Tour de Langkawi - 2.3Malaysia, February 1-10, 2002 |
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Stage 5 - February 5: Bangi - Melaka, 127.7km
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Ever-vigilant Hunter notches up another
By Tommy Campbell in Melaka
Robert Hunter (Mapei-Quick Step) took today's stage of Telekom Malaysia Le Tour de Langkawi and kept his place at the top of the leader board.
Hunter, from Johannesburg in South Africa has now led from day one in Putrajaya and at the mid-point in the 10 day event he is in a commanding position, 1 minute and 49 seconds ahead of the Colombian Dario Hernan Munoz (Columbia-Selle). Mickael Pichon (Bonjour) of France is in third place, two minutes off the lead.
Since the start of the event Hunter has been very active, controlling the race and not letting anybody else take the initiative and have a chance of knocking him from the lead.
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The 129.7km stage from Bangi to Melaka was active from the start with the competitors having to negotiate at least fourteen traffic calmers in the first 20kms of competition. Once on the main highway Thomas Voeckler of Bonjour and Innar Mandoja from Ag2r Prevoyance slipped off the front of the main peloton and steadily built up a lead, which had reached over three minutes at the third category King of the Mountains prime at 30kms.
The peloton came up the prime at a brisk pace and for no apparent reason a split occurred and 31 riders went clear. It was a very representative group that included the race leader and two of his team, Charlie Wegilius and David Garcia Canada who were to aid and abet him in his quest for victory at the stage in the historic town of Melaka. Also present in the lead group was winner of the event in '99 and last year, Paolo Lanfranchi.
Lanfranchi has recovered from the injury that nearly side-lined him from the defence of his title when he crashed while training on the TT course a number of days before the start of the event. Lanfranchi also had back up, with Antonio Salomone and Marco Battiston and Alberto Elli (punctured and never back on) of team Alexia Alluminio.
The main peloton made no real effort to haul the breakaway back and within kilometres the escape had been successful. At the head of the race, the leaders quickly became aware that a chasing group, which included sixteen of the twenty-two teams, were now bearing down on them and sensibly they adjusted their speed before being finally caught.
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Back down the road the peloton obviously believed that this year's Tour de Langkawi was within the group at the head of the race, and they started to lose the impetus that might have brought them back into contention.
Up front the group were anxious to share the pace, as they were fully aware that this year's silverware was within in their grasp.
Lanfranchi's team was the most strongly represented of the 33 in front unfortunately Alberto Elli punctured at the 44km mark with the lead at two minutes plus.
From then on it was all go from the leaders who finished with had a margin of nearly 15 minutes on the peloton.
At least the Malaysian national team had some consolation when their riders Shahrulneeza Razali, Seong Hoong Tsen and Mohamod Yusof Abd Nasir finished in the first three places in that big group's forlorn sprint for the line.
Also in that group and the big loser of the day was Italy's Andrea Tafi, Mapei-Quickstep, a long-time favourite of the Malaysian crowds: "I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and missed the split," the 35-year old champion said ruefully, adding that from here on in his efforts will be concentrated on trying to score a stage win to set the seal on what will be his last appearance in this tour.
Fortune favoured the lead group as they just had passed the 50km to go board when a herd of cattle decided to amble across the highway, causing a little consternation among the team support vehicles who braked to avoid having beef for dinner later in the week.
With the main bunch dropping further and further behind, the now 31-strong leading group worked steadily at building their lead, with Hunter and his team keeping a watchful eye for any breakaway attempts.
In the last 10km, Bonjour's Jimmy Engoulvent went off the front of the break but despite getting a lead of 15 seconds, his attempt at victory came to an abrupt end on the outskirts of the town. To add insult to injury he was then dropped from the lead group with 4km to go.
Australian time-trial champion Nathan O'Neill (Ceramiche Panneria) launched an opportunist attack down the left-hand side of the road but the ever-vigilant Hunter spotted the move and jumped across the gap from the other side of the group.
It looked like a winning move for a moment but the Index-Alexia boys closed the gap down.
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From then on in, it was Hunter and his team mates controlling things from the front until the final metres. For a moment, Hunter looked boxed in but he skilfully extricated himself from the melee and from 100 metres out it was a shoulder-to-shoulder battle between him and Antonio Salamone. The yellow tunic on the left side of the road, threw his bike at the line with perfect timing and his last kick ensured a victory by half-a-wheel.
