Despite a long breakaway, stage 2 of the Tour of Limousin all came down to a huge field sprint. Lucky Martijn Maaskant finished 13th on the stage and is now 15th in the overall classification.

Limousin stage 3Tomorrow’s penultimate stage from Brive to Cublac will be hardest of the four-day stage race and includes two category 2 and one category 1 climb. For those of you interested in follow the stage direct, there’s a great French site directvelo.com, that has written play-by-play, in French of course.

Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O Stage Results
1. Yukiya Arashiro 4h23′47″
13. Martijn Maaskant +00″
38. David Millar +00″
71. Trent Lowe +00″
84. Kilian Patour +25″
102. Magnus Backstedt +49″

Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O GC
1. Nicolas Roche 8h27′29″
15. Martijn Maaskant +23″
66. David Millar +2′12″
73. Trent Lowe +2′12″
89. Kilian Patour +4′25″
93. Magnus Backstedt +4′49″