France - Tour de France

Soerensen wins 12th stage

Article published on the 2009-07-16 Latest update 2009-07-17 08:24 TU

12th Stage winner Sorensen
(Credit: Reuters)

Denmark's Nicki Soerensen of the Saxo Bank team won the 12th stage of the Tour de France after maintaining an impressive breakaway. It is the first time the 34 year-old has ever won a stage tour in ten years as a professional cyclist.

Soerensen won the stage in four hours and 24 seconds.

Italian Rinaldo Nocentini of AG2R retaining the leader's yellow jersey on the 21-stage Tour with a six and eight second lead respectively on race favourites Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong of Astana.

Stage 12:

 

1 DAN Nicki SORENSEN(SAX)4h52'24'

2 FRA Laurent LEFEVRE(BBO)48'

3 ITA Franco PELLIZOTTI(LIQ)48'

4 ALL Markus FOTHEN(MRM)48'

5 ESP Egoi MARTINEZ(EUS)48'

6 FRA Sylvain CALZATI(AGR)48'

7 FRA Rémi PAURIOL(COF)01'33'

8 GBR Mark CAVENDISH(THR)05'58'

9 NORThor HUSHOVD(CTT) 05'58'

10 ITA Marco BANDIERA(LAM) 05'58'

 

Overall Standings

 

 1 ITA Rinaldo NOCENTINI  48H27’21”

 2 ESP Alberto CONTADOR (AST) 06”

 3 USA Lance ARMSTRONG(AST) 08”

4 USA Levi LEIPHEIMER(AST) 39”

5 GBR Bradley WIGGINS (GRM) 46”

6 ALL Andreas KLÖDEN(AST) 54”

7 ALL Tony MARTIN(THR) 01’00”

8 USA Christian VANDEVELDE(GRM)01’24”

9 LUX Andy SCHLECK(SAX) 01’49 »

10 ITA Vincenzo NIBALI(LIQ)