Welcome to Germany, for the Deutschland Tour. It's the penultimate ProTour Stage Race of the season - and last to contain mountains. There's still plenty to play for, but first, theres a flat stage.

This was the break of the day: Tendero, Tschopp, Martin, Meier, Pinotti and Clesen


Tschopp was the most consistent on the climbs, he takes the KoM jersey - but the break are to be caught.

And so to the sprint, and quite a tactical one at that. Not only is this a first chance for the sprinters to do battle - and of course take over the race lead - but the teams classification is of great importance. By the theory of starting first in time trials does not lead to good results, a high teams classification here is crucial to ensure a late TTT starting time.
A team noticeably paying attention to this is Vesuvio (wearing Avenir kit for this stage only), not usually a sprinters team, but Kittel and Kvasina are in the relay train while Barth is amongst the Domina riders trying to get involved in the sprint train.

Sprint trains then! And theres two. For B&O its a very interesting one - Klemme is leading out Hagen. Possible stage favourites Roelandts and Lo Cicero follow, as well as Meyer. Warner Brothers meanwhile are also not leading out a well known sprinter - it is Hulsmans for Facci. Van Stayen and Vanderbiest are well placed though. A little further back, Speirs is trying to lead out Cooke for Domina - and thats where Farrar can be found.


Facci blinks first, and pushes himself into the lead - Van Stayen looking poised


And into the final kilometre the Dutchman makes his move, but so does Vanderbiest. And on the inside of Facci, Hagen is up there, but Roelandts too is going for it


It could be Van Stayen vs Vanderbiest - but Roelandts somehow squeezes through a gap between Facci and Hagen


This is a very close 3 way battle!


And on the line it's ... Roelandts! Big win for Carmeuse


Vanderbiest edged out Van Stayen for 2nd, with Hagen 4th, Facci 4th, and Barth an impressive 6th. Sieberg in 12th and De Kort 21st means that Jack Wolfskin are the best team, and will start last in the TTT.

