The break of the day had a 'Cobbles' theme as it included Franzoi and Mattan. Also there were Stetina, Frei, Murgoitio and Hacecky. They were chased by a 2nd group of Wyss, Joachim, Andrle, Piamonte and Machac.

In this race, there are ranking points given for the first riders over each hill.

Hill 1:
1. Frei
2. Franzoi
3. Mattan

Hill 2:
1. Murgoitio
2. Stetina
3. Frei

On the 3rd and final hill the break split:


1. Murgoitio
2. Franzoi
3. Hacecky

There were no attacks whatsoever from the peleton, not even from the hilly riders who have no sprint on them.

The 4 who were dropped are caught with 4.5km, but Murgoitio and Franzoi still have over a minute on the pack and should fight it out for the win.


In the chasing pack, most of the sprinters were badly positioned and there is a strong Tinkoff presence at the front.


Murgoitio has left Franzoi and looks set to win but there is going to be a tight battle for 3rd: Pru Bascal had gone early and is being caught by Wegmann and Zberg.


But Murgoitio hasnt won yet!

The Spaniard is going at 32 km/h, but Wegmann isflying at 50 km/h!





Its a 1-2 for Tinkoff! Zberg should have got 2nd but for some reason he stopped sprinting, and only took 4th!

1	Fabian Wegmann	TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS	4h45'57
2	Yon Bru Pascal	TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS	s.t.
3	Egoitz Murgoitio	BENFICA	s.t.
4	Markus Zberg	DESIGNA KØKKEN	s.t.
5	Kurt-Asle Arvesen	VOLKSBANK	s.t.
6	Enrico Franzoi	DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM	s.t.
7	Angel Vicioso	HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS	s.t.
8	Staf Scheirlinckx	TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS	s.t.
9	Gerrit Glomser	VOLKSBANK	s.t.
10	Michael Barry	TEAM SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
11	Manuele Mori	PCMDAILY - JOBS.COM	s.t.
12	Nico Mattan	DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED	s.t.
13	Xavier Tondo	DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED	s.t.
14	Ruslan Sambris	HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS	s.t.
15	Jukka Vastaranta	AGRITUBEL	s.t.
16	Francesco Reda	PCMDAILY - JOBS.COM	s.t.
17	Alessandro Proni	LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER	s.t.
18	José Ivan Gutiérrez Palacios	AGRITUBEL	s.t.
19	Martin Hacecký	MAXBO BIANCHI	s.t.
20	Tom Leezer	UNE ORBITEL	s.t.
21	Fabio Ciccarese	PCMDAILY - JOBS.COM	s.t.
22	Ruben Elvira Lobato	LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER	s.t.
23	Michael Reihs	DESIGNA KØKKEN	s.t.
24	Luca Mazzanti	TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS	s.t.
25	Constantino Zaballa	AGRITUBEL	s.t.
26	Johan Vansummeren	UNE ORBITEL	s.t.
27	Sergei Ivanov	TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS	s.t.
28	Eddy Ratti	PCMDAILY - JOBS.COM	s.t.
29	Guido Trentin	PCMDAILY - JOBS.COM	s.t.
30	Bart Wellens	LETUA CYCLING TEAM	s.t.
31	Bert De Waele	LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER	s.t.
32	Aleksandr Efimkin	BARLOWORLD	s.t.
33	Laurens Ten Dam	BARLOWORLD	s.t.
34	Diego Gallego	BENFICA	s.t.
35	Jorge Ferrio	HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS	s.t.
36	Nicolas Portal	UNE ORBITEL	s.t.
37	Pieter Mertens	NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA	s.t.
38	Pedro Arreitunandia	BARLOWORLD	s.t.
39	Grégory Rast	UNE ORBITEL	s.t.
40	Kin-San Wu	HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS	s.t.
41	Chris Horner	TEAM SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
42	Alexandre Moos	LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER	s.t.
43	Luis Pasamontes	TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS	s.t.
44	Florian Stalder	VOLKSBANK	s.t.
45	Iñigo Landaluze	LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER	s.t.
46	Francisco Colorado	AGRITUBEL	s.t.
47	Patrik Sinkewitz	UNE ORBITEL	s.t.
48	Thomas Frei	AGRITUBEL	s.t.
49	Juan Manuel Gárate	TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS	s.t.
50	Sergio Ghisalberti	DESIGNA KØKKEN	s.t.
51	Gregorio Ladino	SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS	s.t.
52	Fidel Jeobani Chacon	UNE ORBITEL	s.t.
53	Victor Hugo Peña	AGRITUBEL	s.t.
54	Aldrin Salamanca	CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE	s.t.
55	Peter Stetina	TEAM SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
56	Chris Froome	HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS	s.t.
57	Nico Sijmens	LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER	+ 2'30
58	Kenny Van Hummel	UNE ORBITEL	s.t.
