Tour de Hokkaido - 2.5Hokkaido, Japan, September 12-18, 2001Main Page Results Previous stage Stage 6 - September 18 Sapporo City, 60 km (Fire)
McCann, you've done it again!By Tommy Campbell, Irish Independent/Evening Herald/Sunday Independent David McCann from Belfast bridged an eight-year gap when he won the overall prize in the Tour of Hokkaido, Japan yesterday after seven stages. Back in the 90's, Stephen Spratt from Waterford scored an emphatic win in this prestigious race, which has developed out of all recognition with the inclusion of many foreign teams since his win. David a professional with the Polish outfit CC Matt took over as race leader after the first road stage. From then on it was a matter of what you hold is what you retain. In no small way did his Irish teammates contribute to his success. The following day he followed it up with another stage win to consolidate his position as race leader. To make matters cosier for the Irish, Paul Griffin made it three stage wins in a row. Unfortunately the next day it was the turn of one of the locals, but back came David with another stage win which made it look as if the Irish were invincible. The final stage in the city of Sapporo was a show of strength for the boys in green. They were totally in control as nothing was allowed any latitude. Basically they were the best-drilled team in the event. Not only did they claim the overall but also McCann won the points and Paul Griffin who only figured on Irish teams late in August was the most consistent competitor in the King of the Hills and to add further glory to the team they proved best in the team classification. It's a long time since Irish cyclists were the toast of the Orient. Into the bargain the win amassed a substantial number of Union Cycliste Internationale points.
Results1 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Racing 1.18.35 2 Dennis Hammink (Ned) Marco Polo 3 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Nippon Hodo 4 Takehiro Mizutani (Jpn) Nippon Hodo 5 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 6 Paul Griffin (Irl) Ireland 7 David McCann (Irl) Ireland 8 Min Van Velezen (Can) Canada 9 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Kinan Maruishi 10 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Nihon Unv. 11 Dirk Siebert (Ger) Rc Diana 12 Mituteru Tanaka (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 13 Yuichi Numata (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello 14 Tomoya kanou (Jpn) Shimano Racing 15 Chul-Min Kim (Kor) Korea 16 Eikou Takahashi (Jpn) Cheblo 0.04 17 Taiji Tanaka (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello 18 Kentaro Eshita (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 19 Mikahail Teteryuk (Kaz) Nippon Hodo 20 Valeriy Titov (Kaz) Nippon Hodo 21 Patrick Moriarty (Irl) Ireland 22 Bradory Von Raino (USA) Cheblo 23 Hiroshi Sakaguchi (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 24 Akira Kakinuma (Jpn) Kinan Maruishi 0.07 25 Yasuhiro Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano Racing 26 Minoru Shimizu (Jpn) Nihon Unv. 27 Yosuke Kojima (Jpn) Kyoto Unv. 0.09 28 Kyoshi Miura (Jpn) Kinan Maruishi 29 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 30 Kay Kermer (Ger) Rc Diana Leipzig 31 Hideto Yukinari (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 0.13 32 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello 0.18 33 Shinji Suzuki (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 0.25 34 Jurgen Van Pelt (Ned) Marco Polo 35 Robin Reid (NZl) Marco Polo 36 Dennis Van (Ned) Marco Polo 37 Koichi Asano (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 0.36 38 Hisafumi Imanishi (Jpn) Shimano Racing 0.38 39 Masaru takagi (Jpn) Sel. Hokkaido 40 Yuya Hayashi (Jpn) Sel. hokkaido 0.50 41 Yoshiyuki Shimizu (Jpn) Kyoto Unv. 42 Ian Condron (Can) Canada 43 Remko Kramer (Ned) Marco Polo 44 Seiji Mori (Jpn) Nihon Unv. 45 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 