Tyler Farrar wins the opening stage of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge 2012
Tyler Farrar won the opening stage of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge after his stunning performance during the 202.1 kilometre race.
The American crossed the finish-line in a quickest time of 4 hours, 42 minutes and 48 seconds to restrict the race favourites.
Alessandro Bazzana of Team Type 1-Sanofi, Damiano Caruso of Team Liquigas-Cannondale, Fred Rodriguez of Team Exergy and Rory Sutherland of Team UnitedHealth Pro Cycling claimed the next four positions in the respective order.
Farrar bagged the team’s time trial stage 4 of the Giro d’Italia earlier and also managed to occupy the second stage of the Tour of Utah 2012.
He secured the second overall position at the Tour of Qatar, along with the stage 2 of the race, and managed to claim the second overall position at the Scheldeprijs 2012.
Tyler was delighted after claiming the first stage of the American race and thanked his team-mates for their continuous support at the event.
"I really had to turn myself inside out to make it over [Lizard Head Pass]," Farrar said. "I knew today could possibly be a sprint but I really wasn't sure I had the legs to make it, so I'm pretty happy to pull it off”.
"Our home as a team is in Colorado, so we take this race really seriously, and to win here is huge. For me personally I have had kind of a disaster of a season so this means a whole lot to me to finally get a win".
Nathan Haas and Serghei Tvetcov succeeded during the 10.7 and 98.2 kilometre first and the second sprints of the race.
Andrew Bajadali succeeded during the first climb of the race with Thomas Danielson of Team Garmin-Sharp claiming the second and the third mountain of the event.
Tyler Farrar of Team Garmin-Sharp is leading the stage 1 classifications with Alessandro Ballan of Team Type 1-Sanofi and Damiano Cunego of Team Liquigas-Cannondale securing the second and the third positions respectively.
Thomas Danielson of Team Garmin-Sharp, Eduard Alexander Beltran Suarez, Freddy Orlando Piamonte, Peter Stetina and Andrew Bajadali claimed the top five spots at the mountain classifications at the race.
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