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8th Telekom Malaysia Le Tour de Langkawi - 2.2
Malaysia, January 31 - February 9, 2003
Stage 10 - February 9: Kuala Lumpur Criterium, 75.6 km
Bongiorno triumphs in KL; Danielson safely home
By Anthony Tan in Kuala Lumpur
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On the final stage in the Le Tour de Langkawi, Ruben Bongiorno (Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo) shocked the crowd and his more fancied rivals with a surprise win in Kuala Lumpur this afternoon.
Until today, the Argentine has played second fiddle to their team's star sprinter, but this afternoon, Bongiorno was given free reign after the second immediate sprint solidified Graeme Brown's lead in the sprint classification over Stuart O'Grady (Credit Agricole).
"I was sprinting behind Brown as I was supposed to do and I managed to keep his speed and also to pass him," said Bongiorno. "There wasn't any designated leader today and as long as the team wins it's fine."
Brown wasn't so sure: "He's an idiot and he'll get a speaking to... I told him he nearly stuffed it up," said Brown about his teammates' violent swerve shortly after crossing the finish line.
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In a race neutralised for all bar the sprinters, all other classifications remain unchanged: 24 year old Tom Danielson (Saturn) retained his leader's jersey and in doing so, has won the biggest race of his cycling career, Roland Green (Canada) very deservedly wins the mountains competition, Tomoya Kano (Japan) the best Asian rider, Iran the best Asian team, and Colombia-Selle Italia the best overall team.
"It was a total relief to come across the line, especially with my teammates around me; it was just an extremely emotional feeling," said a humble Danielson, who will most certainly go onto much bigger and better things.
"I’ve learned so much on this race," he added. "I now have a much better understanding of my strengths and weaknesses as a bike rider – I saw what I was doing right and what I was doing wrong. I understand what areas I need to work on improving."
All in all, another very successful Le Tour de Langkawi. And with the pressure now off the riders, many will be thinking about putting on their party duds and planning a very big night ahead.
How it unfolded
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Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia and the traditional finishing town for the LTdL, played host once again for the final stage of the 8th edition of this race, a 75.6km circuit race comprising 12 laps of 6.5km circuit.
Being a Sunday, KL wasn't its usual big city self, normally filled with way too many cars, buses and taxis and millions of time-poor office workers rushing from one part of town to another. Instead, the city today was characterised by an assortment of people from all different nationalities, all with a common passion. Cycling.
Though these people hadn't come to witness any shake-up in the overall classification (or any other classification for that matter), but had come to pay their respect to the 122 cyclists who had so far ridden 1267.9 kilometres over the last nine days.
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Even before the start outside the Dataran Merdeka at a quarter to four this afternoon, it was highly likely that all six classifications - GC, points, mountains, teams, Asian rider and Asian team - would remain unchanged.
By lap three, Chief Commissaire Michael Robb made sure of this with the threat of a downpour and in the interest of the riders' safety, the race was neutralised for all bar the sprinters.
"In consultation with the race organisation and in the interests of safety, I decided that it was best to neutralise the event, but sprints including the finishing sprint would count in the points competition," explained Robb after the race.
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As a consequence, it wasn't unusual to see first and second placed riders Stuart O'Grady (Credit Agricole) and Graeme Brown (Panaria-Fiordo) going hell for leather at the first of three intermediate sprints after 18.9 kilometres, with O'Grady comfortably beating Moreno Di Biase (Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave') and Brown.
"I didn't want to do the sprints but Panaria wanted to sprint to the death so I thought if you want to do that I will too," said O'Grady afterwards, explaining that the rest of the bunch had agreed not to race hard until the final sprint because of the dangerous conditions. "I just did it to prove a point plus I was having a practice run at the sprint finish cause I wanted to have a go there."
The points situation was still 109-100 in Brown's favour, so when the clouds opened up almost immediately following the first sprint, luck appeared to be on O'Grady's side as the freckled one tends to be a little more crafty in tricky situations.
