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8th Tour of South China Sea - 2.5
China, December 25, 2003 - January 1, 2004
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Stage 7 - December 31: Coloane (Macau), 92 km
Kovac takes stage but Grishkin hangs on
By Gudo Kramer
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The 7th stage of the Tour of South China Sea on the hilly Coloane course in Macau was won by Maros Kovac from Dukla Trencin Slovakia, who beat Cameron Hughes (Bicisport) and Richard Ondryas (ASC Dukla Praha) to the top of the 2 km finishing climb. But the big story of the day was a move from Kam Po Wong from Hong Kong. He attacked with five laps to go with two other riders: Alexey Kolessov from Kazakhstan and Robert Nagy from Dukla Trencin. The Moscow team with leader Oleg Grishkin was never worried of course, and they kept the leaders within one minute and rotated on the front with their whole team. All the work that Wong had to do in front was wearing the Chinese Champion down, and Oleg Grishkin had a relatively easy ride to keep the leader's jersey after they recaptured Wong.
The race on the 9 km circuit saw an early break of two riders: Shaun O'Neill (City of Perth) and Liu Yan (Guangdong) have a go, but they got caught back quite quickly. The next group of seven looked more serious, but also could not stay away as there were too many teams in the pack that wanted their climbers in front at the beginning of the steep 2 km climb leading towards the statue of the Goddess A-Ma. A-Ma lived in the region around 1000 AD and Macau was named after her. Her statue is standing 199.9 metres above sea level, where the climb started. Note that there is a 300 metre downhill at 500 metres to go, making the rest of the climb around 12-15% average!
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When the seven were caught with six laps to go, it was Kam Po Wong who couldn't control his nerves anymore and attacked. The Russians let the three man group take an advantage of 1 minute and then started their train. For three laps the distance was around 40 seconds and then they started coming closer, but only caught Wong, Kolessov and Nagy in the last lap.
At the foot of the climb there was a crash caused by an inexperienced Chinese rider. One of the victims was Cameron Hughes, when he got going again however, he managed to sprint up the mountain into second place. The climb perfectly suited Wong, who won many races with short, steep climbs, but he had lost his strength already and could not get rid of race leader Grishkin.
Wong was short in his comments. "I wanted to try and control the race by being in the front," he said. Of course he was afraid there would be another leading group taking the bonus seconds he needed to win this Tour if he was not there, but 50 km on the front was too much as he didn't manage to finish in front of Oleg Grishkin and Peter Milostic.
Milostic won a few seconds over Wong and Grishkin, which brings him to the same time as Wong in third place, Wong is second as he has more points. Milostic gave it all he had on the last climb, collapsing after the finish and lying on the ground for a few minutes, and he wasn't the only rider that couldn't stand on his legs anymore behind the line. The chances are small that the Oceanian Time Trial Champion will come closer in the last stage, a 66km criterium in front of the Jockey Club in Macau, but anything is possible.
Grishkin was happy, he held onto his lead and with a strong team around him, his Tour win is sure, provided he does not crash tomorrow. A sixth stage win in this eight day race is also possible for the fast Russian sprinters tomorrow. "My team did a great job, it was a very hard for them, the three riders in front were going fast. For me it was easy until the last climb. I could see the number three [Milostic] and Wong were behind me, so no problem!"
Photography
Images by Francis Cerny/Nikon Camera
- The start was in front of the gate towards the A-Ma monument. 153 and 155 are Sipeky and Gazi from the team of the stage winner, Maros Kovac.
- The winning sprint of Kovac just in front of Cameron Hughes.
- Happy New Year from the World Wide Cycling Team!
