Second consecutive flat stage, this time with a less challenging second half. Will the sprinters deliver this time? Or will we see a similar move like yesterday's solo-effort from race-leader Eichler?



The stage again kicks off with the peloton not allowing any escape and so the first intermediate sprint is contested by the top-sprinters:

Sprint #1 Drujon Ulanowski Andriato



Three riders would then finally build the tour's first real breakaway group... and this group would survive until the final 10km, where Fonzi would be the last man standing, holding on to a 34"-gap on the chasing bunch.

So those escapees would also contest for all remaining intermediate sprints, with the white jersey (Manfred) adding some more bonus seconds to his account:

KoM (Cat 2) Haddi Fonzi Manfred
Sprint #1 Haddi Manfred Manfred
Sprint #1 Fonzi Haddi Manfred



The peloton does a better job than yesterday, also swallowing Fonzi as the last escapee right in time.. Magna, Privatbank and Hornbach did most of the work in this chase.



Magna, Privatbank and Repsol would be the teams to build the sprint-trains:

	Speirs
Acevedo	Belletti
Kashechkin	Drujon
Andriato	Gavazzi
Breschel	Guillen	Nikolaev
Grosu	Trentin	Ulanowski
Anton Martin	Van Poppel	Cano

Privatbank again with their two men moving forward to the very front, and again followed by Magna's duo and Guillen. Those five sprinting for a small gap at this point.



It looks like a fight between Ulanowski, Drujon and Guillen, as they hold on to this small advantage..

..the situation behind changes with every metre: Grosu, Van Poppel, Cano on the further positions at this point.



The leading trio head-to-head now with the line approaching! And the other sprinters narrowed the gap in the meantime, with Park, Andriato, Martin and Breschel as the most notable names moving forward with some speed yet!



Still a fight between the mentioned trio... actually... it's just Guillen and Drujon head-to-head now!



And Guillén takes it! A thrilling sprint and a close decision, in which Drujon finishes 2nd ahead of Ulanowski. Well played by ONCE, just like in yesterday's bunch sprint for the runner-up spot.

Andriato with a strong kick on 4th ahead of Grosu, Van Poppel and Park, who might have had better chances if he hadn't missed the first trains here.

No notable changes in the GC except of those bonus seconds doing their thing. Eichler retains his lead, yet facing the first hilly stage tomorrow. It seems to be the "easier" of the two hilly stages, but of course premium puncheurs like Dowsett or Skujins will need to try something on those days.

