Van Garderen Wins Amgen Tour Of California Win

Last updated : 19 May 2013 By Covsupport News Service

Tejay Van Garderen won the Amgen Tour Of California after Peter Sagan had won the final stage.

Stage seven was a 130.4km procession for the 111 riders from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to Santa Rosa and saw Vacansoleil's Thomas de Gendt, Bissell's Jason McCartney, who has riden in every Tour Of California and Bontrager's Antoine Duchesne the escapers.

At Dogtown, they were 3.30 ahead before the crowds watched Thomas De Gendt take the sprint points at Pt. Reyes Station.

Past the fifty kilometres to go mark and their lead started to descrease and twenty kilometres later, they were only ninety seconds ahead.

The peloton swept up McCartney and De Gendt and with ten kilometres to go, Antoine Duchesne was caught.

Onto the two 3.9km circuits around Santa Rosa and race leader Tejay Van Garderen was protected by his BMC team mates.

Garmin Sharp with Tyler Farrar were on the front with Peter Sagan paying close attention.

Sagan was looking for the points jersey along with Farrar and the Cannondale rider take the stage and the points competition in a time of 3.04.07 ahead of Shorn and Farrar .

Tejay Van Garderen finished in the peloton and took the race overall by 1.47 from Michael Rogers.