1	Jurgen Roelandts	Carmeuse Cyclisme	4h31'26
2	Romain Vanderbiest	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
3	Michael Van Stayen	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
4	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Team B&O	s.t.
5	Mauro Facci	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
6	Marcel Barth	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
7	Baden Cooke	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
8	William Bonnet	Lafarge	s.t.
9	Ivano Lo Cicero	Team Nespresso	s.t.
10	Cameron Meyer	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
11	Tyler Farrar	Wikipedia	s.t.
12	Marcel Sieberg	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
13	Assan Bazajev	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
14	Kenny De Ketele	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
15	Mauro Santambrogio	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
16	Thomas Dekker	Philips - TDC	s.t.
17	André Steensen	Team B&O	s.t.
18	Daniel Moreno	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
19	Mathieu Bernaudeau	Festina - Corona	s.t.
20	Lars Ytting Bak	Philips - TDC	s.t.
21	Koen De Kort	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
22	Jacob Fiedler	Team Nespresso	s.t.
23	Domenik Klemme	Team B&O	s.t.
24	Isaac Speirs	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
25	Matea Kvasina	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
26	Kevin Hulsmans	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
27	Sebastian Lang	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
28	Héctor Fabian Aguilar	Team Nespresso	s.t.
29	Björn Schröder	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
30	Markus Fothen	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
31	Sébastien Ivars	Wikipedia	s.t.
32	Enrico Franzoi	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
33	Maarten Tjallingii	Philips - TDC	s.t.
34	Jos Van Emden	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
35	William Ford	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
36	Marcel Kittel	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
37	Óscar Solis	Carmeuse Cyclisme	s.t.
38	Morgan Kneisky	Carmeuse Cyclisme	s.t.
39	Jens Mouris	Philips - TDC	s.t.
40	Viktor Renäng	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
41	Michael Schär	Team Nespresso	s.t.
42	Michael Faerk Christensen	Team B&O	s.t.
43	Luigi Sestili	Lafarge	s.t.
44	Nick Nuyens	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
45	Yoann Offredo	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
46	Jurgen Van den Broeck	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
47	Olivier Kaisen	Wikipedia	s.t.
48	Egoi Martínez de Esteban	Philips - TDC	s.t.
49	Andrew Fenn	Carmeuse Cyclisme	s.t.
50	Stefan Cohnen	Philips - TDC	s.t.
51	Gustavo Veloso	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
52	Carlos Barredo	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
53	Jaroslav Popovych	Carmeuse Cyclisme	s.t.
54	Óscar Pereiro Sio	Café de Colombia	s.t.
55	Niels Scheunemann	Philips - TDC	s.t.
56	William Walker	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
57	Lars Boom	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
58	Fabio Duarte	Café de Colombia	s.t.
59	Paul Martens	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
60	Pedro Nicácio	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
61	Robert Kiserlovski	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
62	Francisco José Terciado	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
63	Ivan Kovalev	Wikipedia	s.t.
64	Jackson Rodríguez	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
65	Benoît Vaugrenard	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
66	Héctor Hugo Rangel	Lafarge	s.t.
67	Matthew Lloyd	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
68	Jairo Agudelo	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
69	Patrick Gretsch	Festina - Corona	s.t.
70	Michael Rogers	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
71	Emanuele Sella	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
72	Carlos Castaño	Festina - Corona	s.t.
73	Rick Flens	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
74	Massimiliano Maisto	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
75	Maxime Bouet	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
76	Kristof Vandewalle	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
77	Freddy Johansson	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
78	Kristof Goddaert	Festina - Corona	s.t.
79	Vladimir Efimkin	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
80	Remmert Wielinga	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
81	Angel Madrazo	Festina - Corona	s.t.
82	Lluis Mas	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
83	Greg De Winde	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
84	Elia Viviani	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
85	Paul Healion	Café de Colombia	s.t.
86	Jurgen Van Goolen	Festina - Corona	s.t.
87	Thomas Bontenackels	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
88	Kristjan Koren	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
89	Tim Dees	Festina - Corona	s.t.
90	Phillip Thuaux	Lafarge	s.t.
91	Florian Morizot	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
92	Wilmer Vasquez	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
93	Angel Vicioso	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
94	Jason Donald	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
95	José Joaquin Rojas Gil	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
96	David Zabriskie	Wikipedia	s.t.
97	Pim Ligthart	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
98	Adam Petrie-Armstrong	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
99	Lucas Schädlich	Festina - Corona	s.t.
100	Remberto Jaramillo	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
101	Patrik Sinkewitz	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
102	Sergio Ghisalberti	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
103	Francisco Colorado	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
104	Pierre Rolland	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
105	Tom Danielson	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
106	Domenico Pozzovivo	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
107	Andreas Klöden	Café de Colombia	s.t.
108	Francisco Matamoros	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
109	Ben Gastauer	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
110	Andrew Tennant	Café de Colombia	s.t.
111	José Angel Gomez Marchante	Café de Colombia	s.t.
112	Fabien Taillefour	Lafarge	s.t.
113	Pedro Sibila Romero	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
114	Martin Mortensen	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
115	Blake Caldwell	Wikipedia	s.t.
116	Trent Lowe	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
117	Kai Reus	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
118	Adrian Laidler	Lafarge	s.t.
119	Jakob Fuglsang	Philips - TDC	s.t.
120	Gianpaolo Caruso	Lafarge	s.t.
121	Alexis Castro Rodriguez	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
122	Thomas Faiers	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
123	Nico Keinath	Team B&O	s.t.
124	Roman Kreuziger	Team B&O	s.t.
125	Florentino Marquez	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
126	Rigoberto Úran	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
127	Francisco Mancebo	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
128	Aleksandr Pluchkin	Team B&O	s.t.
129	Walter Pedraza	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
130	Tanel Kangert	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
131	Markus Eibegger	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
132	Denis Menchov	Lafarge	s.t.
133	Vincenzo Nibali	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
134	Jakub Danacik	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
135	Jose Mendes	Team Nespresso	s.t.
136	Branislav Samoilev	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
137	Vladimir Karpets	Team Nespresso	s.t.
138	Magno Nazaret	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
139	Martijn Keizer	Team Nespresso	s.t.
140	Andrei Grivko	Team B&O	s.t.
141	Kristjan Fajt	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
142	Mikayil Krasnoperov	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	+ 2'09
143	William Germán Rodríguez Parra	Café de Colombia	+ 2'56
144	Matthieu Sprick	Wikipedia	s.t.
145	Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
146	Alexander Giraldo	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
147	Michael Ford	Vesuvio-Accumalux	+ 3'47
148	Muhammet Eyüp Karagobek	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
149	Willem Van Den Eynde	Carmeuse Cyclisme	s.t.
150	Hugues Mottin	Team Nespresso	s.t.
151	Jean-François Camier	Carmeuse Cyclisme	s.t.
152	Sid Taberlay	Domina Vacanze	+ 4'45
153	Jesus Tendero	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
154	Christian Meier	Wikipedia	s.t.
155	Tony Martin	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
156	Nick Clesen	Vesuvio-Accumalux	+ 7'18
157	Marco Pinotti	Café de Colombia	s.t.
158	Johann Tschopp	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
159	Jaime Suaza	Carmeuse Cyclisme	+ 15'26
160	Gregor Gazvoda	Lipton Ice Tea	+ 15'50
161	Thurakit Boonratanathanakorn	Team 1	+ 25'34

