Sport in Short: Cycling

ETOILE DE BESSAGES (Vergeze, Fr): Fourth stage (135km): 1 J-P van Poppel (Neth) 3hr 15min 21sec; 2 E Vanderaerden (Bel); 3 M Declercq (Bel); 4 J-P Heynderickx (Bel); 5 D Daelman (Bel); 6 E Schurer (Neth); 7 P Strouken (Neth); 8 T Gouvenou (Fr); 9 M Wust (Ger); 10 J Talen (Neth) all st. Overall standings: 1 A de las Cuevas (Fr) 13.17:07; 2 Heynderickx +11sec; 3 C Mottet (Fr) st; 4 H Frison (Bel) + 22; 5 Daelman; 6 T Claveyrolat (Fr); 7 B Voskamp (Neth); 8 R Rota (Sp) st; 9 C Chaubet (Fr) +29; 10 D Rezze (Fr) st.

TOUR OF ANDALUSIA (Motril, Sp): Fifth stage (130km): 1 M Fondriest (It) 3hr 14min 28sec; 2 A Saitov (Rus); 3 N Stephens (Aus); 4 A Gutierrez (Sp); 5 A Edo (Sp); 6 S Sunderland (Aus); 7 K Garcia (Sp); 8 V Ekimov (Rus); 9 M Sergeant (Bel); 10 J Rodriguez (Sp) st. Overall standings: 1 J Gorospe (Sp) 17.44:52; 2 E van Hooydonck (Neth) +1sec; 3 Stephens same time; 4 A Garmendia (Sp) +3; 5 T Cordes (Neth) +7; 6 F Cabello (Sp) +12; 7 A Sanchez (Sp) +18; 8 J Rodrigo (Sp) +19; 9 Saitov +21; 10 D Zdanov (Rus) +23.