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8th Tour of South China Sea - 2.5

China, December 25, 2003 - January 1, 2004

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Stage 8 - January 1: Jockey Club Square (Macau), 66km

Russian train powers to the finish

By Gudo Kramer

The first three of the stage
Photo ©: Francis Cerny

The last stage of the Tour of the South China Sea, a 66 km criterium in front of the famous Macau Jockey Club, has been won by Sergey Koudentsov. It was his second stage victory and the 6th stage win out of eight stages by his Omnisports team from Moscow. As Kouznetsov's teammate Oleg Grishkin was the overall winner of this tour, it was clear that the team from Moscow was the strongest in the last race of 2003 and first race in 2004. Kam Po Wong finished second overall on the same time as Peter Milostic (third). Wong lacked the support of a strong team around him and tried to do it all by himself in the seventh stage. This was the moment that Grishkin needed his team most.

"It has been a very hard tour for my team, as they had to chase many breaks down," said Grishkin after the race. "I only did my job, giving it the best I can in the sprints."

The criterium on the first day of the new year was a very fast and spectacular race. Spectacular, not in the least because of many crashes. The main victims were Tim Wilson of Marco Polo and Tim Decker of Bicisport Australia, two teams that have had a lot of bad luck already during the 8th Tour of South China Sea. Wilson crashed out of the GC and bruised his calf, but he should be OK. Tim Decker had to go to hospital, but the diagnosis was OK and he returned to the hotel safely.

The race leader Oleg Grishkin
Photo ©: Francis Cerny

There were many crashes in the Tour of South China Sea - a combination of inexperienced riders from mainly Chinese teams, riders taking crazy risks and sometimes slippery parts of the courses. In general though, it's hard to imagine safer courses than in this race.

The fast circuit made it possible for many riders to attack. The spectators saw very active teams, especially from Guangdong, Beijing/Macau and Marco Polo. There were attacks all the time and most attacks were brought back by new attackers. When the Moscow team had to chase a group down, it was often race leader Grishkin who did this personally.

There were three serious threats to his final victory. Kam Po Wong (once) and Peter Milostic (twice) really gave it a try and as they both 'only' needed 11 seconds and a stage win bonus to win the tour, this caused some unrest in the Russian ranks.

With only three laps to go the complete Russian train was launched again and this time it was Grishkin who pulled the sprint for Sergey Koudentsov. A Marco Polo move by Chris Baumann and Felix Rohrbach threatened to give Rohrbach the best position in the last corner, only 150 meters from the finish, but Grishkin 'closed the door professionally' on the inside and this gave Koudentsov a sure win with Blaha (Dukla Praha) taking second and Rohrbach in third.

Photography

Images by Francis Cerny/Nikon Camera

Results

1 Sergey Koudentsov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association    1.23.53
2 Martin Blaha (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                               
3 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo                  
4 Sama'i (Ina) World Wide Cycling                                  
5 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                         
6 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team                      
7 Ying Chieh Hung Hsu (Tpe) Merida                                 
8 Peter Milostic (Aus) Bicisport Australia                         
9 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association               
10 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) World Wide Cycling                        
11 Enrico Zinn (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                           
12 Dusan Klucka (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                            
13 Andrei Minachkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association           
14 Remko Kramer (Ned) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo                   
15 Wanwan Setyobudi (Ina) World Wide Cycling                       
16 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan National Team                       
17 Denny Schewe (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                          
18 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan National Team                         
19 Michael Mourecek (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                          
20 Yan Liu (Chn) Guangdong                                         
21 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                      
22 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team                   
23 Chris Baumann (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo                  
24 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong                                        
25 Libor Hlavac (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                              
26 Chih Hsin Mu (Tpe) Merida                                       
27 Gang Wu (Chn) Guangdong                                         
28 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team               
29 Xiaohai Zheng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                     
30 Hsin Hua Huang (Tpe) Merida                                     
31 Michal Kesl (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                               
32 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                       
33 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                        
34 Petr Lazar (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                                
35 Shaun Oneill (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team                   
36 Alexandre Khatuntsev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association       
37 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team                   
38 Rob Conjin (Ned) World Wide Cycling                             
39 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Bicisport Australia                        
40 Milan Dovrscik (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                          
41 Wei Li (Chn) Tianjin                                            
42 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) World Wide Cycling                          
43 Sergey Sevostyanov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association         
44 Weifeng Ivi (Chn) Shanghai                                      
45 Armin Krahl (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                           
46 Maros Kovac (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                             
47 Sascha Richter (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                        
48 Jan Sipeky (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                              
49 Chun Ming Tsoi (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                 0.02
50 Felix Gniot (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                       0.18
51 Heng Wa Choi MAC Macau-Beijing Selection                    0.19
52 Jack Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute                        
53 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                       
54 Go Takashima (Jpn) Japan National Team                          
55 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai                                          
56 Quanjun Meng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                      
57 Richard Ondryas (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                       0.21
58 Jan Gazi (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                                
59 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong                                 0.25
60 Derek Cheung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute                   
61 Mikhail Mikheev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association        0.33
62 Feng Yan (Chn) Shanghai                                         
63 Yanhao Sun (Chn) Tianjin                                    0.36
64 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                       0.39
65 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team                        
66 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                     
67 Sebastian Freese (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                  1.04
68 Seok Kyu Suh (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute               1.07
69 Fengxiong Pan (Chn) Shanghai                                1.38
70 Greg Rossiter (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team              2.11
DNF Jie Zhu (Chn) Shanghai                                         
DNF Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Guangdong                                  
DNF Shuaijun Chang (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                   
DNF Chris Bradford (Aus) World Wide Cycling                        
DNF Tim Decker (Aus) Bicisport Australia                           
DNF Lawrence Yung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute                 
DNF Robert Nagy (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                            
DNF Kuo Hua Lo (Tpe) Merida                                        
DNF Troy White (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo                    
DNF Timothy Wilson (Aus) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo                
 
