With almost 170km it`s a quite typical flat stage in professional cycling. For the Tour of Southland it`s already quite long as many stages have a maximum of 100km.



So todays sprint might be totally different than on the other stages.
Favourites nevertheless are Guillén, Maksimov and with a big questionmark due to the length Thorsen.

4 riders in the breakaway. With two Cat.4 rated mountain sprints the chance is high to get the KoM jersey afterwards.
Vassdal
Horgan
Hugentobler
Kochetkov



As a PCT team Evian - MIAT surely has a certain strength to control the race. So 3 riders are ordered to the front to make the pace. Race leader Rocchetti rides safely right behind them avoiding possible crashes this way.



Horgan takes the first sprint. As 19th and only +46s he is the best placed in this group and hoped for a coup today by taking the leader jersey eventually.
Kochetkov and Hugentobler follow him over the line while Vassdal is not showing any interest.



The 3 expected sprinter teams Banco Nacional de Costa Rica, Allianz-BMW and Team Privatbank come to the front now as well and take over from Evian - MIAT.

With 87km to go and a gap of a bit over 6min it`s time. With 6 possible sprint finishes the sprinters have best chances here to take the point jersey and several stage wins. So they won`t give it to the breakaway that easy.



Breakaway specialist Hugentobler wins the sprint at the first KoM. He already has good experience with the KoM jersey as he also wore it in the Tropicale Amissa Bongo earlier the season.
Vassdal and Horgan take the next points.

But as yesterdays final climb was rated Cat.3, Rocchetti still has a 1p lead here and the next KoM will be important.



2nd intermediate and again Horgan takes the bonus seconds. He is down to 34s now.
Kochetkov and Hugentobler again take the next places with Vassdal not spending any energy here.



Unlucky moment for Cadbury`s Horgan. Just when he attacked for the 2nd KoM sprint, he has chain issues and needs to wait for a new bike. So the 3 riders in front will decide this KoM.



Again Hugentobler is winning the uphill sprint going up to 10 points followed by Rocchetti now with 6 points.
Kochetkov takes 3 points now with Vasdall being at 4 point now equal to Firsanov.
So Hugentobler once again wears a KoM jersey this season.



With only 8km to the finish line the breakaway is caught by mainly Allianz now. Obviously they have high expectations in Thorsen and so they also send their GC rider Kirchen into the work.



All 3 teams, who did the main work today have still enough energy to form a 3 rider sprinter train with the other sprinters hanging behind them.

		 Kopp
 Suray		 Morales		 Athanasiades
 Havik		 Guillén		 Hoelgaard
 Thorsen		 Awang		 Maksimov
		 Giacoppo		 Drapac
		 Friedman
	 Torckler		 Jang
	 Gavazzi
		 Porsev
	 Petit		 Nardin

2km left and the last leadout riders take over. Privatbank surely being the smartest being on the more open right side going the shorter way in the third last corner.

Torckler and Gavazzi obviously thought the same and decided to move over behind Drapac. Ekspla is playing this smartly going with 3 sprinters on different trains here but maybe they could also create their own train.



1,3km left and another corner. Again the right side with some advantages.
Torckler opens the sprint and goes past Drapac with Gavazzi having the perfect wheel it seems.
Also Giacoppo in the middle and the sprint trains start their sprint.



Flamme Rouge. And Torcker and Giacoppo are in the lead.
Gavazzi obviously decided to wait a bit longer in the wind and didn`t follow him. Instead he went behind Drapac, who is also starting his sprint now, while all 3 top favourites still can save their energy.



Maksimov accelerated a lot and is passing Drapac and Giacoppo easily. Guillen has a small gap and needs to improve a bit, while Thorsen surely doesn`t have the necessary speed after such a long day with some climbs as well.



Dominant win by Maksimov. The Russian was definitely the fastest here and delivers for Team Privatbank. And it`s pretty impressive as well as his actual leadout Gomenyuk couldn`t help him due to his crash yesterday. He is already behind the peloton and seems to suffer a bit.

Drapac on a strong 2nd ahead of Giacoppo, who just saves his podium ahead of Guillén and Gavazzi in a very close sprint for the 3rd.

