GreenEdge rider Luke Durbridge won the Stage 2b time trial and the leader’s yellow jersey at the Circuit Cycliste Sarthe-Pays de la Loire cycling race.
Stage One of the 2012 Circuit Cycliste Sarthe—Pays de la Loire, 192.8 km from Saint Gilles Croix de Vie to Riaille, ended in a bunch sprint after the last surviving escapee, Katusha’s Mikhail Ignatyev, was caught in the final few hundred meters.