Crash during Stage 2, Chongming Island

Monia Baccaille

As expected, Stage 2 finished with a bunch sprint - they all do on the pancake-flat island - with Monia Baccaille (MCipollini-Giambenini-Gauss) taking the honours and the GC leadership after a crash split the bunch. According to reports, an unspecified number of riders were taken to hospital with suspected broken collarbones. Evgenia Romanyuta (RusVelo) was airlifted to hospital, raising worries that she may be badly injured.

Chloe Hosking (Specialized-Lululemon) was second and Shelly Olds (AA-Drink Leontien.nl) third. Baccaille now leads the General Classification by 3" and AA Drink-Leontien.nl takes the Team classification leadership from MCipollini-Giambenini-Gauss with an advantage of 7".

Top Ten

  1.   Monia Baccaille  MCipollini-Giambenini-Gauss  2h57'28"

  2.   Chloe Hosking  Specialized-Lululemon  ST

  3.   Shelley Olds  AA Drink-Leontien.nl  ST

  4.   Melissa Hoskins  Orica-GreenEdge  ST

  5.   Rochelle Gilmore  Faren-Honda  ST

  6.   Romy Kaspar  RusVelo  ST

  7.   Jessie Maclean  Orica-GreenEdge  ST

  8.   Mei Yu Hsiao  Axman Team Taiwan  ST

  9.   Jutatip Maneephan    ST

  10.   Marlen Johrend  ABUS - Nutrixxion  ST

(Full results and GC)

Thursday's Stage 3 consists of eleven laps of a 7.2km urban parcours at Shanghai East Beach.