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8th Telekom Malaysia Le Tour de Langkawi - 2.2
Malaysia, January 31 - February 9, 2003
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Stage 4 - February 3: Gerik - Tanah Merah, 172.9 km
A hat-trick for the Brazilian
By Tommy Campbell in Tanah Merah
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Tina Turner's hit song, "You're Simply the Best", rang out over the loudspeaker in downtown Tanah Merah as Brazilian Luciano Pagliarini representing Lampre was introduced to an estimated 5,000 plus crowd after producing yet another epic sprint to claim his third successive stage win on stage four of the Le Tour de Langkawi.
It sent media personal checking records as to when a similar achievement had taken place. It has happened before, but not in succession: Robert Hunter did it last year and Jay Sweet repeated Hunter's effort in 1996.
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In true sprinting style, Pagliarini's team got him to within 500 metres of the finish before moving swiftly forward in the finishing straight as the 24 year old put on the finishing touches. Metres from the line, he threw his arms to the heavens in anticipation of victory, but Graeme Brown (Panaria-Fiordo) kept to his task and literally failed by the narrowest of margins, allowing the Brazilian to create a piece of LTdL history.
"I was planning to have a quiet time today, especially since I'm not a climber and there were two mountains to tackle early on, but I was fine over the passes and as we neared the finish my teammates urged me to get up there for the sprint," said Pagliarini, adding, "their motivation was tremendous and they kept shouting at me 'Go Paglia, go', so I went for it!
"They carried me through to 500 metres to go and from then on I gave it everything," said the jubilant triple winner.
The race lead continues to stay in the capable hands of Nathan O'Neill (Saturn) for the fourth day in succession.
How it unfolded
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Today's stage from Gerik to Tanah Merah had all the ingredients to force a change in the overall standings: difficult terrain, two category one climbs and for good measure, three intermediate sprints to keep the tempo up.
In the opening stages, there were a number of attacks that soon came to nothing, but it was at the first KOM of the day that a pattern emerged with the reigning world mountainbike cross-country champion, Canadian Roland Green, showing his prowess as a climber and clawing back three seconds on O'Neill.
Green was soon aided by his teammate Peter Wedge, making the junction in a small break two kilometres from the summit. However, Green, 2001-02 World MTB Champion, took the prime with ease, including the first sprint at Banding (38.7 kilometres).
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Thanks in the efforts of the Saturn, there was eventually a regrouping of the after 52km of racing. But Green was far from finished and took off again after 62 kilometres, with Ruber Alveiro Marin (Colombia-Selle Italia) and Seamus McGrath (Canada) quickly joining him. The pace was too brisk for McGrath, however, slipping back to the peloton and leaving Marin and Green to go ahead with Green again taking out the KOM at Titiwangsa.
At 81km, Marin began to experience mechanical trouble, which left Green out in front with Johan Dekkers (Ville De Charleroi), Fernandez German Nieto (Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada) and Kazuya Okazki (Japan), the latter three coming across to the pair of Green and Marin shortly after the KOM.
Marin eventually rejoined lead group, but with the pace from the peloton increasing and the time gap narrowing, Nieto and Dekkers forged ahead, and were then joined by Eric Leblacher (Credit Agricole) and Satoshi Hirose (Japan) after 112 kilometres.
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As has been the practice over the last three stages, the lead group enjoyed a moment of fame before a swift reaction from the peloton closed the gap in the final kilometres, and so with five kilometres of racing left to the finish, the entire field which started the day minus a couple of retirements came together for the final sprint, won for the third time in as many days by Luciano Pagliariani (Lampre), ahead of Graeme Brown (Panaria-Fiordo) and Stuart O'Grady (Credit Agricole).
The Panaria rider was furious at missing out yet again: "As we slowed down after the finish, he made a motion as if to lean on me and make me swerve. It’s the same thing he did the previous two days," said the peeved Aussie.
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"What's up?" responded Pagliarini. "He protested when I beat him on the first day, had another moan yesterday and again accused me of switching him today.
"I went up to him to make the peace and shake hands but he wouldn't. He acted like a sore loser and that's not good. In this sport you have to be able to accept being beaten, however good you think you are. When you win, you win and when you lose you just have to accept it with good grace," said Pagliarini.
