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2014 Eneco Tour of Benelux (World Tour)
10th edition: August 11 - August 17
Stage 2 Results
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Tuesday, August 12: Stage 2, Waalwijk - Heusden, 175.8 km
Stage 2 map | Stage 2 Photos |
Zdenek Stybar wins stage 2. Photo ©Sirotti
The Race: 2013 Eneco Tour winner Zdenek Stybar is back in the lead after winning stage two.
It was another rainy day in northern Europe and only twenty riders arrived in the front group to contest the stage.
A trio, Kevin van Melsen, Pavel Brutt and Alexis Gougeard, escaped early on and gained nearly six minutes, but all three (Brutt being the last to give up) had been rounded up with a little more the four kilometers to go.
Czech road champion Stybar's stage win earned him a 10-second bonification, enough to give him the GC lead by a single second over Lars Boom.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) is a 9.6 km individual time trial at Breda (Netherlands). Expect some serious changes to the GC.
Complete Results:
| 1 | Zdenek Stybar | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 4hr 06min 16sec |
| 2 | Lars Boom | Belkin | |
| 3 | Sep Vanmarcke | Belkin | |
| 4 | Marco Marcato | Cannondale | |
| 5 | Manuel Quinziato | BMC | |
| 6 | Roy Jans | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | |
| 7 | Davide Appollonio | Ag2r | |
| 8 | Bauke Mollema | Belkin | |
| 9 | Julien Vermote | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
| 10 | Stig Broeckx | Lotto-Belisol | |
| 11 | Nikolay Trusov | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| 12 | Aidis Kruopis | Orica-GreenEdge | |
| 13 | Jens Keukeleire | Orica-GreenEdge | |
| 14 | Pablo Lastras Garcia | Movistar | |
| 15 | Maximiliano Ariel Richeze | Lampre-Merida | |
| 16 | Kristijan Koren | Cannondale | |
| 17 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC | |
| 18 | José Ivan Gutierrez | Movistar | |
| 19 | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
| 20 | Andriy Grivko | Astana | |
| 21 | Silvan Dillier | BMC | @ 6 seconds |
| 22 | Pavel Brutt | Katusha | |
| 23 | Mirko Selvaggi | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | |
| 24 | Maarten Wynants | Belkin | |
| 25 | Eugenio Alafaci | Trek Factory Racing | |
| 26 | Paolo Longo Borghini | Cannondale | |
| 27 | Alexander Porsev | Katusha | |
| 28 | Niki Terpstra | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
| 29 | André Greipel | Lotto-Belisol | 10" |
| 30 | Nacer Bouhanni | FDJ | |
| 31 | Viacheslav Kuznetsov | Katusha | |
| 32 | Guillaume Van Keirsbulck | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
| 33 | Greg Van Avermaet | BMC | |
| 34 | Zico Waeytens | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| 35 | Luka Mezgec | Giant-Shimano | |
| 36 | Manuele Mori | Lampre-Merida | |
| 37 | Geraint Thomas | SKY | 14" |
| 38 | Sebastian Langeveld | Garmin-Sharp | |
| 39 | Tim Wellens | Lotto-Belisol | |
| 40 | Aleksei Tcatevich | Katusha | |
| 41 | Salvatore Puccio | SKY | |
| 42 | Arnold Jeannesson | FDJ | |
| 43 | Borut Bozic | Astana | |
| 44 | Jack Bauer | Garmin-Sharp | |
| 45 | Alex Dowsett | Movistar | |
| 46 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin-Sharp | |
| 47 | Bram Tankink | Belkin | |
| 48 | Elia Favilli | Lampre-Merida | |
| 49 | Laurens De Vreese | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | |
