Tour de Suisse 2009: Cancellara wins at home

Fabian Cancellara of Team Saxo Bank dominated the opening time trial of the Tour de Suisse, finishing an astonishing 19 seconds faster than his closest competition over the 7.8 km course in Liechtenstein. Defending champion Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas) was second and Astana’s Andreas Klöden was third, 22 seconds down.

Results

1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team Saxo Bank                       9.21  (50.053 km/h)
2 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas                               0.19
3 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana                                  0.22
4 George Hincapie (USA) Team Columbia - Highroad               0.24
5 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad                   0.31
6 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team Columbia - Highroad
7 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia - Highroad                0.32
8 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervélo TestTeam                     0.34
9 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank
10 Rui Alberto Faria (Por) Caisse d'Epargne                    0.35
...
16 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha                         0.38

KatushaTeam for Tour de Suisse 2009

73rd Tour de Suisse – UPT Switzerland, June 13-21, 2009 Katusha 51 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) 52 Antonio Colom (Spa) 53 Nikita Eskov (Rus) 54 Joan Horrach (Spa) 55 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) 56 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) 57 Robbie McEwen (Aus) 58 Filippo Pozzato (Ita)