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Five rings of Moscow - 2.2
Russia, May 5-9, 2006
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Stage 2 - May 6: Vorobyovy gory, 162km
Trusov makes history
By Sergey Kurdyukov
The second stage of the race had been scouted out more than thoroughly three days before, during the Mayor’s Cup one-day race. The distance and the circuit were exactly the same, the weather this time was a bit cooler and less windy. As for the yellow jersey wearer’s team, number one squad Tinkoff Restaurants-S7 Airlines, they would have to improvise all the same, as on May 3 only their junior teammates had raced here.
With much more impressive start list the race developed differently from what we had seen on Wednesday – there were no suicidal breaks as the situation was easily kept under control by the top guys. They allowed only one attack to succeed, letting three riders stay in front; Alexey Bauer (who had already shown himself as a diehard in Krylatskoye, taking part in an early breakaway and making top ten despite being caught), Artem Ovetchkin (a skinny fellow apparently not cut out for long pulls on the flat, but a proven useful worker) and Vladimir Schekunov (this time representing Lokomotiv, Tinkoff’s development squad) as a “delegate”. The main pack was almost constantly controlled by 10 guys who were at their GC leader’s disposal. They played cat-and-mouse with the break, sometimes getting as near as 20 seconds, then letting them go as far as 1.5 minutes.
Finally, with some five laps (about 40 km) to go the break was caught – just for another one to pull off. There were some pretty experienced Omnibike riders in it, which didn’t suit Tinkoff Restaurants at all, and they started to chase hard, the most powerful leads given by self-sacrificing but injured rider Alexander Serov. The group was compatto at the beginning of the last lap and, as opposed to the final of Mayor’s Cup, everything was decided in a high-speed, slightly downhill mass sprint. It took a photo finish to make sure that the victory went to…Nikolay Trusov! A hat-trick, his third triumph in a row. In its 14-year history 5 rings had never seen anything like that.
Yet another 10 bonus seconds consolidated Trusov’s position in front, and it started to become more and more evident to all his opponents that there was no beating a powerhouse like Trusov when at his best. “It looks like in this bunch of classy fellows no one’s gonna stop him, for he belongs to a different league at the moment,” some experts chuckled between themselves. The only way to overcome Trusov might be by setting the Queen stage (stage 4) as a priority to try and overturn the GC.
Results
1 Nikolay Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 4.03.29 2 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 3 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Russian National Team 4 Kalvis Eisaks (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 5 Dmytro Kryvtsov (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 6 Denis Vorontsov (Rus) Russia MTB Team 7 Alexey Shmidt (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 8 Ivan Kovalev (Rus) Russian Track Team 9 Mikhail Antonov (Rus) Udmurtia 10 Anatoliy Pakhtusov (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 11 Aliaksandr Kychinski (Blr) Belarusian National Team 12 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Regional Team Agidel 13 Vasili Kiryienka (Blr) Belarusian National Team 14 Alexey Kunshin (Rus) Schelkovo 15 Anton Reshetnikov (Rus) Russian National Team 16 Vladislav Borisov (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 17 Andrey Solomennikov (Rus) Regional Team Agidel 18 Andriy Suralev (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 19 Victor Panaev (Rus) Schelkovo 20 Egor Lutskovich (Rus) Olympic Nadezhdi 21 Anton Samokhvalov (Rus) Regional Team Agidel 22 Denis Kostyuk (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 23 Kostyantyn Pasternak (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 24 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Russian National Team 25 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Udmurtia 26 Alexander Serebryakov (Rus) Schelkovo 27 Dmitry Puzanov (Rus) Krasnodarsky Regional Team 28 Oleg