Said Hunter: "When I arrived in Malaysia I would have been happy to get a single stage win. To take three stages and be in the yellow jersey is fantastic in itself but it is also giving me valuable UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) points.
"My Mapei-Quickstep team-mates Charlie Wegelius and David Canada Gracia rode brilliantly for me, chasing down any dangerous moves and keeping me in just the right position."
Japan's Kijo Fukushima was another happy guy, giving his legs a rest yet managing to to finish with the main pack. He stays in the white jersey of mountains leader and should stay in the polka dot jersey for another couple of days.
Also in that elite group was a brother of yesterday's hero of the stage up Fraser Hill, Shinichi Fukushima who had no team support as one of the back up cars was relieved of his duties because of a misdemeanour. "I just was relieved to see the finish, but I know the Mavic boys would have been on hand if I had run into trouble," said Shinichi.
Photography
- Charly Wegelius (Mapei) - rides next to teammate Robert Hunter
- Innar Mandoja (Ag2r Prevoyance) - drives along
- Aggression - during the fifth stage on one of the smaller climbs
- Race leader Robert Hunter - rides during stage 5
- Robert Hunter - gives the V sign after his win
- The stage 5 sprint was close - but Hunter ot it
- Robert Hunter - gets it on the line
Results
1 Robert Hunter (RSA) Mapei-Quick Step 2.48.58 (44.19 km/h) 2 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 3 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 4 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 5 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 6 Marco Battiston (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 7 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Team Bonjour 8 German Nieto Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 9 Stive Vermaut (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 10 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 11 Innar Mandoja (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 12 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 13 René Joergensen (Den) Team fakta 14 Tonton Susanto (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 15 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 16 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 17 Artour Babaitsev (Rus) Team Nürnberger 18 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 19 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Canada 20 Allan Iacuone (Aus) iTeamNova.com 21 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 22 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 23 David Canada Garcia (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 24 Dominique Perras (Can) iTeamNova.com 25 David George (RSA) Rep South Africa 26 Juan D Ramirez Calderon (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 27 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Mapei-Quick Step 28 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 29 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Bonjour 0.05 30 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Team Bonjour 0.19 31 Daniel Spence (RSA) Rep South Africa 32 Rodney Green (RSA) Rep South Africa 33 Shahrulneeza Razali (Mas) Malaysia 14.59 34 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Malaysia 35 Mohd Yusof Abd. Nasir (Mas) Malaysia 36 Warren Davadilla (Phi) Philippines 37 Fulco Van Gulik (Ned) Lotto-Adecco 38 Suhardi Hassan (Mas) Malaysia 39 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 40 Villamor Baluyut (Phi) Philippines 41 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 42 Guo Hui (Chn) China 43 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan 44 José M Vazquez Palomo (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 45 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 46 Musairi Bin Musa (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 47 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 48 Emilito Atilano (Phi) Philippines 49 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 50 Muhd. Jasmin Ruslan (Mas) Malaysia 51 Nor Affendy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 52 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 53 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 54 Alberto Elli (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 55 Guozhang Wang (Chn) China 56 Josh Hall (Can) Canada 57 Xueli Jiang (Chn) China 58 Tony Bracke (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 59 Jacques Fullard (RSA) Rep South Africa 60 Graeme Miller (NZl) Telekom Malaysia 61 David Vazquez Garcia (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 62 Shahrizan Selamat (Mas) Malaysia 63 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canada 64 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta 65 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Ag2r Prevoyance 66 Alessandro Brendolin (Ita) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentini 67 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 68 Agustin Pena Gago (Spa) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 69 Jeremy Maartens (RSA) Rep South Africa 70 Max Becker (Lux) Collstrop-Palmans 71 Andris Nauduzs (Lat) Colombia-Selle Italia 72 Brett Lancaster (Aus) iTeamNova.com 73 David Fernandez Domingo (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 74 Yohann Charpenteau (Fra) Credit Agricole 75 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 76 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Team Bonjour 77 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 78 Yan Tournier (Fra) Credit Agricole 79 Jamie Peter Drew (Aus) iTeamNova.com 80 Kurt Van Lancker (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 81 Antoni Rizzi (Ita) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentini 82 Samuel Vecchi (Ita) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentini 83 