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8th Telekom Malaysia Le Tour de Langkawi - 2.2
Malaysia, January 31 - February 9, 2003
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Stage 8 - February 7: Menara Telekom KL - Seremban, 112.5 km
Danielson defends lead; O'Grady edges closer to green
By Tommy Campbell in Seremban
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Australia 5, Brazil 3: Wishful thinking if was a game of football, but that's the real standing in stage wins to date in the Telekom Malaysia Le Tour de Langkawi after Stuart O'Grady bagged stage win #2 in Seremban. Meanwhile, the USA's Tom Danielson (Saturn) defended his lead admirably from Merna Telekom Kuala Lumpur to Seremban over a distance of 112.5 kilometres.
24 year-old Danielson who is majoring in psychology and marketing at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado (USA) is no mean performer when it comes to performing on the road. He smashed the race record in the Mount Washington Hill Climb last year and his prowess should suit on the climb to Genting tomorrow as they climb to more than 6,000 feet (1,713 metres) above sea level.
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Back on the winners rostrum today was O'Grady (Credit Agricole) who judged his effort to perfection to make it two stage victories. The 2003 Australian Road Champion and Commonwealth Games Road Champion came into the LTdL on the back of a good performance in the Tour Down Under last month, but it wasn't till Wednesday that O'Grady found the form that touted him as one of the pre-race favourites in the sprints classification.
He also got to within one tantalising second of the race leader's jersey courtesy of today's stage win ahead of Miguel Perdiguero of Domina Vacanze and Mikhaylo Khalilov of Colombia-Selle Italia, but Genting maybe the death knell for the hopes of the popular O'Grady tomorrow.
The hero of the day was once again Japanese braveheart Koji Fukushima.
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again" - Koji seems to have adopted Robert the Bruce's famous slogan as his own.
How it unfolded
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Right from the start of the race over a week ago, the courageous 29-year old has been on the attack. Two days ago it nearly paid off when he and a breakaway companion were only pulled back in the last 700 metres and on today's very hilly stage he was at it again. This time it was an audacious lone effort which saw him ride clear of the all-star field right from the start of the 112.5km stage and build a maximum advantage of over four minutes before being overhauled after the final big climb at Jeram Toi with just 10 kilometres to go.
"One of my team-mates crashed very badly early in the Tour and ended up in hospital," said the affable Koji before serenading the on looking media corps on his harmonica at the after-race press conference. "I decided then that I would try to win a stage for him."
While Fukijima's valiant efforts eventually came to nought, fast finishing O'Grady was overjoyed with how it went: "Coming into the final 500 metres, the finish was again a technical one with two sharp bends, one left and one right," explained O'Grady. "I just looked for those orange Panaria jerseys and made sure I got on a good wheel then jumped at just the right moment."
O'Grady's perfectly timed effort created embarrassment for Spain's Miguel Perdiguero (Domina Vacanza) who thought he had won, throwing his hands up in a premature victory salute just as O'Grady nipped past him. Photo finish cameras don't lie, however, and the verdict was clearly in O'Grady's favour.
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Things didn't go so well for points leader Graeme Brown, winner of two stages so far, one short of Brazilian sprinter Luciano Pagliarini's tally, but this time pushed back to seventh place in the sprint.
Brown confessed to having found it a struggle over the day's climbs, losing around a minute over the last ascent but pulling the deficit back thanks to sterling work from his team-mate Brett Lancaster, the man who has been providing him with such great lead-outs in the sprints.
"Brett really opened the throttle on the way down and he got me back up to the front group. He gave it everything for me. Now he's probably still out there somewhere struggling to the finish. I can't praise him enough."
Young Tom Danielson of the American-based Saturn team enjoyed his first day in the yellow jersey: "I really enjoyed myself. It was a lot of fun. I guess everyone in the bunch has their eyes on you when you are in yellow but the game plan is the same as it was on day one," said Danielson.
"I just wish all the team could be up there on the podium with me. They deserve all credit for helping me be where I am.
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"The climbs were like a test. I was glad when Roland Green attacked because it gave me the chance to see what I could do and every time he made a big effort I was able to match it.
"To be honest, the descents were more of a challenge because I am only a light guy and I also have a lot less experience than most of the riders. But I knew if the gaps opened I'd be strong enough to close them down on the flat, so I wasn't about to take any silly chances and wind up bashing myself on a crash barrier."
