Posted by Editoress on 04/30/09
Oscar Freire (Rabobank) won stage 2 in a sprint over the winner of the Prologue, Frantisek Rabon (Team Columbia-Highroad). Christian Meier (Garmin - Slipstream) finished 12th and Michael Barry (Team Columbia - Highroad) 15th both at the same time as Freire.
| Stage 2: La Chaux-de-Fonds to La Chaux-de-Fonds, 161.5km | |
| 1 Oscar Freire Gomez (Esp) Rabobank | 4:06:56 |
| 2 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) Team Columbia - Highroad | |
| 3 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana | |
| 4 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas | |
| 5 Daniel Martin (Irl) Garmin - Slipstream | |
| 6 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre-N.G.C. | |
| 7 Alexandre Moos (Sui) BMC Racing Team | |
| 8 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team Saxo Bank | |
| 9 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R - La mondiale | |
| 10 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Katusha | |
| 12 Christian Meier (Can) Garmin - Slipstream | |
| 15 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - Highroad | all s.t. |
| 153 Dominique Rollin (Can) Cervélo TestTeam | 12:19 |
| GC | |
| 1 Gregory Rast (Sui) Astana | 6:19:13 |
| 2 Ricardo Serrano Gonzalez (Esp) Fuji-Servetto | at 0:05 |
| 3 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team Saxo Bank | 0:12 |
| 4 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) Team Columbia - Highroad | 0:27 |
| 5 Oscar Freire Gomez (Esp) Rabobank | 0:28 |
| 6 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux | 0:34 |
| 7 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad | 0:35 |
| 8 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Esp) Caisse d'Epargne | 0:36 |
| 9 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas | 0:37 |
| 10 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Astana | s.t. |
| 29 Michael Barry (Can) Team Columbia - Highroad | 0:45 |
| 51 Christian Meier (Can) Garmin - Slipstream | 0:58 |
| 141 Dominique Rollin (Can) Cervélo TestTeam | 18:11 |
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