Sunday, May 27, 2012 Bayern-Rundfahrt: Michael Rogers takes the race as Alessandro Petacchi wins his third stage by Ben Atkins at 4:08 PM EST

Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results Australian takes his first stage race in two years as Team Sky controls the final day A sprint finish at the end of the fifth and final stage of the Bayern-Rundfahrt, between Feuchtwangen and Bamberg, meant that race leader Michael Rogers (Team Sky) was able to secure the overall victory. The 167km stage was taken by Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-ISD), with his third victory in the race; the Italian had also taken stages one and three and, with Rogers winning two and four, nobody else got a look in as they alternated victories.



Second behind Petacchi - as he had been on stage one - was Australian Allan Davis (Orica-GreenEdge), ahead of André Schulze (Team NetApp), but the day belonged to Rogers.



“It was a relatively calm stage,” said the Australian afterwards. “Three guys went away pretty early and the boys did their usual thing to work to pull it back for a bunch sprint. It’s great to get the wins here. I haven’t won a field race like on Thursday since 2006. That was a relief but wherever you win it’s always nice.”



Victory in the race is Rogers’ first since winning the 2010 Tour of California, almost exactly two years to the day before.



“I don’t feel like I’m at my peak yet,” he explained. “I’ve pretty much come straight off a heavy training camp with a few days’ rest. It’s quite exciting times if we can achieve results like this coming off the back of quite an intense camp. I think that’s a sign of the team’s strength. I’m looking forward to hopefully seeing more of Team Sky riding on the front.



“Having been professional for 12 years I’ve been part of some big and successful teams but it’s really nice when everyone’s riding well across the board. It means the morale of the team snowballs. Everyone is performing well and laughing and smiling. The further I go in cycling I realise that these are the moments that you really treasure.”



The day’s three fugitives were Karsten Kroon (Saxo-Bank), Cedric Pineau (FDJ-Big Mat) and Maximilian Werda (Thüringer Energie). Although they managed to open a lead of up to five minutes over the field, Team Sky kept them under control and was happy to let them swallow up the bonus seconds, and keep them from Rogers’ rivals.



Finally, the time came to bring them back however and, with 20km to go, the sprinters’ teams came forward to help Team Sky. Werda was the first to surrender, with just seven kilometres to go, with the other two following shortly afterwards. As he had been twice before in the race, Petacchi was the fastest man on the line.





