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Tour of Siam - 2.2
Thailand, January 20-25, 2007
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Stage 4 - January 23: Wachiralongkorn Dam – Three Pagodas Pass - Wachiralongkorn Dam, 184.1 km
Giant Asia duo cleared the table on Siam's queen stage
By Laszlo Szilasi in Wachiralongkorn Dam
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As Jai Crawford (Giant A.R.T) said after the second stage, the queen stage of this year's Tour of Siam was going to be "The Day" for his team. He was true to his word and put in a brave attack at the beginning of the race, with his teammate Ghader Mizbhani by his side. Maybe nobody expected what later happened in the stage, as the duo spent the whole day in the front on the very challenging 189km hilly course. At the end, they collected the stage win and the yellow jersey for their team. Cycling fans saw an impressive performance amongst the background of mangrove forest, jungle rivers, and high mountain passes.
Former race leader Koji Fukushima, who's Nippo Maitan team tried everything, failed to defend the leader's jersey. He arrived at the finish in the 18 man strong main group almost two minutes after the winning duo.
How if unfolded
Cloudy weather and temperatures around 26 degrees woke up the riders in the beautiful golf course resort near the Wachiralongkorn Dam. Everybody looked a little nervous at the breakfast. It was clear that today's stage, with three KOMs, was going to be the hardest day of this race. The day started with short, rolling hills, and the first group, with about 20 riders, got clear at kilometer 10. Team Nippo Maitan had two riders on the front, so they let the break go. As the riders closed to the first KOM of the day, Crawford attacked the break, with his teammate, Mizhbani on his wheel and Sirous Hashemzadeh (Azad University). Mizhbani took the points in the mountain sprint at kilometer 23. At the top, they had a 30 second advantage on the chase group and around one minute on the main bunch.
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At this point, nobody thought that such an early break could stay away on today's course, so the peloton took it easy and the gap to the front trio began to grow, while the other riders from the original break were reeled slowly in by the bunch. The course wound all day through beautiful Thai landscape, with its forested jungle rivers by the roadside and a large lake on the other side of the dam. However, riders didn't have too much time to look around because the route was like a rollercoaster.
After the first intermediate sprint, a five rider group took up chase on the leaders, but their effort ended without too much luck.
The real difficulties started after kilometer 70, especially two kilometers before the day's second KOM, where the road hit a 20% plus gradient. Riders started suffering and some couldn't ride up the climb Local fans sprinkled them with cool water and tried to push them further on the hill. It was a great scene in the tropical countryside with its steep "walls" like those of the early European spring classics.
At the first categorized climb, Mizhbani took the points again, while the five-man chase group blew apart. The peloton was already five minutes behind. After a very fast descent, where riders reached 100 km/h on the downhill, the race headed to the Myanmar border through very poor countryside . At 90km, they arrived at the Three Pagodas Pass for a U-turn, which meant the riders reached the halfway point of the stage. The three little pagodas are memorials of an important routing of the troops during a war from the Ayutthaya period. It also marks the rugged Thai-Myanmar border and is the site of a small but thriving border market.
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At this point, the three leaders still had over four minutes, but the peloton worked to catch the five chasers. After the U-turn, it was the same route back to the finish, so it meant some more very hard climbing in the heat. On the way back, the main climb strung out the field once again as the GC contenders increased the speed and reduced the yellow jersey group to only 20 riders.
Fukushima was left without teammates--he Nippo guys were dropping back after the previous days of hard work. In the front, Hashemzadeh dropped from the break, so Crawford and Mizhbani were left to their own resources.
At 146km, the leading duo reached today's last KOM where they had 38km to go and three minutes advantage. The yellow jersey group started to attacked each other and there was no cooperation for the chase. The Giant Asia duo started to tire, and the gap began to decrease. It was all or nothing for them, when 15km from the finish they had 1 minute and 28 seconds and then still a minute's gap at the 10km mark. The leaders both clenched their teeth and swapped turns on the front, while a brief rainshower cooled them slightly.
Nearing the finish, the duo had increased their lead, so they arrived more calmly to the finish, where Mizhbani took the stage win and Crawford the yellow jersey. Third place went to Pol Nabban from Marco Polo Team, who arrived 1:46 back and five seconds in front of the 18 man yellow jersey group.
