Luis Romero Amaran wins the stage 2 of Cascade Cycling Classic, Elite Men Category
Luis Romero Amaran of Team Jamis Sutter Home wins the second stage of the Cascade Cycling Classic and strengthened his overall lead at the race.
He crossed the finish line in a quickest time of 31 minutes and 19.91 seconds and restricted Nate English of Team Kenda and Michael Creed of Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies at the second and the third positions respectively.
The cyclist was over the moon after registering such an important victory at the race and rated it as one of his best performance of the season.
"It's a bit of a surprise, but I was feeling good just from the start today," Amaran said.
"I probably haven't had that feeling in years. I've had the conditions to do a good time trial, but this is the first one I've won in the US, so I'm very, very happy”.
“I've always been right there but never won it. So I'm happy to win today in front of the best TT guys in the country".
"I know tomorrow is going to be a hard day, and the group that goes to the top is going to be very small".
The Cuban now leads the stage 2 classifications with a total gap of 5 seconds on Francisco Mancebo of Competitive Cyclist Racing Team.
Tom Zirbel of Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies, Jeremy Vennell of Team Bissell Pro Cycling and Michael Creed of Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies achieved the third, the fourth and the fifth positions in the respective order.
Sam Johnson, Gavin Mannion, Francisco Mancebo, Chad Beyer and Ian Boswell achieved the top five spots after the mountains classifications of the race.
Carter Jones is leading the young rider’s classifications while Gregory Craddock, Stephen Leece, Taylor Shelden and Joseph Dombrowski claimed the second, third, fourth and the fifth positions respectively.
Top ten teams after the stage 2 Cascade Cycling Classics is as under,
1
Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strate
10:47:48
2
BISSELL Pro Cycling
0:00:59
3
Bontrager LIVESTRONG
0:01:10
4
Kenda/5hr Energy p/b Geargrinder
0:01:21
5
CompetitiveCyclist Racing Team
0:02:17
6
Jamis Sutter Home
0:02:24
7
Team Exergy
0:03:16
8
California Giant / Specialized
0:05:28
9
juwi Solar Cycling
0:08:37
10
ELBOWZ RACING
0:11:20
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