Tour de Wallonie

Stage 2: Braine-le-Comte to Tubize, 201.8km/125mi

By Cathy Mehl

It was another day for the sprinters in the Tour de Wallonie with Stefan Van Dijk of Verandas Willems taking the bunch gallop.  Team RadioShack’s Gert Steegmans was right in the mix once again, this time taking sixth in the group, up one slot from Saturday’s effort.

The Shack’s Geoffroy LeQuatre suffered a flat in the final 10k and after a quick tire change was paced back to the group by Team Director Viatcheslav Ekimov, along side other riders in the same situation.  The race judges deemed that this action was wrong and penalized “G4” 20 seconds, plus gave Eki a monetary fine.   With LeQuatre the top contender in this race for The Shack, a disappointed Ekimov pointed out that other directors were pacing back their riders too, but only he and Quick Step were fined.  Geoffroy will have some time to make up when the race heads to the mountains on Monday.

With no less than six climbs on stage 3 from Andenne to Hotton (and climbs in all the remaining stages as well), the work from the sprinters might be finished for this year’s Tour de Wallonie. 

Top Ten Results

1 VAN DIJK Stefan WIL 4:57:02 0:00:00

2 BOECKMANS Kris * TSV 4:57:02

3 BOZIC Borut VAC 4:57:02

4 DOWNING Russell SKY 4:57:02

5 WEYLANDT Wouter QST 4:57:02

6 STEEGMANS Gert RSH 4:57:02

7 KEUKELEIRE Jens * COF 4:57:02

8 WYSS Danilo BMC 4:57:02

9 COMMEYNE Davy LAN 4:57:02

10 HAYMAN Mathew SKY 4:57:02

Team RadioShack Results

23 SELANDER Bjorn * RSH 4:57:02

45 LEQUATRE Geoffroy RSH 4:57:02

57 ROSSELER Sébastien RSH 4:57:02

77 MCCARTNEY Jason RSH 4:57:02

93 BEWLEY Sam * RSH 4:57:02

96 VAITKUS Tomas RSH 4:57:02

General Classification after Stage 2

1 VAN DIJK Stefan WIL 9:25:25 0:00:00

2 NAPOLITANO Danilo KAT 9:25:25 0:00:00

3 WEYLANDT Wouter QST 9:25:27 0:00:02

4 VANSPEYBROUCK Pieter * TSV 9:25:27 0:00:02

5 BOECKMANS Kris * TSV 9:25:29 0:00:04

6 VAN VOOREN Steven * TSV 9:25:29 0:00:04

7 BERARD Julien * ALM 9:25:30 0:00:05

8 BOZIC Borut VAC 9:25:31 0:00:06

9 HENDERSON Greg SKY 9:25:31 0:00:06

10 KAISEN Olivier OLO 9:25:31 0:00:06

Team RadioShack on General Classification

17 STEEGMANS Gert RSH 9:25:35 0:00:10

75 ROSSELER Sébastien RSH 9:25:35 0:00:10

82 MCCARTNEY Jason RSH 9:25:35 0:00:10

99 BEWLEY Sam * RSH 9:25:35 0:00:10

100 VAITKUS Tomas RSH 9:25:35 0:00:10

107 LEQUATRE Geoffroy RSH 9:25:55 0:00:30

109 SELANDER Bjorn * RSH 9:25:55 0:00:30