Tour of Bulgaria - 2.5

Bulgaria, September 12-21, 2004

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Stage 2 - September 13: Gabrovo - Razgrad, 157 km

Baranauskas solo

By Bram de Waard

Right from the start there were a lot of attacks but no riders could escape until after 60 kilometers when Lithuanian Aivaras Baranauskas took 30 seconds. The rider who participated in the Olympic Games for in the individual and team pursuit kept riding with that difference for 15 kilometers, and finally the rest let him go and he took a maximum lead of 9 minutes. In the difficult final 25 kilometres there were a lot of attackings in the peloton which brought back the gap to 4 minutes at the finish line.

Results

1 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Nesebar           3.48.14
2 Robert Wagner (Ger) Teag Team                  3.58
3 Ivailo Gabrovski (Bul) Olympia Troyan
4 Frank Pedersen (Nor) Norway National Team
5 Volodymyur Starzyk (Ukr) SC Nikolaev
...
21 Kristian Ellersten (Nor) Norway National Team
42 Are Andresen (Nor) Norway National Team
46 Stian Remme (Nor) Norway National Team
64 Christopher Myhre (Nor) Norway National Team  7.38

General classification after stage 2

1 Tomasz Kloczko (Pol) Dominscout-Sniezka
2 Are Andresen (Nor) Norway National Team        0.04
3 Jovanovic Nebosja (Scg) Serbie Montenegro      0.42
...
17 Stian Remme (Nor) Norway National Team        9.29
25 Frank Pedersen (Nor) Norway National Team    11.12
26 Kristian Ellertsen (Nor) Norway Nat. Team    13.29

Teams classification

1 Norway National Team
2 Serbia and Montenegro                          3.54
3 Nesebar Bulgaria                               5.56
 
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