The second stage of the "Around Taihu 2015" starts in Dongshan: a hilly course along Island Ring Road up to the old village of Luxiang also today for a total of 10 km, many of which uphill.
10 Km Elite men
Immediately after the start goes to lead the group the Chinese Luo Yadong together with the Russian Petr Trofimov.
There follows a group with the best athletes: Wang Zhen, Evan Dunfee, the other Chinese Liu Meng, the Colombian Eider Arevalo, the Australian Dane Bird-Smith, the Ukrainians Nazar Kovalenko, Ivan Losev, Igor Glavav and Sergii Budza and the other Russian Kirill Frolov.
After the first part of the uphill the situation is more fluid, and in the leading group the best athletes try to time to go in the head. Wang Zhen and Eider Arevalo are in the middle of the group pending events.
Toward the seventh km in a slight downhill increase the pace the chinese Liu Meng, but is immediately catched by others. We arrive into the final part where Luo Yadong and Dane Bird-Smith force again the pace and gain a couple of meters on Eider Arevalo, Wang Zhen and Evan Dunfee. The arrival see together Luo Yadong and Dane Bird-Smith, but the chinese will be penalized with 30" in the final sprint, and the same happens to Eider Arevalo that comes third.
Arrival order after penalties is the following:
1.- Dane Bird-Smith - AUS in 40:31
2.- Wang Zhen - CHN in 40:37
3.- Evan Dunfee - CAN in 40:42
4.- Liu Meng - CHN in 40:56
5.- Luo Yadong - CHN in 41:01
6.- Eider Arevalo - COL in 41:05
7.- Georgiy Sheiko - KAZ in 41:09
8.- Ivan Banzeruk - UKR in 41:21
Summary after two days
1.- Wang Zgen - CHN in 1:22:11
2.- Dane Bird-Smith - AUS in 1:22:20
3.- Eider Arevalo - COL in 1:22:31
4.- Sergii Budza - UKR in 1:23:34
5.- petr Trofimov - RUS in 1:23:39
6.- Kirill Frolov - RUS in 1:23:40
7.- Nazar Kovcalenko - UKR in 1:23:40
8.- Ivan Losev - UKR in 1:23:42
Team Summary
1.- X-treme Beef (Bird-Smith, Sudol, Arevalo, Karlstrom): 4:09:33
2.- P-U Ukraine (Kovalenko, Losev, Kovenko, Kazanin): 4:12:39
3.- Ukraine (Glavan, Banzeruk, Budza): 4:12:55
4.- China (Wang, Luo, Xie, Li): 4:15:15
5.- Team ASICS (Tallent, Gomez, Dunfee, Rew, Bosworth): 4:16:44
6- Russia (Trofimov, Korepanov, Kirill): 4:19:00
7.- TJN - China (Du, Luo, Hou, Tong, Liu): 4:23:02
8.- YNN - China (Su, Yang, He, Yang, Meng): 4:24:25
10 km Elite women
Immediately go to lead the pair formed from Chinese Qieyang Shenjie and the Ukrainian Lyudmyla Olyanovska in turn followed by Lithuanian Brigita Virbalyte and other Chinese Mao Yanxue, Wang Yingliu and the other Ukrainian Nadiya Borovska.
Then follow Russian Nadezhda Sergeeva and Hungarian Viktoria Madarasz.
Until 7th km the duo is together, shortly after today will be the Ukrainian to force the pace for the victory on the bronze of London.
Arrival order:
1.- Lydmyla Olyanovska - UKR in 42:01
2.- Qieyang Shenjie - CHN in 43:01
3.- Nadiya Borovska - UKR in 43:40
4.- Wang Yingliu - CHN in 43:43
5.- Brigita Virbalite - LTU in 43:53
6.- Mao Yanxue - CHN in 44:06
7.- Nadezhda Sergeeva - RUS in 44:13
8.- Viktoria Madarasz - HUN in 44:19
Summary after two days
1.- Lydmyla Olyanovska - UKR in 1:27:00
2.- Qieyang Shenjie - CHN in 1:27:37
3.- Brigita Virbalyte - LTU in 1:29:29
4.- Wang yingliu - CHN in 1:29:44
5.- Nadiya Borovska - UKR in 1:29:59
6.- Nadezhda Sergeeva - RUS in 1:30:18
7.- Victoria Madarasz - HUN in 1:30:44
8.- Xie Lijuasn - CHN in 1:31:09
Team Summary
1.- China (Qieyang, Duan, Mao, Xie): 4:30:24
2.- Ukraine (Kashyna, Olyanovska, Borovska): 4:31:11
3.- Poland-LHP (Dygacz, Aidietyte, Virbalyte, Madarasz): 4:33:47
4.- YNN - China (Wang, Zhao, Zhao, Que, Li): 4:42:33
5.- Russia PGI Inter (Sergeeva, Korotkova, Feitor, Pinedo): 4:42:57
6.- JSU - China (Xue, Pei, He, Yang, Ji): 4:43:42
7.- Poland (Szwarnog, Kapera, Buziak, Golba): 4:45:15
8.- Belorussia International (Yatsevich, Stef, Yakovchuk, Myronchuk): 4:51:45