( CNN ) -- World champion Thor Hushovd is the new leader of the Tour de France after his Garmin-Cervelo team won Sunday 's second stage team time-trial . The 33-year-old Norwegian , a winner of eight Tour stages , as well as twice taking the green points jersey for best sprinter , leads British teammate David Millar in the overall classification after the pair helped Garmin win the 23km stage around Les Essarts in a time of 24 minutes , 48 seconds . BMC Racing , Team Sky and Team Leopard finished second , third and fourth respectively , just four seconds behind Garmin , with HTC-Highroad another second behind in fifth place . Tour champion Contador deserves respect . Philippe Gilbert , who wore yellow after winning Saturday 's opening stage , has dropped down to 30th in the standings after his Omega Pharma-Lotto team finished 39 seconds behind in 10th place . Hushovd takes yellow courtesy of finishing above Millar in Saturday 's opening stage , where he came home six seconds behind Gilbert in third place . Australian Cadel Evans , twice a runner-up in the Tour , lies third overall , just a second behind the Garmin duo , with Briton Geraint Thomas leading a host of riders who are four seconds adrift . Hushovd , who has worn the yellow jersey three times previously , told reporters : `` It was a big dream of mine to pull on the yellow jersey as world champion , so you can imagine how happy I feel . `` We trained hard for this event and spoke beforehand of about what we had to do , and what to avoid , '' he added . However , it proved another disastrous day for defending champion Alberto Contador , who is already playing catch-up as he attempts to win the race for a fourth time . The 28-year-old Spaniard , who is trying to become the first rider since Marco Pantani in 1998 to win the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France in the same year , lost over a minute on Saturday after getting held up by a crash late in the stage . And that deficit increased still further after his Saxo Bank team finished 28 seconds behind in eighth place . Contador is now trailing in 75th position in the general classification , one minute and 42 seconds behind Hushovd . However , Crucially , he is now 1:41 and 1:38 behind Evans and Andy Schleck , who share the past four runners-up places in the race .
Thor Hushovd wears the yellow jersey in the Tour de France after stage two . Photograph: Defending champion Alberto Contador is trailing in 75th position overall .