In the final reckoning, the big showdown on the Genting Highlands climb tomorrow could well turn out to be a man-to-man slogging match between the slightly-built Danielson and last year's overall winner, the wiry little Colombian climber Harnan Dario Munoz (Colombia-Selle Italia), who is currently in fifth place with a deficit of just 14 seconds. But then Canada's Roland Green, 40th overall but only 1min 25sec in arrears could well spoil their party, or maybe Danielson's Aussie team-mate Nathan O'Neill could find the inspiration to recoup his 41 second deficit and climb his way back into yellow.
"This race comes down to one climb for the general classification," said Green.
For the first time on this year's race, the best placed Asian rider on the stage was not an Iranian, but Japan's Hidenori Nodera, though Iran again took the team award.
O'Grady scores win number two
Additional reporting by Gennie Sheer
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Australia's runs of success at Malaysia's Tour de Langkawi continued today when reigning Australian road champion, Stuart O'Grady (Credit Agricole) won a photo finish sprint at the end of Stage Eight to claim his second victory of the race.
O'Grady edged past Miguel Perdiguero (Domina Vacanze) with a well timed lunge to the line as the Spaniard made the mistake of raising his arms in victory too soon. Mikhaylo Khalilov (Colombia Selle Italia) was third.
"It was just like the other days (the plan was) to get up the front, get in position, look for a couple of guys in orange (Panaria) and try and come off them," explained O'Grady who also relished the tight corners over the final kilometre leading to the finish. "For sure the corners helped me out a bit."
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The 112 kilometre stage began at the entrance to the Telekom Malaysia tower in Kuala Lumpur and saw the first really testing day for the riders with three climbs, the final one 23 kilometres from the finish. O'Grady crossed in 2.48.56 but for the first time the bunch was split as eight days of racing in the heat and humidity took its toll. Sixty five riders finished with the winner while the other 57 rode home in groups and singly over the next ten minutes.
"I was feeling pretty good over the top of the mountain and I felt really good yesterday," said O'Grady. "I won't say I found it easy over the climbs but I wasn't at my limit and was doing it no problem."
His win moved him into second place overall only one second behind the race leader American Tom Danielson (Saturn) but he admits that is as close as he is likely to get to the yellow jersey.
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"It might be a different story tomorrow ," said O'Grady, who like most of the non-climbing specialists is not looking forward to Stage Nine when the field will finish the 143 kilometre stage from Seremban with a 45 kilometre haul into the Genting Highlands north of Kuala Lumpur. The final ten kilometres are tough but the final two gut wrenching kilometres have, in past years, split the race wide open.
For Sydney's Graeme Brown, 23, (Ceramiche Panaria Fiordo) today was a case of surviving and protecting his lead in the points competition.
" I just needed to finish near Stuey (O'Grady) today to hole the points jersey and I was just happy to be at the finish today," said Brown who has 96 points five ahead of O'Grady in the battel for the green jersey. "I struggled a lot over the climbs and Brett (Lancaster) wasn't there at the finish (to lead me out for the sprint) because he got me back on after the climb."
"He did a really good job, as he does every day," said Brown of his team mate from Victoria. "He put everything on the line and got me back on and because he did that I scored some points to keep the jersey for another day."
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Although Brown found it tough, especially the final category two climb up Jeram Toi, he at least was not suffering the stomach upset which has plagued him for the past few days.
"I didn't have any stomach problem today but I was suffering a bit from the effects of yesteday," said Brown. "Also I just don't like going up hill too much."
By the time the leaders had crested the summit of the final climb they were out of sight of Brown.
"I couldn't see the main group at all and halfway down the descent I saw one group and then Brett rode me through to the next one and back into the leading bunch," Brown said. Lancaster, his work done, then dropped off the field and rode home 3min28sec behind the leaders.
Stage one winner, Queensland's Nathan O'Neill, (Saturn) also dropped off the main bunch and lost 17 seconds but for him the main aim today was to work for team mate, Danielson, who yesterday claimed the lead from O'Neill after the Australian crashed eleven hundred metres from the finish.
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The Colorado native, a former college mountain biker, is wearing the leader's jersey for the first time in a major tour and is Saturn's main hope for the Genting climb.
"It was definitely different today because people look at you a little bit more and when I looked down the jersey is a little bit different," said Danielson of the experience of wearing the leader's jersey instead of his yellow Saturn kit. "But I wish all my team mates could be here with me because they are absolutely great and deserve more than I do."
Danielson is an unknown quantity to the European and South American climbers who are tipped to dominate tomorrow but the self effacing American might prove a surprise although today he struggled not on the climbs but on the descents.