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However, the Panaria lead-out men have been exceptional all week and at the second sprint after 37.8 kilometres, Brett Lancaster provided yet another perfect run-in to the line for his man Brown with O'Grady nowhere in sight. The score: Brown 114, O'Grady 100.
Meanwhile, back in the peloton, Saturn were more than happy to let the sprinter's teams fight it out or a breakaway go given the changed race circumstances.
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Which is exactly what happened after 40 kilometres: Lars Ytting Bak (Team fakta), Michele Gobbi (De Nardi-Colpack) and Biagio Conte (Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave') went clear, and for the next 25 kilometres, the peloton were unable to reel Bak and Conte back, although Gobbi was gobbled up soon after being dropped from his breakaway companions.
Just when the rain appeared to abate, a sun-shower greeted an already nervous bunch with two laps remaining. Bak and Conte had now being caught, and for the last ten kilometres, the seven-strong Panaria train came to the fore for the final time.
They didn't disappoint: in fact, they were so good that the battle for line honours was between two Panaria-Fiordo riders, and in the end, it was Ruben Bongiorno taking the stage from a surprised Graeme Brown with Stuart O'Grady a bike length behind.
Brown pipped by team-mate in final sprint
Danielson plays it safe to take the overall
Additional reporting by Gennie Sheer
Argentinian, Ruben Bongiorno, pipped his team mate Sydney's Graeme Brown, 23, (Ceramiche Panaria Fiordo) in the final sprint to claim his first professional victory in today's tenth and final stage of the Tour de Langkawi raced in wet conditions on a circuit in the centre of Kuala Lumpur. But the one - two by Panaria was not initially well received by BROWN who had not realised it was his team mate coming through the narrow gap between him and the barriers.
"I said 'good job'," said Brown wryly at the post race media conference before admitting that wasn't his first reaction. "He's an idiot and he'll get a speaking to .... I told him he nearly stuffed it up."
South Australian Stuart O'Grady, 29, (Credit Agricole) sprinted home third and was also not impressed by the Argentinian's tactics in the race for the line.
"The little Bongiorno guy was on a mission," said O'Grady. "He was either going to crash or stay on Brownie's wheel and I had no intention of spending the night in a Kuala Lumpur hospital so I didn't push it."
Bongiorno, a first year professional, also came under fire from the more experienced members of the peloton after Stage Two when two thirds of the field crashed in a mass pile up less than a kilometre from the line. O'Grady went up to the Argentinian after that stage and abused him for what he called 'the most ridiculous sprinting behaviour' he'd ever seen.
But Bongiorno seemed oblivious to the controversy and was ecstatic to have claimed his first victory.
"I was sprinting behind Brown as I was supposed to do and I managed to keep his speed and also to pass him," said Bongiorno. "There wasn't any designated leader today for the team and as long as the team wins it's fine."
"I don't like it when someone disturbs me in the bunch as I am a quiet person but only if they let me do my own thing in the last five kilometres," said Bongiorno in response to criticism of his erratic sprinting. " I think many riders are more dangerous than me."
The 75.6 kilometre final stage was neutralised on the second of twelve laps when officials became concerned about the wet conditions and chose to take the safe option. But curiously several kilometres later they announced the battle for the points on offer in the stage would continue. This meant the sprinters would still contest three intermediate sprints and the finish in a bid to improve their position in the green jersey competition which, going into the stage, was led by Brown.
"I thought if they neutralised GC (overall time) they'd neutralise the points too but I wasn't too concerned because I needed to only get one win in an intermediate to make sure I would not lose the jersey," said Brown who's only real rival was O'Grady who took out the first sprint at the end of three laps.
"I didn't want to do the sprints but Panaria wanted to sprint to the death so I thought if you want to do that I will too," said O'Grady explaining that the rest of the bunch had agreed not to race hard because of the wet, dangerous circuit. "I just did it to prove a point plus I was having a practice run at the sprint finish cause I wanted to have a go there."
Brown claimed the second sprint after six laps and was then assured of taking out the points competition.
