Today the queen`s stage, where the race will be decided. So far we have seen lots of breakaways and so the top20 is pretty much mixed of surprising riders. But they put a lot of pressure on the actual race favourites as they just need to avoid a big time loss today and they would have top chances of a top10 here or maybe even the overall win.
3 climbs on the program today but with 6-9km length they are not the longest and with 3,7% - 5,8% surely not the hardest this cycling season.


6 riders form an early break with 3 more riders follow behind.
Traficante
Degenkolb
Veilleux
Belkov
Sousa
Mandri

Mazur
Müller
Garbelli
Sousa and Belkov probably the strongest rider here and with first one being 40. with only 2'27 behind he is a big danger.



Mainly Venchi but also Bpost and Focus are doing the pace in the field. Obviously they are not very afraid and relax a bit.
During the first climb with 76km to go they have opened a gap of 3min to the first.



Although Vespa already has 2 riders in front we see another attack by Bosisio. The unlucky Italian lost lots of time yesterday in the wind and is more than 6min behind. So he is probably aiming a good stage result today.



Sousa takes the first KoM closely ahead of Mandri with Traficante, Belkov and Veilleux next.



Also Stubbe attacked out of the peloton and is behind Bosisio now. Probably the reason for their earlier work behind.
As 58. and 3'44 he is a bigger danger than the Italian. 70km to go.



And another attack. Martin goes 5km later.



Venchi and Unicredit doing the pace now and highered their speed. Still 60km to go.



44km left and and only 3min to E1. But on the other hand the guys ahead are strong climbers.



Bosisio and Stubbe reach the first group in hte 2nd climb and pulled the other 3 rider with them. Only Martin is still in between with the peloton following in 2'40 with 38km to go.



Next attack to improve the poor overall position. Efimkin is one of the pre-race favourites who is now between 2 and 3min behind so he attacks on the 2nd climb.



Due to the new riders the breakaway splits. We see only 5 riders still there.
Bosisio
Also Stubbe
Belkov
Sousa
Mandri



The 2nd mountain proves to be the hardest and so also the mountain where most riders attack. Seeing that Martin couldn`t join the breakaway and is now together with Efimkin just a bit ahead of the peloton Puma sends their next rider in Rolland. (26./2'13)
The gap to the Bosisio group is now pretty consistent at 3min with 32km to go.



Also Lloret is following now. He is just one place behind Rolland in the overall.

But in the descent with 25km to go the peloton caught all new attackers.

Bosisio		Degenkolb
Sousa		Mazu
Mandri	<1'01>	Veilleux	<1'35>	P (76 riders)
Belkov		Traficante
Stubbe		Garbelli

With 12km left we have still nearly the same situation and so a stage win of one of these 5 is becoming more and more probably.



5,7km left and Mandri is the first with an attack. Pretty surprising as he was expected to be the weakest of them.



Also the peloton is stretched long now and some riders fall back.
A smaller group at the front of the peloton is forming now with best placed being Santaromita.
Also Lloret, Efimkin, Ratiy, Ruijgh, Lowe, Weening, Kolesnikov, Kern, Dupont and De Greef a bit ahead of the 2nd group with riders like Duarte, who might wait for Bodnar, Boom, Roy, Kessler, Wegmann, Van der Sande, Kwiatowski or Koep.



Mandri was doing well today but Bosisio came fast in the last kilometer and is taking the stage after yesterdays disaster.
33s later Belkov and Sousa finishes. Last mentioned will improve a lot today fighting for the overall win probably. Stubbe in 5th already lost 1min in the end.



Lloret comes in 6th 2'10 later with Efimkin being 7s later but still ahead the mentioned group, who gained 30s during the climb.


So most surprising Santaromita really wins this years Deutschland Tour, which was charakterized by several breakaways.
Sousa climbed up to 2nd today and should make his GM happy as German team. Also Van der Sande and Kwiatowski are big surprises that high, so is Mandri as 5th and Koep as 6th.
Bodnar felt down to 7th but as Duarte helped him a lot today this might have been the best possible for the team.
Lloret as 13th the first pre-race favourite, so a rather disappointing race for all the top riders.


