BRITISH UNDER-23 TEAM RIDING HIGH IN GERMANY

After today?s second stage individual time trial, Britain?s Ian Stannard is sitting in third place in the under-23 Thüringen Rundfarht race in Germany.

Stannard, part of British Cycling?s Olympic Academy has three more stages in which to challenge for the overall lead.

The British team got off to a good start in the 4km prologue team time trial, placing sixth. They were the only beaten by teams who had started before them in dry conditions, losing just 12 seconds to the Milram development team.

Stannard then placed third on stage one, after getting in the 17 man winning move.

Today?s stage saw the riders complete a 28km individual time trial. Ben Swift was the fastest of the British team, placing sixth, just 20 seconds behind stage winner Matt King from Australia.

Russell Hampton was seventh, two seconds back, while Ian Stannard was ninth a further second back.

THÜRINGEN-RUNDFARHT; STAGE TWO, TREFFURT (ITT)

1 Matt King (Aus) Australian National Team 14km in 17.49

2 Jörg Lehman (Ger) LKT Team Brandenburg at 1sec

3 Jerome Cappol (Fra) French National Team at 5sec

4 Tony Gallopin (Fra) French National Team at 17sec

5 Thom Van Dulmen (Ned) Rabobank at 19sec

6 Ben Swift (GBr) British National team at 20sec

7 Russell Hampton (GBr) British National team at 22sec

8 Matthias Belka (Ger) LKT Team Brandenburg at 22sec

9 Ian Stannard (GBr) British National team at 23sec

10 Mathias Frank (Swi) Swiss National team at 23sec

British

13 Robert Partridge (GBr) British National team at 25sec

47 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) British National team at 53sec

66 Andrew Tennant (GBr) British National team at 1.14min

GENERAL CLASSIFICATION

1 Jörg Lehman (Ger) LKT Team Brandenburg 4-05-22

2 Sebastian Hans (Ger) Akud Rose at 3sec

3 Ian Stannard (GBr) British National team at 5sec

4 Christian Kux (Ger) Milram at 5sec

5 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) KED-Bianchi at 20sec

6 Matthias Belka (Ger) LKT Team Brandenburg at 21sec

7 Tony Gallopin (Fra) French National Team at 23sec

8 Paul Voß (Ger) 3C-Gruppe Lamonta at 31sec

9 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Kazakhstan National team at 31sec

10 Tony Martin (Ger) Thüringer Energie Team at 33sec

British

18 Ben Swift (GBr) British National team at 50sec

19 Russell Hampton (GBr) British National team at 52sec

22 Robert Partridge (GBr) British National team at 1.03min

34 Jonathan Bellis (GBr) British National team at 1.23min

54 Andrew Tennant (GBr) British National team at 1.44min