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 84 Hans De Meester (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 85 Jorge Capitan Peregrina (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 86 Daniele Galli (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 87 Cristiano Parrinello (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 88 James Ball (RSA) Rep South Africa 89 Denis Bondarenko (Rus) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentini 90 Glan Rendall (Can) Canada 91 Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 92 Ghader Mizbani (Iri) Telekom Malaysia 93 Oscar Laguna Garcia (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 94 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 95 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team fakta 96 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) Japan 97 Russel Downing (GBr) iTeamNova.com 98 Cesare Di Cintio (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 99 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 100 Jurgen Werner (Ger) Team Nürnberger 101 Trent Wilson (Aus) iTeamNova.com 102 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole 103 Björnar Vestöl (Nor) Team fakta 104 Andris Reiss (Lat) Index-Alexia Alluminio 105 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Japan 106 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team Nürnberger 107 Ronny Lauke (Ger) Team Nürnberger 108 Nicola Chesini (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 109 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 110 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 111 Douglas Ryder (RSA) Rep South Africa 112 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 113 Eric De Clercq (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 114 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Team Nürnberger 115 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Team Bonjour 116 Uros Murn (Slo) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentini 117 Mario Aerts (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 118 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 119 Geoff Kabush (Can) Canada 120 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 121 Morten Sonne (Den) Team fakta 122 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 123 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 124 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentini 125 Alexandre Grux (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 126 Luca Scinto (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 127 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 128 Scott Guyton (NZl) iTeamNova.com 129 Davide Bramati (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 130 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 131 Jürgen Pauritsch (Aut) Team Nürnberger 132 Stefano Guerrini (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 133 Laurent Estadieu (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 134 Eddy Serri (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 135 Ahad Kazemi (Iri) Telekom Malaysia 136 Enrico Degano (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 137 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 138 Dirk Schumann (Ger) Team Nürnberger 139 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 140 Mario Traversoni (Ita) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentini 141 César Garcia Calvo (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 142 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Team Bonjour DNF Mark Ernsting (Can) Canada DNS Andrew Pinfold (Can) Canada Asian Rider Stage 1 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 2.48.58 2 Tonton Susanto (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 3 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 4 Shahrulneeza Razali (Mas) Malaysia 14.59 5 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Malaysia 6 Mohd Yusof Abd. Nasir (Mas) Malaysia 7 Warren Davadilla (Phi) Philippines 8 Suhardi Hassan (Mas) Malaysia 9 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 10 Villamor Baluyut (Phi) Philippines 11 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 12 Guo Hui (Chn) China 13 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan 14 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 15 Musairi Bin Musa (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 16 Emilito Atilano (Phi) Philippines 17 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 18 Muhd. Jasmin Ruslan (Mas) Malaysia 19 Nor Affendy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 20 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 21 Guozhang Wang (Chn) China 22 Xueli Jiang (Chn) China 23 Shahrizan Selamat (Mas) Malaysia 24 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 25 Ghader Mizbani (Iri) Telekom Malaysia 26 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) Japan 27 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Japan 28 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 29 Ahad Kazemi (Iri) Telekom Malaysia 30 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan Points 1 Robert Hunter (RSA) Mapei-Quick Step 15 pts 2 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 14 3 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 13 4 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 12 5 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 11 6 Marco Battiston (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 10 7 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Team Bonjour 9 8 German Nieto Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 8 9 Stive Vermaut (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 7 10 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tol 6 11 Innar Mandoja (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 5 12 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 4 13 René Joergensen (Den) Team fakta 3 14 Tonton Susanto (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 