Awang, Thorsen, Torckler, Friedman and Petit complete the top 10 but surely didn`t have the quality to compete for the stage win today.
But Thorsen being 7th is already showing that you must count on him in the shorter stages.

As only the mentioned Gomenyuk finished behind the peloton there are no real changes in the GC. Only Horgan is climbing into the top10 with his gained bonus seconds today.

Result

1	Roman Maksimov	Team Privatbank	3h57'47
2	Damion Drapac	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
3	Anthony Giacoppo	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	s.t.
4	Marco Guillén	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	s.t.
5	Mattia Gavazzi	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	s.t.
6	Azizulhasni Awang	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
7	Daniel Thorsen	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	s.t.
8	Michael Torckler	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	s.t.
9	Mike Friedman	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	s.t.
10	Adrien Petit	Evian-MIAT	s.t.
11	Thiago Duarte Nardin	Team Gazelle	s.t.
12	Chan Jae Jang	Japanese - Korean Cycling Project	s.t.
13	Alexander Porsev	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	s.t.
14	Jíri Hochmann	Die Berg Komt Er	s.t.
15	Allan Morales	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	s.t.
16	Tom Scully	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
17	Sondre Holst Enger	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	s.t.
18	Yoeri Havik	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	s.t.
19	David Kopp	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	s.t.
20	Mohamed Shawal Anuar Aziz	Evian-MIAT	s.t.
21	Daniel Hoelgaard	Team Privatbank	s.t.
22	Evaldas Siskevicius	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	s.t.
23	Federico Rocchetti	Evian-MIAT	s.t.
24	Eduard Vorganov	Team Privatbank	s.t.
25	Anatoliy Sosnitskiy	Team Privatbank	s.t.
26	Gil Suray	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	s.t.
27	Sergiu Cioban	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	s.t.
28	Glenn O'Shea	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
29	Christiaan Kriek	Team Gazelle	s.t.
30	Sergey Firsanov	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	s.t.
31	Vadim Shaekhov	Team Gazelle	s.t.
32	Roy Goldstein	Evian-MIAT	s.t.
33	Marios Athanasiades	Team Privatbank	s.t.
34	Damien Howson	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	s.t.
35	Bernardo Colex	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	s.t.
36	Øystein Stake Laengen	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	s.t.
37	Erdenebayar Daspuntsag	Team Gazelle	s.t.
38	Logan Hutchings	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	s.t.
39	Michael Olsson	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	s.t.
40	Michael Vink	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	s.t.
41	Stefan Petrovski	Die Berg Komt Er	s.t.
42	Kristof Goddaert	Team Gazelle	s.t.
43	Pablo Mudarra	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	s.t.
44	Alexis Gougeard	Evian-MIAT	s.t.
45	Maxime Daniel	Evian-MIAT	s.t.
46	Joon Yong Seo	Japanese - Korean Cycling Project	s.t.
47	Kévin Lalouette	Team Gazelle	s.t.
48	Timothy Gudsell	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	s.t.
49	Adam Phelan	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
50	Alex Meenhorst	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	s.t.
51	Rick Flens	Die Berg Komt Er	s.t.
52	Ahmad Haidar Anuawar	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
53	Sho Hatsuyama	Japanese - Korean Cycling Project	s.t.
54	Muhamad Adiq Othman	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
55	Sébastien Chavanel	Die Berg Komt Er	s.t.
56	Isaac Bolivar	Evian-MIAT	s.t.
57	Antoine Duchesne	Team Gazelle	s.t.
58	Simon Yates	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	s.t.
59	Libin Chen	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
60	Stefan Kung	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
61	Krister Hagen	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	s.t.
62	Anthony Delaplace	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	s.t.
63	Gyung Gu Jang	Japanese - Korean Cycling Project	s.t.
64	Greogry Hugentobler	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
65	Sam Harrison	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	s.t.
66	Kim Kirchen	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	s.t.
67	Christoph Taubel	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	s.t.
68	Tyron Giogieri	Die Berg Komt Er	s.t.
69	Sonomtseren Delgerbayar	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
70	Tom Jelte Slagter	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	s.t.
71	Miles Olman	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
72	Ken Sebastian Vassdål	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	s.t.
73	James Oram	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	s.t.
74	Andrii Bratashcuk	Die Berg Komt Er	s.t.
75	Giacomo Scarponi	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
76	Yves Lampaert	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	s.t.
77	Gabriel Chavanne	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
78	Oscar Freire	Control Team	s.t.
79	Angel Vicioso	Control Team	s.t.
80	Francisco Mancebo	Control Team	s.t.
81	Iban Mayo	Control Team	s.t.
82	Haimar Zubeldia	Control Team	s.t.
83	Óscar Pereiro Sio	Control Team	s.t.
84	Sam Horgan	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	s.t.
85	Mikhail Kochetkov	Die Berg Komt Er	s.t.
86	Volodymyr Dzhus	Team Privatbank	s.t.
87	Volodymyr Gomenyuk	Team Privatbank	+ 2'37