Results
1 Maros Kovac (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 2.11.56 2 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Bicisport Australia 0.02 3 Richard Ondryas (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 0.10 4 Peter Milostic (Aus) Bicisport Australia 0.14 5 Xiaohai Zheng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 0.17 6 Armin Krahl (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 0.21 7 Michael Mourecek (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 8 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan National Team 9 Chris Bradford (Aus) World Wide Cycling 10 Alexandre Khatuntsev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 11 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 0.24 12 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 0.28 13 Libor Hlavac (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 0.29 14 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan National Team 0.31 15 Martin Blaha (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 0.34 16 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 17 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) World Wide Cycling 0.36 18 Jan Sipeky (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 19 Wei Li (Chn) Tianjin 0.39 20 Shuaijun Chang (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 21 Andrei Minachkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 22 Fengxiong Pan (Chn) Shanghai 0.43 23 Michal Kesl (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 24 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 0.45 25 Petr Lazar (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 0.46 26 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong 27 Milan Dovrscik (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 0.49 28 Timothy Wilson (Aus) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 29 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 0.51 30 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai 0.52 31 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 32 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 33 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong 0.54 34 Tim Decker (Aus) Bicisport Australia 35 Wanwan Setyobudi (Ina) World Wide Cycling 36 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 37 Heng Wa Choi MAC Macau-Beijing Selection 38 Felix Gniot (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 0.58 39 Jie Zhu (Chn) Shanghai 1.00 40 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 1.02 41 Greg Rossiter (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 1.04 42 Gang Wu (Chn) Guangdong 1.11 43 Quanjun Meng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 1.13 44 Chun Ming Tsoi (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 1.15 45 Jack Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 46 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) World Wide Cycling 1.21 47 Sascha Richter (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 48 Seok Kyu Suh (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 1.25 49 Chih Hsin Mu (Tpe) Merida 50 Sama'i (Ina) World Wide Cycling 51 Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Guangdong 52 Ying Chieh Hung Hsu (Tpe) Merida 1.29 53 Derek Cheung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 54 Rob Conjin (Ned) World Wide Cycling 1.32 55 Lawrence Yung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 1.35 56 Yan Liu (Chn) Guangdong 0.38 57 Mikhail Mikheev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 1.43 58 Denny Schewe (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 59 Sergey Sevostyanov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 60 Remko Kramer (Ned) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 61 Kuo Hua Lo (Tpe) Merida 1.54 62 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 2.01 63 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 64 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 2.08 65 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 2.16 66 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 2.27 67 Shaun Oneill (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 2.32 68 Weifeng Ivi (Chn) Shanghai 2.35 69 Jan Gazi (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 2.40 70 Enrico Zinn (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 3.02 71 Sebastian Freese (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 3.16 72 Chris Baumann (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 3.26 73 Sergey Koudentsov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 74 Robert Nagy (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 3.29 75 Dusan Klucka (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 3.31 76 Yanhao Sun (Chn) Tianjin 3.42 77 Hsin Hua Huang (Tpe) Merida 3.53 78 Troy White (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 4.32 79 Feng Yan (Chn) Shanghai 5.30 80 Go Takashima (Jpn) Japan National Team 10.50 DNF Lihui Zhang (Chn) Shanghai DNF Kazuhiro Mori (Jpn) Japan National Team DNF Tim Collins (Aus) Bicisport Australia DNF Edward Dockrill (Aus) Bicisport Australia DNF Zhaojun Wang (Chn) Tianjin DNF Zhihang Jian (Chn) Guangzhou DNF Que Zhong (Chn) Guangzhou DNF James Bennett (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team DNF Jon Pettingill (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team DNF Steven Jansen (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team DNF Dor Ming Chau (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute DNF Sun Jae Jang (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute DNF Keng Hsien Chen (Tpe) Merida Teams 1 ASC Dukla Praha 6.36.48 2 Bicisport Australia 0.10 3 Moscow City Sports Association 0.24 4 ASK Dukla Trencin 0.25 5 Macau-Beijing Selection 0.48 6 World Wide Cycling 0.51 7 Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 1.05 8 Guangdong 1.18 9 Kazakstan National Team 1.19 10 Shanghai 1.35 11 KED-Rad Team Berlin 1.40 12 Hong Kong Sports Institute 3.09 13 Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 3.40 14 Merida 3.48 15 Japan National Team 10.42 General classification after stage 7 1 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 15.16.30 2 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 0.21 3 Peter Milostic (Aus) Bicisport Australia 0.21 4 Armin Krahl (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 0.43 5 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Bicisport Australia 1.30 6 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan National Team 1.34 7 Michal Kesl (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 1.56 8 Jan Sipeky (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 2.01 9 Xiaohai Zheng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 2.04 10 Martin Blaha (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 2.08 11 Michael Mourecek (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 2.10 12 Chris Bradford (Aus) World Wide Cycling 13 Alexandre Khatuntsev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 14 Libor Hlavac (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 2.18 15 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan National Team 2.20 16 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 2.23 17 Andrei Minachkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 2.24 18 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) World Wide Cycling 2.25 19 Chun Ming Tsoi (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 2.28 20 Shuaijun Chang (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 