Farrar wins Circuit Franco-Belge

Eurosport - Sat, 03 Oct 23:05:00 2009

Garmin-Slipstream rider Tyler Farrar won the Circuit Franco-Belge as Saxo Bank's Juan Jose Haedo triumphed in the final stage.

2009 Circuit Franco-Belge Tyler Farrar celebrates on the podium after winning the second stage in the race from Maubeuge, France, to Poperinge, Belgium. - 0

Farrar suffered a puncture with only five kilometres to go of the final, 147.1km stage from Grand Place de Mons to Tournai, but managed to rejoin the peloton in time to claim overall victory.

Haedo beat Yauheni Hutarovich (Française Des Jeux) and Roger Hammond (Cervelo Test Team) to win the stage in the final sprint.

Britain's Hammond secured third place in the overall classification, behind Quick Step's Tom Boonen, who won the third stage.

The first breakaway of the stage came 35km in, but the peloton regained ground on the lead before long. Another group of four tried and failed to get away before an eight-strong group finally split from the main pack to reach the finish.

"At the end everything came together, Daniel Lloyd worked for Roger in the final giving him a good lead out," said Cervelo sports director Marcello Albasini. "The team worked very well for him this week and we are satisfied with the results."

STAGE THREE

Tom Boonen won the third stage of the Circuit Franco Belge in Ichtegm, Belgian.

The Belgian Quick-Step rider delighted the home fans by coming in ahead of Britain's Roger Hammond.

American Tyler Farrar was trying to make it three stages wins out of three but he had to settle for third place.

Farrar does hold the overall lead though and takes a 10 second advantage over Boonen into Sunday's final stage which finishes in Tournai.

STAGE TWO

American Tyler Farrar claimed his second sprint win in as many days beating Alexandre Usov and Jimmy Casper at the finish line of the 225.7 kilometre run from Maubeuge in France to Poperinge in West Flanders.

Farrar had a promising, but winless, Tour de France campaign in July but bounced back to win the Hamburg Cyclassics one-day race in August.

He continued his good form by winning three stages at the Eneco Tour, and also won a stage at the Vuelta a Espana.

STAGE ONE

American Tyler Farrar continued his successful end of season by beating sprint rivals Danilo Napolitano and Tom Boonen to win the first stage.

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  1. hope i was him

    From carlamms, on Tue 6 Oct 3:59PM

  2. Can't see Tom Boonen getting too excited about a­ second place at Circuit Franco-Belge for some­ reason......his season is restricted to a fortnight at­ the beginning of April these days.

    From pedro118118, on Mon 5 Oct 9:08AM

  3. doesn't tom boonen like a bit of line dancing...or­ is that something else to do with lines?

    From peter.barnes24, on Sun 4 Oct 9:54PM

  4. Nice one, Roger (Hammond).

    From Jeremy, on Sun 4 Oct 7:22PM

  5. Best to keep it conservative. Perhaps a bit of line­ dancing.

    Really, well done to him. It would have been­ too easy to bring a disastrous second half of the­ season to a premature end.

    From CR, on Sun 4 Oct 5:13PM

  6. Don't celebrate too hard tonight Tom!

    From keir_williams, on Sun 4 Oct 6:32AM
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