"I would have liked to have turned my four second places into four firsts but I said to my team director today that I've contested 12 sprints in the last two weeks (including Jacob's Creek Tour Down Under) and crossed the line first four times (three wins credited), placed six times second, had third, a sixth and a seventh," said Brown. "My form's there in the sprints and I've learned a lot so hopefully by the time I get to the Giro d'Italia it will be look out Cipollini!"
O'Grady, who recently claimed the title of Australian road champion for the first time and placed third overall in Adelaide's Jacob's Creek Tour Down Under, is also pleased with his performance in his first Tour de Langkawi.
"The objective was a stage win and I got two and yesterday I climbed better than I ever have in Europe," said O'Grady who ended the tour second on the points competition and 14th overall. "You can't have good years every year but you also can't have bad years like I had last year (iliac artery surgery)."
"Things are snowballing now and I've had a good overall performance here and the year's just started so hopefully it's a sign of things to come for the rest of the season."
American Tom Danielson, 24, (Saturn) carried off the champion's yellow jersey at the end of the race after a consistent performance throughout and a tenacious defence of his lead on yesterday's decisive mountain stage into the Genting Highlands. Danielson claimed the lead from his team mate Queensland's Nathan O'Neill who won the opening time trial stage on the island of Langkawi. O'Neill wore yellow until stage seven when he crashed 1100 metres from the finish losing time and relinquishing his lead to the Saturn climber.
Today the Saturn team again rode as one unit to protect their number one placed rider.
"The goal early on was to have the team on the front and drill it the whole race, so it would be strung out to keep me at the front but as soon as they called the race off and it started pouring with rain the tactics changed," said an elated Danielson after being named 2003 champion. "Then we put the whole team at the back and asked the commissaire if all I had to do was finish 12 laps and he said 'yep' so that's what we did to make sure we got across the finish line safely. "
But Danielson did not celebrate until the final pedal stroke across the line at the end of 1343 kilometres and ten days of racing.
"Even though it was neutralised it was pretty dangerous out there and I didn't want to end up with concussion or a broken arm or broken leg," he said. "Munoz (Colombia Selle Italia rider ranked second overall behind Danielson) went down and it was almost more dangerous going slow around the corners because you weren't paying as much attention."
"It was a total relief to come across the line and especially with my team mates around me it was just an extremely emotional feeling," said Danielson adding that his immediate plan was to get in some shopping before the team's post race celebration.
The best placed Australian overall was Alan Iacuone, 29, (Flanders iteamNova) who finished 12th overall, 4min33sec behind Danielson.
Iacuone, who placed 3rd overall in the Tour de Langkawi in 1999, said he was in better form this year than last year when he returned to competition in Malaysia after a year off the bike.
"Last year I only had a few months training and lacked the racing strength but this year I felt a lot stronger," said Iacuone. "I thought up Genting I climbed better than in 1999 but it was a totally different than back then.
"The quality of the field was higher than '99 and I was just a bit disappointed that I didn't do a faster time trial prologue because then I would have been higher up overall," said Iacuone. "My time trialling let me down and if you look at the top 15 climbers overall I was probably the slowest on the Langkawi stage.:
"You try and work on your weaknesses but I really felt bad on the first day and that's just how it goes," said Iacuone who is looking forward to racing in more profile events this season after the merger between Flanders and iteamNova (a web membership based team) their listing as a Category Two professional team. "We've got some good races in Europe when we get back and having the Category Two is good motivation for the team and for our members."
In summary Australians claimed five stage wins - Brown stages five and seven, O'Grady stages six and eight and O'Neill stage one. Brown won the points competition with 128 points, 15 points clear of O'Grady and through O'Neill, held the race lead for seven days. The USA claimed overall honours and South Americans claimed the remaining stage victories. Europeans failed to win a stage or place in the top three overall. Reigning mountain bike world champion, Canadian Roland Green was consistent throughout to win the king of the mountains category.
