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Tour de Hokkaido - 2.5
Japan, September 15-20, 2004
Prologue - September 15: Sapporo ITT, 2.6 km
Nishitani beats McCann in prologue
By Shane Stokes, Irishcycling.com
The new Irish national time trial champion David McCann redisplayed his ability against the clock when he finished a second in the prologue time trial of the Tour of Hokkaido in Japan. McCann completed the 2.6 kilometre course in a time of 3 minutes and 6 seconds, 2 seconds off the winning pace set by Japanese rider Taiji Nishitani.
McCann won the race outright three years ago and looks set for another good performance this week, although he said before the race that his biggest priority was to build form for his ride in the world time trial championships in Verona at the end of the month.
"I won the event in 2001 but I may have to ride it differently this time in order to prepare for Italy," he said. "It would do me no harm to ride for one of my team mates for a change. There’s nothing better than a bit of donkey-work to get you into shape."
The 2.5 ranked Tour de Hokkaido continues with a 185 kilometre road race from Sapporo to Date.
Results
1 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Aisan 3.04 2 David Mccann (Irl) Giant Asia 0.02 3 Svein Tuft (Can) Canadian National Team 4 Masamichi Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano 0.04 5 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pi 6 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Bridgstone Anchor 0.07 7 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano 8 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 9 Giuseppe Ribolzi (Ita) Team Nippo 10 Eddy Hilger (USA) Marco Polo 11 Takehiro Mizutani (Jpn) Bridgstone Anchor 0.08 12 Ken Hashikawa (Jpn) Kinan CCDCD. 13 Hossein Askari (IRI) Islamic Rep. Iran National Team 14 Takumi Beppu (Jpn) Aisan 15 Edmund Hollands (Aus) Giant Asia 16 Koki Shimbo (Jpn) Aisan 17 S.R.S. Moezedin (IRI) Islamic Rep. Iran National Team 0.09 18 Alexander Lebedev (Rus) Russian National Team 19 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Bridgstone Anchor 20 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Shimano 21 Akira Kakinuma (Jpn) Kinan CCDCD. 22 Sung Baek Park (Kor) Seoul Metropolitan 23 Yasuhiro Yamamoto (Jpn) Team Nippo 0.10 24 Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Bridgstone Anchor 25 Cameron J Evans (Can) Canadian National Team 26 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Shimano 0.11 26 Ken Akita (Jpn) Aisan 28 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Team Nippo 29 Ben Robson (Jpn) Marco Polo 30 Derek Mcmaster (Can) Canadian National Team 31 Itsuki Yoneyama (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pi 0.12 32 S.Mostafa S.R. (IRI) Islamic Rep. Iran National Team 33 Yusuke Shimizu (Jpn) Bridgstone Anchor 34 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) Aisan 0.13 35 Takeshi Ikeda (Jpn) Nifs In Kanoya 36 Mikhail Teteriouk (Kaz) Team Nippo 37 Yuyu Nakamoto (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pi 38 Nariaki Kodama (Jpn) Hokkaido Univ. 39 Evgeny Perminov (Rus) Russian National Team 40 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Shimano 41 Kazuyuki Manabe (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 42 Ghader Mizbani (IRI) Giant Asia 0.14 43 Mohammad Rajablou (IRI) Islamic Rep. Iran National Team 44 Kyoshi Miura (Jpn) Kinan CCDCD. 