9th Japan Cup - 1.3Utsunomiya, Japan, October 29, 20001999 Results Preview Start list Results Past Winners Lampre rides to a 1-2-3 in the wet
Italian Massimo Codol (Lampre) won the 9th Japan Cup in 1-2 finish with his teammate, Gabriele Missaglia, after they attacked on lap one and rode away from the bunch. In third place, making it a Lampre triple, was Marco Serpellini who finished alone, over 1 minute behind his colleagues. It an extremely wet day for the first time in the history of this race and the temperature was 10 degrees at the top of mountain. 81 riders started the race, but just 28 finished. However, for most of them the race was over after the first lap! Normally a race starts slowly, but the rain the riders extra careful. When one Japanese rider attacked at the end of the first lap, Codol and Missaglia followed him. "We were afraid of a fall on the descent, so we followed," said Codol said after race. 6 riders made the break,including Codol, Missaglia, Thierry Loder (Cofidis), Ken Hashikawa and Tetsuya Okada (Team Bridgestone Anchor), and Tomoya Kano (Shimano). They quickly gained 1'30 on the peloton, and only Fabien De Waele (Lotto), Marco Serpellini (Lampre), and Steven Kleynen (Farm Frites) followed them. Although Serpellini and Kleynen joined the first group, De Waele (Lotto), who was Andrei Tchmil's lieutenant, broke his bicycle and was delayed. The first group now contained 8 men, and they continued to extend their gap which was almost 10 minutes at 6 laps. Then, Codol and Missaglia attacked from the front group with 1 kilometre to go to the finish of the 6th lap. The two Lampre riders got a gap quickly, 40 seconds at the top of the mountain. At the end, the two Lampre men finished first without sprinting, and Codol, who worked well today, won the race. Later, Serpellini got 3rd place, so the podium was dominated by the pink Lampre colors! Andrei Tchmil, who was one of favorites for this race, lost his good lieutenant at 2 laps, Sebastien Demarbaix, who came 3rd last year. Demarbaix crashed his bicycle after Dewaele did and had to changed it. But Demarbaix had no bicycle on his team car, because a team only carries 2 extra bikes (because they must carry them on the plane). In the case of Lotto, one was for Tchmil, and one for another rider (Dewaele used it). So Tchmil couldn't carry out his tactics: he and his team couldn't catch the first group, and he finished 12 place, 11'53 behind the winner. Report courtesy of Miwako Sasaki, Japanese Cyclesport Results - 151.3 km1 Massimo Codol (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 4.16.34 (35.38 km/h) 2 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 0.01 3 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 1.11 4 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Farm Frites 4.14 5 Ken Hashikawa (Jap) Team Bridgestone Anchor 10.07 6 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jap) Aisan Kogyo 11.00 7 Yasuhiro Nakajima (Jap) Kinan Maruishi 11.31 8 Massimo Cigana (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 11.34 9 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis 11.36 10 Junichi Shibuya (Jap) Team Bridgestone Anchor 11.40 11 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jap) YCST 11.53 12 Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 13 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 12.07 14 Fabian De Waele (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 12.11 15 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 