59	Tom Stamsnijder	WIESENHOF - FELT	s.t.
60	Gabriele Balducci	WIESENHOF - FELT	s.t.
61	Gianni Meersman	SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS	s.t.
62	Fredrik Johansson	DESIGNA KØKKEN	s.t.
63	Leif Hoste	WIESENHOF - FELT	s.t.
64	Daniel Martin	LETUA CYCLING TEAM	s.t.
65	Shaun Lewis	SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS	s.t.
66	Frederik Wilman	MAXBO BIANCHI	+ 3'06
67	Mahdi Sohrabi	HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS	+ 4'48
68	Bas Giling	WIESENHOF - FELT	s.t.
69	Will Frischkorn	TEAM SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
70	Shinichi Fukushima	NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA	s.t.
71	Kevin Ista	WIESENHOF - FELT	s.t.
72	Timothy Duggan	TEAM SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
73	Raúl Granjel Cabrera	DESIGNA KØKKEN	+ 7'20
74	Fu-yu Li	DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM	+ 8'00
75	Kristoffer Nielsen	MAXBO BIANCHI	s.t.
76	Danilo Wyss	WIESENHOF - FELT	s.t.
77	Zdenek Machac	BARLOWORLD	s.t.
78	Dmitri Medvedev	DESIGNA KØKKEN	s.t.
79	Michael Blaudzun	VOLKSBANK	s.t.
80	René Andrle	VOLKSBANK	s.t.
81	Benoît Joachim	LETUA CYCLING TEAM	s.t.
82	Fredy Piamonte	CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE	s.t.
83	Giampaolo Cheula	PCMDAILY - JOBS.COM	s.t.
84	Maxime Bouet	MAXBO BIANCHI	s.t.
85	Daniele Di Nucci	PCMDAILY - JOBS.COM	s.t.
86	Daniel Lloyd	LETUA CYCLING TEAM	s.t.
87	Boy Van Poppel	LETUA CYCLING TEAM	s.t.
88	Bradley White	DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM	s.t.
89	Andy Cappelle	LANDBOUWKREDIET - TÖNISSTEINER	s.t.
90	Alejandro Borrajo	AGRITUBEL	s.t.
91	Victor Gomes Colinas	BENFICA	s.t.
92	Yasuharu Nakajima	NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA	s.t.
93	Antonio Cruz	TEAM SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
94	Yukiya Arashiro	NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA	s.t.
95	Frank Høj	DESIGNA KØKKEN	s.t.
96	Lars Petter Nordhaug	MAXBO BIANCHI	s.t.
97	Jude Libert	BARLOWORLD	s.t.
98	Matej Mugerli	DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED	+ 9'36
99	Matthew Hayman	WIESENHOF - FELT	s.t.
100	Mark Jamieson	SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS	s.t.
101	Sébastien Chavanel	DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED	s.t.
102	Christopher Sutton	SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS	s.t.
103	Timm Aykurt	CONTROL TEAM II	s.t.
104	Michael Vingerling	HEALTH NET PRESENTED BY MAXXIS	s.t.
105	Nathan O'Neill	DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED	+ 10'24
106	Timothy Johnson	SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS	s.t.
107	Romain Feillu	DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED	s.t.
108	Teodoro Costagli	BENFICA	s.t.
109	Juan Luis Quintero	BENFICA	s.t.
110	Koldo Fernandez	SOUTHAUSTRALIA.COM - AIS	+ 11'36
111	Sergei Komkov	BENFICA	s.t.
112	Jesús Rueda	CONTROL TEAM II	s.t.
113	Hipólito Elías Lerga	CONTROL TEAM II	+ 12'56
114	Hugues Mottin	NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA	s.t.
115	Pieter Seyfert	BARLOWORLD	s.t.
116	Iman Suparman	LETUA CYCLING TEAM	s.t.
117	Julio Enrique Tinajero	CONTROL TEAM II	s.t.
118	Dainius Kairelis	CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE	+ 14'08
119	Christophe Riblon	CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE	s.t.
120	Bernard Sulzberger	CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE	s.t.
121	Gracjan Lejman	CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE	s.t.
122	Jurgen Van Loocke	CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE	s.t.
123	João Valmir Pereira	CONTROL TEAM II	+ 16'16
124	Niki Østergaard	BENFICA	+ 19'52
125	Tong Yu	CONTROL TEAM II	s.t.
126	Valentín Díaz de Guereñu	CONTROL TEAM II	s.t.
127	Jens Mouris	DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED	+ 23'44
128	Enrico Degano	BARLOWORLD	+ 24'16
129	Jonas Aaen Jørgensen	MAXBO BIANCHI	s.t.
130	Alex Candelario	TEAM SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
131	Marcel Kittel	DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM	s.t.
132	Andrew Randell	VOLKSBANK	s.t.
133	Lars Pria	DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM	s.t.
134	Ronald Harvey	LETUA CYCLING TEAM	+ 25'12
135	Marius Nicolae Stoica	DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM	+ 26'24
136	Patrick Riedesser	VOLKSBANK	s.t.
137	Svein Erik Vold	MAXBO BIANCHI	s.t.
138	Alexandru Pulpa	DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM	s.t.