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2014 Japan Cup (HC) Results
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Sunday, October 19, 2014. Utsunomiya - Utsunomiya, Japan.
10 laps of 14.1 km + 10.3 km= 151.3 km total distance
The Race: More than 80,000 spectators lined the course at Utsunomiya today. In a tight photo-finish (I guess they all are), Australian Nathan Hass won the Japan Cup for a second time. Haas also won the race in 2011.
Four riders were away for much of the day, but they were caught during the final lap. A strong group counter-attacked, making for a 9-man uphill sprint, initiated by Grega Bole. Haas, Hagen and Bole threw their bikes across the line, but Haas prevailed.
Complete results:
Winner's average speed: 36.783 km/hr
| 1 | Nathan Haas | Garmin-Sharp | 4:06:48 |
| 2 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | SKY | |
| 3 | Grega Bole | Vini Fantini-Nippo | |
| 4 | Michael Valgren Andersen | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| 5 | Julian David Arredondo | Trek Factory Racing | |
| 6 | Valerio Conti | Lampre-Merida | |
| 7 | Davide Formolo | Cannondale | |
| 8 | Moreno Moser | Cannondale | |
| 9 | Jan Polanc | Lampre-Merida | @ 5 seconds |
| 10 | Christopher Juul Jensen | Tinkoff-Saxo | 18" |
| 11 | Manuele Boaro | Tinkoff-Saxo | 25" |
| 12 | Daniel Martin | Garmin-Sharp | 38" |
| 13 | Thomas Lebas | Bridgstone-Anchor | 48" |
| 14 | Fumiyuki Beppu | Trek Factory Racing | |
| 15 | Nariyuki Masuda | Utsunomiya-Blitzen | |
| 16 | Steele Von Hoff | Garmin-Sharp | 56" |
| 17 | Christopher Sutton | SKY | |
| 18 | Ricardo Garcia Ambroa | Team Ukyo | |
| 19 | Bernard Sulzberger | Drapac Professional Cycling | |
| 20 | Paolo Longo Borghini | Cannondale | |
| 21 | Salvador Guardiola Tora | Team Ukyo | |
| 22 | Taiji Nishitani | Aisan | |
| 23 | Sho Hatsuyama | Bridgstone-Anchor | |
| 24 | Kohei Uchima | Bridgstone-Anchor | |
| 25 | Cristiano Salerno | Cannondale | |
| 26 | Yukiya Arashiro | Europcar | |
| 27 | Christophe Kern | Europcar | |
| 28 | Phillip Gaimon | Garmin-Sharp | +1:02 |
| 29 | Damiano Cunego | Lampre-Merida | |
| 30 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | |
| 31 | Miyataka Shimizu | Bridgstone-Anchor | +2:01 |
| 32 | Jose Vicente Toribio | Team Ukyo | +3:11 |
| 33 | Pier Paolo De Negri | Vini Fantini-Nippo | +3:55 |
| 34 | Elia Favilli | Lampre-Merida | |
| 35 | Marco Marcato | Cannondale | |
| 36 | Hayden Roulston | Trek Factory Racing | |
| 37 | Bjorn Thurau | Europcar | +4:25 |
| 38 | Yukihiro Doi | Team Ukyo | +4:37 |
| 39 | Yusuke Hatanaka | Shimano Racing Team | +5:05 |
| 40 | Ben Swift | SKY | +5:36 |
| 41 | Takashi Miyazawa | Vini Fantini-Nippo | +5:46 |
| 42 | Karsten Kroon | Tinkoff-Saxo | +5:48 |
| 43 | Bernhard Eisel | SKY | |
| 44 | Atsushi Oka | ||
| 45 | Charles Planet | Novo Nordisk | |
| 46 | Javier Megias Leal | Novo Nordisk | +5:51 |
| 47 | Kazuhiro Mori | Aisan | |
| 48 | Damien Monier | Bridgstone-Anchor | |
| 49 | Ryoma Nonaka | Shimano Racing Team | |
| 50 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | |
| 51 | Yuzuru Suzuki | Utsunomiya-Blitzen | |
| 52 | Wesley Sulzberger | Drapac Professional Cycling | |
| 53 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac Professional Cycling | |
| 54 | Darren Lapthorne | Drapac Professional Cycling | |
| 55 | Shun Yamamoto | Team Ukyo | +5:59 |
| 56 | David Lozano Riba | Novo Nordisk | +6:36 |
| 57 | Jack Anderson | Drapac Professional Cycling | |
| 58 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | |
| 59 | Naoya Uchino | ||
| 60 | Shinri Suzuki | Utsunomiya-Blitzen | |
| 61 | Takayuki Abe | Utsunomiya-Blitzen | +6:57 |
| 62 | Takaaki Hori | Utsunomiya-Blitzen | +9:45 |
| 63 | Shotaro Iribe | Shimano Racing Team | +9:48 |
| 64 | Manabu Ishibashi | Vini Fantini-Nippo | +10:40 |
| 65 | Keisuke Kimura | Shimano Racing Team | +11:52 |
| DNF | Andrea Vaccher | ||
| DNF | Hayato Yoshida | Shimano Racing Team | |
| DNF | Ian Boswell | SKY | |
| DNF | Rory Sutherland | Tinkoff-Saxo | |
| DNF | Junya Sano | ||
| DNF | Genki Yamamoto | Vini Fantini-Nippo | |
| DNF | Yaroslav Popovych | Trek Factory Racing | |
| DNF | Kevin De Mesmaeker | Novo Nordisk | |
| DNF | Jeremy Cornu | Europcar | |
| DNF | Tanzou Tokuda | ||
| DNF | Suguru Tokuda | ||
| DNF | Caleb Fairly | Garmin-Sharp | |
| DNF | Jerome Cousin | Europcar | |
| DNF | Joe Eldridge | Novo Nordisk |