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Italian takes Japan Cup Courtesy of Miwako Sasaki and Maric Shoji Sergio Barbero, the 30 year-old Italian rider (Mercatone-Uno Bianchi team) won the Japan Cup road race in Utunomya city in Japan on Sunday, October 31. He finished ahead of the latest winner of the Giro di Lombardia, Mirko Celestino (Polti) and Sebastien Demarbaix (Lotto-Mobistar) in the final sprint. The course was made up of 10 laps of a 14.1 km circuit, followed by one lap of a 10.3 km circuit. Results 151.3 km, avs: 36.21 km/h 1. Sergio Barbero (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Bianchi 4.10.43 2. Mirko Celestino (Ita) Team Polti 0.01 3. Sebastien Demarbaix (Bel) Lotto-Mobistar 0.06 4. Xavier Jan (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 0.17 5. Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Sumita-Ravanello-Pearl Izumi 6. Marco Velo (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Bianchi 2.43 7. Dominique Perras (Can) Post Swiss 3.11 8. Franck Perque (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 3.12 9. Roger Beuchat (Sui) Post Swiss 4.16 10. Jean-Denis Vandenbroucke (Bel) Lotto-Mobistar 11. Hisafumi Imanishi (Jpn) Shimano Racing Team 4.17 12. Denis Lunghi (Ita) Team Polti 4.19 13. Hideto Yukinari (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 4.26 14. Osamu Sumida (Jpn) Shimano Racing Team 5.00 15. Fumio Shiogami (Jpn) Ycst 5.30 16. Fabian De Waele (Bel) Lotto-Mobistar 5.35 17. Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Jpca 18. Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Racing Team 5.36 19. Yoshiyuki Abe (Jpn) Shimano Racing Team 20. Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Soreil-Kinan 21. Pietro Zucconi (Sui) Post Swiss 22. Kyoshi Miura (Jpn) Ezak 23. Shinji Suzuki (Jpn) Jpca 5.37 24. Junichi Shibuya (Jpn) Team Bridgestone-Anchor 25. Kazuyuki Manabe (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 26. Toshiyuki Nishiyama (Jpn) Soreil-Kinan 27. Daisuke Sakuta (Jpn) Sumita-Ravanello-Pearl Izumi 28. Daniel Schnider (Sui) Post Swiss 5.38 29. Kojiro Nakagawa (Jpn) Soreil-Kinan 30. Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Team Polti 5.39 31. Daisuke Nakayama (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 32. Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Ycst 33. Stephane Krafft (Fra) Cofidis 5.40 34. Oscar Pellicioli (Ita) Team Polti 35. Koki Shinbo (Jpn) Sumita-Ravanello-Pearl Izumi 5.42 36. Marcello Siboni (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Bianchi 37. Gianmario Ortenzi (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Bianchi 38. Kozo Fujita (Jpn) Team Bridgestone-Anchor 5.51 39. Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis 8.33 40. Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Lotto-Mobistar 10.45 41. Masahiro Yasuhara (Jpn) Ezak 11.49 Mountain prize 3 laps : Gianmario Ortenzi (Ita) Mercatone uno-Bianchi 6 laps : Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone-Anchor 9 laps : Gianmario Ortenzi (Ita) Mercatone uno-Bianchi *At the mountain prize at 6 laps , Ortenzi was the first rider, but he was disqualified for obstructing the second rider, Fukushima who was then awarded the prize. Number of starters : 73 (6 Trade teams and 9 Japanese teams) Number of finishers : 41 Number finishing after the deadline : 6 Abandons : 26 Abandons (Trade Team Riders) Peter Wuyts (Bel) Lotto-Mobistar Massimo Podenzana(Ita) Mercatone Uno-Bianchi Jerome Delbove (Fra) Cofidis Anthony Rokia (Fra) Cofidis Grzegorz Gwiazdowski (Pol) Cofidis Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux Yvon Ledanois (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux Sven Montgomery (Sui) Post Swiss Finishing After The Deadline (Trade Team Riders) Mauro Zinetti (Ita) Team Polti |