0.56 46 Carter Hovey (Can) Canada 1.03 47 Teppei Watanabe (Jpn) Kyoto Unv. 1.06 48 Masaru Fukuhara (Jpn) Nihon Unv. 1.12 49 Shinobu Noguchi (Jpn) Kinan Maruishi 1.16 50 Tutomu Fujita (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello 2.38 51 Tomio Sakaeda (Jpn) Sel. Hokkaido 52 Ken Hashikawa (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 2.43 53 Masamichi Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano Racing 2.45 54 Tomokazu Fujino (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 55 Masakazu Mori (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 2.52 56 Thomas Evans (Irl) Ireland 3.44 57 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ireland 58 Koichi Tetsuzawa (Jpn) Cheblo 59 Kazuaki Akasaka (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello 60 Marco Bermme (Ger) Rc Diana Leipzig DNF Osamu Kurimura (Jpn) Miyata Subaru DNF Nobuyuki Ookubo (Jpn) Cheblo DNF Masayuki Yazawa (Jpn) Kyoto Unv. DNF Fumiaki Takakai (Jpn) Hokkaido Unv. DNF Stefan Grabs (Ger) Rc Diana Final general classification 1 David McCann (Irl) Ireland 21.19.38 2 Tomoya kanou (Jpn) Shimano Racing 1.43 3 Paul Griffin (Irl) Ireland 2.06 4 Patrick Moriarty (Irl) Ireland 2.31 5 Min Van Velezen (Can) Canada 2.48 6 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Racing 2.55 7 Mituteru Tanaka (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 3.21 8 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 3.21 9 Mikahail Teteryuk (Kaz) Nippon Hodo 4.27 10 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 4.40 11 Bradory Von Raino (USA) Cheblo 5.13 12 Yasuhiro Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano Racing 5.16 13 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Kinan Maruishi 5.53 14 Dennis Van (Ned) Marco Polo 8.20 15 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello 10.42 16 Hisafumi Imanishi (Jpn) Shimano Racing 12.04 17 Shinji Suzuki (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 15.35 18 Kay Kermer (Ger) Rc Diana Leipzig 16.14 19 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Nihon Unv. 17.32 20 Yuichi Numata (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello 18.32 21 Kentaro Eshita (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 19.00 22 Akira Kakinuma (Jpn) Kinan Maruishi 20.36 23 Eikou Takahashi (Jpn) Cheblo 20.39 24 Minoru Shimizu (Jpn) Nihon Unv. 20.42 25 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Nippon Hodo 21.01 26 Takehiro Mizutani (Jpn) Nippon Hodo 26.08 27 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ireland 26.52 28 Carter Hovey (Can) Canada 28.41 29 Jurgen Van Pelt (Ned) Marco Polo 29.53 30 Seiji Mori (Jpn) Nihon Unv. 30.51 31 Yosuke Kojima (Jpn) Kyoto Unv. 32.01 32 Kyoshi Miura (Jpn) Kinan Maruishi 33.43 33 Chul-Min Kim (Kor) Korea 34.07 34 Masaru Fukuhara (Jpn) Nihon Unv. 37.02 35 Taiji Tanaka (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello 41.51 36 Robin Reid (NZl) Marco Polo 42.04 37 Remko Kramer (Ned) Marco Polo 42.29 38 Valeriy Titov (Kaz) Nippon Hodo 44.06 39 Yoshiyuki Shimizu (Jpn) Kyoto Unv. 44.14 40 Hideto Yukinari (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 46.07 41 Shinobu Noguchi (Jpn) Kinan Maruishi 47.22 42 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 48.36 43 Teppei Watanabe (Jpn) Kyoto Unv. 48.43 44 Hiroshi Sakaguchi (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 49.12 45 Dennis Hammink (Ned) Marco Polo 52.30 46 Ken Hashikawa (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 53.04 47 Tutomu Fujita (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello 53.34 48 Yuya Hayashi (Jpn) Sel. hokkaido 53.35 49 Masakazu Mori (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 54.15 50 Ian Condron (Can) Canada 54.32 51 Thomas Evans (Irl) Ireland 58.40 52 Koichi Asano (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 1.02.04 53 Koichi Tetsuzawa (Jpn) Cheblo 1.04.31 54 Tomokazu Fujino (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 