Cancellara delivers home win for SwissSwiss time-trial Olympic champion Fabian Cancellara Fabian Cancellara (born March 18, 1981) is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. A time trial specialist, he is the current, and two time, World Time Trial Champion. In 2006 he also became the only second Swiss winner of the Classic one-day race Paris-Roubaix, following Heiri won the Tour of Switzerland on Sunday after winning the ninth and final stage of the race here, a 38.5 kilometres time-trial. Cancellara beat Germany's Tony Martin - winner of Saturday's penultimate stage and second in the final stage - by 2minutes 2seconds in the overall standings while Roman Kreuziger Roman Kreuziger (born May 6, 1986 in Moravská Trebová) is an Czech professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour Team Liquigas. He turned pro in 2006 with Team Liquigas after a successful amateur career which saw him win the Junior Road World Championships in 2004 and the of the Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. was third 2min 24sec adrift. It was Cancellara's first major stage race win since the Tirreno-Adriatico on 2008. Long-time overall leader Tadej Valjavec Tadej Valjavec (born April 13, 1977 in Kranj) is a Slovenian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Lampre-Fondital. He is well known as a good climber due to his rides on mountain stages in the Giro d'Italia. of Slovenia knew his game was up early on as Cancellara, who was only four seconds behind him going into Sunday's stage, and was soon behind the pace and finished 59th on the stage some 3 minutes and 49 seconds adrift. 
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