Photography
Images by AFP / Ahmad Yusni
- Cyclists ride past the Petronas Twin Towers during the final stage of the LTdL; by the day's end, the 122 finishers will have amassed 1,343 kilometres of racing in the space of 10 days
Images by Mark Sharon
- Roland Green (Canada) looking very relaxed before the final stage in Kuala Lumpur
- Lars Bak (Team fakta) chats with his manager
- Stuart O'Grady (Credit Agricole) contemplative before the start
- Saturn leads the pack on the opening laps before the race is neutralised
- The green jersey of Graeme Brown was never far behind the action at the front
- Stuart O'Grady (Credit Agricole) won the first intermediate sprint, but the gap to Graeme Brown was too large to close
- Lars Bak (Team fakta) goes on the attack midway through the race
- Lars Bak (Team fakta) is soon joined by Michele Gobbi (De Nardi-Colpack) and Biagio Conte (Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave')
- Ruben Bongiorno (Panaria-Fiordo) just pips teammate Graeme Brown at the line
- Ruben Bongiorno swerves to avoid photographers, but almost takes Brown out in the process
- Tom Danielson (Saturn) congratulated by Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad
- Tom Danielson gives a cheeky smile on the podium
- Ruben Bongiorno salutes the crowd with his stage winner's trophy
- The Iranian national team on the podium after taking out the prize for best Asian Team
- Columbia-Selle Italia take to the stage after winning the prize for best team
- Winner of the Asian Rider classification, Hassan Maleki Mizan (Iran)
- Roland Green (Canada) on the podium
- Graeme Brown (Panaria-Fiordo) salutes the crowd as the winner of the sprints classification
- Roland Green and Graeme Brown hoist Tom Danielson aloft on the podium
Images by Gennie Sheer
- Tom Danielson (Saturn) checks to see he's got everything before leaving the hotel for the final stage
- Tom Danielson (Saturn) poses for the camera outside the Shah Alam
- The Flanders-iTeamnova boys looking very chirpy before the final stage in Kuala Lumpur
- The Saturn team know they've still got a job to do before they can break open the champagne
- Ruben Rongiorno (Panaria-Fiordo) needs some guidance with his prize
- Russell Van Hout (Colombia-Selle Italia) accepts his award as a member of the winning team
- The Colombia-Selle Italia team salute the crowd as the winning team at the LTdL
- Graeme Brown (Panaria-Fiordo) finds a way to hold up his winner's cheque and two trophies
- Brownie keeps gritting his teeth in the spotlight. Plenty more to come from this guy.
- Tom Danielson (Saturn) in the spotlight. Plenty more to come from this guy.
- The final wearers of the various jersey classifications on the podium
Results
1 Ruben Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 1.49.42 (41.35 kph / 25.71 mph) 2 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 3 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 4 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 5 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 6 Gordon Fraser (Can) Canada 7 Luca Mendonca Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre 8 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 9 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 10 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre 11 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 12 Miguel Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 13 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 14 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 15 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 16 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 17 Freddy Gonzalez Martinez (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 18 Nor Effandy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 19 Susanto Tonton (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 20 Rojo Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 21 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 22 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 23 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 24 Malcolm Lange (RSA) South Africa 25 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 26 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 27 Julian Winn (GBr) Team fakta 28 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre 29 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) Canada 30 Hamad Mohd Mahazir (Mas) Malaysia 31 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 32 René Joergensen (Den) Team fakta 33 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 34 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 35 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 36 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 37 Peter Wedge (Can) Canada 38 Roland Green (Can) Canada 39 Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 40 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 41 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 42 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 43 Maximilian Sciandri (GBr) Lampre 44 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Saturn 45 Chris Horner (USA) Saturn 46 Tom Danielson (USA) Saturn 47 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 48 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 49 Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den) Team fakta 50 Mahdi Sohrabi (Irn) Iran 51 Johan Van Der Berg (RSA) South Africa 52 Palomo José Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 53 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 54 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 55 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 56 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 57 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 58 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 59 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 60 Charles Wegelius (GBr) De Nardi-Colpack 61 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 62 Ondrej Fadrny (Cze) De Nardi-Colpack 63 Razali Shahrulneeza (Mas) Malaysia 64 Morné Bester (RSA) South Africa 65 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 66 Björnar Vestöl (Nor) Team fakta 67 Domenico Gualdi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 68 Capilla Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 69 Simon Kessler (RSA) South Africa 70 David George (RSA) South Africa 71 Ahad Kazemi Sarai (Irn) Iran 72 Andrea Rossi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 73 Ismail Mohd Sazlee (Mas) Malaysia 74 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 75 Cory Lange (Can) Canada 76 Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 77 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 78 Jurgen Landrie (Bel) Flanders-Iteamnova 79 Phil Zajicek (USA) Saturn 80 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 81 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Lampre 82 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 