1.08.40 55 Masamichi Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano Racing 1.08.54 56 Stefan Grabs (Ger) Rc Diana 1.09.08 57 Masayuki Yazawa (Jpn) Kyoto Unv. 1.13.52 58 Masaru takagi (Jpn) Sel. Hokkaido 1.14.44 59 Marco Bermme (Ger) Rc Diana Leipzig 1.18.22 60 Kazuaki Akasaka (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello 1.24.51 61 Dirk Siebert (Ger) Rc Diana 1.25.00 62 Osamu Kurimura (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 1.28.28 63 Tomio Sakaeda (Jpn) Sel. Hokkaido 1.32.53 64 Fumiaki Takakai (Jpn) Hokkaido Unv. 1.34.11 65 Nobuyuki Ookubo (Jpn) Cheblo 1.36.52 Points classification 1 David McCann (Irl) Ireland 101 pts 2 Paul Griffin (Irl) Ireland 99 3 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Racing 86 4 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 76 5 Jurgen Van Pelt (Ned) Marco Polo61 6 Min Van Velezen (Can) Canada 54 7 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Nippon Hodo 45 7 Takehiro Mizutani (Jpn) Nippon Hodo 45 9 Tomoya kanou (Jpn) Shimano Racing 41 10 Kay Kermer (Ger) Rc Diana Leipzig 40 11 Yasuhiro Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano Racing 32 12 Mikahail Teteryuk (Kaz) Nippon Hodo 29 13 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Kinan Maruishi 26 14 Patrick Moriarty (Irl) Ireland 24 15 Chul-Min Kim (Kor) Korea 23 16 Dennis Hammink (Ned) Marco Polo 21 17 Mituteru Tanaka (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 20 18 Marco Bermme (Ger) Rc Diana Leipzig 19 19 Thomas Evans (Irl) Ireland 17 19 Kyoshi Miura (Jpn) Kinan Maruishi 17 19 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Nihon Unv. 17 22 Remko Kramer (Ned) Marco Polo 14 23 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 12 23 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ireland 12 23 Shinji Suzuki (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 12 26 Yuichi Numata (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello 11 27 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 10 27 Dennis Van (Ned) Marco Polo 10 27 Bradory Von Raino (USA) Cheblo 10 30 Shinobu Noguchi (Jpn) Kinan Maruishi 8 31 Hiroshi Sakaguchi (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 7 32 Minoru Shimizu (Jpn) Nihon Unv. 5 32 Koichi Tetsuzawa (Jpn) Cheblo 5 32 Dirk Siebert (Ger) Rc Diana 5 35 Tomokazu Fujino (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 4 35 Eikou Takahashi (Jpn) Cheblo 4 37 Ken Hashikawa (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 3 38 Robin Reid (NZl) Marco Polo 2 38 Carter Hovey (Can) Canada 2 38 Yosuke Kojima (Jpn) Kyoto Unv. 2 41 Kentaro Eshita (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 1 41 Hisafumi Imanishi (Jpn) Shimano Racing 1 Climber's classification 1 Paul Griffin (Irl) Ireland 28 pts 2 David McCann (Irl) Ireland 25 3 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 22 4 Tomoya kanou (Jpn) Shimano Racing 13 4 Hisafumi Imanishi (Jpn) Shimano Racing 13 6 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Nippon Hodo 10 7 Osamu Kurimura (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 9 8 Mikahail Teteryuk (Kaz) Nippon Hodo 8 8 Kentaro Eshita (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 8 10 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 7 10 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Nihon Unv. 7 10 Yosuke Kojima (Jpn) Kyoto Unv. 7 13 Kyoshi Miura (Jpn) Kinan Maruishi 6 14 Shinji Suzuki (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 5 15 Kay Kermer (Ger) Rc Diana Leipzig 4 16 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ireland 3 16 Hiroshi Sakaguchi (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 3 16 Robin Reid (NZl) Marco Polo 3 19 Mituteru Tanaka (Jpn) Aisan Kogyo 2 19 Masamichi Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano Racing 2 21 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor 1 21 Patrick Moriarty (Irl) Ireland 1 Results courtsey of www.tour-de-hokkaido.or.jp |