SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Tom Boonen from Team Quick Step crossed the finish line first during the second stage of the Amgen Tour of California.

The race came to a dramatic end as Boonen, of Belgium, whipped around Juan Jose Haedo of Team CSC to complete the race.

Gerolsteiner rider Heinrich Haussler finished second in the second stage of the tour, and Rock Racings rider Mario Cipollini finished third.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger helped present the stage winners' jerseys after the race.

While Boonen had the glory for today's victory, the Tour has a new leader in Tyler Farrar of Team Slipstream, who picked up enough bonus points to get the yellow jersey, which he'll wear Wednesday during the third stage of the Amgen Tour of California.

Riders pedaled down rain-covered streets in Winters, Dixon and West Sacramento as they rolled into downtown Sacramento just after 3 p.m.

It was a sprint to the finish around Sacramento.

Four miles in, Scott Nydam of the BMC Pro Cycling Team broke away on a solo escapade that lasted over 90 miles.

Nydam built a 15-minute lead on the field and won all the sprint and mountain points.

But after 90 miles in the lead, the peloton caught up to Nydam outside Woodland.

Riders departed Santa Rosa under rainy skies this morning en route to Sacramento.

Showers greeted bike race fans this afternoon in Sacramento as riders arrived at the Capitol to finish the 116-mile second stage of the event.

The field includes some of the best cyclists in the world.

Haedo sprinted to victory Monday in a the first stage of the tour, which covered 97 miles from Sausilito to Santa Rosa.

Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland retained the overall lead.

Cancellara rode to a nearly five-second victory Sunday over Bradley Wiggins of Great Britain in the race prologue in Palo Alto.

Stage three starts Wednesday in Modesto for the first time ever.

The cyclists will circle downtown before they continue on to San Jose.

Stage four begins in Seaside and takes a straight shot south to San Luis Obispo.

Another time trial is set up in Solvang, before the next stage which starts in Santa Barbara and heads into Santa Clarita.

The 650-mile event concludes Feb. 24 with 93-mile seventh stage from Santa Clarita to Pasadena.