Tour de Okinawa, Cat 1.5Japan, November 12-14, 1999 |
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Courtesy of Miwako Sasaki The 11th Tour de Okinawa is three-day cycling event, held in the Southern Islands of Japan about 1500km from Tokyo. The event includes one "monocycle" event, 7 cycling events and 8 road races - a total of 1583 participants are listed to start. The UCI 1.5 event on the 14th of November is run over 200 km, and will have riders from Italy, Canada, America, Holland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Hong Kong's top rider, Kam-Po Wong, who recently successfully raced in the Commonwealth Bank Classic (Aus), has won the event twice, in 1995 and 1998. Other winners include Ken Hashikawa (Jpn) and Tomokazu Fujino (Jpn) in 1996 and 1997 respectively Men: 1 Hang Kan Koon (Hkg) Hong Kong National Team 2 Tomokazu Fujino (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 3 Ken Hashikawa (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 4 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 5 Yoshiyuki Abe (Jpn) Shimano Racing A 6 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Shimano Racing A 7 Osamu Sumida (Jpn) Shimano Racing A 8 Kyoshi Miura (Jpn) Ezak-JPCA 9 Masahiro Yasuhara (Jpn) Ezak-JPCA 10 Yasuhiro Nakajima (Jpn) Ezak-JPCA 11 Bram de Groot (Ned) Netherlands National Team 12 Remko Kramer (Ned) Netherlands National Team 13 Anno Pedersen (Ned) Netherlands National Team 14 Dominique Perras (Can) Canada National Team 15 Mark Walters (Can) Canada National Team 16 Charles Dionne (Can) Canada National Team 17 Jun Ihara (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo Racing Team 18 Yuichi Numata (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo Racing Team 19 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo Racing Team 20 Jim Rutberg (USA) USA National Team 21 Joshua Thornton (USA) USA National Team 22 Leuis Elliot (USA) USA National Team 23 Carlo Marino Bianchi (Ita) Riso Scotti Vinavil 24 Diego Ferrari (Ita) Riso Scotti Vinavil 25 Ivan Basso (Ita) Risoscotti Vinavil 26 Chih Hao Chen (Tpe) Chinese Taipei National Team 27 Chih Chieh Wen (Tpe) Chinese Taipei National Team 28 Hsiao Hua Yu (Tpe) Chinese Taipei National Team 29 Keita Seino (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearlizumi 30 Koki Shinbo (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearlizumi 31 Daisuke Sakuta (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearlizumi 32 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Soleil Kinan 33 Toshiyuki Nishiyama (Jpn) Soleil Kinan 34 Kojiro Nakagawa (Jpn) Soleil Kinan 35 Shinji Suzuki (Jpn) Inoac B-cks Irc 36 Taiji Tanaka (Jpn) Inoac B-cks Irc 37 Yasunori Kato (Jpn) Inoac B-cks Irc 38 Nobuo Tamaki (Jpn) Team Okinawa 39 Kentaro Higa (Jpn) Team Okinawa 40 Kazuki Unten (Jpn) Team Okinawa 41 Kentaro Eshita (Jpn) Nihon Daigaku A 42 Takashi Tsumuraya (Jpn) Nihon Daigaku A 43 Kohei Tsusue (Jpn) Nihon Daigaku A 44 Noboru Shimomura (Jpn) Fiets 45 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Team Limasons 46 Makoto Ijima (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearlizumi 47 Tetsuya Miki (Jpn) 48 Yasuhiro Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano Racing 49 Hisahumi Imanishi (Jpn) Shimano Racing 50 Hisashi Matsui (Jpn) Shimano Racing 51 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Racing 52 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Shimano Racing 53 Junichi Kikuta (Jpn) Shimano Racing 54 Shigeru Morishita (Jpn) Shimano Drinking 55 Junji Kita (Jpn) Kingsnorth Int 56 Takashi Yamada (Jpn) Inoac B-Cks Irc 57 Masahumi Yamane (Jpn) Team Limasons 58 Akira Ninuma (Jpn) Pine Hills '90 59 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Tonissteiner Colnago 60 Osamu Kurimura (Jpn) Ezak |jpca 61 Daisuke Nakayama (Jpn) Miyata Subaru Racing 62 Kenji Sakae (Jpn) Tulip Racing Team 63 Hiroshi Sakaguchi (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo Racing Team 