Thor Hushovd wins second stage of Tour de France

Norway's Thor Hushovd rode into the yellow jersey as his Garmin-Cervelo team won the team time-trial in stage two of the Tour de France.

3 July 2011, 12:00am

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The American outfit lived up to their status as pre-stage favourites, blazed around the 23-kilometre course in Les Essarts in a time of 24 minutes and 48 seconds, 0:04 ahead of Cadel Evans' BMC squad, with British outfit Team Sky just a fraction of a second further back in third.

Having finished third in Saturday's opening stage, Hushovd now claims the yellow jersey from Philippe Gilbert, whose Omega Pharma-Lotto squad finished in tenth position, 39 seconds off the pace.

Stage results

1. Garmin (United States) 24 mins 48 secs

2. BMC Racing (United States) +4"

3. Team Sky (Great Britain)

4. Leopard (Luxembourg)

5. HTC - Highroad (United States) +5"

6. RadioShack (United States) +10"

7. Rabobank (Netherlands) +12"

8. Saxo Bank (Denmark) +28"

9. Astana (Kazakhstan) +32"

10. Omega Pharma - Lotto (Belgium) +39"

General Classification

1. Thor Hushovd (Norway / Garmin) 5 hrs 06 mins 25 secs

2. David Millar (Britain / Garmin) same time

3. Cadel Evans (Australia / BMC Racing) +1"

4. Geraint Thomas (Britain / Team Sky) +4"

5. Linus Gerdemann (Germany / Leopard)

6. Frank Schleck (Luxembourg / Leopard)

7. Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland / Leopard)

8. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Norway / Team Sky)

9. Manuel Quinziato (Italy / BMC Racing)

10. Andy Schleck (Luxembourg / Leopard) +6"