"Right now I'm not a great descender because I have a light body weight so my momentum doesn't carry as well," said Danielson who was tailed off as the peloton pelted down the mountains. " I could have gone faster but I know that I'm strong enough to get back on over the flat so I wasn't about to total myself into a guardrail just to rip the race."
"Besides tomorrow's the real race anyway," said Danielson who will not have to descend tomorrow as the race finishes at the Genting summit.
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Meantime the defending tour champion and winner of last year's Genting stage, Hernan Dario Munoz (Colombia Selle Italia) has been sitting back waiting for his moment to strike. He suffered a puncture today just before the first climb at 20 kilometres but it was just moments after team mate South Australian Russell Van Hout had crashed. Van Hout rode Munoz back to the bunch before the Colombian scampered ahead to the leaders. Van Hout suffered a cut left hip and received medical attention from the race doctor as he pedalled. He finished the day eight minutes down after losing touch on the last climb.
Munoz is currently fifth and his team mate and fellow Colombian Freddy Gonzalez is sixth. Both are only 14 seconds off the lead and are expected to launch a two pronged assault on Danielson tomorrow on Genting.
Australia's best climbing prospect is Victorian Allan Iacuone (Flanders iteamNova) who finished third overall in the 1999 Tour de Langkawi. Unlike last year when he lost four minutes to the other climbers on a crucial mid race stage he currently sits in 44th place only 1.35 behind off the lead and a good ride tomorrow will move him well up the overall standings.
Photography
Images by Gennie Sheer
- O'Grady plotting his stage 8 victory
- Riders decided not to use the new Giro Lion helmet on today's stage
- A little bit of the local culture
- Jamie Peter Drew (Flanders-Iteamnova) grabbing a few drinks
- Did I tell you I really hate hills?
- One of many injuries from the race
- Jamie Peter Drew getting more drinks
Images by Yuzuru Sunada
- Koji Fukushima (Japan), Asia's Jacky Durand, broke away after one kilometre and was caught with just 10 kilometres remaining
- Stuart O'Grady (Credit Agricole) gets it by a whisker, but a whisker's enough to win and move him within five points of the green jersey
Images by Mark Sharon
- Nathan O'Neill (Saturn) all patched up after yesterday's untimely crash
- New race leader Tom Danielson (Saturn) poses for CN
- Tommy Evans (Telekom Malaysia) struggles on first climb
- Koji Fukushima (Japan) sets a cracking pace, breaking away after just one kilometre
- Tom Danielson (Saturn) and Roland Green (Canada) turn up the heat in the peloton
- A very close call on the line, but Stuart O'Grady (Credit Agricole) gets it
- This is what 3 climbs, 40 degree heat and 112 kilometres of racing does to you
- Stuart O'Grady (Credit Agricole) a very happy stage winner
- Roland Green (Canada) salutes the crowd
- Graeme Brown (Panaria-Fiordo) looks like he wants revenge after today
- Tom Danielson (Saturn) knows what lies ahead of him
- Leaders of the various jersey classifications salute the crowd
- Koji Fukushima (Japan) just happy to be racing among such a talented pool of riders
- Fukushima plays his mouth organ to the delight of the crowd in Seremban
Results
1 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 2.48.56 (39.96 km/h / 24.85 mph) 2 Miguel Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 3 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 4 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 5 Michel Van Haecke (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 6 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre 7 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 8 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 9 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 10 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 11 Julian Winn (GBr) Team fakta 12 David Mckenzie (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 13 René Joergensen (Den) Team fakta 14 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 15 Maximilian Sciandri (GBr) Lampre 16 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 17 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 18 Chris Horner (USA) Saturn 19 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 20 Kristof Trouve (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 21 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 22 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 23 Fernandez German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 24 Rojo Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 25 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 26 Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 27 Martinez Freddy Gonzalez (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 28 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 29 Capilla Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 30 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 31 Biagio Conte (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 32 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 33 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 34 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 35 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 36 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 37 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 38 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 39 Charles Wegelius (GBr) De Nardi-Colpack 40 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 41 Jimenez Luis Feliz Laverde (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 42 Johan Van Der Berg (RSA) South Africa 43 David George (RSA) South Africa 44 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 45 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 46 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) Canada 47 Palomo José Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 48 Michele Colleoni (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 49 Garcia Oscar Laguna (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 50 Ahad Kazemi Sarai (Irn) Iran 51 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Irn) Telekom Malaysia 52 Susanto Tonton (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 53 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 54 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 55 Björnar Vestöl (Nor) Team fakta 56 Roland Green (Can) Canada 57 Jørgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta 58 Tom Danielson (USA) Saturn 59 Trent Wilson (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 60 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 61 Phil Zajicek (USA) Saturn 62 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 63 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 64 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 65 Massimo Amichetti (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 0.10 66 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 67 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Lampre 68 Matteo Cappe (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 