Stage 8B of The Tour of Britain
The TfL London Stage Circuit Race:
10 laps of an 8.8kms Circuit (88.8kms)
Cavendish Takes The Win (c) ckingimages
1 Mark Cavendish HTC Highroad 1h 59′ 13”
2 Mark Renshaw HTC Highroad st
3 Robert Förster UnitedHealthcare st
4 Geraint Thomas Sky ProCycling st
5 Ben Swift Sky ProCycling st
6 Giacomo Nizzolo Leopard Trek st
7 Tobyn Horton Motorpoint st
8 Andrew Fenn An Post – Sean Kelly st
9 Dan Craven Rapha Condor – Sharp st
10 Stijn Neirynck Topsport Vlaanderen st
11 Cesare Benedetti Team NetApp st
12 Michael Matthews Rabobank st
13 Johnny McEvoy Motorpoint st
14 Iker Camano Endura Racing st
15 Linus Gerdemann Leopard Trek at 0′ 5”
16 Roger Hammond Team Garmin – Cervelo st
17 Boy Van Poppel UnitedHealthcare st
18 Marcin Bialoblocki Motorpoint st
19 Daniel Lloyd Team Garmin – Cervelo st
20 Jelle Wallays Topsport Vlaanderen st
21 Gediminas Bagdonas An Post – Sean Kelly st
22 Chris Jones UnitedHealthcare st
23 Stijn Joseph Topsport Vlaanderen st
24 Karl Menzies UnitedHealthcare st
25 Mark McNally An Post – Sean Kelly st
Mark Cavendish, Team HTC – Highroad, Winner of TfL London Stage 8b
“I didn’t want to take too many risks today with the Worlds coming up. It was a wet finish and I saw Ben Swift lose his wheel on the second last corner so I backed off on the last corner and ended up 20 metres behind coming out the last corner. I thought it was too far back to get it but I went for it anyway and I came through on the line. It’s been really good to come away with three stage wins this week, can’t get much better. Not only that we go three first and second placings which is superb. Since 2007 and this year, to see how much The Tour has grown is amazing. It’s great to see all the support. It’s been perfect preparation for me for next week. The Vuelta looked too hard with too many crashes. I was able to control my training and I won two stages which was good.”
