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Sachsen-Tour International - 2.1
Germany, July 23-27, 2008
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Stage 2 - July 24: Görlitz - Frohburg, 242 km
Stage and lead for GB's Downing
Dean Downing of the British National Team was the surprise winner of the second stage of the Sachsen Rundfahrt. He won the sprint of an eight-man escape group ahead of Jan Valach (Elk Haus) and Michael Rogers (Columbia), to take not only the stage but also the overall lead in the race.
"I am still very surprised myself at how the race went," he said after the stage. "Actually it was our plan to bring Ben Swift, who was so strong yesterday, into a good position. But somehow he missed the lead group. Then I noticed that with Kristian House, we were the only team with two riders in the group. Kristian protected himself at first but in the end I was suddenly the strongest."
The 242-kilometre stage was the longest ever in the history of the race. An early escape group of Dmitry Kozontchuk (Team Rabobank), Mathias Friedemann (Team 3 C-Gruppe), Mathias Belka (Team LKT Brandenburg) and Stefan Cohnen (Team Sparkasse) got away and built up a lead of up to five minutes before being caught with 40 km to go.
On the finish circuits around Frohburg, Team CSC-Saxo Bank picked up the speed so much that 37 riders dropped off the back and lost over seven minutes. With five kilometres to go, an eight-rider group was able to get away. The British National Team was the only one with two riders in the group and was able to use this advantage to take the win.
Results
1 Dean Downing (GBr) British National Team 5.52.17 (40.54 km/h) 2 Jan Valach (Svk) Elk Haus - Simplon 3 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia 4 Kristian House (GBr) British National Team 5 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 6 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 7 Jason McCartney (USA) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 8 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 9 Eric Baumann (Ger) Team Sparkasse 0.19 10 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Volksbank 11 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 12 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Team Volksbank 13 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 14 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 15 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) British National Team 16 Simone Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 17 André Greipel (Ger) Team Columbia 18 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 19 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 20 Stefan Ganser (Ger) Team Kuota - Senges 21 Roger Kluge (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 22 Sebastian May (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 23 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 24 Diego Milán Jiménez (Spa) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 25 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Rabobank 26 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 27 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 28 Björn Thuran (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 29 Clemens Fankhauser (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 30 Christian Kux (Ger) Team Milram 31 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 32 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 33 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 34 Martin Reimer (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 35 Ben Swift (GBr) British National Team 36 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia 37 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 38 Mathias Belka (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 39 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 40 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Team Columbia 41 Christian Leben (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 42 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 43 Tomas Buchacek (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 44 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia 45 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 46 Maximilian May (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 47 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner 48 Artur Gajek (Ger) Team Milram 49 Dirk Müller (Ger) Team Sparkasse 50 Andrei Kunitski (Blr) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 51 Darren Lapthorne (Aus) Team Sparkasse 52 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 53 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 54 Robert Bengsch (Ger) German National Team 55 Tim Klinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner 56 Ingmar Dassler (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 57 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Team Volksbank 58 Robert Bartko (Ger) German National Team 59 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 60 Laurent Didier (Lux) Team Kuota - Senges 61 Domenik Klemme (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 62 René Obst (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 63 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Kuota - Senges 64 Richard Faltus (Cze) Team Sparkasse 65 Leif Lampater (Ger) German National Team 66 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 67 Tobias Erler (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 68 André Korff (Ger) Team Volksbank 69 Robert Partridge (GBr) British National Team 70 Sergej Fuchs (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 71 Tino Meier (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 72 Christoph Klipp (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 73 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 74 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Kuota - Senges 75 Dennis Pohl (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 76 Christopher Newton (GBr) British National Team 77 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 78 Stefan Schäfer (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 79 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 80 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 81 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 82 Vojtech Dlouhy (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 2.19 83 Thom Van Dulmen (Ned) Team Kuota - Senges 84 Daniel Becke (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 2.49 85 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 3.01 86 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 87 Nils Plötner (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 88 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner 89 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank 90 Florian Frohn (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 91 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Team Sparkasse 7.20 92 Michael Kurth (Ger) Team Kuota - Senges 93 Floriann Harbig (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 94 Radek Becka (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 95 Petr Kubias (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 96 Marcel Kalz (Ger) German National Team 97 Henning Bommel (Ger) German National Team 98 Frank Schulz (Ger) German National Team 99 Petr Kaltofen (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 100 Patrick Keller (Ger) PSK Whirlpool - Author 101 Jörg Lehmann (Ger) German National Team 102 André Schulze (Ger) PSK Whirlpool - Author 103 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia 104 Joachim Tolles (Ger) Team Kuota - Senges 105 Alexander Egger (Aut) Team Volksbank 106 Kartsten Hess (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 107 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Sparkasse 108 Dale Appleby (GBr) British National Team 109 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 110 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner Sprints Wassergrund/Oppach, km 34.4 1 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 3 pts 2 Mathias Belka (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 2 3 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 1 Rochlitz, km 194.6 1 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 3 pts 2 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Team Sparkasse 2 3 Mathias Belka (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 1 Frohburg, km 229.2 1 Roger Kluge (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 3 pts 2 Eric Baumann (Ger) Team Sparkasse 2 3 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia 1 Mountains Neustadt/Anbau, km 57.5 1 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 5 pts 2 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Team Sparkasse 3 3 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 2 4 Mathias Belka (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 1 Hockstein, km 70.6 1 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 5 pts 2 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Team Sparkasse 3 3 Mathias Belka (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 2 4 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 1 Kurort Hartha, km 117.9 1 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 3 pts 2 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 2 3 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Team Sparkasse 1 Waldheim, km 178.8 1 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 5 pts 2 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Team Sparkasse 3 3 Mathias Belka (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 2 4 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 1 Königsfeld, km 197.5 1 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 5 pts 2 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Team Sparkasse 3 3 Mathias Belka (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 2 4 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 1 General classification after stage 2 1 Dean Downing (GBr) British National Team 10.28.44 2 Jan Valach (Svk) Elk Haus - Simplon 0.04 3 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia 0.06 4 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 0.10 5 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6 Jason McCartney (USA) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 7 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 8 André Greipel (Ger) Team Columbia 0.17 9 Roger Kluge (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 0.23 10 Ben Swift (GBr) British National Team 11 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 12 Tobias Erler (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 13 Dennis Pohl (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 0.25 14 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Kuota - Senges 15 Mathias Belka (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 0.26 16 Eric Baumann (Ger) Team Sparkasse 0.27 17 Ingmar Dassler (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 18 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia 0.28 19 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Volksbank 0.29 20 Simone Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 21 Diego Milán Jiménez (Spa) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 22 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 23 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) British National Team 24 Stefan Ganser (Ger) Team Kuota - Senges 25 Clemens Fankhauser (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 26 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 27 Björn Thuran (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 28 Christian Kux (Ger) Team Milram 29 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 30 Sebastian May (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 31 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 32 Roger Hammond (GBr) Team Columbia 33 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 34 Dirk Müller (Ger) Team Sparkasse 35 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 36 Laurent Didier (Lux) Team Kuota - Senges 37 René Weissinger (Ger) Team Volksbank 38 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 39 Tino Meier (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 40 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 41 Tim Klinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner 42 Andrei Kunitski (Blr) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 43 Maximilian May (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 44 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Gerolsteiner 45 René Obst (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 46 Tomas Buchacek (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 47 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Rabobank 48 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 49 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 50 Robert Bengsch (Ger) German National Team 51 Christian Leben (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 52 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 53 André Korff (Ger) Team Volksbank 54 Sebastian Schwager (Ger) Team Milram 55 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 56 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 57 Martin Reimer (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 58 Artur Gajek (Ger) Team Milram 59 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 60 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 61 Leif Lampater (Ger) German National Team 62 Stefan Schäfer (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 63 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 64 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Team Volksbank 65 Darren Lapthorne (Aus) Team Sparkasse 66 Christoph Klipp (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 67 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 68 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Team Columbia 69 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia 70 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 71 Domenik Klemme (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 72 Richard Faltus (Cze) Team Sparkasse 73 Sergej Fuchs (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 74 Robert Bartko (Ger) German National Team 75 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 76 Robert Partridge (GBr) British National Team 77 Christopher Newton (GBr) British National Team 78 Björn Glasner (Ger) Team Kuota - Senges 79 Chris Anker Sørensen (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 80 Kristian House (GBr) British National Team 0.38 81 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Team Volksbank 0.57 82 Vojtech Dlouhy (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 2.29 83 Thom Van Dulmen (Ned) Team Kuota - Senges 84 Daniel Becke (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 2.59 85 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 3.10 86 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Rabobank 3.11 87 Nils Plötner (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 88 Florian Frohn (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 89 Philipp Ludescher (Aut) Team Volksbank 90 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner 91 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Team Sparkasse 7.28 92 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 7.29 93 André Schulze (Ger) PSK Whirlpool - Author 7.30 94 Marcel Kalz (Ger) German National Team 95 Joachim Tolles (Ger) Team Kuota - Senges 96 Michael Kurth (Ger) Team Kuota - Senges 97 Kartsten Hess (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 98 Radek Becka (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 99 Petr Kubias (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 100 Petr Kaltofen (Cze) PSK Whirlpool - Author 101 Frank Schulz (Ger) German National Team 102 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia 103 Floriann Harbig (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 104 Dale Appleby (GBr) British National Team 105 Jörg Lehmann (Ger) German National Team 106 Alexander Egger (Aut) Team Volksbank 107 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Sparkasse 108 Jochen Summer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 109 Henning Bommel (Ger) German National Team 7.49 110 Patrick Keller (Ger) PSK Whirlpool - Author 8.08 Points classification 1 Roger Kluge (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 6 pts 2 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 6 3 Tobias Erler (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 6 4 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Kuota - Senges 4 5 Mathias Belka (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 3 6 André Greipel (Ger) Team Columbia 2 7 Eric Baumann (Ger) Team Sparkasse 2 8 Ingmar Dassler (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 2 9 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Team Sparkasse 2 10 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia 1 11 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 1 12 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Mountains classification 1 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 23 pts 2 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Team Sparkasse 14 3 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 9 4 Mathias Belka (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 7 5 Roger Kluge (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 3 6 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Kuota - Senges 3 7 Ingmar Dassler (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 2 8 Tobias Erler (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 1 Combination classification 1 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Rus) Rabobank 24 pts 2 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Team Sparkasse 16 3 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 15 4 André Greipel (Ger) Team Columbia 12 5 Dean Downing (GBr) British National Team 10 6 Roger Kluge (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 10 7 Mathias Belka (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 10 8 Jan Valach (Svk) Elk Haus - Simplon 9 9 Ben Swift (GBr) British National Team 9 10 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia 8 11 Dennis Pohl (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 8 12 Tobias Erler (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 7 13 Malaya Van Ruitenbeek (Ned) Team Kuota - Senges 7 14 Kristian House (GBr) British National Team 7 15 André Schulze (Ger) PSK Whirlpool - Author 7 16 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 6 17 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 6 18 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 5 19 Joachim Tolles (Ger) Team Kuota - Senges 5 20 Jason McCartney (USA) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 4 21 Eric Baumann (Ger) Team Sparkasse 4 22 Ingmar Dassler (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 4 23 Olaf Pollack (Ger) Team Volksbank 4 24 Diego Milán Jiménez (Spa) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 4 25 Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3 26 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 2 27 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia 1 28 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 Young rider classification 1 Roger Kluge (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 10.29.07 2 Ben Swift (GBr) British National Team 3 Dennis Pohl (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 0.02 4 Mathias Belka (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 0.03 5 Tino Meier (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 0.06 6 Martin Reimer (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 7 Maximilian May (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 8 Laurent Didier (Lux) Team Kuota - Senges 9 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) British National Team 10 Sergej Fuchs (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 11 Stefan Schäfer (Ger) LKT Team - Brandenburg 12 Domenik Klemme (Ger) Team 3C - Gruppe Lamonta 13 Nils Plötner (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 2.48 14 Florian Frohn (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 15 Dale Appleby (GBr) British National Team 7.07 16 Michael Kurth (Ger) Team Kuota - Senges 17 Floriann Harbig (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team 18 Marcel Kalz (Ger) German National Team 19 Joachim Tolles (Ger) Team Kuota - Senges 20 Jörg Lehmann (Ger) German National Team 21 Kartsten Hess (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team Teams classification 1 Great Britain National Team 31.27.01 2 Acqua Sapone 0.19 3 ELK Haus - Simplon 4 Columbia 5 Team Rabobank 6 Team Gerolsteiner 7 CSC Saxo Bank 8 Team Sparkasse 0.38 9 Team Volksbank 10 LKT Team Brandenburg 11 Team Milram 12 Team Kuota-Senges 13 Team 3 C-Gruppe 14 German National Team 15 Thüringer Energie Team 3.08 16 PSK Whirlpool - Author 9.39
