5th Tour of Japan - 2.4Japan, May 21-28, 20001999 Results Start List Past Winners The Stages
Total: 868.8 km PreviewBy Miwako Sasaki The 5th Tour of Japan runs from Sunday, May 21 for a full week, ending May 28. It is a six stage race, with two rest/transfer days. This year, there will be one first Division and five second Division trade teams from Europe , 4 national teams, and 7 domestic club teams taking part in the race. Polish rider Piotr Wadecki (Mroz) who recently won the Peace Race, is one of the main favourites, coming 5th in this race in 1997. His team, Mroz-Supradyn, will not get number 1-6 in the race as these are not given out, even though they are the defending champions (Andrzej Sypytkowski won last year). They will again be very strong this year, with 18 victories to date in 2000. The Italian Alexia Alluminio team were disapointed with a non-start in the Giro, so they decided to come to Japan hoping that Nicola Minali will get a stage win . Of course, the Swiss Mauro Gianetti (Vini Caldirola) is another popular rider, as he won the Japan Cup in 1996 when it was a World Cup race), held on the same parcours as stage 5, at Utunomiya. Start List:Vini Caldirola-Sidermec Mroz-Supradyn
11 Mauro Gianetti (Swi) 21 Dariusz Skoczylas (Pol)
12 Guido Trentin (Ita) 22 Grzegorz Wajs (Pol)
13 Zoran Klemencic (Slo) 23 Eugen Wacker (Kgz)
14 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) 24 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol)
15 Mauro Radaelli (Ita) 25 Jacek Mickiewicz (Pol)
26 Piotr Wadecki (Pol)
Team Gerolsteiner Wustenrot-ZVVZ
31 Rene Haselbacher (Aut) 41 Jaroslav Bilek (Cze)
32 Thomas Muhlbacher (Aut) 42 Petr Bencik (Cze)
33 Scott McGrory (Aus) 43 Richard Faltus (Cze)
34 Andreas Sauerborn (Ger) 44 Stanislav Tancer (Cze)
35 Andreas Walzer (Ger) 45 Allan Iacuone (Aus)
46 Daniel Loprais (Cze)
Tonissteiner-Colnago Alexia Alluminio
51 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) 61 Nicola Minali (Ita)
52 Niclas Ekstrom (Swe) 62 Stefano Della Santa (Ita)
53 Jonas Emmanuelson (Swe) 63 Leandro Fioroni (Ita)
54 Morgan Fox (Irl) 64 Daniele Righi (Ita)
55 Bjorn Cornelissen (Ned) 65 Giacomo Battistel (Ita)
56 Gunther Cuylits (Bel) 66 Andrea Brognara (Ita)
Kazakstan Australia
71 Vadim Kravchenko (Kaz) 81 Nic Brown (Aus)
72 Mikhail Teteryuk (Kaz) 82 Baden Cooke (Aus)
73 Maxim Gurov (Kaz) 83 Allan Davis (Aus)
74 Pavel Nevdakh (Kaz) 84 Scott Davis (Aus)
75 Kairat Baigudinov (Kaz) 85 Ben Godridge (Aus)
76 Mikhail Andreyef (Kaz) 86 Michael Rogers (Aus)
New Zealand Korea
91 Glen Mitchell (NZl) 101 Jae-Min Ha (Kor)
92 Graeme Miller (NZl) 102 Ho Chon (Kor)
93 Brendon Vesty (NZl) 103 Kyung-Jin Kim (Kor)
94 Scott Guyton (NZl) 104 Tae-Chan Chang (Kor)
95 Warren Clark (NZl) 105 Dae-Hong Chun (Kor)
96 Bryce Shapley (NZl) 106 In-Chan Park (Kor)
Shimano Racing Team Bridgestone Anchor
111 Yoshiyuki Abe (Jpn) 121 Tomokazu Fujino (Jpn)
112 Osamu Sumida (Jpn) 122 Ken Hashikawa (Jpn)
113 Hisafumi Imanishi (Jpn) 123 Junichi Shibuya (Jpn)
114 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) 124 Tetsuya Okada (Jpn)
115 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) 125 Kozo Fujita (Jpn)
116 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) 126 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn)
Sumita Ravanello Pearlizumi Kinan Le Soleil
131 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) 141 Kyoshi Miura (Jpn)
132 Koki Shinbo (Jpn) 142 Yasuhiro Nakajima (Jpn)
133 Naoki Takamura (Jpn) 143 Kojiro Nakagawa (Jpn)
134 Daisuke Sakuta (Jpn) 144 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn)
135 Taiji Tanaka (Jpn) 145 Masahiro Yasuhara (Jpn)
136 Steve Gaffney (Can) 146 Koji Nagano (Jpn)
Aisan Racing Team Racing Team Miyata - Subaru Racing Team
151 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) 161 Hideto Yukinari (Jpn)
152 Shinji Suzuki (Jpn) 162 Kazuyuki Manabe (Jpn)
153 Hiroshi Sakaguchi (Jpn) 163 Osamu Kurimura (Jpn)
154 Ken Akita (Jpn) 164 Daisuke Nakayama (Jpn)
155 Kentaro Eshita (Jpn) 165 Masamichi Yamamoto (Jpn)
156 Yuichi Numata (Jpn) 166 Masakazu Mori (Jpn)
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171 Naokiyo Hashisako (Jpn)
172 Takeshi Okamoto (Jpn)
173 Hitoshi Takahashi (Jpn)
174 Nobuo Tamaki (Jpn)
175 Eiko Takahashi (Jpn)
176 Koichi Tetsusawa (Jpn)
Past Winners1996 Jean-Philippe Duracka (Fra) French national team 1997 Bart Bowen (USA) Saturn 1998 Frank McCormack (USA) Saturn 1999 Andrzej Sypytkowski (Pol) Mroz |