February 16/11 10:19 am - Three Canadians Racing Algarve

Posted by Editoress on 02/16/11
 

The attention may be on the return of Alberto Contador to racing at Portugal's Tour of Algarve today, but there are three Canadians also in the race - Michael Barry (Sky), Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Cervelo) and Christian Meier (UnitedHealthcare).  The five stage race has four road stages and a final 17.2 kilometre individual time trial.

Brief Results for stage 1

1 Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) 4:36:26
2 Gerald Ciolek (Quick Step) at 0:05
3 André Greipel (Omega Pharma-Lotto)
4 Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervélo)
5 Michael Matthews (Rabobank)
6 Baden Cooke (Saxo Bank-SunGard)
7 John Degenkolb (HTC-Highroad)
8 Andreas Kloden (RadioShack)
9 Tony Gallopin (Cofidis)
10 Wouter Poels (Vacansoleil)
11 Sergey Lagutin (Vacansoleil)
12 Rein Taaramae (Cofidis)
13 Sebastian Langeveld (Rabobank)
14 Fabian Wegmann (Leopard-Trek)
15 Filipe Cardoso (Barbot-Efapel) all s.t.