Irish professional David McCann showed he is coming back to form after an injury-plagued early season when he placed eighth in the 1.5 ranked GP Winterthur in Switzerland. The Belfast man crossed the line 4 minutes and 46 seconds behind winner Patrik Sinkewitz (Mapei-Quick Step Espoirs), who had gone clear in a breakaway with 120 kilometres remaining in the race.
McCann said afterwards: "I tried to follow Euvgeni Petrov on a hill early on but blew. I went back to the bunch but later got clear in a 10 man chase group, then left this group with 30 kilometres to go. I passed a few riders on the run-in to the finish, but there were still 7 in front at the line."
1, Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Mapei-Quick Step 4.24.56 (39.31 km/h)2, Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Mapei-Quick Step, same time3, Roman Burkard (Swi) KED/SWOCK Bianchi-Fiat, at 39 secs4, Euvgeni Petrov (Rus) Mapei-Quick Step, at 1 min 3 secs5, Jan Ramsauer (Swi) KED/SWOCK Bianchi-Fiat at 3 mins 35s6, Kurt Betschart (Swi) Team Mixed 1 Möbel Märki at 3 mins 36s7, Christian Weber (Swi) Team KEWA-Rad at 4 mins 6 secs8, David McCann (Irl) Volksbank-Ideal at 4 mins 46 secs9, Markus Joho (Swi) Team KEWA-Rad at 4 mins 55 secs10, Patrick Kraus (Swi) Team KEWA-Rad at 5 mins 46 secs
Filed by Shane Murray
