Friday, June 1, 2012 Greipel triumphs yet again in Tour of Luxembourg by José Been at 1:21 PM EST

Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results, Tour de Luxembourg Kloeden caught in final kilometre, Engoulvent retains yellow jersey André Greipel repeated his performance of yesterday and scooped up another win in the Skoda Tour of Luxembourg. The Lotto-Belisol rider beat Ben Swift (Sky Procycling) by over a bike length, with Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto Belisol) third. French rider Jimmy Engoulvent, who won the prologue on Wednesday, keeps the yellow leader's jersey.



Gripel’s ride netted his fifth win in nine days and his eleventh of the season. "It may look simple to the people watching, but it's not," the German said after the finish. "The final was hard but in the end all went well."



The first hour of today's 183.9 kilometers long stage from Schifflange to Leudelange went at a very high pace. The peloton reached an average of almost 50 kilometers per hour as Radioshack kept the pressure on and let no one escape. Kim Andersen: "We are a Luxembourg team so this race is very important to us. Yesterday we tried to make the race tough with the wind but it didn't work out. We'll try again today," Radioshack's directeur sportif said before the start.



After an hour into the race two riders from smaller teams were allowed to break away. Kevin van Melsen from Accent Jobs-Willems Veranda's and Gediminas Kaupas of local team Differdange quickly gained a lead on the bunch who were tired after the fast first hour. The two had seven minutes before Radioshack, Team Sky and Lotto-Belisol started the chase.



In the last of the three local loops Van Melsen and Kaupas were caught. The sprinter teams kept everything together for a new bunch sprint. Before the final kilometer Andreas Klöden of Radioshack-Nissan-Trek attacked. "The only goal here is to win the yellow jersey on Sunday, everything else is a bonus. Last year we won with Gerdemann. I don't care who of the team will take the overall, as long as it is a Radioshack-Nissan-Trek rider'" Andersen said.



Klöden was caught in the final, 300 meters straight road to the finish. There it was Lotto-Belisol's André Greipel who triumphed ahead of Swift. His team-mate Jurgen Roelandts, who has only been back in competition for two weeks after a broken vertebra in the Tour Down Under, got a good third place.



Tomorrow the Tour of Luxembourg has its key stage from Eschweiler to Differdange, running over 205,4 kilometers. It has seven categorised climbs including the Col de l'Europe, a 7.6% climb which is included in the 9.5 kilometres long local circuit. Traditionally the overall classification will be determined in this stage.