69 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Saturn 0.17 70 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 0.31 71 Nor Effandy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 3.24 72 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 73 Lloyd Lucien Reynante (Phi) Philippines 74 Hamad Mohd Mahazir (Mas) Malaysia 75 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 3.26 76 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 77 Razali Shahrulneeza (Mas) Malaysia 78 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 79 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 3.28 80 Ondrej Fadrny (Cze) De Nardi-Colpack 81 Jurgen Landrie (Bel) Flanders-Iteamnova 82 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 83 Morné Bester (RSA) South Africa 84 Malcolm Lange (RSA) South Africa 85 Luca Mendonca Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre 86 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 87 Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den) Team fakta 88 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 89 Mahdi Sohrabi (Irn) Iran 90 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 91 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 92 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 93 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 94 Peter Wedge (Can) Canada 95 Andrea Rossi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 96 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 97 Cory Lange (Can) Canada 98 Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 99 Gordon Fraser (Can) Canada 100 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 101 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 102 Yann Tournier (Fra) Credit Agricole 103 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre 104 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 5.38 105 Ruben Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 6.18 106 Ismail Mohd Sazlee (Mas) Malaysia 107 Domenico Gualdi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 108 Bruno Langlois (Can) Canada 8.21 109 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 110 Jamie Peter Drew (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 111 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 112 Simon Kessler (RSA) South Africa 113 Sébastien Mattozza (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 114 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 115 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 116 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 117 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 118 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 119 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Colombia-Selle Italia 120 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 9.06 121 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Canada 122 Scott Guyton (NZl) Flanders-Iteamnova Did not finish 1 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Japan 2 Villamor Baluyut (Phi) Philippines 3 Rasoul Farshbaf Akbari (Irn) Iran Did not start 1 Owen Hannie (RSA) South Africa Sprints Hot Spot Sprint at Petronas PGA 1 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 5 pts 3 sec 2 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 3 2 3 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 2 1 4 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 1 Hot Spot Sprint at K. Klawang 1 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 5 3 2 Cory Lange (Can) Canada 3 2 3 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 2 1 4 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 1 Hot Spot Sprint at Pantai 1 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 5 3 2 Bruno Langlois (Can) Canada 3 2 3 Martinez Freddy Gonzalez (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 2 1 4 Garcia Oscar Laguna (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1 Mountains KOM Cat 3 at Hulu Langat 1 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 6 pts 2 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 4 3 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 2 4 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 1 KOM Cat 2 at Bt Hulu Beranang 1 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 10 2 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 7 3 Cory Lange (Can) Canada 4 4 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 2 5 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 1 KOM Cat 2 at Jeram Toi 1 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 10 2 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 7 3 Michele Colleoni (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 4 4 Roland Green (Can) Canada 2 5 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 1 Asian Rider 1 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 2.48.56 2 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 3 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 4 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 5 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 6 Ahad Kazemi Sarai (Irn) Iran 7 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Irn) Telekom Malaysia 8 Susanto Tonton (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 9 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 10 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 0.10 11 Nor Effandy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 3.24 12 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 3.24 13 Lloyd Lucien Reynante (Phi) Philippines 3.24 14 Hamad Mohd Mahazir (Mas) Malaysia 3.24 15 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 3.26 16 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 3.26 17 Razali Shahrulneeza (Mas) Malaysia 3.26 18 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 3.26 19 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 3.28 20 Mahdi Sohrabi (Irn) Iran 3.28 21 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 3.28 22 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 3.28 23 Ismail Mohd Sazlee (Mas) Malaysia 6.18 24 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 8.21 25 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 8.21 26 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 8.21 27 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 9.06 Asian Team 1 Iran 8.26.48 2 Japan 0.10 3 Telekom Malaysia 3.24 4 Malaysia 6.48 5 Philippinnes 11.45 Teams 1 Team Fakta 8.26.48 2 Colombia - Sell 3 Palmans - Colls 4 Credit Agricole 5 Lampre 6 Colchon Relax F 7 Domina Vacanze 8 Formaggi Pinzol 9 Marlux - Ville 10 De Nardi - Colp 11 Ceramiche Panar 12 Iran 13 Flanders - Itea 14 Saturn 15 Japan 0.10 16 Telekom Malaysi 3.24 17 South Africa 3.26 18 Canada 3.28 19 Malaysia 6.48 20 Philippinnes 11.45 General classification after Stage 8 1 Tom Danielson (USA) Saturn 25.49.02 2 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 0.01 3 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 0.07 4 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 0.11 5 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 0.14 6 Martinez Freddy Gonzalez (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 0.14 7 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 