Rodionov (Rus) Olympic Nadezhdi 29 Kanstantin Shkredau (Blr) Belarusian Track Team 30 Andriy Landuyrev (Ukr) Donetsk-ISD 31 Normunds Lasis (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 32 Vladimir Likhachev (Rus) Udmurtia 33 Konstantin Shamrai (Rus) Krasnodarsky Regional Team 34 Sergey Sherbakov (Rus) Dinamo 35 Olegs Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 36 Igor Kovalenko (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 37 Vacheslav Vilkov (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 38 Herberts Pudans (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 39 Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 40 Ivan Seledkov (Rus) Russia MTB Team 41 Roman Klimov (Rus) Premier 42 Artis Roze (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 43 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Russian National Team 44 Konstantin Ponomarev (Rus) Russian Track Team 45 Alexei Kamarou (Blr) Belarusian Track Team 46 Alexander Slivkin (Rus) Olympic Nadezhdi 47 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 48 Philipp Yakovenko (Uzb) Uzbekistan National Team 49 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 50 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Dinamo 51 Sergey Smirnov (Rus) Premier 52 Egor Kazakov (Rus) Lokomotiv SPb 53 Valery Valynin (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 54 Artem Orlov (Rus) Udmurtia 55 Vladimir Tyjelkin (Uzb) Uzbekistan National Team 56 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 57 Dmitry Kosyakov (Rus) Olympic Nadezhdi 58 Alexander Mironov (Rus) Premier 59 Evgeny Perminov (Rus) Sverdlovsk 60 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 61 Vadim Kozlov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 62 Roman Mikhailov (Rus) Premier 63 Yuriy Agarkov (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 64 Alexander Khatuntsev (Rus) Russian National Team 65 Yusuf Abrekov (Uzb) Uzbekistan National Team 66 Dmitry Samokhvalov (Rus) Regional Team Agidel 67 Ievgen Bryshak (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 68 Maksym Polyshchuk (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 69 Anatoliy Yugov (Ukr) Donetsk-ISD 70 Andrey Shmigoun (Rus) Dinamo 71 Anatoli Chaburka (Blr) Belarusian National Team 72 Alexey Usov (Rus) Russian Track Team 73 Anton Afonin (Rus) Schelkovo 74 Anton Mindlin (Rus) Lokomotiv SPb 75 Andrey Kluev (Rus) Russian Track Team 76 Ivan Blinov (Rus) Regional Team Agidel 77 Maxim Mussaipov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 78 Roman Kononov (Rus) Krasnodarsky Regional Team 79 Siarhei Novik (Blr) Belarusian Track Team 80 Andrey Bozhko (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 81 Roman Zhiyentayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 82 Alexandr Osmak (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 83 Andrei Kunitski (Blr) Belarusian National Team 84 Evgeny Nikitin (Rus) Olympic Nadezhdi 85 Volodymyr Rybin (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 86 Alexander Bespalov (Rus) Premier 87 Alexander Tegay (Rus) Sverdlovsk 88 Sergiy Bas (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 89 Arthur Tarasau (Blr) Belarusian Track Team 90 Ivan Zykov (Rus) Sverdlovsk 91 Ilya Krestiyaninov (Rus) Lokomotiv SPb 92 Artem Ovechkin (Rus) Olympic Nadezhdi 93 Alexander Prishpetniy (Rus) Regional Team Agidel 94 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Russian National Team 95 Stanislav Belov (Rus) Schelkovo 96 Alexey Bauer (Rus) Russian Track Team 97 Sergey Klimov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 98 Alexei Tsikhanau (Blr) Belarusian Track Team 99 Vladimir Shchekunov (Rus) Lokomotiv SPb 100 Sergey Rudaskov (Rus) Krasnodarsky Regional Team 101 Dzmitry Aulasenka (Blr) Belarusian Track Team 102 Ilya Chernetskiy (Rus) Lokomotiv SPb 103 Danil Komkov (Rus) Premier 104 Vasily Khatuntsev (Rus) Russia MTB Team 105 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 106 Yuriy Ivoljatov (Uzb) Uzbekistan National Team 0.22 107 Yury Yurchanka (Blr) Belarusian National Team 108 Aliaksandr Lisouski (Blr) Belarusian National Team 109 Dmitriy Medvedev (Rus) Russia MTB Team 0.32 110 Alexander Lebedev (Rus) Udmurtia 0.37 111 Sergiy Mynashkyn (Ukr) Donetsk-ISD 112 Ruslan Mihaylov (Uzb) Uzbekistan