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"I told him we are professionals, not babies, and we should respect each other. It's not good to have vendettas in the bunch. That's dangerous and leads to crashes. We are all in this to earn a living and if you fall it can put you out of action for months," he added.
Talking later, Brown saw it very differently: "He's ruthless in the sprints and he came up aggressively after the finish and I thought he wanted to start a fight. Then our bikes somehow got tangled up and by the time we straightened them out the whole thing blew over."
A bit of push and shove, tangled bikes - all in a sprinter's day
Additional reporting by Gennie Sheer
Sydney’s Graeme Brown almost came to blows with Luciano Pagliarini after the Brazilian scored his hat trick in stage four of the Tour de Langkawi.
The pair of rival sprinters hit the line locked together and officials called for the finish line photo before confirming Pagliarini’s third win in as many days. But the pair seemed more interested in settling a score.
Brown was second on stage two and protested the Brazilian had blocked his run at the line. On stage three Brown was third but had no complaints about Pagliarini. However, today the battle between them heated up.
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“I’m just a bit sick of him and he said he was a bit peeved but what am I supposed to do,” said Brown reacting to reports that Pagliarini had labelled him childish for swerving in front of him after the line. “I couldn’t keep going straight because of the photographers and cameras past the line.”
“I didn’t do anything to try and make him crash,” explained Brown. “Does he want me to just run them (the photographers) down?” After the line the pair had a heated discussion. “He said ‘let’s fight’ or something like that and I said ‘let’s do it now’ but then when we got off our bikes my pedal tangled in his front wheel and we sort of got involved in getting the bikes apart so nothing happened,” said Brown of the stoush that failed to eventuate. “It’s all sprinting and he ain’t winning tomorrow I can guarantee that.”
“The green (Pagliarini) squeezed me out in the last 200 metres as I was coming into a space that suddenly wasn’t there and I had to go around and try it again,” said Brown, but Credit Agricole's Stuart O’Grady third on the stage, believes Pagliarini was a worthy winner.
“I was pretty close to the action and Pagliarini was in front all the way,” said O’Grady. “Brown is a bit dark he’s three nil down so he got heated and agitated after the finish.”
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But the near win has only spurred Brown on to try something new again tomorrow, although his prediction of him winning might hinge on whether he has recovered from a bad bout of gastric which has been making his life uncomfortable. “I’ve lost five litres of fluid, four kilos in weight and haven’t been able to eat much for the past two days,” said Brown. “Hopefully this will pass and I can come out full guns blazing tomorrow because I know I’ve got the speed it’s just a case of using it.”
Meantime O’Grady has signalled his sprint form is returning. “The last couple of days I’ve been avoiding the carnage at the front because it’s been a little bit too dangerous to play,” said O’Grady who like others in the peloton has used caution since the pile up of two thirds of the field within the final kilometre of stage two. “I was hoping they (some of the less experienced riders) would tire out a little and the pace would be quicker at the finish which is what happened today.”
“I set myself up a bit better and started feeling a lot better than on previous stages so I got to have a decent crack at it (the sprint),” he said. “It wasn’t bad, not perfect but on the whole I was happy.”
O’Grady also coped well with the first real climbing of his Tour de Langkawi debut. “It was a difficult climb (the second of the day) but it played in my favour with Colombians and Italians attacking so hard they blew themselves up. I just set a good tempo and got out of it with the least amount of pain possible but it was a very difficult first taste of Malysian climbing,” he said.
“Genting won’t be good,” predicted O’Grady of the infamous stage nine climb on Saturday 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.
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But before Genting the sprinters will again come out to play as the next three stages will be raced over relatively flat roads. This provides a perfect template for Saturn to defend the overall race lead of Nathan O’Neill. “Today on the climb we did well to defend everything with Chris Horner, Tom Danielson and myself all pretty active covering moves,” said O’Neill. “The other three (Saturn team mates) were riding tempo before and after the climbs and did a superb job again.”
O’Neill, a four time Australian time trial champion, crossed the line today in 56th place but only after avoiding yet more finish line chaos. “It’s scary because there was a crash just in front of me but I was back far enough to see it happen and had enough time to grab a handful of brakes and stop,” explained O’Neill who is enjoying being the leader but admits it is tiring.