After the stag, the 23-year-old Australian race leader talked with emotion about his stage. "It's amazing, I really don't believe that we did this. When I attacked at the beginning of the stage, I just went for the KOM points. A bit later on, my teammate Mizhbani arrived to the front group, so we put the pressure on before the first KOM and only one rider could stayed with us.
"As the gap began to grow, I still didn't think about the jellow jersey. On the way back to the finish, we lost the Iranian rider after the first category climb, but we still kept going hard with Mizhbani. In the last 10km I started to believe that we could win this stage so tried to bring out all my remained energy and gave 110%.
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"In the end, I let the stage win for my teammate, because I knew that I will get the race leader's jersey. The last few years were bad for me in cycling, I had difficulties with previous teams and had a bad last year, so I could only compete in two or three races in 2006. I just joined the Giant Asia team, and this is my first race with them, so it's very nice to have such a great results at the beginning.
"I think the team Nippo worked too hard in the previous days, that's why they lost today. My team is very strong, so I think I can keep the jellow jersey until the end of the race. We have a comfortable situation as Mizhbani is third now in overall, but we really have to be careful int he two remaining stages"
Koji Fukushima, after arriving almost two minutes behind the winner, gestured at the finish to congratulate Crawford.
"In the past few days, my team worked very hard to control the race, so today we payed for it," said Fukushima. "I lost one of my teammates early on the stage and all the others later on. Congratulations to the Giant Asia boys, they rode a great race today. Of course, I will not give up the fight for the yellow jersey, now some other teams have to control the race so we could rest a bit."
Giant Asia should be happy with today's results. Not only did they earn the lead, but Mizhbani moved into third place on the GC. They have strong lead in the mountains and in the team classification, so now they must simply defend their position for two more days.
Tomorrow the caravan heads back to Kanchanaburi.
Photography
For a thumbnail gallery of these images, click here
Images by Laszlo Szilasi/www.velo.hu
- The peloton at the beginning of today's queen stage
- Some live on the water in Thailand.
- The peloton near a lake
- The peloton on a bridge with a scenic background
- This climb is too hard to go straight.
- This steep climb featured a grade over 20%.
- Pain, pain, pain...
- The peloton nears the top of the Cat 1 climb.
- Fukushima get some water from fans.
- Locals watch the race from motorbike.
- On the way to Myanmar boarder.
- Riders do the U-turn at Three Pagodas Pass.
- The Giant Asia duo in action
- Mizhbani is one of Asia’s best climbers.
- Locals cheers Mizhbani who is passing by.
- Mizhbani shows some pain in the final kilometres.
- Australian Crawford on the way to yellow
- Three km to go for the Giant boys
- Today’s heros arrive at the finish.
- Mizhbani wins the queen stage of the Tour of Siam.
- Pol Nabbon arrives home just before the main bunch.
- Sprint for fourth place
- Crawford after the stage
- Have I lost the yellow?
- Fukushima shows some sadness after the stage in which he lost the yellow jersey.
- Fukushima congratulates new yellow jersey wearer.
- Crawford defends the polka-dot jersey.
- .. and gets the yellow, too.
- Thai children wait for the awards ceremony.
Images by Francis Cerny
- The mountains were steeper than expected.
- Thijs Zonneveld from the Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team puts away bidons with assistance from mechanic Henk Zuidema.
- Zigzaging across the road.
- The break of the day in stage 4 of the Tour of Siam. Jai Crawford, Ghader Mizbani (Giant Asia) and Sirous Hashemzadeh (Azad University).
