Tour De Toona 2007!!
this years race is coming quick
We are looking foreward to seeing you at this years International Tour De Toona: Monday July 23rd thru Sunday July 29th. Our site is being totally updated and all details for this year will be posted very soon. Thanks for your patience and please check back soon for details.
Uzbecki champ reigns in 'Toona;
Armstrong seals women's win
ALTOONA, PA - July 30, 2006: Navigator's Insurance and Toyota United Pro Cycling teams ended the final stage - the Waste Management/Atlantic Broadband Criterium - of the Tour de Toona the same place they were at the start of the day - 29 seconds apart with Navigator's edging the win.
Uzbecki National Champion Sergei Langutin will wear the yellow Echo/Giant Eagle champion's jersey as he ended the final stage five seconds ahead of Toyota-United's Christopher Baldwin. Both finished the 30-lap, 1-mile circuit in 1:01:14 in the pack with stage winner Kyle Wamsley of Colivita Home Suter. Langutin nabbed eight bonus seconds for the win, and Baldwin grabbed a bonus six..
Kristin Armstrong of Team Lipton finished the crit in the pack at 1:11:25, to give her the Merrill Lynch yellow jersey on the strength of her dominating performance through the week. She finished 430-plus miles of racing over seven day 6:14 ahead of Canadian champion Alex Wrubleski of Team Biovail..
Team Lipton ended the week as GC champions, 14:22 in front nearest rival Team Biovail.
Tina Pic of Team Colavita Cooking Light will take home the UPS women's sprint winner's jersey, while Langutin will leave the race with the Pennsylvania Turnpike men's sprint jersey.
Armstrong will also take home the TransCore Queen of the Mountain polka-dot sprint jersey. Navigator's Glenn Chadwick will leave Altoona with the Pennsylvania Coal Producer's men's sprint polka-dot jersey.
Over 800 riders participated in this year's 20th edition of the Tour de Toona, the premier stage race of the Americas. Total prize money over the seven days of racing will exceed $120,000. Next year's Tour de Toona is slated for July 23 to 29. The organizers of the Tour thank the more than 200 sponsors and thousands of volunteers for another extremely successful year of racing and extend an invitation to all riders to participate in next year's event.
Navigator, Toyota-United fight for crown;
Armstrong continues overwhelming effort
ALTOONA, PA - July 29, 2006: Just 29 GC seconds separate the Navigator's Insurance and Toyota United Pro Cycling teams as the Tour de Toona heads for the final-day criterium on Sunday, July 30.
Uzbecki National Champion Sergei Langutin took the stage win in the Verizon/Boscov's Blair County Road Race with a time of 3:38:10, finishing with Toyota United's Christopher Baldwin and Dominque Perass of Equipe de Quebec joining him 13 seconds ahead of the nearest group. Langutin, with an overall time of 14:35:26, just three seconds behind Baldwin, will don the Echo/Giant Eagle yellow jersey for Sunday's laps over the one-mile crit course.
Kristin Armstrong of Team Lipton continued her show of overwhelming strength, finishing the women's circuit in second place with teammate Laura Van Guilder in 4:29:06, with the pair more than 3 minutes ahead of the strung out field at the finish. Armstrong will again don the Merrill Lynch yellow jersey for Sunday's circuit, leading the field by 6:14 in GC. Team Lipton is 14:22 in front in Team GC ahead of nearest rival Team Biovail.
Armstrong will also don the TransCore Queen of the Mountain polka-dot sprint jersey on Sunday, while Navigator's Glenn Chadwick will continue to wear the Pennsylvania Coal Producer's men's sprint polka-dot jersey.
Thursday stage winner Tina Pic of Team Colavita Cooking Light will wear the UPS women's sprint winner's jersey on Saturday, while Navigator's Bernard VanUlden will don the Pennsylvania Turnpike men's sprint jersey.
Sunday's criterium will conclude seven days of racing and this year's International Tour de Toona.
Men's teams in close fight;
women remain in 1-2-3 order
MARTINSBURG, PA – July 28, 2006: Just 59 seconds separate the top four men's teams in the 20th anniversary edition of the International Tour de Toona at the end of stage 5, the Hoss's Martisnburg Road race as riders prepare to embark Saturday on the challenging 90-mile Boscov's Blair County Road Race. A stage win by Navigator's Insurance Team's Bernard VanUlden who finished the 80-mile Firday course in 2:53:06 was not enough to strip the Echo/Giant Eagle overall leader's Jersey from Karl Menzies of Health Net Pro Cycling Team who led Target Training's Frank Pipp by nine seconds at the end of the day.
Team results are even closer, with Colavita Suter Home Cycling Team just six seconds ahead of Navigator's Insurance. Health Net Pro Cycling Team and Toyota-United Pro Cyling are in the hunt, laying just 29 and 32 seconds back respectively, and Target Training Team is not much further back, at 59 seconds off the overall winning pace.
There were no changes in the first three places overall in the women's 80-mile trek, with Kristin Armstrong of Team Lipton continuing to wear the yellow Merrill Lynch leader's jersey. The stage win was by Brook Miller of PABW Powered by TIBC, who paced the 80-mile rural course in 3:21:45 to lead a pack of six riders 41 seconds ahead of the nearest field finishers.
Team Lipton continues to lead the women's team GC by 3:25, and Friday's results moved Webcor Platinum Women's Cycling Team into the top three just behind Team Biovail.
Glen Chadwick of Navigator's Insurance captured the Pennsylvania Coal Producer's King of the Mountain Jersey, while the TransCore Queen of the Mountain Jersey went to Rachael Heal of Victory Brewing Cycling.
Thursday stage winner Tina Pic of Team Colavita Cooking Light will wear the UPS women's sprint winner's jersey on Saturday, while VanUlden will don the Pennsylvania Turnpike men's sprint jersey.