Tony Martin netted an impressive double victory for HTC-Highroad in the Volta ao Algarve in Portugal on Sunday, winning both the final time trial and the overall classification.

The German national time trial champion and 2010 World Time Trial bronze medallist completed the 17 kilometre course looping around the city of Portimao in a time of 21 minutes and 53 seconds, five seconds ahead of Holland’s Lieuwe Wiestra.

Overall Martin finished with a 32 second advantage over HTC-Highroad team-mate Tejay Van Garderen, whose solid sixth place in the final time trial guaranteed the American second overall in the final podium of the Tour of the Algarve.

“It all went really well,” HTC-Highroad sports director Brian Holm said,” the course was pretty tough, a few tricky corners, but when Tony’s in the kind of form he’s got right now, to be honest, that didn’t matter much, they could have thrown anything at him and he’ll still have done well.”

“Tejay also did a great time, but we weren’t surprised, we could see from the training camp that both of them were in really good shape.”

“Still, we did all the reconnaissance work this morning, the whole team checked out the course, and Tony did it one more time alone just to be 100 percent sure. After that it was just a question of crossing our fingers that they didn’t puncture when they did the time trial itself.”

“We could see on the split times they gave over the radio that they were going fast right from the start, and they kept that up all the way through.”

In a great day’s racing for HTC-Highroad, Martin’s double victory and Van Garderen’s runner’s up spot on the final podium came just a few hours after team-mate Mark Cavendish clinched the last stage of the Tour of Oman.