LEIPZIG - The weather could have been worse after all in Leipzig, with wet roads but no fresh rain. The fourth event of the T-Mobile Cycling Tour saw a group of some 85 riders racing to the line with Jürgen Werner from Zwickau taking the win ahead of Mario Dabelstein (Altenberg) and Strassacker's Nico Wernicke, the winner in Cologne earlier this year. The average speed over the 110km distance was 42.7 km/h...
Tour leader Michel Rademacher (Team UGS) had to settle for fifteenth, but Nino Ackermann only appears as 95th in the result, three minutes down.
In the women's race, Frankfurt-based Elin Amundsen scored her third second place of the season. Winner Beate Zanner was out of reach (she finished in the first group with an avs of 42.6 km/h!!!), but Elin managed to stay ahead of Franziska Reinfried and... Annika Grüber in the sprint for second place in a time of 2:40:29 (avs 41.1 km/h)! That means Elin and Annika have the same numer of points for the T-Mobile Tour, but Annika already has two wins behind her name. Next week Elin will be racing in Fürth, whereas Annika is expected to be more in her element on the hilly Stuttgart course.
Apart from Elin, a second member of the ECB Cyclosports squad made the long journey to Leipzi: Marcus Hagedorn, who had a strong debut in the Henninger Turm, finished half a minute down on the winner of the 70km race, good enough for 45th out of 756 finishers! His time was 1:47:53.
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