| 50 | Jean-Pierre Drucker | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | |
| 51 | Yoann Offredo | FDJ | |
| 52 | Jasha Sütterlin | Movistar | |
| 53 | Jelle Vanendert | Lotto-Belisol | |
| 54 | Jay Mccarthy | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| 55 | Anthony Roux | FDJ | |
| 56 | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar | |
| 57 | Yohann Gene | Europcar | |
| 58 | Gijs Van Hoecke | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| 59 | Vincent Jerome | Europcar | |
| 60 | Matti Breschel | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| 61 | Jurgen Roelandts | Lotto-Belisol | |
| 62 | Karsten Kroon | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| 63 | Gediminas Bagdonas | Ag2r | |
| 64 | Dayer Uberney Quintana | Movistar | |
| 65 | Davide Cimolai | Lampre-Merida | |
| 66 | Tom Dumoulin | Giant-Shimano | |
| 67 | Dylan Van Baarle | Garmin-Sharp | |
| 68 | Enrique Sanz | Movistar | |
| 69 | Alexandre Pichot | Europcar | |
| 70 | Ben Gastauer | Ag2r | |
| 71 | Fabian Cancellara | Trek Factory Racing | |
| 72 | Leigh Howard | Orica-GreenEdge | |
| 73 | Tony Hurel | Europcar | |
| 74 | Julian Kern | Ag2r | |
| 75 | Stijn Steels | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| 76 | Danilo Hondo | Trek Factory Racing | |
| 77 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | |
| 78 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff-Saxo | 27" |
| 79 | Barry Markus | Belkin | |
| 80 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | SKY | |
| 81 | Jens Mouris | Orica-GreenEdge | 37" |
| 82 | Marcel Sieberg | Lotto-Belisol | 57" |
| 83 | Nick Nuyens | Garmin-Sharp | 1:16 |
| 84 | Pavel Kochetkov | Katusha | |
| 85 | Jesse Sergent | Trek Factory Racing | |
| 86 | Christopher Sutton | SKY | |
| 87 | David Millar | Garmin-Sharp | |
| 88 | Kenneth Van Bilsen | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| 89 | Gert Steegmans | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
| 90 | Morgan Lamoisson | Europcar | |
| 91 | Thomas Sprengers | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | 14" |
| 92 | David Boucher | FDJ | 2:17 |
| 93 | Stijn Devolder | Trek Factory Racing | |
| 94 | Frederik Veuchelen | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 2:37 |
| 95 | Mikhail Ignatyev | Katusha | |
| 96 | Michael Hepburn | Orica-GreenEdge | |
| 97 | Tom Veelers | Giant-Shimano | |
| 98 | Thomas Leezer | Belkin | |
| 99 | Bryan Naulleau | Europcar | |
| 100 | Mathew Hayman | Orica-GreenEdge | |
| 101 | Luke Rowe | SKY | |
| 102 | Boy Van Poppel | Trek Factory Racing | |
| 103 | Iljo Keisse | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
| 104 | Jose Joaquin Rojas | Movistar | |
| 105 | Kevin Van Melsen | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | |
| 106 | Christian Knees | SKY | 3:01 |
| 107 | Jos Van Emden | Belkin | 3:43 |
| 108 | Danny Van Poppel | Trek Factory Racing | |
| 109 | Alexis Gougeard | Ag2r | 4:29 |
| 110 | Steve Chainel | Ag2r | |
| 111 | Giacomo Nizzolo | Trek Factory Racing | 5:35 |
| 112 | Roy Curvers | Giant-Shimano | 6:04 |
| 113 | Yves Lampaert | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| 114 | Tim Declercq | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| 115 | Simon Geschke | Giant-Shimano | |
| 116 | Brian Bulgac | Giant-Shimano | |
