2007 Eneco Tour


The 2007 Eneco Tour road cycling race took place from August 22 to August 29. The third edition of the Eneco Tour covered parts of the Netherlands and Belgium. Instead of 23 teams like before, only 21 teams take part in the race this year. Of the 20 UCI ProTour teams, only chose not to take part.
The teams Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen and Skil-Shimano were each given a wild card.
Several cities that have been start or finish locations already the previous years appear again in the schedule, e.g. Hasselt, Beek, Landgraaf, Sittard and Geleen were already part of the 2006 route. A major difference in the schedule is that the long time trial will now take place on the last day of the competition.

Schedule

Stages

22-08-2007: Hasselt, 5.1 km. (ITT)

Prologue Result

23-08-2007: Waremme-Eupen, 189.5 km.

Stage 1 Result

24-08-2007: Antwerp-Knokke-Heist, 199.1 km.

Stage 2 Result
  • Wouter Weylandt finished third but was relegated due to irregular sprint.

    25-08-2007: Knokke-Heist-Putte, 170.8 km.

Stage 3 Result

26-08-2007: Maldegem-Terneuzen, 182.7 km.

Stage 4 Result

27-08-2007: Terneuzen-Nieuwegein, 179.9 km.

28-08-2007: Beek-Landgraaf, 177.4 km.

Stage 6 Result

29-08-2007: Sittard-Geleen, 29.6 km. (ITT)

Stage 7 Result

General classification

The leader of the general classification wears a red jersey.
CyclistNationTeamTime
1Iván Gutiérrez''26h 05' 44"
2David Millar+ 11"
3Gustav LarssonUnibet.com Cycling Team+ 1' 05"
4Leif Hoste+ 1' 12"
5Thomas Dekker+ 1' 15"
6Vladimir Gusev+ 1' 17"
7Bram Tankink+ 1' 32"
8Sébastien Rosseler+ 1' 33"
9Paul MartensSkil-Shimano+ 1' 34"
10Jurgen Van den Broeck+ 1' 34"
11Juan Antonio Flecha+ 1' 46"
12Piet RooijakkersSkil-Shimano+ 1' 47"
13Sebastian Lang+ 1' 48"
14Andriy Hryvko+ 1' 50"
15Vincenzo Nibali+ 1' 56"
16Maarten TjallingiiSkil-Shimano+ 1' 56"
17Rubens Bertogliati+ 1' 59"
18Alberto Losado+ 2' 12"
19Mikel Astarloza+ 2' 16"
20Thor Hushovd+ 2' 23"

Last updated: August 29, 2007

Points Classification

The leader of the points classification wears a white jersey.
CyclistNationTeamPoints
1Mark Cavendish''74
2Luciano Pagliarini60
3Pablo Lastras51
4Steven de Jongh51
5Gorik GardeynUnibet.com Cycling Team49
6Thor Hushovd47
7Steven CaethovenChocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen43
8Iván Gutiérrez43
9Wouter Weylandt40
10Kenny van HummelSkil-Shimano39

Last updated: August 27, 2007

Best Team

Jersey progress

Withdrawals

All teams were allowed to start with 8 riders. For 21 teams this would create a starting field of 168 riders. Just like previous years however, some teams chose to start with only 7 riders, namely,, and. As a result, only 164 riders were on the official starting list.
StageRiderTeamReason
DNS1 Christophe DetillouxCrash during prologue
DNF1 Julien LoubetUnknown
DNF2 Oscar GattoUnknown
DNF2 Laurent MangelUnknown
DNS3 Julian DeanUnknown
DNF3 Jakob PiilUnknown
DNS4 Scott DavisUnknown
DNS4 Adam HansenUnknown
DNS4 William BonnetUnknown
DNS5 Francesco ChicchiUnknown
DNS5 Roberto PetitoUnknown
DNS5 Alessandro VanottiUnknown
DNS5 Enrico FranzoiUnknown
DNS5 Matej JurčoUnknown
DNF5 Mickaël CherelCrash during stage 4

UCI ProTour Points

The Eneco Tour 2007 is part of the UCI ProTour and so the riders can earn UCI ProTour Points. Below is states which riders won points and where. Because the Eneco Tour 2006 is a smaller stage race the points given are 3, 2 and 1 for the first three in each stage result. At the end of the tour, the top 10 in the standings receive points accorded as follows: 50, 40, 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5 and 2.

Stage Results

Overall Result

Summary

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