Tour of Qinghai Lake - 2.3

China, July 17-25, 2004

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Stage 9 - July 25: Xining Circuit, 109.5 km

Photography

Images by Ed Beamon/Navigators Insurance Cycling Team

Race leader Phil Zajicek all smiles, with his team-mate David McKenzie in the background.
Bringing it home on the final day in Xining; Navigators sprinter Viktor Ripinski won his third stage to cap off the team's brilliant performance.
Overall winner Phil Zajicek about to pop the bubbly.
Here we go...
Who da man? Phil Zajicek holds his bike aloft.
Phil Zajicek receives a kiss from a young beauty at the post-race dinner.
The Navigators team are congratulated for their performance at the post-race dinner. The numerous glasses of red wine in the foreground suggest celebrations went well into the night.

Results

1 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team     2.15.09
2 André Schulze (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann                
3 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazachstan National Team                     
 
Final general classification
 
1 Ryan Cox (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli              
2 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Iri) Giant Asia Racing Team            0.13
3 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team            0.31
4 Andrei Mizourov (Kaz) Oktos                                    0.32
5 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazachstan National Team                 0.38
  
Courtesy cycling4all.com

*Winner Phillip Zajicek was disqualified for a doping offence