16 Satoshi Hirose (Jap) Nippon Hodo Racing Team 12.12 17 Dirk Ronellenfitsch (Ger) Farm Frites 18 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 12.13 19 Hisafumi Imanishi (Jap) Shimano Racing Team 20 Kazuya Okazaki (Jap) Kinan Maruishi 12.17 21 Masamichi Yamamoto (Jap) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 22 Kazuyuki Manabe (Jap) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 12.18 23 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 24 Jo Planckaert (Bel) Cofidis 12.22 25 Laurent Estadieu (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 12.24 26 Masahiko Mifune (Jap) JPCA 27 Nobuo Tamaki (Jap) Cheblo-Artnature 12.26 28 Osamu Sumida (Jap) Shimano Racing Team 12.28 HD Oscar Mason (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 12.51 HD Marco Velo (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Albacom HD David Delrieu (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 12.52 HD Claude Lamour (Fra) Cofidis 13.01 HD Thierry Loder (Fra) Cofidis 15.07 HD Yuichi Numata (Jap) Aisan Kogyo 15.36 HD Tetsuya Okada (Jap) Team Bridgestone Anchor HD Shusaku Takahashi (Jap) Cheblo-Artnature 15.37 HD Tomoya Kano (Jap) Shimano Racing Team HD Koki Shimbo (Jap) Sumita Ravanello Pearlizumi 18.18 HD Yoshiyuki Abe (Jap) Shimano Racing Team 19.57 HD Jun Ihara (Jap) Aisan Kogyo HD Yasutaka Tashiro (Jap) Team Bridgestone Anchor DNF Martin Van Steen (Ned) Farm Frites DNF Sebastien Demarbaix (Bel) Lotto-Adecco DNF Osamu Kurimura (Jap) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team DNF Kyoshi Miura (Jap) Kinan Maruishi DNF Ken Kojima (Jap) Nippon Hodo Racing Team DNF Shinri Suzuki (Jap) Shimano Racing Team DNF Koji Fukushima (Jap) Sumita Ravanello Pearlizumi DNF Toshiyuki Nishiyama (Jap) Kinan Maruishi DNF Alexandre Grux (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance DNF Hiroshi Sakaguchi (Jap) Aisan Kogyo DNF Nobuhiro Mashimo (Jap) Nippon Hodo Racing Team DNF Akira Kakinuma (Jap) YCST DNF Justin Spinelli (USA) Farm Frites DNF Nico Ruyloft (Bel) Farm Frites DNF Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Albacom DNF Massimo Podenzana (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Albacom DNF Philippe Bordenave (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance DNF Masahiro Yasuhara (Jap) Kinan Maruishi DNF Fumio Shiogami (Jap) YCST DNF Takehiro Mizutani (Jap) JPCA DNF Masakazu Mori (Jap) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team DNF Daisuke Sakuta (Jap) Sumita Ravanello Pearlizumi DNF Taiji Tanaka (Jap) Sumita Ravanello Pearlizumi DNF Kozo Fujita (Jap) Team Bridgestone Anchor DNF Takumi Beppu (Jap) Nippon Hodo Racing Team DNF Benoit Salmon (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance DNF Hitoshi Takahashi (Jap) Cheblo-Artnature DNF Kentaro Eshita (Jap) Aisan Kogyo DNF Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita) Cofidis DNF Yoshihiro Iida (Jap) JPCA DNF Noriyuki Iijima (Jap) JPCU Tochigi Medalist DNF Yasuhiro Ando (Jap) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team DNF Akira Shibuya (Jap) JPCA DNF Shinji Uchida (Jap) JPCA DNF Takashi Miyahara (Jap) JPCU Tochigi Medalist DNF Masataka Tsurumaki (Jap) JPCU Tochigi Medalist DNF Yuichi Suda (Jap) JPCU Tochigi Medalist DNF Takashi Watanabe (Jap) JPCU Tochigi Medalist DNF Naokiyo Hashisako (Jap) Cheblo-Artnature DNF Yasuhiro Nito (Jap) YCST Starters: 81 Finishers: 28 Outside time limit: 13 Abandons: 40 Results courtesy of Kazuyuki Yamaguchi, Service de