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1 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Lotto Domo 3.53.04 (42.2 km/h) 2 Graeme Brown (Aus) Panaria Fiordo 3 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 4 Allan Davis (Aus) ONCE Eroski 5 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quickstep-Davitamon 6 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep-Davitamon 7 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2R 8 Dirk Reichl (Ger) Telekom 9 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R 10 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2R 11 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 12 Luke Roberts (Aus) UniSA 13 Stefen Wesemann (Ger) Telekom 14 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Credit Agricole 15 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) CSC 16 Angel Vicioso (Spa) ONCE Eroski 17 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R 18 Geert Van Bondt (Bel) CSC 19 Thomas Bruun Eriksen (Den) CSC 20 Gene Bates (Aus) UniSA 21 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quickstep-Davitamon 22 Cadel Evans (Aus) Telekom 23 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R 24 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 25 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Panaria Fiordo 26 David Canada (Spa) Quickstep-Davitamon 27 Cedric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 28 Nicola Gavazzi (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 29 Christopher Jenner (NZl) Credit Agricole 30 Erki Putsep (Est) Ag2R 31 Lennie Kristensen (Den) CSC 32 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Panaria Fiordo 33 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Quickstep-Davitamon 34 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole 35 Daniele Nardello (Ita) Telekom 36 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 37 Christian Werner (Ger) Telekom 38 Joerg Ludewig (Ger) Saeco-Longoni Sport 39 Andrea Tafi (Ita) CSC 40 Russell Van Hout (Aus) UniSA 41 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) ONCE Eroski 42 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA 43 Xavier Florencio (Spa) ONCE Eroski 44 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger) Telekom 45 Mark Renshaw (Aus) United Water 46 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R 47 Mickael Pichon (Fra) FDJeux.com 48 Regis Lhuillier (Fra) FDJeux.com 49 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R 50 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Telekom 51 Bobby Julich (USA) Telekom 52 Christian Pepoli (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 53 Brendan Cato (Aus) United Water 54 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 55 Alvaro Gonzalez De Galdeano (Spa) ONCE Eroski 56 Scott Davis (Aus) Panaria Fiordo 57 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) ONCE Eroski 58 Arvis Piziks (Lat) CSC 59 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quickstep-Davitamon 60 Peter Dawson (Aus) United Water 61 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Panaria Fiordo 62 Stephen Cunningham (Aus) UniSA 63 Sergey Matveyev (Ukr) Panaria Fiordo 0.11 64 Hans De Clercq (Bel) Lotto Domo 65 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 66 Brad McGee (Aus) FDJeux.com 0.13 67 David Betts (Aus) United Water 0.48 68 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Lotto Domo 0.50 69 Dario Pieri (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 1.12 70 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Saeco-Longoni Sport 71 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Saeco-Longoni Sport 72 Igor Gonzalez De Galdeano (Spa) ONCE Eroski 73 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 74 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Lotto Domo 75 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Lotto Domo 76 Glenn d'Hollander (Bel) Lotto Domo 77 Matt Wilson (Aus) FDJeux.com 78 Ashley Hutchinson (Aus) United Water 30.18 79 Jakob Piil (Den) CSC 80 Ruben Bongiorno (Arg) Panaria Fiordo 81 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Panaria Fiordo 82 Julian Dean (NZl) CSC 83 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto Domo 84 Aaron Kemps (Aus) United Water 85 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto Domo 86 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quickstep-Davitamon 87 Benoit Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJeux.com 88 Jacky Durand (Fra) FDJeux.com 89 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) United Water 90 Adrian Laidler (Aus) UniSA DNF Lee Godfrey (Aus) United Water DNF Corey Sweet (Aus) Credit Agricole DNF Jay Sweet (Aus) UniSA DNF Brett Aitken (Aus) UniSA