Teams
 
1 Moscow City Sports Association                            4.11.39
2 World Wide Cycling                                               
3 Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo                                       
4 ASC Dukla Praha                                                  
5 Kazakstan National Team                                          
6 Merida                                                           
7 Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                                           
8 Guangdong                                                        
9 KED-Rad Team Berlin                                              
10 ASK Dukla Trencin                                               
11 Japan National Team                                         0.19
12 Macau-Beijing Selection                                         
13 Shanghai                                                    0.52
14 Hong Kong Sports Institute                                  1.51
 
Final general classification
 
1 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association       16.40.23
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 Martin Blaha (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                           2.02
10 Xiaohai Zheng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                 2.04
11 Michael Mourecek (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                      2.10
12 Alexandre Khatuntsev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association       
13 Libor Hlavac (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                          2.18
14 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan National Team                   2.20
15 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team                 2.23
16 Andrei Minachkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association       2.24
17 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) World Wide Cycling                      2.25
18 Chun Ming Tsoi (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                 2.30
19 Petr Lazar (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                            2.35
20 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                   2.37
21 Maros Kovac (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                             
22 Milan Dovrscik (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                      2.38
23 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team           2.43
24 Gang Wu (Chn) Guangdong                                     3.00
25 Heng Wa Choi MAC Macau-Beijing Selection                    3.02
26 Felix Gniot (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                       3.05
27 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) World Wide Cycling                    3.10
28 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                       
29 Richard Ondryas (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                       3.11
30 Sama'i (Ina) World Wide Cycling                             3.14
31 Chih Hsin Mu (Tpe) Merida                                       
32 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong                                    3.16
33 Ying Chieh Hung Hsu (Tpe) Merida                            3.18
34 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team                    3.19
35 Rob Conjin (Ned) World Wide Cycling                         3.21
36 Yan Liu (Chn) Guangdong                                     3.25
37 Sergey Sevostyanov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association     3.49
38 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team               3.50
39 Mikhail Mikheev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association        4.05
40 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                  4.05
41 Sergey Koudentsov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association      4.23
42 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team               4.30
43 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                       4.41
44 Wei Li (Chn) Tianjin                                        4.43
45 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                    5.11
46 Seok Kyu Suh (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute               5.41
47 Shaun Oneill (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team               6.00
48 Sascha Richter (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                    6.52
49 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo             6.55
50 Denny Schewe (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                      7.13
51 Enrico Zinn (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                       9.29
52 Greg Rossiter (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team              9.46
53 Jack Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute                   11.37
54 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong                                12.52
55 Yanhao Sun (Chn) Tianjin                                   14.45
56 Wanwan Setyobudi (Ina) World Wide Cycling                  19.57
57 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai                                     20.48
58 Derek Cheung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute              21.21
59 Remko Kramer (Ned) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo              21.55
60 Chris Baumann (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo             23.17
61 Jan Gazi (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                           24.56
62 Quanjun Meng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                 27.03
63 Sebastian Freese (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                 30.42
64 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                35.23
65 Go Takashima (Jpn) Japan National Team                     36.01
66 Fengxiong Pan (Chn) Shanghai                               36.11
67 Hsin Hua Huang (Tpe) Merida                                37.10
68 Weifeng Ivi (Chn) Shanghai                                 42.48
69 Dusan Klucka (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                       47.54
70 Feng Yan (Chn) Shanghai                                    57.59
 