“You’re nervous and it’s emotionally draining more than physically tiring but I’m just trying to stay as relaxed as possible and take it as it comes,” he said. “Anything could happen in this race so I aim to make the most of every day in yellow.”
Earlier in the race Flanders iteamNova rider Ronny Assez was thrown off the race for holding onto the second team car up the second climb. Officials initially issued a penalty which also eliminated team manager Franky Van Haesebroucke but he successfully argued that he was no where near the incident and should not be disqualified. “If one media person does something wrong you don’t send them all home,” argued Van Haesebroucke. “I had nothing to do with it and I wasn’t driving the second car.
Everything's (still) sweet as Corey fails
Also out of the race is South Australian Corey Sweet who abandoned at the 120 kilometre mark of today’s stage. “I’ve been flat for the last few weeks because of a chemical imbalance in my body,” said Sweet, who was this year signed to O’Grady’s Credit Agricole team (Sweet also abandoned the Jacob's Creek Tour Down Under last month). “It’s just a matter trying not to do anything too intense but then I had to start this race.” “I won’t race for a few weeks now and it should be fine,” he said. “The team knows about it and they’re okay with it.” Sweet will fly to Cologne in Germany as soon as possible to collect his belongings and relocate to Toulouse near O’Grady before resuming racing in Europe.
Photos
Images by Cyclingnews / Anthony Tan
- One of these dancers looks like she's about to run away... or maybe it's the heat from the pavement that's bothering her
- The police motorcade about to take off for another day of laying down the law on the roads
- The Domina Vacanze-Elitron boys get their gear ready in preparation for a long day in the saddle
- The boys from Team Fakta share a laugh before the stage start in Gerik
- Riders from all teams mill around in the shade on the hottest day of the LTdL
- A director's eye view of the race convoy
- Dave McKenzie (Flanders-Iteamnova) grabs some go-go juice from the team car
- No, not Jean-Marie Leblanc, but a commissaire nonetheless
- Willo (Trent Wilson, Flanders-Iteamnova) is disappointed about missing the break, but his group grit their teeth to bridge the gap 10 kilometres later
- The peloton all strung out on the climb of Titiwangsa
- Manager of Flanders-Iteamnova, Francky Van Haesebroucke, looks content now but moments later fired up after the Chief Commissaire initially ruled him out of the race after his rider Ronny Assez was caught hanging onto their second team car
- Plenty of mist, so where's the gorillas?
- The gregarious locals lined the roadside for hours to watch just a few seconds of action, but for them, it was all worth the wait
- The race chopper was feeding live images back to the local television networks during the last two hours of the race
- 20 kilometres to go - last chance for water
Images by Mark Sharon
- Start operations in Gerik
- A Saturn soigneuse adjusts Nathan O'Neill's radio link
- Graeme Brown (Panaria-Fiordo) cuts vents in his cap in preparation for a long, hot day
- A Panaria-Fiordo rider models the peloton's new fashion trend
- Max Sciandri (Lampre) relaxes in the team bus before the start
- Charley Wegelius (De Nardi-Colpack) and his team trainer flex their muscles
- A relaxed Luciano Pagliarini (Lampre) poses for Cyclingnews
- Ruber Alveiro Marin (Colombia-Selle Italia) leads Roland Green (Canada) on the second climb to Titiwangsa
- The yellow jersey of Nathan O'Neill (Saturn) sits comfortably in the front group during the second climb of the day
- The largely intact peloton en route to the summit of the second KOM
- Team Fakta's Bo Andresen and David McKenzie (iTeamnova.com) suffers on Cat 1 climb Titiwangsa
- Philippine rider Enrique Domingo struggles to catch up with the bunch
- Luciano Pagliarini (Lampre) outsprints Graeme Brown (Panaria-Fiordo) and Stuart O'Grady (Credit Agricole) to triumph once again
- Rubens Bertogliati (Lampre) congratulates his teammate Luciano Pagliarini after winning his third stage in three days
- Luciano Pagliarini (Lampre) salutes the crowd on the podium
- Leaders of the various jersey classifications salute the crowd
- The new leader in the KOM competition, Roland Green (Canada), delighted with his effort
Images by Yuzuru Sunada
- Satoshi Hirose (Japan) leads the break of four riders that went clear just before the summit of the KOM of Titiwangsa
- With confidence oozing, Luciano Pagliarini (Lampre) triumphs once again in the bunch gallop to the line
- Luciano Pagliarini (Lampre) shows three fingers to signify his third win in three days
- Marco Pinotti and the rest of Lampre, along with Saturn and Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' worked tirelessly to bring back the break of four riders with just 5 kilometres remaining
Images by Gennie Sheer
- Brett Lancaster and Christopher Jenner sign on
- David Mckenzie explains it is "Merely a flesh wound"
- Err... nice elephant (translation: please don't hurt me)
- Brownie takes to his hat with some scissors
- David McKenzie's knee after his Stage 2 crash. Only four stitches this time instead of 92
- Lancaster and Brown are still trying to cut up the hat
- Brett Lancaster managed to get his hat done
Results
