TdF: Sanchez wins in the Massif Central as Voeckler takes yellow

Luis Leon Sanchez sprinted away from his breakaway compatriots, to win Stage 9, while Thomas Voeckler took the yellow.

Voeckler looked like he wanted to add a stage victory to the yellow, but Sanchez was too powerful and put in a 5 second gap in the last 100 metres. The Spaniard, who finished 11th in last year’s tour, now moves in to second in the classification, with a 37 second gap over Cadel Evans. Third across the line was Sandy Casar, who didn’t have the legs to challenge Sanchez and Voeckler.

Fabian Cancellara claims his fourth World Championship time-trial title

Fabian Cancellara claimed a record breaking fourth World Championship Time-Trial title in Geelong.

The Swiss rider, who has been almost unbeatable this year, crossed the line over a minute ahead of second place man David Millar with a time of 58 minutes 09 seconds. He had a wobble that nearly sent him off his bike at the bridge that had caught so many people out, but in his smooth style he corrected it was went on to win. Cancellara left it late to make his decision to go to the World Championships after he suffered a shock loss to Peter Velits during the Vuelta a Espana. It could have been his fifth title but he decided to skip the 2008 championships after winning the Olympic time-trial.

Elite Men's Time-trial Results

1 Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland) 0:58:09  

2 David Millar (Great Britain) 0:01:02  

3 Tony Martin (Germany) 0:01:12  

4 Richie Porte (Australia) 0:01:19  

5 Michael Rogers (Australia) 0:02:25  

6 Koos Moerenhout (Netherlands) 0:02:40  

7 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spain) 0:02:44  

8 David Zabriskie (United States Of America) 0:02:51  

9 Maciej Bodnar (Poland) 0:03:00  

10 Gustav Larsson (Sweden) 0:03:01  

11 Bert Grabsch (Germany) 0:03:06  

12 Ignatas Konovalovas (Lithuania) 0:03:07  

13 Vladimir Gusev (Russian Federation) 0:03:27  

14 Carlos Oyarzun (Chile) 0:03:30  

15 Nicolas Vogondy (France) 0:03:39  

16 Andriy Grivko (Ukraine) 0:03:40  

17 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spain) 0:03:42  

18 Alex Rasmussen (Denmark) 0:03:45  

19 Sylvain Chavanel (France) 0:04:00  

20 Janez Brajkovic (Slovenia) 0:04:04