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8th Tour of South China Sea - 2.5
China, December 25, 2003 - January 1, 2004
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Stage 4 - December 28: LinJiang Road (Zhujiang New City), 110 km
Grishkin reclaims the yellow
By Gudo Kramer
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Russian champion Oleg Grishkin has reclaimed the lead in the Tour of the South China Sea after winning the fourth stage in Zhujiang New City in a bunch sprint. Grishkin again beat Brett Aitken (Bicisport) with Kai Tsun Lam (Pocari Sweat) taking third, and the time bonus for winning means that Grishkin has a three second advantage over Kam Po Wong in the GC.
The fourth stage of the Tour of South China Sea saw a lot of action and was a great race to watch. Numerous riders attacked the peloton and race leader Kam Po Wong, but nobody could make a decisive move. When the Hong Kong teams seemed to be satisfied with a group and did not chase, there would be other teams that were afraid they would miss the right break and chase the attackers down.
The 5.5 km 'hotdog course' also did not suit the attackers. On the long straights it was impossible to stay out of sight. Many riders tried, but in vain. Then, near the end of the 110 km race, when King Nin Lau (Hong Kong National) and Sascha Richter (KED Bianchi Berlin) did get a gap, it looked like there would be some room for breakaways. After a few laps the two got the company of six others: Lam Kai Tsun, Han Xiaoyung, Cameron Hughes, Tim Decker, Michal Kesl and James Bennett. It looked like they could stay clear, but after a chase from the Japan National Team, the gap got much smaller and their chances diminished.
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When the Japanese had to sit up, Marco Polo riders Chris Baumann and Tim Wilson made their move. Baumann launched Wilson, who pulled through and managed to get to the leading group, together with Denny Schewe, Vladimir Bushanski and Hung Hsu Ying Chieh from Chinese Taipei. It looked like this would be the decisive break, as the field let go after the four riders had escaped. With three laps to go the difference was still around 50 seconds, with nobody looking interested in closing the gap.
The Moscow team thought differently however. They waited a very long time, but with two laps to go they formed their train and brought the speed up. The field strung out and the leading group had to really keep moving. On the fast concrete roads in Guangzhou, the Russians where unstoppable and it looked like they would close the gap quickly.
The leading group also increased their speed however and a short hesitation from the Moscow train, with just 1.5 km to go, gave them new hope. But Grishkin still had one fresh rider with him and that was enough. In the last 100 meters the fastest sprinters in the peloton where able to pass the riders from the leading group, resulting in a top ten with four riders of the leading group and six from the peloton. Aitken and Grishkin taking one and two and Lam Kai Tsun, a 19-year old rider from Hong Kong, who won the Chinese City Games earlier this year, was the surprising third rider crossing the line.
The organisers of the Tour of South China Sea (Hong Kong Cycling Association, Chinese Cycling Association and Federacao de Ciclismo Macao) are doing a great job this year. The hotels are excellent, the logistics are going according to plan and all information is provided efficiently and quickly. This, together with the level of the race, the flat and fast courses, and the limited race distances, make the race a perfect preparation for the track riders who will be starting their season soon.
The Hong Kong Cycle Classic on the 4th of January is still the talk of the day here, with big shots like David Millar and Bruno Risi coming (contrary to some media reports, Igor Astarloa and Alejandro Valverde will not be there) and US$60,000 prize money on offer.
Photography
Images by Francis Cerny/Nikon Camera
- The three riders in leading jerseys before the 4th stage Tsoi Chun Ming in blue (best Asian rider, wearing it because Wong is in Yellow), Wong Kam Po (leader on GC) and Oleg Grishkin (points leader in red).
- No new jersey available! Sun Yanhao crashed yesterday and had to start in the torn clothes today.
- The stage was started with balloons, flowers and beautiful girls.
- The team staff of the CMS Marco Polo amateurs team from Hong Kong see the field pass by. Team director Louis Lui designed some great looking clothes.
- The Kazak riders where eager for the intermediate sprint points.
- Tim Decker (L) and Cameron Hughes (R) lead the group that got caught on the line by the Russian train.