| 117 | Tom Stamsnijder | Giant-Shimano | |
| 118 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Giant-Shimano | |
| 119 | Jan Polanc | Lampre-Merida | |
| 120 | Rohan Dennis | BMC | |
| 121 | Michael Van Staeyen | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| 122 | Valentin Iglinskiy | Astana | |
| 123 | Ruslan Tleubayev | Astana | |
| 124 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | |
| 125 | Evgeny Petrov | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| 126 | Ivan Rovny | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| 127 | Gert Dockx | Lotto-Belisol | |
| 128 | Patrick Gretsch | Ag2r | |
| 129 | Ian Stannard | SKY | |
| 130 | Matteo Trentin | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
| 131 | Nathan Earle | SKY | 9:16 |
| 132 | Filippo Pozzato | Lampre-Merida | |
| 133 | Marcus Burghardt | BMC | |
| 134 | Fabio Sabatini | Cannondale | |
| 135 | Daniel Oss | BMC | |
| 136 | Alberto Bettiol | Cannondale | |
| 137 | Moreno Moser | Cannondale | |
| 138 | Nathan Haas | Garmin-Sharp | |
| 139 | Gatis Smukulis | Katusha | |
| 140 | Matthew Harley Goss | Orica-GreenEdge | |
| 141 | Jens Debusschere | Lotto-Belisol | |
| 142 | Ramunas Navardauskas | Garmin-Sharp | |
| 143 | Benoît Vaugrenard | FDJ | |
| 144 | Geoffrey Soupe | FDJ | |
| 145 | Niccolo Bonifazio | Lampre-Merida | |
| 146 | Yannick Martinez | Europcar | |
| 147 | Tim De Troyer | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | |
| 148 | Jean Marc Marino | Cannondale | |
| 149 | Maxime Daniel | Ag2r | |
| 150 | Stephen Cummings | BMC | |
| 151 | Laurent Pichon | FDJ | |
| 152 | Alexsandr Dyachenko | Astana | 11:18 |
| 153 | Evan Huffman | Astana | |
| 154 | Damien Howson | Orica-GreenEdge | |
| 155 | Antoine Duchesne | Europcar | 16:30 |
GC after Stage 2:
| 1 | Zdenek Stybar | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 8hr 20min 39sec |
| 2 | Lars Boom | Belkin | @ 1 second |
| 3 | Sep Vanmarcke | Belkin | 6" |
| 4 | Pavel Brutt | Katusha | 7" |
| 5 | Philippe Gilbert | BMC | 9" |
| 6 | Marco Marcato | Cannondale | 10 |
| 7 | Nikolay Trusov | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| 8 | Roy Jans | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | |
| 9 | Aidis Kruopis | Orica-GreenEdge | |
| 10 | Jens Keukeleire | Orica-GreenEdge | |
| 11 | José Ivan Gutierrez | Movistar | |
| 12 | Tom Boonen | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
| 13 | Andriy Grivko | Astana | |
| 14 | Julien Vermote | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
| 15 | Bauke Mollema | Belkin | |
| 16 | Manuel Quinziato | BMC | |
| 17 | Stig Broeckx | Lotto-Belisol | |
| 18 | Kristijan Koren | Cannondale | |
| 19 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | 14" |
| 20 | Alexander Porsev | Katusha | 16" |
| 21 | Niki Terpstra | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
| 22 | Paolo Longo Borghini | Cannondale | |
| 23 | Maarten Wynants | Belkin | |
| 24 | Mirko Selvaggi | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | |
| 25 | Yohann Gene | Europcar | 18" |
| 26 | Laurens De Vreese | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 19" |
| 27 | André Greipel | Lotto-Belisol | 20" |
| 28 | Luka Mezgec | Giant-Shimano | |
| 29 | Nacer Bouhanni | FDJ | |
| 30 | Viacheslav Kuznetsov | Katusha | |
| 31 | Zico Waeytens | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| 32 | Davide Cimolai | Lampre-Merida | |