1 Luca Mendonca Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre 4.14.13 2 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 3 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 4 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 5 Miguel Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 6 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 7 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 8 Gordon Fraser (Can) Canada 9 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 10 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 11 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 12 Malcolm Lange (RSA) South Africa 13 Owen Hannie (RSA) South Africa 14 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 15 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 16 Ruben Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 17 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 18 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 19 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 20 Nor Effandy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 21 Mahdi Sohrabi (Irn) Iran 22 Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 23 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 24 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre 25 Hamad Mohd Mahazir (Mas) Malaysia 26 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 27 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 28 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 29 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 30 Kristof Trouve (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 31 Biagio Conte (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 32 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 33 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 34 Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den) Team fakta 35 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 36 Chris Horner (USA) Saturn 37 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Canada 38 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 39 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 40 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 41 Martinez Freddy Gonzalez (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 42 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 43 David Mckenzie (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 44 Susanto Tonton (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 45 Garcia Oscar Laguna (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 46 René Joergensen (Den) Team fakta 47 Julian Winn (GBr) Team fakta 48 Jimenez Luis Feliz Laverde (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 49 Rojo Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 50 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 51 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 52 Capilla Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 53 Trent Wilson (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 54 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 55 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) Canada 56 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Saturn 57 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 58 Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 59 Villamor Baluyut (Phi) Philippines 60 Scott Guyton (NZl) Flanders-Iteamnova 61 Jamie Peter Drew (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 62 Palomo José Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 63 Tom Danielson (USA) Saturn 64 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 65 Jurgen Landrie (Bel) Flanders-Iteamnova 66 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 67 Peter Wedge (Can) Canada 68 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 69 Simon Kessler (RSA) South Africa 70 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 71 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 72 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 73 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 74 Michel Van Haecke (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 75 Yann Tournier (Fra) Credit Agricole 76 Charles Wegelius (GBr) De Nardi-Colpack 77 Morné Bester (RSA) South Africa 78 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 79 Fernandez German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 80 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 81 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 82 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 83 David George (RSA) South Africa 84 Maximilian Sciandri (GBr) Lampre 85 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 86 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 87 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 88 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 89 Andrea Rossi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 90 Ondrej Fadrny (Cze) De Nardi-Colpack 91 Sébastien Mattozza (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 92 Domenico Gualdi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 93 Bruno Langlois (Can) Canada 94 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 95 Phil Zajicek (USA) Saturn 96 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Japan 97 Michele Colleoni (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 98 Lloyd Lucien Reynante (Phi) Philippines 99 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 100 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 101 Ahad Kazemi Sarai (Irn) Iran 102 Rasoul Farshbaf Akbari (Irn) Iran 103 Björnar Vestöl (Nor) Team fakta 104 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre 105 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 106 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 107 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 108 Cory Lange (Can) Canada 109 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 110 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 111 Ismail Mohd Sazlee (Mas) Malaysia 112 Warren Davadilla (Phi) Philippines 113 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 114 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 115 Massimo Amichetti (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 116 Jørgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta 117 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Irn) Telekom Malaysia 118 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Colombia-Selle Italia 119 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Lampre 120 Matteo Cappe (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 121 Johan Van Der Berg (RSA) South Africa 122 Roland Green (Can) Canada 123 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 124 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 125 Simone Mori (Ita) Telekom Malaysia 126 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 127 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 128 Razali Shahrulneeza (Mas) Malaysia 129 Ross Grant (RSA) South Africa 130 Selamat Shahrizan (Mas) Malaysia 8.31 Did not finish 1 Corey Sweet (Aus) Credit Agricole 2 Yohann Charpenteau (Fra) Credit Agricole 3 Guillaume Girout (Fra) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois Did not start 1 Domingo David Fernandez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada Disqualified 1 Ronny Assez (Bel) Flanders-Iteamnova Sprints Hot Spot Sprint at Banding 1 Roland Green (Can) Canada 5 pts 3 sec 2 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 3 2 3 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 2 1 4 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 1 Hot Spot Sprint at Jeli 1 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 5 pts 3 sec 2 Fernandez German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 3 2 3 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 1 4 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 1 Hot Spot Sprint at Bukit Bunga 1 Fernandez German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 5 pts 3 sec 2 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 3 2 3 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 1 4 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 1 Mountains KOM Cat 1 at G.Pilong 1 Roland Green (Can) Canada 15 pts 2 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 12 3 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 10 4 Jimenez Luis Feliz Laverde (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 8 5 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 6 6 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 4 7 Peter Wedge (Can) Canada 2 8 Matteo Cappe (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 1 KOM Cat 1 at Titiwangsa 1 Roland Green (Can) Canada 15 pts 2 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 12 3 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 10 4 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 8 Asian Rider 1 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 4.14.13 2 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 3 Nor Effandy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 4 Mahdi Sohrabi (Irn) Iran 5 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 6 Hamad Mohd Mahazir (Mas) Malaysia 7 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 8 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 9 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 10 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 11 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 12 Susanto Tonton (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 13 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 14 Villamor Baluyut (Phi) Philippines 15 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 16 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 17 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 18 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Japan 19 Lloyd Lucien Reynante (Phi) Philippines 20 Ahad Kazemi Sarai (Irn) Iran 21 Rasoul Farshbaf Akbari (Irn) Iran 22 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 23 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 24 Ismail Mohd Sazlee (Mas) Malaysia 25 Warren Davadilla (Phi) Philippines 26 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 27 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Irn) Telekom Malaysia 28 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 29 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 30 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 31 Razali Shahrulneeza (Mas) Malaysia 32 Selamat Shahrizan (Mas) Malaysia 8.31 Asian Team 1 Iran 12.42.39 2 Telekom Malaysia 3 Malaysia 4 Japan 5 Philippinnes Teams 1 De Nardi - Colp 12.42.39 2 Iran 3 Telekom Malaysi 4 Lampre 5 Team Fakta 6 Palmans - Colls 7 Ceramiche Panar 8 Credit Agricole 9 South Africa 10 Canada 11 Colombia - Sell 12 Colchon Relax F 13 Formaggi Pinzol 14 Malaysia 15 Japan 16 Domina Vacanze 17 Philippinnes 18 Saturn 19 Flanders - Itea 20 Marlux - Ville General classification after stage 4 1 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Saturn 11.52.56 2 Roland Green (Can) Canada 0.20 3 Tom Danielson (USA) Saturn 0.24 4 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 0.27 5 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 0.31 6 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 0.38 7 Martinez Freddy Gonzalez (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 0.39 8 Gordon Fraser (Can) Canada 0.44 9 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) Canada 0.45 10 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 0.45 11 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 0.46 12 Peter Wedge (Can) Canada 0.50 13 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 0.51 14 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 0.51 15 Capilla Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 0.52 16 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Colombia-Selle Italia 0.52 17 David George (RSA) South Africa 0.52 18 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 0.53 19 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 0.57 20 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 0.59 21 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre 1.00 22 Chris Horner (USA) Saturn 1.02 23 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 1.02 24 Phil Zajicek (USA) Saturn 1.02 25 Miguel Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 1.04 26 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre 1.05 27 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 1.06 28 Julian Winn (GBr) Team fakta 1.06 29 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1.06 30 