The 2007 Tour of Germany is held from August 10 thru August 18.

The 5th stage of the Tour is the one we've all been waiting for with the stage culminating in the leg-deadening climb up Rettenbachferner to finish after 157km of riding.

Stage winner was a bit of a surprise in David López García (Caisse D'Epargne) but the rider who followed him were unexpected, namely GC leader Jens Voigt who was only 12 seconds behind. Robert Gesink (Rabobank) filled the 3rd placing at 20" to move him up to 3rd in the overall GC as well.

Casualties for the day included Levi Leipheimer (Discovery Channel) who lost a minute to Voigt, Linus Gerdemann (T-Mobile) who cracked early on the final climb to finish more than 5 minutes behind and Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) who lost 2 and a half minutes.

Stage 5 Profile

Stage Summary
The first real attack of the day started after 30 kilometre and was the first promising breakaway attempt that looked as though it had any chance at succeeding. Alan Pérez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Bingen Fernández (Cofidis), Carlos Da Cruz (Française Des Jeux), Vladimir Efimkin (Caisse d'Epargne), Matej Mugerli (Liquigas), Lloyd Mondory (Ag2r Prévoyance) and Christoph Meschenmoser (Skil-Shimano). This group would work well together taking their lead out to aas much as 4 minutes over the field that was being led by Discovery Channel.

With around 30km to go Efimkin (Caisse D'Epargne) made an attack taking Pérez with him but their lead by this time was reduced severely and the 1'50" they had over the chasers was never going to be enough. On the early slopes of the Rettenbachferner they were caught by a peloton that had disintegrated to only around 20 riders.

It was then down to the pre-rave favourites to battle out the final 10km of climbing. Continued accelerations whittled the field down to only López García, Leipheimer, Voigt, Gesink, Ten Dam, Bertagnolli Pfannberger and Sørensen and it was López García who made the decisive attack which no one could match.

Surprisingly Leipheimer then began having problems and this spurred Voigt into action setting off after López García. Damiano Cunego attempted to cover the German hard man but was unable to match his strength. As Voigt continued to attack the mountain Gesink also began to struggle and eventually left Voigt to continue the chase alone.

Stage 5 summaries can also be found at:

Team CSC site - Their heading says it all "Fantastic performance by Jens Voigt".
Caisse D'Epargne - David Lopez Garcia was understanably thrilled with his first ever victory as a professional rider. 
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Stage 5 Results (Top 10)

1 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                            4.21.07 (36.028 km/h)
2 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC                                                            0.12
3 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank                                                     0.20
4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital                                      0.33
5 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com                                            0.46
6 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas                                              1.04
7 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel                                 1.10
8 Christian Pfannberger (Aut) Elk Haus-Simplon                               
9 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC                                       1.29
10 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Predictor-Lotto                                      1.43

     
Overall GC (Top 10)

1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC                                           18.54.44
2 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                       0.33
3 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank                                           1.14
4 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC                             1.24
5 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel                        1.31
6 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas                                     2.19
7 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com                                   2.34
8 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital                             2.48
9 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner                                       3.27
10 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis                                            3.45

Points Classification

1 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Caisse D'Espargne                   46 pts
2 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram                                         45
3 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                    31

Mountains Classification

1 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram                          23 pts
2 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne           15
3 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC                                      12

Young Rider

1 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank                                        18.55.58
2 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC                                 0.10
3 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis                                                  2.31
4 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis                                                    3.21
5 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                      3.55

Teams 

1 Team CSC                                         56.51.02
2 Caisse D'epargne                                      4.15
3 Rabobank                                                  6.05