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Subscribe via RSS or daily email Contact the editor about this article Skoda Tour of Luxembourg, Stage 2 Result: Schifflange to Leudelange, 183.9 km: Click on the arrows at the top of the column to sort the race results. Country Result Name Team Time GER 1 Andre Greipel (Lotto - Belisol Team) 04:29:20 GBR 2 Ben Swift (Sky Procycling) s.t. BEL 3 Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. FRA 4 Romain Feillu (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. LUX 5 Jean-pierre Drucker (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. BEL 6 Michael Van Staeyen (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. FRA 7 Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. NED 8 Roy Curvers (Argos-Shimano) s.t. BEL 9 Maxime Monfort (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. NED 10 Wout Poels (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. SUI 11 Martin Elmiger (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. BEL 12 Kevyn Ista (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. BEL 13 Eliot Lietaer (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. FRA 14 Vincent Jerome (Europcar) s.t. FRA 15 Alexandre Pichot (Europcar) s.t. NED 16 Koen De Kort (Argos-Shimano) s.t. NZL 17 Alex Meenhorst (Team Differdange) s.t. DEN 18 Jakob Fuglsang (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. BEL 19 Bjorn Leukemans (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. FRA 20 Jonathan Hivert (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. SUI 21 Gregory Rast (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. GER 22 Andréas Klöden (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. BEL 23 Kris Boeckmans (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. LUX 24 Frank Schleck (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. BEL 25 Kristof Goddaert (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. BEL 26 Steven Caethoven (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. ESP 27 Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. FRA 28 Saïd Haddou (Europcar) s.t. BEL 29 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. BEL 30 Laurens De Vreese (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. BEL 31 Gilles Devillers (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) s.t. BEL 32 Vincent Baestaens (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) s.t. LAT 33 Aleksejs Saramotins (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. CAN 34 David Veilleux (Europcar) s.t. SWE 35 Tobias Ludvigsson (Argos-Shimano) s.t. NED 36 Tom Dumoulin (Argos-Shimano) s.t. FRA 37 Yann Huguet (Argos-Shimano) s.t. BEL 38 Sebastien Delfosse (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) s.t. JPN 39 Yukiya Arashiro (Europcar) s.t. FRA 40 Jimmy Engoulvent (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. FRA 41 Yohann Gène (Europcar) s.t. NED 42 Dirk Bellemakers (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) s.t. ESP 43 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. FRA 44 Thomas Damuseau (Argos-Shimano) s.t. BEL 45 Steven Van Vooren (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. POR 46 Bruno Sandinha Saraiva (Team Differdange) s.t. FRA 47 Adrien Petit (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. NED 48 Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. FRA 49 Jeremie Galland (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. FRA 50 Arnaud Labbe (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. NED 51 Tom Stamsnijder (Argos-Shimano) s.t. FRA 52 Florent Barle (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. BEL 53 Jurgen Van Goolen (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. DEN 54 Brian Vandborg (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. BEL 55 Nico Sijmens (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. FRA 56 David Lelay (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. NED 57 Arnoud Van Groen (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. FRA 58 Jimmy Casper (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. ESP 59 Pablo Lechuga Rodriguez (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. LUX 60 Laurent Didier (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. FRA 61 Tristan Valentin (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. ESP 62 Eloy Ruiz Pinto (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. FRA 63 Yannick Talabardon (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. ITA 64 Davide Appollonio (Sky Procycling) s.t. AUS 65 Mathew Hayman (Sky Procycling) s.t. BEL 66 Johan Coenen (Team Differdange) s.t. GER 67 Jens Voigt (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. BEL 68 Preben Van Hecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. FRA 69 Romain Lemarchand (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. LUX 70 Ben Gastauer (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. RSA 71 Jaco Venter (Team Differdange) s.t. GER 72 Sascha Weber (Team Differdange) s.t. LUX 73 Bob Jungels (Leopard TREK) s.t. DEN 74 Martin Mortensen (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. BEL 75 Staf Scheirlinckx (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. LUX 76 Joel Zangerle (Leopard TREK) s.t. CAN 77 Michael Barry (Sky Procycling) s.t. ESP 78 Jesus Rosendo Prado (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. ITA 79 Salvatore Puccio (Sky Procycling) s.t. LUX 80 Christian Helmig () s.t. USA 81 Caleb Fairly (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. ESP 82 Jose Vicente Toribio (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. LUX 