Rabon wins Vuelta a Murcia title

Rabon, who had set up overall victoryin Saturday's time-trial when he won it, saw Menchov finish second, 38seconds behind with British hope Bradley Wiggins third overall 53seconds behind.

America's seven-time Tour de France championLance Armstrong finished seventh overall, over seven minutes off thepace after a disappointing time-trial on Saturday where he had come inover a minute slower than Rabon.

The 121km fifth and final stagewas won by Dutchman Theo Bos who finished ahead of Rabobank's GraemeBrown and Team Netapp's Daniel Schorn.

“It was really a fastfinal and that is really good for me. Brown was in my wheel and I knewthat I had to watch him. With 300 meters to go I opened the sprint andsaw Brown coming out of my wheel. When he tried to pass me Iaccelerated and he was not able to pass me and came back in my wheel,said Bos.”

For Australia's Brown it was yet another runnerplacing at the Tour of Murcia after finishing second on the first twostages behind Garmin Transitions Robbie Hunter.

Another Australian, Milram's Luke Roberts, who won the third stage, finished in 9th place on the final general classification.

Stage 5: 121.1km, Murcia.

1Theo Bos (Ned) Cervelo 2:43:35, 2 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank, 3 DanielSchorn (Aut) Team Netapp, 4 Valentin Iglinskiy (Kaz) Astana, 5 HenningBommel (Ger) German National Team, 6 Russell Downing (GBr) Team Sky, 7Roger Kluge (Ger) Team Milram, 8 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Netapp,9 Manuel Anton (Spa) Spanish National Team, 10 Ian Wilkilson (GBr)Endura Racing.

Final general classification:

1 Frantisek Rabon(Cze) HTC - Columbia 16:01:24, 2 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 0:00:38,3 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:53, 4 Andreas Klöden (Ger)Radioshack 0:00:57, 5 Josep Jufre (Spa) Astana 0:01:21, 6 Stef Clement(Ned) Rabobank 0:01:23, 7 Lance Armstrong (USA) Radioshack, 8 PieterWeening (Ned) Rabobank 0:01:41, 9 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Milram0:01:42, 10 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice 0:01:59.