Rotorua's Sam Phipps has achieved a career highlight after winning stage two of the 2016 SBS Bank Tour of Southland. This has been the biggest dream of my cycling career, to win a stage on the Tour of Southland," Phipps said. Phipps jumped off the front of the break bunch to claim the stage, with Frame finishing second and taking the tour leaders' yellow jersey from his Kia Motors-Ascot Park Hotel team mate Travis McCabe. Phipps paid credit to the effort by Frame, a 2015 world team pursuit champion, throughout the stage. If it wasn't for him it would have been hard to stay away, so full credit to him," Phipps said.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 01, 2016 04:39 UTC