September 5, 2004 – Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo took charge with 200m to go in Stage 2’s final sprint winning over Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile in second, followed by Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank and Stuart O’Grady (Aus) Cofidis. Max van Heeswijk (Ned) US Postal-Berry Floor takes over the leader’s jersey from his teammate Floyd Landis, by virtue of the 6 bonus seconds he picked up in the first sprint. Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal-Berry Floor moves into second overall.

Results

1. Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 5.02.05
2. Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile
3. Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank
4. Stuart O’Grady (Aus) Cofidis
5. Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step
6. Giosue Bonomi (Ita) Saeco
7. Antonio Cruz (USA) US Postal-Berry Floor
8. Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola
9. Erki Putsep (Est) Ag2r
10. Iñaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi

45. Michael Barry (Can) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor

General classification after stage 2

1. Max van Heeswijk (Ned) US Postal-Berry Floor
2. Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal-Berry Floor
3. Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 0.06
4. Michael Barry (Can) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor
5. Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor
6. Victor Hugo Peña (Col) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor
7. David Zabriskie (USA) US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor
8. Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.25
9. Tomas Konecny (Cze) T-Mobile Team 0.37
10. Santiago Botero (Col) T-Mobile Team