Stage 5: Sion 121.8km

Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne wins final stage and takes GC also. Dom did not finish the stage today. Next race for Dom is the Giro :-)

Race Profile

Video of last 8 km: youtube

Results stage 5:
1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3:36:19
2 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
3 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre-Farnese Vini
4 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank
5 Tiago Machado (Por) Team Radioshack 0:00:23
6 John Gadret (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
7 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Team Radioshack
8 Marcel Wyss (Swi) Cervélo TestTeam
9 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha
10 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team HTC - Columbia

Team Milram
40 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team MILRAM 0:06:43
47 Johannes Froehlinger (Ger) Team MILRAM 0:09:14
67 Matthias Russ (Ger) Team MILRAM 0:16:05
DNF Robert Forster (Ger) Team MILRAM
DNF Markus Fothen (Ger) Team MILRAM
DNF Dominik Roels (Ger) Team MILRAM

Final Classification:

1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 17:37:55
2 Simon Spilak (Slo) Lampre-Farnese Vini 0:00:11
3 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 0:00:21
4 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team HTC - Columbia 0:00:35
5 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 0:00:42
6 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Team Radioshack 0:00:52
7 Tiago Machado (Por) Team Radioshack 0:01:16
8 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team HTC - Columbia 0:01:27
9 Marcel Wyss (Swi) Cervélo TestTeam 0:01:28
10 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0:01:34

Team Milram

34 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team MILRAM 0:11:12
55 Johannes Froehlinger (Ger) Team MILRAM 0:23:28
72 Matthias Russ (Ger) Team MILRAM 0:49:38