83 Alex Kirsch (Leopard TREK) s.t. AUS 84 Christopher Sutton (Sky Procycling) s.t. LUX 85 Tom Thill (Team Differdange) s.t. GER 86 Linus Gerdemann (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. ESP 87 Rafael Valls Ferri (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. RUS 88 Nikita Novikov (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. FIN 89 Matti Helminen (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) s.t. SWE 90 Jonas Ljungblad (Team Differdange) s.t. USA 91 Lucas Euser (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. FRA 92 Damien Gaudin (Europcar) s.t. FRA 93 Jérôme Cousin (Europcar) s.t. GBR 94 Luke Rowe (Sky Procycling) s.t. CAN 95 Guillaume Boivin (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. GER 96 Marcel Sieberg (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. SUI 97 Raimond Künzli (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. LUX 98 Pit Schlechter (Leopard TREK) s.t. FRA 99 Christophe Laborie (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. CAN 100 Will Routley (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. IRI 101 Amir Zargari (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. FRA 102 Jean-marc Marino (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. ESP 103 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. ESP 104 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. CAN 105 Ryan Anderson (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. ITA 106 Massimo Morabito () s.t. BEL 107 Jens Debusschere (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. LUX 108 Lex Reichling () 00:00:38 BEL 109 Gregory Habeaux (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:01:17 NED 110 Albert Timmer (Argos-Shimano) s.t. ESP 111 Antonio Cabello Baena (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. BEL 112 Jonas Van Genechten (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:01:31 BEL 113 Jelle Wallays (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. BEL 114 Kenny De Ketele (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. BEL 115 Kevin Van Melsen (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:01:38 LUX 116 Kevin Feiereisen () 00:01:45 NED 117 Reinier Honig (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) s.t. FRA 118 Jean-eudes Demaret (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) 00:02:10 IRI 119 Mehdi Sohrabi (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:02:31 RUS 120 Boris Shpilevsky (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. FRA 121 Rony Martias (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. BEL 122 Frederique Robert (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:04:50 GBR 123 Alex Dowsett (Sky Procycling) s.t. NED 124 Stefan Cohnen (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) 00:10:18 LTU 125 Gediminas Kaupas (Team Differdange) s.t. BEL DNF Davy Commeijne (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) General classification after stage 2: Country Result Name Team Time FRA 1 Jimmy Engoulvent (Saur - Sojasun) 09:26:59 SUI 2 Gregory Rast (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:00:03 FRA 3 Jonathan Hivert (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. AUS 4 Mathew Hayman (Sky Procycling) 00:00:05 DEN 5 Jakob Fuglsang (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:00:07 GER 6 Marcel Sieberg (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. NED 7 Tom Dumoulin (Argos-Shimano) s.t. FRA 8 Jimmy Casper (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. FRA 9 Damien Gaudin (Europcar) s.t. LAT 10 Aleksejs Saramotins (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) 00:00:08 FRA 11 Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. LUX 12 Jean-pierre Drucker (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. BEL 13 Steven Van Vooren (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:00:09 NED 14 Wout Poels (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. DEN 15 Martin Mortensen (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) 00:00:10 SWE 16 Tobias Ludvigsson (Argos-Shimano) s.t. BEL 17 Sebastien Delfosse (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) 00:00:11 ESP 18 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. FRA 19 Adrien Petit (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. GER 20 Andre Greipel (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. BEL 21 Maxime Monfort (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:00:12 LUX 22 Bob Jungels (Leopard TREK) s.t. FRA 23 Christophe Laborie (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. LUX 24 Frank Schleck (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. FRA 25 Romain Feillu (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. GBR 26 Ben Swift (Sky Procycling) 00:00:13 NED 27 Koen De Kort (Argos-Shimano) s.t. FRA 28 Alexandre Pichot (Europcar) s.t. GER 29 Sascha Weber (Team Differdange) 00:00:14 NED 30 Dirk Bellemakers (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) s.t. GBR 31 Luke Rowe (Sky Procycling) s.t. CAN 32 Will Routley (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. BEL 33 Kevyn Ista (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:00:15 BEL 34 Kris Boeckmans (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. SUI 35 Martin Elmiger (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. ESP 36 Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:00:16 BEL 37 Laurens De Vreese (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. BEL 38 Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:00:17 SWE 39 Jonas Ljungblad (Team Differdange) s.t. NZL 40 Alex Meenhorst (Team