July 16/98 2:38 am - Tour de France Stage 5 Results

Posted by Editor on 07/16/98
 

Tour de France Stage 5 Cholet to Chateauroux: 228.5km

„Super Mario‰ Cipollini won todays 6th stage of the Tour de France. He has not been able to perform up to expectations this year due to a number of crashes that have all but put him out of contention to wear the yellow he wore in 1997.

Stuart O‚Grady has defended his first day in the yellow jersey

The director of the Festina team, Bruno Roussel, was suspended by the UCI, which announced that Roussel had failed to respond adequately to an investigation by the French Cycling Federation.

1 CIPOLLINI Mario 5:18:49
2 ZABEL Erik
3 MENGIN Christophe
4 FERRIGATO Andrea
5 GAUMONT Philippe
6 MC EWEN Robbie
7 HINCAPIE George
8 GUIDI Fabrizio
9 MONCASSIN Frédéric
10 BONGIONI Alessio
11 MAGNIEN Emmanuel
12 MICHAELSEN Lars
13 DJAVANIAN Viatchesla
14 O:GRADY Stuart
16 SIVAKOV Alexei
17 ALDAG Rolf
18 TETERIOUK Andrei
19 CASERO Angel
20 MINALI Nicola all st

GC

1 O:GRADY Stuart in 25:02:18
2 HINCAPIE George 00:07
3 HAMBURGER Bo 00:11
4 HEPPNER Jens 00:14
5 JAN Xavier 00:32
6 HERVE Pascal 00:33
7 GARCIA-ACOSTA Vicent 00:34
8 CHANTEUR Pascal 00:39
9 ZABEL Erik 00:45
10 CABELLO Francisco 00:58
11 SVORADA Jan 00:59
12 MONCASSIN Frédéric 01:04
13 STEELS Tom 01:12
14 BLIJLEVENS Jeroen 01:14
15 TCHMIL Andrei 01:19
16 DURAND Jacky 01:21
17 OLANO Abraham 01:21
18 JALABERT Laurent 01:22
19 MC EWEN Robbie 01:22
20 JULICH Bobby 01:22

22 ULLRICH Jan 01:22
23 ZULLE Alex 01:24

Sprinters Jersey
1 ZABEL Erik 125pts