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Menchov wins 11th Tour stage, Landis gets overall lead
Jul 13, 2006, 16:13 GMT
Valle de Aran, Spain - Denis Menchov of Russia won Thursday's 11th stage of the 2006 Tour de France while American Floyd Landis claimed the overall lead.
The 28-year-old Menchov, who rides for the Rabobank team, was part of a group of 3 riders who pulled away near the top of the last of five huge climbs, and took his first-ever Tour stage win in a sprint to the finish line.
Americans Levi Leipheimer and Landis finished second and third.
The winner covered the 206.5 kilometres from Tarbes to Calle de Aran, in Spain, in 6 hours 6 minutes 25 seconds, an average speed of 33.81 kph.
Landis took over the race leader's yellow jersey from Frenchman Cyril Dessel, who held it for one day.
Thursday's stage was catastrophic for one of the pre-race favourites, Iban Mayo of Spain, who dropped out of the race after falling far behind on the stage's first climb, up to the legendary Tourmalet Pass.
Friday's twelfth stage brings the riders out of the Pyrenees Mountains for the first of two relatively flat stages before the Tour heads into the French Alps.
© 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-AgenturCOMMENT
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