August 12/06 10:08 am - Tour of Utah: Stage 5

Posted by Editoress on 08/12/06
 

Tour of Utah Utah USA

Courtesy Kodakgallery.com/Sierra Nevada team

"Our plan today was to get Dom up the road and take back a minute, and that's exactly what we did," said Kodakgallery.com/Sierra Nevada General Manager Robin Zellner after this (Friday) evening's fifth stage of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah, a 37-mile circuit race in downtown Salt Lake City.

On the second of six laps, Kodakgallery.com/Sierra Nevada's Dominique Perras broke away with seven other riders - Toyota-United's Chris Baldwin, Jacob Erker (Symmetrics), Daniel Ramsey (Successfulliving.com), Nathan Miller (BMC Racing), Andy Bajadali (KJZZ Composite), Valeriy Kobzarenko (Navigators Insurance) and Michael Creed (TIAA-CREF).

Starting the day in 8th overall at 2'46" behind race leader Jeff Louder (Health Net-Maxxis), Perras was the highest placed rider in the breakaway, which both the Health Net-Maxxis and Navigators teams were content to let go.

After reaching a maximum lead of 1'30", the break's gap came back to 55" at the finish, where Baldwin won the stage and Perras took 6th.

Having added another 6 seconds in time bonuses during the stage, the Kodakgallery.com/Sierra Nevada rider moved up to 6th place overall, leapfrogging Navigators' Cesar Grajales and Sergey Lagutin.

"It took me a while to get going this season and I had some illness in May and June, but I feel great right now," Perras said after the stage.

"I'm going to try to make something happen tomorrow and the stage is so selective, but I don't think my effort tonight will hurt me since the stage was so short," he added.

Stage 5 (August 11th) Salt Lake City (circuit race) 68 km

1. Chris Baldwin (USA) Toyota United, 1:17:24
2. Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
3. Daniel Ramsey (USA) Team Successful Living
4. Nathan Miller (USA) BMC Racing
5. Andrew Bajadali (USA) KJZZ - Pro Composite Team
6. Dominique Perras (Can) Kodakgallery.Com/Sierra Nevada
7. Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukr) Navigators Insurance, all s.t.
8. Michael Creed (USA) Team Tiaa-Cref, 0:26
9. Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance, 0:55
10. Jeff Louder (USA) Health Net Presented By Maxxis

33. Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
47. Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
49. Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
51. Brandon Crichton (Can) Symmetrics Cycling, all s.t.
68. Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling, 3:47

GC

1. Jeff Louder (USA) Health Net Presented By Maxxis, 11:26:53
2. Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net Presented By Maxxis, at 0:02
3. Glen Chadwick (Aus) Navigators Insurance, 0:23
4. Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Navigators Insurance, 0:52
5. Chris Wherry (USA) Toyota United, 0:57
6. Dominique Perras (Can) Kodakgallery.Com/Sierra Nevada, 1:45
7. Cesar Grajales (Col) Navigators Insurance, 1:52
8. Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance, 2:06
9. David Rodriguez (USA) BMC Racing, 2:46
10. Jonathan Garcia (USA) Team Einstein's Cycling, 2:49

21. Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics Cycling, 7:03
28. Brandon Crichton (Can) Symmetrics Cycling, 8:39
30. Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics Cycling, 8:57
45. Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling, 18:00
66. Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics Cycling, 29:18
68. Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling, 30:50