Sporting Digest: Cycling

TOUR OF THE MEDITERRANEAN Fourth stage: 1 D Cassani (It) 2hr 13min 17sec; 2 F Baldato (It) s/t; 3 J Museeuw (Bel) +3sec; 4 M Sciandri (It) +4; 5 W Peeters (Bel) +11; 6 Z Spruch (Pol) +14; 7 S Knaven (Neth) s/t; 8 A Tchmile (Ukr); 9 M Sergeant (Bel); 10 S Martinello (It) all s/t. Selected: C Boardman (GB) +3min 58sec. Overall: 1 Baldato 9:11:33; 2 Cassani +6; 3 Museeuw +15; 4 E Berzin (It) +35; 5 M Argentin (It) +42; 6 M Sciandri (It) +53; 7 A Chiurato (It) +55; 8 C Mottet (Fr) +56; 9 Martinello +57; 10 R Jarmann (Swit) +1:01. Selected: 71 C Boardman (GB) +5:49.

TOUR OF ANDALUSIA Third stage (Moron de la Frontera to Torrox Costa, 202km): 1 A Baffi (It) 5hr 41min 45sec; 2 A Guenechea (Sp); 3 J Planckaert (Bel); 4 J Svorada (Cz Rep); 5 M de Clercq (Bel) all s/t. Overall: 1 Baffi 14hr 2min 20sec; 2 Svorada; 3 A Gutierrez (Sp); 4 Planckaert; 5 De Clercq all s/t.