Results
1 Ghader Mizbani (Irn) Giant A.R.T 4.51.39 2 Jai Crawford (Aus) Giant A.R.T 3 Pol Nabben (Ned) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 1.46 4 Artemiy Timofeev (Rus) Polygon Sweet Nice 1.51 5 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 6 Yevgeniy Yakovlev (Kaz) Polygon Sweet Nice 7 Lex Nederlof (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 8 Hai Jun Ma (Chn) Qinghai Team 9 Jacob Nielsen (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 10 Thiijs Zonneveld (Ned) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 11 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil Shimano 12 Ford Will (Aus) Australian National Track Endurance 13 Phillip Thauax (Aus) Australian National Track Endurance 14 Xing Yan Dong (Chn) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 15 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 16 Hossein Askari (Irn) Giant A.R.T 17 Paul Griffin (Irl) Giant A.R.T 18 Iman Suparman (Ina) Benteng Muda Tangerang 19 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Azad University 1.56 20 Vyascheslav Dyadichkin (Kaz) Polygon Sweet Nice 1.57 21 Morten Christiansen (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 5.43 22 Brad Hall (Aus) City of Perth 6.16 23 Thanawat Samana (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 24 Okart Bualoi (Tha) Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky 25 Thomas Benicvengo (USA) Champion System Sommerville Sports 26 Ger Soepenberg (Den) Altipower 27 Rudy Vriend (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 28 Kin San Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 29 Prajak Mahawong (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 30 Tanet Pitthayathonlert (Tha) Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky 31 Junaidi Bin Hashim (Sin) Singapore National Team 32 Steve Mouritze (Aus) City of Perth 33 Saree Ruangsiri (Tha) Royal Thai Navy 34 Stefan Rothe (Ger) Champion System Sommerville Sports 35 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 36 Abdullah Riza Pahlani (Ina) Polygon Sweet Nice 37 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 38 Radius Ginting (Ina) Benteng Muda Tangerang 39 Kurniawan (Ina) Benteng Muda Tangerang 40 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Skil Shimano 41 Wai Man Chau (HKg) Champion System Sommerville Sports 42 S. Mostafa S. Rezaei. (Irn) Azad University 43 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 44 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 45 Mehdi Faridikoevj (Irn) Azad University 46 Hilton Mc.Murdo (Aus) City of Perth 47 Abbas Saeiditanha (Irn) Azad University 48 Nathan Dahlberg (NZl) Altipower 49 Mumuh Muhsin (Ina) Benteng Muda Tangerang 50 Puchong Saiudomsil (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 51 Jakkapong Supannapong (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 52 Rosdi Mdnor Umardi (Mas) Le Tua 14.20 53 Zainal Mdnor Rizuan (Mas) Le Tua 54 Montri Chompuviset (Tha) Royal Thai Air Force 55 Anno Pedersen (Ned) Altipower 14.37 56 Jatupoom Lakawata (Tha) Royal Thai Army 14.45 57 Ekachai Tawonlumlerd (Tha) Royal Thai Air Force 58 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Skil Shimano 59 Masahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Skil Shimano 60 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Skil Shimano 61 Ryan Connor (Irl) Giant A.R.T 62 A. Rahman Md Asril (Mas) Le Tua 63 Sergey Kudentsov (Rus) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 64 Jamsran Ulzil-Orshikh (Mgl) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 65 Haidar Ahmad (Mas) Le Tua 66 Peter Dawson (Aus) Australian National Track Endurance 67 Jirod Wisuhiran (Tha) Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky 29.07 68 Pinkeaw Pornthep (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 69 Biao Liu (Chn) Qinghai Team 70 Nicolaj Olesen (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 71 Jared Bunde (USA) Champion System Sommerville Sports 42.54 72 Nutthapon Cheepthaworn (Tha) Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky 73 Jirawat Sinthupoon (Tha) Royal Thai Police 74 Peter Van Agtmaal (Ned) Altipower 42.57 75 Robert Wijaya (Ina) Polygon Sweet Nice 76 Stephen Wooldridge (Aus) Australian National Track Endurance 43.02 77 Rune Udby (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 43.05 78 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 