Results
1 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 2.26.00 2 Brett Aitken (Aus) Bicisport Australia 3 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 4 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 5 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 6 Ying Chieh Hung Hsu (Tpe) Merida 7 Tim Decker (Aus) Bicisport Australia 8 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan National Team 9 Michal Kesl (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 10 Sergey Koudentsov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 11 Petr Lazar (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 12 Maros Kovac (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 13 Sama'i (Ina) World Wide Cycling 14 Timothy Wilson (Aus) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 15 Martin Blaha (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 16 Peter Milostic (Aus) Bicisport Australia 17 James Bennett (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 18 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 19 Michael Mourecek (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 20 Xiaohai Zheng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 21 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 22 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 23 Richard Ondryas (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 24 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 25 Greg Rossiter (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 26 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 27 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 28 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Bicisport Australia 29 Enrico Zinn (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 30 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) World Wide Cycling 31 Remko Kramer (Ned) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 32 Chun Ming Tsoi (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 33 Gang Wu (Chn) Guangdong 34 Wei Li (Chn) Tianjin 35 Chris Bradford (Aus) World Wide Cycling 36 Quanjun Meng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 37 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 38 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 39 Dusan Klucka (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 40 Shuaijun Chang (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 41 Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Guangdong 42 Yan Liu (Chn) Guangdong 43 Denny Schewe (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 44 Que Zhong (Chn) Guangzhou 45 Hsin Hua Huang (Tpe) Merida 46 Zhihang Jian (Chn) Guangzhou 47 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 48 Jack Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 49 Weifeng Ivi (Chn) Shanghai 50 Heng Wa Choi MAC Macau-Beijing Selection 51 Sun Jae Jang (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 52 Go Takashima (Jpn) Japan National Team 53 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) World Wide Cycling 54 Armin Krahl (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 55 Jie Zhu (Chn) Shanghai 56 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong 57 Shaun Oneill (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 58 Chih Hsin Mu (Tpe) Merida 59 Kazuhiro Mori (Jpn) Japan National Team 60 Kuo Hua Lo (Tpe) Merida 61 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan National Team 62 Keng Hsien Chen (Tpe) Merida 63 Fengxiong Pan (Chn) Shanghai 64 Jan Sipeky (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 65 Sebastian Freese (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 66 Mikhail Mikheev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 67 Sergey Sevostyanov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 68 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 69 Tim Collins (Aus) Bicisport Australia 70 Lihui Zhang (Chn) Shanghai 71 Feng Yan (Chn) Shanghai 72 Lawrence Yung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 73 Edward Dockrill (Aus) Bicisport Australia 74 Yanhao Sun (Chn) Tianjin 75 Felix Gniot (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 76 Libor Hlavac (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 77 Seok Kyu Suh (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 78 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong 79 Dor Ming Chau (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 80 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai 81 Andrei Minachkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 82 Rob Conjin (Ned) World Wide Cycling 83 Derek Cheung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 84 Milan Dovrscik (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 85 Teng Huan Liu (Tpe) Merida 86 Wanwan Setyobudi (Ina) World Wide Cycling 87 Alexandre Khatuntsev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 88 Zhaojun Wang (Chn) Tianjin 89 Steven Jansen (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 90 Jan Gazi (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 91 Robert Nagy (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 92 Sascha Richter (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 93 Troy White (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 0.29 94 Chris Baumann (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 0.48 95 Jon Pettingill (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 1.50 DNS Xiuming Cui (Chn) Guangzhou Teams 1 Bicisport Australia 7.18.00 2 ASC Dukla Praha 3 Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 4 Kazakstan National Team 5 Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 6 Macau-Beijing Selection 7 Moscow City Sports Association 8 World Wide Cycling 9 City of Perth Cycling Team 10 Merida 11 ASK Dukla Trencin 12 Guangdong 13 Japan National Team 14 KED-Rad Team Berlin 15 Shanghai 16 Hong Kong Sports Institute 17 Tianjin General classification after stage 4 1 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 8.47.20 2 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 0.03 3 Brett Aitken (Aus) Bicisport Australia 0.10 4 Peter Milostic (Aus) Bicisport Australia 0.11 5 Armin Krahl (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 0.26 6 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Bicisport Australia 1.04 7 Jan Sipeky (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 1.08 8 Sergey Koudentsov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 1.15 9 Martin Blaha (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 1.17 10 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan National Team 11 Chun Ming Tsoi (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 12 Xiaohai Zheng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 13 Michal Kesl (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 14 Shaun Oneill (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 15 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 1.49 16 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 1.53 17 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) World Wide Cycling 18 Ying Chieh Hung Hsu (Tpe) Merida 19 Sama'i (Ina) World Wide Cycling 20 Timothy Wilson (Aus) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 21 Michael Mourecek (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 22 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 23 Petr Lazar (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 