Tour de Wallonie

Stage 5:  Chaudfontaine to Welkenraedt, 164.7km/102mi

By Cathy Mehl

Food poisoning hit Team RadioShack and hit them hard – four of the remaining six riders were unable to continue on the final stage at the Tour de Wallonie, leaving Sam Bewley and Geoffroy Lequatre to finish today’s stage. 

Russell Downing (Team Sky) put in a strong late kick to take the final stage win and the overall final victory as well, making for a different leader each stage of this year’s race.   Second on the stage went to Stefan Van Dijk (Verandas Willems) and The Shack Alain Gallopin’s nephew Tony Gallopin of Cofidis taking third.

Completing the podium behind Downing were Marco Marcato (Vacansoleil) and Laurent Mangel (Saur-Sojasun). 

Next on the racing schedule for Team RadioShack is Saturday’s Clasica San Sebastian in Spain. 

Top Ten Results

1 DOWNING Russell SKY 3:46:11 0:00:00

2 VAN DIJK Stefan WIL 3:46:11 0:00:00

3 GALLOPIN Tony * COF 3:46:11 0:00:00

4 WEYLANDT Wouter QST 3:46:11 0:00:00

5 GODDAERT Kristof * ALM 3:46:11 0:00:00

6 MARTIAS Rony SAU 3:46:11 0:00:00

7 STAUFF Andreas * QST 3:46:11 0:00:00

8 VAN AVERMAET Greg OLO 3:46:11 0:00:00

9 KRISTOFF Alexander * BMC 3:46:11 0:00:00

10 VAN VOOREN Steven * TSV 3:46:11 0:00:00

Team RadioShack Results

37 BEWLEY Sam * RSH 3:46:11 0:00:00

47 LEQUATRE Geoffroy RSH 3:46:11 0:00:00

DNS  VAITKUS Tomas

DNF MCCARTNEY Jason

DNF ROSSELER Sébastien

DNF SELANDER Bjorn

Final General Classification

1 DOWNING Russell SKY 21:50:07 0:00:00

2 MARCATO Marco VAC 21:50:09 0:00:02

3 MANGEL Laurent SAU 21:50:10 0:00:03

4 SIMON Julien SAU 21:50:14 0:00:07

5 VANTOMME Maxime * KAT 21:50:16 0:00:09

6 BAKELANDTS Jan * OLO 21:50:18 0:00:11

7 VANDEWALLE Kristof TSV 21:50:19 0:00:12

8 VICHOT Arthur * FDJ 21:50:20 0:00:13

9 VAN VOOREN Steven * TSV 21:50:20 0:00:13

10 CODOL Massimo ASA 21:50:20 0:00:13

Team RadioShack on Final General Classification

39 LEQUATRE Geoffroy RSH 21:51:59 0:01:52

72 BEWLEY Sam * RSH 22:11:21 0:21:14

Photo courtesy of Graham Watson