0.24 8 Capilla Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 0.28 9 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 0.33 10 Miguel Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 0.34 11 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre 0.36 12 David George (RSA) South Africa 0.38 13 Chris Horner (USA) Saturn 0.38 14 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Saturn 0.41 15 Julian Winn (GBr) Team fakta 0.42 16 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 0.42 17 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 0.43 18 Jimenez Luis Feliz Laverde (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 0.45 19 David Mckenzie (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 0.47 20 Fernandez German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 0.50 21 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 0.52 22 Biagio Conte (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 0.52 23 Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 0.53 24 Susanto Tonton (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 0.54 25 Charles Wegelius (GBr) De Nardi-Colpack 0.55 26 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 0.56 27 René Joergensen (Den) Team fakta 0.58 28 Michele Colleoni (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 1.07 29 Rojo Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1.09 30 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 1.09 31 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 1.10 32 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.10 33 Garcia Oscar Laguna (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1.11 34 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.12 35 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 1.12 36 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Irn) Telekom Malaysia 1.14 37 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 1.18 38 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 1.18 39 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 1.19 40 Roland Green (Can) Canada 1.25 41 Matteo Cappe (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 1.28 42 Trent Wilson (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 1.32 43 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 1.33 44 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 1.35 45 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 1.35 46 Kristof Trouve (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 1.37 47 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1.39 48 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 1.40 49 Phil Zajicek (USA) Saturn 1.41 50 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 1.43 51 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 1.44 52 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 1.45 53 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 1.51 54 Michel Van Haecke (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 1.51 55 Massimo Amichetti (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 1.53 56 Maximilian Sciandri (GBr) Lampre 1.53 57 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 1.55 58 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) Canada 1.58 59 Jørgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta 1.59 60 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 2.01 61 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Lampre 2.04 62 Ahad Kazemi Sarai (Irn) Iran 2.17 63 Johan Van Der Berg (RSA) South Africa 2.23 64 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 2.45 65 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 2.57 66 Björnar Vestöl (Nor) Team fakta 3.16 67 Palomo José Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 3.17 68 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 3.31 69 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 3.50 70 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 3.56 71 Luca Mendonca Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre 4.18 72 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre 4.19 73 Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den) Team fakta 4.31 74 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 4.33 75 Morné Bester (RSA) South Africa 4.33 76 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 4.33 77 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 4.36 78 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 4.42 79 Jurgen Landrie (Bel) Flanders-Iteamnova 4.43 80 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 4.50 81 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 4.53 82 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 5.03 83 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 5.04 84 Malcolm Lange (RSA) South Africa 5.06 85 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 5.08 86 Ondrej Fadrny (Cze) De Nardi-Colpack 5.08 87 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 5.15 88 Mahdi Sohrabi (Irn) Iran 5.18 89 Peter Wedge (Can) Canada 5.33 90 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 5.40 91 Yann Tournier (Fra) Credit Agricole 5.42 92 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 5.46 93 Lloyd Lucien Reynante (Phi) Philippines 5.49 94 Hamad Mohd Mahazir (Mas) Malaysia 6.02 95 Nor Effandy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 6.16 96 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 6.38 97 Razali Shahrulneeza (Mas) Malaysia 6.54 98 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 7.07 99 Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 7.07 100 Gordon Fraser (Can) Canada 7.31 101 Ruben Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 7.43 102 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 7.48 103 Cory Lange (Can) Canada 7.50 104 Domenico Gualdi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 7.59 105 Andrea Rossi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 8.25 106 Jamie Peter Drew (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 9.28 107 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 9.29 108 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 9.38 109 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Colombia-Selle Italia 9.52 110 Ismail Mohd Sazlee (Mas) Malaysia 10.05 111 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 10.19 112 Simon Kessler (RSA) South Africa 10.52 113 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 11.02 114 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 11.03 115 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 12.28 116 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 13.04 117 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 13.43 118 Scott Guyton (NZl) Flanders-Iteamnova 13.49 119 Bruno Langlois (Can) Canada 14.04 120 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Canada 14.34 121 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 15.23 122 Sébastien Mattozza (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 23.57 Points classification 1 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 96 2 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 91 3 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 66 4 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 55 5 Miguel Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 