45 Ahad Kazdem Sarai (IRI) Giant Asia 46 Kam-Po Wong (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pi 0.15 47 Takaaki Ota (Jpn) Kyoto Sangyo Univ. 48 Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh (Mgl) Marco Polo 49 Manabu Hirose (Jpn) Kinan CCDCD. 50 Takeaki Ayabe (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 0.16 51 Genta Aoki (Jpn) Hokkaido Univ. 52 Carter Hovey (Can) Canadian National Team 53 Yury Emelianov (Rus) Russian National Team 54 Jumpei Murakami (Jpn) Nifs In Kanoya 55 Futoshi Morisawa (Jpn) Meiji Univ. 0.17 56 Akio Kobayashi (Jpn) Chuo Univ. 57 Michael Carter (USA) Marco Polo 58 Kojiro Nakagawa (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 59 Yoshiyuki Shimizu (Jpn) Kyoto Sangyo Univ. 60 Shuhei Araki (Jpn) Nifs In Kanoya 61 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 62 Jin Yong Choi (Kor) Seoul Metropolitan 0.18 63 Yuya Hayashi (Jpn) Hokkaido 0.19 64 Andrey Nefedov (Rus) Russian National Team 65 Alexander Tegay (Rus) Russian National Team 66 Shingo Yashiro (Jpn) Nihon Univ. 67 Makoto Fujiwara (Jpn) Hokkaido 68 Yasuharu Nakajima (Jpn) Nifs In Kanoya 0.20 69 Toshiaki Hihara (Jpn) Chuo Univ. 70 Hideya Akiyama (Jpn) Nihon Univ. 71 Yoshinori Iino (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pi 0.21 72 Kuei-Hisang Peng (Jpn) Kinan CCDCD. 73 Mitsuhiro Matsumura (Jpn) Nihon Univ. 74 Tetsuya Ishida (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 75 Wataru Kinoshita (Jpn) Hokkaido Univ. 76 Kenji Itoga (Jpn) Nihon Univ. 77 Ryutaro Iwamoto (Jpn) Kyoto Sangyo Univ. 0.22 78 Masahiro Watanabe (Jpn) Chuo Univ. 0.23 79 Takashi Kojima (Jpn) Hokkaido 80 Sung Chan Cho (Kor) Seoul Metropolitan 81 Seyedjavad Mosabi (IRI) Islamic Rep. Iran National Team 82 Ryuichi Tsuji (Jpn) Kyoto Sangyo Univ. 0.24 83 Kuan-Hua Lai (Tpe) Giant Asia 0.26 84 Koji Kozakai (Jpn) Kyoto Sangyo Univ. 85 Kyong Dong Jang (Kor) Seoul Metropolitan 86 Jong Hyo Park (Kor) Seoul Metropolitan 0.27 87 Go Senoo (Jpn) Hokkaido 88 Takezo Baba (Jpn) Hokkaido 89 Masamichi Tatesato (Jpn) Meiji Univ. 0.28 90 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) Marco Polo 0.30 91 Makoto Funaki (Jpn) Nihon Univ. 0.31 92 Takayuki Naganuma (Jpn) Meiji Univ. 0.32 93 Hayato Ando (Jpn) Nifs In Kanoya 0.33 94 Hisashi Kato (Jpn) Meiji Univ. 95 Kiwamu Matsuda (Jpn) Hokkaido Univ. 96 Osamu Wakaki (Jpn) Hokkaido Univ. 97 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Team Nippo 0.38 98 Akitsugu Takamori (Jpn) Meiji Univ. 0.47 99 Go Takashima (Jpn) Chuo Univ. 0.58 Points 1 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Aisan 10 pts 2 David Mccann (Irl) Giant Asia 9 3 Svein Tuft (Can) Canadian National Team 8 4 Masamichi Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano 7 5 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pi 6 6 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Bridgstone Anchor 5 7 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano 4 8 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 3 9 Giuseppe Ribolzi (Ita) Team Nippo 2 10 Eddy Hilger (USA) Marco Polo 1 Teams 1 Aisan 9.30 2 Shimano 0.03 3 Canadian National Team 0.07 4 Bridgstone Anchor 0.07 5 Giant Art 0.08 6 Team Nippo 0.12 7 Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi 0.12 8 Islamic Rep. Iran National Team 0.12 9 Kinan CCD 0.15 10 Marco Polo 0.18 11 Miyata Subaru 0.20 12 Russian National Team 0.22 13 Nifs In Kanoya 0.30 14 Hokkaido Univ. 0.33 15 Seoul Metropolitan 0.35 16 Kyoto Sangyo Univ. 0.38 17 Chuo Univ. 0.43 18 Nihon Univ. 0.44 19 Sel. Hokkaido 0.45 20 Meiji Univ. 1.01