2 15 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 1 Primes KOM Cat 3 at at 30.3km 1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Bonjour 6 pts 2 Innar Mandoja (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 4 3 Hans De Meester (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 2 4 Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 1 KOM Cat 4 at at 58.7km 1 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 4 pts 2 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 2 3 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 1 Sprints Hot Spot Sprint at Sprint 1 1 Innar Mandoja (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 5 pts 2 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Bonjour 3 3 German Nieto Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 2 4 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 1 Hot Spot Sprint at Sprint 2 1 German Nieto Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 5 pts 2 Stive Vermaut (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 3 3 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 2 4 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Team Bonjour 1 Hot Spot Sprint at Sprint 3 1 German Nieto Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 5 pts 2 Dominique Perras (Can) iTeamNova.com 3 3 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 2 4 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Toll 1 Teams 1 Alexia Alluminio 8.26.54 2 Colombia-Selle ITalia 3 Mapei - Quick Step 4 Bonjour 0.24 5 Rep South Africa 0.38 6 Telekom Malaysia 14.59 7 Acqua & Sapone 8 Ceramiche Panaria 9 iTeamNova.com 10 Japan 29.58 11 Relax - Fuenlabrada 12 Lotto - Adecco 13 Canada 14 Ag2r Prevoyance 15 Credit Agricole 16 Team Fakta 17 Team Nürnberger 18 Malaysia 44.57 19 Philippines 20 China 21 Palmans-Collstrop 22 Mobilvetta Design Asian Team 1 Telekom Malaysia 8.41.53 2 Japan 14.59 3 Malaysia 29.58 4 Philippines 5 China General classification after stage 5 1 Robert Hunter (RSA) Mapei-Quick Step 14.27.56 2 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 1.49 3 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Team Bonjour 2.00 4 René Joergensen (Den) Team fakta 2.36 5 Allan Iacuone (Aus) iTeamNova.com 2.52 6 Tonton Susanto (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 2.56 7 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 3.00 8 Dominique Perras (Can) iTeamNova.com 3.14 9 Artour Babaitsev (Rus) Team Nürnberger 3.17 10 David Canada Garcia (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 3.23 11 David George (RSA) Rep South Africa 3.33 12 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 3.41 13 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Mapei-Quick Step 3.46 14 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 3.59 15 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Canada 4.31 16 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 4.34 17 Daniel Spence (RSA) Rep South Africa 4.40 18 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 5.08 19 Stive Vermaut (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 5.13 20 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 5.15 21 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 5.20 22 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 5.33 23 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Team Bonjour 6.00 24 Juan D Ramirez Calderon (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 6.07 25 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Bonjour 6.25 26 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 6.34 27 Rodney Green (RSA) Rep South Africa 6.46 28 German Nieto Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 14.00 29 Marco Battiston (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 14.32 30 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 15.37 31 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 16.30 32 Luca Scinto (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 16.48 33 Ghader Mizbani (Iri) Telekom Malaysia 17.33 34 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 17.53 35 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canada 18.15 36 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 18.34 37 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta 18.44 38 Alberto Elli (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 19.10 39 Brett Lancaster (Aus) iTeamNova.com 19.16 40 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team fakta 19.16 41 Davide Bramati (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 19.19 42 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentini 19.19 43 Morten Sonne (Den) Team fakta 19.39 44 Jamie Peter Drew (Aus) iTeamNova.com 19.41 45 Oscar Laguna Garcia (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 19.47 46 Jens Voigt (Ger) Credit Agricole 19.50 47 Björnar Vestöl (Nor) Team fakta 19.50 48 César Garcia Calvo (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 19.51 49 Russel Downing (GBr) iTeamNova.com 19.52 50 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 19.58 51 Mario Aerts (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 19.59 52 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Team Bonjour 20.10 53 Fulco Van Gulik (Ned) Lotto-Adecco 20.11 54 Antoni Rizzi (Ita) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentini 20.16 55 Uros Murn (Slo) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentini 20.22 56 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Team Bonjour 20.22 57 Alessandro Brendolin (Ita) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Tren 20.27 58 David Vazquez Garcia (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 20.27 59 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 20.35 60 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 20.36 61 Samuel Vecchi (Ita) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentini 20.41 62 Jorge Capitan Peregrina (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 