21 Petr Lazar (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 2.35 22 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 2.37 23 Maros Kovac (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 24 Timothy Wilson (Aus) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 2.38 25 Milan Dovrscik (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 26 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 2.40 27 Tim Decker (Aus) Bicisport Australia 2.43 28 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 29 Heng Wa Choi MAC Macau-Beijing Selection 30 Felix Gniot (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 2.47 31 Richard Ondryas (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 2.50 32 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 2.51 33 Gang Wu (Chn) Guangdong 3.00 34 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) World Wide Cycling 3.10 35 Sama'i (Ina) World Wide Cycling 3.14 36 Chih Hsin Mu (Tpe) Merida 37 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong 3.16 38 Ying Chieh Hung Hsu (Tpe) Merida 3.18 39 Rob Conjin (Ned) World Wide Cycling 3.21 40 Yan Liu (Chn) Guangdong 3.25 41 Mikhail Mikheev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 3.32 42 Sergey Sevostyanov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 3.49 43 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 3.50 44 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 4.02 45 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 4.05 46 Jie Zhu (Chn) Shanghai 4.09 47 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 4.30 48 Lawrence Yung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 4.32 49 Sergey Koudentsov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 4.33 50 Seok Kyu Suh (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 4.34 51 Wei Li (Chn) Tianjin 4.43 52 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 5.11 53 Shaun Oneill (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 6.00 54 Sascha Richter (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 6.52 55 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 6.59 56 Denny Schewe (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 7.13 57 Greg Rossiter (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 7.35 58 Robert Nagy (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 7.52 59 Enrico Zinn (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 9.29 60 Jack Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 11.18 61 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong 12.27 62 Yanhao Sun (Chn) Tianjin 14.09 63 Wanwan Setyobudi (Ina) World Wide Cycling 19.57 64 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai 20.29 65 Derek Cheung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 20.56 66 Remko Kramer (Ned) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 21.55 67 Chris Baumann (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 23.17 68 Jan Gazi (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 24.35 69 Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Guangdong 25.29 70 Quanjun Meng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 26.44 71 Sebastian Freese (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 29.38 72 Kuo Hua Lo (Tpe) Merida 30.18 73 Fengxiong Pan (Chn) Shanghai 34.33 74 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 34.44 75 Go Takashima (Jpn) Japan National Team 35.42 76 Hsin Hua Huang (Tpe) Merida 37.10 77 Weifeng Ivi (Chn) Shanghai 42.48 78 Dusan Klucka (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 47.54 79 Feng Yan (Chn) Shanghai 57.26 80 Troy White (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 1.24.14 Points classification 1 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 100 pts 2 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 57 3 Sergey Koudentsov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 49 4 Peter Milostic (Aus) Bicisport Australia 42 5 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Bicisport Australia 28 5 Maros Kovac (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 28 7 Chris Bradford (Aus) World Wide Cycling 25 7 Richard Ondryas (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 25 9 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 24 10 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 21 10 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan National Team 21 12 Ying Chieh Hung Hsu (Tpe) Merida 20 13 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 19 14 Jan Sipeky (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 18 15 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 17 15 Martin Blaha (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 17 15 Michael Mourecek (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 17 18 Armin Krahl (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 17 19 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) World Wide Cycling 14 20 Denny Schewe (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 13 20 Andrei Minachkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 13 20 Robert Nagy (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 13 23 Michal Kesl (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 12 23 Alexandre Khatuntsev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 12 25 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 11 25 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 11 27 Sama'i (Ina) World Wide Cycling 9 27 Petr Lazar (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 9 27 Enrico Zinn (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 9 27 Sun Jae Jang (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 9 31 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong 8 31 Xiaohai Zheng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 8 31 James Bennett (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 8 31 Sergey Sevostyanov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 8 31 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 8 36 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan National Team 7 37 Seok Kyu Suh (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 6 38 Yan Liu (Chn) Guangdong 5 38 Libor Hlavac (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 5 38 Keng Hsien Chen (Tpe) Merida 5 38 Remko Kramer (Ned) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 5 42 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 4 42 Tim Decker (Aus) Bicisport Australia 4 42 Felix Gniot (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 4 42 Sascha Richter (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 4 42 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 4 47 Chris Baumann (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 3 48 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong 2 49 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai 1 49 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 1 49 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 1 49 Dusan Klucka (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 1 Teams classification 1 Bicisport Australia 45.52.19 2 Moscow City Sports Association 2.07 3 ASC Dukla Praha 2.26 4 Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 2.31 5 ASK Dukla Trencin 3.39 6 Macau-Beijing Selection 3.50 7 KED-Rad Team Berlin 3.51 8 World Wide Cycling 4.29 9 Kazakstan National Team 4.57 10 Guangdong 6.24 11 Merida 7.26 12 Japan National Team 13.44 13 Hong Kong Sports Institute 14.15 14 Shanghai 18.48 15 Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 27.34
