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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Contador and Astana Win the Tour of Spain...

Team Astana and Alberto Contador made history today by becoming the only Spaniard to win all three (3 week) Grand Tours (Tour de France, Tour of Italy and Tour of Spain) and joined the likes of Anquetil , Gimondi , Merckx, and Hinault as one of only five men who have accomplished this feat and he did it in the shortest time frame in cycling history in only a 14 month span...Bravo!!!



Here's who the Top 10 GC Finishers were:

1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Astana 80.40.08
2 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana 0.46 seconds back...

3 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 4.12
4 Ezequiel Mosquera Miguez (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 5.19
5 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6.00
6 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 6.50
7 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 6.55
8 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 10.10
9 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 10.57
10 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre 11.56

And how the rest of Team Astana riders finished Overall:

20 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana 25.13 minutes back...
22 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) Astana 28.26
26 Sergio Miguel Paulinho Moreira (Por) Astana 41.43
62 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) Astana 1.30.06
95 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Astana 2.09.36
130 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 3.06.52
131 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana 3.25.28

Congratulations to all on Team Astana on this fantastic result :-)


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