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1.06 31 Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 1.07 32 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 1.07 33 Susanto Tonton (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 1.08 34 Charles Wegelius (GBr) De Nardi-Colpack 1.09 35 Jimenez Luis Feliz Laverde (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 1.09 36 David Mckenzie (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 1.11 37 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 1.12 38 Fernandez German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1.14 39 Luca Mendonca Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre 1.14 40 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 1.15 41 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Lampre 1.15 42 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 1.16 43 Biagio Conte (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 1.16 44 Jacob Moe Rasmussen (Den) Team fakta 1.17 45 Morné Bester (RSA) South Africa 1.19 46 Jørgen Bo Petersen (Den) Team fakta 1.20 47 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 1.20 48 Michele Colleoni (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 1.21 49 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 1.21 50 René Joergensen (Den) Team fakta 1.22 51 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 1.23 52 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 1.24 53 Cory Lange (Can) Canada 1.24 54 Garcia Oscar Laguna (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1.25 55 Andrea Rossi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 1.25 56 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 1.26 57 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Irn) Telekom Malaysia 1.28 58 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 1.28 59 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 1.29 60 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 1.29 61 Jamie Peter Drew (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 1.31 62 Matteo Cappe (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 1.32 63 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 1.32 64 Rojo Nacor Burgos (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 1.33 65 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 1.33 66 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 1.33 67 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 1.33 68 Maximilian Sciandri (GBr) Lampre 1.33 69 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.34 70 Yann Tournier (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.35 71 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 1.36 72 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.36 73 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 1.36 74 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 1.37 75 Ahad Kazemi Sarai (Irn) Iran 1.38 76 Bruno Langlois (Can) Canada 1.39 77 Jurgen Landrie (Bel) Flanders-Iteamnova 1.39 78 Sébastien Mattozza (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 1.43 79 Trent Wilson (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 1.46 80 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 1.47 81 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 1.47 82 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Flanders-Iteamnova 1.49 83 Björnar Vestöl (Nor) Team fakta 1.49 84 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 1.49 85 Owen Hannie (RSA) South Africa 1.50 86 Kristof Trouve (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 1.51 87 Simon Kessler (RSA) South Africa 1.52 88 Ross Grant (RSA) South Africa 1.54 89 Ondrej Fadrny (Cze) De Nardi-Colpack 1.54 90 Johan Van Der Berg (RSA) South Africa 1.54 91 Domenico Gualdi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 1.55 92 Ruben Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 1.55 93 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Canada 1.56 94 Massimo Amichetti (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 1.57 95 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 1.57 96 Scott Guyton (NZl) Flanders-Iteamnova 2.00 97 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 2.01 98 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 2.01 99 Malcolm Lange (RSA) South Africa 2.02 100 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 2.02 101 Mahdi Sohrabi (Irn) Iran 2.04 102 Michel Van Haecke (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 2.05 103 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 2.07 104 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 2.07 105 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 2.07 106 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 2.07 107 Palomo José Manuel Vazquez (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 2.08 108 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 2.10 109 Razali Shahrulneeza (Mas) Malaysia 2.11 110 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 2.12 111 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Japan 2.14 112 Rasoul Farshbaf Akbari (Irn) Iran 2.14 113 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 2.15 114 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 2.16 115 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 2.16 116 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 2.19 117 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 2.23 118 Nor Effandy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 2.23 119 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 2.28 120 Simone Mori (Ita) Telekom Malaysia 2.29 121 Villamor Baluyut (Phi) Philippines 2.35 122 Ismail Mohd Sazlee (Mas) Malaysia 2.38 123 Lloyd Lucien Reynante (Phi) Philippines 2.39 124 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 2.43 125 Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 2.48 126 Hamad Mohd Mahazir (Mas) Malaysia 3.02 127 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 3.37 128 Warren Davadilla (Phi) Philippines 4.01 129 