Ben Swiftly Does It In Geneva

Last updated : 01 May 2011 By Kev Monks

Britain's Ben Swift won the final stage of the Tour of Romandie

David Zabriskie took the time trial on the Tour of Romandie and Cadel Evans (pictured below) snatched the leaders Yellow Jersey, going into today's fifth and final stage.

Team Sky rider Swift was first home at the finish of the race in Geneva beating Oscar Freire (Rabobank) and Davide Vigano (Leopard Trek).

Swift tweeted after the race: "Amazing work by my mates at team sky today. A real team effort today cheers guys"

Cadel Evans finished in 26th place which was enough to give him the Tour victory.

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Kenny van Hummel won the final stage of the Tour of Turkey today.

The Dutch Skil-Shimano rider was the fastest in the bunch sprint and defeated Andre Greipel (Omega Pharma) with Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre) and Tyler Farrar (Garmin) finished third and fourth.

The Skil-Shimano riders did good work and kept Van Hummel in front of the peloton in the final of the race. "The team did a very good leadout for me. I am happy to be first," said Van Hummel immediately after race.

Russia's Alexander Efimkin took the overall win of the race.

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Mark Cavendish (pictured above) rode in the Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt this afternoon. The race was won by John Degenkolb who told the HTC Highroad Press Office: Degenkolb said, "I could never say I expected to win today, but I did want to get a good result and I felt good before the start."

"The team worked really hard in the last part to bring back a break, and I have to thank them for that. Then it was up to me."

"The final kilometre was pretty nervous and dangerous, there was a U-turn about 800 meters to go, but when I came out of the turn I was in a good position."

"There were a couple of riders ahead of me and it was a bit tricky with a chicane, but I started accelerating with about 150 meters to go and got past them."

"I'm very proud of this day and this result. However, it was the whole team who did a good job. I'm just the sprinter."

"2011 is the 50th year of this event and we've been told there were more than a million spectators watching, so it's a huge success all round," added HTC-Highroad Jens Zemke, "During the race I was a bit nervous, because there was a break of nineteen guys at one point and we didn't have anybody in it."

"But we did the hard work necessary to pull it back, and then John was able to finish it all off with a great win."
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