Final Results Stage 2/

1	Marco Guillén	ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	2h29'18
2	Mathieu Drujon	Magna - Ryanair	s.t.
3	Maciej Ulanowski	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	s.t.
4	Rafael Andriato	Repsol-Cativen	s.t.
5	Eduard Grosu	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
6	Boy Van Poppel	Team Hornbach	s.t.
7	Sung Baek Park	Compal-Merida	s.t.
8	Matti Breschel	AMEXpc	s.t.
9	Francisco Anton Martin	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
10	Jose Luis Cano	ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	s.t.
11	Jure Kocjan	Bacardi Limited	s.t.
12	Markus Eichler	Team Hornbach	s.t.
13	Davide Appollonio	Kappa-ENI	s.t.
14	Matteo Trentin	Team Hornbach	s.t.
15	Geert Van der Sanden	Team Hornbach	s.t.
16	Mattia Gavazzi	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
17	Manuel Belletti	Magna - Ryanair	s.t.
18	Sergey Nikolaev	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	s.t.
19	Dario Cataldo	Magna - Ryanair	s.t.
20	Andrei Kashechkin	Repsol-Cativen	s.t.
21	Stefan Hristov	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	s.t.
22	Isaac Speirs	Magna - Ryanair	s.t.
23	Konrad Dabkowski	FCB - Polska	s.t.
24	Janier Alexis Acevedo	Repsol-Cativen	s.t.
25	Petar Panayotov	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	s.t.
26	Honorio Machado	Repsol-Cativen	s.t.
27	Mykhaylo Kononenko	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	s.t.
28	Michael Rodriguez Galindo	Repsol-Cativen	s.t.
29	Theo Reinhardt	AMEXpc	s.t.
30	Marco Marzano	Kappa-ENI	s.t.
31	Kim Marius Nielsen	Repsol-Cativen	s.t.
32	Santo Anza	Kappa-ENI	s.t.
33	Graham Briggs	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
34	Juan José Cobo	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
35	Kiril Yatsevich	Bacardi Limited	s.t.
36	Eduard Vorganov	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	s.t.
37	Toms Skujins	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
38	Carl Naibo	Magna - Ryanair	s.t.
39	Paavo Paajanen	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
40	Artem Topchanyuk	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	s.t.
41	Jesus Merino Criado	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
42	Dainius Kairelis	Control Team	s.t.
43	Jan Tratnik	Gazelle	s.t.
44	Pieter Weening	Gazelle	s.t.
45	Ryder Hesjedal	Magna - Ryanair	s.t.
46	Jan Oelerich	Team Hornbach	s.t.
47	Eduardo Gonzalo	FCB - Polska	s.t.
48	Ivor Bruin	Control Team	s.t.
49	Arjen De Baat	Team Hornbach	s.t.
50	Mauricio Soler	Repsol-Cativen	s.t.
51	Marco Benfatto	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
52	Anders Ekh Dahlberg	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
53	Eugert Zhupa	Team Hornbach	s.t.
54	Behnam Khalilikhosroshani	Compal-Merida	s.t.
55	Marcos Altur	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
56	Daniel Navarro	Bacardi Limited	s.t.
57	Mikel Nieve	FCB - Polska	s.t.
58	Momchil Robov	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	s.t.
59	Jan Dieteren	AMEXpc	s.t.
60	Po Hung Wu	Compal-Merida	s.t.
61	Ki Ho Choi	Compal-Merida	s.t.
62	Tomasz Zywer	Control Team	s.t.
63	Daniel Eliad	Compal-Merida	s.t.
64	Robert Vrecer	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	s.t.
65	Andreas Hofer	Magna - Ryanair	s.t.
66	Lachlan Norris	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
67	Owain Doull	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
68	Taylor Newton	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
69	Truls Engen Korsaeth	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
70	Steven Cummings	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
71	Miguel Angel Benito	ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	s.t.
72	Stanimir Cholakov	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	s.t.
73	Thomas Bonnin	ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	s.t.
74	Carlos Barbero	FCB - Polska	s.t.
75	Soufiane Haddi	FCB - Polska	s.t.
76	Roman Senyenov	Gazelle	s.t.
77	Erick Rowsell	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.
78	Andrea Zordan	Gazelle	s.t.
79	Eliot Lietaer	Kappa-ENI	s.t.
80	Shaquille Sinclair	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	s.t.
81	Warren Barguil	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.
82	Daniel Turek	Bacardi Limited	s.t.
83	Giuseppe Fonzi	Kappa-ENI	s.t.
84	Nejc Kosic	Gazelle	s.t.
85	Jordi Simon	FCB - Polska	s.t.
86	Janvier Hadi	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.
87	Krzysztof Marchewka	FCB - Polska	s.t.
88	Daniel Ruiz	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
89	José Antonio Redondo	Kappa-ENI	s.t.
90	Alex Dowsett	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.
91	Nicolae Tanovitchii	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
92	Sergio Ghisalberti	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
93	Fredrik Ludvigsson	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
94	Jake Keough	AMEXpc	s.t.
95	Ole Hirschlein	Bacardi Limited	s.t.
96	Stijn Devolder	AMEXpc	s.t.
97	Max Walsleben	ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	s.t.
98	Davide Formolo	Gazelle	s.t.
99	Theo Eltink	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
100	Vitaliy Popkov	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
101	Mike Aaron Egger	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
102	Abolfazl Gilanipoor	Compal-Merida	s.t.
103	Martin Grashev	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	s.t.
104	Oleksandr Grygorenko	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
105	Thiago Duarte Nardin	Gazelle	s.t.
106	Bassirou Konte	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.
107	Nathan Earle	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
108	Yoann Offredo	Bacardi Limited	s.t.
109	Ben Hermans	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
110	Mathieu Perget	Bacardi Limited	s.t.
111	Michele Scarponi	Kappa-ENI	s.t.
112	Daniel Hoelgaard	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
113	Valentin Stoenchev	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	s.t.
114	Fabio Taborre	AMEXpc	s.t.
115	Chu Thien Sinelobov	Compal-Merida	s.t.
116	Matthew Busche	AMEXpc	s.t.
117	Hussein Manfred	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.
118	Andrii Bratashcuk	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
119	Till Drobisch	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.
120	Nikolay Mihaylov	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	s.t.

