Cancellara leads Tour of Spain with seventh stage winSwiss time-trial specialist 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 took the golden jersey as overall leader of the Tour of Spain Spain, Span. España (āspä`nyä), officially Kingdom of Spain, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 40,341,000), 194,884 sq mi (504,750 sq km), including the Balearic and Canary islands, SW Europe. on Saturday Saturday: see week; Sabbath. after winning the seventh stage of the race, a 30-kilometre (18.6-mile) individual time trial. "The most difficult part was the weather conditions. I tried to go as fast as the Formula One. It was a good test for me, a great race," said the Swiss, in a reference to the rain that plagued the stage and that it took place on the Formula One circuit. The 28-year-old also won the only other time trial of the race so far, a 4.8-kilometre course that began and ended in the Dutch town of Assen Assen (äs`ən), city (1994 pop. 52,268), capital of Drenthe prov., NE Netherlands. It is an industrial, administrative, and agricultural center. The city's principal growth began in 1945. . 
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