Joost Posthuma		RAB	20th
07th	Servais Knaven		THR	15th
08th.	Bram Tankink		RAB	10
09.	Tom Boonen		QST	08th
10.	Jürgen Roelandts		SIL	06th
11.	Daniele Bennati		LIQ	05
	Edvald Boasson Hagen		THR	05
13.	Raivis Belohvoščiks		SDV	03
	Carlo Westphal		GST	03
15th	Jimmy Engoulvent		CA	02
	Juan José Haedo		CSC	02
	Jauheni Hutarowitsch		FDJ	02
	Cyril Lemoine		CA	02
19th	Robert Forster		GST	01
	Sergei Ivanov		AST	01
	Fabio Sabatini		MRM	01

Intermediate standings (extract)

space	Diff.	driver		team	Points
01.		Alejandro Valverde		GCE	123
02.		Damiano Cunego		LAM	104
03.		Andreas Klöden		AST	096
04th		Roman Kreuziger		LIQ	094
05.	+1	André Greipel		THR	090
06th	−1	Cadel Evans		SIL	085
07th	+5	Stijn Devolder		QST	080
08th.	−1	Alessandro Ballan		LAM	060
09.	−1	José Joaquín Rojas Gil		GCE	060
10.	−1	Mikel Astarloza		EUS	060

Team result

space	Diff.	team		Points
01.	+1	Astana		178
02.	−1	Caisse d'Epargne		177
03.	+1	Silence lotto		139
04th	−1	Team CSC-Saxo Bank		138
05.	+4	Rabobank		133
06th	+2	Liquigas		132
07th	+3	Team Columbia		131
08th.	−3	Scott-American beef		129
09.	−2	Française de Jeux		127
10.	−4	Euskaltel-Euskadi		124
11.	+3	Quick Step		123
12.		Crédit Agricole		116
13.		ag2r La Mondiale		115
14th	−3	Gerolsteiner		108
15th		Bouygues Telecom		101
16.		Cofidis, Le Credit par Téléphone		083
17th		Lampre		067
18th		Team Milram		062

Interim nations (excerpt)

space	Diff.	nation	Points
01.		Spain	357
02.		Italy	267
03.		Germany	226
4th	+1	Belgium	216
5.	−1	France	177
06th		Australia	144
07th		Czech Republic	094
08th.		Luxembourg	094
09.		Russia	087
10.	+3	Netherlands	078

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