National Team 113 Leonid Kovtun (Rus) Udmurtia 1.35 114 Ilya Gorodnichev (Rus) Schelkovo 3.23 115 Sergey Sevostianov (Rus) Dinamo 3.47 116 Roman Zavarzin (Rus) Diamond Regional 117 Alexandr Silaichev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 4.41 118 Oleg Sashenkov (Rus) Diamond Regional 119 Alexander Kabalov (Rus) Krasnodarsky Regional Team 13.37 120 Andrei Nikitin (Rus) Diamond Regional 16.51 Points 1 Nikolay Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 20 pts 2 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 16 3 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Russian National Team 12 4 Kalvis Eisaks (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 10 5 Dmytro Kryvtsov (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 8 6 Denis Vorontsov (Rus) Russia MTB Team 6 7 Alexey Shmidt (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 4 8 Ivan Kovalev (Rus) Russian Track Team 2 General clasification after stage 2 1 Nikolay Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 6.35.18 2 Olegs Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 0.20 3 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 4 Alexander Khatuntsev (Rus) Russian National Team 0.21 5 Vladislav Borisov (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 0.23 6 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 7 Normunds Lasis (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 8 Andriy Suralev (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 0.24 9 Denis Kostyuk (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 0.25 10 Ivan Kovalev (Rus) Russian Track Team 11 Dmytro Kryvtsov (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 0.26 12 Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 13 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 0.28 14 Alexey Shmidt (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 15 Anton Mindlin (Rus) Lokomotiv SPb 0.30 16 Kalvis Eisaks (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 17 Denis Vorontsov (Rus) Russia MTB Team 18 Andrey Kluev (Rus) Russian Track Team 0.31 19 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 20 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Udmurtia 21 Artem Ovechkin (Rus) Olympic Nadezhdi 0.32 22 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Russian National Team 23 Alexander Serebryakov (Rus) Schelkovo 24 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 25 Aliaksandr Kychinski (Blr) Belarusian National Team 26 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Russian National Team 0.33 27 Alexey Bauer (Rus) Russian Track Team 28 Artis Roze (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 29 Vasili Kiryienka (Blr) Belarusian National Team 30 Sergey Klimov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 0.34 31 Sergey Sherbakov (Rus) Dinamo 32 Volodymyr Rybin (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 33 Alexey Kunshin (Rus) Schelkovo 0.35 34 Valery Valynin (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 0.36 35 Andrei Kunitski (Blr) Belarusian National Team 36 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Russian National Team 37 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Dinamo 38 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 39 Maksym Polyshchuk (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 0.37 40 Igor Kovalenko (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 41 Anatoliy Yugov (Ukr) Donetsk-ISD 42 Herberts Pudans (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 43 Egor Lutskovich (Rus) Olympic Nadezhdi 0.38 44 Stanislav Belov (Rus) Schelkovo 0.39 45 Vladimir Likhachev (Rus) Udmurtia 46 Mikhail Antonov (Rus) Udmurtia 0.40 47 Kostyantyn Pasternak (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 48 Ivan Seledkov (Rus) Russia MTB Team 49 Anatoliy Pakhtusov (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 0.41 50 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Russian National Team 51 Dmitry Puzanov (Rus) Krasnodarsky Regional Team 52 Artem Orlov (Rus) Udmurtia 0.42 53 Alexey Usov (Rus) Russian Track Team 0.43 54 Dmitry Kosyakov (Rus) Olympic Nadezhdi 0.44 55 Roman Klimov (Rus) Premier 56 Alexander Slivkin (Rus) Olympic Nadezhdi 0.45 57 Oleg Rodionov (Rus) Olympic Nadezhdi 58 Ilya Chernetskiy (Rus) Lokomotiv SPb 59 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Regional Team Agidel 0.46 60 Anton Reshetnikov (Rus) Russian National Team 61 Roman Mikhailov (Rus) Premier 62 Roman Zhiyentayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 63 Vasily Khatuntsev (Rus) Russia MTB Team 0.47 64 Dmitry Samokhvalov (Rus) Regional Team Agidel 65 Dzmitry Aulasenka (Blr) Belarusian Track Team 66 Vacheslav Vilkov (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 0.48 67 Evgeny Nikitin (Rus) Olympic Nadezhdi 68 Danil Komkov (Rus) Premier 69 Konstantin Ponomarev (Rus) Russian Track Team 70 Maxim Mussaipov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 0.49 71 Anatoli Chaburka (Blr) Belarusian National Team 72 Andrey Bozhko (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 0.50 73 Andriy Landuyrev (Ukr) Donetsk-ISD 74 Sergey Rudaskov (Rus) Krasnodarsky Regional Team 75 Vadim Kozlov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 0.51 76 Alexander Mironov (Rus) Premier 77 Ilya Krestiyaninov (Rus) Lokomotiv SPb 78 Alexander Tegay (Rus) Sverdlovsk 0.52 79 Vladimir Shchekunov (Rus) Lokomotiv SPb 0.54 80 Evgeny Perminov (Rus) Sverdlovsk 0.55 81 Egor Kazakov (Rus) Lokomotiv SPb 82 Andrey Shmigoun (Rus) Dinamo 0.56 83 Yuriy Agarkov (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 0.57 84 Alexander Bespalov (Rus) Premier 0.58 85 Philipp Yakovenko (Uzb) Uzbekistan National Team 0.59 86 Alexandr Osmak (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 87 Ivan Zykov (Rus) Sverdlovsk 88 Ievgen Bryshak (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 89 Ivan Blinov (Rus) Regional Team Agidel 1.00 90 Arthur Tarasau (Blr) Belarusian Track Team 91 Alexei Kamarou (Blr) Belarusian Track Team 92 Anton Afonin (Rus) Schelkovo 93 Sergey Smirnov (Rus) Premier 1.01 94 Yusuf Abrekov (Uzb) Uzbekistan National Team 1.02 95 Siarhei Novik (Blr) Belarusian Track Team 96 Roman Kononov (Rus) Krasnodarsky Regional Team 97 Aliaksandr Lisouski (Blr) Belarusian National Team 1.03 98 Kanstantin Shkredau (Blr) Belarusian Track Team 1.04 99 Andrey Solomennikov (Rus) Regional Team Agidel 1.10 100 Sergiy Mynashkyn (Ukr) Donetsk-ISD 101 Vladimir Tyjelkin (Uzb) Uzbekistan National Team 102 Yury Yurchanka (Blr) Belarusian National Team 1.15 103 Dmitriy Medvedev (Rus) Russia MTB Team 104 Alexander Lebedev (Rus) Udmurtia 1.19 105 Yuriy Ivoljatov (Uzb) Uzbekistan National Team 1.26 106 Victor Panaev (Rus) Schelkovo 1.31 107 Ruslan Mihaylov (Uzb) Uzbekistan National Team 1.38 108 Leonid Kovtun (Rus) Udmurtia 2.37 109 Ilya Gorodnichev (Rus) Schelkovo 4.01 110 Roman Zavarzin (Rus) Diamond Regional 4.35 111 Sergey Sevostianov (Rus) Dinamo 4.37 112 Alexandr Silaichev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 5.34 113 Oleg Sashenkov (Rus) Diamond Regional 5.38 114 Anton Samokhvalov (Rus) Regional Team Agidel 6.51 115 Alexei Tsikhanau (Blr) Belarusian Track Team 116 Alexander Prishpetniy (Rus) Regional Team Agidel 6.57 117 Sergiy Bas (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 7.25 118 Alexander Kabalov (Rus) Krasnodarsky Regional Team 14.40 119 Andrei Nikitin (Rus) Diamond Regional 17.53 120 Konstantin Shamrai (Rus) Krasnodarsky Regional Team 19.59 Points classification after stage2 1 Nikolay Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 60 pts 2 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 26 3 Olegs Melehs (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 16 4 Dmytro Kryvtsov (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 16 5 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Dinamo 16 6 Kalvis Eisaks (Lat) Rietumu Bank Riga 14 7 Alexander Serov (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 12 8 Andrey Kluev (Rus) Russian Track Team 12 9 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Russian National Team 12 10 Alexander Khatuntsev (Rus) Russian National Team 10 11 Alexey Shmidt (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 10 12 Maksym Polyshchuk (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 8 13 Vladislav Borisov (Rus) Omnibike Dinamo Moscow 6 14 Ivan Kovalev (Rus) Russian Track Team 6 15 Denis Vorontsov (Rus) Russia MTB Team 6 16 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Tinkoff Restaurants 2 17 Denis Kostyuk (Ukr) ISD-Donetsk 2