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Subscribe via RSS or daily email Contact the editor about this article Bayern Rundfarht (2.HC) Stage 5 Results: Feuchtwangen to Bamberg, 164.9 km: Click on the arrows at the top of the column to sort the race results. Country Result Name Team Time ITA 1 Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre - ISD) 03:48:06 AUS 2 Allan Davis (Orica - GreenEDGE) s.t. GER 3 Andre Schulze (Team NetApp) s.t. TUN 4 Rafaa Chtioui (Europcar) s.t. AUS 5 Baden Cooke (Orica - GreenEDGE) s.t. GER 6 John Degenkolb (Argos-Shimano) s.t. ESP 7 Koldo Fernández De Larrea (Garmin - Barracuda) s.t. FRA 8 Tony Gallopin (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. BEL 9 Sven Vandousselaere (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. GER 10 Rüdiger Selig (Katusha Team) s.t. POL 11 Jaroslaw Marycz (Team Saxo Bank) s.t. FRA 12 Stéphane Poulhies (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. BEL 13 Sven Jodts (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. GER 14 Alexander Krieger (Team Heizomat) s.t. SLO 15 Blaz Jarc (Team NetApp) s.t. GER 16 Christian Knees (Sky Procycling) s.t. ESP 17 Ruben Perez Moreno (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t. GER 18 Ralf Matzka (Thuringer Energie Team) s.t. GER 19 Bjorn Thurau (Europcar) s.t. BLR 20 Yauheni Hutarovich (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) s.t. FRA 21 David Boucher (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) s.t. UKR 22 Yaroslav Popovych (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. GER 23 Tino Thomel (Team NSP - Ghost) s.t. AUS 24 David Tanner (Team Saxo Bank) s.t. RUS 25 Vladimir Gusev (Katusha Team) s.t. ITA 26 Davide Malacarne (Europcar) s.t. FRA 27 Jérome Coppel (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. GER 28 Stefan Ganser (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) s.t. BLR 29 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Sky Procycling) s.t. GER 30 Michael Schwarzmann (Team NetApp) s.t. FRA 31 Jérémy Roy (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) s.t. GER 32 Christian Mager (Team Heizomat) s.t. ESP 33 Ricardo Garcia Ambroa (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t. FRA 34 Guillaume Levarlet (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. GBR 35 David Millar (Garmin - Barracuda) s.t. AUS 36 Richie Porte (Sky Procycling) s.t. GER 37 Johannes Frohlinger (Argos-Shimano) s.t. AUS 38 Michael Rogers (Sky Procycling) s.t. ESP 39 Benjamin Gonzalez Noval (Team Saxo Bank) s.t. GER 40 Patrick Gretsch (Argos-Shimano) s.t. BEL 41 Gijs Van Hoecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. NED 42 Joost Posthuma (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. FRA 43 Anthony Delaplace (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. FRA 44 Alexandre Pichot (Europcar) s.t. BEL 45 Johan Vansummeren (Garmin - Barracuda) s.t. ESP 46 Alan Lezaun Perez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t. ESP 47 Mikel Landa Meana (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t. GER 48 Andreas Stauff (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) s.t. SWE 49 Thomas Löfkvist (Sky Procycling) s.t. ESP 50 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t. DEN 51 Troels Ronning Vinther (Team Saxo Bank) s.t. GER 52 Jasha Sütterlin (Thuringer Energie Team) s.t. FRA 53 Yuriy Krivtsov (Lampre - ISD) s.t. ESP 54 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. LUX 55 Laurent Didier (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. GER 56 Jakob Steigmiller (Thuringer Energie Team) s.t. FRA 57 David Lelay (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. ITA 58 Giampaolo Caruso (Katusha Team) s.t. CZE 59 Leopold Konig (Team NetApp) s.t. FRA 60 Paul Poux (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. BEL 61 Tim Declercq (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. RUS 62 Vladimir Isaychev (Katusha Team) s.t. GER 63 Robert Retschke (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) s.t. NED 64 Thomas Dekker (Garmin - Barracuda) s.t. BEL 65 Sander Armee (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. AUT 66 Marco Haller (Katusha Team) s.t. FRA 67 Matthieu Sprick (Argos-Shimano) s.t. BEL 68 Arthur Vanoverberghe (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. ESP 69 Pello Bilbao Lopez De Armienta (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t. DEN 70 Christopher Juul-jensen (Team Saxo Bank) s.t. GER 71 Andreas Klier (Garmin - Barracuda) s.t. GER 72 Alexander Nordhoff (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) s.t. GER 73 Raphael Freienstein (Team Heizomat) s.t. GER 74 Fabian Wegmann (Garmin - Barracuda) s.t. FRA 75 Christophe Kern (Europcar) s.t. BEL 76 Preben Van Hecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. GER 77 Fabian Thiel (Thuringer Energie Team) s.t. FRA 78 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. ESP 79 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) s.t. FRA 80 Thierry Hupond (Argos-Shimano) s.t. FRA 81 Cédric Pineau (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) s.t. FRA 82 Thibaut Pinot (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) s.t. FRA 