Points classification
 
1 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association            102 pts
2 Sergey Koudentsov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association         69
3 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                       65
4 Peter Milostic (Aus) Bicisport Australia                       56
5 Martin Blaha (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                             32
6 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team                    30
7 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Bicisport Australia                       28
7 Maros Kovac (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                            28
9 Chris Bradford (Aus) World Wide Cycling                        26
10 Richard Ondryas (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                         25
11 Ying Chieh Hung Hsu (Tpe) Merida                              24
12 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong                                      22
13 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                     21
13 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan National Team                       21
15 Michael Mourecek (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                        20
15 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo               20
17 Sama'i (Ina) World Wide Cycling                               19
17 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team                 19
19 Jan Sipeky (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                            18
20 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                     17
20 Armin Krahl (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                         17
22 Denny Schewe (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                        16
23 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) World Wide Cycling                      15
24 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan National Team                     14
25 Andrei Minachkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association         13
25 Robert Nagy (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                           13
27 Michal Kesl (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                             12
27 Enrico Zinn (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                         12
27 Alexandre Khatuntsev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association     12
30 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                    11
30 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                         11
32 Petr Lazar (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                               9
32 Sascha Richter (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                       9
34 Xiaohai Zheng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                    8
34 Sergey Sevostyanov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association        8
36 Yan Liu (Chn) Guangdong                                        6
36 Seok Kyu Suh (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute                  6
38 Chun Ming Tsoi (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                    5
38 Libor Hlavac (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                             5
38 Remko Kramer (Ned) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo                  5
41 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                       4
41 Tim Decker (Aus) Bicisport Australia                           4
41 Felix Gniot (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                          4
41 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team              4
45 Derek Cheung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute                  3
45 Mikhail Mikheev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association           3
45 Chris Baumann (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo                 3
45 Timothy Wilson (Aus) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo                3
49 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong                                    2
49 Dusan Klucka (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                           2
51 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai                                         1
51 Weifeng Ivi (Chn) Shanghai                                     1
51 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team                       1
51 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team                  1
 
U23 classification
 
1 Armin Krahl (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                    16.41.06
2 Michal Kesl (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha                            1.13
3 Xiaohai Zheng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                  1.21
4 Alexandre Khatuntsev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association    1.27
5 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan National Team                    1.37
6 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team                  1.40
7 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) World Wide Cycling                       1.42
8 Chun Ming Tsoi (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                  1.47
9 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                    1.54
10 Heng Wa Choi MAC Macau-Beijing Selection                    2.19
11 Felix Gniot (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                       2.22
12 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                   2.27
13 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong                                    2.33
14 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team                    2.36
15 Yan Liu (Chn) Guangdong                                     2.42
16 Sergey Sevostyanov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association     3.06
17 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team               3.07
18 Mikhail Mikheev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association        3.22
19 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                  3.22
20 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team               3.47
21 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                       3.58
22 Wei Li (Chn) Tianjin                                        4.00
23 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                    4.28
24 Seok Kyu Suh (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute               4.58
25 Sascha Richter (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin                    6.09
26 Greg Rossiter (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team              9.03
27 Jack Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute                   10.54
28 Yanhao Sun (Chn) Tianjin                                   14.02
29 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai                                     20.05
30 Derek Cheung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute              20.38
31 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                34.40
32 Go Takashima (Jpn) Japan National Team                     35.18
33 Hsin Hua Huang (Tpe) Merida                                36.27
34 Weifeng Ivi (Chn) Shanghai                                 42.05
35 Dusan Klucka (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin                       47.11
36 Feng Yan (Chn) Shanghai                                    57.16
 
Greater China classification
 
1 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                 16.40.44
2 Xiaohai Zheng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                  1.43
3 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) World Wide Cycling                       2.04
4 Chun Ming Tsoi (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                  2.09
5 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                    2.16
6 Gang Wu (Chn) Guangdong                                      2.39
7 Heng Wa Choi MAC Macau-Beijing Selection                     2.41
8 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                    2.49
9 Chih Hsin Mu (Tpe) Merida                                    2.53
10 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong                                    2.55
11 Ying Chieh Hung Hsu (Tpe) Merida                            2.57
12 Yan Liu (Chn) Guangdong                                     3.04
13 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                  3.44
14 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                       4.20
15 Wei Li (Chn) Tianjin                                        4.22
16 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                    4.50
17 Jack Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute                   11.16
18 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong                                12.31
19 Yanhao Sun (Chn) Tianjin                                   14.24
20 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai                                     20.27
21 Derek Cheung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute              21.00
22 Quanjun Meng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection                 26.42
23 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                35.02
24 Fengxiong Pan (Chn) Shanghai                               35.50
25 Hsin Hua Huang (Tpe) Merida                                36.49
26 Weifeng Ivi (Chn) Shanghai                                 42.27
27 Feng Yan (Chn) Shanghai                                    57.38
 
Teams classification
 
1 Moscow City Sports Association                           50.06.05
2 ASC Dukla Praha                                              0.19
3 Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                                       0.24
4 ASK Dukla Trencin                                            1.32
5 KED-Rad Team Berlin                                          1.44
6 Macau-Beijing Selection                                      2.02
7 World Wide Cycling                                           2.22
8 Kazakstan National Team                                      2.50
9 Guangdong                                                    4.17
10 Merida                                                      5.19
11 Japan National Team                                        11.56
12 Hong Kong Sports Institute                                 13.59
13 Shanghai                                                   17.33
14 Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo                                 25.27
 
Great China Team classification
 
1 Pocari Sweat Hong Kong                                   50.06.29
2 Macau-Beijing Selection                                      1.38
3 Guangdong                                                    3.53
4 Merida                                                       4.55
5 Shanghai                                                    17.09