Differdange) s.t. FRA 41 Arnaud Labbe (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. GER 42 Andréas Klöden (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. BEL 43 Nico Sijmens (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) 00:00:18 FRA 44 David Lelay (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. RSA 45 Jaco Venter (Team Differdange) s.t. FRA 46 Jérôme Cousin (Europcar) 00:00:19 ITA 47 Salvatore Puccio (Sky Procycling) s.t. ITA 48 Davide Appollonio (Sky Procycling) 00:00:20 BEL 49 Jens Debusschere (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. BEL 50 Kristof Goddaert (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. BEL 51 Michael Van Staeyen (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. CAN 52 Ryan Anderson (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. GER 53 Linus Gerdemann (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. CAN 54 Michael Barry (Sky Procycling) s.t. LUX 55 Christian Helmig () 00:00:21 LUX 56 Laurent Didier (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. FRA 57 Jeremie Galland (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. NED 58 Tom Stamsnijder (Argos-Shimano) s.t. FRA 59 Romain Lemarchand (Ag2R - La Mondiale) 00:00:22 LUX 60 Alex Kirsch (Leopard TREK) s.t. AUS 61 Christopher Sutton (Sky Procycling) s.t. BEL 62 Gilles Devillers (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) s.t. BEL 63 Jurgen Van Goolen (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. NED 64 Arnoud Van Groen (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. FIN 65 Matti Helminen (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) 00:00:23 FRA 66 Saïd Haddou (Europcar) s.t. SUI 67 Raimond Künzli (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. BEL 68 Eliot Lietaer (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. FRA 69 Jean-marc Marino (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. DEN 70 Brian Vandborg (Spidertech Powered By C10) 00:00:24 FRA 71 Vincent Jerome (Europcar) s.t. LUX 72 Tom Thill (Team Differdange) s.t. NED 73 Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. USA 74 Caleb Fairly (Spidertech Powered By C10) 00:00:25 BEL 75 Preben Van Hecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. BEL 76 Johan Coenen (Team Differdange) s.t. LUX 77 Pit Schlechter (Leopard TREK) s.t. FRA 78 Yannick Talabardon (Saur - Sojasun) 00:00:26 ESP 79 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. JPN 80 Yukiya Arashiro (Europcar) s.t. NED 81 Roy Curvers (Argos-Shimano) s.t. ESP 82 Jesus Rosendo Prado (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:00:27 BEL 83 Bjorn Leukemans (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. LUX 84 Ben Gastauer (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. IRI 85 Amir Zargari (Ag2R - La Mondiale) 00:00:28 USA 86 Lucas Euser (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. FRA 87 Yann Huguet (Argos-Shimano) s.t. FRA 88 Florent Barle (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. ESP 89 Rafael Valls Ferri (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. BEL 90 Staf Scheirlinckx (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:00:29 RUS 91 Nikita Novikov (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. BEL 92 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. FRA 93 Tristan Valentin (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) 00:00:30 FRA 94 Thomas Damuseau (Argos-Shimano) 00:00:31 BEL 95 Steven Caethoven (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. ESP 96 Jose Vicente Toribio (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:00:32 LUX 97 Joel Zangerle (Leopard TREK) s.t. ESP 98 Eloy Ruiz Pinto (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:00:33 POR 99 Bruno Sandinha Saraiva (Team Differdange) s.t. ESP 100 Pablo Lechuga Rodriguez (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:00:34 CAN 101 Guillaume Boivin (Spidertech Powered By C10) 00:00:38 BEL 102 Vincent Baestaens (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) 00:00:40 CAN 103 David Veilleux (Europcar) 00:00:41 ESP 104 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:00:44 FRA 105 Yohann Gène (Europcar) s.t. NED 106 Albert Timmer (Argos-Shimano) 00:01:35 ESP 107 Antonio Cabello Baena (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:01:48 BEL 108 Gregory Habeaux (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:01:49 BEL 109 Kevin Van Melsen (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:02:01 LUX 110 Lex Reichling () 00:03:06 GER 111 Jens Voigt (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:04:24 BEL 112 Jelle Wallays (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:05:21 BEL 113 Jonas Van Genechten (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:05:31 ITA 114 Massimo Morabito () 00:06:21 BEL 115 Kenny De Ketele (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:06:23 IRI 116 Mehdi Sohrabi (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:06:39 RUS 117 Boris Shpilevsky (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. GBR 118 Alex Dowsett (Sky Procycling) 00:07:59 BEL 119 Frederique Robert (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:09:09 LUX 120 Kevin Feiereisen () 00:10:05 FRA 121 Jean-eudes Demaret (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) 00:10:07 NED 122 Reinier Honig (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) 00:10:09 FRA 123 Rony Martias (Saur - Sojasun) 00:10:26 LTU 124 Gediminas Kaupas (Team Differdange) 00:10:46 NED 125 Stefan Cohnen (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) 00:21:17

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