The 2007 Volta a Portugal (Tour of Portugal) runs from 4 to 15 August over 10 stages.
A 38.8km Individual Time Trial in Viseu caps off the 2007 Volta a Portugal and it was to be Xavier Tondo's day.
Coming second in the Time Trial by 9 seconds was of little consequence to Xavier Tondo (LA MSS) because his performance was easily enough for him to win the 2007 Volta a Portugal. He ended up winning by 56" from 4 time stage winner Candido Barbosa (Liberty Seguros) and 1'31" ahead of Hector Guerra (Liberty Seguros).
In terms of the stage, Guerra took out the Time Trial, covering the 38.8km in 50'46" at an average speed of 45.857km/h. Xavier Tondo was second and in 3rd place was David Blanco (Duja-Tavira) 22 seconds behind Guerra.
The other classifications went like this:
Candido Barbosa easily won the Points Classification, the Mountains Classification went to Andre Cardoso (Fercase/Rota Dos Moveis) and the Young Rider was taken out by Tiago Machado (Riberalves-Boavista).
Stage 10 Results (Top 10)
| 1 Hector Guerra (Spa) Liberty Seguros 2 Xavier Tondo (Spa) LA MSS 3 David Blanco (Spa) Duja-Tavira 4 Martin Garrido (Arg) Duja-Tavira 5 JoséA. Pecharroman (Spa) Benfica 6 Candido Barbosa (Por) Liberty Seguros 7 Danny Pate (USA) Team Slipstream 8 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 9 Pedro Cardoso (Por) LA MSS 10 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica |
50.46 |
Final Overall GC
| 1 Xavier Tondo (Spa) LA MSS 2 Candido Barbosa (Por) Liberty Seguros 3 Hector Guerra (Spa) Liberty Seguros 4 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Karpin-Garcia 5 David Blanco (Spa) Duja-Tavira 6 José Azevedo (Por) Benfica 7 David Bernabeu (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 8 JoséA. Pecharroman (Spa) Benfica 9 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Relax-GAM 10 Pedro Cardoso (Por) LA MSS |
40.25.56 |
Points Classification
| 1 Candido Barbosa (Por) Liberty Seguros 2 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 3 Xavier Tondo (Spa) LA MSS |
168 pts |
Mountains Classification
| 1 Andre Cardoso (Por) Fercase/Rota Dos Moveis 2 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Karpin-Galicia 3 Candido Barbosa (Por) Liberty Seguros |
64 pts |
Young Rider Classification
| 1 Tiago Machado (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 2 Arkaitz Duran (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 Nelson Rocha (Por) Riberalves-Boavista 4 Andre Cardoso (Por) Fercase/Rota Dos Moveis 5 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital |
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Teams Classification
| 1 Liberty Seguros 2 La Mss 3 Benfica |
121.27.05 |
View details of other stages :
Prologue - Stage 1 - Stage 2 - Stage 3 - Stage 4 - Stage 5 - Stage 6 - Stage 7 - Stage 8 - Stage9