83 Jimenez Luis Feliz Laverde (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 84 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 85 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 86 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 87 Yann Tournier (Fra) Credit Agricole 88 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Irn) Telekom Malaysia 89 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 90 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 91 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 92 Bruno Langlois (Can) Canada 93 Michel Van Haecke (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 94 Jřrgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta 95 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 96 Michele Colleoni (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 97 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 98 Jamie Peter Drew (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 99 Garcia Oscar Laguna (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 100 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 101 Scott Guyton (NZl) Flanders-Iteamnova 102 Massimo Amichetti (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 103 Matteo Cappe (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 104 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 105 Kristof Trouve (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 106 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 107 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 108 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 109 Fernandez German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 110 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 111 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 112 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 113 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 114 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 115 Biagio Conte (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 116 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Canada 117 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 118 Lloyd Lucien Reynante (Phi) Philippines 119 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Colombia-Selle Italia 120 Trent Wilson (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 121 David Mckenzie (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 122 Sébastien Mattozza (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois Sprints Hot Spot Sprint at 18.9 km 1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 5 pts 2 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 3 3 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 2 4 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 1 Hot Spot Sprint at 37.8 km 1 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 5 2 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 3 3 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 2 4 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 1 Hot Spot Sprint at 56.7 km 1 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 5 2 Biagio Conte (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 3 3 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 2 4 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 1 Asian Rider 1 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 1.49.42 2 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 3 Nor Effandy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 4 Susanto Tonton (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 5 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 6 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 7 Hamad Mohd Mahazir (Mas) Malaysia 8 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 9 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 10 Mahdi Sohrabi (Irn) Iran 11 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 12 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 13 Razali Shahrulneeza (Mas) Malaysia 14 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 15 Ahad Kazemi Sarai (Irn) Iran 16 Ismail Mohd Sazlee (Mas) Malaysia 17 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 18 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 19 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 20 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 21 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Irn) Telekom Malaysia 22 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 23 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 24 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 25 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 26 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 27 Lloyd Lucien Reynante (Phi) Philippines Asian Team 1 Telekom Malaysia 5.29.06 2 Iran 3 Malaysia 4 Japan 5 Philippinnes Teams 1 Ceramiche Panar 5.29.06 2 Lampre 3 Colombia - Sell 4 Team Fakta 5 Telekom Malaysi 6 Marlux - Ville 7 Canada 8 Palmans - Colls 9 Colchon Relax F 10 Iran 11 Malaysia 12 Credit Agricole 13 Japan 14 Domina Vacanze 15 Formaggi Pinzol 16 De Nardi - Colp 17 Saturn 18 South Africa 19 Philippinnes 20 Flanders - Itea Final general classification after Stage 10 1 Tom Danielson (USA) Saturn 31.54.09 2 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 0.09 3 Freddy Gonzalez Martinez (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 1.44 4 Roland Green (Can) Canada 2.03 5 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 2.35 6 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 2.59 7 Miguel Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 3.09 8 David George (RSA) South Africa 3.35 9 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 3.41 10 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 3.48 11 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre 3.51 12 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 4.33 13 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 4.59 14 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 5.06 15 René Joergensen (Den) Team fakta 5.08 16 Charles Wegelius (GBr) De Nardi-Colpack 5.09 17 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 5.20 18 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 5.38 19 Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 5.39 20 Susanto Tonton (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 5.40 21 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 5.56 22 Chris Horner (USA) Saturn 6.01 23 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) Canada 6.44 24 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 7.26 25 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 7.29 26 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 7.48 27 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 7.52 28 Matteo Cappe (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 7.52 29 Garcia Oscar Laguna (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 8.00 30 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 