Rhineland-Palatinate tour
The International Rhineland-Palatinate Tour was an international, multi-day cycle stage race through the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate . From 1966 to 2007, it was considered one of the largest sporting events in Rhineland-Palatinate. No other city was the stage destination of the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour as often as Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) .
The tour was part of the UCI Europe Tour and was part of the new German Championship (TUI Cup). In the past, the race took place in September during the Vuelta a España . From 2005, the category 2.1 race took place in May during the Giro d'Italia and immediately before the Tour of Catalonia due to the newly introduced UCI ProTour .
A mountain and a sprint classification have been introduced since 1981. In 2007, a rating for the best young professional was introduced for the first time (blue jersey).
As a result of doping cases in cycling, the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour was canceled in 2008. The Rhineland-Palatinate Interior Minister Karl Peter Bruch announced that the state would not issue a permit for the race from 2008 and that no police would be deployed. “The current extent of the doping allegations has caused the state government to suspend funding for the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour for 2008. We feel compelled to send this clear signal, ” said Bruch. As a result, the tour is unlikely to take place after 2008. Another setback in this regard is the dissolution of the organizing association “Internationale Rheinland-Pfalz-Rad-Rundfahrt”, which took place on December 5, 2007. The official justification for this step is the resulting cost savings.
Rhineland-Palatinate Tour 2005
117 riders from 19 nations started the 40th tour from May 11th to 15th, 2005. The start and finish was Koblenz . The total of 821 km had to be covered in five stages. In 2005, in contrast to the previous year, an individual time trial was on the program. It was carried out with the fourth stage in Landau.
The tour was dominated by Stefan Schumacher until he tested positive for the stimulant cathine after the 4th stage. Ultimately, he was acquitted of the charge of doping, but was punished with a time penalty of one percent (1:33 minutes) for violating the UCI anti-doping regulations, Article 259. He lost the overall victory to Michael Rich and was third in the official classification.
In the overall sprint classification , André Greipel from Team Wiesenhof was ahead, and the overall mountain classification was won by Swiss Roger Beuchat from Team Barloworld .
The only participating UCI ProTeam was the Gerolsteiner team . The other German ProTeam Team T-Mobile (TMO, Germany) was not represented because of its participation in the Giro d'Italia .
Other starting UCI Professional Continental Teams (formerly GSII teams) were AG2R Prévoyance (A2R, France), Team Barloworld - Valsir (TBL, Great Britain), Chocolade Jacques - T Interim (JAC, Belgium), Ed 'System - ZVVZ (ZVZ, Czech Republic), Intel - Action (ATI, Poland), Landbouwkrediet - Colnago (LAN, Belgium), MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech (MRB, Belgium), Naturino - Sapore di Mare (NSM, Switzerland), Shimano-Memory Corp. (SHM, Netherlands) and the Wiesenhof team (WIE, Germany).
In addition, the UCI Continental teams Team Akud Arnolds Sicherheit (WIN, Germany), Team ComNet - Senges (COM, Germany), Team Lamonta (TLM, Germany) and the German national team U23 (Germany) took part.
| date | route | km | Sprint- | Mountain- | Stage winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11th | Koblenz - Bad Marienberg | 158.1 | Fabian Wegmann ( GST ) | Roger Beuchat ( TBL ) | Stefan Schumacher ( SHM ) |
| 12th of May | Trier - Mainz | 197.2 | André Greipel ( HOW ) | Piotr Chmielewski ( ATI ) | Stefan Schumacher ( SHM ) |
| May 13th | Mainz - Worms | 164.3 | André Greipel ( HOW ) | Kazimierz Stafiej ( ATI ) | Stefan Schumacher ( SHM ) |
| May 14th | Speyer - Landau | 85.7 | Pieter Mertens ( JAC ) | Maxime Monfort ( LAN ) | Pieter Mertens ( JAC ) |
| May 14th | Individual time trial Landau | 25.0 | Individual ranking: Stefan Schumacher , team ranking: GST | ||
| May 15 | Kaiserslautern - Koblenz | 191.0 | Jürgen Van De Walle ( LAN ) | Roger Beuchat ( TBL ) | Christoph von Kleinsorgen ( TLM ) |
Rhineland-Palatinate Tour 2006
The 41st Rhineland-Palatinate bike tour from April 26th to 30th, 2006 begins and ends in Kaiserslautern.
| date | route | km | Sprint- | Mountain- | Stage winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26th of April | Kaiserslautern - Worms | 130.0 | René Schild ( TRS ) | Rubén Oarbeascoa ( KAI ) | André Greipel ( TMO ) |
| April 27 | Worms - Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler | 187.0 | Gustavo César Veloso ( KAI ) | Rubén Oarbeascoa ( KAI ) | René Haselbacher ( GST ) |
| April 28 | Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler - Bad Marienberg | 143.6 | Pablo Urtasun Perez ( KAI ) | Rubén Oarbeascoa ( KAI ) | Heinrich Haussler ( GST ) |
| April 29 | Bitburg - Koblenz | 195.4 | Pablo Urtasun Perez ( KAI ) | Rubén Oarbeascoa ( KAI ) | André Greipel ( TMO ) |
| April, 30th | Koblenz - Kaiserslautern | 148.4 | René Haselbacher ( GST ) | Bjorn Glasner ( TLM ) | Steven Caethoven ( JAC ) |
| Overall rating | 804.4 | René Schild ( TRS ) | Rubén Oarbeascoa ( KAI ) | René Haselbacher ( GST ) |
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ rad-net.de: Doping Consequences: No Rhineland-Palatinate Tour 2008, accessed on July 3, 2008
- ↑ rad-net.de: No future in Rhineland-Palatinate: The tour association dissolves, accessed on July 3, 2008
- ^ Zeit Online: Armstrong loses all seven tour titles , accessed on October 22, 2012