83 Christophe Le Mevel (Garmin - Barracuda) s.t. ITA 84 Davide Vigano (Lampre - ISD) s.t. FRA 85 Anthony Charteau (Europcar) 00:00:23 GER 86 Steffen Radochla (Team NSP - Ghost) s.t. GER 87 Holger Burkhardt (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) s.t. GER 88 Danilo Hondo (Lampre - ISD) s.t. ITA 89 Manuele Mori (Lampre - ISD) s.t. NED 90 Karsten Kroon (Team Saxo Bank) 00:00:29 NED 91 Jens Mouris (Orica - GreenEDGE) s.t. FRA 92 Thomas Bonnin (Argos-Shimano) 00:00:35 BEL 93 Jerome Baugnies (Team NetApp) 00:00:39 RUS 94 Alexander Porsev (Katusha Team) 00:00:56 SLO 95 Grega Bole (Lampre - ISD) 00:01:03 GER 96 Dirk Muller (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:01:08 FRA 97 Kenny Elissonde (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) s.t. FRA 98 Anthony Roux (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:01:11 GER 99 Michael Kurth (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) s.t. GER 100 Daniel Westmattelman (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) s.t. GER 101 Alex Schmitt (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) s.t. GER 102 Fabian Bruno (Team Heizomat) s.t. GER 103 Marius Jessenberger (Team Heizomat) s.t. ISR 104 Ran Margaliot (Team Saxo Bank) s.t. FRA 105 Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) 00:01:18 GER 106 Michael Schweizer (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:01:25 NZL 107 Sam Bewley (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:01:35 AUS 108 Stuart O' Grady (Orica - GreenEDGE) s.t. GER 109 Jacob Fiedler (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:01:48 ITA 110 Davide Cimolai (Lampre - ISD) s.t. NED 111 Sebastian Langeveld (Orica - GreenEDGE) s.t. GER 112 Maximilian Werda (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:04:14 GER 113 Markus Eichler (Team NetApp) 00:06:21 NED 114 Rene Hooghiemster (Team NSP - Ghost) s.t. GER 115 Bastian Bürgel (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:06:34 GER 116 Dominik Klemme (Argos-Shimano) s.t. GER 117 Markus Fothen (Team NSP - Ghost) s.t. GER 118 Jonas Schmeiser (Team NSP - Ghost) s.t. USA 119 Danny Pate (Sky Procycling) s.t. SUI 120 Michael Albasini (Orica - GreenEDGE) s.t. GER 121 Benjamin Dietrich (Thuringer Energie Team) s.t. GER 122 Sebastian Körber (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) s.t. GER 123 Florian Frank Monreal (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) s.t. GER 124 Jannick Geisler (Team Heizomat) s.t. GER 125 Andre Benoit (Team Heizomat) s.t. ESP 126 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Sky Procycling) s.t. SUI DNF Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack - Nissan) GER DNF Rene Obst (Team NSP - Ghost) Final general classification: Country Result Name Team Time AUS 1 Michael Rogers (Sky Procycling) 19:26:20 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 SWE 15 Thomas Löfkvist (Sky Procycling) 00:01:56 FRA 16 Anthony Delaplace (Saur - Sojasun) 00:02:00 LUX 17 Laurent Didier (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:02:05 CZE 18 Leopold Konig (Team NetApp) s.t. GER 19 John Degenkolb (Argos-Shimano) 00:02:07 FRA 20 Paul Poux (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. TUN 21 Rafaa Chtioui (Europcar) 00:02:11 FRA 22 Christophe Kern (Europcar) 00:02:12 DEN 23 Christopher Juul-jensen (Team Saxo Bank) 00:02:13 UKR 24 Yaroslav Popovych (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:02:18 FRA 25 David Lelay (Saur - Sojasun) 00:02:22 AUS 26 Allan Davis (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:02:23 ESP 27 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:02:25 GER 28 Jakob Steigmiller (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:02:26 BEL 29 Gijs Van Hoecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:02:31 BEL 30 Tim Declercq (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:02:34 BEL 31 Sander Armee (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:02:37 SLO 32 Blaz Jarc (Team NetApp) 00:02:41 ESP 33 Benjamin Gonzalez Noval (Team Saxo Bank) 00:02:44 ESP 34 Ricardo Garcia Ambroa (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:02:49 AUS 35 David Tanner (Team Saxo Bank) 00:02:51 FRA 36 Anthony Charteau (Europcar) 00:02:55 FRA 37 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Saur - Sojasun) 00:03:01 FRA 38 Cédric Pineau (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:03:05 GER 39 Danilo Hondo (Lampre - ISD) 00:03:11 FRA 40 Alexandre Pichot (Europcar) 00:03:13 FRA 41 Christophe Le Mevel (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:03:19 ITA 42 Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre - ISD) 00:03:21 ITA 43 Davide Malacarne (Europcar) 00:03:25 ESP 44 Alan Lezaun Perez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:03:27 BEL 45 Preben Van Hecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:03:32 GER 46 Johannes Frohlinger (Argos-Shimano) 00:03:34 ITA 47 Giampaolo Caruso (Katusha Team) 00:03:42 BEL 48 Johan Vansummeren (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:03:44 GER 49 Michael Schwarzmann (Team NetApp) 00:03:45 ITA 50 Manuele Mori (Lampre - ISD) 00:03:46 FRA 51 Guillaume Levarlet (Saur - Sojasun) 00:03:48 FRA 52 Thierry Hupond (Argos-Shimano) s.t. ESP 53 Pello Bilbao Lopez De Armienta (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:03:54 FRA 54 Kenny Elissonde (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:04:14 ESP 55 Mikel Landa Meana (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:04:28 NED 56 Sebastian Langeveld (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:04:31 GER 57 Alexander Krieger (Team Heizomat) 00:04:32 AUT 58 Marco Haller (Katusha Team) 00:05:05 SLO 59 Grega Bole (Lampre - ISD) 00:05:23 NED 60 Karsten Kroon (Team Saxo Bank) 00:05:28 FRA 61 Thibaut Pinot (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:06:09 ITA 62 Davide Vigano (Lampre - ISD) 00:06:18 BEL 63 Jerome Baugnies (Team NetApp) 00:06:41 GER 64 Fabian Wegmann (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:07:13 GER 65 Bjorn Thurau (Europcar) 00:07:31 SUI 66 Michael Albasini (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:08:26 FRA 67 Yuriy Krivtsov (Lampre - ISD) 00:08:42 GER 68 Fabian Thiel (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:08:48 NED 69 Jens Mouris (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:08:59 FRA 70 Anthony Roux (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:09:11 GER 71 Markus Fothen (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:09:18 ESP 72 Ruben Perez Moreno (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:09:24 DEN 73 Troels Ronning Vinther (Team Saxo Bank) 00:09:35 ESP 74 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Sky Procycling) 00:09:36 GER 75 Ralf Matzka (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:09:40 GER 76 Raphael Freienstein (Team Heizomat) 00:09:43 BEL 77 Sven Vandousselaere (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:09:47 BEL 78 Arthur Vanoverberghe (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:09:58 GER 79 Andreas Klier (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:10:08 FRA 80 Stéphane Poulhies (Saur - Sojasun) 00:10:23 BLR 81 Yauheni Hutarovich (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:10:50 RUS 82 Vladimir Isaychev (Katusha Team) 00:11:06 GER 83 Rüdiger Selig (Katusha Team) 00:11:07 ITA 84 Davide Cimolai (Lampre - ISD) 00:11:11 GER 85 Christian Mager (Team Heizomat) 00:11:23 NZL 86 Sam Bewley (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:11:28 GER 87 Stefan Ganser (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:11:44 FRA 88 Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) 00:12:08 AUS 89 Baden Cooke (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:12:18 GER 90 Alexander Nordhoff (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:12:33 ESP 91 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 00:12:34 GER 92 Dirk Muller (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:12:42 GER 93 Jasha Sütterlin (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:12:53 ESP 94 Koldo Fernández De Larrea (Garmin - Barracuda) 00:13:33 RUS 95 Alexander Porsev (Katusha Team) 00:13:40 BEL 96 Sven Jodts (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:13:55 GER 97 Steffen Radochla (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:14:25 FRA 98 Matthieu Sprick (Argos-Shimano) 00:14:26 GER 99 Jacob Fiedler (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:15:12 GER 100 Robert Retschke (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:15:40 GER 101 Andreas Stauff (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:15:54 GER 102 Daniel Westmattelman (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:16:05 AUS 103 Stuart O' Grady (Orica - GreenEDGE) 00:16:47 FRA 104 David Boucher (Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat) 00:16:58 GER 105 Marius Jessenberger (Team Heizomat) 00:17:16 USA 106 Danny Pate (Sky Procycling) 00:17:53 GER 107 Maximilian Werda (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:20:09 GER 108 Holger Burkhardt (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) s.t. GER 109 Markus Eichler (Team NetApp) 00:20:29 GER 110 Bastian Bürgel (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:21:35 GER 111 Alex Schmitt (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:23:24 GER 112 Tino Thomel (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:23:27 FRA 113 Thomas Bonnin (Argos-Shimano) 00:24:10 GER 114 Michael Schweizer (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:24:31 GER 115 Dominik Klemme (Argos-Shimano) 00:24:35 GER 116 Andre Schulze (Team NetApp) 00:25:14 GER 117 Michael Kurth (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:25:39 NED 118 Rene Hooghiemster (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:25:51 GER 119 Jonas Schmeiser (Team NSP - Ghost) 00:26:38 GER 120 Fabian Bruno (Team Heizomat) 00:27:30 GER 121 Jannick Geisler (Team Heizomat) 00:27:40 ISR 122 Ran Margaliot (Team Saxo Bank) 00:28:11 GER 123 Benjamin Dietrich (Thuringer Energie Team) 00:31:24 GER 124 Andre Benoit (Team Heizomat) 00:32:36 GER 125 Sebastian Körber (Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse) 00:34:21 GER 126 Florian Frank Monreal (Eddy Merckx - Indeland ) 00:42:46

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