The track from Qinghai Lake to Bird Island was level track, there was only one climbing point in it. But the race was not easy, it was raining from the early morning, the day was colder than before.
It was a chance in this stage, the riders found any time to break through, but they were caught by the peloton soon. In the last 10KM there was an accident happened in the back of the peloton, many riders were affected, but it doesn’t matter.
At the end Yuriy Metlushenko (Amore & Vita-Conad) got the winner, Boris Shpilevskiy (Russian National Team) was the second, and Ruslan Tleubayev (Kazakhstan National Team) was the third. Kiel Reijnen (Jelly Belly) got the green jersey.