24 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 25 Maros Kovac (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 26 Greg Rossiter (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 27 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 28 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 29 Wei Li (Chn) Tianjin 30 Tim Decker (Aus) Bicisport Australia 31 Libor Hlavac (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 32 Sergey Sevostyanov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 33 Gang Wu (Chn) Guangdong 34 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 35 Shuaijun Chang (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 36 Heng Wa Choi MAC Macau-Beijing Selection 37 Richard Ondryas (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 38 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 39 Keng Hsien Chen (Tpe) Merida 40 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan National Team 41 Chih Hsin Mu (Tpe) Merida 42 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 43 Yan Liu (Chn) Guangdong 44 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) World Wide Cycling 45 Mikhail Mikheev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 46 Andrei Minachkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 47 Denny Schewe (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 48 Chris Bradford (Aus) World Wide Cycling 49 Jie Zhu (Chn) Shanghai 50 Alexandre Khatuntsev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 51 Seok Kyu Suh (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 52 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong 53 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 54 Kazuhiro Mori (Jpn) Japan National Team 55 Felix Gniot (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 56 Rob Conjin (Ned) World Wide Cycling 57 Milan Dovrscik (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 58 James Bennett (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 2.03 59 Lawrence Yung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 2.40 60 Robert Nagy (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 3.53 61 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 4.55 62 Sascha Richter (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 63 Enrico Zinn (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 6.31 64 Yanhao Sun (Chn) Tianjin 6.56 65 Jack Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 8.50 66 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong 10.50 67 Sun Jae Jang (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 19.07 68 Wanwan Setyobudi (Ina) World Wide Cycling 69 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai 70 Tim Collins (Aus) Bicisport Australia 71 Steven Jansen (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 72 Derek Cheung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 73 Jan Gazi (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 74 Remko Kramer (Ned) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 19.42 75 Chris Baumann (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 19.55 76 Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Guangdong 21.09 77 Quanjun Meng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 24.37 78 Sebastian Freese (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 79 Zhihang Jian (Chn) Guangzhou 80 Edward Dockrill (Aus) Bicisport Australia 81 Go Takashima (Jpn) Japan National Team 24.56 82 Kuo Hua Lo (Tpe) Merida 28.04 83 Hsin Hua Huang (Tpe) Merida 32.40 84 Dor Ming Chau (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 33.17 85 Fengxiong Pan (Chn) Shanghai 33.20 86 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 34.03 87 Dusan Klucka (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 34.42 88 Zhaojun Wang (Chn) Tianjin 89 Weifeng Ivi (Chn) Shanghai 38.10 90 Jon Pettingill (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 40.00 91 Lihui Zhang (Chn) Shanghai 40.17 92 Que Zhong (Chn) Guangzhou 41.37 93 Teng Huan Liu (Tpe) Merida 94 Feng Yan (Chn) Shanghai 52.00 95 Troy White (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 56.31 Points classification 1 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 60 pts 2 Brett Aitken (Aus) Bicisport Australia 49 3 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 35 4 Peter Milostic (Aus) Bicisport Australia 31 5 Sergey Koudentsov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 27 6 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 22 7 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 21 8 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 17 9 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Bicisport Australia 13 9 Richard Ondryas (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 13 9 Michael Mourecek (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 13 9 Jan Sipeky (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 13 13 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan National Team 12 13 Michal Kesl (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 12 15 Martin Blaha (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 11 15 Armin Krahl (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 11 17 Alexandre Khatuntsev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 10 18 Enrico Zinn (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 9 19 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 8 19 Chris Bradford (Aus) World Wide Cycling 8 19 Denny Schewe (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 8 19 James Bennett (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 8 19 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 8 24 Sama'i (Ina) World Wide Cycling 7 25 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) World Wide Cycling 6 26 Seok Kyu Suh (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 5 26 Maros Kovac (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 5 28 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 4 28 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan National Team 4 28 Sascha Richter (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 4 28 Remko Kramer (Ned) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 4 32 Petr Lazar (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 3 32 Sun Jae Jang (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 3 32 Sergey Sevostyanov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 3 35 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong 2 35 Chris Baumann (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 2 37 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai 1 37 Felix Gniot (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 1 37 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 1 37 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 1 37 Andrei Minachkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 1 Teams classification 1 Bicisport Australia 26.23.51 2 Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 1.36 3 Moscow City Sports Association 1.53 4 KED-Rad Team Berlin 2.21 5 ASC Dukla Praha 2.36 6 ASK Dukla Trencin 3.03 7 Macau-Beijing Selection 3.12 8 Japan National Team 9 City of Perth Cycling Team 3.22 10 World Wide Cycling 3.48 11 Kazakstan National Team 12 Merida 13 Guangdong 14 Hong Kong Sports Institute 10.55 15 Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 24.04 16 Shanghai 26.32 17 Tianjin 41.40