64 Ken Akita (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo Racing Team 65 Takahiro Suwa (Jpn) Team ]yukirin 66 Hideto Yukinari (Jpn) Miyata Subaru Racing 67 Seiji Nakahori (Jpn) Osaka University 68 Akio Soga (Jpn) Club Angle 69 Yuji Suzuki (Jpn) Fiets 70 Kazuhiko Hiroshima (Jpn) Miyama Alesa C.C.Ota 71 Junichi Shibuya (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 72 Kozo Fujita (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 73 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 74 Tetsuya Okada (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 75 Daisuke Hioki (Jpn) Team Gios 76 Seiji Mori (Jpn) Nihon Daigaku B 77 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Nihon Daigaku B 78 Yuki Saito (Jpn) C DC Dota 79 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Nippon-Hodo Besson Chauures 80 Manabu Hirose (Jpn) Hokuriku University 81 Kazuyuki Manabe (Jpn) Miyata Subaru Racing Women: 401 Miho Oki (Jpn) Chebro Artnature 402 Kimberly Bruckner (USA) USA Ntl Team 403 Cecilia Potts (USA) USA Ntl Team 405 Janneke Vos (Ned) Netherlands Ntl Team 406 Andrea Basman (Ned) Netherlands Ntl Team 407 Melanie Dorion (Can) Canada Ntl Team 408 Sandy Espeseth (Can) Canada Ntl Team 409 Miyoko Karami (Jpn) Inoac B-Cks Irc 410 Kaori Iida (Jpn) Chebro Artnature 411 Kanako Itou (Jpn) Team Limasons 412 Tomoko Sekiya (Jpn) Chiba Iryo Fukishi Schoolkiy 413 Tomoko Fukumori (Jpn) Nakagawa Fet 414 Kumi Sugimura (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi 415 Toyoko Funahashi (Jpn) Chiba Iryo Fukishi Schoolkiy 416 Rina Yasui (Jpn) Windfriend 417 Emi Onoyama (Jpn) Equipe U Racing 418 Makiko Yamaguchi (Jpn) Iwai Syokai Cycle Club 419 Setsuko Kotaka (Jpn) L..P.N Kantou 420 Nae Kubohori (Jpn) Gsnoko 421 Ryoko Kiyofuji (Jpn) Tsusue Cycle Sports Club 422 Emiko Muranaka (Jpn) Chiba Iryo Fukishi Schoolkiy 423 Keiko Shiobara (Jpn)Report: Courtesy of Miwako Sisaki 23 year-old Canadian Mark Walters (Navigators) has won the UCI Cat 1.5 Tour de Okinawa, having attacked just 200 meters from the finish. His time for the event was 5 hours 8 minutes and 56 seconds. In the 50 km International Women's road race, it was the Dutch cyclist Janneke Vos who won in a 14 rider final sprint in the time of 1 hour 19 minutes and 27 seconds. The Tour de Okinawa was a difficult race for the European riders - the European season had finished at the Giro di Lombardia, so many riders had not raced for 4 weeks. Even the riders and directors that came to the Japan cup said that it was difficult for them racing 2 weeks after Lombardia. The Netherlands National Team (Rabobank amateur team) trained for a week before the race, but they didn't perform well in the Tour. The Tour de Okinawa organisers want to increase the UCI classification of the race (now 1.5), but it is very difficult due to this schedule. Men's Champion Road Race - 200 km Avs: 38.84 km/h 1. Mark Walters (Can) Canada National Team 5.08.56 2. Yasuhiro Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano Racing 0.04 3. Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 1.27 4. Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Shimano Racing A 1.29 5. Carlo Marino Bianchi (Ita) Riso Scotti Vinavil 6. Koki Shinbo (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi 1.30 7. Kyoshi Miura (Jpn) Ezak-JPCA 8. Osamu Kurimura (Jpn) Ezak-JPCA 1.31 9. Kojiro Nakagawa (Jpn) Soleil Kinan 10. Yoshiyuki Abe (Jpn) Shimano Racing A 11. Hideto Yukinari (Jpn) Miyata Subaru Racing 12. Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 13. Hisahumi Imanishi (Jpn) Shimano Racing 1.32 14. Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo Racing Team 1.33 15. Kazuyuki Manabe (Jpn) Miyata Subaru Racing 1.35 16. Yasuhiro Nakajima (Jpn) Ezak-JPCA 1.36 17. Shinji Suzuki (Jpn) Inoac B-cks Irc 1.39 18. Makoto Ijima (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izum 5.57 19. Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Shimano Racing 6.31 20. Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Team Limasons 6.32 21. Kenji Sakae (Jpn) Tulip Racing Team 7.03 22. Clark Sheehan (USA) USA National Team 7.48 23. Hiroshi Sakaguchi (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo Racing Team 9.13 24. Arain Turicchia (Ita) Risoscotti Vinavil 9.14 25. Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Soleil Kinan 10.17 26. Masahiro Yasuhara (Jpn) Ezak-JPCA 10.31 27. Yuichi Numata (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo Racing Team 10.33 28. Manabu Hirose (Jpn) Hokuriku University 29. Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Tonissteiner Colnago 30. Remko Kramer (Ned) Netherlands National Team 31. Jun Ihara (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo Racing Team 10.34 32. Keita Seino (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi 33. Hisashi Matsui (Jpn) Shimano Racing 34. Taiji Tanaka (Jpn) Inoac B-cks Irc 35. Kentaro Eshita (Jpn) Nihon Daigaku A 36. Charles Dionne (Can) Canada National Team 37. Anno Pedersen (Ned) Netherlands NationalTeam 38. Nobuo Tamaki (Jpn) Team Okinawa 39. Tomokazu Fujino (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 40. Jim Rutberg (USA) USA National Team 10.36 41. Kohei Tsusue (Jpn) Nihon Daigaku A 10.37 42. Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Nippon-Hodo Besson Chauures 10.38 43. Yasunori Kato (Jpn) Inoac B-cks Irc 10.46 44. Daisuke Hioki (Jpn) Team Gios 10.54 45. Yuji Suzuki (Jpn) Fiets 11.21 46. Dominique Perras (Can) Canada National Team 11.57 47. Bram de Groot (Ned) Netherlands National Team 48. Tetsuya Okada (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 15.26 49. Yuki Saito (Jpn)C.C.Ota 16.52 50. Hang Kan Koon (Hkg) Hong Kong National Team 18.25 51. Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Racing 13.34 52. Ken Akita (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo Racing Team 20.42 53. Kozo Fujita (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 20.43 54. Seiji Mori (Jpn) Nihon Daigaku B 55. Takashi Tsumuraya (Jpn) Nihon Daigaku A 56. Daisuke Sakuta (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi 20.44 57. Junichi Kikuta (Jpn) Shimano Racing 58. Hsiao Hua Yu (Tpe) Chinese Taipei National Team 59. Kazuhiko Hiroshima (Jpn) Miyama Alesa C.C.Ota 23.55 60. Chih Chieh Wen (Tpe) Chinese Taipei National Team 24.04 61. Daisuke Nakayama (Jpn) Miyata Subaru Racing 62. Diego Ferrari (Ita) Riso Scotti Vinavil 24.08 63. Chih Hao Chen (Tpe) Chinese Taipei National Team 31.55 64. Masahumi Yamane (Jpn) Team Limasons 37.41 65. Shigeru Morishita (Jpn) Shimano Drinking 38.01 66. Noboru Shimomura (Jpn) Fiets Number of starters : 77 Number of finishers : 66 Abandons : 11 Modification of starting list . *USA National Team: Joshua Thornton replaced by Clark Sheehan . *Riso Scotti Vinavil: Ivan Basso replaced by Arain Turicchia (Ita) *Japanese Ken Hashikawa , Takashi Yamada , Junichi Shibuya and Toshiyuki Nishiyama didn't start.Women's International Road Race - 50km Avs: 37.76 km/h 1. Jannke Vos (Ned) Netherlands National Team 1.19.27 2. Sandy Espeseth (Can) Canada National Team 3. Miho Oki (Jpn) Chebro Artnature 4. Rina Yasui (Jpn) Wind - Friend 5. Kaori Ida (Jpn) Chebro Artnature 0.01 6. Emi Onoyama (Jpn) Equipe U Racing 7. Tomoko Sekiya (Jpn) Chiba Iryo Fukushi School Kiyo 8. Kumi Sugimura (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi 9. Tomoko Fukumori (Jpn) Nakagawa FET 10. Emiko Muranaka (Jpn) Chiba Iryo Fukushi School Kiyo 11. Miyoko Karami (Jpn) Inoac B - CKS IRC 12. Kimbery Bruckner (Usa) USA National Team 13. Kanako Itou (Jpn) Team Limasons 14. Andrea Basman (Ned) Netherlands National Team 0.02 15. Keiko Shiobara (Jpn) Hot Staff 2.28 16. Nae Kubohori (Jpn) G.S.Noko 8.11 17. Setsuko Kotaka (Jpn) L.P.N.Kanto 18. Cecilia Potts (Usa) USA National Team 10.57 19. Toyoko Funahashi (Jpn) Chiba Iryo Fukushi School Kiyo 20. Makiko Yamaguchi (Jpn) Iwai Syokai Cycle Club 11.03 Number of starters : 20 Number of finishers : 20 |