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Last Updated: Jun 21st, 2008 - 09:04:37 |
First year Daniel Martin is an excellent second overall in the Route du Sud stage race in France, the 21 year old jumping up to this position after a very strong performance in today’s mountain time trial to Cauterets Cambasque.
Martin, who turned professional at the start of the season for the Slipstream Chipotle team, was sixth on the 16.9 kilometre stage. He finished one minute and 39 seconds behind the day’s winner Noan Lelarge (Bretagne - Armor Lux) and just over ten seconds off the time of fifth-placed Stefano Garzelli, the former Giro d’Italia victor.
Crucially, as Martin had placed an impressive fifth on yesterday’s opening leg to Boulogne sur Gesse, he is right to the fore in the general classification.
He will start tomorrow’s third stage just seventeen seconds behind Lelarge and is expected to receive the full backing of the Slipstream team in their attempt to win the race. He was the only one of their riders to make it into yesterday’s decisive breakaway, which saw that group finish over half an hour clear of the peloton.
Martin has made a hugely encouraging debut as a professional rider, with his results this year including sixth in Route Adélie plus fifth on a stage and eighth overall in the GP Internacional CTT Correios de Portugal. Normally it takes a neo-pro a season or two to settle in, but he has wasted no time in stepping up to the new level.
The 2.1-ranked Route du Sud continues tomorrow with a 180.6 kilometre leg to Luchon Superbagneres. It concludes on Sunday.
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Route du Sud (2.1), France, June 19-22:
Stage 1 - June 19: Lusignan Petit - Boulogne Sur Gesse:
1, Simon Gerrans (Crédit Agricole) 206 kilometres in 4 hours 52 mins 5 secs
2, Hubert Dupont (AG2R La Mondiale) at 1 sec
3, Nicolas Hartmann (Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone) at 12 secs
4, Pasquale Muto (Miche – Silvercross) at 20 secs
5, Daniel Martin (Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30)
6, Luca Pierfelici (Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo) both same time
Stage 2 - June 20: Pierrefitte Nestalas - Cauterets Cambasque (ITT):
1, Noan Lelarge (Bretagne - Armor Lux) 16.9 kilometres in 36 mins 5.56 secs (28.029 km/h)
2, Przemyslaw Niemec (Miche – Silvercross) at 25.94 secs
3, Christophe Moreau (Agritubel) at 1 min 4.45 secs
4, Rein Taaramae (Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone) at 1 min 4.74 secs
5, Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo) at 1 min 28.95 secs
6, Daniel Martin (Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30) at 1 min 39.26 secs
Teams:
1, Miche - Silver Cross, 1 hour 54 mins 43 secs
2, Bretagne Armor Lux, at 4 secs
3, Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone, at 31 secs
Other:
4, Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30, at 33 secs
General classification after stage 2:
1, Noan Lelarge (Bretagne - Armor Lux) 5 hours 29 mins 51 secs
2, Daniel Martin (Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30) at 17 secs
3, Christophe Moreau (Agritubel) at 1 min 1 sec
4, Hubert Dupont (AG2R La Mondiale) at 1 min 9 secs
5, Pasquale Muto (Miche – Silvercross) at 1 min 10 secs
6, Simon Gerrans (Crédit Agricole) at 1 min 18 secs
Points classification:
1, Noan Lelarge (Bretagne - Armor Lux) 22 pts
2, Daniel Martin (Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30) 21
3, Simon Gerrans (Crédit Agricole) 20
Mountains classification:
1, Noan Lelarge (Bretagne - Armor Lux) 13 pts
2, Przemyslaw Niemec (Miche – Silvercross) 8
3, Christophe Moreau (Agritubel) 6
Sprints classification:
1, Simon Gerrans (Crédit Agricole) 18 pts
2, Christophe Moreau (Agritubel) 6
3, Nicolas Hartmann (Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone) 3
Other:
4, Daniel Martin (Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30) 1
Teams classification:
1, Ag2R La Mondiale. 15 hours 14 mins 14 secs
2, Roubaix Lille Metropole, at 33 secs
3, Acqua Sapone-Caffe Mokambo, at 36 secs
Other:
7, Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30, at 37 mins 14 secs
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