Telek@m’s Dirk Herman won his first Classic with a tremendous solo victory in the vicious Swiss climbing test, Zürich-Bern-Zürich. The Austrian climbing sensation, a former Germany Tour stage winner, left the peloton trailing in his wake as he attacked on the Glaubenberg to set up his biggest ever win on the pro circuit.
  His adoring fans lined the route after making the short trip across the border from Austria, and they were out in force on the Lindenhof to witness his victory in the sport’s oldest and most revered climbing Classic.
  Second place was awarded to FFL’s Sterling Dorsher after he attacked at the foot of the final climb. Nico Holt of Ursus RT, Dorsher’s team mate turned adversary, went with him but ran out of gas in the final hundred meters and had to settle for third spot.
  
  Kelemen Nae of Team Tirilla enhanced his reputation as one of the World’s most feared cobblers with an emphatic victory at Tweedaagse van Antwerpen. The cobbled tour, around the Flanders region of northern Belgium, attracted a star-studded field and the Romanian Nae was without doubt the star of the show.
  Nae’s aggressive performances on the pavès earned him two impressive stage victories and consequently a place in the history books as the first ever champion of Tweedaagse van Antwerpen.
  Team RI’s Jari Fredriksson, winner of this year’s Valladolid-León, had to settle for second place ahead of Nae’s Tirilla team mate Ib Eibye.
  Nicholas Haydon from the time trial specialists Medvedi unsurprisingly won the opening prologue in Hoogstraten. The Aussie opened his season’s account with a commanding display against the clock to knock CCFC’s Ibrahim Youssef and his own team mate Donato Rozadilla off the top podium place.
  Nae laid the foundations for his overall victory on the road to Arendonk, where he rode away from the lead group to record only his second career win. The English duo of Ahploeg’s Lucas Fisher and Kyle Abston of CCFC led home the remnants of the pack

for second and third place respectively.
  Sieuwerd Bouwens of FFL made up for his second place at Roubaix by winning the third stage into Geel. The Dutch Master attacked with 2km to go for a solo victory, whilst Fisher once again finished second, this time ahead of Los Estados Unicos’ Geerard de Zwaan.
  Kelemen Nae’s second stage win on the final leg into Antwerp was a true cobbling masterclass. Nae once again rode away from the peloton, leaving them for dead to earn his second stage, GC victory and the applause of the thousands of Sinjoren in attendance. Fredriksson took second place ahead of Arve Guttormsen of The Killers to ensure the runner’s up spot in the overall.
  
  Pascal Lannoye of FFL followed up last week’s victory at the Lisbon GP with a further two top flight wins to re-establish himself as one of the peloton’s best sprinters. The Belgian champion and winner of last season’s Most Disappointing Rider has really laid down the gauntlet to the fast men with three victories in two weeks and many already speculate that he could win Rider of the Season this time around.
  Marseille-Nice provided the platform for Lannoye’s first victory. FFL controlled the pace for much of the day as the race wound its way along the French Riviera. As they approached Nice, their leadout men gathered at the front and set the stage for Lannoye, who unleashed a powerful sprint to cross the line in first place on the Promenade des Anglais.
  Veteran Englishman, Chris Dell of snyltarane, came close to a third Marseille-Nice title but had to be content with second place on the day. Ralph van Bon of Airik, winner of eight races last year completed the podium.
  
  The Icelandic ash cloud nearly prevented Lannoye’s victory at the Berliner as his team were forced to make the arduous journey across Europe by bus. A weary Lannoye arrived with hours to spare, but as soon as he was back on the bike it was business as usual. The FFL train did the same job as in Lisbon and Nice, and Pascal

once again unleashed his mighty sprint to lift his second Berliner title on the Unter den Linden.
  Ferris Pitkin of Team Whalers, a stage winner at the Germany Tour, led home Hanke Vibbard of Bajen Belfast for second place.
  
  Team Hurricanes’ Oscar O’Turnbull recorded his second victory of the season in the Malmo-Landskrona TT to firmly establish himself as the man to beat against the clock. So far there have been two time trials and O’Turnbull has won both of them.
  Gregory Levis of EEO, surprise winner of the Germany Tour TT, finished second and Ursus RT’s Thaqib Yushua took the third spot.
  
  Rodney Hodgson racked up his second win of the season in Sri Lanka at the hilly Trincomalee-Jaffna. The Irish star, winning the event for the second successive season, proved to be the fastest man in the sprint into the old colonial city.
  Ferdinand Coy of EEO, winner of last year’s Best Breakthrough rider, snatched second place ahead of cway’s evergreen Fergal Lemire.
  
  Miltos Tsoukas provided Telek@m win their second win of the week in Piechowice-Karpacz. The Cypriot produced a convincing ride in the mountainous Polish event to pull off his first ever victory and prove himself as one of hottest climbers on the pro circuit.
  Touskas attacked alone in the final moments of the race keeping the competition at arm’s length on the steep uphill finish. Skils’ Verner Ulrichsen and medvedi’s Carver Loch battled it out for the scraps, with the unlucky Dane adding the fifteenth second place to his palmarès.
  
  Kittipong Klahan made history at Innsbruck-Salzburg by becoming the first Thai rider to ever win a first division race. The Fairfield Flyers man followed up his impressive third place at Giro di Firenze with victory in the prestigious Austrian climbing event.
  Defending champion, Truman Woodson of scuppernong, beat Atlantic’s climbing captain Mauricio Crespo into second place.