Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Pays de la Loire 2008

A French stage race running from April 8 to 11 in the Sarthe/Loire area, held over five stages. Won in 2007 by Andreas Kloden (Asatana).

The second day of the Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Pays de la Loire was split into two stages - the morning was run from Varades to Angers (99,8 km)a dn won by Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis). In the afternoon Christian Vande Velde (Slipstream) was top of the time sheets in the individual tiem trial held over 9k from Anger to Anger.

In the GC Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Telecom) holds a one second advantage over Christian Vande Velde.

Stage 2 Varades - Angers (99,8 km)
1 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 2.34.19 (38,803 km/h)
2 Christophe Diguet (Fra) Auber 93
3 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) CSF Group Navigare
4 Paride Grillo (Ita) CSF Group Navigare
5 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Agritubel
6 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale
7 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale
8 Tiziano dall'Antonia (Ita) CSF Group Navigare
9 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux
10 Robert Förster (GER) Gerolsteiner

Satge 3 Angers - Angers (TT 9 km)
1 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30
2 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 0.10
3 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 0.12
4 Tiziano dall'Antonia (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 0.14
5 Steve Morabito (SUI) Astana 0.15
6 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.16
7 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
8 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole
9 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Crédit Agricole
10 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel 0.19
...
General Classification
1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
2 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 0.01
3 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Française des Jeux 0.11
4 Tiziano dall'Antonia (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 0.12
5 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 0.13
6 Steve Morabito (SUI) Astana 0.16
7 Florent Brard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.17
8 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
9 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole
10 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Crédit Agricole

Stages
1 Aizenay - Ligné (62k)
2 Varades - Angers (90k)
3 Angers - Angers (160k)
4 Angers - Fresnay-sur-Sarthe (126k)
5 St-Léonard-des-Bois - Le Mans (178k)

Website - http://circuitcycliste.sarthe.com/