| 33 | Greg Van Avermaet | BMC | |
| 34 | Manuele Mori | Lampre-Merida | |
| 35 | Davide Appollonio | Ag2r | 22" |
| 36 | Alex Dowsett | Movistar | |
| 37 | Tyler Farrar | Garmin-Sharp | 24" |
| 38 | Tom Dumoulin | Giant-Shimano | |
| 39 | Jasha Sütterlin | Movistar | |
| 40 | Arnold Jeannesson | FDJ | |
| 41 | Geraint Thomas | SKY | |
| 42 | Yoann Offredo | FDJ | |
| 43 | Sebastian Langeveld | Garmin-Sharp | |
| 44 | Matti Breschel | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| 45 | Tony Hurel | Europcar | |
| 46 | Jay Mccarthy | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| 47 | Tim Wellens | Lotto-Belisol | |
| 48 | Borut Bozic | Astana | |
| 49 | Gijs Van Hoecke | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| 50 | Bram Tankink | Belkin | |
| 51 | Jelle Vanendert | Lotto-Belisol | |
| 52 | Elia Favilli | Lampre-Merida | |
| 53 | Salvatore Puccio | SKY | |
| 54 | Vincent Jerome | Europcar | |
| 55 | Danilo Hondo | Trek Factory Racing | |
| 56 | Francisco José Ventoso | Movistar | |
| 57 | Jean-Pierre Drucker | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | |
| 58 | Karsten Kroon | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| 59 | Leigh Howard | Orica-GreenEdge | |
| 60 | Stijn Steels | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| 61 | Ben Gastauer | Ag2r | |
| 62 | Dylan Van Baarle | Garmin-Sharp | |
| 63 | Alexandre Pichot | Europcar | |
| 64 | Thomas Sprengers | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| 65 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff-Saxo | 37" |
| 66 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | SKY | |
| 67 | Barry Markus | Belkin | |
| 68 | Guillaume Van Keirsbulck | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 38" |
| 69 | Fabian Cancellara | Trek Factory Racing | 42" |
| 70 | Jack Bauer | Garmin-Sharp | 46" |
| 71 | Anthony Roux | FDJ | |
| 72 | Dayer Uberney Quintana | Movistar | 47" |
| 73 | Enrique Sanz | Movistar | |
| 74 | Silvan Dillier | BMC | 50" |
| 75 | Julian Kern | Ag2r | 1:08 |
| 76 | Gediminas Bagdonas | Ag2r | 1:16 |
| 77 | Marcel Sieberg | Lotto-Belisol | 1:23 |
| 78 | Kenneth Van Bilsen | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | 1:24 |
| 79 | Christopher Sutton | SKY | 1:26 |
| 80 | Jesse Sergent | Trek Factory Racing | |
| 81 | David Millar | Garmin-Sharp | |
| 82 | Nick Nuyens | Garmin-Sharp | |
| 83 | Aleksei Tcatevich | Katusha | 1:43 |
| 84 | Jurgen Roelandts | Lotto-Belisol | |
| 85 | Pavel Kochetkov | Katusha | 2:18 |
| 86 | Stijn Devolder | Trek Factory Racing | 2:27 |
| 87 | Boy Van Poppel | Trek Factory Racing | 2:47 |
| 88 | Jose Joaquin Rojas | Movistar | |
| 89 | Mathew Hayman | Orica-GreenEdge | |
| 90 | Thomas Leezer | Belkin | |
| 91 | Maximiliano Ariel Richeze | Lampre-Merida | 2:57 |
| 92 | Jens Mouris | Orica-GreenEdge | 3:03 |
| 93 | Frederik Veuchelen | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 3:10 |
| 94 | Christian Knees | SKY | 3:29 |
| 95 | Gert Steegmans | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 3:42 |
| 96 | Jos Van Emden | Belkin | 3:53 |
| 97 | Steve Chainel | Ag2r | 4:39 |
| 98 | Luke Rowe | SKY | 5:03 |
| 99 | David Boucher | FDJ | 5:20 |
| 100 | Pablo Lastras Garcia | Movistar | 5:25 |
| 101 | Tom Veelers | Giant-Shimano | 5:43 |
| 102 | Michael Van Staeyen | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | 6:14 |