52 6 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 48 7 Luca Mendonca Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre 47 8 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 47 9 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 43 10 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 36 11 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 35 12 Gordon Fraser (Can) Canada 34 13 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 34 14 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 31 15 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 30 16 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 22 17 Roland Green (Can) Canada 19 18 Martinez Freddy Gonzalez (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 19 19 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre 19 20 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Saturn 15 21 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 15 22 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 15 23 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 14 24 Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 14 25 Ruben Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 14 26 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 13 27 Tom Danielson (USA) Saturn 13 28 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 12 29 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 12 30 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 12 31 Fernandez German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 11 32 Michel Van Haecke (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 11 33 Malcolm Lange (RSA) South Africa 11 34 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 11 35 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 10 36 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 10 37 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 10 38 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 8 39 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 7 40 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 7 41 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) Canada 7 42 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 6 43 Rojo Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 6 44 Julian Winn (GBr) Team fakta 5 45 David Mckenzie (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 5 46 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 5 47 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre 5 48 Jurgen Landrie (Bel) Flanders-Iteamnova 5 49 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 5 50 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 51 René Joergensen (Den) Team fakta 3 52 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 3 53 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 3 54 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 3 55 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 3 56 Peter Wedge (Can) Canada 3 57 Cory Lange (Can) Canada 3 58 Scott Guyton (NZl) Flanders-Iteamnova 3 59 Bruno Langlois (Can) Canada 3 60 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 2 61 Garcia Oscar Laguna (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1 62 Maximilian Sciandri (GBr) Lampre 1 63 Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den) Team fakta 1 64 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 1 65 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 1 66 Andrea Rossi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 1 Mountains classification 1 Roland Green (Can) Canada 33 2 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 28 3 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 20 4 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 13 5 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 12 6 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 12 7 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 11 8 Michele Colleoni (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 10 9 Jimenez Luis Feliz Laverde (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 8 10 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 8 11 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 7 12 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 6 13 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 6 14 Jurgen Landrie (Bel) Flanders-Iteamnova 5 15 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 4 16 Scott Guyton (NZl) Flanders-Iteamnova 4 17 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Saturn 4 18 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 4 19 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 4 20 Cory Lange (Can) Canada 4 21 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 3 22 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 2 23 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 2 24 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 2 25 Peter Wedge (Can) Canada 2 26 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 1 27 Matteo Cappe (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 1 28 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 1 29 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 1 Asian Rider classification 1 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 25.49.45 2 Susanto Tonton (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 0.11 3 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Irn) Telekom Malaysia 0.31 4 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 0.35 5 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 1.02 6 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 1.12 7 Ahad Kazemi Sarai (Irn) Iran 1.34 8 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 2.02 9 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 3.50 10 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 4.07 11 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 4.21 12 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 4.25 13 Mahdi Sohrabi (Irn) Iran 4.35 14 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 4.57 15 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 5.03 16 Lloyd Lucien Reynante (Phi) Philippines 5.06 17 Hamad Mohd Mahazir (Mas) Malaysia 5.19 18 Nor Effandy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 5.33 19 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 5.55 20 Razali Shahrulneeza (Mas) Malaysia 6.11 21 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 6.24 22 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 7.05 23 Ismail Mohd Sazlee (Mas) Malaysia 9.22 24 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 10.19 25 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 11.45 26 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 12.21 27 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 13.00 Asian Team classification 1 Iran 77.29.55 2 Japan 1.07 3 Telekom Malaysia 4.10 4 Malaysia 10.17 5 Philippinnes 17.46 Teams classification 1 Saturn 77.26.46 2 Colombia 1.17 3 Ceramiche 1.22 4 Colchon R 2.06 5 Domina Va 2.10 6 Team Fakt 2.16 7 Lampre 2.22 8 Formaggi 2.24 9 Marlux 3.06 10 Iran 3.09 11 Credit Ag 3.10 12 De Nardi 3.21 13 Flanders 3.29 14 Palmans 4.16 15 Japan 4.16 16 Telekom M 6.41 17 South Afr 6.47 18 Canada 8.19 19 Malaysia 13.26 20 Philippin 20.55