Result

1	Gabriele Bosisio	Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa	3h06'18
2	René Mandri	Cyclevox	+ 6
3	Maxim Belkov	T.CS Bank - OJSC	+ 33
4	Sérgio Sousa	Team Trilux - Falke	s.t.
5	Tom Stubbe	Team Bpost	+ 1'04
6	Manuel Lloret	Team Bianchi	+ 2'10
7	Vladimir Efimkin	T.CS Bank - OJSC	+ 2'17
8	Sergei Kolesnikov	T.CS Bank - OJSC	+ 2'24
9	Pieter Weening	UniCredit	s.t.
10	Vadim Ratiy	VolksWagen - Siemens	s.t.
11	Pierre Rolland	Team Puma - SAP	s.t.
12	Trent Lowe	Cyclevox	s.t.
13	Ivan Santaromita	Pirelli - Alfa Romeo	s.t.
14	Rob Ruijgh	Team Rothaus - Aegon	s.t.
15	Christophe Kern	Pokerstars.com	s.t.
16	Hubert Dupont	Pirelli - Alfa Romeo	s.t.
17	Francis De Greef	Team Bpost	s.t.
18	Roberto Traficante	Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa	+ 2'55
19	Nairo Quintana	UniCredit	s.t.
20	Michał Kwiatkowski	Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa	s.t.

Overall

1	Ivan Santaromita	Pirelli - Alfa Romeo	18h10'23
2	Sérgio Sousa	Team Trilux - Falke	+ 16
3	Tosh Van der Sande	UniCredit	+ 21
4	Michał Kwiatkowski	Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa	+ 26
5	René Mandri	Cyclevox	+ 53
6	Thomas Koep	Team Rothaus - Aegon	+ 54
7	Maciej Bodnar	Team Venchi ProCycling	+ 1'14
8	Alex Coutts	Cyclevox	+ 1'19
9	Cédric Pineau	Focused Cycling	+ 1'23
10	Bob Jungels	Focused Cycling	+ 1'27
11	Sébastien Minard	Team Puma - SAP	+ 1'31
12	Javier Aramendía	Team Bianchi	+ 1'39
13	Manuel Lloret	Team Bianchi	+ 1'40
14	Bram Tankink	Team WWE	s.t.
15	André Mourato	Cerne	s.t.
16	Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha	Cerne	+ 1'42
17	Pierre Rolland	Team Puma - SAP	+ 1'53
18	Markus Eichler	Team Trilux - Falke	+ 1'55
19	Tom Dumoulin	Team Puma - SAP	+ 1'57
20	Trent Lowe	Cyclevox	+ 2'01

P:

1	Gerald Ciolek	Team Bianchi	45
2	Sébastien Minard	Team Puma - SAP	43
3	Fabian Wegmann	Team Trilux - Falke	41
4	William Bonnet	UniCredit	37
5	Mathieu Drujon	Focused Cycling	37
6	Maxim Belkov	T.CS Bank - OJSC	30
7	Tosh Van der Sande	UniCredit	28
8	Lars Boom	Team Rothaus - Aegon	27
9	Cédric Pineau	Focused Cycling	25
10	Gabriele Bosisio	Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa	25

KoM:

1	Maxim Belkov	T.CS Bank - OJSC	37
2	Gabriele Bosisio	Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa	32
3	Sérgio Sousa	Team Trilux - Falke	30
4	René Mandri	Cyclevox	28
5	Maciej Bodnar	Team Venchi ProCycling	16
6	Michał Kwiatkowski	Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa	16
7	Bram Tankink	Team WWE	12
8	Tom Stubbe	Team Bpost	12
9	Jussi Veikkanen	VolksWagen - Siemens	11
10	Ivan Santaromita	Pirelli - Alfa Romeo	10

U25:

1	Tosh Van der Sande	UniCredit	18h10'44 (1)
2	Michał Kwiatkowski	Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa	+ 5 (2)
3	Thomas Koep	Team Rothaus - Aegon	+ 33 (3)
4	Bob Jungels	Focused Cycling	+ 1'06 (4)
5	André Mourato	Cerne	+ 1'19 (5)
6	Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha	Cerne	+ 1'21 (6)
7	Tom Dumoulin	Team Puma - SAP	+ 1'36 (7)
8	Mathieu La Lavandier	Team Bpost	+ 2'10 (8)
9	Nairo Quintana	UniCredit	+ 2'29 (9)
10	Nikias Arndt	Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa	+ 2'40 (10)

Team:

1	T.CS Bank - OJSC	54h33'39 (1)
2	Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa	+ 18 (2)
3	UniCredit	+ 43 (3)
4	Cyclevox	+ 46 (4)
5	Focused Cycling	+ 1'05 (5)
6	Team Trilux - Falke	+ 1'09 (6)
7	Cerne	+ 2'38 (7)
8	Team Puma - SAP	+ 2'47 (8)
9	Team Rothaus - Aegon	+ 2'59 (9)
10	Pirelli - Alfa Romeo	+ 3'25 (10)
11	Team Bianchi	+ 3'47 (11)
12	Team Bpost	+ 3'53 (12)
13	Team WWE	+ 4'33 (13)
14	Team Venchi ProCycling	+ 4'49 (14)
15	Pokerstars.com	+ 5'39 (15)
16	VolksWagen - Siemens	+ 8'20 (16)
17	Koppert Cycling Team	+ 16'26 (17)
18	Team C	+ 1h12'00 (18)