Sweden's Mikael Lundberg lived up to his own hype to claim a second Inteco Russian Open title in four years on Sunday.

Lundberg, winner in Moscow in 2005, boasted after his second round that: "I feel that I don't have to beat anyone around here - they have to beat me."

And the 34-year-old was proved correct after a final round of 68 gave him a 21-under-par total at Le Meridien Moscow Country Club and a two-shot victory over Spain's Jose Manuel Lara (64).

England's Benn Barham birdied the last to finish third on 18 under with Norway's Jan Are Larsen a shot further back in fourth. Former world amateur number one Jamie Moul, one off the lead overnight, could only manage a closing 73 to fall back into a tie for sixth.

"This is my absolute favourite place, everything is great here," said Lundberg, who lost his card in 2006 but returned to the tour via the Challenge Tour last year.

"The worst part is you come here and it feels like I always play well and I should do well, so you put a lot of pressure on yourself and you wonder when you are going to screw up!"

That looked like being on the 15th hole when, after pulling his drive into the trees, Lundberg hit a tree with his recovery attempt and had to hack out down the fairway with his third shot.

However, he then pitched to seven feet and holed for a vital par before making birdies on the next two holes to have the luxury of playing the last with a two-shot lead.

"I didn't play good at all," Lundberg told Sky Sports.

"I didn't want to make any mistakes and just tried to play it safe until Lara went in front and I loosened up a bit.

"On 15 I hit a terrible drive in the trees but managed to save par somehow and I holed two great putts on 16 and 17. The save on 15 turned everything around. If I don't make that I'm behind and have no chance."

Lundberg had missed the cut in his previous two events and failed to register a single top-10 finish in 2008, but takes home the first prize of £166,000 and a two-year tour exemption.

"I'm pretty satisfied with my game, I just had not put the scores together," he added.

"I just somehow screwed up on one or two holes every tournament.

"I told my coach and everyone back home that the game was there and hopefully it would all turn around this week, and it did."

Collated final round scores & totals in the European Tour, Inteco Russian Open Golf Championship 2008, Le Meridien Moscow G & CC, Moscow, Russia

(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 72):

267 Mikael Lundberg (Swe) 67 64 68 68

269 Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 67 68 70 64

270 Benn Barham 69 68 65 68

271 Jan Are Larsen (Nor) 68 65 72 66

272 David Drysdale 68 71 69 64

273 Jamie Moul 68 68 64 73, Darren Fichardt (Rsa) 66 71 66 70, Lloyd Saltman 69 70 66 68

274 Robert Rock 68 64 71 71, Soren Juul (Den) 69 68 69 68, Sam Little 70 69 70 65

275 Michiel Bothma (Rsa) 68 68 66 73, Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 68 73 68 66, Gareth Paddison (Nzl) 68 71 69 67, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 70 68 68 69, Danny Willett 69 66 69 71

276 Craig Lee 71 67 69 69, Lee Slattery 70 67 68 71, Carl Suneson (Spa) 67 68 71 70, Paul Waring 69 72 69 66, Jamie Donaldson 70 68 72 66, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 73 64 71 68

277 Shiv Kapur (Ind) 67 70 69 71, Stephen Gallacher 69 72 66 70, Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe) 69 68 71 69, Marcel Siem (Ger) 69 71 69 68, Markus Brier (Aut) 71 69 70 67

278 Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 71 67 70 70, Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe) 68 69 72 69

279 Henrik Nystrom (Swe) 70 70 69 70, Garry Houston 67 71 71 70, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 67 64 72 76, Luis Claverie (Spa) 67 68 73 71, Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 67 67 74 71, Robert Dinwiddie 70 67 72 70, Andrew Marshall 67 69 72 71, Tom Whitehouse 72 70 71 66, James Kamte (Rsa) 71 69 68 71, David Higgins 72 70 68 69

280 Christian Nilsson (Swe) 72 67 70 71, Mark Foster 71 68 69 72, Ignacio Sanchez-Palencia (Spa) 68 66 73 73

281 Richard Bland 69 69 71 72, David Carter 65 73 76 67, Steve Alker (Nzl) 73 67 71 70, Adilson Da Silva (Bra) 69 73 68 71, Rob Harris 73 69 70 69, Rafael Echenique (Arg) 72 69 68 72, Steven Uzzell 74 68 68 71, Philip Golding 70 72 70 69

282 Ben Mason 68 69 72 73, Guido Van Der Valk (Ned) 70 72 65 75, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 74 68 69 71

283 Joakim Backstrom (Swe) 65 73 76 69, Kyron Sullivan 71 71 70 71, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 72 70 67 74, Stuart Manley 72 68 72 71, Steven O'Hara 71 71 71 70

284 Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 70 70 70 74, Juan Abbate (Arg) 68 71 75 70, Gary Orr 71 67 75 71, Peter Whiteford 68 74 72 70

285 Christopher Hanell (Swe) 71 71 71 72

286 Sebastien Delagrange (Fra) 71 71 69 75, Gary Murphy 69 72 73 72

287 Andre Bossert (Swi) 70 68 76 73, Johan Skold (Swe) 68 72 73 74

288 Roope Kakko (Fin) 65 73 72 78

289 Phil Worthington 70 71 72 76

291 Peter Baker 71 71 72 77

292 Gareth Davies 68 74 77 73, Fredrik Henge (Swe) 65 77 71 79, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa) 74 68 75 75