8.24 31 Ahad Kazemi Sarai (Irn) Iran 8.30 32 Capilla Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 8.51 33 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 8.51 34 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Irn) Telekom Malaysia 8.55 35 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre 9.05 36 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 9.19 37 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Saturn 9.44 38 Massimo Amichetti (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 9.54 39 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 10.03 40 Rojo Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 10.26 41 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 11.09 42 Palomo José Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 11.18 43 Jimenez Luis Feliz Laverde (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 11.18 44 Jřrgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta 11.33 45 Michele Colleoni (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 11.36 46 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 12.15 47 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 12.27 48 Mahdi Sohrabi (Irn) Iran 12.42 49 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 12.45 50 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 12.48 51 David Mckenzie (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 13.08 52 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 13.28 53 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 13.31 54 Johan Van Der Berg (RSA) South Africa 13.45 55 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 14.00 56 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 14.30 57 Peter Wedge (Can) Canada 14.45 58 Fernandez German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 15.08 59 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 15.10 60 Lloyd Lucien Reynante (Phi) Philippines 15.19 61 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 16.19 62 Jurgen Landrie (Bel) Flanders-Iteamnova 16.23 63 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 17.18 64 Razali Shahrulneeza (Mas) Malaysia 17.30 65 Maximilian Sciandri (GBr) Lampre 17.42 66 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Lampre 17.56 67 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 18.11 68 Biagio Conte (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 18.43 69 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 18.46 70 Yann Tournier (Fra) Credit Agricole 18.48 71 Ondrej Fadrny (Cze) De Nardi-Colpack 19.00 72 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 19.11 73 Nor Effandy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 19.15 74 Trent Wilson (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 19.34 75 Phil Zajicek (USA) Saturn 19.36 76 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 19.57 77 Kristof Trouve (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 20.02 78 Morné Bester (RSA) South Africa 20.02 79 Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 20.09 80 Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den) Team fakta 20.14 81 Julian Winn (GBr) Team fakta 20.26 82 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 21.04 83 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 21.33 84 Malcolm Lange (RSA) South Africa 21.45 85 Michel Van Haecke (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 21.52 86 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 21.56 87 Björnar Vestöl (Nor) Team fakta 21.59 88 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 22.00 89 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 22.16 90 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 22.16 91 Cory Lange (Can) Canada 22.24 92 Luca Mendonca Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre 22.49 93 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Colombia-Selle Italia 23.44 94 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 24.20 95 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 25.10 96 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 25.21 97 Gordon Fraser (Can) Canada 25.26 98 Hamad Mohd Mahazir (Mas) Malaysia 25.27 99 Domenico Gualdi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 25.38 100 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 25.42 101 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 25.44 102 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 26.01 103 Andrea Rossi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 26.20 104 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 26.46 105 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 26.49 106 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 27.15 107 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 27.28 108 Ruben Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 28.17 109 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 28.54 110 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 29.12 111 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 30.46 112 Jamie Peter Drew (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 31.08 113 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 31.42 114 Ismail Mohd Sazlee (Mas) Malaysia 32.18 115 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 32.32 116 Simon Kessler (RSA) South Africa 33.20 117 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 34.54 118 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 35.07 119 Scott Guyton (NZl) Flanders-Iteamnova 36.02 120 Bruno Langlois (Can) Canada 36.34 121 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Canada 37.02 122 Sébastien Mattozza (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 49.52 Points classification 1 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 128 pts 2 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 113 3 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 74 4 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 69 5 Miguel Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 64 6 Luca Mendonca Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre 56 7 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 54 8 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 51 9 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 51 10 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 51 11 Gordon Fraser (Can) Canada 44 12 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 40 13 Roland Green (Can) Canada 35 14 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 33 15 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 33 16 Freddy Gonzalez Martinez (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 31 17 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 31 18 Ruben Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 30 19 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 30 20 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre 29 21 Tom Danielson (USA) Saturn 27 22 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 25 23 