79 Manan Anuar (Mas) Le Tua 80 Darren Harry (Aus) City of Perth 81 Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 82 Michael Berling (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 83 Cor Van Leeuwen (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 84 Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 43.09 85 Thijs Poelstra (Ned) Altipower 86 Sander Lormans (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 87 Wen Jun Daniel Loy (Sin) Singapore National Team 43.12 88 Menno De Boer (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 44.58 89 Jittipong Tongkumnueng (Tha) Royal Thai Air Force 54.08 90 Sumet Sorrasak (Tha) Royal Thai Navy DSQ Amir Zargari (Irn) Azad University DNF Zakkari Dempster (Aus) Australian National Track Endurance DNF Mark Pederson (Aus) City of Perth DNF Muhammad Toufiq (Ina) Benteng Muda Tangerang DNF Kui Song (Chn) Qinghai Team DNF Sheng Jun Wu (Chn) Qinghai Team DNF David Sommerville (USA) Champion System Sommerville Sports DNF Chek Piew Larry Boo (Sin) Singapore National Team DNF Mohamed Fadzil Bin Hayof (Sin) Singapore National Team DNF Yuan Hui Melvin Kow (Sin) Singapore National Team KOM 1 (23.1 km) 1 Ghader Mizbani (Irn) Giant A.R.T 5 pts 2 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Azad University 3 3 Jai Crawford (Aus) Giant A.R.T 2 4 Stefan Rothe (Ger) Champion System Sommerville Sports 1 KOM 2 (66.1 km) 1 Jai Crawford (Aus) Giant A.R.T 7 pts 2 Ghader Mizbani (Irn) Giant A.R.T 5 3 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Azad University 3 4 Lex Nederlof (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 2 5 Thanawat Samana (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 1 KOM 3 (112.7 km) 1 Ghader Mizbani (Irn) Giant A.R.T 7 pts 2 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Azad University 5 3 Jai Crawford (Aus) Giant A.R.T 3 4 Hossein Askari (Irn) Giant A.R.T 2 5 Vyascheslav Dyadichkin (Kaz) Polygon Sweet Nice 1 Sprint 1 (34.5 km) 1 Ghader Mizbani (Irn) Giant A.R.T 5 pts 2 Jai Crawford (Aus) Giant A.R.T 3 3 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Azad University 1 Sprint 2 (146.1 km) 1 JaiCrawford (Aus) Giant A.R.T 5 pts 2 Ghader Mizbani (Irn) Giant A.R.T 3 3 Yevgeniy Yakovlev (Kaz) Polygon Sweet Nice 1 Individual Asian 1 Iman Suparman (Ina) Benteng Muda Tangerang 4.53.30 2 Thanawat Samana (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 4.25 3 Okart Bualoi (Tha) Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky 4 Prajak Mahawong (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 5 Tanet Pitthayathonlert (Tha) Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky Team 1 Giant A.R.T 14.36.48 2 Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 3.37 3 Polygon Sweet Nice 3.48 4 Hong Kong Pro Cycling 12.32 5 Nippo Meitan 6 Benteng Muda Tangerang 7 Azad University 12.37 8 Australian National Track Endurance 16.36 9 City Of Perth 16.57 10 Champion System Sommerville Sports 11 Siam Bara Cycling Team 12 Skil Shimano 21.01 13 Altipower 25.18 14 Glud & Marstand Horsens 34.50 15 Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky 39.48 16 Le Tua 41.34 17 Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 49.21 18 Royal Thai Air Force 1.21.22 Individual GC 1 Jai Crawford (Aus) Giant A.R.T 15.40.55 2 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 0.56 3 Ghader Mizbani (Irn) Giant A.R.T 1.03 4 Hossein Askari (Irn) Giant A.R.T 1.29 5 Yevgeniy Yakovlev (Kaz) Polygon Sweet Nice 1.53 6 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 7 Jacob Nielsen (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 1.56 8 Hai Jun Ma (Chn) Qinghai Team 1.57 9 Thiijs Zonneveld (Ned) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 10 Paul Griffin (Irl) Giant A.R.T 11 Vyascheslav Dyadichkin (Kaz) Polygon Sweet Nice 2.12 12 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil Shimano 2.27 13 Pol Nabben (Ned) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 2.47 14 Xing Yan Dong (Chn) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 2.58 15 Ford Will (Aus) Australian National Track Endurance 2.59 16 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Azad University 3.15 17 Artemiy Timofeev (Rus) Polygon Sweet Nice 3.25 18 Lex Nederlof (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 3.41 19 Iman Suparman (Ina) Benteng Muda Tangerang 3.58 20 Phillip Thauax (Aus) Australian