| 103 | Matteo Trentin | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | |
| 104 | Simon Geschke | Giant-Shimano | |
| 105 | Roy Curvers | Giant-Shimano | |
| 106 | Ivan Rovny | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| 107 | Mikhail Ignatyev | Katusha | 6:30 |
| 108 | Bryan Naulleau | Europcar | |
| 109 | Tim Declercq | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | 6:37 |
| 110 | Ruslan Tleubayev | Astana | |
| 111 | Yves Lampaert | Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | 6:45 |
| 112 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Giant-Shimano | 6:46 |
| 113 | Valentin Iglinskiy | Astana | 6:55 |
| 114 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | 7:06 |
| 115 | Evgeny Petrov | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| 116 | Giacomo Nizzolo | Trek Factory Racing | 7:51 |
| 117 | Iljo Keisse | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 8:02 |
| 118 | Alexis Gougeard | Ag2r | 8:16 |
| 119 | Eugenio Alafaci | Trek Factory Racing | 8:21 |
| 120 | Ian Stannard | SKY | 8:30 |
| 121 | Jan Polanc | Lampre-Merida | 9:07 |
| 122 | Patrick Gretsch | Ag2r | |
| 123 | Danny Van Poppel | Trek Factory Racing | 9:08 |
| 124 | Jens Debusschere | Lotto-Belisol | 9:26 |
| 125 | Filippo Pozzato | Lampre-Merida | |
| 126 | Morgan Lamoisson | Europcar | 9:31 |
| 127 | Tom Stamsnijder | Giant-Shimano | 9:57 |
| 128 | Brian Bulgac | Giant-Shimano | 9:57 |
| 129 | Geoffrey Soupe | FDJ | 10:18 |
| 130 | Niccolo Bonifazio | Lampre-Merida | 10:27 |
| 131 | Michael Hepburn | Orica-GreenEdge | 10:52 |
| 132 | Kevin Van Melsen | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 11:09 |
| 133 | Rohan Dennis | BMC | 11:29 |
| 134 | Gatis Smukulis | Katusha | 12:14 |
| 135 | Benoît Vaugrenard | FDJ | 12:19 |
| 136 | Laurent Pichon | FDJ | |
| 137 | Daniel Oss | BMC | 13:09 |
| 138 | Maxime Daniel | Ag2r | |
| 139 | Tim De Troyer | Wanty-Groupe Gobert | 13:45 |
| 140 | Gert Dockx | Lotto-Belisol | 14:19 |
| 141 | Marcus Burghardt | BMC | 14:41 |
| 142 | Nathan Haas | Garmin-Sharp | |
| 143 | Ramunas Navardauskas | Garmin-Sharp | |
| 144 | Jean Marc Marino | Cannondale | |
| 145 | Yannick Martinez | Europcar | |
| 146 | Nathan Earle | SKY | 17:31 |
| 147 | Alberto Bettiol | Cannondale | |
| 148 | Fabio Sabatini | Cannondale | |
| 149 | Moreno Moser | Cannondale | |
| 150 | Matthew Harley Goss | Orica-GreenEdge | |
| 151 | Stephen Cummings | BMC | |
| 152 | Antoine Duchesne | Europcar | 19:33 |
| 153 | Alexsandr Dyachenko | Astana | |
| 154 | Damien Howson | Orica-GreenEdge | |
| 155 | Evan Huffman | Astana | 20:39 |
BMC cars, bikes, motorhome at the start. Photo ©Sirotti
Filippo Pozzato heads to the start. Photo ©Sirotti
Alex Dowsett. Photo ©Sirotti
Roy Jans, who was 6th today. Photo ©Sirotti
André Greipel. Photo ©Sirotti
Philippe Gilbert. Photo ©Sirotti
Andrea Guardini in the Eneco Tour leader's jersey. Photo ©Sirotti
Stage winner Zdenek Stybar. Photo ©Sirotti
An attempt to break away with Kevin van Melsen, Pavel Brutt and Alexis Gougeard. Photo ©Sirotti
Astana working to protect Guardini's lead. Photo ©Sirotti
Belgian champion Jens Debusschere. Photo ©Sirotti
Zdenek Stybar was the fastest man today. Photo ©Sirotti
Stybar not only won the stage, he is now the GC leader. Photo ©Sirotti
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