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 6.05 130 Selamat Shahrizan (Mas) Malaysia 10.54 Points classification 1 Luca Mendonca Pagliarini (Bra) Lampre 45 pts 2 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 41 3 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Credit Agricole 36 4 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 35 5 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 27 6 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 27 7 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 25 8 Gordon Fraser (Can) Canada 21 9 Allan Bo Andresen (Den) Team fakta 20 10 Roland Green (Can) Canada 19 11 Thomas Evans (Irl) Telekom Malaysia 18 12 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Saturn 15 13 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 14 14 Miguel Perdiguero (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 14 15 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 14 16 Tom Danielson (USA) Saturn 13 17 Martinez Freddy Gonzalez (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 13 18 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team fakta 12 19 Warren Davadilla (Phi) Philippines 11 20 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 11 21 Malcolm Lange (RSA) South Africa 11 22 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 10 23 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 10 24 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 10 25 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 9 26 Fernandez German Nieto (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 8 27 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 8 28 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) Canada 7 29 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 6 30 Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 6 31 Selamat Shahrizan (Mas) Malaysia 6 32 Owen Hannie (RSA) South Africa 5 33 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 5 34 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 4 35 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 36 Peter Wedge (Can) Canada 3 37 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 3 38 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 3 39 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 3 40 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 3 41 Simone Mori (Ita) Telekom Malaysia 3 42 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 2 43 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 2 44 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux-Ville De Charlerois 2 45 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 1 46 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 1 47 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 1 48 Andrea Rossi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 1 49 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 1 Mountains classification 1 Roland Green (Can) Canada 30 pts 2 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 16 3 Christopher Jenner (Fra) Credit Agricole 12 4 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 12 5 Jose Manuel Maestre (Spa) Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada 10 6 Jimenez Luis Feliz Laverde (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 8 7 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 8 8 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 6 9 Urbelino Mesa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 6 10 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Saturn 4 11 Jose Rujano (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 4 12 Simone Mori (Ita) Telekom Malaysia 4 13 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 2 14 Peter Wedge (Can) Canada 2 15 Selamat Shahrizan (Mas) Malaysia 2 16 Matteo Cappe (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 1 17 Jurgen Landrie (Bel) Flanders-Iteamnova 1 18 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 1 Asian Rider classification 1 Hossain Askari (Irn) Iran 11.54.03 2 Susanto Tonton (Ina) Telekom Malaysia 0.01 3 Alireza Haghi (Irn) Iran 0.09 4 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Irn) Telekom Malaysia 0.21 5 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Japan 0.22 6 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Japan 0.25 7 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Japan 0.29 8 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Japan 0.30 9 Ahad Kazemi Sarai (Irn) Iran 0.31 10 Seong Hoong Tsen (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 0.54 11 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Telekom Malaysia 0.55 12 Mahdi Sohrabi (Irn) Iran 0.57 13 Musa Musairi (Mas) Malaysia 1.00 14 Sirous Hashemzadeh (Irn) Iran 1.03 15 Razali Shahrulneeza (Mas) Malaysia 1.04 16 Hassan Maleki Mizan (Irn) Iran 1.05 17 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Japan 1.07 18 Rasoul Farshbaf Akbari (Irn) Iran 1.07 19 Victor Espiritu (Phi) Philippines 1.09 20 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 1.12 21 Arnel Quirimit (Phi) Philippines 1.16 22 Nor Effandy Rosli (Mas) Telekom Malaysia 1.16 23 Ah Tiam Wong (Mas) Malaysia 1.21 24 Villamor Baluyut (Phi) Philippines 1.28 25 Ismail Mohd Sazlee (Mas) Malaysia 1.31 26 Lloyd Lucien Reynante (Phi) Philippines 1.32 27 Enrique Domingo (Phi) Philippines 1.36 28 Hamad Mohd Mahazir (Mas) Malaysia 1.55 29 Merculio Ramos (Phi) Philippines 2.30 30 Warren Davadilla (Phi) Philippines 2.54 31 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Japan 4.58 32 Selamat Shahrizan (Mas) Malaysia 9.47 Asian Team classification 1 Iran 35.42.49 2 Telekom Malaysia 0.08 3 Japan 0.37 4 Malaysia 2.36 5 Philippinnes 3.19 Teams classification 1 Saturn 35.39.40 2 Canada 1.00 3 Colombia 1.17 4 Ceramiche 1.22 5 Colchon R 2.06 6 Domina Va 2.10 7 Lampre 2.12 8 Team Fakt 2.16 9 Formaggi 2.24 10 Marlux - 2.56 11 De Nardi 3.01 12 Iran 3.09 13 South Afr 3.09 14 Credit Ag 3.10 15 Telekom M 3.17 16 Flanders 3.29 17 Japan 3.46 18 Palmans - 3.56 19 Malaysia 5.45 20 Philippin 6.28
