FUZHOU, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Lv Xianjing from the Hengxiang cycling team retained both yellow and white jerseys in the second stage of the International Cycling Union (UCI) 2.1 Tour of Fuzhou on Thursday.
Lv continued to be the best Chinese rider and the top rider in the individual overall rankings with an overall time of 5:08:54.
"Our team goal is to secure the yellow jersey, so my teammates and I raced with tactics we planned in advance," said Lv. "We need to use our energy well and someone had to pull away at the right time."
Leon Rohde from the German national team won the stage by finishing in a time of 2:37:27, followed by Kaden Groves from China's Mitchelton-Bike Exchange team.
Joey van Rhee from the Netherlands' Monkey Town Continental team placed third, but managed to retain the green jersey as the best sprinter to first race through two sprint markers.
The second stage ran along the seashore in Changle, covering a distance of 115.7 km, with the two sprints at the 33.4km and 62.8km marks.
As there were no climbs in the stage, Tesfay Hanibal from the Eritrean national team kept his polka-dot jersey from the opening stage as the best climber.
The top three teams in stage two are Monkey Town Continental, Aisan Racing from Japan and AC Sparta Praha from the Czech Republic.
The Eritrean national team leads the overall rankings after two days of racing.
On Friday, the third stage of the five-day race will start and finish at the Lianjiang Sports Park for a distance of 97.1 kilometers.
