Saturday, May 26, 2012 Bayern-Rundfahrt: Michael Rogers consolidates lead with TT victory by Ben Atkins at 3:08 PM EST

Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results Former three-time World champion shows his class against the clock Michael Rogers (Team Sky) extended his overall lead in the Bayern-Rundfahrt with a powerful display in the stage four time trial in Feuchtwangen. The former three-time World time trial champion completed the rolling 26.4km course in a time of 31’14”, four seconds faster than compatriot and Sky teammate Richie Porte, and 16 seconds ahead of Jérôme Coppel (Saur-Sojasun).



The Australian, who had taken the race lead after his breakaway victory in the second stage, started last and, with Porte’s time to aim at, took his second win in the race.



“I was really happy with my performance and I was able to get out a good time trial and hold onto the lead,” said Rogers afterwards. “I was a little bit more motivated with the yellow on the back. That always brings the best out and I’m really happy.



“Richie had a really good ride. Luckily I was able to just duck under him there by a few seconds. The whole team did well really with Kosta [Siutsou] fifth and Christian [Knees] seventh.”



Rogers extended his overall lead, with Coppel jumping to second overall, 25 seconds back, with Vladimir Gusev (Katusha) slipping to third.



“Obviously we’re going to be aiming for it to end in a bunch sprint tomorrow,” Rogers explained. “First and foremost we have to keep it together. We haven’t got any sprinters here so our goal is solely to maintain the jersey.



“The sprinters can do their thing and we can just duck and weave hopefully.”