National Track Endurance 6.05 21 Ger Soepenberg (Den) Altipower 6.08 22 Morten Christiansen (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 6.08 23 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 6.12 24 Prajak Mahawong (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 6.22 25 Brad Hall (Aus) City of Perth 26 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 27 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 28 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Skil Shimano 29 Thanawat Samana (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 7.36 30 Stefan Rothe (Ger) Champion System Sommerville Sports 7.38 31 Kin San Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 7.40 32 Radius Ginting (Ina) Benteng Muda Tangerang 7.44 33 Puchong Saiudomsil (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 34 Jakkapong Supannapong (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 35 Tanet Pitthayathonlert (Tha) Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky 36 Wai Man Chau (HKg) Champion System Sommerville Sports 37 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 38 Thomas Benicvengo (USA) Champion System Sommerville Sports 39 Abbas Saeiditanha (Irn) Azad University 40 Junaidi Bin Hashim (Sin) Singapore National Team 7.50 41 Hilton Mc.Murdo (Aus) City of Perth 8.06 42 Mehdi Faridikoevj (Irn) Azad University 43 Saree Ruangsiri (Tha) Royal Thai Navy 8.16 44 Abdullah Riza Pahlani (Ina) Polygon Sweet Nice 8.23 45 Okart Bualoi (Tha) Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky 8.28 46 Rudy Vriend (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 9.13 47 Mumuh Muhsin (Ina) Benteng Muda Tangerang 9.35 48 Nathan Dahlberg (NZl) Altipower 12.02 49 Jamsran Ulzil-Orshikh (Mgl) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 15.38 50 Rosdi Mdnor Umardi (Mas) Le Tua 16.10 51 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Skil Shimano 16.13 52 Montri Chompuviset (Tha) Royal Thai Air Force 16.23 53 Zainal Mdnor Rizuan (Mas) Le Tua 16.42 54 Ekachai Tawonlumlerd (Tha) Royal Thai Air Force 16.57 55 Anno Pedersen (Ned) Altipower 16.59 56 Masahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Skil Shimano 17.07 57 S. Mostafa S. Rezaei. (Irn) Azad University 19.22 58 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Skil Shimano 19.37 59 Haidar Ahmad (Mas) Le Tua 19.52 60 Kurniawan (Ina) Benteng Muda Tangerang 21.31 61 Steve Mouritze (Aus) City of Perth 22.25 62 Ryan Connor (Irl) Giant A.R.T 25.52 63 Peter Dawson (Aus) Australian National Track Endurance 28.55 64 A. Rahman Md Asril (Mas) Le Tua 30.20 65 Sergey Kudentsov (Rus) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 32.46 66 Jatupoom Lakawata (Tha) Royal Thai Army 33.30 67 Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 44.47 68 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 44.49 69 Nutthapon Cheepthaworn (Tha) Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky 45.01 70 Manan Anuar (Mas) Le Tua 45.17 71 Robert Wijaya (Ina) Polygon Sweet Nice 45.32 72 Jared Bunde (USA) Champion System Sommerville Sports 46.00 73 Sander Lormans (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 47.25 74 Pinkeaw Pornthep (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 47.42 75 Peter Van Agtmaal (Ned) Altipower 48.01 76 Biao Liu (Chn) Qinghai Team 48.13 77 Jirod Wisuhiran (Tha) Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky 48.27 78 Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 48.59 79 Rune Udby (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 49.48 80 Jirawat Sinthupoon (Tha) Royal Thai Police 59.33 81 Darren Harry (Aus) City of Perth 59.41 82 Wen Jun Daniel Loy (Sin) Singapore National Team 1.00.04 83 Cor Van Leeuwen (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 1.01.12 84 Stephen Wooldridge (Aus) Australian National Track Endurance 1.03.00 85 Thijs Poelstra (Ned) Altipower 1.08.00 86 Michael Berling (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 1.16.01 87 Nicolaj Olesen (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 1.26.38 88 Jittipong Tongkumnueng (Tha) Royal Thai Air Force 1.27.04 89 Menno De Boer (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 1.32.59 90 Sumet Sorrasak (Tha) Royal Thai Navy 1.36.19 Mountains Classification 1 Jai Crawford (Aus) Giant A.R.T 24 pts 2 Ghader Mizbani (Irn) Giant A.R.T 17 3 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Azad