Tour of Belgium (Bel), 26-30/05/2010
The Tour of Belgium (Ronde van België/Tour de Belgique) is a four-day bicycle race which is held annually in Belgium.
It was held annually between 1908 and 1981, except during both world wars. Between 1982 and 1990 several of races were not organised and none at all during the decade 1991 to 2001. From 2002 onwards the race has again become an annual fixture on the cycling calendar.
Following the start of the UCI ProTour in 2005 it looked like the race would merge with the Eneco Tour of Benelux, however this has not happened and it is now one of the UCI Europe Tour competition.
Team Radioshack line-up:
Riders: Fumiyuki Beppu, Matthew Busche, Ben Hermans, Markel Irizar, Geoffroy Lequatre, Sébastien Rosseler, Gert Steegmans & Tomas Vaitkus
Director: Dirk Demol
Top Ten Results, final stage
1 Ben Hermans (Bel) Team Radioshack 4:24:03
2 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step
3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:00:48
4 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Team Radioshack
5 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Mercator
6 Philipp Walsleben (Ger) Bkcp – Powerplus
7 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank
8 Dominique Cornu (Bel) Skil – Shimano
9 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank
10 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Rabobank 0:01:22
Team RadioShack Results Final Stage
55 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) 0:06:32
59 Matthew Busche (USA)
60 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa)
76 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu)
DNF Gert Steegmans (Bel)
Final General Classification
1 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 16:35:55
2 Dominique Cornu (Bel) Skil – Shimano 0:00:52
3 Bram Tankink (Ned) Rabobank 0:01:00
4 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:01:11
5 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen – Mercator 0:01:22
6 Ben Hermans (Bel) Team Radioshack 0:01:23
7 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 0:01:39
8 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 0:01:40
9 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Rabobank
10 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Saur – Sojasun 0:01:50
Team RadioShack on Final General Classification
13 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) 0:01:55
30 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) 0:06:50
36 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) 0:07:06
37 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) 0:07:12
45 Matthew Busche (USA) 0:07:42