20.49 63 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 20.49 64 Alexandre Grux (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 20.58 65 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 21.02 66 Yohann Charpenteau (Fra) Credit Agricole 21.03 67 Eddy Serri (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 21.07 68 Geoff Kabush (Can) Canada 21.16 69 Innar Mandoja (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 21.17 70 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tol 21.27 71 Guozhang Wang (Chn) China 21.45 72 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 21.46 73 Jeremy Maartens (RSA) Rep South Africa 22.10 74 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Malaysia 22.12 75 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 22.17 76 Shahrizan Selamat (Mas) Malaysia 22.22 77 Nor Affendy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 22.48 78 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 22.58 79 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Japan 23.01 80 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 23.42 81 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 24.49 82 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Team Nürnberger 28.17 83 David Fernandez Domingo (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 28.22 84 Stefano Guerrini (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 28.48 85 Max Becker (Lux) Collstrop-Palmans 29.11 86 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan 29.16 87 Eric De Clercq (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 29.21 88 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 29.22 89 Kurt Van Lancker (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 29.30 90 Denis Bondarenko (Rus) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentini 29.35 91 Laurent Estadieu (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 29.37 92 Jurgen Werner (Ger) Team Nürnberger 29.42 93 Hans De Meester (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 29.47 94 Douglas Ryder (RSA) Rep South Africa 29.52 95 José M Vazquez Palomo (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 30.08 96 Mario Traversoni (Ita) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentini 30.17 97 Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 30.18 98 Ronny Lauke (Ger) Team Nürnberger 30.24 99 Scott Guyton (NZl) iTeamNova.com 30.27 100 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 30.27 101 Emilito Atilano (Phi) Philippines 30.42 102 Ludovic Martin (Fra) Credit Agricole 30.46 103 Musairi Bin Musa (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 30.47 104 Shahrulneeza Razali (Mas) Malaysia 30.51 105 Agustin Pena Gago (Spa) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Toll 30.53 106 Holger Sievers (Ger) Team Nürnberger 30.58 107 Andris Nauduzs (Lat) Colombia-Selle Italia 30.59 108 Villamor Baluyut (Phi) Philippines 31.00 109 Muhd. Jasmin Ruslan (Mas) Malaysia 31.04 110 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tol 31.10 111 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 31.13 112 James Ball (RSA) Rep South Africa 31.16 113 Jacques Fullard (RSA) Rep South Africa 31.29 114 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 31.37 115 Yan Tournier (Fra) Credit Agricole 31.56 116 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 32.41 117 Ahad Kazemi (Iri) Telekom Malaysia 33.18 118 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 33.25 119 Josh Hall (Can) Canada 33.38 120 Guo Hui (Chn) China 34.00 121 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 34.21 122 Tony Bracke (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 34.40 123 Warren Davadilla (Phi) Philippines 34.40 124 Andris Reiss (Lat) Index-Alexia Alluminio 34.53 125 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Team Bonjour 35.09 126 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Ag2r Prevoyance 35.20 127 Enrico Degano (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 35.34 128 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 37.17 129 Cesare Di Cintio (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo 37.44 130 Dirk Schumann (Ger) Team Nürnberger 38.15 131 Xueli Jiang (Chn) China 38.37 132 Trent Wilson (Aus) iTeamNova.com 39.16 133 Daniele Galli (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 39.26 134 Graeme Miller (NZl) Telekom Malaysia 39.40 135 Cristiano Parrinello (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 41.04 136 Nicola Chesini (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 42.27 137 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) Japan 43.06 138 Suhardi Hassan (Mas) Malaysia 44.26 139 Jürgen Pauritsch (Aut) Team Nürnberger 47.53 140 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 48.19 141 Glan Rendall (Can) Canada 51.25 142 Mohd Yusof Abd. Nasir (Mas) Malaysia 59.11 Asian Rider classification 1 Tonton Susanto (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 14.30.52 2 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 2.12 3 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 2.24 4 Ghader Mizbani (Iri) Telekom Malaysia 14.37 5 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 18.06 6 Guozhang Wang (Chn) China 18.49 7 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 18.50 8 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Malaysia 19.16 9 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 19.21 10 Shahrizan Selamat (Mas) Malaysia 19.26 11 Nor Affendy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 19.52 12 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 20.02 13 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Japan 20.05 14 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 21.53 15 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan 26.20 16 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 26.26 17 Emilito Atilano (Phi) Philippines 27.46 18 Musairi Bin Musa (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 