Murcia 4 : Samuel 11th

In the fourth race of the Vuelta a Murcia Samuel Sanchez has shown that he's in good shape and that his preparations for the Tour de France are going well. In todays hilly time trial of 23 kilometres he became 11th, 48 seconds down on Alejandro Valverde. Mikel Astarloza disappointed a bit because he came in 28th with 1:43 down. In general Euskaltel is improving in the time trials because there was no Euskaltel rider with the last ten :)

Results

1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 33.32 (41.33 km/h)
2 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo +0.02
3 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Astana +0.06
...
11. Samuel Sanchez +0:48
28. Mikel Astarloza +1:43
31. Iñaki Isasi +1:45
50. Jorge Azanza +2:33
51. Josu Agirre +2:44
58. Ivan Velasco +3:04
73. Jon Bru +4:04
80. Koldo Fernandez +4:12