May 4/02 2:27 am - Randell Wins in Norway, Romandie

Posted by Editor on 05/4/02
 

Randell Wins in Norway

We have just gotten off the telephone with Andrew Randell (Sympatico-Jet Fuel), who has won the 168 kilometre fourth stage of the Ringerike GP. Randell launched an attack from the lead group in the final kilometre of the race to win the stage.

"The terrain is very Beauce-like, with lots of rolling climbs. There were two big climbs in the last 40 kilometres and about 30 guys made the front group. Joe (Giuliano) and Bruno (Nella) set me up - Bruno went to the front with about 2 K to go and then Joe with about a kilometre and a half.

The final 750 metres had two corners, and the riders here don't seem to be as good at the corners as North Americans, so I attacked just before the first corner and got a gap right away. In the second corner I caught the guy who was off the front and then it was just a matter of hanging on to the finish line."

Randell said that it is definitely the biggest win of his career (the Ringerike GP is a UCI 2.5 race). The race concludes tomorrow with a 170 kilometre stage that finishes with 11 laps of a circuit in Honefoss. Randell says that this will be the race decider: "there is a super steep climb on the circuit that will really break it up".

From Norway the team goes to England for a short race and then has a week off before the Irish Milk Ras.


Stage 4 - Honefoss 168 km

1 Andrew Randell (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 4:17:35
2 Jostein Hole (Nor) Norway - MTB
3 Lars Breiseth (Nor) Team Krone
4 Jonathan Dayus (GBR) Nantes 44
5 Morten Hegreberg (Nor) Sandnes SK
6 Jonas Holmkvist (Swe) Team Crescent
7 Maarten Nijland (Ned) Rietveld-WTC Wielerteam
8 Per Martin Lund (Nor) Buskerud CK
9 Henrik Sparr (Swe) Sweden
10 Johan Svensson (Swe) Sweden

35 Bruno Nella (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee all s.t.
37 Joe Giuliano (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee at 0:16
46 Dominique Rollin (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 3:09
88 Buck Miller (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 11:09
90 Josh Hall (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee s.t.

GC

1 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team Crescent 28:33:11
2 Tobias Lergard (Swe) Team Crescent at 0:21
3 Rune Hoydahl (Nor) Norway - MTB 0:32
4 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Team Krone 0:33
5 Per Martin Lund (Nor) Buskerud CK 1:03
6 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Krone s.t.
7 Jostein Hole (Nor) Norway - MTB 1:19
8 Erlend Engelsvoll (Nor) Sandnes SK 1:21
9 Lars Werenberg (Den) Kvickly Odder 1:30
10 Jonas Olsson (Swe) Team Crescent 1:38

17 Andrew Randell (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 3:57
20 Dominique Rollin (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 5:44
25 Bruno Nella (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 6:38
46 Joe Giuliano (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 22:50
76 Josh Hall (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 42:41
91 Buck Miller (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 1:10:54


Tour of Romandie - Switzerland

Stage 4 - Sierre to Leysin 86 km (shortened from 144 km due to snow)

1 Alex Zulle (Sui) Team Coast 2:18:23
2 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis at 0:02
3 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Esp) Kelme-Costa Blanca s.t.
4 Carlos Sastre Candil (Esp) Team CSC Tiscali 0:08
5 Andrea Noe (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step s.t.
6 Cadel Evans (Aus) Mapei-Quick Step 0:11
7 Dario Frigo (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi s.t.
8 Cedric Fragniere (Sui) Phonak Hearing Systems 0:27
9 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi 0:30
10 Massimo Codol (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 0:32

16 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 0:46
89 Kevin Livingston (USA) Team Telekom 12:12

GC

1 Dario Frigo (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi 15:28:21
2 Santiago Perez Fernandez (Esp) Kelme-Costa Blanca at 0:20
3 Andrea Noe (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 0:21
4 Cadel Evans (Aus) Mapei-Quick Step 0:29
5 Carlos Sastre Candil (Esp) Team CSC Tiscali 0:32
6 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi 0:38
7 Alexandre Moos (Sui) Phonak Hearing Systems 0:43
8 Cedric Fragniere (Sui) Phonak Hearing Systems 0:54
9 Aitor Gonzalez Jimenez (Esp) Kelme-Costa Blanca 0:58
10 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 1:01

13 Alex Zulle (Sui) Team Coast 1:11
63 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 8:45
105 Kevin Livingston (USA) Team Telekom 26:43