27.51 19 Shahrulneeza Razali (Mas) Malaysia 27.55 20 Villamor Baluyut (Phi) Philippines 28.04 21 Muhd. Jasmin Ruslan (Mas) Malaysia 28.08 22 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 28.41 23 Ahad Kazemi (Iri) Telekom Malaysia 30.22 24 Guo Hui (Chn) China 31.04 25 Warren Davadilla (Phi) Philippines 31.44 26 Xueli Jiang (Chn) China 35.41 27 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) Japan 40.10 28 Suhardi Hassan (Mas) Malaysia 41.30 29 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 45.23 30 Mohd Yusof Abd. Nasir (Mas) Malaysia 56.15 Points classification 1 Robert Hunter (RSA) Mapei-Quick Step 71 pts 2 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 37 3 Enrico Degano (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 28 4 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 28 5 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trentin 27 6 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Team Nürnberger 27 7 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 25 8 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 24 9 Mickael Pichon (Fra) Team Bonjour 22 10 Mario Traversoni (Ita) Mobilvetta-Formaggio Trent 21 11 German Nieto Fernandez (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 21 12 Artour Babaitsev (Rus) Team Nürnberger 16 13 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 16 14 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 15 15 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 14 16 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 14 17 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 14 18 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canada 13 19 David Fernandez Domingo (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 13 20 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 13 21 Luca Scinto (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 13 22 René Joergensen (Den) Team fakta 12 23 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 12 24 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 12 25 David Canada Garcia (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 11 26 Innar Mandoja (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 11 27 Marco Battiston (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 10 28 Stive Vermaut (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 10 29 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 10 30 Jorgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta 9 31 Daniele Galli (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 9 32 Rodney Green (RSA) Rep South Africa 9 33 Lennie Kristensen (Den) Team fakta 8 34 Allan Iacuone (Aus) iTeamNova.com 8 35 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Mapei-Quick Step 8 36 Tonton Susanto (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 8 37 Josh Hall (Can) Canada 8 38 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tol 7 39 Dominique Perras (Can) iTeamNova.com 7 40 Dirk Schumann (Ger) Team Nürnberger 6 41 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Ag2r Prevoyance 6 42 Jorge Capitan Peregrina (Spa) Relax-Fuenlabrada 6 43 Fulco Van Gulik (Ned) Lotto-Adecco 5 44 Trent Wilson (Aus) iTeamNova.com 5 45 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 4 46 Jurgen Werner (Ger) Team Nürnberger 4 47 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 3 48 David George (RSA) Rep South Africa 3 49 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Japan 3 50 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina T 3 51 Cesare Di Cintio (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tol 3 52 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 3 53 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Bonjour 3 54 Max Becker (Lux) Collstrop-Palmans 2 55 Ghader Mizbani (Iri) Telekom Malaysia 2 56 Alexandre Grux (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 2 57 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 2 58 Andris Nauduzs (Lat) Colombia-Selle Italia 2 59 Cristiano Parrinello (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fior 2 60 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 1 61 Daniel Spence (RSA) Rep South Africa 1 62 Alberto Elli (Ita) Index-Alexia Alluminio 1 63 Tony Bracke (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 1 64 Douglas Ryder (RSA) Rep South Africa 1 Mountains classification 1 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 15 pts 2 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 13 3 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 12 4 Hans De Meester (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 10 5 Dominique Perras (Can) iTeamNova.com 8 6 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Bonjour 6 7 René Joergensen (Den) Team fakta 6 8 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 4 9 Innar Mandoja (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 4 10 Scott Guyton (NZl) iTeamNova.com 4 11 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 4 12 Ghader Mizbani (Iri) Telekom Malaysia 2 13 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Japan 1 14 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 1 15 Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 1 16 Luca Scinto (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 1 Team Classification 1 Mapei - Quick Step 43.29.14 2 Colombia-Selle Italia 4.58 3 Alexia Alluminio 7.26 4 Bonjour 7.32 5 Rep South Africa 8.29 6 iTeamNova 19.15 7 Telekom Malaysia 19.20 8 Acqua & Sapone 27.50 9 Team Fakta 35.09 10 Lotto - Adecco 37.36 11 Relax - Fuenlabrada 38.12 12 Canada 38.25 13 Credit Agricol 39.22 14 Japan 39.48 15 Ceramiche Panaria 39.55 16 Ag2r Prevoyance 41.11 17 Mobilvetta Design 53.26 18 Team Nürnberger 55.44 19 Philippines 1.02.33 20 Malaysia 1.08.52 21 Palmans-Collstrop 1.12.59 22 China 1.28.29 Asian Team Overall 1 Telekom Malaysia 43.48.34 2 Japan 20.28 3 Philippines 43.13 4 Malaysia 49.32 5 China 1.09.09 Results courtesy of Seamus Shortall/www.tdl.com.my