BEN SWIFT Champion Stage 2, McEwen LEAD CLASSIFICATION

Ben Swift (Sky Team) finally won the biggest victory of his career, the young British driver showed his strength by successfully leading the finish Stage 2 TDU 2011, followed by sprinter Robbie McEwen aging Radio Shack, which seized Standings Jersey.

Number of the sprinter who had an accident at the end of the race to make the Swift is able to eliminate the other sprinters were still in front of the peloton.

Sprinter HTC-Highroad Matthew Goss and Mark Cavendish suffered severe accidents, even rumored to Mark Cavendish, the Manx Man must get small stitches.

Matt Goss took to rank second in the overall classification.
Number of racer who tries to break away including; Yuriy Kristof (Ag2R), David Tanner (Saxo Bank) and Mitchell Docker (UniSA), they were able to leave the platoon up to 4:20 minutes.
Breakaway was successfully pursued by Luke Roberts (UniSA) and BMC's Tim Roe and Simon Zahner.

With the rest of the race as far as 31 km, Tim Roe tried to attack left the troupe, but at 5 kilometers before the finish, he successfully overtaken by a platoon.

Robbie McEwen did a sprint when the finish line, leaving only 300 yards, but Ben Swift got through it and seize the stage winner.

Here are results of Stage 2 Tour Down Under 2011 Tailem Bend - Mannum 146km
1 Ben Swift (GBR) 3:27:44 Sky Procycling
2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Team Radio Shack
3 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank Cycling Team
4 Romain Feillu (Fra) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
5 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto
6 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Quick Step Team Cycling
7 Michael Matthews (Aus) Rabobank Cycling Team
8 Denis Galimzyanov (Rus) Team Katusha
9 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Team Movistar
10 Allan Davis (Aus) Astana

General Classification Tour Down Under 2011 after Stage 2
1 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Team Radio Shack 6:44:42
2 Matthew Goss (Aus) HTC-Highroad
3 Ben Swift (GBR) Sky Procycling
4 André Greipel (Ger) 0:00:04 Omega Pharma-Lotto
5 Mitchell Docker (Aus) UNI SA - Australia
6 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:00:06
7 David Tanner (Aus) Saxo Bank SunGard
8 Perget Mathieu (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:07
9 Miguel Minguez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
10 Simon Zahner (Swi) BMC Racing Team