Tirreno – Adriatico 2008

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The 43rd Tirreno – Adriatico cycle race took place from March 12th to 18th, 2008. It was held in seven stages over a distance of 1123 kilometers.

Last year's winner Andreas Klöden could not take part in the race because his Astana team was not invited to the race. The two French ProTeams Crédit Agricole and Bouygues Télécom as well as the Italian team Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo , which are approved for the UCI Europe Tour , also received no invitation. In addition to the remaining ProTeams, the teams from Barloworld , CSF Group-Navigare , Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni , LPR Brakes , Slipstream-Chipotle and Tinkoff Credit Systems started .

Stages

Overview

stage Day Start finish km Stage winner symbol Overall leader
1st stage March 12th Civitavecchia - Civitavecchia 160 Óscar Freire Óscar Freire
2nd stage March 13th Civitavecchia - Gubbio 203 Raffaele Illiano Enrico Gasparotto
3rd stage the 14th of March Gubbio– Montelupone 195 Joaquim Rodríguez Niklas Axelsson
4th stage March, 15 Porto Recanati - Civitanova Marche 167 Alessandro Petacchi Niklas Axelsson
5th stage March 16 Macerata - Recanati 26 ( EZF ) Fabian Cancellara Fabian Cancellara
6th stage 17. March Civitanova Marche - Castelfidardo 196 Óscar Freire Fabian Cancellara
7th stage March 18th San Benedetto del Tronto - San Benedetto Del Tronto 176 Francesco Chicchi Fabian Cancellara

1st stage: Civitavecchia – Civitavecchia, 160 km

Result
driver team time
1. Óscar Freire Rabobank 4:10:01 h
2. Alessandro Petacchi Team Milram equal time
3. José Joaquín Rojas Caisse d'Epargne equal time
4th Erik Zabel Team Milram equal time
5. Bathing Cooke Barloworld equal time
Overall ranking after the 1st stage
driver team time
1. Óscar Freire Rabobank 4:09:51 h
2. Alessandro Petacchi Team Milram + 0:04 min
3. José Joaquín Rojas Caisse d'Epargne + 0:06 min
4th Mikhail Ignatiev Team Tinkoff Credit Systems + 0:07 min
5. Yuri Krivtsov ag2r La Mondiale + 0:08 min

2nd stage: Civitavecchia – Gubbio, 203 km

Result
driver team time
1. Raffaele Illiano Serramenti Diquigiovanni 5:01:10 h
2. Enrico Gasparotto Barloworld equal time
3. Niklas Axelsson Serramenti Diquigiovanni + 0:03 min
4th Linus Gerdemann Team High Road + 0:09 min
5. Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval-Scott + 0:17 min
Overall ranking after the 2nd stage
driver team time
1. Enrico Gasparotto Barloworld 9:11:05 h
2. Niklas Axelsson Serramenti Diquigiovanni + 0:02 min
3. Linus Gerdemann Team High Road + 0:06 min
4th Riccardo Riccò Saunier Duval-Scott + 0:23 min
5. Eros Capecchi Saunier Duval-Scott equal time

3rd stage: Gubbio – Montelupone, 195 km

Result
driver team time
1. Joaquim Rodríguez Caisse d'Epargne 4:49:59 h
2. Danilo Di Luca LPR brakes + 0:12 min
3. Niklas Axelsson Serramenti Diquigiovanni equal time
4th Thomas Lövkvist Team High Road equal time
5. Leonardo Piepoli Saunier Duval-Scott + 0:17 min
Overall ranking after the 3rd stage
driver team time
1. Niklas Axelsson Serramenti Diquigiovanni 13:56:14 h
2. Enrico Gasparotto Barloworld + 0:10 min
3. Joaquim Rodríguez Caisse d'Epargne + 0:18 min
4th Linus Gerdemann Team High Road + 0:24 min
5. Danilo Di Luca LPR brakes + 0:32 min

4th stage: Porto Recanati – Civitanova Marche, 166 km

Result
driver team time
1. Alessandro Petacchi Team Milram 3:59:58 h
2. Óscar Freire Rabobank equal time
3. Filippo Pozzato Liquigas equal time
4th Gerald Ciolek Team High Road equal time
5. José Joaquín Rojas Caisse d'Epargne equal time
Overall ranking after the 4th stage
driver team time
1. Niklas Axelsson Serramenti Diquigiovanni 17:56:12 h
2. Enrico Gasparotto Barloworld + 0:10 min
3. Joaquim Rodríguez Caisse d'Epargne + 0:18 min
4th Linus Gerdemann Team High Road + 0:24 min
5. Danilo Di Luca LPR brakes + 0:32 min

5th stage: Macerata – Recanati, 26 km (EZF)

Result
driver team time
1. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC 33:41 min
2. David Zabriskie Slipstream Chipotle + 0:22 min
3. Thomas Lövkvist Team High Road + 0:52 min
4th Markus Fothen Gerolsteiner + 0:56 min
5. Enrico Gasparotto Barloworld + 1:00 min
Overall ranking after the 5th stage
driver team time
1. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC 18:30:47 h
2. Enrico Gasparotto Barloworld + 0:16 min
3. Thomas Lövkvist Team High Road + 0:40 min
4th Linus Gerdemann Team High Road + 0:46 min
5. Markus Fothen Gerolsteiner + 0:53 min

6th stage: Civitanova Marche – Castelfidardo, 196 km

Result
driver team time
1. Óscar Freire Rabobank 4:46:44 h
2. Filippo Pozzato Liquigas equal time
3. Danilo Di Luca LPR brakes equal time
4th Giovanni Visconti Quick Step equal time
5. Tadej Valjavec ag2r La Mondiale equal time
Overall ranking after the 6th stage
driver team time
1. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC 23:17:31 h
2. Enrico Gasparotto Barloworld + 0:16 min
3. Thomas Lövkvist Team High Road + 0:40 min
4th Markus Fothen Gerolsteiner + 0:53 min
5. Niklas Axelsson Serramenti Diquigiovanni + 1:32 min

7th stage: San Benedetto del Tronto – San Benedetto del Tronto, 176 km

Result
driver team time
1. Francesco Chicchi Liquigas 4:50:50 h
2. Danilo Napolitano Lampre equal time
3. Mark Cavendish Team High Road equal time
4th Robbie McEwen Silence lotto equal time
5. Danilo Hondo Serramenti Diquigiovanni equal time
Overall ranking after the 6th stage
driver team time
1. Fabian Cancellara Team CSC 28:08:21
2. Enrico Gasparotto Barloworld + 0:16 min
3. Thomas Lövkvist Team High Road + 0:40 min
4th Markus Fothen Gerolsteiner + 0:53 min
5. Niklas Axelsson Serramenti Diquigiovanni + 1:32 min

Jerseys in the course of the race

The table shows the leaders after each stage.

stage Overall rating Scoring Mountain scoring White jersey Team evaluation
1st stage Óscar Freire Óscar Freire Yuri Krivtsov José Joaquín Rojas
2nd stage Enrico Gasparotto Raffaele Illiano Niklas Axelsson Riccardo Riccò ag2r La Mondiale
3rd stage Niklas Axelsson Enrico Gasparotto Lloyd Mondory Thomas Lövkvist Serramenti Diquigiovanni
4th stage
5th stage Fabian Cancellara Team High Road
6th stage Óscar Freire Juan José Oroz
7th stage Lloyd Mondory
winner Fabian Cancellara Óscar Freire Lloyd Mondory Thomas Lövkvist Team High Road

During the 2nd stage, Alessandro Petacchi wore the points jersey.

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