GC

1	Jurgen Roelandts	Carmeuse Cyclisme	4h31'06
2	Romain Vanderbiest	Pearl Adidas	+ 8
3	Michael Van Stayen	Jack Wolfskin	+ 12
4	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Team B&O	+ 20
5	Mauro Facci	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
6	Marcel Barth	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
7	Baden Cooke	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
8	William Bonnet	Lafarge	s.t.
9	Ivano Lo Cicero	Team Nespresso	s.t.
10	Cameron Meyer	Sony Ericsson	s.t.

Points

1	Jurgen Roelandts	Carmeuse Cyclisme	35
2	Romain Vanderbiest	Pearl Adidas	30
3	Michael Van Stayen	Jack Wolfskin	26
4	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Team B&O	24
5	Mauro Facci	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	22
6	Marcel Barth	Vesuvio-Accumalux	20
7	Baden Cooke	Domina Vacanze	19
8	William Bonnet	Lafarge	18
9	Ivano Lo Cicero	Team Nespresso	17
10	Cameron Meyer	Sony Ericsson	16

KoM

1	Johann Tschopp	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	8
2	Jesus Tendero	Energie - Diesel	7
3	Tony Martin	Domina Vacanze	6
4	Christian Meier	Wikipedia	5
5	Nick Clesen	Vesuvio-Accumalux	4

Young Rider

1	Romain Vanderbiest	Pearl Adidas	4h31'14 (1)
2	Michael Van Stayen	Jack Wolfskin	+ 4 (2)
3	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Team B&O	+ 12 (3)
4	Marcel Barth	Vesuvio-Accumalux	+ 12 (4)
5	Ivano Lo Cicero	Team Nespresso	+ 12 (5)
6	Cameron Meyer	Sony Ericsson	+ 12 (6)
7	André Steensen	Team B&O	+ 12 (7)
8	Mathieu Bernaudeau	Festina - Corona	+ 12 (8)
9	Jacob Fiedler	Team Nespresso	+ 12 (9)
10	Domenik Klemme	Team B&O	+ 12 (10)

Team

1	Jack Wolfskin	13h34'18 (1)
2	Team B&O	+ 0 (2)
3	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	+ 0 (3)
4	Sony Ericsson	+ 0 (4)
5	Team Nespresso	+ 0 (5)
6	Domina Vacanze	+ 0 (6)
7	Pearl Adidas	+ 0 (7)
8	Vesuvio-Accumalux	+ 0 (8)
9	Philips - TDC	+ 0 (9)
10	Carmeuse Cyclisme	+ 0 (10)
11	Wikipedia	+ 0 (11)
12	Lafarge	+ 0 (12)
13	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	+ 0 (13)
14	La Gazzetta dello Sport	+ 0 (14)
15	Festina - Corona	+ 0 (15)
16	Auber 93 - Look	+ 0 (16)
17	Energie - Diesel	+ 0 (17)
18	Café de Colombia	+ 0 (18)
19	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	+ 0 (19)
20	Lipton Ice Tea	+ 0 (20)