Dutchman Joost Posthuma won the Tour de Luxembourg as Italy's Salvatore Commesso took the final stage victory.

Commesso, a two-time Tour de France stage victor and former Italian champion, took a break-away win out of a 13-man group after 154.3 kilometres of riding from Mersch to Luxembourg.

Russia's Sergey Rudaskov finished second at seven seconds off pace, with Bulgaria's Dana Andanov Petrov taking third in the same time.

Javier Benitez Pomares led the main bunch at two minutes and 51 seconds off pace to finish 14th.

Posthuma, who had done enough with a second-place finish in stage three to take the overall lead, maintained the leader's jersey after finishing in the main bunch.

STAGE THREE

Michael Albasini took victory in the third stage of the Tour of Luxembourg, but Joost Posthuma claimed the overall lead after finishing second.

Posthuma is one second ahead of Switzerland's Albasini in the general classification after finishing in the same time as the Dutchman to take second in stage three.

Home hopeful Frank Schleck of CSC took third in the stage to move into third overall at 18 seconds behind the race leader after finishing 13 seconds behind the leading duo.

Portugal's Jos Pimenta Costa won the mass sprint in the main bunch to finish fourth on the stage at 52 seconds off pace.

STAGE TWO

Fabian Cancellara holds a slender lead in the overall classification of the Tour of Luxembourg after finishing in the pack behind stage two winner Ignatas Konovalovas.

Konovalovas, riding for the Credit Agricole team, clinched the 197km second stage from Schifflange to Differdange in four hours, 56 minutes, and lies fifth overall, just 0.1 seconds behind Cancellara.

Jimmy Engoulvent is second, 0.05 seconds behind the Swiss star, with fellow Credit Agricole rider Cyril Lemoine a further 0.03 seconds back.

STAGE ONE

Argentine Juan Jose Haedo of Team CSC defied the conditions to win the opening stage.

Despite the pouring rain, several hundred fans came out to watch the 177km race from Luxembourg to Mondorf.

Romain Feillu of France was second behind Haedo, while Borut Bozic of the Cycle Collstrop team came in third.

Haedo's CSC team-mate Fabian Cancellara leads the general classification after his triumph in the prologue.

PROLOGUE

Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara of the CSC team won the Tour of Luxembourg prologue.

Cancellara was expected to start strongly on the streets of Luxembourg in the 2.4-kilometre opener and did not disappoint as the tour gears up for the Tour de France.

The world time trial champion took 3'38" to cover the awkward city course and win the leader's jersey.

Dirk Bellemakers of Landbouwkrediet headed the timesheets early in the evening wih four minutes dead before Credit Agricole's Jimmy Engoulvent took over top spot with an impressive 3'43".

He ended with second position after Cancellara's run, with Harald Starzengruber (Team Elk Haus) third.

To come in Luxembourg are four stages over rolling terrain, ranging from 157 to 192 kilometres in length.

Five ProTour teams started the race - Astana, Rabobank, Team CSC, Crédit Agricole and Liquigas.

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