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Dauphiné Libéré Stage 6: Federigo wins for FranceDauphine Libere logo

Dauphiné Libéré Stage 6: Federigo wins for France

But Valverde still leads for Spain
by Tony Farrelly
Fri, Jun 12, 2009 17:55
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Today's mountain stage at the 2009  Daupiné Libéré from Gap - Briançon went to a Frenchman, Pierrick Fedrigo of Bbox-Bouygues Telecom, but a Spaniard, Alejandro Valverde still has the overall race lead.

Fedrigo got in the early stage breakaway and won a sprint for the line over the Belgian Jurgen Van de Walle (Quick Step) – the leaders were content to let them go and spent the stage marking each other's every move – of which there were very few. Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne), Evans (Silence Lotto) and Contador (Astana) who filled the first three places on the general classification finished in all together 4:12 down on Federigo.

Valverde remains in the lead going in to stage 7 which includes the climbs of the Galibier and the Croix de Fer and now looks odds on to beat the letter allegedly on its way from the Italian Cycling Federation to UCI headquarters detailing the reasons for the two year ban imposed on him racing in Italy which the UCI has threatened to turn in to a world wide ban.

Top 10 Dauphiné Libéré Stage 6

1) Pierrick Fédrigo (BBox Bouygues Telecom)                 2.48.17 (38.685 km/h)
2) Jürgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step                        0.04
3) Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                     0.05
4) Juan Manuel Garate Cepa (Spa) Rabobank                      0.14
5) Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team Saxo Bank                        0.25
6) Aliaksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas                        2.47
7) Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C
8) Bingen Fernandez Bustinza (Spa) Cofidis, Le Credit en Ligne 2.50
9) Mikel Astarloza Charreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi          3.17
10)Alberto Fernandez De La Puebla (Spa) Fuji-Servetto          3.41

Top 10 After Stage 6

1) Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Caisse d'Epargne)          18.15.46
2) Cadel Evans (Silence - Lotto)                               0.16
3) Alberto Contador Velasco (Astana)                           1.04
4) Mikel Astarloza Charreau (Euskaltel - Euskadi)              1.49
5) David Millar (Garmin - Slipstream)                          1.52
6) Robert Gesink (Rabobank)                                    2.41
7 )Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Astana)                             2.42
8) Vicenzo Nibali (Liquigas)                                   2.43
9) Sylvester Szmyd (Liquigas)                                  3.50
10) Jacob Fuglsang (Team Saxo Bank)                            3.56

 

Stage 6 Dauphine Libere
Dauphiné Libéré
Cadel Evans
Alejandro Valverde
Alberto Contador
2009 Dauphine Libere
Tony Farrelly

road.cc's founder and first editor, nowadays to be found riding a spreadsheet. Tony's journey in cycling media started in 1997 as production editor and then deputy editor of Total Bike, acting editor of Total Mountain Bike and then seven years as editor of Cycling Plus. He launched his first cycling website - the Cycling Plus Forum at the turn of the century. In 2006 he left C+ to head up the launch team for Bike Radar which he edited until 2008, when he co-launched the multi-award winning road.cc - finally handing on the reins in 2021 to Jack Sexty. His favourite ride is his ‘commute’ - which he does most days inc weekends and he’s been cycle-commuting since 1994. His favourite bikes are titanium and have disc brakes, though he'd like to own a carbon bike one day.

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