Presse PreviewThe second last UCI ranked one day road race of this season is the Japan Cup, held this year on Sunday, October 29. It is ranked 1.3, and will see six invited European teams compete alongside eleven Japanese teams for a total of 85 competitors. Notable riders include Sergio Barbero, Marco Serpellini and Gabriele Missaglia (Lampre), Stefano Garzelli (Mercatone Uno), Andrei Tchmil (Lotto), Jo Planckaert (Cofidis), as well as five man teams from Farm Frites and Ag2r-Prevoyance. The 151.3 km race will start at 10:00am on the Forest Park Circuit course, Utsunomiya City, and will proceed for 10 x 14.1 laps, followed by one 10.3 kilometre lap. In addition to the usual finishing prizes, there will be special primes awarded to the first to the top of the mountain summit on each of the 3rd, 6th and 9th laps. Start ListLAMPRE-DAIKIN FARM FRITES 11 Sergio Barbero (Ita) 21 Steven Kleynen (Bel) 12 Massimo Codol (Ita) 22 Justin Spinelli (USA) 13 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) 23 Martin Van Steen (Ned) 14 Marco Pinotti (Ita) 24 Dirk Ronellenfitsch (Ger) 15 Marco Serpellini (Ita) 25 Nico Ruyloft (Bel) COFIDIS MERCATONE UNO-ALBACOM 31 Peter Farazijn (Bel) 41 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) 32 Claude Lamour (Fra) 42 Marco Velo (Ita) 33 Thierry Loder (Fra) 43 Massimo Podenzana (Ita) 34 Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita) 44 Oscar Mason (Ita) 35 Jo Planckaert (Bel) 45 Massimo Cigana (Ita) LOTTO-ADECCO AG2R PREVOYANCE 51 Andrei Tchmil (Bel) 61 Benoit Salmon (Fra) 52 Sebastien Demarbaix (Bel) 62 Philippe Bordenave (Fra) 53 Fabian De Waele (Bel) 63 David Delrieu (Fra) 54 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) 64 Laurent Estadieu (Fra) 55 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) 65 Alexandre Grux (Fra) JPCA JPCU TOCHIGI MEDALIST 71 Masahiko Mifune (Jap) 81 Takashi Miyahara (Jap) 72 Takehiro Mizutani (Jap) 82 Masataka Tsurumaki (Jap) 73 Yoshihiro Iida (Jap) 83 Noriyuki Iijima (Jap) 74 Akira Shibuya (Jap) 84 Yuichi Suda (Jap) 75 Shinji Uchida (Jap) 85 Takashi Watanabe (Jap) SHIMANO RACING TEAM MIYATA-SUBARU RACING TEAM 91 Yoshiyuki Abe (Jap) 101 Masamichi Yamamoto (Jap) 92 Osamu Sumida (Jap) 102 Masakazu Mori (Jap) 93 Tomoya Kano (Jap) 103 Osamu Kurimura (Jap) 94 Hisafumi Imanishi (Jap) 104 Kazuyuki Manabe (Jap) 95 Shinri Suzuki (Jap) 105 Yasuhiro Ando (Jap) SUMITA RAVANELLO PEARLIZUMI KINAN MARUISHI 111 Koki Shimbo (Jap) 121 Kyoshi Miura (Jap) 112 Daisuke Sakuta (Jap) 122 Masahiro Yasuhara (Jap) 113 123 Yasuhiro Nakajima (Jap) 114 Koji Fukushima (Jap) 124 Kazuya Okazaki (Jap) 115 Taiji Tanaka (Jap) 125 Toshiyuki Nishiyama (Jap) TEAM BRIDGESTONE ANCHOR AISAN KOGYO 131 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jap) 141 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jap) 132 Tetsuya Okada (Jap) 142 Yuichi Numata (Jap) 133 Junichi Shibuya (Jap) 143 Hiroshi Sakaguchi (Jap) 134 Kozo Fujita (Jap) 144 Kentaro Eshita (Jap) 135 Ken Hashikawa (Jap) 145 Jun Ihara (Jap) NIPPON HODO RACING TEAM CHEBLO-ARTNATURE 151 Nobuhiro Mashimo (Jap) 161 Nobuo Tamaki (Jap) 152 Satoshi Hirose (Jap) 162 Shusaku Takahashi (Jap) 153 Ken Kojima (Jap) 163 Naokiyo Hashisako (Jap) 154 Takumi Beppu (Jap) 164 - - - 155 165 Hitoshi Takahashi (Jap) YCST 171 Akira Kakinuma (Jap) 172 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jap) 173 Fumio Shiogami (Jap) 174 Yasuhiro Nito (Jap) Past winners1997 Yoshiyuki Abe (Jap) 1998 Fabien De Waele (Bel) 1999 Sergio Barbero (Ita) |
