2011 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 2

( 55.6 km / h )

Not awarded

The second stage of the Tour de France 2011 on July 3 was a team time trial over 23 km, which led around Les Essarts. There were two intermediate time checks at kilometer 9 and 16.5. All 198 registered riders took to the start.

Race course

The team of Alberto Contador, Saxo Bank SunGard from Denmark start, because his mishap the day before as a last place team first. It achieved an average speed of 54.6 km / h, which was soon surpassed by the Rabobank Cycling Team with 55.2 km / h. Then the dominance of the U.S. team, as the Garmin-Cervélo team reached to Thor Hushovd at 55.6 km / h new peak time, which should not be undercut henceforth showed. This gave a lead of 28 seconds on Contador's team. Hushovd was able to captured the yellow jersey ahead of his teammate David Millar. Behind the BMC Racing Team to Cadel Evans, the British Sky Procycling team with Bradley Wiggins and the Luxembourg team Leopard Trek to Andy Schleck, each with four seconds behind lined one. HTC -Highroad with Tony Marin lost five seconds and the team Team RadioShack with Andreas Klöden ten seconds.

Intermediate times

• 2nd intermediate La Merlatière ( 16.5 km; 76 m )