10 time finisher Don Winkley and Angel Pallaruelo
The Classic French stage race, Transe Gaule XI drew to a close at Gruissan Beach in the South of France on August 30th.Billed as the equivalent of the Tour de France cycling on foot, the race began at Roscoff with 48 starters. Pre-race favorite JJ Moros didn’t start the fifth stage and Stéphane Pelissier assumed the lead stretching away until the end of the race.Womens winner Carmen Hildebrand finished fifth overall 21 hours or so ahead of second placed Ya-Fen Wang for her 3rd consecutive win.Transe Gaule XI (12-30/08)1192 km / 19 stages1 Stéphane Pelissier 107:19:442 Wan-Chun Tsai (TPE) 112:38:583 Hervé Rozec 115:26:054 Kun-Peng Huang (TPE) 115:39:015 Carmen Hildebrand (GER) 116:15:156 Patrick Poivet 120:34:327 Fabrice Viaud 123:09:338 René Larcher 128:36:069 Angel Pallaruelo 130:09:4010 Stefano Molteni (ITA) 130:56:1811 Jean-Michel Frémery 132:03:3112 Yvonnick Simon 135:06:1813 Ya-Fen Wang (TPE) 137:02:5214 Kelvin Marshall (AUS) 137:35:2515 Alain Prost-Dumont 137:53:4716 Catherine Vidal 140:53:2517 Yen-Ling Huang (TPE) 144:08:0118 Hung-Chang Hsieh (TPE) 146:06:4519 Dominique Caillé 146:59:0720 Hiroko Okiyama (JAP) 147:34:4321 Jean-Pierre Richard 148:54:2221 Philippe Gallou 148:54:2223 Alfio Ciol 152:13:5224 Rebecca Tsai (USA) 152:14:4825 Siew-Lee Teoh (MAS) 154:54:2126 Sylvia Frühauf (GER) 158:27:2227 Philippe Grizard 166:49:5128 Mimi Chevillon 170:13:5929 Jui-Chi Cheng (TPE) 171:22:4530 Jean-Louis Valderrama 171:44:3631 Jean-Luc Ridet 171:56:3332 Philippe Marmet 178:03:3833 Gérard Denis 180:25:5034 Carlos da Fonseca 180:26:1735 Daniel Muller 184:49:4836 Ming-Yi Tsai (TPE) 189:53:0237 Heiner Schütte (GER) 192:21:5938 Pierre Magne 193:34:3139 Jean-Charles Cailliez 194:23:0640 Don Winkley (USA) 203:30:34Françoise Perchoc DNF (12)Bernard Deborde DNF (10)Matthieu Fréville DNF (7)Marie-Jeanne Simons DNF (5)Jean-Jacques Moros DNS (5)Claire Secker (USA) DNF (3)Christian Scheffer DNS (3)Olivier Forti DNF (2)(48 starters, 40 finishers)Check out the website at Yanoo.com
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