SEB-Tartu Grand Prix - 1.1

Estonia, May 30, 2009

2008 Results Results Past winners

Black takes day two

The second day of the Estonian Cycling Weekend brought joy for Continental Team Differdange. The best man on the city circuit of SEB Tartu Grand Prix 2009 was Hannes Blank who covered 187km with 4:28:37.

The second place belonged to Aleksejs Saramotins from Latvian National Team and third to Estonian rider Janek Tombak from Cycling Club Bourgas. The winner was decided on photo finish.

According to Blank he was able to win the race because he had a teammate in the leading group who helped him on the last kilometer. He said it was one of the greatest victories in his career.

Rein Taaramäe (Estonian National Team) was also in the leading group of five men on last laps, but abandoned the race because of physical problems.

Altogether 14 teams and 101 riders started for the 15 lap race.

Results - 187.5 km

1 Hannes Blank (Ger) Continental Team Differdange                   4.28.37 (41.88 km/h)
2 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Latvia National Team                           
3 Janek Tombak (Est) Cycling Club Bourgas                                  
4 Frank Dressler (Ger) Continental Team Differdange                    0.04
5 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Meridiana - Kalev Chocolate Team            3.34
6 Allan Oras (Est) Estonian National Team                                  
7 Anatoliy Pakhtusov (Ukr) ISD-Sport-DoEstonian National Track Teamsk      
8 Bo Hakan Nilson (Swe) Continental Team Differdange                   4.21
9 Kamil Markowski (Pol) Poland National Team                               
10 Aliaksandr Sinelnikau (Blr) Belarus National Team                       
11 Alo Jakin (Est) Estonian National Track Team                            
12 Martin Halvarsson (Swe) Sweden National Team                            
13 Indrek Rannama (Est) Estonian National Team                             
14 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Continental Team Differdange                      
15 Janar Jermakov (Est) Estonian National Track Team                       
16 Olegs Melehs (Lat) Meridiana - Kalev Chocolate Team                     
17 Alexander Wetterhall (Swe) Cyclesport.se-Magnus Maximus Coffee.com      
18 Piotr Typek (Pol) Poland National Team                              4.25
19 Daniel Patten (GBr) Cyclesport.se-Magnus Maximus Coffee.com         4.34
20 Kanstantin Klimiankou (Blr) Belarus National Team                   4.40
21 Reinis Andrijanovs (Lat) Latvia National Team                           
22 Marko Leppämäki (Fin) Finland National Team                         4.43
23 Gert Jõeäär (Est) Meridiana - Kalev Chocolate Team                  4.50
24 Indulis Bekmanis (Lat) Latvia National Team                             
25 Siarhei Novikau (Blr) Belarus National Team                         4.53
26 Linus Dahlberg (Swe) Sweden National Team                           4.58
27 Urmo Utar (Est) Meridiana - Kalev Chocolate Team                        
28 Valery Valynin (Rus) Moscow                                             
29 Normunds Lasis (Lat) Cycling Club Bourgas                           5.01
30 Matti Helminen (Fin) Cycling Club Bourgas                               
31 Yehor Dementyev (Ukr) ISD-Sport-DoEstonian National Track Teamsk    5.05
32 Erki Pütsep (Est) Cycling Club Bourgas                              5.16
33 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) Cycling Club Bourgas                             
34 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Estonian National Team                              
35 Volodymyr Rybin (Ukr) ISD-Sport-DoEstonian National Track Teamsk    5.17
36 Paavo Hiltunen (Fin) Finland National Team                          5.32
37 Jarmo Rissanen (Fin) Finland National Team                          5.56

Past winners

2008 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Rietumu Bank-Riga 
2007 Erki Pütsep (Est)
2006 Wojciech Pawlak (Pol) Team Knauff
2005 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Ag2r Prevoyance
2004 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2R Prevoyance
2003 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2R-Prevoyance
2002 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Estonia 1