GC/

1	Markus Eichler	Team Hornbach	4h08'57
2	Mathieu Drujon	Magna - Ryanair	+ 1'22
3	Marco Guillén	ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	s.t.
4	Maciej Ulanowski	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	+ 1'32
5	Jose Luis Cano	ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	s.t.
6	Hussein Manfred	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.
7	Soufiane Haddi	FCB - Polska	+ 1'34
8	Manuel Belletti	Magna - Ryanair	+ 1'36
9	Nikolay Mihaylov	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	s.t.
10	Kiril Yatsevich	Bacardi Limited	+ 1'40
11	Rafael Andriato	Repsol-Cativen	+ 1'42
12	Boy Van Poppel	Team Hornbach	+ 1'44
13	Francisco Anton Martin	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
14	Matti Breschel	AMEXpc	s.t.
15	Davide Appollonio	Kappa-ENI	s.t.
16	Sung Baek Park	Compal-Merida	s.t.
17	Eduard Grosu	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
18	Sergey Nikolaev	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	s.t.
19	Dario Cataldo	Magna - Ryanair	s.t.
20	Isaac Speirs	Magna - Ryanair	s.t.
21	Theo Reinhardt	AMEXpc	s.t.
22	Marco Marzano	Kappa-ENI	s.t.
23	Andrei Kashechkin	Repsol-Cativen	s.t.
24	Konrad Dabkowski	FCB - Polska	s.t.
25	Kim Marius Nielsen	Repsol-Cativen	s.t.
26	Graham Briggs	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
27	Santo Anza	Kappa-ENI	s.t.
28	Jure Kocjan	Bacardi Limited	s.t.
29	Michael Rodriguez Galindo	Repsol-Cativen	s.t.
30	Petar Panayotov	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	s.t.
31	Mattia Gavazzi	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
32	Honorio Machado	Repsol-Cativen	s.t.
33	Toms Skujins	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
34	Juan José Cobo	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
35	Artem Topchanyuk	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	s.t.
36	Paavo Paajanen	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
37	Dainius Kairelis	Control Team	s.t.
38	Mauricio Soler	Repsol-Cativen	s.t.
39	Eduardo Gonzalo	FCB - Polska	s.t.
40	Marcos Altur	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
41	Pieter Weening	Gazelle	s.t.
42	Jan Tratnik	Gazelle	s.t.
43	Janier Alexis Acevedo	Repsol-Cativen	s.t.
44	Ivor Bruin	Control Team	s.t.
45	Mikel Nieve	FCB - Polska	s.t.
46	Anders Ekh Dahlberg	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
47	Eduard Vorganov	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	s.t.
48	Geert Van der Sanden	Team Hornbach	s.t.
49	Matteo Trentin	Team Hornbach	s.t.
50	Carl Naibo	Magna - Ryanair	s.t.
51	Mykhaylo Kononenko	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	s.t.
52	Taylor Newton	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
53	Jesus Merino Criado	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
54	Daniel Navarro	Bacardi Limited	s.t.
55	Ki Ho Choi	Compal-Merida	s.t.
56	Marco Benfatto	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
57	Andreas Hofer	Magna - Ryanair	s.t.
58	Ryder Hesjedal	Magna - Ryanair	s.t.
59	Shaquille Sinclair	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	s.t.
60	Theo Eltink	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
61	Momchil Robov	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	s.t.
62	José Antonio Redondo	Kappa-ENI	s.t.
63	Vitaliy Popkov	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
64	Davide Formolo	Gazelle	s.t.
65	Behnam Khalilikhosroshani	Compal-Merida	s.t.
66	Jake Keough	AMEXpc	s.t.
67	Warren Barguil	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.
68	Jan Dieteren	AMEXpc	s.t.
69	Jan Oelerich	Team Hornbach	s.t.
70	Alex Dowsett	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.
71	Erick Rowsell	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.
72	Stijn Devolder	AMEXpc	s.t.
73	Stanimir Cholakov	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	s.t.
74	Arjen De Baat	Team Hornbach	s.t.
75	Eugert Zhupa	Team Hornbach	s.t.
76	Michele Scarponi	Kappa-ENI	s.t.
77	Thiago Duarte Nardin	Gazelle	s.t.
78	Andrea Zordan	Gazelle	s.t.
79	Nathan Earle	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
80	Daniel Eliad	Compal-Merida	s.t.
81	Andrii Bratashcuk	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
82	Sergio Ghisalberti	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
83	Matthew Busche	AMEXpc	s.t.
84	Daniel Hoelgaard	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
85	Ben Hermans	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
86	Bassirou Konte	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.
87	Krzysztof Marchewka	FCB - Polska	s.t.
88	Thomas Bonnin	ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	s.t.
89	Roman Senyenov	Gazelle	s.t.
90	Mathieu Perget	Bacardi Limited	s.t.
91	Oleksandr Grygorenko	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
92	Martin Grashev	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	s.t.
93	Steven Cummings	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
94	Lachlan Norris	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	s.t.
95	Robert Vrecer	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	s.t.
96	Abolfazl Gilanipoor	Compal-Merida	s.t.
97	Eliot Lietaer	Kappa-ENI	s.t.
98	Nicolae Tanovitchii	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
99	Mike Aaron Egger	Metinvest-Emirates	s.t.
100	Miguel Angel Benito	ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	s.t.
101	Yoann Offredo	Bacardi Limited	s.t.
102	Janvier Hadi	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.
103	Jordi Simon	FCB - Polska	s.t.
104	Daniel Turek	Bacardi Limited	s.t.
105	Chu Thien Sinelobov	Compal-Merida	s.t.
106	Fredrik Ludvigsson	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
107	Fabio Taborre	AMEXpc	s.t.
108	Ole Hirschlein	Bacardi Limited	s.t.
109	Max Walsleben	ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	s.t.
110	Valentin Stoenchev	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	s.t.
111	Po Hung Wu	Compal-Merida	+ 3'59
112	Owain Doull	Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	+ 4'42
113	Giuseppe Fonzi	Kappa-ENI	+ 5'24
114	Nejc Kosic	Gazelle	+ 5'26
115	Stefan Hristov	Boeing-Bulgaria Bicycling	+ 5'32
116	Tomasz Zywer	Control Team	s.t.
117	Truls Engen Korsaeth	Swedbank - PEAB	s.t.
118	Carlos Barbero	FCB - Polska	s.t.
119	Daniel Ruiz	Team CSC-Orbea	s.t.
120	Till Drobisch	Jaguar - Eritel	s.t.