Follow @Pro_Cycling

Tweet



Subscribe via RSS or daily email Contact the editor about this article Bayern Rundfarht (2.HC) Stage 4 Results: Feuchtwangen to Feuchtwangen TT, 26.4km: Click on the arrows at the top of the column to sort the race results. Country Result Name Team Time AUS 1 Michael Rogers (Sky Procycling) 00:31:14 AUS 2 Richie Porte (Sky Procycling) 00:00:05 FRA 3 Jérome Coppel (Saur - Sojasun) 00:00:16 RUS 4 Vladimir Gusev (Katusha Team) 00:00:25 BLR 5 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Sky Procycling) 00:00:35 FRA 6 Tony Gallopin (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:00:37 GER 7 Christian Knees (Sky Procycling) 00:00:41 NED 8 Joost Posthuma (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:00:46 NED 9 Jens Mouris (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:00:50 FRA 10 Jérémy Roy (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:00:54 GER 11 Patrick Gretsch (Argos-Shimano) 00:01:02 GBR 12 David Millar (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:01:06 NED 13 Thomas Dekker (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:01:09 SUI 14 Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:01:16 POL 15 Jaroslaw Marycz (Team Saxo Bank) s.t. SUI 16 Michael Albasini (Orica - GreenEDGE) s.t. ESP 17 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:01:20 SWE 18 Thomas Löfkvist (Sky Procycling) s.t. FRA 19 Anthony Delaplace (Saur - Sojasun) 00:01:24 FRA 20 Anthony Roux (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:01:26 LUX 21 Laurent Didier (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:01:29 CZE 22 Leopold Konig (Team NetApp) s.t. FRA 23 Paul Poux (Saur - Sojasun) 00:01:31 RUS 24 Vladimir Isaychev (Katusha Team) 00:01:34 GER 25 John Degenkolb (Argos-Shimano) 00:01:35 TUN 26 Rafaa Chtioui (Europcar) s.t. FRA 27 Christophe Kern (Europcar) 00:01:36 DEN 28 Christopher Juul-jensen (Team Saxo Bank) 00:01:37 UKR 29 Yaroslav Popovych (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:01:42 FRA 30 David Boucher (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:01:46 FRA 31 David Lelay (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. USA 32 Danny Pate (Sky Procycling) 00:01:47 ESP 33 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:01:49 GER 34 Jakob Steigmiller (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:01:50 BEL 35 Gijs Van Hoecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:01:55 FRA 36 Anthony Charteau (Europcar) 00:01:56 BEL 37 Tim Declercq (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:01:58 AUS 38 Allan Davis (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:01:59 FRA 39 Matthieu Sprick (Argos-Shimano) 00:02:00 BEL 40 Sander Armee (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:02:01 SLO 41 Blaz Jarc (Team NetApp) 00:02:05 NED 42 Sebastian Langeveld (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:02:07 FRA 43 Yuriy Krivtsov (Lampre - ISD) 00:02:08 ESP 44 Benjamin Gonzalez Noval (Team Saxo Bank) s.t. AUS 45 Stuart O' Grady (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:02:09 GER 46 Bjorn Thurau (Europcar) s.t. GER 47 Markus Fothen (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:02:11 GER 48 Jasha Sütterlin (Thuringer Energie Team) s.t. GER 49 Danilo Hondo (Lampre - ISD) 00:02:12 ESP 50 Ricardo Garcia Ambroa (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:02:13 GER 51 Fabian Thiel (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:02:14 AUS 52 David Tanner (Team Saxo Bank) 00:02:15 FRA 53 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Saur - Sojasun) 00:02:25 ESP 54 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Sky Procycling) 00:02:26 BEL 55 Jerome Baugnies (Team NetApp) 00:02:28 FRA 56 Kenny Elissonde (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:02:30 FRA 57 Cédric Pineau (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:02:34 FRA 58 Alexandre Pichot (Europcar) 00:02:37 GER 59 Alexander Nordhoff (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:02:42 FRA 60 Christophe Le Mevel (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:02:43 DEN 61 Troels Ronning Vinther (Team Saxo Bank) 00:02:44 NZL 62 Sam Bewley (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:02:45 ITA 63 Manuele Mori (Lampre - ISD) 00:02:47 ITA 64 Davide Malacarne (Europcar) 00:02:49 ESP 65 Ruben Perez Moreno (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:02:50 ESP 66 Alan Lezaun Perez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:02:51 BEL 67 Preben Van Hecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:02:56 GER 68 Johannes Frohlinger (Argos-Shimano) 00:02:58 FRA 69 Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) 00:03:05 ITA 70 Giampaolo Caruso (Katusha Team) 00:03:06 FRA 71 Thibaut Pinot (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) s.t. ESP 72 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t. GER 73 Ralf Matzka (Thuringer Energie Team) s.t. BEL 74 Johan Vansummeren (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:03:08 GER 75 Raphael Freienstein (Team Heizomat) 00:03:09 GER 76 Michael Schwarzmann (Team NetApp) 00:03:11 FRA 77 Guillaume Levarlet (Saur - Sojasun) 00:03:12 FRA 78 Thierry Hupond (Argos-Shimano) s.t. BEL 79 Sven Vandousselaere (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:03:13 ESP 80 Koldo Fernández De Larrea (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:03:14 ITA 81 Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre - ISD) 00:03:15 GER 82 Fabian Wegmann (Garmin - Barracuda) s.t. RUS 83 Alexander Porsev (Katusha Team) 00:03:16 GER 84 Alex Schmitt (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:03:18 ESP 85 Pello Bilbao Lopez De Armienta (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t. GER 86 Marius Jessenberger (Team Heizomat) 00:03:20 BEL 87 Arthur Vanoverberghe (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:03:24 ITA 88 Davide Cimolai (Lampre - ISD) 00:03:28 GER 89 Maximilian Werda (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:03:34 GER 90 Andreas Klier (Garmin - Barracuda) s.t. NED 91 Karsten Kroon (Team Saxo Bank) 00:03:39 GER 92 Dirk Muller (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:03:44 SLO 93 Grega Bole (Lampre - ISD) s.t. FRA 94 Stéphane Poulhies (Saur - Sojasun) 00:03:49 ESP 95 Mikel Landa Meana (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:03:52 GER 96 Alexander Krieger (Team Heizomat) 00:03:56 GER 97 Jonas Schmeiser (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:04:07 BEL 98 Sven Jodts (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. GER 99 Michael Schweizer (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:04:08 GER 100 Daniel Westmattelman (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:04:15 GER 101 Rüdiger Selig (Katusha Team) 00:04:16 GER 102 Holger Burkhardt (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:04:18 NED 103 Rene Hooghiemster (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:04:21 GER 104 Markus Eichler (Team NetApp) 00:04:23 ITA 105 Davide Vigano (Lampre - ISD) 00:04:26 BLR 106 Yauheni Hutarovich (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) s.t. AUT 107 Marco Haller (Katusha Team) 00:04:29 GER 108 Tino Thomel (Team NSP - Ghost) s.t. GER 109 Fabian Bruno (Team Heizomat) 00:04:32 GER 110 Steffen Radochla (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:04:36 GER 111 Andre Benoit (Team Heizomat) 00:04:47 GER 112 Christian Mager (Team Heizomat) 00:04:53 GER 113 Dominik Klemme (Argos-Shimano) 00:04:58 GER 114 Rene Obst (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:05:00 ISR 115 Ran Margaliot (Team Saxo Bank) 00:05:04 GER 116 Benjamin Dietrich (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:05:09 GER 117 Jannick Geisler (Team Heizomat) s.t. GER 118 Stefan Ganser (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:05:10 GER 119 Jacob Fiedler (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:05:19 GER 120 Michael Kurth (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:05:30 GER 121 Bastian Bürgel (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:05:32 AUS 122 Baden Cooke (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:05:44 GER 123 Sebastian Körber (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:05:51 FRA 124 Thomas Bonnin (Argos-Shimano) 00:06:01 GER 125 Andre Schulze (Team NetApp) 00:06:10 GER 126 Robert Retschke (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:06:12 GER 127 Andreas Stauff (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:06:26 GER 128 Florian Frank Monreal (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:06:33 General classification after stage 3: Country Result Name Team Time AUS 1 Michael Rogers (Sky Procycling) 15:38:14 FRA 2 Jérome Coppel (Saur - Sojasun) 00:00:25 RUS 3 Vladimir Gusev (Katusha Team) 00:00:30 AUS 4 Richie Porte (Sky Procycling) 00:00:41 BLR 5 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Sky Procycling) 00:00:47 FRA 6 Tony Gallopin (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:01:13 GER 7 Christian Knees (Sky Procycling) 00:01:17 NED 8 Joost Posthuma (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:01:22 FRA 9 Jérémy Roy (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:01:30 ESP 10 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:01:33 GER 11 Patrick Gretsch (Argos-Shimano) 00:01:38 GBR 12 David Millar (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:01:42 NED 13 Thomas Dekker (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:01:45 POL 14 Jaroslaw Marycz (Team Saxo Bank) 00:01:52 SUI 15 Michael Albasini (Orica - GreenEDGE) s.t. SWE 16 Thomas Löfkvist (Sky Procycling) 00:01:56 FRA 17 Anthony Delaplace (Saur - Sojasun) 00:02:00 LUX 18 Laurent Didier (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:02:05 CZE 19 Leopold Konig (Team NetApp) s.t. GER 20 John Degenkolb (Argos-Shimano) 00:02:07 FRA 21 Paul Poux (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. TUN 22 Rafaa Chtioui (Europcar) 00:02:11 FRA 23 Christophe Kern (Europcar) 00:02:12 DEN 24 Christopher Juul-jensen (Team Saxo Bank) 00:02:13 UKR 25 Yaroslav Popovych (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:02:18 FRA 26 David Lelay (Saur - Sojasun) 00:02:22 ESP 27 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:02:25 GER 28 Jakob Steigmiller (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:02:26 AUS 29 Allan Davis (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:02:29 BEL 30 Gijs Van Hoecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:02:31 FRA 31 Anthony Charteau (Europcar) 00:02:32 BEL 32 Tim Declercq (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:02:34 BEL 33 Sander Armee (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:02:37 SLO 34 Blaz Jarc (Team NetApp) 00:02:41 NED 35 Sebastian Langeveld (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:02:43 GER 36 Markus Fothen (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:02:44 ESP 37 Benjamin Gonzalez Noval (Team Saxo Bank) s.t. GER 38 Danilo Hondo (Lampre - ISD) 00:02:48 ESP 39 Ricardo Garcia Ambroa (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:02:49 AUS 40 David Tanner (Team Saxo Bank) 00:02:51 FRA 41 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Saur - Sojasun) 00:03:01 ESP 42 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Sky Procycling) 00:03:02 FRA 43 Kenny Elissonde (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:03:06 FRA 44 Cédric Pineau (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:03:10 FRA 45 Alexandre Pichot (Europcar) 00:03:13 FRA 46 Christophe Le Mevel (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:03:19 ITA 47 Manuele Mori (Lampre - ISD) 00:03:23 ITA 48 Davide Malacarne (Europcar) 00:03:25 ESP 49 Alan Lezaun Perez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:03:27 ITA 50 Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre - ISD) 00:03:31 BEL 51 Preben Van Hecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:03:32 GER 52 Johannes Frohlinger (Argos-Shimano) 00:03:34 ITA 53 Giampaolo Caruso (Katusha Team) 00:03:42 BEL 54 Johan Vansummeren (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:03:44 GER 55 Michael Schwarzmann (Team NetApp) 00:03:45 FRA 56 Guillaume Levarlet (Saur - Sojasun) 00:03:48 FRA 57 Thierry Hupond (Argos-Shimano) s.t. ESP 58 Pello Bilbao Lopez De Armienta (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:03:54 SLO 59 Grega Bole (Lampre - ISD) 00:04:20 ESP 60 Mikel Landa Meana (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:04:28 GER 61 Alexander Krieger (Team Heizomat) 00:04:32 AUT 62 Marco Haller (Katusha Team) 00:05:05 NED 63 Karsten Kroon (Team Saxo Bank) 00:05:07 BEL 64 Jerome Baugnies (Team NetApp) 00:06:02 FRA 65 Thibaut Pinot (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:06:09 ITA 66 Davide Vigano (Lampre - ISD) 00:06:18 GER 67 Fabian Wegmann (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:07:13 GER 68 Bjorn Thurau (Europcar) 00:07:31 FRA 69 Anthony Roux (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:08:00 NED 70 Jens Mouris (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:08:30 FRA 71 Yuriy Krivtsov (Lampre - ISD) 00:08:42 GER 72 Fabian Thiel (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:08:48 ITA 73 Davide Cimolai (Lampre - ISD) 00:09:23 ESP 74 Ruben Perez Moreno (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:09:24 DEN 75 Troels Ronning Vinther (Team Saxo Bank) 00:09:35 GER 76 Ralf Matzka (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:09:40 GER 77 Raphael Freienstein (Team Heizomat) 00:09:43 BEL 78 Sven Vandousselaere (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:09:47 NZL 79 Sam Bewley (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:09:53 BEL 80 Arthur Vanoverberghe (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:09:58 GER 81 Andreas Klier (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:10:08 FRA 82 Stéphane Poulhies (Saur - Sojasun) 00:10:23 FRA 83 Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) 00:10:50 BLR 84 Yauheni Hutarovich (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) s.t. RUS 85 Vladimir Isaychev (Katusha Team) 00:11:06 GER 86 Rüdiger Selig (Katusha Team) 00:11:07 USA 87 Danny Pate (Sky Procycling) 00:11:19 GER 88 Christian Mager (Team Heizomat) 00:11:23 GER 89 Dirk Muller (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:11:34 GER 90 Stefan Ganser (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:11:44 SUI 91 Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:12:03 AUS 92 Baden Cooke (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:12:18 GER 93 Alexander Nordhoff (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:12:33 ESP 94 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:12:34 RUS 95 Alexander Porsev (Katusha Team) 00:12:44 GER 96 Jasha Sütterlin (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:12:53 GER 97 Jacob Fiedler (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:13:24 ESP 98 Koldo Fernández De Larrea (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:13:33 BEL 99 Sven Jodts (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:13:55 GER 100 Steffen Radochla (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:14:02 GER 101 Markus Eichler (Team NetApp) 00:14:08 FRA 102 Matthieu Sprick (Argos-Shimano) 00:14:26 GER 103 Daniel Westmattelman (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:14:54 GER 104 Bastian Bürgel (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:15:01 AUS 105 Stuart O' Grady (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:15:12 GER 106 Robert Retschke (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:15:40 GER 107 Andreas Stauff (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:15:54 GER 108 Maximilian Werda (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:16:00 GER 109 Marius Jessenberger (Team Heizomat) 00:16:05 FRA 110 David Boucher (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:16:58 GER 111 Dominik Klemme (Argos-Shimano) 00:18:01 NED 112 Rene Hooghiemster (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:19:30 GER 113 Holger Burkhardt (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:19:46 GER 114 Jonas Schmeiser (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:20:04 GER 115 Jannick Geisler (Team Heizomat) 00:21:06 GER 116 Alex Schmitt (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:22:13 GER 117 Michael Schweizer (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:23:06 GER 118 Tino Thomel (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:23:27 FRA 119 Thomas Bonnin (Argos-Shimano) 00:23:35 GER 120 Michael Kurth (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:24:28 GER 121 Benjamin Dietrich (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:24:50 GER 122 Andre Schulze (Team NetApp) 00:25:18 GER 123 Andre Benoit (Team Heizomat) 00:26:02 GER 124 Fabian Bruno (Team Heizomat) 00:26:19 ISR 125 Ran Margaliot (Team Saxo Bank) 00:27:00 GER 126 Sebastian Körber (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:27:47 GER 127 Rene Obst (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:30:12 GER 128 Florian Frank Monreal (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:36:12

Related Articles UCI instructs World Cycling Centre athletes not to consume meat in China and Mexico due to Clenbuterol risk UCI states it is studying food safety issue after Rogers’ and Breynes’ Clenbuterol positives Meares comments on Rogers’ Clenbuterol case, says riders need to take responsibility Rogers categorically denies ever knowingly taking Clenbuterol, is blaming Chinese food for positive Cycling Australia says it supports maximum penalty against Rogers if he’s found guilty in Clenbuterol case Tinkoff Saxo says that Rogers insists on innocence, says food likely source of Clenbuterol positive Michael Rogers provisionally suspended for Clenbuterol adverse analytical finding