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 23 24 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 20 25 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 19 26 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 16 27 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Saturn 15 28 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 14 29 Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 14 30 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 14 31 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 12 32 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 12 33 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 12 34 Fernandez German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 11 35 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 11 36 Malcolm Lange (RSA) South Africa 11 37 Michel Van Haecke (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 11 38 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 10 39 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 10 40 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 10 41 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 8 42 David George (RSA) South Africa 7 43 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) Canada 7 44 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 6 45 Rojo Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 6 46 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 6 47 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 5 48 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre 5 49 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 5 50 David Mckenzie (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 5 51 Jurgen Landrie (Bel) Flanders-Iteamnova 5 52 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 5 53 Julian Winn (GBr) Team fakta 5 54 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 4 55 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 56 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 4 57 René Joergensen (Den) Team fakta 3 58 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 3 59 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 3 60 Peter Wedge (Can) Canada 3 61 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 3 62 Biagio Conte (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 3 63 Cory Lange (Can) Canada 3 64 Scott Guyton (NZl) Flanders-Iteamnova 3 65 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 1 66 Garcia Oscar Laguna (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1 67 Maximilian Sciandri (GBr) Lampre 1 68 Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den) Team fakta 1 69 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 1 70 Andrea Rossi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 1 71 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 1 Mountains classification 1 Roland Green (Can) Canada 49 pts 2 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 28 3 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 27 4 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 26 5 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 21 6 Tom Danielson (USA) Saturn 20 7 Freddy Gonzalez Martinez (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 12 8 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 12 9 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 12 10 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 11 11 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 10 12 Michele Colleoni (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 10 13 Jimenez Luis Feliz Laverde (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 8 14 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 8 15 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 7 16 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 6 17 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 6 18 Miguel Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 5 19 Jurgen Landrie (Bel) Flanders-Iteamnova 5 20 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 4 21 Scott Guyton (NZl) Flanders-Iteamnova 4 22 David George (RSA) South Africa 4 23 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 4 24 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Saturn 4 25 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 4 26 Cory Lange (Can) Canada 4 27 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 3 28 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 3 29 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 3 30 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 2 31 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 2 32 Peter Wedge (Can) Canada 2 33 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre 1 34 Matteo Cappe (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 1 35 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 1 36 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 1 Asian Rider classification 1 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 31.59.29 2 Susanto Tonton (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 0.20 3 Ahad Kazemi Sarai (Irn) Iran 3.10 4 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Irn) Telekom Malaysia 3.35 5 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 6.55 6 Mahdi Sohrabi (Irn) Iran 7.22 7 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 8.08 8 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 8.11 9 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 8.40 10 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 9.50 11 Lloyd Lucien Reynante (Phi) Philippines 9.59 12 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 11.58 13 Razali Shahrulneeza (Mas) Malaysia 12.10 14 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 13.26 15 Nor Effandy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 13.55 16 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 14.37 17 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 15.44 18 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 16.13 19 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 16.40 20 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 19.00 21 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 19.50 22 Hamad Mohd Mahazir (Mas) Malaysia 20.07 23 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 20.22 24 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 23.52 25 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 25.26 26 Ismail Mohd Sazlee (Mas) Malaysia 26.58 27 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 29.34 Asian Team classification 1 Iran 96.11.02 2 Japan 0.31 3 Telekom Malaysia 3.50 4 Malaysia 22.07 5 Philippinnes 24.14 Teams classification 1 Colombia 95.47.07 2 Saturn 9.32 3 Lampre 10.09 4 Colchon R 12.33 5 Formaggi 14.24 6 Domina Va 15.08 7 De Nardi 16.54 8 Team Fakt 17.08 9 Ceramiche 17.15 10 Canada 18.01 11 Marlux 19.38 12 Credit Ag 22.31 13 Iran 23.55 14 Japan 24.26 15 Flanders 25.28 16 Telekom M 27.07 17 South Afr 31.35 18 Palmans 32.46 19 Malaysia 46.02 20 Philippin 48.09