GC

1	Federico Rocchetti	Evian-MIAT	6h11'32
2	Sergey Firsanov	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	+ 16
3	Eduard Vorganov	Team Privatbank	+ 26
4	Michael Olsson	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	+ 30
5	Tom Scully	Oz Cycling Project	+ 33
6	Glenn O'Shea	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
7	Adam Phelan	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
8	Sam Horgan	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	+ 34
9	Kim Kirchen	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	+ 42
10	Thiago Duarte Nardin	Team Gazelle	+ 43
11	Christiaan Kriek	Team Gazelle	s.t.
12	Kévin Lalouette	Team Gazelle	s.t.
13	Kristof Goddaert	Team Gazelle	s.t.
14	Antoine Duchesne	Team Gazelle	s.t.
15	Erdenebayar Daspuntsag	Team Gazelle	+ 45
16	Stefan Petrovski	Die Berg Komt Er	s.t.
17	Krister Hagen	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	s.t.
18	Michael Torckler	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	+ 46
19	Michael Vink	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	s.t.
20	Evaldas Siskevicius	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	+ 47
21	Alexander Porsev	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	s.t.
22	Sergiu Cioban	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	s.t.
23	Mike Friedman	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	s.t.
24	Vadim Shaekhov	Team Gazelle	s.t.
25	Logan Hutchings	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	s.t.
26	Øystein Stake Laengen	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	s.t.
27	Pablo Mudarra	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	+ 48
28	David Kopp	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	s.t.
29	Bernardo Colex	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	s.t.
30	Simon Yates	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	s.t.
31	Sondre Holst Enger	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	+ 49
32	Marios Athanasiades	Team Privatbank	s.t.
33	Anatoliy Sosnitskiy	Team Privatbank	s.t.
34	Volodymyr Dzhus	Team Privatbank	s.t.
35	Sam Harrison	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	+ 50
36	Daniel Hoelgaard	Team Privatbank	+ 51
37	Mohamed Shawal Anuar Aziz	Evian-MIAT	+ 55
38	Adrien Petit	Evian-MIAT	s.t.
39	Gil Suray	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	s.t.
40	Isaac Bolivar	Evian-MIAT	s.t.
41	Roy Goldstein	Evian-MIAT	s.t.
42	Yves Lampaert	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	s.t.
43	Anthony Delaplace	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	s.t.
44	Maxime Daniel	Evian-MIAT	+ 57
45	Alexis Gougeard	Evian-MIAT	+ 59
46	Muhamad Adiq Othman	Sauber Petronas Racing	+ 1'00
47	Iban Mayo	Control Team	+ 1'59
48	Anthony Giacoppo	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	+ 2'06
49	Mikhail Kochetkov	Die Berg Komt Er	+ 2'10
50	Tyron Giogieri	Die Berg Komt Er	+ 2'16
51	Andrii Bratashcuk	Die Berg Komt Er	s.t.
52	Rick Flens	Die Berg Komt Er	+ 2'18
53	Timothy Gudsell	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	+ 2'21
54	James Oram	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	s.t.
55	Allan Morales	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	+ 2'23
56	Alex Meenhorst	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	+ 2'24
57	Tom Jelte Slagter	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	+ 2'25
58	Greogry Hugentobler	Sauber Petronas Racing	+ 2'29
59	Yoeri Havik	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	+ 2'30
60	Christoph Taubel	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	s.t.
61	Stefan Kung	Sauber Petronas Racing	+ 2'37
62	Gabriel Chavanne	Sauber Petronas Racing	+ 2'40
63	Sonomtseren Delgerbayar	Oz Cycling Project	+ 2'51
64	Sébastien Chavanel	Die Berg Komt Er	+ 2'59
65	Ken Sebastian Vassdål	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	+ 3'03
66	Ahmad Haidar Anuawar	Sauber Petronas Racing	+ 3'18
67	Giacomo Scarponi	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
68	Angel Vicioso	Control Team	+ 3'34
69	Haimar Zubeldia	Control Team	s.t.
70	Oscar Freire	Control Team	s.t.
71	Francisco Mancebo	Control Team	s.t.
72	Óscar Pereiro Sio	Control Team	+ 3'37
73	Chan Jae Jang	Japanese - Korean Cycling Project	+ 6'02
74	Joon Yong Seo	Japanese - Korean Cycling Project	s.t.
75	Gyung Gu Jang	Japanese - Korean Cycling Project	s.t.
76	Sho Hatsuyama	Japanese - Korean Cycling Project	+ 7'37
77	Miles Olman	Oz Cycling Project	+ 7'49
78	Libin Chen	Oz Cycling Project	+ 9'16
79	Damien Howson	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	+ 10'01
80	Volodymyr Gomenyuk	Team Privatbank	+ 15'48
81	Roman Maksimov	Team Privatbank	+ 22'51
82	Damion Drapac	Oz Cycling Project	+ 22'59
83	Jíri Hochmann	Die Berg Komt Er	+ 23'11
84	Marco Guillén	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	s.t.
85	Mattia Gavazzi	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	s.t.
86	Daniel Thorsen	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	s.t.
87	Azizulhasni Awang	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.