Points/

1	Mathieu Drujon	Magna - Ryanair	26	44
2	Markus Eichler	Team Hornbach	4	35
3	Marco Guillén	ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	25	35
4	Maciej Ulanowski	Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team	20	30
5	Jose Luis Cano	ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	6	26
6	Rafael Andriato	Repsol-Cativen	16	25
7	Boy Van Poppel	Team Hornbach	10	22
8	Manuel Belletti	Magna - Ryanair	0	16
9	Francisco Anton Martin	Team CSC-Orbea	7	14
10	Hussein Manfred	Jaguar - Eritel	6	12

KoM/

1	Markus Eichler	Team Hornbach	0	22
2	Marcos Altur	Team CSC-Orbea	0	10
3	Taylor Newton	Team CSC-Orbea	0	10
4	Soufiane Haddi	FCB - Polska	10	10
5	Thomas Bonnin	ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	0	8
6	Giuseppe Fonzi	Kappa-ENI	8	8
7	Hussein Manfred	Jaguar - Eritel	6	6
8	Geert Van der Sanden	Team Hornbach	4	4
9	Santo Anza	Kappa-ENI	0	2
10	Eugert Zhupa	Team Hornbach	2	2

Young/

1	Hussein Manfred	Jaguar - Eritel	4h10'29 (1)
2	Soufiane Haddi	FCB - Polska	+ 2 (2)
3	Kiril Yatsevich	Bacardi Limited	+ 8 (3)
4	Davide Appollonio	Kappa-ENI	+ 12 (4)
5	Eduard Grosu	Metinvest-Emirates	+ 12 (5)

Team/

1	Team Hornbach	12h30'45 (1)
2	Gazelle	+ 1'18 (2)
3	Swedbank - PEAB	+ 1'18 (3)
4	FCB - Polska	+ 1'18 (4)