University 12 4 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 8 5 Hossein Askari (Irn) Giant A.R.T 5 6 Jacob Nielsen (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 2 7 Paul Griffin (Irl) Giant A.R.T 2 8 Lex Nederlof (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 2 9 Hai Jun Ma (Chn) Qinghai Team 1 10 Vyascheslav Dyadichkin (Kaz) Polygon Sweet Nice 1 11 Thanawat Samana (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 1 12 Stefan Rothe (Ger) Champion System Sommerville Sports 1 Points Classification 1 Ger Soepenberg (Den) Altipower 37 pts 2 Jai Crawford (Aus) Giant A.R.T 31 3 Artemiy Timofeev (Rus) Polygon Sweet Nice 31 4 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 31 5 Ghader Mizbani (Irn) Giant A.R.T 24 6 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 24 7 Haidar Ahmad (Mas) Le Tua 23 8 Yevgeniy Yakovlev (Kaz) Polygon Sweet Nice 23 9 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 20 10 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 19 11 Lex Nederlof (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 18 12 Morten Christiansen (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 18 13 Thiijs Zonneveld (Ned) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 17 14 Manan Anuar (Mas) Le Tua 17 15 Hossein Askari (Irn) Giant A.R.T 14 16 Jacob Nielsen (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 14 17 Sergey Kudentsov (Rus) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 14 18 Pol Nabben (Ned) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 13 19 Rudy Vriend (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 12 20 Hai Jun Ma (Chn) Qinghai Team 11 21 Sander Lormans (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 11 22 Peter Dawson (Aus) Australian National Track Endurance 10 23 Paul Griffin (Irl) Giant A.R.T 10 24 Cor Van Leeuwen (Ned) Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 10 25 Brad Hall (Aus) City of Perth 9 26 Darren Harry (Aus) City of Perth 9 27 Ekachai Tawonlumlerd (Tha) Royal Thai Air Force 8 28 Jittipong Tongkumnueng (Tha) Royal Thai Air Force 8 29 Nutthapon Cheepthaworn (Tha) Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky 7 30 Phillip Thauax (Aus) Australian National Track Endurance 6 31 Michael Berling (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 6 32 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Skil Shimano 5 33 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil Shimano 5 34 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Skil Shimano 5 35 Ford Will (Aus) Australian National Track Endurance 4 36 Rune Udby (Den) Glud & Marstand Horsens 4 37 Xing Yan Dong (Chn) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 3 38 Puchong Saiudomsil (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 3 39 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Nippo Meitan 2 40 Thanawat Samana (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 2 41 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Azad University 1 42 Prajak Mahawong (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 1 Asian Rider Classification 1 Iman Suparman (Ina) Benteng Muda Tangerang 15.44.53 2 Prajak Mahawong (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 2.24 3 Thanawat Samana (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 3.38 4 Radius Ginting (Ina) Benteng Muda Tangerang 3.46 5 Puchong Saiudomsil (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 6 Jakkapong Supannapong (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling Team 7 Tanet Pitthayathonlert (Tha) Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky 8 Junaidi Bin Hashim (Sin) Singapore National Team 3.52 9 Saree Ruangsiri (Tha) Royal Thai Navy 4.18 10 Abdullah Riza Pahlani (Ina) Polygon Sweet Nice 4.25 Team GC 1 Giant A.R.T 47.04.40 2 Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 5.37 3 Polygon Sweet Nice 5.39 4 Nippo Meitan 11.57 5 Hong Kong Pro Cycling 15.26 6 Azad University 15.46 7 Benteng Muda Tangerang 18.25 8 Siam Bara Cycling Team 19.47 9 Champion System Sommerville Sports 21.11 10 Skil Shimano 23.07 11 Altipower 32.46 12 Australian National Track Endurance 33.03 13 City Of Perth 34.58 14 Glud & Marstand Horsens 40.50 15 Sin Kit Paiboon Lohakarn Royal Sky 45.31 16 Le Tua 47.54 17 Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 58.20 18 Royal Thai Air Force 1.58.29