P:

1	Federico Rocchetti	Evian-MIAT	25
2	Roman Maksimov	Team Privatbank	25
3	Anthony Giacoppo	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	22
4	Sergey Firsanov	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	20
5	Damion Drapac	Oz Cycling Project	20
6	Eduard Vorganov	Team Privatbank	16
7	Kim Kirchen	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	14
8	Michael Torckler	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	14
9	Marco Guillén	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	14
10	Michael Olsson	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	12
KoM:
1	Greogry Hugentobler	Sauber Petronas Racing	10
2	Federico Rocchetti	Evian-MIAT	6
3	Sergey Firsanov	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	4
4	Ken Sebastian Vassdål	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	4
5	Mikhail Kochetkov	Die Berg Komt Er	3
6	Eduard Vorganov	Team Privatbank	2
7	Sam Horgan	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	1

U25:

1	Tom Scully	Oz Cycling Project	6h12'05 (1)
2	Glenn O'Shea	Oz Cycling Project	+ 0 (2)
3	Adam Phelan	Oz Cycling Project	+ 0 (3)
4	Thiago Duarte Nardin	Team Gazelle	+ 10 (4)
5	Christiaan Kriek	Team Gazelle	+ 10 (5)
6	Antoine Duchesne	Team Gazelle	+ 10 (6)
7	Erdenebayar Daspuntsag	Team Gazelle	+ 12 (7)
8	Stefan Petrovski	Die Berg Komt Er	+ 12 (8)
9	Krister Hagen	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	+ 12 (9)
10	Michael Vink	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	+ 13 (10)

Team:

1	Evian-MIAT	18h14'12 (1)
2	Banco Nacional de Costa Rica	+ 4 (2)
3	Risa - Ergon Cycling Team	+ 11 (3)
4	Oz Cycling Project	+ 13 (4)
5	Team Privatbank	+ 14 (5)
6	Allianz-BMW Cycling Team	+ 21 (6)
7	Team Gazelle	+ 23 (7)
8	Team Cadbury - Schweppes	+ 27 (8)
9	Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team	+ 28 (9)
10	Die Berg Komt Er	+ 3'32 (10)
11	Sauber Petronas Racing	+ 3'51 (11)
12	Control Team	+ 4'50 (12)
13	Japanese - Korean Cycling Project	+ 5'42 (13)